This and That

I was off work today since I have to work this weekend. I always have Mondays off after I work a weekend too. I haven't done much of anything productive today except some laundry!

I've been reading alot lately. Right now I'm reading a wonderful book called A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana. It is a memoir written by Haven Kimmel. I have another book by the same author to read after this one and several other books waiting in the wings. This book has had me laughing out loud several times. The book kind of reminds me of a couple other favorites of mine, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. If you have read and enjoyed either one of those two books, you will probably like A Girl Named Zippy.

I am going to cancel my membership with Netflix. I have two reasons. One is that it seems that out of the three selections I receive each time, one or two of them I am not able to watch on my new dvd player. They work fine over at my parent's on their dvd player though. On my player I get weird white bars that move across the screen and also the picture is too dark and can't be adjusted. The other reason is that I recently added Showtime to my cable tv service. Showtime has been running some movies that I even had in my Netflix queue.

I know it is lame but my guilty pleasure is watching the tv show Big Brother. Been watching that show every summer that it has been on. I've been able to watch Big Brother After Dark on Showtime too. I will be so happy if they boot out that obnoxious Evil Dick on the show. I know, I know...reality television is stupid but like I said...it is my guilty pleasure!

I deleted the post I had up that was titled "of sweaters and murder". I have it saved in my email but I didn't feel comfortable keeping it on the blog. Also, to add irony and something that convinced me further to delete it is that on Wednesday while I was at work, my old high school friend "D" came in and we had a nice conversation. I hadn't seen her in a couple years. We talked about our 30 year class reunion that is coming up. She really surprised me with something she said. She said that she has only gone to one reunion (the 20th) and she won't go to anymore. She said that when she was in high school she was so miserable and didn't really have any happy memories. Then she said, "the only fun memories I really have from high school have to do with you, Cindi and Kathy (another mutual friend from school)". That really surprised me. In a good way. She went on to show me pictures of her two little grandsons and yes, we touched on the subject of her brother. She told me that she is still in shock over it and at this point she can't believe that he has done anything he has been accused of. She said if it is proven to be true, then she hopes he gets help too. She said when he was growing up, he wouldn't have hurt a bug. I can't imagine how hard this must be.
Anyway, if none of this makes sense...I can email you the deleted post if requested.

One of my co-workers gave me some fresh tomatoes from her garden. I am getting hungry so I think I will go slice up a tomato and heat up a Lean Cuisine steak and cheese Panini. I love those paninis. Mmmm!