Random blah.

Oh let's see:

• I'm feeling a little yucky again, I think my policy of the past year or so to let some of the health stuff slide until the mythical "after the Bat Mitzva" is catching up with me.  I had kind of enjoyed pretending I didn't have to deal with the liver and hernia stuff and so really let things slide and mostly ignored any twinges or reminders I got.  No worries, I have appointments scheduled, labs and MRIs to do and the like and fully expect all to be well or at least deal withable.  I'm funny in that I tend to whine about the relatively small stuff and rarely talk to anyone about the really serious stuff.  I could anaylyze why that is but what's the point?  I suspect is a combination of denial and not wanting to sound too TMI (it's one thing to make a remark about a low glucose level, or the flu or allergies, another to give an in-service on hepatic tumors to your friends, family and acquaintances) 
• I have come fascinated with Bento Boxes, not enough to purchase the boxes or make little cute lunches but I love reading about them.  Sometimes I wish I was '"that mom", the one who does make the adorable bento box lunches and hand-stitches every organic cotton frock their child is wearing and well...I'm not. 
• So,Iron Man rocked, if you go don't forget to stay through the credits.  It occurs to me that I have been a comic book geek for almost 37 years now.  My first love was Legion of Super Heroes.  I adored that comic and was completely involved in the lives of he team.  Now, I can see the kind of wholesome kitchiness the classic Legion of my youth embodied, but at the time I thought it was full of drama.  I really did, little did I know that a few years later I'd be sucked into the Marvel universe and the drama that was The Avengers, X-Men, Swamp Thing, The Dark Knight and Iron Man (and Dare Devil and well, you get the idea). 
• I'm happily zipping along with the cardigan (no frogging, no drama) and my Monkey socks (no frogging, no drama).  What have we learned?  Nothing, we all didn't know before, make sure you have the right yarn, the right pattern and the right frame of mind for the project.  A friend showed me her copy of Making Mathematics with Needlework-it will end up on my shelf.  If you're a math geek and like crafts this book will really excite you.  I am horrible with mathematics on a practical level, but on a theoretical level love mathematical concepts and look forward to reading it in depth.
• It's been a wet rainy week and somewhat cold, but banal as it sounds the gardens are happy.  My jack-in-the-pulpit is in full bloom and looks lovely as does my alba bleeding heart.  I have some perennials on order from High Country (ordered with a friend for the reduced shipping).  Even before those come and get planted the beds are filling in nicely and last years moving about of peonies, divided plants and the like seems to have done well.  Um..there is still some mulch left to distribute...let's just blame the rain shall we?
• Work goes well, and soon my Sundays will return to me as we wind down the religious school year.  It's odd, on the one hand it's great to have the whole week end back and to not have to be out before 7am on Sunday and all. It's also easier to get a lot of stuff done without all the hustle and bustle of the kids,teachers, classes and all...and yet, I always kind of miss them and miss hearing the kids doing their thing and running about.  It gets a little too quiet.  It was a year of new things, new boss, new database, and more but it all came together and as I've mentioned umteenth times, the Bat Mitzvah as well.  I honestly can't believe this school year flew by the way it did.  I'm stunned.
• Em mainly uses her camera to take pics of her bird.  Hundreds of them.  I love Pippin too, but how many pictures do we need of one cute, green, fat parrot?  It appears, from my daughter's perspective, you can never have enough.

• What we are reading? Em is reading Twilight, the first book in Stephanie Meyer's YA vampire/romance series.  I read them all on my Kindle, she's insisting on reading hard copies and bought the first one in pb.  Noah is reading How to Twist a Dragon's Tail.  I have dropped everything (even Fowler's Wit's End) to read Cory Doctorow's, Little Brother, I will likely be unable to put it down and this does not bode well for any sleep tonight!  I am also catching up on my trashy para-normal romances both in hard copy and on the kindle and on all my journals and magazines.  John is rereading something he read before..he does that a lot, I don't get it. Once in awhile I'll reread something but usually there's so much new stuff to read I 'm reluctant to take the time.  One of these days I should bore you all (all 3 of you) with my treatise on why different people read and what they get out of it.  All I know is I am delighted that all 4 of us here in Random Central are compulsive readers, we talk to each other at the dinner table..while reading our books or papers or what have you.  We read in bed. We read while waiting and in restaurants. We read on the beach and when we rest while hiking or biking.  We read in the yard.  We just read.  There are worse addictions.
   

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[john]

rereading is like craving a favorite food. "I'm in the mood for Chinese--twice-cooked pork"; "I'm in the mood for Matt Helm--The Wrecking Crew".