filling the good tv gap
Clark and Michael. If you haven’t watched them yet, you should. This online series is the brain child of Arrested Developement’s Michael Cera and his friend Clark Duke.
Dude, Where’s my lake?
I have lost lots of things in my life, but never a lake. How do lakes just dissapear? There are scientific theories. I think there is something that’s not being considered:
Maybe the bees drank it all?
Its not just distant lakes that are dissapearing, Lake Superior is fading. Not so dramatic, but closer to home.
Doc talk
I went back to the doctor today. When I told him how often I have been hurting, and how much, he gave me a large pile of sample meds. So now I need to try them out and see what works best. Then I will need to return for a prescription. He also expressed surprise at the date of my rheumy appt. Apparently waiting until October is not good. Le sigh.. We talked about all the things I could do to ease the inflammation. Without a definitive diagnosis, its difficult to know what would be most beneficial. He suggested I precede as if I have a diagnosis of an autoimmune disease.Looks like I will be cutting back on dairy, and possibly going back to a breadless life. oh joy. At least I have things I can research on the interwebs now.
Glamping
Why must they keep making ridiculous names for great things?
I know I am way behind the times here… the article is a year old… but who cares. Glamping or glamorous camping sounds like good times to me. It has been way too long since I have gone camping. This seems like a nice way to ease back into it. Style and camping, how can this be a bad thing? Maybe its just that I have seen too many movies where they seem to live a leisurely life while on safari? I don’t know. Just don’t make me decide between the white Indian style tent and a yurt.
weird, or weirder?
Not sure what is weirder- Sonic Youth records album for Starbucks or this interview with Johnny Depp.
perpetual kid
It should come as no surprise that when I found a store called perpetual kid I found a bunch of stuff I don’t really need, but want anyways. I have had my eye on deadfred for a while. Now, I have come across something that is cute and practical USB heated gloves. I wants.
The vegetable patch before the storm
Woke this morning and discovered Dad had finished the second turning of the vegetable bed. But my bones told me rain was on the way. So I checked the forecast. Meh. IF the weather network was accurate in its predictions I had 2 hours to hoe some rows and get it planted. If not I would have to wait for the mud of 30+mm of rain to dry. I immediately changed into my garden gear, grabbed my pink gloves and set to work. Well, it took me well over 2 hours to even complete the rows. As the rain hadn’t started yet I decided to take a break and check my seeds before I planted.
Bad news. My joints had swollen so much I couldn’t get my gloves off. I soaked them in cold water for a few minutes and peeled my gloves off, only to find that it wasn’t just inflammation that made my gloves stick. The skin of 3 large blisters remained in my gloves. Yuck. After tending to my wounds I pulled out the seed and took stock. Ack. Short of half of what I wanted. Then the phone rings. My dad’s mom is back in hosp. Dad heads off to the hospital to check on her.
Good news. After checking her status ( they were running cardiac enzymes which takes about 9 hours), Dad had tim to get the seeds I needed. I got the veggie seeds in. I underestimated what I needed so there is still half a row to sew. Its been 12 hours and the rain still hasn’t hit. It all went north. Flash floods in Edmonton and a tornado to the east.
“It’s never to late to die violently”
I admit it. I have been persuaded to buy a book by its cover. When faced with two books by new (to me) authors, and jacket descriptions of equal appeal, it becomes a factor- despite the maxim. Now maybe I will choose books by their first line. TwitterLit posts the first line of a book, without the author’s name or book title, but with a link to Amazon so readers can see what book the line is from. Kind of a nifty marketing move.
