Allison English

The NBC channels are full of nothing but all of this year’s 2008 Olympic activities and their regularly scheduled news programs, that is about it, if you are not into the Olympics that are being held in China this year, then you need to find another channel to watch, for the duration of the games.

All kinds of interesting stories are coming out of China, one being in that we have already lost a couple of our US citizens do to a murder that took place at the games. Positive drug testing results are making several contenders unable to complete their lives dreams and having to pack their bags and go home. singing the blues, I’m sure.

I went with my sister yesterday to pick up her daughter from a week long stay at a summer camp, that is tucked up in the most beautiful mountains, a one a half hour drive from her place. I don’t get a chance to visit with my sister as much as I would like to these days, we are always so busy with our days and nights, but we try to make time when possible, so I jumped at the chance to go with her and enjoying the drive up and back a lot.

My niece was so excited to see me there, at their designated pick up area of the camp, that she barely noticed her Mom, she came running up to me and practically knocked me over with a big ole’ bear hug, she caught me off guard and I almost fell over, and right on top of this overly excited happy camper. I think my sister’s feelings were a bit hurt at first, but she got over it real quick when her daughter finally realized that her Mom was there right beside me, and she didn’t even realize it at first. Of course after seeing her Mom, they were inseparably from that point on. We gathered up all of her stuff, put a deposit down to reserve a space for her for next year’s camp season and hit the road back to the city.

The ride home was full of stories of camp life, she had a blast, made friends and can’t wait for next summer to do it all over again.

I don’t know what I was thinking when I agreed to drive an hour down to the city and browse through the Flea Market with a few of my friends yesterday. The weather man has been telling us all week what a hot and humid week end was coming up, but I must not have thought things through clearly when I accepted the invite.

All and all I’m glad that I went, it was fun and each of us found several items that we picked up for dirt cheap that we are all very happy about, although most of the items at this particular Flea Market were more upscale than the local Flea Market that we have here in our town. A lot of antiques and collectibles were to be found, rather than a bunch of junk left over from a previously held yard sale and isn’t worth 10 cents and the time to look through. There was live music playing in one corner of the lot and several food vendors selling hamburgers and hot dogs, which we all devoured in the shade of the few trees that were located on the lot, and lots of bottled water was guzzled through out the day, trying to keep ourselves hydrated and cooled down from the 90 degree heat that was bogging everyone down.

I’m so glad that the air conditioning was working good in my car on the way home, sometimes it doesn’t seem to cool the entire car down very well, today it was running very nicely, for the drive home.

Oh mY God, what a weekend it has been! First off my old roommate from years ago back when I was first getting out on my own, shows up at the bar I was at with another old friend. They’d been out running around town having fun and looking for little old me. seems they want me to join them and a few other girls on a cruise this August, and “all girl cruise” at that. Of course I was flattered and a bit surprised, after all I hadn’t seen or heard from either of them for several years now. So we pretty much spent the whole weekend catching up on each other’s lives, loves, and other stuff. My girl Crissy had thought that I might have gotten fat or something because no-body from the old days has seen much of me, according to them. All I could say was, “Do I look like I got fat??”. Trust me, if anyone is going to get fat I’d be the last one on the list at the tubby bubble farm! Jeeessshhh! Me fat!  It’s going to be fun just seeing how well off in the figure department most the girls from the old days actually are.

So it looks like I am actually going to accept going on this cruise if for no other reason then to show off my still curvy and slender body with skin still smooth as silk and sweet as honey!

Had the most wonderful time the other night when I’d met some friends for a dinner date on Wednesday. It was fabulous. We took our meal at this wonderful restaurant on the waterfront where the food was simply divine! We must have spent at least 3 or 4 hours just eating and talking and sipping fine wine. After dinner we ran into another couple that we all know and joined them for a show at a Comedy Club. It was great, I never laughed so much in my life. It was after three in the morning before we finally got back to their house where we continued the nights festivities with long island teas and music. Never got to bed until the next day and when I awoke I found myself curled up with one of the prettiest women I’ve ever known. Anyway, it’s Friday and I finally got home and this has just been the most fabulous week for me so far. And it’s not even the weekend yet! OMG!