Chicken Cacciatore for dinner tonight... Yum.

I'm back! I stopped at WalMart to get diapers and to enlarge a picture of Paul and I from our wedding. We couldn't afford photographers so we counted on a lot of people to take pictures for us. A lot turned really well but I can't help but wish I had a couple really formal shots done. Maybe on my 25th anniversary ::grin:: Stopped at Bruno's for more deli - sheesh - I am there every 6 days! Oy!

Oh - when I was at the bus stop this morning.. I got stung by a bee! I stomped the crap outta him... Mosquitos and bees - HATE them all!

I had a great night last night.. I took Moira to soccer where they had a practice and a game (they lost).Picture the Bad News Bears playing soccer. But, before the game started, there was an announcement over the PA system, asking people to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, a local kids choir sang the National Anthem. They were very good. It was amazing to see 500 people, scattered over 9 soccer fields, standing still in respect of September 11. I should have brought my camera - just to see all those poeple, stopped as if they were frozen in place. When I got home, Paul told me that Joan had IM'ed him, thinking he was me. Paul suggested she give me a call after 9pm. I checked my email and I found an email from her, saying that she wanted to do "25 Things about Kate"! Boy - was I surprised! She gave me a call around 9pm and we chatted EASILY for over an hour. We had a lot of fun.. lots of giggles and major silliness. After our chat, I jumped back on the computer for a little while, surfing blogs and catching up on emails. Scott IM's me and we had a nice chat. He and his wife, the lovely Shelley live in Oklahoma. They will be coming out to NYC at the end of December. I am going to meet them (somewhere) in the city. YAY! Scott mentioned that they had confirmed the hotel reservation. I jokingly said we would need to call each other and Scott thought that was a GREAT idea! He sends me the phone number and said he would answer and hand the phone to Shelley. Well, 4 rings later with no answer and when I am momentarily wondering if they just went to bed, Scott answers and hand the phone to Shelley. She says "Hello?" quite cautiously. The rest of the conversation: Kate: "Hi Shelley, it's Kate." Shelley: silence Kate: "Kate.. like KateSpot Kate.." Shelley: "Oh.....OHHHH! HI!!" We laughed about that for a little while... The best part about talking to them is that they hand the phone back and forth to each other. 20 minutes with Shelley, back to Scott, Shelley again.. then Scott. Talk about getting tag teamed! I can honestly say that they 2 extremely nice people and I can't wait to officially meet them in person. I gotta say I LOVE the accents ::giggle:: Ya'll! I just know we will have SO much fun when we meet up in NYC!

It took over 2 hours for all of the victims' names to be read. Chilling.

I was watching some of the memorial services on CNN - I had to turn it off. We are going to watch Sesame Street. The girls and I are wearing red, white and blue today. I hung a new flag outside today and took down the old flag. It has been hanging in my front yard for 1 year. I am going to have it folded properly and I will store it away. {{{HUGS}}} to all of my friends and family. God Bless America.

Did a few errands tonight.. nothing too exciting.. Paul and I watched the ABC special about the WTC. It dealt specifically with the FDNY and some NYPD. The men were describing their own personal experience while attempting to rescue people. Brothers digging for brothers, a father searching for his son. It was heartbreaking. I bawled through most of it.. watching all these tough guys crying just sent me over the edge.. I know I must have known somebody who died there. My brother has gone to several memorial/funeral services. My StepMom works with people who have lost loved ones. My StepSister lives next door to a firefighter.. My heart breaks for everyone who lost a loved one.

(flag gifs found here)

List of Victims of September 11th 2001

from FoxNews: "We will broadcast 24 hours of live, commercial-free coverage beginning at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, and continuing into the following morning. The programming will offer complete coverage of memorial services in New York, Washington, D.C., Shanksville, Pa., and around the country, as well as a look back at the events and people of Sept. 11, 2001."

{{{Erin}}} Don't be gone too long sweetie! :::smooch:::

I found this from the PromoGuy who got it from ArcaMax: "Tupperware has declared Saturday Global Party Day. Making a connection to the Sept. 11 anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Tupperware said in a statement, "Eager to use its resources to contribute to the greater good, Tupperware, the world's largest direct-selling company, plans to mobilize it's sales force of more than 1 million consultants worldwide to unite the world in friendship and charity..." Global Party Day is to be a "continuous stream of Tupperware parties" that will "follow the sun around the globe," the company states. The goal is 500,000 Tupperware parties -- with a portion of the proceeds going to the Give a Child a Chance Foundation." GLOBAL PARTY DAY? Oh my God - that is just so.. disgusting.

Good morning! I am blogging from my Mom's place right now. We got here about 20 minutes ago. She has some errands to do so I will be helping her out.. Ya'll be good now!

Ok... I still have to tweak it.. but I kinda like the new look ::grin:: I will link my 100 things about me and my photos (eventually). I need to switch to a new image hosting site and I need to download an FTP program... Olivia and I will be going up to visit Mom after we take Moira to school. Thank you all so very much for all your kind words. They mean so much to me! :::smooches:::

Moira's soccer game was cancelled due to all the mosquitos all over the fields.. ew. Since they were already out, Paul and Moira stopped at KMart for a new coffee pot. Seems like I *just* got one quite recently!

My Mom called me with the results of her Pet Scan. It was her 3rd scan for the cancer (Non Hodgkins Lymphoma). The first 2 were clear. This last scan wasn't... It came back.. all of it... in the same goddamn places, her neck, shoulders, upper/lower back and pelvis. The Fludara (chemo meds) must have made the cancer dormant instead of eliminating it... Fuck. I have to ask all of you guys for your thoughts and prayers again.. ***UPDATE** This is the post that I thought I deleted earlier... weird!

Well - I will be fixing more of this later and adding my links back in.. please let me know if I miss anyone (once I set them up). I somehow managed to break the coffeepot, ran late cooking dinner so Paul and Moira were late going to soccer and I knocked over an entire box of organic rice crispies.. those little bastards scattered everywhere ::sigh:: Oh, and the cereal is about $5.00 for a 10 oz box.. figures... Gotta go to KMart and get a new coffeepot..

I think comments are up now...

Grrr!

Well - I have dorked up my blog... again.. Please bear with me while I work on it.. What a crappy day..