ok.. hi all. i'll save my excuses for later, but i gotta say this first or i WILL forget. and you know i will. so... tonight.. Sunday, August 12- 2007... yes, that is tonight..... between 9 and 10 PM... wherever you are... YOUR time zone. there is gonna be a meteor shower. it's called the Great Perseeids... and you can read about it right here...
Great Perseids
i don't remember ever seeing one. i may have when i was younger, but i sure don't remember it. so, if you have little kids... or if you aren't doing anything special.. y'all should take a look outside tonight. OHHH.... i hadn't thought of this yet....but maybe we could go out on the boat tonight and watch it. it would be real dark out, we could see it real good. that would be sooo cool. my daughter hates to go on the boat but i may be able to talk her into it for this. plus... we could fish a bit too !
hmmm. i better bring that up pretty quick.
anyhow... you don't have to be really into astronomy or anything to look up into the sky tonight. i think it'll be awesome...especially if i can get the family motivated to take the boat out.
of course... motivation is the key word here. i am soooo tired . i even woke up dog tired today. and morning is usually when i feel the best. plus i ran my butt off all day long. well, not until after my ritual of coffee, cigarettes, and my favorite blogs etc. then it was like 10 am, or so when i got out to run some errands. i got home maybe about 12 ish... then i got to take my daughter to the mall . woo hoo. let's do the happy dance!!! not. extremely not. ugh.
i will admit, it wasn't the worst trip to the mall, but it wasn't the best either. i hate the mall. and i hate to spend oodles of money. but that goes both ways. she deserves nice things, she needed clothes, and i am grateful to be able to buy those things for her. i just wish i had some other way of getting them to the house without having to endure... people, and noise, and traffic, and arguments, and everything else. oh and did i mention it was over 100 degrees again today? it was. and i think it''s just gonna kill me. ... it won't. really i don't mind heat as much as i do cold... but i am getting almost as heat sensitive as i am cold sensitive. wth am i gonna do when i can't handle EITHER extreme?
ack.
well, anyhow.. yep. i been busy most of the day. and still run down from yesterday. and now i'm hungry... and no one wants to take the boat out tonight. buncha fuddy duddys. we are gonna go over to the pond to watch for a while though. and fish...of course. then i will come home and fall into bed.
then.. tomorrow i have a lovely gastro doc followup appt. i will let y'all know if i shove a pencil down his throat or anything.
:))
latah tatahs
ps... the book i mentioned reading... i had to stop...cuz i can't see... and it was painful. and it was also a bit too "deep" for me right now. so i shall return it. oh well. someday i'll get my rose colored glasses.
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Hey Soul! This meteor shower sounds very cool! Good thing Spot got out of Frank's house first! LOL
Hope you get to see them from the pond - take the camera!
A trip to the mall on Sunday? - God Bless You! You couldn't pay me enough to do that. I hate malls when they are crowded. Did the kid find some cool clothes for school? I remember that being the fun part!
Sorry you are feeling so miz today, I imagine how much work your poor body did yesterday fishin in that hot, hot heat. Damn I wish it would cool down! I can't do heat or cold either - guess we will have to move to Tahiti or somewhere nice year around like that when we are old? Hell, we are feeling old now, let's go! :-)
Gotta go out to WallyHell now - pray for me, I don't want to but I am out of food and I'm hungry.
Good luck tomorrow and that is cool about the meteor shower. Too bad I'll be inside at work!
oooh meteor shower??? cant see it from here i guess... yeah day at the mall....can be fun sometimes..but not on SUNDAY... but hey...the stuff you'll go through for your kids... good luck at the drs tomorrow... its good to go knowing that they'll piss you off before you go..then you wont be so surprised... ha! hows the wonton going?
hi all... we just got back a while ago... from the pond..and the NON meteor shower show. ugh. wouldn't it figure that on a night that i am totally wiped out that science and God would not be on the same page? ERG.
and of course, really none of us were either. i wanted us to go watch the meteors, because A).. it would be something, basically free to do as a family, that would be cool, and also something we've never done before. B) it would be something that none of us may ever have the chance to see again, or at the least do together again. and C) we'd get to fish for a while :))
but... do you think any of it went like i thought it might?
well.. here's how i thought it "might" go... hey, this blah blah meteor shower dot dot dot, tonight, gonna be dark, no moon, let's go out on the boat.. dot dot dot , and watch etc etc.
unfortunately... when we have scenarios such as that already set up... we also have expectations... which is never a good thing.
sooo... y'all already know... the boat idea got shot down almost immediately. too much work, too far to drive, just too much all the way around. i agree with that, and pretty much expected that too.
so...we settled on going to the pond that we usually fish at alot... and figured we'd fish too.
which would have really been alright. and it wasn't really terrible... it's just that...
ok...
1.... my boat idea, gets blown outta the water...literally...
2... just as we decide we should .. well... i say, shouldn't we be going now? it was like 830.. the thing was SAID to start around 9 or 10.. it gets dark at 9. i wanted to fish a little before dark..so that's when everything kinda went to hell.
the girl decides... "i don't even want to go anywhere...can't we just watch it in the yard?"
and hubby was like it doesn't even start til like 930. (he said some other stuff, i don't even remember, but whatever it was, it made me feel like he just didn't care much about it either.)
so , i was like... ya know what? i don't even care anymore. and i started getting settled in for the night. clearing up after dinner, clearing off my bed table, getting my laptop..my trusty laptop :))... that kinda stuff... hubby says... what's up? i'm like..what do you mean what's up? i'm goin to bed.
he says what about the "thing"
so i go.. well nobody even wants to go.
he's like lets go. tells the kid to lets go..so we all go... in a shitty mood. they only went to keep mom happy... when mom only reallly wanted to go in the first place... to make them happy..... so we all ended up over there...none of us wanted to be there..... it got dark real soon after we got there...the kid complained the entire time, it was hot, we fished , but i couldn't see shit... i lost, what seeemed to be a nice fish. the rod tip bent over pretty good, and i could feel him fightin hard.... BUT i almost had him out of the water... and he fell off the damn hook! he was a splasher too. all his flippin around as i reeled him in, then a big flop when he fell of the line. DAMN. i really gotta work on my hook set ! it's hard..and even harder in the damn dark. night fishin is meant for catfishin.... not bass fishin. you must be able to see. geesh. i'd bet money he was a two pound fish. erg. damn i hate when that happens.
ugh, and did i mention the mosquitoes? they were awful. attacking in swarms... face, arms, legs. it was miserable.
so finally..after maybe an hour there..... we came home. turned on the news, and they had decided to change the time!!!
pretty cool how they can just do that on a whim eh?
jlee.. good to see ya...sorry you have/or had to work today.
but hey it beats barfing on somebody at a barmitzvah
Hey Soul, reading your blog is like sitting across the table and hearing you talk. Well, kinda trying to imagine how you sound like but you get the gist? Love 'hearing' your blog.
I thought that Sunday's were the one day that we could do what WE wanted...or maybe I have that all wrong. I am proud of you for going to the mall, and since your said it wasn't the worst shopping trip ever, then it must have been pretty successful. And that's a good thing to have behind you.
I wanted to see the meteor shower, too, but it started storming here just about dark, so much for that idea...It sucks that you went to all that trouble and didn't get a fish or a meteor show...
Like me, you have to choose what you are able to do, and pay for it later. Since we always know this in advance, why do we get so irritated when it actually happens that way? For me, it is something I cannot seem to control, the unfairness of the situation always gets in the way, and really, wouldn't you think i would be over that by now---I have been "ill" for more than seventeen years...geez.
I used to hate when the family would "humor me" and do something I wanted to do, just to keep their asses out of trouble...like I was such a ogre...
hi blur
i think i began my blog that way... "warning people" that i write the same way i talk..i'm not into writing all proper...unless i have to. so, ya, i think it makes reading it seem more "conversational" too, in a way. i've always written letters, journals, etc like this.. but of course.. not anything that HAD to be "correct", like an essay or anything. but thank you. i do need to get over to your place and get caught up!
JAmie! good morning
ya, that whole thing was a pisser... we got back and then they were saying to watch for the meteors between midnight and 5 a.m ha! i had been draggin ass since the moment i opened my eyes that morning, and i wasn't waiting til midnight..to "maybe" see a meteor. especially in my ever worsening bitch attack.
i know what ya mean... chronically ill people , you really would think that we would learn to live with our problems, and just roll with the punches. if only it were that damn easy right? too bad it's not that way. it makes me feel like those little kids that get that old age disease and "turn" 60 years old by the time they are like ten or something. i always get down on myself for my lack of stamina, my lack of motivation, my constant pain (somewhere)... not to mention the mental crap on top of the physical... shit. then it all just gets worse from there. cuz the stress of feeling like i should be or do better, makes me anxiety ridden or depressed... then i get bitchy, then it causes more physical pain, then the total lack of energy, or lethargy kicks in..
it can't get better this way. oh.... and don;t get me goin on how dr;s COULD make a difference. i had that figured out years ago... but they won't do a damn thing.
and yep... amuse us ... don't make me laugh. i'd rather they just say no. than go anywhere with an attitude. cuz then it makes me feel like shit and i cant have fun anyhow.
OMG... i'm just gonna stop this shit right here... i am a total bitch right now. residual from last night? not sure. anticipation of the doc today..perhaps.
either way... great to see your chicken "chokin" this morning!! made me smile. as always.
gonna go see what you are up to. i bet i missed ya.
Yeah, it's hot here too! We spent the weekend in St. Louis because Sydney had soccer...can't believe they played two games in 103 degree heat. I was sweatin' my butt off just sitting there under a tent.
We got some shopping in while we were there. The girls are finally ready for school.
We missed the meteor shower. That would have been cool to see.
Have a good one1
you too...sposed to hit 104 again today...ugh.
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