typed in from blackberry … hence, the serial killer typing style:
mad libs
pilates with the o’malley siblings
ocean – the beautiful beautiful ocean
stubbies
boggle
reading
crossword puzzles
sunblock
daily red sox game
the mason jar
ipods being charged all over the house – we each have one … keeping them straight has been quite a task
wind and sun
laughing
ice coffee
comparing beds Me and siobhan:”our beds suck … can we switch tonight?” Jean: “uhm … no?”
two rabbits and a toad
every time siobhan plays one of her playlists thru bren’s speakers, one of us asks about this or that song: “who is this??” she has great music.
used book store
Fact or Crap
star market
bourne bridge confusion
Aye carumba – “authentic” mexican restaurant
watched cash’s movies he made
goggles
singing the Barnum soundtrack while sitting in beach chairs on the beach:
quite a lotta
roman terra cotta
livin’ lava from the flanks of aetna
statuary
ride a dromedary
see the temple tumble and the red sea part
mcnamara’s band the fattest lady in the land
a pickled prehistoric hand
a strand of pochahontas’ hair
…. our neighbors at the beach must have been like: holy god, when will it end
swimming wtih cash
citronella candles
cashel sitting watching buster keaton movies, laughing out loud “Oh, this one’s really funny, sheila – you have to watch THIS one.”
kayaks
karaoke plans
reading (did i mention reading?) – I’ve finished one book, started another
pictures of Siamese cats being emailed to siobhan every 5 minutes
painting rock people at the table Jean: “See the grandmother’s pearls I just made??”
it is as though dice k, mike lowell, jd drew, tek, manny, coco, pedroia (Jean calls him “little buddy”) and papi are all on vacation with us. we speak about them as though we know them personally. Oh, and gagne. we scorn him. Continuous 8th inning balderdash! Oh shit, here’s Gagne, get ready to lose! We scorn him!! until the moment last night when it came time to love him. then we loved him without reservation. because he deserved it.
Books:
Me: Game of Shadows (finished), now reading Compulsion, by Meyer Levin
Bren: Game of Shadows (handed off to him when I finished)
Dad: The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
Mum: the stranger
jean: wicked
cash-man: once and future king, and also this series about Titans
siobhan: stumbling on cough cough
Quote from cash: “auntie sheila, i’m not the type of guy who feels the need to intrigue people … I’d much rather ……” (long pause as he tried to get his thoughts together. I waited.)
Then I suggested helpfully, “Make people laugh?”
He nodded. “Yes. I’d much rather make people laugh.”
“i’m not the type of guy who feels the need to intrigue people ….” Just blurted that one at me, out of the blue.
Uh-huh. Got it. You’d rather make people laugh. good to know what type of guy you are.
Sounds like a lovely vacation!
Oh my god – singing the Barnum soundtrack. I wish I was there. I think I might still be able to do that! There is a sucker, born every minute. Each time the second hands sweeps to the top, like dandelions up they pop, their ears so big, their eyes so wide and though I feed ’em bona fide baloney…
I won’t bore you with the rest of this stroll down memory lane. It’s probably not the same without the beach chairs.
Have fun.
If they ever do a remake of The Wonder Years, Cashel should definitely be the lead-
But are you watching the Brotherhood DVDs? New season starts in September!
All this from a Blackberry? Damn. If it’s from a Pearl, then I extend a virtual “We’re not worthy!” Wayne’s World thing to you.
Sometimes I can’t believe that we actually SAW Barnum on Broadway with Jim Dale (and Glenn Close??). I mean….WHAT??? That was GREAT!! “The colors of my liiiiiiiiiife….”
Oh- And Jim Dale was the guy who “called” to remind me that my copy of Harry Potter was in- the one that I had reserved. I was like- “Jim! Member me? Barnum? Field trip with the drama girls from Kingston????” But it was just a recording. Bummer.
Haha, love the Cashel quotes. Out of the mouths of babes…
Last week was family get-together time for me, and my 20 month old nephew has learned all sorts of phrases, everyone’s favorite being “ohhh nooo”. That was spoken in a tiny and sad little voice and mostly for no apparent reason.
Being the good uncle that I am, I taught him the word “beer”.
So wonderful to have a family who “gets” you.
I find Cashel most intriguing, even though he’s not the type of guy who NEEDS to intrigue people.
Genius.
Given the current performances of Manny, Papi and Drew, they might as well be on vacation with you guys…
Hooray for family vacations! And now I want to play Boggle, too.
Gracias for this post, Sheila. My yearly family vacation ended two weeks ago and I have just relived it.
Onlything missing from this post for me, was the sound of dominoes mixing on the table and the aroma of my uncle’s cigar.
Ted: Excellent work from you with the barnum quote.
we shall continue:
a splendid edifice can climb
to build a tower up so high to a cloud
you’ll anchor
using one tiny brick at a time
bucks multiply til a bum’s a banker
just begin with a thin silver dime
that empty field it can yeild miles and miles of flowers
you don’t need no magic powers
just a seed
and showers
from the floor to the skies you can soar
if you’re wise enough to climb
one brick at a time!
Beth – I know … Barnum was awesome!!! We took time out of our busy teenage-girl schedule of roaming around New York City unchaperoned to see a Broadway show!
I thought we saw it with Tony Orlando … did I imagine that??? But I do remember Glenn Close being in it …
“the colors of my life
are softer than a breeze
the silver-glow of eiderdown….”
She,
I can not tell you how jealous I am… I am trapped in the shenendoah valley with fat people and I am convinced that I have contracted a parasite from the petri dish that they call the resort pool…. help!
Jackie-HAAHAHAHAHAHHAA! As one who spends her vacations with extended family in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I SO SO SO get where you are coming from!! And Sheila, I have lesions on my brain. Maybe we did see it with Tony Orlando. I have it in my memory that it was Jim Dale. I think we need to have Betsy settle the score on Saturday. She WAS there, right?? It was the Jan group, right??
Sheila & Jackie – Now of course I don’t know WHETHER you guys saw it w/ Tony Orlando but I was so, er, surprised to hear he did it that I went and looked it up and he had! So you COULD have. In fact he is quoted on the Brainy Quotes website as having said:
“The Barnum song I haven’t done in quite a while.”
– Tony Orlando
Isn’t that what you would like to be remembered for saying? Seriously, he really did say that and it really is quoted.
I don’t remember seeing Tony Orlando. And I’m pretty sure I was there. Wasn’t I? We didn’t see this with Mrs McCimments? Am I mis-remembering?
Ummm….hazy,hazy…9th grade field trip… first one? Weekend in NYC? Others were “Nine” and “Cats”. Is that all?? And yes, you were there, Mere. So it MUST have been high school, not JG.
Huh? I was just seeing the egress; did I miss anything?
Jackie – hahahahaha I miss you!!! Stay strong! I’ll see you on the 31st and I can’t wait!!
To all my Barnum friends: yes, Tony Orlando did it – and I do know that I saw him do it and he was great!! I think he took over for Jim Dale because Glenn Close was still doing the part when Orlando stepped in. I know it was him I saw because at one point during the tightrope part (God forgive me for remembering such things!!) – he used a wire to hold onto (if he needed it). So I’m pretty sure that Jim Dale would NOT have needed it – but honestly, I might have seen the show twice. Totally possible. I loved Tony Orlando for freakin’ learning that role and doing all it entailed – very tough stuff!!
one brick at a time
one single solitary brick
one brick at a time
one single solitary brick
Exeunt.
Okay – so high school buddies: didn’t we go to NYC four times with Cimments McBitchLips???
So what was the fourth show we saw? What did we see our senior year? Cats? Is there one year we didn’t go??
sophisticated ladies
(“I didn’t know this was a musical…”)
and I was with JG. we did go with her to Barnum. you are all right.
with Mrs McBitchCimmints we saw Sophisticated Ladies, Cats, Nine, and did we see Brighton beach memoirs? maybe? We did go every year.
Sophisticated Ladies!! Of course!
..speaking of Sophisticated Ladies…on Alex’s recent video Friday..see former S.L. star, the late and great Phyllis Hyman sing her face off!! Timing eh?
hit me with a hot note and watch me burn
slap me down with rhythm from stem to stern
my temper’s flared up
how can i keep my hair up
hit me with a hote note and watch me bounce!
sounds like a great time!
No, no Brighton Beach. I know because that was at the height of Sheila’s Matthew Broderick frenzy (I believe she called him “Matt” back then). But I can’t come up with anything else. So, did we only go three times? I know Cats was Senior year.
No, we went every year. I know it. WHAT WAS THE FOURTH SHOW????????????????
i’m pretty sure we saw Sophisticated ladies 9th grade. and maybe Brighton Beach memoirs senior year. Cats and Nine were in the middle. I think we went to NY with Jan Grant and saw Barnum before Sophisticated ladies.
Was Cats senior year? Maybe I’m completely wrong. WHERE ARE MY PLAYBILLS?? Sheila! Diary archives! Fast!
Barnum was totally 8th grade, and it was a day trip on a bus. And we went to the Guggenheim.
Why do I not remember Brighton Beach? Did I not go? Did you guys go and I didn’t? Maybe I wasn’t allowed to go because my parents made me choose “Happening” or something?? Vague fuzziness happening? Totally need those journals of Sheila’s right now! Why does her job get in the way of my life!!
Okay, I will have to dig out some journals. I know – I used to have all those playbills too!!
I know I saw Brighton Beach Memoirs on my own – and that was during the summer in between sophomore and junior year … maybe we went again that year??
And I remember Nine kind of not going over well with us – and Kate hated it. So I think that one was junior year – because (forgive me for remembering this) that was the last year that Kate came on the New York trip.
So now I’m confused – that means we would have had to see Brighton Beach and Nine in junior year – so that’s not right.
I am pretty sure Sophisticated Ladies was 9th grade.
Sophisticated Ladies
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Nine
Cats (that was definitely senior year – because I have those pictures of J. in her “Cats” sweatshirt when we went and bought the Playgirl.)
The controversial years are 10th and 11th grade.
We need to figure this out!!
I definitely vote for “Cats” as senior year, because I have had lengthy discussions with my sister in law about that show and that time period. I also KNOW what I wore to that show, and believe that to be the year of J. and her leopard kind of coat. SO… that leaves, “Nine”, and “Sophisticated Ladies”. I know for a fact I NEVER saw Brighton Beach. And I also know Mrs. Monchichi INSISTED on musicals. Sooo… that leaves…….. what???????????
Could it be “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”? Or did I see that only at Theatre by the Sea?
we definitely did NOT see Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat. I saw that at UNH starring Sheila’s cousin, though.
Oh, that’s right, Mere! That was the night you became a glittering-eyed demon to me in your dorm room. Do you remember that?
No – we didn’t see Jospeh in New York – let me see if I kept ANY record of each trip …