I slept long and hard and yet I am still tired. How wonderful it would be if I could wake up in the morning feeling relaxed and refreshed! As it is, I look like the guy in the commercial who has yet to shower with Zest soap.

The trade show went well, I guess. There were very few people in attendence. And the people that were there didn’t fit into our prospective customer category. Most of the people that came to my booth did so out of pure pity. The reason I say this is the first thing out of everyone’s mouth was, “Are you all alone here, darlin’?” The one nice thing I can say is that the show only lasted 3 hours and anything is tolerable for 3 hours.

Last night, instead of watching American Idol, Lisa and I went to Target where we bought Toilet Paper and Paper Towels in bulk. We all have priorities.

Today I have a trade show. I will be alone for most of the day. I really hope no one asks me any product-related questions. Somehow I think that is a futile wish.

The tree right by the donnavilla’s front door has a nest!

This morning, Lisa handed me the Bo and told me to take him out to pee.
“Wait, I have to get his leash.” I opened the coat closet which is a place we have never stored his leash. Lisa looked at me funny.
“What are you doing?”
“My god!…what have I done? This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife? How did I get here?”
“Oh, Donna! It’s same as it ever was…same as it ever was… Now take Bo to pee!”

Thunder and lightening and rain. Lots of rain. At least there was some nice weather yesterday, if only for a few hours. Regardless my Sunday was spent doing nothing which is absolutely what the doctor ordered.

My mom’s lilac tree bloomed. That means it is time for me to start talking about making a midori cake. Each year I talk about it and each year I do not do it. When I was in college, my old, ex-friend Christine’s mom would send her cuttings from their lilac tree and a midori cake each spring. There were a few years after college where I did make a midori cake in time for the bloom but more often than not I found we didn’t have enough midori and I was too lazy to buy it. THIS YEAR I WILL DO IT! Because it is such a sweet memory in my mind, enjoying midori cake and smelling lilac. Too bad my friendship with Christine didn’t hold up as well.

Can someone explain how something like this occurs? When did Bo learn how to type?

And Hulk Hogan, Dolly Parton and William Shatner accepted you as their friends!?!

I had no clue what great songs Lieber and Stoller wrote. Rockin’ Ron Cade is highlighting their contribution to the Elvis songbook and I can’t get over how many fabulous songs they wrote. Hound Dog! These two white guys wrote HOUND DOG! And Jailhouse Rock! And my favorite song which also happens to be Lisa’s LEAST favorite Elvis song, I want to be Free.

Here are some lyrics:

I look out my window
and what do I see
I see a bird
way up in the tree
I want to be free free
Free – ee – ee – ee
I want to be free
like the bird in the tree

And here is something I’ve been working on for quite some time. It’s an online museum of all the religious Elvis images I have found during my productive years of surfing the Internet. I never finished it, but it’s been sitting on my server for years and I think it’s time to put it out there for people to check out.

PS Rockin’ Ron, I know you google your name and have found yourself on donnaville MANY times. You should recognize my contribution to keeping your name alive on the Internet! I just want a mention on the show! C’mon! Pretty please with cherries on top? Don’t make me email you!

I am pooped! Where has the day gone? What a miserable day it was. All it did was rain. The morning saw me doing technical support for my mother’s friend. At first it looked like it was going to be a quick fix. She said she couldn’t get her DSL to work. It helps when you don’t plug the line directly into the internal modem but rather use the external DSL modem that came with the software. I was about to dust off my hands and call it a day when I noticed the computer acting sluggish and just plain strange. It was then I noticed there wasn’t any antivirus running. I downloaded AVG and set it to scan. Over a hundred viruses! Ugh! 3 hours later I left but I felt that there was still more for me to do. Maybe I will go back next weekend.

Lisa and I met Audra near Plymouth Meeting at around 5:00. We ate dinner and then shopped for shoes. Our last stop was Target where I think we may have spent 4 hours. We just got home and I feel ready for bed.

I am so happy it is soon the weekend. This was a tough week. Actually every week since I started working has been tough. I think I forgot what it was like to work. I started working almost exactly 1 month ago. It’s not what I thought it would be like but it’s not bad. I figure I can give it 6 months and then make a decision if it’s for me or not.

Last night we went to a different pizzeria than Delorenzo’s. The place was Meglio’s in Newtown and Rick and the gang have nothing to fear. The pizza was terrible. We ordered their wood-fired Margherita. The menu said it would be thin crust and slightly well-done. Nope and nope. It was chewy and it tasted like it had come out of a regular pizza oven. Nothing wood-fired about it. We also got a regular pizza with our usual toppings of sausage and mushrooms. This too was doughy and chewy and soft and didn’t have nearly enough tomatoes. Very disappointing. What’s funny is that this pizzeria was voted, Best in Bucks. (Bucks is the county I live in). Rick D. is still the king pizza-maker.

Before going for pizza, Lisa and I took Bo for a walk. We bumped into our friends Trey and Adele. They were outside their unit planting flowers. They are such a nice couple! Adele gave me the information on the store she goes to to buy the flowers. She said they are very reasonably priced. Unless it rains, that is where Lisa and I are going on Saturday or maybe even later today.