Love From Kinley

Grandma Jean and Kinley made this video for me about a month ago with Grandma Jeans phone so they could send it to my phone. I love that she calls me "Aunt Chelle" and I love that "Aunt" sounds more like "Amp" ...sigh...I miss my girl...

Sleepy Hollow

One of the things on my "list of things to do while I'm living back east" is to visit Sleepy Hollow, New York. It was a beautiful weekend and I had no plans so on Sunday that is what I did. I found on itunes a pod cast of someone reading the legend (which, by the way, was written by Washington Irving in 1820) and I listened to it on my way to see where the legend of the Headless Horseman came from. It was a pretty great day. My first stop was the Old Dutch Church (where Ichabod Crane sought refuge from the Headless Horseman) and the Old Dutch Burying Ground (where legend says the Horseman was buried and came from each night)

Besides it being kind of cool that this is an important chunk of the story, It was also really beautiful there. It was so cool to see the headstones that were dated in the 1700 and 1800's. I found it interesting that most of the stones (at least the ones you could still read) said the persons name, the year they died and their age at death in years and days (e.g. lived to be 47 years and 17 days old)

After that I went to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, which surrounds the Old Dutch Burying ground and didn't exist at the time the story was written. The Bridge in the picture above is the Headless Horseman Bridge, which is within the newer cemetery.

I also went to Washington Irvings (the author) grave

This was really cool too. Its a monument and some of the solders of the the Civil War.

The last stop of my day was in Tarrytown (right next to Sleepy Hollow) for a tour of Lyndhurst. A beautiful mansion that was built in 1838, and was lived in until 1961. They have restored it, and it still has the original furnishings and art work in it, which was pretty cool to see.

This is the view of the Hudson River and the Tappan Zee Bridge that you can see from the mansion.

I, just like Eric Clapton, Have a Rock & Roll Heart Too!

I just got back from the Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck concert at Madison Square Garden. I can't even explain how amazing it was! AMAZING!! Here are a few photos from the evening.

Jeff Beck played for about an hour, then Eric Clapton played for about an hour, then they played together for about an hour. It was such a great show.

Happy Birthday To Me

Twenty-Seven today. Here I am wearing the birthday scarf that the Pags got me and holding the box of gifts that my parents sent. Thanks everyone for the warm wishes.

Happy Valentines Day

Can I just say that I hate this "holiday"? That isn't just something that I'm saying cause I'm single, I have always hated this holiday. Ok, that isn't totally true, I really liked it in elementary school when we all got to make the paper envelope to hang on our desk and everyone in the class brought everyone else in the class a valentine with three or four candy hearts in the tiny little envelope. That was fun...but now I think its a really stupid holiday.

That having been said, look what my wonderful Aunt Becky and Uncle Ken sent me!!

Its a valentines card, and some dark chocolates (they aren't even the stupid Martha Stewart kind! Don't know what I'm talking about? Well, it was an earlier post, click here (http://dandelionhasit.blogspot.com/2009/12/stupid-martha.html) to read it) and a really soft stuffed lion with hearts all over him and a "grow your own valentine" kit! They are so thoughtful and great! Thanks guys!

And! Chris and Dorothy came home yesterday and brought me a very pretty flower for Valentines Day! Nice, huh?

And!! I got in the mail yesterday a really great card from my wonderful sister-in-law Kayleen and my adorable niece Makinley...isn't it great?!

Happy Stupid Holiday to everyone!

Guess What...

Someone just knocked on the door.
It was the Fed-Ex guy.
He brought an envelope.
Inside was a ticket.
It's for a concert.
The concert will be held at Madison Square Garden.
Thursday, February 18, 2010.
Wanna know who will be entertaining me?
ERIC CLAPTON and JEFF BECK!!!
Yay.

We fixed it...I think...

here i am typing again. i am on the phone with the nice computer guy who is trying to figure out what is wrong with my silly and stupid and beloved laptop. he is watching me typpe. its a little intimidating. i find that i keep messing up my typing and having to backspace. and now its not doing the annoying thing that it used to be doing and that we are trying to fix.

Yesterday I spent a majority of the day on the phone with the Dell Support people trying to figure out why it was that when I started typing things it would act like I was holding the Ctrl key down (for example, when I would hit the "t" key it would open a new tab. When I would hit the "B" key everything went Bold, etc) Anyway, he took over my computer from wherever he was and then watched while I typed and it did what it was doing then he diagnosed and fixed what was wrong. He kept opening documents then telling me "ok, type something" so this is when we were trying to make sure it was fixed while on the internet instead of just in Word. I thought it was funny that it automatically saved the post, so I'm going to...um...post it. post post post. alrighty, random. Yay for a fixed laptop!