I lead SUCH an exciting life. Here are the highlights of my day today: the bug guy is coming at 11, hopefully; I need to clean out the fridge; and I need to pay bills.
Whoopee! Can you handle the excitement?!
Showed Michael one of my fave movies last night, Big Fish. Terrific movie. One of the few Tim Burton movies I really like, although I didn't care for it much the first time I saw it. I think it's one of those movies you need to see at the right time in your life. The father reminds me of my dad, although my dad didn't travel that much. He was a great storyteller, though.
I remember seeing The Graduate when I was a kid, on TV, and thinking it was incredibly stupid. Then I saw it when I was in college and loved it.
We also finished watching Hitchcock, a movie I saw in the theater with Michael and loved. Anthony Hopkins should have won the oscar, and Helen Mirren was wonderful, as always.I took a course in Hitchcock films when I was a freshman in college and it was one of the best classes I ever had.
I am reading, for my book club, a book called Where The Heart Is. Wonderful book. Truly well written and compelling characters. I remember being unimpressed by the movie years ago, but books are almost always better.
My last book club book, 11/22/63, was one of the best books I've ever read. Not your usual Stephen King. More of a novel with a sci fi twist, time travel.I thought since it's such a looooong novel it would be tough to plow through it, but it wasn't.
To those who have wondered about it, I am feeling MUCH improved. It's been almost 3 weeks since my surgery. I have more stamina, I can actually bend over now, and the incision scars are healing up beautifully, even the troublesome bellybutton scar. [Alesia, when she was learning English, referred to it as the "bellybottom."]
My gardens are pooping out. Too much rain. A lot of the tomatoes just didn't mature before bugs got 'em and we lost a bunch of them. My little replacement plants are struggling too. We are still getting plenty of cucumbers, though, and I am eating them every day. I just peel and slice them and drizzle them with balsamic vinegar.
I hear the bug guy. Later Dudes.
my maternal great grandmother Jennie McMillan and her mother and siblings.
PRAYER NEEDS
My friend Stephanie is still trying to manage all her kids and her son Bojan, who is home from having part of a leg amputated, and still trying to deal with a lot of pain, poor baby. Please say a prayer for him, and for all their wonderful family.
