Well, I guess it finally occurred to me that at one point or another, we all have to move on or be sucked under with 360. It's very hard for me, I love it around here. But like many of my other 360 buddies, I've decided to move on and I do have a page at multiply.com. You can find me as "dulcimatik" over there as well. Can't promise anything too exciting for you, as I'm still wrapping up the redecorating at the new house and it takes most of my spare time (haha, what the heck is spare time when you have 3 kids??) But you're more than welcome to come on over and visit anytime.

Many of us are guilty of looking at others our own age and thinking, "Surely, I can't be that old". If you've ever done this, then you'll appreciate the following.

My name is Alice Smith and I was sitting in the waiting froom for my first appointment with a new dentist.

I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, grey-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

"Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a mustang," he gleamed with pride.

"When did you graduate?" I asked.

"In 1965," he replied. "Why do you ask?"

"You were in my class!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely ... and then that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat ass, grey-haired decrepit son-of-a-bitch asked, "What did you teach?"

Hi everyone...

Just wanted to post a few lines, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth; I've only been completely overwhelmed putting this house together. By the time I finish a room I'm completely exhausted. I've taken a ton of photos and will post them soon....

As for the end of 360, I haven't even begun to look for a new blog home. I do have a friend on Xanga, I might look into that one. If any of you have discovered a blog site that's really easy to do cool things with, let me know. I just don't have time to get into a lot of html right now! I'd rather have something that's close to English for now.

Talk to you all soon!!

Did you know you can buy a frame for your flat panel LCD or Plasma TV?

Last night I finally talked Phill into hanging our LCD TV over the fireplace in the living room. We had previously used a large armoire, which was nice and blended with our other antiques. However ,when the moving company broke our tube TV and then replaced it with a flat panel LCD, there really was no need to continue to use the armoire since it was taking up valuable space in the living room. And, this fireplace has been converted to a gas log, so there isn't a concern for a lot of smoke and heat like a regular fireplace to damage the TV.

I will admit I'm pretty anal about the TV blending with my primitive antiques. In fact, I will admit that we have to have one, even though I only watch it about 3% of the time the rest of the family does. But I don't like the TV being the focal point in the room so I've done my best to hide it in a cabinet all these years. Well, since we had the option of hanging this one, I figured I'd find a primitive looking cabinet to put over it so I can still close it off when it's not in use.

After we hung the TV, I was actually impressed with how it looked. It still says "tv" but it's low profile and takes up so much less room than before. I'm not sure I really need to find a cabinet to put over it...we'll see. But when I went looking online this morning for a screen for my fireplace, I found frames.

You can actually buy a wooden or ornate frame for your flat panel TV to make it look more like artwork. Now that's a novel idea. I remember watching Nanny 911 and the TV those nannies had in England had a nice antique looking frame. (At the time, I remember thinking...'huh--what Hollywood can do.' I've even found a mirrored frame system, so when your TV isn't on, it will look like a mirror on the wall. Pretty cool. And pretty pricey---over $700!!

But, I still live inside my head with the Bargain Queen, so you have to know I'm immediately trying to come up with a flea market version of the idea or a way to do it myself. I can't see spending more money on a phoney frame than the TV actually cost! I'll continue to brainstorm on that one....

But for now, we'll just have to be happy with little Nemo who's swimming around above the fireplace, thanks to Disney.