Downtime

Hey there, it's me again. I've been away for a little bit because I'm having some downtime right now. Haven't gone to work since Monday the 20th because I had a pionidal cyst removed last week. Had to have out patient surgery Friday and now I'm just trying to get past the post op care and just waiting to heal. Recuperation will take awhile so now I'm just homebound. Getting a little bit of cabin fever but I'll be okay. Received a get well card from work along with a very nice bouquet of flowers. I thought that was rather thoughtful of them. At least I'm not stuck in bed. I can walk around and stuff but that hole on my butt has to heal before I go back to work. I'm on medical leave and therefore have to get clearance from the md before I go back. Using the extra time to catch up on my reading and writing. I'm almost done with the writing test I received. Need to return it before the 5th but I'm halfway through. Finished reading John Sandford's "Shadow Prey". It was okay, I wouldn't exactly pick it up again. Maybe I'll put it in my "donate" pile. Recently I gave some of them away, the ones that I know I wouldn't enjoy reading again so why keep them? I have a Robin Cook one ready to begin as soon as I can.

Sunday was dad's 68th bday. Sent him some money so he and mom could go have a decent meal for a change. Since I can't travel right now I had to at least send something. Spoke to mom earlier and she told me they went to this really nice new restaurant for breakfast. Told dad I'd keep bugging him and asking him if they'd gone out yet until they did it. Ha!! They spent Sunday over at Mary's and they made the usual taco dinner. As long as they enjoyed it, huh?

Haven't been to the movies in a couple of weekends for the obvious reason. But as soon as I'm feeling better I wanna go see Rush Hour 3. Tomorrow supposedly they are going to announce the new line up of Dancing With the Stars. Let's see who butchers up the whole dancing thing this season. The good news is that the new tv season will begin next month. The Closer is due to have it's season finale in a couple of weeks. It's been pretty good this season, haven't missed an episode yet. Tried watching Burn Notice but sometimes it's boring. The same goes for Kyle XY but you can only try.

Well, gotta go for now, I'll keep you updated on my condition

Storm Comin'

Greetings, fellow webcasters......just here enjoying the weekend while it lasts for tomorrow it's back to work.

Finished reading Jonathan Kellerman's "The Murder Book" and I have to admit I was a little disappointed. I struggled to get through it and most of the action was in the last few chapters. Had I given up I would not have gotten to the good parts. It had less psycho babble than I'd like and too much background research. I give this book a C. The last part is what saved it.

Right now I'm in the middle of John Sandford's "Shadow Prey". I'm more than halfway done and it seems okay too. It's another one in the Lucas Davenport series so I guess that's what keeps me going, having already met this character. We'll just have to see how the rest of it turns out.

Last weekend we went to see "The Bourne Ultimatum" and I truly enjoyed it. Normally I don't watch spy movies per se but this series of movies have been pretty good. I've seen the previous two and have enjoyed them too. It was a bit long but it was hardly noticeable because the action kept it going. Maybe it was just my imagination because I was soooo uncomfortable.

Onto more personal matters we are waiting to see where the next hurricane goes to. Dean is the name and category 4 is it's game. The last one brought us alot of rain last week. Called the parentals and it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere. For now. Maybe they'll change their mind when and if they see this "monster" coming at them.

Well, I received the draft of my last poem that'll be published. Made a revision and sent it back. I also received the writing test for that correspondence school. If I have time I'll take care of that this week. After all, right now I have nothing to lose. I just want to find out if I'm good enough. I looked them up under the Better Business Bureau but ran across a snafu and emailed the company. Just receive a reply and was told everything should be up and running. Gonna go try again.

Bring on the heat

Well, here it is...it's already August and we are deep into the summer heat. Of course, we hadn't felt it since we had all that rain recently but this past week was the 1st dry week in a while and boy is it hot now. How much longer until the first cold front?

Well, nothing new to report here. Went to see Chuck and Larry last weekend and it was funny. Not bad for an Adam Sandler movie but....it passed the time. Hopefully tomorrow we'll go watch the simpsons movie.

Fell asleep last night during my usual Friday night marathon but I still might be able to catch up since they will rebroadcast the episodes over and over and over again during the week. For example, they're coming out this afternoon at 5. Now I'm fully rested and can finally watch them.

Called mom earlier and got to speak to grandma and aunt anna and bella. They're doing okay. At least they found time to visit grandma in the nursing home. Can't believe she's still with us since it was her 87th bday this past may. Hey, at least I know that m0m's side of the family tree has a long life span. My great grand dad (grandma's dad) died at 97 so that should say something. Unfortunately her mom died young but that was due to probably psych problems. Oh, oh..... anyways, she's doing okay and that's what counts.

Had a busy morning today and I'm still on the go. Didn't have to work this am but we've already been told that we need some ot in the coming weeks. Had some errands and shopping to do before coming home and now I'm still doing stuff so I'm going to have to keep this short.

later