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| Saturday, September 20th, 2008 | |
| 8:40 am | oh, my aching back... So, I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but my back has been giving me intermittent pain for a while now. And by 'a while now', I mean for the last 6-9 months. Sometimes it's my lower back, sometimes it's my right hip, sometimes it's just an annoying twinge, sometimes it's a stabbing pain, but it's always present in some shape & fashion. Now I haven't done a hell of a lot about it - I take Tylenol PM if it's really bad before I go to bed & I'll take aspirin or whatever over-the-counter pain reliever is handy if someone is around to suggest it. I bought a heating pad & an ice pad thingy, but I find them inconvenient to use, so they mostly just sit in the closet. Last week I had my annual check-up & while I was getting mildly chewed out for not taking calcium regularly (since I have osteopenia, but I keep forgetting because you should take calcium & iron seperately since they counteract & I've been favoring the iron), I decided to divert the doctor by mentioning my back problems. And after getting a rather disapproving look from her for waiting so long to talk to a doctor about my problems, my doctor ordered some x-rays. She said it sounded like it might be arthritis in the joints, in which case there was a limited number of things that could be done to relieve the pain, but the problem wasn't going to disappear completely. She said that depending on the results, she'd probably end up prescribing some physical therapy & some stronger pain medication. Actually, she offered a scrip for pain medication right then, but I declined since I tend to be a little phobic about pills. Yesterday afternoon she called me with the results from the xray, and apparently the answer to the question "What is wrong with Cassie's back?" is "What isn't wrong with Cassie's back?" I have some scoliosis, some degeneration in the lower two vertabrae (causing the low back pain) and arthritis in my right hip joint (causing the hip pain.) Absolutely none of this is curable of course, and can only be 'managed.' So after asking whether I'd prefer wet or dry physical therapy (I chose dry because while I think I'd enjoy wet more, I think that dry is the one that I would be more likely to maintain after the p.t. ends), she said she'd get an order in the mail to me next week. She also said that if I change my mind about the pain medication to just call her & she'd get that prescription in the mail too. I have an appointment after the party to see her again to follow-up on how the p.t. has helped, and I may decide to go for the meds then. There's a couple of things that hold me back on asking for it: first off, I really do tend to be forgetful about medication - particularly pain medication. I have to have a tsunami-level headache before I think to take an aspirin & I never think to take it for much else except when PMS is hitting me hard enough to keep me awake at nights. So I'm not sure but what I'd end up co-paying for stuff that would just collect dust on my shelf until they went past their use-by date. Conversely, I'm a little afraid of actually using them regularly & developing a dependency. I don't know what she has in mind to prescribe, but since this condition isn't going to go away, I don't want to grow accustomed to medicating it away & having that be a lifetime habit. But ever since yesterday, when I found out that my pain isn't just some stupid case of me making a mountain out of a molehill, I have to admit that having medication that might make the pain go away completely for a few hours is sounding more & more appealing. |
| Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | |
| 11:27 am | It's fun taking things out of context! I guess I should be working in political advertisements, because there are times when I really enjoy taking things out of context. For example this statement by a professor of history at Columbia University: ....It's a strong correlation, but even population experts really don't know where babies come from. In context, the professor doesn't sound like someone who completely avoided sex ed in school, but out of context, I find him hilarious ;-). |
| Monday, September 15th, 2008 | |
| 1:46 pm | Pre-fall season TV watching I figure you've all been dying for an update on my television viewing habits, and since the full fall season is starting & soon I'll be too busy watching TV to blog about it, I shoud give you all my half-assed opinions of what I'm watching & what I've watched over the summer: In Plain Sight - I enjoyed the show quite a bit, but I'm more than ready for the mother & sister of the lead character to die in a horrific gun battle. Burn Notice - I haven't watched the first season, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the second & I'll be putting the first season on my Netflix queue. Mad Men - I've given up on the show. I realize it is a superior show to the first two I listed (or probably anything else in this list), but I just don't care about any of the characters, so fantastic production values & very well-written scripts only got me through 4 episodes before I took it off my DVR recording list. Fringe - I'll probably watch one or two more episodes before I give up on it. There were just a few too many points where you had to shut your brain off to cope with the plot. And I wasn't impressed with the lead female character. True Blood - I could do without the frequent horny brother sex scenes (I don't find horny brother terribly attractive), but it wouldn't be HBO without a little gratuitous sex. But I like the Anna Paquin character & so far I find Bill the vampire courtly & charming. I'll keep watching. Sarah Connor Chronicles Glad to see it back. I really enjoyed the first episode. Project Runway - I've enjoyed some of the challenges, particularly the fact that they've cut way down on the team challenges. My only problem with this season is they seemed to select quite a few contestants based on the willingness to be braying donkeys of annoyance rather than on their ability to design anything. But at least there are two people whose work I have consistently admired that have made it through most of the season. I think there are other shows I watched this summer, but I can't remember what they were right now, so that rundown will have to do ;-). |
| Sunday, September 14th, 2008 | |
| 6:32 am | grrrr As I mentioned in the post I just made, I'm up working this morning. We upgraded a customer's mainframe operating systems today & we're currently waiting for customer checkout to complete before the go/no-go decision is made. Everything looks great on our end & most of the customer testing (they have about 15 people doing testing) is complete. There is just one person who can't get on to do his portion of testing - but he couldn't get on Friday (password issues that he hasn't resolved.) So folks are scrambling to find someone who can help this guy out (it's issues on some server that isn't even a part of the mainframe, so none of the support folks currently on the conference call can help.) And we may end up backing this out because this guy can't get on - even though backing out won't help him get on, since his problems have fuck-all to do with the software we upgraded. Argh. On the plus side, if we have to do it again just because of this, at least it won't be a ding against us & it will mean extra overtime. On the minus side, I don't get paid for overtime, so the only benefit of extra overtime is it make me look extra-industrious & dedicated. ETA: They found someone who solved the password problem so the person could do his testing (which took all of 10 minutes - but because of the delay it took us right to the point where we'd have to start backing out to get the system back up by the end of our change window.) So the system is in & I don't have to worry about doing it all over again :-). I'm trying to convince myself that I should stay awake & go for a walk on the beach because if I go back to bed now, I'll have a dreadful time trying to get to sleep tonight. |
| 5:00 am | I wouldn't call them that... MSNBC.com has a headline that reads: Saving Texas' Ike stalwarts a race against time. I'm sorry, but I think a more accurate headline would be Saving Texas' Ike fucking idiots an unnecessary race against time. I've got absolutely no sympathy for the obstinate assholes who decided to ignore mandatory evacuation orders because they had 'an axe in the attic' and were thus ready to face a hurricane. I mean, sure go ahead & do that if you're that much of an idiot - but don't expect any saving or sympathy when things don't turn out well for you. I wasn't very sympathetic yesterday morning when I was watching the weather channel reports, but I think the fact that I'm awake & working at 5am on a Sunday morning (and have been since 2am) has completely drained me of all charity & human kindness ;-). In other news, yesterday was a pretty great day for everything but my wallet. About a month ago Pam (one of my knitting buddies) had mentioned that she & her mother had gone to San Juan Capistrano and had tea at a cute little tea house & then had gone to a nice little yarn store a couple doors down. SJC has a arts fair every second Saturday of the month & Pam had applied to have a stall to display/sell her beaded jewelry. Yesterday was her first day displaying at the arts fair & Melanie & I went down to check it out. We'd made reservations for noon at the tea house & got to SJC about 11. Pam's booth was right next to the tea house (convenient!) and she directed us to the yarn store. It's a very small store, but the stuff they have is choice! The owner is a distributor of some Australian yarn that is absolutely gorgeous & I haven't seen elsewhere. Naturally, I had to buy some ;-). Afterwards we went to tea (which was good but not great - but the atmosphere was lovely), then we went back to Pam's stall & sat and gabbed (and knitted) for a while. It was altogether a lovely day, and since Pam will be there every month, we'll probably do that every month (at least when the weather is good.) That might be bad for my bank account, since there is a lot more gorgeous yarn at that store - and I haven't even begun to explore the other stalls at the art fair. |
| Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | |
| 1:24 pm | I don't have enough hands to deal with my thoughts on this At lunch I was leafing through the L.A. Times & ended up reading this obituary of Del Martin. After reading the first paragraph my thoughts took many contrary directions: On the one hand, it's nice that she got to marry her love of over 50 years before she died. On the other hand, it sucks that it took 50 years before she could marry her. On the other hand, maybe her death & life story can be used to fight the stupid gay-marriage amendment proposal on the CA ballot. On the other hand, I'm sure there's some homophobes out there who think her death was God's punishment for her having flouted his will & I'm sure there's some way the forces behind the amendment will try to use her death to their advantage. On the final hand, maybe I should read the rest of the obit before I get bogged down in cynical suppositions of what cynical people might do ;-). And so I finally read the rest of the obit & as I often do when confronted with the life story of someone who dedicates their life to a righteous struggle, I ended up feeling very impressed & very lazy & underachieving since my normal response when confronted with something I find unacceptable in society is to at most say "oh that's bad" and then go back to watching my DVDs. |
| Monday, August 25th, 2008 | |
| 9:25 am | I'm not going to make a to-do list this time. Usually a couple of months before I have a big party (not that I've had a ton of them mind you) I start making a list of all the things I should get done before the party. Now some of the things are actually sensible (borrow blankets/towels/pillows as needed from my parents, borrow air mattresses from friend who seems to collect them), but a lot of the stuff that ends up on my lists are household projects that don't really have anything to do with the party. I'm going to try to not make that list this year - it just adds pressure that I don't really need. So I'm not going to list things like replacing the curtains, replacing the garage door (although I really should do that before I go to Oregon, so Annika doesn't get trapped in the house because the garage door won't close), replacing my desktop (although it's old and slow & buggy & really should be replaced), buying one more dvd/cd storage unit, having the windows cleaned, replacing the water heater with a tankless heater.... Nope, I'm not going to make that list at all ;-). |
| Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | |
| 4:58 am | Not an unqualified success I think I mentioned before that Mom had gotten tickets for the family (minus Dad who was more than happy to hang out at my place watching Olympics in high-def) to see "Walking with Dinosaurs", mostly because Malina absolutely adores them? We went last night - the tickets were fantastic - the 6th row. Fortunately our seats were right on the aisle, because within about 3 minutes of the show starting, Gillian & Malina disappeared. It ended up that they watched the show from the top of the stairs, where the usher was, so Malina could hide behind the curtain anytime it got too intimidating. Afterward,she claimed she loved the show, but I think she's no longer impatient for mommy to take her to visit where the dinosaurs live anymore ;-). Mom managed to find a way out the parking lot that didn't involve an hour wait, so we got home at a reasonable time. Well, reasonable time for people who didn't have to be up at 2am for a potentially 6 hour long change. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people, so I'm a little tired right now (we're 3 hours into the change window.) |
| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | |
| 7:50 pm | Request for party arrival/departure information I've decided I better try to start keeping track of minor things like when my October party guests are scheduled to arrive and depart (particularly those flying in/out.) What with the WD being down & my stupid assumption that the temporary WD would keep PMs forever, I've managed to lose track of some of the info. I have the info for Helen & Laurie and sort of for Gayle (date & since she's renting a car, I can probably cope with just that, although I'm nosy enough to be curious about the actual plane info ;-). So if everyone else could email the particulars for your flights to cassylee@earthlink.net, I promise to keep the email & not ask for the data again ;-). |
| Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | |
| 10:30 am | Ugh. Sabrina is at the vet today, getting IV fluids. Over the weekend I noticed she wasn't eating much (I had to hover over her to get her to eat any wet food which she normally loves) and barely drinking any water. So I took her in first thing yesterday morning (particularly after I noticed that she seemed very trembly that morning.) After hearing scary words like "hard decisions to make" and "sometimes they get better, sometimes they remain the same, and sometimes they get worse", the end result of crying jags & various tests was that Sabrina's blood sugar was very low & the vet took her off insulin & kept her all day so they could run an IV to re-hydrate her. She was much more alert when I picked her up in the afternoon, but the vet & I agreed that I'd bring her back today for another round, as she wasn't super yet. She did have a little to drink last night (still not interested in food, which is worrisome), but she was somewhere between how lethargic & unsteady she'd been Monday morning and how alert she'd been Monday afternoon. I still need to talk to the vet about the results of the blood tests - I've got my fingers crossed, but I'm trying to come to grips with the idea that "hard decisions to make" aren't all that far off..... Onto far more mundane items - a coworker is really pushing some pet peeves of mine. He loves ellipses runs. The man can't send out a note with a complete sentence in it - it's all sentence fragments strung together with ellipses runs between them. I haven't seen so many ........ since I consumed Barbara Cartland romances at the rate of four-a-week in my regrettable tweener years. |
| Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | |
| 8:32 pm | A Sunday morning in the life of Cassie - Alarm goes off at 3:30am (you have to call into a teleconference for a system upgrade at 5am) - Hit the snooze button - At 3:45, give up on hitting the snooze button since a couple of idiots have apparently decided that 3:45 is a good time to play basketball in the tennis courts across the way. - Take a shower. - While putting on clothes, hear a neighbor yelling at the idiots about how he was "a fucking home owner, and I'm going to call the fucking association about this & then I'm going to call the police if you don't fucking leave" and when they respond too quietly for you to hear, hear the response "How could you fucking not know you were annoying neighbors? It's fucking 4 o'clock in the morning?" Think hopefully that your neighbor might have been more inventive (or at least not as repetitious) in his expletives if it hadn't been fucking 4 o'clock in the morning. - Go down & have cereal & coffee for breakfast while watching your recording of Saturday night's Olympic activites. - Realize it's 4:50, and head upstairs to boot up the work pc & call into the conference call. - Work until 7:15 on the change (yay! success). - Decide to take a walk on the beach down to the coffee shop on Main Street. - While gathering stuff for the walk, decide to reload your iPod shuffle. - Go back upstairs, start up iTunes & start the reload of the iPod. - At 8:00, after regretting the decision to reload the shuffle (since it took, in your neighbor's vernacular, so fucking long), finally leave the house. - Enjoy a lovely walk on the beach & read the newspaper while drinking coffee outside your favorite coffee joint. - At 9:30, get home, water the outside plants, go upstairs & check personal email & do a little surfing/blogging. - Realize you really need to take another shower since you got a little sweaty on the walk (more from the sun than from exertion) & take said shower. - Head off to Fry's to buy birthday presents for Dad & bro-in-law. And then you've hit noon so it's no longer morning. I'm really looking forward to the Sunday mornings in October where my morning activity might consist of sleeping until noon ;-). In the meantime, I'm heading off to crash in bed before 9pm because I'm exhausted now. |
| 9:31 am | Just for Annika (and any other knitting obsessed readers) Here's my knitting travails of late: I've been on a knitting flurry lately, and even more unusual for me, it's a knitting flurry that goes all the way to completion. The problem with this frenzy is that I get so far so quickly in projects that I'm 90% through before I realize that I'm not happy with the way it's working up. But I keep rose-colored glasses on & somehow figure that once it's done it will magically correct itself. So I finish a thing & I'm forced to confront the fact that I really need to frog the entire thing, modify the pattern & start from scratch. And instead of doing any of that, I put the thing aside 'for a while' and start something new. So here are projects I've 'completed' in the last few weeks: - A sleeveless top for Gillian. This one actually is the exception to the aforementioned issues.... mostly because I insisted on tossing it on Gillian anytime I saw her to get her to tell me any changes she might want to the pattern as I was working it. Last Saturday I had it sewn together & still needed to do finishing around the neck & sleeves. I had Gil try it on & she was happy with the length, the waist, the neckline, the armhole length, etc., so this week I finished it off. - A 'shawlette' done with Koigu yarn. The pattern is pretty & easy & I'd bought enough yarn that I should have been able to extend it & make it closer to a shawl than 'shawlette'. But the pattern adds 6 stitches every two rows & it makes it pretty short in back but with these very long skinny ends. I suspect (because God knows I didn't check & confirm) that my problem is that while my stitch gauge was somewhere near accurate, my row gauge was way too tight. I think I should rip the whole thing out & modify the pattern to add 4 stitches every two rows (which is what the swallowtail shawl does, for example.) - Speaking of swallowtail shawls - I've done my first one. I love the pattern & I'm sure I'll do more, but I think I need to go up a needle size because I probably only used about 300 yds of yarn & the one I've made doesn't even qualify as a 'shawlette'. However, once blocked, it should be an ideal size for a three year old girl, and I happen to know one who is obsessed with purple things (and this one happens to be purple.) So even though this didn't work out perfectly, it was a good learning exercise. - A shrug in hemp - this ones aggravating because I did actually rip it back a great deal once already. Before I had to go back because by making the sleeves as long as it called for, I didn't have enough yarn left to make the back long enough fit. So I'd taken it back to before where I'd split for the back (this is knit in two pieces each in the round from the end of the sleeves to half way across the back) and made the split earlier, the back longer, changed the back edging from 6 stitches of stockinette - which curled in & wasted valuable yarn - to 4 stitches of seed stitch. But when I tried on the finished project, I find that it gaps along the bottom & top of the back (maybe there was a good reason for stockinette ;-). Also, this was the first shrug I've ever done (or tried on for that matter) & I'm starting to wonder if maybe the fool things are supposed to be a little snug across the back? The main reason why I've put off re-dealing with this is because the hemp yarn is rough & I need a break from it while I'm playing with softer yarn that catches on the callouses the hemp yarn creates on my fingers. At least that's my rationalization for not frogging it right now. To console myself, went to one of my local yarn shops yesterday with Melanie. The store is having a month long sale on various yarns (actually on some of them it's just particular colors in which they're overstocked). I'd gone last Friday & bought some stuff - but I always seem to buy more when I'm with someone else than when I'm alone. And Melanie was semi-celebrating the fact that her work schedule was about to go back to normal after having worked 60-72 hours a week for the last six weeks or so. So not only was she about to have more knitting time, she also had all this overtime pay to justify a small buying spree ;-). My big sin wasn't the buying of yarn - it was the fact that everything I bought was on speculations - I have no specific projects in mind for any of it. So even though I had a yarn puchase high yesterday, I didn't get the thrill of starting a new project out of it, which is a bit of a letdown. |
| Friday, August 15th, 2008 | |
| 8:38 am | Small updates Nothing terribly interesting going on around here (why isn't it October yet?), but I thought I'd post anyhow. Feel free to ignore ;-). - I hate ants. I'm sure that if I lived somewhere else, ants would be a minor annoyance compared to cockroaches or rats or any other number of truly icky potential kitchen pests. But I live here & in SoCal (at least in the places I've lived) the main kitchen invasions come in the form of tiny Argentine ants that seem to find any open food source when they come a'callin'. I've been fairly lucky in that I had a big ant problem at my old place, put out 10 or so ant baits and didn't have another problem there for the 8 years I continued to live there. I haven't had any ant problem inside at this place - until now. I spent a few days battling them with household cleaner (I didn't have any ant spray and/or bait), but when that didn't deter them, I bought ant bait this week and put it out. I like the theory of ant bait (and how well it worked at the old place) in that they supposedly take it back to the nest & it kills one & all, including the queen, to permanently deal with the problem. But I hate that period where you're supposed to wait patiently for the ants to find the bait, report back, send hoards of ants to collect the bait, take it back, and all die horrific deaths (insert villianous laughter here). It's hard to keep myself from taking out the ant spray (also purchased) and killing the ones I see immediately. Yeah, when it comes to me & ants, I'm afraid any & all environmentalist eco-friendly habits go out the window. - geez, I spent so many words on ants, I think I used them all up & I can't be bothered to bitch about my knitting, which is the other thing I was going to post about. Eh, I'll save it in the hopes that by the next time I post, I'll have resolved my issues and will be perfectly happy again ;-). |
| Monday, August 11th, 2008 | |
| 9:42 am | Specially priced indeed This weekend was the Orange County Classic Jazz Festival. The family bought two tickets for Dad for Father's Day so each of us could go with him on one of the days of the festival. I went with Dad on Saturday & when we arrived I picked up their daily newsletter. Now granted, this one page leaflet is a volunteer-written thing and one can't be too picky, but there were a couple of things in it that amused & bemused me. The first was a typo (one hopes) which was amusing in context: The music in the Holiday Inn lobby is intimate and the drinks are specially priced at $1.50 for draft beer and $350 for house wine. I guess they're really trying to sell the beer ;-). The second was in a story about one of the musicians (for whom jazz is a sideline to his career in medicine) there was the following statement: In 1997, he began medical studies - in Paris, where the jazz was. After 11 year of study and five of hospital duty, in 1995 he set up his own radiology practice, the Clinique du Louvre, near the famed museum. I'm still not sure what the writer really meant to say.... Anyhow, the music was enjoyable & Dad indicated that he'd like to do it again next year (this was the second year we'd done this.) It's a nice change of pace to have a reliable gift for Dad. |
| Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | |
| 8:57 am | Apparently October is holiday month for me This week I made reservations for a trip up to Oregon with my mother. When the 'rents & I went up in September for a wedding, Mom & I agreed that we really should go up more often, so we committed to the idea of going up this year. Dad's illness earlier this year postponed the original vague plans of a spring trip until Mom felt more comfortable with the idea of leaving Dad home alone. Now that she feels he can cope on his own (and he agrees), we're going to go up the first weekend in October & stay 5 days. I used my airline miles to make the reservation & decided to go first class since Alaska had sent an email saying that as of Nov. 1 they'll be changing their mileage program (in a way which will reduce the value of my huge stockpile of miles.) Anyhow, I'll be taking vacation from the 2nd to the 7th. Then I'll be taking vacation from the 22nd to the 3rd for this little party I'm planning ;-). So currently I'm working all of 11 days in October. All months should be like that ;-). |
| Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 | |
| 1:46 pm | *pout* why didn't I check my email this morning? Normally on Saturdays, after the morning walk on the beach with Mom, I come up to the computer & waste an hour before I then rush to shower & get ready for my knitting group. Today, I broke from my habit & sat downstairs & finished knitting the edging around a lace shawl I've been working on forever (well, since June, but it feels like forever). Then I took a shower & rushed out the door for knitting (as we were meeting at someone else's place.) I didn't get home until 1pm & when I checked my email, I found a note from Annika, sent at 8am, saying she & Will were taking Sam to the beach and were thinking Malibu, but if I was up for company on short notice, they'd come here instead (after my knitting). I have absolutely no plans for the rest of the day & would love to see them... but I think I missed my chance as noone is answering their phone. I've sent an email, but I suspect I'm out of luck. Eeeee! I decided before I hit 'update journal' to refresh my email, and I wasn't too late after all & they're coming. Woohoo! Guess I should change that subject line, but I'm too lazy & since I've decided I have to break my habit of typing up a post & then deciding I can't be arsed to actually post it, I guess I'll leave it as is ;-). |
| Monday, July 28th, 2008 | |
| 7:10 am | I knew I recognized that name! I gave in to the critics' blandishments & watched the season 2 premiere of Mad Men even though I've not watched any of the first season. Before watching it, I'd read enough to at least know some of the names of the cast. Some of the names were vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place any of them before watching the show. It took me until the second scene with the younger ad executive to realize he was being played by Angel's son. That distracted me for a bit, because I couldn't think of what the Angel's son's name was which made me aware that I haven't watched Buffy or Angel in ages! I really need to set aside some time to do that - it's been far too long. |
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | |
| 8:48 am | Okay, I admit it, I like the matchup There are new commercials for the next season of House that I have to admit I think is a great matchup of lyrics & character. I'm even thinking it would make a great new theme song for the show, but I imagine I'd get tired of it by the third episode ;-). |
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 | |
| 10:02 am | Weekend good, Monday ugh In an endless meeting right now, so I'm not thrilled with work at this time, but I'm going to ignore that and talk about the weekend instead, since it's more better. As part of the knitting get-together on Saturday, we went to a yarn shop that was having a Koigu yarn trunk show. I succumbed to the temptation & bought enough for a shawl, as did another knitter. Surprisingly, it was Melanie who did the other buying - surprising because Melanie is a hard-core 'no sheep for her' person & Koigu is merino wool only. But it was soft & smooth enough that Melanie decided to try it. And hey, if it doesn't work out for her, I'll be happy to take if off her hands ;-). After knitting I went to the movies. I was planning to see either Hellboy 2 or Mamma Mia! depending on which one would be starting closest to my arrival. I was going to wait until next weekend for The Dark Knight on the theory that there was no way I'd be able to get in without waiting in interminably long lines. But it turned out that The Dark Knight was starting 20 minutes earlier than the next Hellboy & the line waiting for entrance for that presentation wasn't horrendous, so The Dark Knight it was. I thoroughly enjoyed it - and it was kind of neat to see a movie in a crowded theater for a change - I usually go to matinees that have at most 4 other people in the audience. Sunday morning was mostly spent watching Greg Norman lose the Open & doing a fair amount of knitting (and current projects - not with the new yarn.) Then I went to the fair to help my dance teacher backstage as she had a group putting on a show. It went fairly well & I'm pretty happy that I'm no longer among those that have the 'honor' of performing.... but I think I'm going to decline the opportunity to assist at the L.A. County fair this year. The thing is too damn far away (particularly with the price of gas), is always hot & miserable. We'll see if I stick to my mostly-selfish guns or if I give in & when my teacher asks me to help out at L.A. I end up agreeing.... |
| Saturday, July 12th, 2008 | |
| 9:09 pm | Giving in to the inevitable This morning, as I was walking with my mother, she casually asked if the knitters would be doing any knitting today. See, we normally get together from 10 until whenever to knit on Saturdays, but once a month or so we get together for tea at The Sussex Teapot. We meet at 11:30 on those days & today was one of them. So Mom figured we might not actually knit on tea Saturdays. I told her that we actually drive back to Piper's (who lives about a mile from The Sussex Teapot) & proceed to knit until someone has to leave, so it can be pretty much an all-afternoon affair. Heck, even when we don't go to tea, knitting can turn into an all-afternoon affair if we go to the yarn shop (and then out to lunch), so it's practially a given that tea day knitting sessions take up a lot of time. Well today at lunch, Pam asked if we were up for an excursion to do a little furniture shopping after we did a little knitting. And since we were all game & furniture shopping involved an excursion down to Irvine & back up to Costa Mesa & a celebratory (for the successful shopping expedition) dinner, I didn't get home until about 8:30pm. And now I'm ready for bed, because even when it's someone else who is doing the actual purchasing, furniture shopping can be exhausting (but fun!) work ;-). |