lizardblog ( the blog of liz creech

April 20, 2004
Thunder over Louisville

I have lived in Kentucky my entire life and there are some things that I have never done. I have never been to Keeland (horse racing facility in Lexington), I have never been to Kentucky Down Under (theme park in Western Kentucky), I have never been to the Kentucky Derby (Duh!) and I have never been to My Old Kentucky Home (historic home of somebody, I can't remember). I can now say that I have been to the "Kick off" for the Derby festivities, Thunder over Louisville. It was beautiful and I am glad that I went, but I really don't care to ever do it again. There was a reported 500 thousand people down by the river, and that was just on the Kentucky side. We ended up parking and walking 6 blocks down to the river and it is a scarey thing. When the fireworks were over we joined the flow back toward the car and that was even scarier than the weird people down there. We formed a human chain and didn't let go of each other until we could walk without touching other people. With kids, even ones as old as mine, it is a paranoid mom's nightmare.

I think what amazed me most was the amount of teenagers, very young teenagers, all ganged up down there without any kind of adult supervision. I walked through literally hundreds at a time. And then some parents want to know why their kids get into trouble. And the clothes they were wearing? The guys had clothes covering themselves, but the girls were showing as much as they could. YOUNG girls with half their butt cheeks hanging out, shirts so tight you could see everything, and so much belly that you wonder why they even have clothes on. For real, you all, how come parents let their kids dress like that? I just don't get it. That is one battle I will fight, I don't care if my kids "hate" me, they will dress modestly.

I didn't mean to get all negative, really. It was beautiful to see. I had originally planned to go for longer but I decided I really only wanted to see the fireworks. I watched the airshow on TV. :-)

posted by Liz at 8:56 AM - permalink - -

April 15, 2004
Hair? What Hair?

Ok. Let me say, before I go any further, that I think I am cute. Not beautiful but modestly cute. Unfortunately there is a phenomenon that happens when you get older. You start looking awful in pictures. When I was younger, looking back, I appeared to look flawless in pictures. Now, I do not appreciate current pictures of myself. If any of that makes sense. So, I said that to say, "here are before and after of my hair cut". I do not like the pictures because I don't think I look very good in them, but that is beside the point. It was an amazing 12 inches that was cut off and I was a bit shocked at first. But it is for a good cause and it will grow back.

If you are thinking of getting a shorter "do" there is a way to upload your picture and then try hairstyles on on the locks of love site. It is locksoflove.org. Have fun.

posted by Liz at 9:09 AM - permalink - -

April 13, 2004
It has been awhile

Sorry it has been so long but I really haven't had anything to share with the world lately.

I am excited that it is spring. Very excited. Me and the kids worked in the back yard the other day and got 4 or 5 more cinder blocks in the ground for the base of my wall. I think 4 more and we are good to go. Now I need to get some cement and some water blocker to put on the back of the wall toward the dirt, and I will have a wall up soon, I hope. I have joined the Arbor Day Foundation and got 10 free trees and bought a Little Leaf Linden. I love the way this tree smells. With that I got a free Red Maple. The Linden and Maple have been planted but I am still waiting on the others to get here. I hope I can get the wall up because at least one is going there. I think I am going to give some of the trees to my Mother-in-Law because she likes Dogwoods and I won't need all the ones I am getting. I forget what all they are but I know that Dogwoods, Redbuds and Hawthorns are in there some where. I highly suggest that if you are into trees that you join for 10 bucks and get 10 free trees and they have other trees fairly cheap. They come small, like 3-4 feet but they will grow fast.

In the front yard I made a flower bed in the front corner and so far I have just planted a rose bush. I am waiting for that last frost around the 19th so I can get all the flowers in. I started expanding the planting bed in the immediate front of the house back in November and didn't get done due to cold weather setteling in before I finished. So, I will get that done soon. Hopefully the next nice warm day.

I have been growing my hair for locks of love. It is down past the middle of my back and I have had enough. You have to have at least 10 inches of hair before they will take it. I was going to have it cut around the beginning of the year but it wasn't long enough to leave me enough hair so, I figured I would wait til I had 10 inches and today I am getting it all cut off. I have an appointment at 2:45 with an old friend who is very good. I just hope he has the guts to do what I want. You all pray for Alan because he likes my hair "longer" and I want him to like it when it all comes off (not that the length of my hair determines if he loves me or not, thank goodness that our relationship isn't built on something so shallow as looks). I want to like it too. I keep telling him that it will grow back and fairly quickly too. But this is a drastic change for both of us. Did you all watch the Miss U.S.A. pagent last night? I want Miss Washington's hair cut but in a longer version. The link thing isn't working on here right now but you can copy and paste this address to see what I want: http://www.missusa.com/delegates/2004/state/WA.html.

O.k. I guess that is all.

posted by Liz at 8:51 AM - permalink - -

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In their Own Way
by Thomas Armstrong

Seven Times Smarter
by Laurel Schmidt

How to Talk So Kids Can Learn
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Teen Proofing
by John Rosemond