Purple and Pink Friends

A friend just sent me this beautiful amethyst. I thought it would be nice for it and the rose quartz to hang out together.

They are a potent pair.

Magic!

After an exhausting time on the phone with my mom and being hung up on twice earlier in the day, I decided it was best not to answer if she called again. However, when she called again tonight I decided enough time had passed that maybe the  conversation might be different. As we were talking and she asked if we could talk about the "hot" topic, I told her we could but only if she were nice. I told her that otherwise I would hang up. So, after not very long she started to have a "tone"  in her voice. I stopped her and reminded her that she had to be nice or else. Short of the long is that as a consequence of her being nice she got the results she was after...which were that when she is scheduled to take her driving test she will call to let me know and her car keys (which my sister and i took from her) will magically appear. At the end of our conversation I kind of jokingly asked her what the moral of the story was and she said: "when you are nice, magic happens."

Pie, Pie, Pie!

I went to a pie auction this evening.

I'd never been to one before and it was some kind of quirky. What follows are photos of some of the contestants!

Feline Company!

This is Max.

He is my neighbors' cat and she has been out of town the last few days. So, this eve I decided to invite max over for dinner (wet food instead of crunchies...yum) 

Ummm, don't tell his mom, kay?!

Anyways, this is him meditatin' upon The New York Times with a full belly!

Humpty, pre-fall!!!

Offensive?

Shopping?

One of the ways Camp Forum celebrates the holidays is by doing a coat drive for a local charity. Residents can put new or gently used coats into a barrel that sits in the main hallway. Apparently, my mom and two of her friends went "shopping" in the barrel and found a brand new jacket with the tags still on. Between them they decided my mom should be the one to keep it...which she did. After the dirty deed she felt so bad she went home and got two of her jackets to put in the barrel. I guess it didn't occur to the three shoplifters that whoever donated that brand new jacket to charity might not appreciate seeing it on one of the Camp Forum residents.

Last year around the holidays my mom and one of the other gals in the previously mentioned trio stole and relocated Father Christmas because they thought he was ugly!

I'm glad we are just at the beginning of this years holiday season as it still leaves plenty of time for more Camp Forum holiday theatrics!

However, I hope I'm not mom's first or only call from jail!