Time Flies.....

...whether you're having fun or not. It's been over a month since I posted and I feel like such a slacker! After three or four posts a day a year ago, I suppose I am. lol

Let's see, updates for anyone who still stops by.

1. Hubby is on the mend. No third trip to the hospital yet. Visiting nurses and physical and occupational therapists are done. Just lung doctor visits and eye doctor visits and some kind of sleep study thing he has to do. Oh and a bone density scan. High dose steroids can mess with your bones, too, among other things. It's great to help him breath but lousy for so many other reasons - including the eye thing.

2. Granddaughters are getting bigger and are fine. Stepson and girlfriend are good as is his soon-to-be ex who we still adore. Cat is still a cat - in other words, adorable and sweet when he wants to be and trouble when he doesn't.

3. Work sucks. Shorter hours for all staff, no raises, corporate doesn't pay bills on time, doesn't answer phone calls and has made me really dislike them. People are always complaining and I want to tell them - if you had to put up with the huge amount of crap we did just to put out the stupid paper, you'd be amazed and would NEVER complain about anything every again. However, I do still need this job and ergo I have to be nice.

4. Loving summer this year. It's not overly hot and humid and is nice and chilly in the morning - just the way I like it. So there are upsides to life and I really don't complain that much....okay, so I do. But here's something I'm not complaining about.

5. Also not complaining about Nichols/Wheeler episodes of LOCI. They got the better writers. Goren/Eames didn't do as well I'm sorry to say. Still love Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe but their episodes are pure case file boring. Hope those who wanted pure case files are happy, because I'm not. I'd complain about it on the boards but then I'd sound like the annoying whiners who hated the personal stories of the last two years. So I'll just complain here and not on the boards.

6. Best new favorite show I've stumbled upon "Closer to Truth." It's not a drama or comedy, it's on PBS. Go to Closer to Truth to find out what it's about. Great show that really makes you think. You can watch entire episodes online.

7. Politics! I've once again stopped visiting political sites as lately, I'm angry again because right-wingers have now totally gone off the deep end and I can't give them the benefit of the doubt on anything. If I can't be objective, I'm not going to engage in discussion because then I come off as a frothing at the mouth left-winger. After 8 years of stupidity, they've finally just lost it completely. Between the big DICK, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin and Newt Gingrich, the party is going to hell in a handbasket and while I'm thrilled at the prospect on one hand, I'm concerned that we will not have a strong opposition party - which is necessary no matter who is in charge. I mean Nancy Pelosi has proven one thing. Women can be every bit as obnoxious, self-aggrandizing and power hungry as men. Sad, eh? So apologies to my political discussion friends but I need a summer vacation from the rhetoric. I love my conservative friends. I just don't want to piss you off with the thoughts about your party that are running through my head at the moment.

That's it for now. Wish I had more desire to go to my music boards, too. Green Day and U2 have put out great albums and apologies to Lisle - who I know does stop by - about not writing up reviews for you. Maybe in my absence from politics again, I'll stop by and start posting at your place again. :-)

Will try and post more things but you know how that goes! With my recent track record it may be another month. Thanks for hanging in there folks! And thanks for all the emails and PMs. I do check all forums I am still a member of when I get email alerts so that's a good way to get me to come back. lol

[NP: Neil Young - Heart of Gold]