It's a Monday!

 

Was up late last night working on a new blog look - it's something creative and typing-oriented that doesn't get me all stressed out, I guess - but it just didn't work right for me. Maybe I'll try something else another day. But, anyway, I got up around 8am and Bill mumbled something about taking me out for breakfast, but he thought I'd sleep longer. See, he just got started on a raid/event/group thing on Warcraft... but he'd be done in about an hour and a half. 

9:30.  Okay, I'm cool with that. Handled emails, cleared out the spammers on my forums - btw, Sam and I talked last night about closing them down, it's not like they're getting a lot of traffic other than the spammers - took a shower, blah blah blah... 9:30, I'm ready to go.

Still WoWing.

9:45 he said it'll be about half an hour. That was fifteen minutes ago. So, I guess we'll see.  I suppose I could fold Laundry.

And as I typed the previous sentence, he finished up and headed for the shower. Cool.

(insert about 2 hours absence here)

We went to IHop - we go there too often, I think - and Andy (one of our regular servers) showed us pictures of his new baby. He had one of those digital picture keychains and it had, oh, twelve or fifteen different pictures of his two boys. One's about 2 and the other's only a couple of months old. Pretty darn sweet. Andy, his wife, and the eldest were in one pic, and they're a lovely family. It was a pretty cool gadget, too and sometimes it's weirdly amazing what things we've created to replace other things that have existed for decades. Few people show off hard-copy pictures anymore. How many people still use film cameras? I have a Nikon that I bought, gee, twenty years ago. It still works GREAT but almost all of my photos are now taken on the Canon PowerShot digital. Even my somewhat technophobe mother has a digital camera, she just takes it to Walmart or Walgreens or wherever and has it downloaded and printed whenever it gets full. She doesn't even own a computer.

Anyway, IHop.  Our usual server is named Lisa and she's a single mom of a seventeen year old daughter, just like us. We commiserate a lot, if ya know what I mean. Lisa called in sick today and we were worried. See, her daughter - A - had been having some REALLY BAD headaches and some odd behavior issues. After scads of doctors telling Lisa it was just migraines, A was finally diagnosed with a brain tumor. She went in for surgery last week in Iowa City. Lisa'd been pretty scared about it - who wouldn't?!? - and we were worried that something had happened.

Nope, Andy assured us. The operation was supposed to take nine hours only took about five and the tumor came out as a self-contained mass. Other than the surgery site hurting from her skull being cut open A is doing great and they expect a full recovery. We'd been really worried and it was a huge relief.

After IHop, Bill and I headed to the mall to maybe do some Christmas shopping. We bought a few things at the Egyptian Store, and one of our traditional stocking stuffer items - very boring, actually, just a wonky pair of socks. I swear The Kid would think something was wrong if she didn't get a pair of goofy socks at Christmas, but she wears them all year! Jingle bell socks in July, that's my daughter!  lol - and wandered about the mall looking at whatever and talking. We try most Mondays to go do something together, even if just running errands, and it's nice. Monday is Bill's only real day off and I really look forward to our odd little weekend.

Now I need to log off and try to write something, maybe cut more pinwheels for my quilt. I'll explain the construction and reasoning behind it when it's done. It's one of those need-to-see-it-to-understand things. The top's about 3/4 done though and I'm going to hang it over my desk upstairs. 

Before I go, though, I want to leave you with a link. One site I check out fairly regularly, every couple of weeks or so, is The Sneeze and this morning I noticed that Steve posted a link to a YouTube video made by his buddy called The Perfect Dating Video.

Peas!  A whole can of 'em!  ;)

Laugh lots and have a great day, everyone!

Posted: Monday - November 26, 2007 at 09:56 AM         |