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Today is our 40th wedding anniversary! I've condensed 40 years into less than three minutes in the new slideshow using some favorite photos of just Mike and me. Here is the first page of the ALL ABOUT US scrapbook that I've made using most of the same pics as the slideshow. It's each of us at 18, living on opposite sides of the continent, before we met. It proves that we really were young once!

(Music is "After All These Years" sung by Foster and Allen)

Normally I refuse to watch movies that are bloody, brutal, or violent, (give me a light, romantic comedy, or a rip-your-heart-out love story, or even an historical epic) but today I saw Sweeney Todd. Somehow Johnny Depp's good looks and amazing talent managed to make throat-slashing and jugular-gushing less offensive. I thought the movie was fantastic, and as usual, JD delivers a unique performance. And his singing was surprisingly not too bad. I'll probably watch it again when it's released on DVD so I can enable captions and not miss a word of bloody dialog!

I bet she never drew her own house plans and then raised the walls, installed floors, did all the painting and hung all the wallpaper! I met and married Mike and gave birth to our first child in less time that it is taking to finish decorating the 'new' house! Here are my latest decorating efforts. This is the foyer with the pressed tin wainscoting. It will soon be time to start re-doing the original decorating from 2001.






















Years ago at an estate sale, I bought lots of old sheet music and it's been sitting in the organ bench ever since. Recently I decided how to display them. Here is my wall of music. The small black plaque is St. Cecelia, patron saint of music and musicians. I'm still looking for just the right 'something' to hang with her.