Monday after Thanksgiving

Greetings, my fellow gluttons.....quick poll, how many of you are still eating Thanksgiving leftovers? Yeah, me too. Here we are again another holiday has come and go and let the holiday shopping begin. Me, I haven't done too much, don't plan to this year but if you are one of the idiots who are wiling to shell out thousands of $$ for a game system that will be obsolete in 6 months, honey, it's your $$. Didn't travel this year, we wanted to stay home for a change. Maybe for Christmas. Maybe. Recently went to the San Antonio Museum of Art just because we can. Here's a couple of pics to prove it. I don't know what this was but it was creepy enough for me so I snapped a quick picture. Something about folk art of some kind or other. We had a good time. Spent a couple of hours cruising the four floors of this place. Luckily we went during the week and there weren't that many people. By the time we left the crowds were pouring in. We also went to the impressionist exhibit. It was nice to see paintings that I've only seen in textbooks. All in all it was a good trip.

We spent this weekend watching movies. We caught "Deja Vu"- the new Denzel Washington movie. Since I like sci fi this one was pretty good once you get past the convoluted time travel thing. Just accept the fact that you probably won't understand it and you'll enjoy the rest of the movie. Well worth the price of admission. I give it three stars.

We rented a couple of movies cuz there weren't any others we wanted to watch @ the movies. This time it was "RV" and "The Butterfly Effect 2". "RV" was ok. It wasn't in no way hilarious or anything but it had its moments. The other movie was, well, i can't think of the proper word to describe it. I liked the first one w/Ashton but this one wasn't as good. They never explain how this guy got the ability to back to the past.

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone we already put up the Christmas decorations. We have the lights outside and decorations inside. I had to go shopping today to get a Christmas garden flag for the front yard. I had most of the "seasons" but I just needed a Christmas and winter flag (which will have to wait cuz I couldn't find one today. Luckily for now I can go shopping during the day when everyone else is working. Hopefully soon I'll start working again but this things take time.

Another week gone by

Here we are folks, another week down the drain and the only thing to look forward is Thanksgiving next week. Not that you'd know that by seeing the displays at every store you go to. As far as they are concerned, Thanksgiving has come and gone and we're getting ready for Christmas. Yes, that's right, I said CHRISTMAS and I don't care you gripes about it. Before you know it we'll be ushering a new year 2007. My, how time flies. It seems like only yesterday I had graduated from high school and voila, here we are....2007 coming up on the horizon.

Finished reading the "Angels & Demons" book and I have to say it was pretty good. It only took me about three days to finish it. Bought "The DaVinci Code" movie this week and it was hinted in the previews that the movie for A&D was in production. We'll have to see about that one. Overall, I thought the book was an interesting read. Yeah, another conspiracy book but this is what the writes about so what can you expect. I enjoy having giving my braincells a workout. The next book I read will probably be the new Koontz book I got this week.

Let's see, what did I watch on tv this week? Heroes was pretty good. I'm still watching so that should say something. Enjoyed one more House episode this week so I didn't waste my time watching for the winner of DWTS. I did tune in @ the last minute to see "Mr Smith" get the popular vote. I guess that's what the tv execs want. Ratings. If they were awarding the prize to the best dancer my guess is he would of lost. Enough said. Criminal Minds was pretty good too, I'm just glad that it's leaving Lost in the dust. Even their "fall finale" couldn't compare w/it. Its bad enough that the show won't be back til next year but people are getting tired of waiting for answers to convoluted plots from two seasons ago. Hey, guess who's watching Supernatural now? ME. Can you believe that? Even CSI couldn't get my attention this time. I guess sooner or later you get tired of the same old crime solving. I guess something creepy this way comes. So, do you think we'll get to see a Lex Jr on Smallville? Probably not. Tonight I'm set to watch Dr Who and a "special holiday episode" of Monk. Update on that later.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving I wrote a little something:

Another year has come and gone
And we're gathered here today
All this gorgeous food around me
Someone hurry up and pray

My brother's running late again
My sister's such a pain
Telling everyone around her
Of the weight she's bound to gain

Everyone has come and gone
So I'll say this loud and clear
Count your blessings one and all
That it's only once a year

The ILOP has contacted me again for another book. Maybe I'll submit this one to be published. It all depends on how many more I can come up w/in the next few days.

Until next week, remember, you are what you eat-think about that.

Hereeeeeeees the weekend!!!

Greetings again, cyberspace!!! To all veterans 0ut there-thanks for all you've done. Couldn't let the day go by w/out mentioning it. Let it be known that we appreciate all you do.

Last week we went out to a local park to do some walking and we found a nice trail out there. just glad to see that other people were also taking advantage of it. Here's proof of that. took Maggie along so she could get some exercise as well and she loved it. she couldn't stop sniffing around but other than that we had fun. hope we get to go again soon.

Just finished reading another book: "Silent Treatment" by Michael Palmer. I have to admit it was an exciting read so it didn't take long to finish it. In a nutshell it was a about a doctor (of course, the author is a doctor himself) whose wife is killed while in the hospital and he because the main suspect since he is a doctor and would know how to kill someone w/out it being traced back to him. As it turns out, he was just @ the wrong place @ the wrong time cuz there were other things going on around him. The ones doing the killings were from an organization working for the big ins companies out the save $$$ by killing off patients w/terminal illnesses that would end up costing them more money in the long run. I give this book: three out of four stars. Why not four? Well, i don't really think any book would be perfect. :). Started reading another Dan Brown book "Angels & Demons". Review to come soon.

Watched several movies this past week: Click, Rent, and Stranger than Fiction. Click was ok, another Adam Sandler movie. It had it's funny moments but overall it could of used more laughs. Rent was ok too. A bit too long if you ask me but then again it's from a Broadway play and when you go to see it live @ least you get an intermission. Don't get me started about the storyline. Yesterday we saw Stranger Than Fiction-the new Will Ferrell movie. That was ok too, had a couple of funny moments but not a knee slapper. The story line was unusual to say the least. The one recent movie i liked was Jet Li's Fearless. That one was nice. The storyline was good and the fight scenes were good too. That one was long too but you don't even notice. At least I didn't.

Thanksgiving is only a couple of weeks away but i don't think we'll be traveling this year. Yeah right, that's what i always say & we end up in a hotel room somewhere....go figure.

Tomorrow we might go to Jazz Sunday over @ the Witte Museum. A nice evening of jazz oughta be nice. I'll let you know.

Another month gone by

hi again. here it is november again. it seems only yesterday i was celebrating another bday & it's almost gone full circle again. seems whenever you want time to last it just flies by. my last day of work was sometime in august & its already november. before you know it we'll be saying hello to another year.

well, halloween came and went w/out incident. we live in a pretty quiet neighborhood so it was kinda quiet. mary called me to say thank u for the halloween card i sent her and to ask me to explain it to her. what else is new-@ least i sent her a simple one. the only exciting thing that happened was the return of house. so, was that freaky or what. the couple turned out to have the same father. didn't see that coming til the last minute. it seems that house has finally met his match--someone who's not intimidated by him and isn't afraid to fight back. we'll just have to wait and see who has the bigger set :)

last week we were pretty busy here. we went to see an imax 3d movie about sharks. it was time well spent. we also took some time to go down to the institue of texan cultures and look around more this time around--talk about sensory overload. there was just too much to take in at once. maybe we'll go back again. last time we were there was for the texas folklife festival and we didn't have much time to look around back then so we've been wanting to go back. we might even get a membership to this place like we had in houston. i just wished we had more museums to go to i guess i have some homework to do before we go exploring next time around.

don't have much time today cuz i'm keeping an eye on the clock to be able to watch heroes tonight. at first i thought i'd watch justice and record heroes or wait unil friday to watch it (it comes out on sci fi channel before dr who) but it turns out i couldn't wait, so there you are. guess they're down to three couples on dwts.....maybe one of these days i'll actually vote. it's getting harder cuz the ones left can actually dance...kind of...

speaking of voting--i'm keeping the remote handy so i can mute all those incessant election ads. eventually one gets tired of all the mudslinging and dancing around the issues. i can't remember the last time i actually took the time to vote. go figure. the good news is that tomorrow is election day. it's almost over .............

gotta go, it's almost time...see you next week ;))