1. Turn R on Willowdale Road


2. Take first L onto Crow Valley Road


3. Follow for 2.7 miles before coming to a T intersection w/Poplar Springs Rd.


4. Turn L to stay on Crow Valley Road


5. Driveway to the barn will be about 1 mile further on your left (the pic below should help).


We will have a BRIGHT sign and pumpkin on the fence post. Luckily some folks have a semi-circle drive just past it in case you need to turn around. ;)

things I am looking forward to:

• Mad Men on AMC, premiering August 16th. w00t I can't wait.
• Jase's birthday suprise. August 22nd. Really can't wait, especially since he has no idea and better keep his little sneaky eyes out of my data in an attempt to find out what it is.

I intend on bringing caiti.net over to squarespace. Not because I don't love my current website host (Jase), but because I want all my photo pages, 99% of the pages at that site, to look pretty. I know I can do this with iWeb, but I so like squarespace I want to integrate everything here. Anyone know an excellent tutorial? Some sort of applescript that will take my photos from there & make galleries here? No? Too much to ask?

I still have to find a replacement for my camera which was lost during our wonderful time at Stone Mountain. No sarcasm there, our entire visit was indeed wonderful. I just mukked up and managed to lose my camera. Which was retarded, but at least it was before I'd taken a lot of great pics with it. It was after I'd stuck our tickets to Stone Mountain inside the new case though, so it was around a $400/loss. Sucky. 

Have work to do. Ppl actually expect this stuff to get done. And they think I'm crazy. 

it seems like I've posted already here this week, but lack of said post proves me wrong. I'm dead bored at work, and I have ONE more day of this exact same thing before I head off to Stone Mountain w/Caiti & Jase for a little mini-vacation.

Caiti is leaving for her trip on Tuesday, making a tour beginning in Auckland, New Zealand, including many parts of Australia and spending 3 days in Honolulu before heading back to LAX, and finally coming home. w00t!! I am so thrilled she's going, and I've got her set up with funds, huge memory card for her camera so I'll get lots of beautiful shots. Hopefully I'll also get a few keepsakes to remember this monumental trip. :)

Of course, she's my baby and I'm nervous about that. She's leaving the country, visiting 3 places which rank in my top 5 places I've wanted to go, ever. The other two are Vegas and MOVE to Oregon.

If you've read any of my blog, or shared conversations with me on twitter, then you know I don't always believe in capitalization, especially in cases where its there more as definition of beginning a sentence. Now, in all my professional communications, and usually personal as well when I don't know the part I am communicating with, I adhere to strict usage of all things right with grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc. But on my blog, or in tweets, I don't. That's because when I reached the age of majority, I had long ago decided, I would write the way I see fit. I am not getting graded on it. I prefer to sign my name all lowercase, and usually that's the way you'll see me do anywhere online. I just never liked capital Hs and that's most likely due to how many times I was made to repeat them while learning "cursive" in elementary school. Both my first and last name began with H and I've just never been able to produce one I felt was pretty enough. My lower case hs are the bomb though.

That's enough of grammatically correct heather. On to the show...

no, no, wait. FIRST was Bea Arthur. Loved her. She was so hilarious, strong and sarcastic as hell. My hero.

So then Ed McMahon, sad but not unexpected. Then I have Farah Fawcett's passing thrown on me at lunch. Again, expected, but still a little bit of a downer.

Now Michael Jackson's demise has completely rocked my world. Not even because I am upset about it, but because it's completely taken over my TV.

I am only as smart as my TiVo. She told me 30 Rock was on NBC. I turned there because I couldn't twitter my thoughts away, nor could I use DDO (which I so want to throw myself into) and was shocked to discover that not only were we being shown old & presumably thrown together footage of MJ, this was just the first hour of a 2 hour special. I presume this footage was thrown together because otherwise I have to confront the reality that the networks have 2 hour specials ready and waiting for celebrity to kick the bucket. A Farrah special I can see, she's been ill for quite some time and had her own special earlier. But MJ? Were we expecting him to die and I just missed the memo? I don't think so.

And what up with Dungeons and Dragons online? I signed up for their beta. How do I start?!? My brain is tired and I don't feel like trying to tackle w0w. I'm stuck there.

Who else not only knew that when Sawyer asked Jack, "So there's nothing I can say to stop you?" there was a punch coming, but swung at the same time? That was a great moment.

And Phil's not timely enough death.

Someone at work had the nerve to say, "It's just a TV show. Those people aren't real." I know, or think I know, that a girl named Juliet didn't get shuffled off to a remote island by Richard Alpert only to FINALLY fall in love with the sexiest, hottest, sweetest man in the world only to be drug into an electromagnetic shaft with a hydrogen bomb. I know that. duh. But I have 5 years of pondering the 100 hours of superb television that the writers, producers and most certainly not least, actors of Lost have given us. No, Kate Austen isn't a REAL person, but I know her. I've seen all of these people happy, sad, angry, addicted, bored, in love. I do KNOW them.

That being said, I am so friggin' glad that Hurley didn't get sucked into the quagmire that is/was known as the hatch. This season mirrored season 2 in so many different ways it would blow your mind - that is if the show itself hadn't already done so. Juliet's death, and Sawyer's heartbreak broke my heart. I was sobbing on my couch in the dark with a pillow blocking my face from my boyfriend AND muffling the sobs. Not just tears running down my face, sobs. But if Hurley would have died or gotten hurt, my soul would have been in agony. He has always been a good soul himself, always tries to do the very best he can, including cheering folks up when there isn't any real reason to do so.

I nearly walked away at Juliet. The only reason I didn't is because so far Lost has made even the most painful deaths not without some greater meaning. I tweeted that I hated Lost. I know! What was I thinking?! But I can assure you if it'd been Hugo Reyes in that shaft, I wouldn't be turning ABC on again for any reason.

I knew Locke wasn't the regular push around Locke. I wondered all season if he wasn't the smoke monster, because they shared no screen time. But then I'd think back to season 1 when Locke would catch a hog, teach Walt to throw a knife and play chess. He was like this then. The island had given him back his legs, as well as gifting him with a proper machismo he'd never had before.

---- it's late, i'll finish this tomorrow ----

Tonight's Lost was awesome. I can't believe all the wonderful answers we were given, the people we saw, not to mention Vincent. How terrific! Sawyer kicking Jack's ass because he was sooo happy with Juliet before they came back... That's my James right there. Locke I saw coming, back when Alex warned Ben to do whatever Locke said to do. Anytime Smokey came around, or Alex, Locke was out of sight. Strange coincidence? Not on Lost. After all, dead is dead.

Chang's hand getting smooshed with metal confirming, at least up until this point, whatever happened, happened. Miles yelling "Dad!!" and helping him. Priceless.

I will think of more awesomely great points later - I was pretty overwhelmed by the awesomness the entire show. Right now I am exhausted, my head hurts, and my face feels funny. Why? I cried like a little baby. It's not enough for Sawyer to lose his parents so tragically and live a false life only to find happiness on this wonky little island with the last person you'd have thought he'd end up with, just to have her literally ripped from him? I was not a Juliet fan at the beginning of the season, I really thought she was still being duplicitous. But once we saw the 3 years later in Dharmaville, I was so thrilled with their chemistry that I began hoping Kate never comes back to the island. Yes - way back then. So, yea, my head hurts. I actually started to turn off the tv and go to bed that is how upset I was. I don't do that. At all, especially never with Lost. Nope. But I felt betrayed. Which only goes to prove I have to trust Darlton to make it right and worth the angst.

Juliet is a hero though. I only hope that Jack wasn't as crazy as he seemed, and this wasn't another mistake he made. I hope, I hope, I hope. Because if she died for nothing, I will forget Lost.

Before the show came on, I tweeted that I'd be happy as long as the major death wasn't Hurley. Or Sawyer or Juliet. Or Miles. Hurley would have just been wrong on so many levels. I had no idea at that time how moving the scene could be between Sawyer and Juliet.

She loves you James.

Caiti’s 13th Birthday & Halloween Party

I've signed petitions, I've blasted my Twitter peeps (Sorry about that, I'll be less annoying later), bought my Subway footlongs while pressuring others that is really what they want to eat too.

Chuck is not only an outstanding show, but the character development is rich and entertaining. The show is informed, and family friendly while also letting all the up and coming geeks know it's okay to be smart. Taking Chuck off the air does more damage than freeing up an hour for Leno (who should take a gracious stage left already) - it tells all the lil' geeks out there to give up, geeks can't win no matter how often or how large a scale they save the world.

Remember Twitter - #SaveChuck #Chuck.
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