Random Updates

So I start to write an entry and spend an hour browsing around and reading other people's entries. Then I'm tired and don't feel like writing anything. So we'll see how this goes. My uncle's first wife died last night. Judy had lung cancer has been fighting it for a while, but couldn't hold out any longer. I'm trying to convince my parents that they both need to go down for the wake and the funeral despite all of the stuff they have going on. I may be cat sitting for several days while they are gone.

There is a family reunion this Sunday as well. They were hoping Judy could stay alive until then so they could see her one last time. But they still want to see the rest of the family.

I came home last night from a business dinner to find my father in my back yard with a sheepish grin on his face. The first thing he told me was "well .... I didn't ask first, but I didn't think you'd mind." He tilled a patch of my yard and is hoping to plant tomatoes that are growing out of their pots in the next few days. Oh and he diagnosed what's wrong with my back porch light. So I should have fresh tomatoes and light in my backyard again soon.

The hooting noise that my car makes has gotten louder and louder. My dealership is going to fix it on Monday. We shall see how long that takes. I'm just tired of having my car turn heads for all the wrong reasons when it drives by hooting away.

I did buy that new serger I was wanting. It does rock. I've sewn linen and trigger on it and didn't have to change a single dial. And threading it takes like 30 seconds. So very cool. I've got Rich's gamboissed cuisses cut out and the quilting cut out as well. I just need to quilt and construct. The trial pair is out of trigger while we check the fit and pattern. Then the real deal will be out of canvas. I didn't think I'd be excited about making armor.

Hopefully my next post will be more clever. But my eyes are closing at the moment ...

Gay Marriage

I'm about 20 pages from the end of a fascinating book - Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America by Jonathan Rauch. I strongly recommend this book to anyone even remotely curious about the title and its contents. Rauch's writing has helped clarify my views on not only gay marriage, but on marriage in general. It's been a long time since I've read something so clearly elaborated through rational discourse. I would give you a quote, but there's just too much of it that's clever and quotable.

It's well worth every penny of the hardcover price.

Fidgeting in general

So I'm a dummy and didn't take my Macrobid like I should have. And now I'm paying the price in pussy pain. I'm hoping for some relief soon but the pain meds have only taken the edge off. I know I get bladder infections. I know the cause and effect of all of this. I have a giant bottle of low grade antibiotics that I should be taking every day. And still I foolishly challenge medicine by thinking for several nights in a row "I feel fine. I don't usually get bladder infections this time of the month anyway. I don't really need to take a pill. How bad can it be?" Let me tell you - for the record - it can be very, very bad.

But enough of that. In amongst trips to the potty and drinking 8432 gallons of water, I'm making lists of things for the weekend to bring to Richmond and catching up on Tivo goodness. Rich and I are still one episode behind in the Sopranos (although we know all about the Big News (tm) and such) but we did knock out three episodes in a row last night.

Rich was gone for most of last week in LA for his training. I tried to look on the bright side of this separation by thinking of things I could do that I couldn't normally do while he was around. But all I could manage was acquiring pinot noir wine and listening to country music in the car. Woot. Really, I just puttered about the house and missed him and waited for him to come back to the east coast.

I found this bad ass serger that I really must have, but am trying to be all responsible and pay some bills first before I buy myself a toy. Sure I could justify it as my birthday present to myself or the use of several bonuses lumped together I've never done anything with yet. But I think I'll wait until I can actually find the entire sewing table and it's not covered in junk before I treat myself to a fantastic item such as this. Damn that fiscal responsibility.

I still spent over $100 in Price Club this week, though, on books and DVDs. I think I should be able to move that category of spending in my Money 2003 account to something out of the "leisure" categories and more into the "household" or "bills" or "absolute essentials" category. I am quite certain I needed the Baking Illustrated cookbook as much as I need power or water.