Monday, November 26, 2007

Carolina - Clemson game


It was the biggest rivalry game of the season. We had great seats on the 50 yard line - row 13. We arrived 5 hours before the game to tailgate. But it all came crashing down when I realized right before the start of the game that I had lost my ring. This ring is so special to me - I wear it almost every day. My husband bought it for me on our 2nd anniversary last year. It is a sterling silver band by artist Lyie Van Rycke ... and says "Je t'aime, un peu, beaucoup, à la folie, passionnément." (I love you a little, a lot, madly, passionately.)

It was very cold and my fingers must have shrunk or something. I had no idea where I had lost it. I was hoping it was in the tent bag or chairs when we were putting them up before the game. I was sad for the whole game ( and we lost in the last 3 seconds by a field goal - 23 to 21). When we went back to the truck, we looked around one more time and nothing. So we headed home. As we were trying to make our way out of the parking lot, someone knocked at my window. It was the girl from the tail gate next to us with my ring. They had come over to help us look earlier and when we moved the truck to leave, she must have seen it! And then for her to come running after us as we were leaving!

How lucky is that!!!

And our 3rd anniversary is tomorrow!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Help Yourself

Sir Tom Jones....

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Buying a book for it's cover...


OK, I'll admit it. I was in Barnes and Noble and this Tiffany blue hardback caught my eye. Then the title pulled me in even further... "Summer at Tiffany" by Marjorie Hart. At first I thought it was fiction (it was on one of the tables where the books are not divided by fiction/non-fiction, etc.), but then I realized it was the true story of a now 83 year old woman about her life in 1945. Here is the summary:

Do you remember the best summer of your life?

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor.

Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, pinched pennies to eat at the Automat, and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Café society, she fell in love, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.

Marjorie Hart, now eighty-three, is the former chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of San Diego and a professional cellist. She lives in La Mesa, California.

I will let you know how it reads!

Friday, November 02, 2007

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is coming!!! I know what I am going to see on Christmas Day!