Okay, okay - I'll confess. It really was much too exciting to be thinking about my birthday and the fact that I will be able to see all my siblings but one this weekend. I didn't/couldn't fall asleep until a little after 3 a.m., so I am drinking more coffee than is really sound. But what the hey! I'll make my spouse take over the driving when we ( Read more... )

He came home early from his last day at the brokerage yesterday feeling unwell. By the time I got home from work he was running a temp of 100 and a bit. We spent most of the evening getting him to drink herbal tea and water and take some fever reducing pain killers and some cough medicine, at least enough so that he could sleep. He still didn't get ( Read more... )

10 things I have done that you probably haven't ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm going to move w/ the company. I am tired of listening to "Mr. Technically Brilliant with No Soul" whine about the new database and swear that "change is bad". I'm tired of year after year of not being able to pay on terms. I'm tired of the new database crap. I'm tired of a fiscal low period that lasts any where from 3 - 6 months ( Read more... )

Some times things just happen in life that make you value what you've got even more and that reflection can come from both joyful and painful experiences (and yes, it came from both of those this weekend). I am a lucky woman and I know it - I got my 'Piper' and I could not ask for better. In the time we've been together, we've struggled through ( Read more... )

Yep, MPR created an alternative radio station that has a broader range of alternative than any other. I'm so happy! Welcome back to Mary Lucia and Mark Wheat and Thorn and to a great variety of tunes! Hurrah! I do miss some of the programs that the old NPR station ran, but I'll take this anytime! Yippee!

Finally got around to seeing "Ray" last night. Wow. I can understand why Jamie Foxx got a best actor nomination for the Oscars. Not to mention that the couple of songs that he played piano in the actual film, he was playing it note for note and in the exact style and the couple of songs that he performed he did the same and nailed the voice dead on ( Read more... )

Friday night: Off to see the Scottish play at the Loring Playhouse. Ticket price was $20 per, so I was hoping for good quality work. I was disappointed. I left the theater feeling kind of robbed, since MacBeth and Hamlet sort of fight it off in my head as my favorite Shakespeare tragedy. I have read the play many times and seen it both on film ( Read more... )

We show no signs of change whatsoever in any of the three signal areas - hurrah! I am now back in to the state I've been living in for all these years, the "watchful waiting" zone. I am amazed at how suddenly the tension has left my right shoulder - go figure. I will have another round of tests in late June/early July.

The brief breakdown ( Read more... )