Stanley meets a girl...

So he continues his adventures and meets a girl

Stanley keeping it real on the golf course like all rich guys...

Then he asks her out on a date...

He let's her win....

He impresses her with his courage...

No cat can threaten his girl!

I think she's a floozy...

Gotta get back to work to support the family.

Stanley The Stapler - adventurer

So apparently he doesn't stress about curfew.
Here he is getting ready to go down a slide at the park at night.

And then...

Riding on construction equipment.

FRIENDS

So just so everybody knows, Meagan is doing quite well in her pregnancy. I hope to see her next weekend while she is in Austin. Jennifer Barnet is also excited and happy about her state of prego-ness. Lisa W. is still planning a wedding, don't know the exact date for this yet, last time we spoke she was talking about throwing in the towel and eloping. I'll get you the scoop when I have more. Maru is well moved into her new little house, Killy and I spent Saturday helping her out, watching Ezra while unpacking and yard cleaning was worked on. Killy is currently walking through with the inspector of the Casita that we are looking at. Hmmm....
More updates later

Stan - On the road

So then after the grilled cheese sandwich, apparently, my missing stapler had the runs.


The Pic is too big but he is leaning against the outhouse.

hmmm...:-(

Killito's Email Address

Everyone, please send my little baby an email.

KillitoDivino@hotmail.com

Books

These are the gardening books I recommend for you, Carol:
Garden Bulbs for the South, by Scott Ogden
Texas Gardening, by Neil Sperry
Sunset Western Garden Book, asst. editors
The Tropical Look, by Robert Lee Riffle

Also, if you plan on growing herbs in containers, look at:
The Bountiful Container ... by McGee and Stuckey

Gardening

Carol, the more plants you can grow from seed, the easier it'll be on the 'ol pocketbook -- just imagine, a package of 10-30 seeds for $1.99, rather than spending $4.99 per plant ... hmmm... that's a savings of $50-150 -- that should make Killy very happy with his smart, beatiful, and, oh yes, very frugal wife!!

Books -- well, my specialty is container gardening since that's what's most in demand in NYC ... but there is a great book on Southern Gardening that was written by a friend of mine -- hang on, let me check on Amazon for the name of it ...

Office Politics

For some reason or another, I have developed a reputation of being a prankster here in my office group of 15. I don't know where these ideas come from, but a result of this is that I am now the target of innovative acts.

On Monday of this week, I stayed home with Killito to care for him as he got over a weekend stomach virus. When I came back to the office on Tuesday, I couldn't find my stapler. It has great emotional value to me because my ex-boss gave it to me when I left my last job. Plus, it matches the desk he gave my husband.
SO
Here I am Tuesday morning asking the entire group at the top of my voice over the cubicle walls if they had my stapler. No one responded. As it turned out, I had missplaced it , then I found it later that day.
SO
Wednesday was Admin Asst day. My boss took me to lunch with the other admins and we had a blast. When I got back to the office, I found an email in my inbox from one called, Stanley Stapler. I didn't open the email right away because I thought it could be a virus. So I ignored it for a while. About an hour later, I couldn't find my stapler. So I looked all over the floor thinking I missplaced it again and then it occured to me to check the evil email.
I did.
And this is what I found

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley Stapler [mailto:mrstanleystapler@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:23 PM
To: Chavez, Carolina
Subject: Lunch


How was your lunch today?? Mine was good...a grilled cheese!

Love, Stan the Stapler

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Linda Blair/Rick James

OK
So, Did you know that Linda Blair (star of the Exorcist) dated Rick James (Coke Con and Funkmaster, writer of Superfreak) back in the late 70s early 80s???

Well???

Most people in the office didn't either.

So does this mean I am really old or what??

http://www.geocities.com/womenofhorror/exorcist2.html

Amber

I can't wait to have a little house to make my own with an herb garden and lots of little plants around the yard.
I need some recommendations for books on how to plant and when and where and what to do.
And some info on composting.
Any suggestions?

I really want to dream and make plans. Killy gets really stressed out about my planning and my dreaming because all he hears is the ching of the cash register as we spend our future money. Hmmm
:-(
Makes it difficult to stay excited and happy about the possibilities.

BUT

I am going to dream anyway.
And I am dreaming of plants and shrubberies and little speckled trees with flecks of flowers and dappled sunshine on mossy rocks and maybe later on in my old age, a koi pond.....

dreams....

:-)

maru

how to post a picture to the blog
PLEASE REFER TO THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN
click on AMAZING UPLOADER THINGY
Follow instructions.

This is how to post a picture.
HA

Spring Plantings

I'm itching to get back into the garden again -- I spent last weekend mixing in manure compost, bone meal, and blood meal to enrich the nutrients in my soil -- this weekend I'll start mixing in pine bark mini-chips to improve aeration and green sand for trace minerals ... and then do a final soil test to make sure everything is in balance.

The bulbs are just starting to come up -- little ruby crocuses, red striped and green flame tulips, white daffodils, fragrant hyacinth, delicate muscari, "Grow, grow, GROW," I want to sing out to them .. and April 1 seems so far away ... that's the first date to start planting cool season crops like lettuce and onions and garlic and snapdragons up here ... then another long wait until May 1 to plant nearly all the other seeds -- peas, zucchini, chamomile, dill, parsley, alyssum, lobelia -- and then 15 more days to wait for the real heat lovers, and on May 15 AT LAST -- I can plant the rest -- tomatoes, eggpplant, peppers, sunflowers, love-lies-bleeding -- Yippppeeee!!!! I'm so excited I can't stand it!!!!

CHANGE IS IN THE AIR!!!

Let's all welcome Maru!
YAY, Glad you made it.

I also added the blogging button to the right to facilitate adding a post from this screen.

Hope everyone is well!

Maru! How's the new house!

Tell everyone about what you are going to do with the kitchen and your beautiful window in the living room!

School

Hi Maru!! Please tell me I spelled your nickname right!! How have you been, girl? It's been ages -- please fill us in on what's new, your thoughts, etc.

Carol, what kind of school is Killito in? Montessori? Is it expensive?

Carolina's New Email Address

Carolina_Chavez@Hines.com is work.

I am also still at CarolinaDivina@Hotmail.com

Also,
Killito's email address is

KillitoDivino@Hotmail.com

Only send him CLEAN emails please.

E-Mail

Carol, please update us on your new e-mail address -- I still have the one from your old job and I wanted to send you an ultrasound photo 'cause I still have no clue how to post photos to the blogger. -A

New Adventures

Diana, I know that if you do end up going, it will be fun and exciting and very fulfilling! Congratulations for making that decision.

Meanwhile, Killito is doing very well at school. He is making new friends and plays all day long. He loves trying different ice cream flavors and is always exploring how things work. He especially loves gears and wheels and stuff like that. He is 18 months now and I can't believe that just one year ago, we were celebrating his half birthday. I hope that we can get ourselves to Austin to celebrate his half birthday this year (March 28).

Also, Killy and I are planning a REAL vacation this year. We hope to be making our way to visit with the Gholsons in the East Coast.

WHAT

A real vacation!

I still can't believe it!

Another adventure of the day was yesterday's rain. The wind and the rain was so strong, that you could see the building sway if you looked out the window. Also, if you were riding in the elevator, it would screech and groan as it bumped its way up and down. If you were so inclined to be in the bathroom during a particularly strong wind, you could see the water moving in the toilets to and fro.
Hmmmmm.
Pretty scary stuff.