August 10, 2005

• BULLET BLOG WEDNESDAY i.e. insert random thoughts here 8I've been drinking my water. How about you? ::takes a sip of water:: Drink my friends ! DRINK! 8 Christopher Reeve's widow has been diagnosed with lung cancer. ( While I often do not agree with her and Christopher's spiritual, social, and political views, that is not an illness I would wish on anyone. I hope she gets healing...for the sake of her kids. They have lost their father...they need her.  Losing their mother so soon would be a mighty blow to them. 8NBC News anchor Peter Jennings died Sunday evening ... coincidentally enough, of lung cancer. He died at home with his family. Prayers for them all. Cancer is ugly. So. Very. Ugly. 8 I am so tired this week. Tired to the bone. I had my gall bladder out two weeks ago Monday **not laproscopically**. Since then I just have had NO energy.  I know it is normal...I just had major surgery. Doesn't mean I have to like it.        Did I mention I 'M IRRITATED THAT I FEEL SO RAGGED OUT????       Ahem 8 Because I have had no energy and am too sore to be bending, weeding, and pulling, over the last three weeks my front garden bed against the house has GONE OUTTA CONTROL. Oh my gosh...the weeds...I CANNOT believe how fast they have grown! *sniff* I put so much work into those flower beds...and now they just are overgrown and nasty **whine**. It is too hot to work out there so I am having to wait until I can handle the temperature (mainly the humidity) so I can weed. At night when it is cooler the mosquitoes are so bad that it is nigh impossible to stand being out there.      Unless you particularly enjoy being the target of parasitical insects. Ick. 8What is up with this whole Harry Potter thing? I don't get it. Why are people so vehemently PASSIONATE about it? Good grief. With wars, child abductions, murders, illnesses, etc. going on, people are expending a lot of unnecessary energy in fighting about it. Not worth arguing over...each has his own personal conviction about the story, author and series. Fah.  Its not eternal. I am not going to get bent about it. 8Perry, my rescue Keeshond that we picked up in March from West Virginia, is doing amazingly well. He is calming down more and more daily...and he is a great dog. Such a clown and he is turning into a major snuggler and lover of people. Just as a Kees should be! I am so glad we have him. He was listed as a mix, and unneutered on the web site. He is neither a mix, nor unneutered. Eh? 8Three Saturdays ago my husband and his band, Dwell,  played a gig to benefit a 10 young boy with leukemia. Unfortunately, the Friday before they did the gig the boy passed away from the leukemia. On a nicer note, the guys went ahead and did the gig, and along with several other bands, raised over $14,000 for the boy's family.      Our daughter is 10 years old. I can't imagine. I never want to have to go there. Ever. Prayers for healing for this family are appreciated. 8I had to go to the local post office today to talk to the Post Master, who happens to be a very nice man. Seems there is some funky change in mail routes and we don't have a regular carrier and that is what is causing the problems. After today we will have a regular carrier. I wasn't nasty just firm about this costing us over $200 in late fees and misc issues. I let him know that whatever was causing the issue I am done...this has gone on intermittently for a year and it needs to stop. Now. ::grunt:: Here's hopin'...I may just stake out my mailbox for a couple of days and talk to the carrier.     I am SO not happy. My SIL, and my pastor and his wife sent me get well cards following my surgery. Both cards were returned with "No Such Address" marked on them. What the heck? I'm preeetty sure that for the almost five years we have lived here that the house, and its address, were here. Not to mention that the house is over 230 years old...and its been here that whole time.  Now, I have had two people tell me that mail has been bumped back to them. What has been bumped back that I don't know about? I know of several bills we  never received (because of the ensuing late fees and pain-in-the-butt dealings with said companies), and did I mention the hell I went through getting my vehicle emissions inspection done on my van? It took 8 MONTHS to resolve because every letter the DMV sent me to verify where I live was returned. I assume they were returned because *I* never received them. We all know the JOYS of dealing with the local motor vehicle division now, don't we? ::grimace:: Finally, to get the issue straightened out I drove the 1/8 of a mile from my house to where the inspection station is, and had the van inspected. While there I found out that I had been driving with suspended tags for 3 weeks due to not having had my van's emissions inspection done.     By the way, I never received notice in the mail that the tags were suspended.     Surprised? I think not...                                                 ~Kathie

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