long ramble about nothing
Today's a slow Olympics day (well, there's figure skating but I'm recording all of that to watch tonight) so I'm going to do actual work. I keep putting off the thing I don't want to do so I'll have to do it tomorrow since boss will be back Monday. Therefore I have to do a lot of the Friday stuff today. :P
Also will do this.
Went to the dentist for cleaning this morning in the drizzle that may turn to snow showers. So very over winter. We had a lot of rain overnight and it melted most of the snow from my yard--just a bit at the end of the driveway and under bushes etc. Not that anything today will stick since it's been in the 50s this week.
I have a cavity. Better than needing another crown but more money going bye bye. *sigh*
My appointment was originally for next week but they had an opening this morning. Different hygienist. Nice enough but I've been with the same gal for like ten years.
The rain yesterday was weird--thunderstorms in February. It came a lot earlier than expected so, of course, I was only in a sweater--no coat since it was to be in the 50s--and I've lost my umbrella. I was at a red light and suddenly it was flashing--lightning knocked it out. That was fun. On a federal highway so four lanes plus two turn lanes and the cross street with turn lanes as well. No one knew when to go.
I got wet leaving Hastings after getting my comics, and then again at the grocery both ways. My feet were soaked. I already wasn't feeling great--coughing and sneezing and draggy--so I skipped choir. I couldn't get warm. I took my temp after putting away the groceries and taking out the trash and it started at 95.6! Took nearly ten minutes to get to 97.8 which seems to be about my norm.
So, because I was home watching taped Olympics, in between shows, I managed to catch the end and then the overtime of Syracuse/Boston College. So happy. Cuse went down at home! (sorry Shel!) I just always want unbeatens to fall (unless they're us of course).
Speaking of us (KU), we pulled out a miracle and won by one at Texas Tech Tuesday night. Not a good game for our point guards, Ellis after a career high on Saturday stunk, too. Luckily Wiggins played a great defensive game and came on in the second half with scoring--maybe his best complete game; he has great halves but really hasn't managed to put together a whole great game.
But, we needed a close game win (behind most of the second half, but kept it within two-six points mostly) to show our boys they can do it. Keep your composure and keep banging. Oddly called game of course--becoming the norm. They called brush fouls twenty feet from the basket and let them be really rough underneath it. But, we won on the road against a type of team we haven't faced--they tended to score in the last five seconds of each thirty five second shot clock. Of course they weren't a good three point shooting team so they rained them down on us. *sigh* As someone on the forum wrote, for a lot of teams, playing KU at their home is kind of like the superbowl. They all bring their A+ game.
I mentioned to dad (as we were losing) that we're very spoiled. We've won at least twenty games every year for the last twenty-five. We've made the tournament every year since 1990 (couldn't go in 1989 due to ban for Larry Brown idiocy, though we only had nineteen wins that year and back then you needed to win your conference championship or have twenty wins usually to be selected). Bill Self has lost like eight home games during his eleven year tenure. KU wins basketball games. It's expected. And we also play killer defense and we aren't this year and that's what is so frustrating.
Speaking of basketball, in a month from today the tournie starts (I don't count the play in games). :) Oh so happy. I'll be ensconced on my couch as I'm taking those two days off. :)
I made a car tune up appointment for this Saturday. Skipping church because of death penalty topic, so I'll bake my monthly bread tonight and take it out on Saturday before my 11:00 appointment. Would have preferred earlier, but I always put off calling. Noticed a tire is kind of low (the tire light's been on for months but it's always on).
So, I was very impressed with all three of our female figure skaters, especially the young one--great musical choice, lots of emotion; she was having fun. Cannot believe the Russian fell! Neither could Tara or Johnny--they were just obviously stunned and didn't know what to say. Our girls all went clean which was really nice. Most of the top women did. I remember Olympics past when almost everyone, including gold medalists, fell. Maybe conditioning is better? And some of those women have big, muscular legs for the jumps. You don't see has many little tiny elf like girls anymore. Tall, lanky, strong is the way it's going, or so it looks.
Watching women's halfpipe qualifying. We have two in the finals, two more trying. It's too bad there's crappy financial support in our country for some sports or we would have had another gold yesterday. An American guy won parallel giant slalom for his wife's home country of Russia because they gave him money to train and the US didn't.
Mom noticed I'd lost weight. Over the weekend I really didn't eat much. With the cold, nothing but cheerios sounded good. Tuesday night I couldn't even eat all of dinner, left behind bits of rice, salmon and asparagus.
Why is my phone chiming?
I hope to get some writing done today/tonight. I've been so damn lazy.
I need to look into both prescription insurance and getting a home equity loan to pay off my credit card. The $500 a month on average for drugs is killing me. One small way to save money--I removed all the DC comics except for Swamp Thing from my pull list. The New52 just never thrilled me. That was like ten books, so around $40 a month. I'm also thinking of buying my car when the lease is up in May if the monthly payments aren't anymore than what I'm paying now. I do like it, haven't had any problems with it, and that will save me the $2000 downpayment on a new one and the higher insurance costs on a new car.
I dunno. I hate being poor.
Good, another American girl should make it into the final. (ETA all four did.)
It was nice to see Liggety finally have a great race yesterday--hell, he blew away the Men's Giant Slalom, winning the first run by a 1.33 seconds, and holding on in the second for gold.
I realize this post is all over the place.
Here's more--watched Beastly yesterday, modern Beauty & the Beast take off, and it didn't suck. Doogie Howser was hilariously dry and witty as the candlestick. *g*
Okay, the qualifying is nearly over so need to start doing letters for the hour before the finals start.
Also will do this.
Went to the dentist for cleaning this morning in the drizzle that may turn to snow showers. So very over winter. We had a lot of rain overnight and it melted most of the snow from my yard--just a bit at the end of the driveway and under bushes etc. Not that anything today will stick since it's been in the 50s this week.
I have a cavity. Better than needing another crown but more money going bye bye. *sigh*
My appointment was originally for next week but they had an opening this morning. Different hygienist. Nice enough but I've been with the same gal for like ten years.
The rain yesterday was weird--thunderstorms in February. It came a lot earlier than expected so, of course, I was only in a sweater--no coat since it was to be in the 50s--and I've lost my umbrella. I was at a red light and suddenly it was flashing--lightning knocked it out. That was fun. On a federal highway so four lanes plus two turn lanes and the cross street with turn lanes as well. No one knew when to go.
I got wet leaving Hastings after getting my comics, and then again at the grocery both ways. My feet were soaked. I already wasn't feeling great--coughing and sneezing and draggy--so I skipped choir. I couldn't get warm. I took my temp after putting away the groceries and taking out the trash and it started at 95.6! Took nearly ten minutes to get to 97.8 which seems to be about my norm.
So, because I was home watching taped Olympics, in between shows, I managed to catch the end and then the overtime of Syracuse/Boston College. So happy. Cuse went down at home! (sorry Shel!) I just always want unbeatens to fall (unless they're us of course).
Speaking of us (KU), we pulled out a miracle and won by one at Texas Tech Tuesday night. Not a good game for our point guards, Ellis after a career high on Saturday stunk, too. Luckily Wiggins played a great defensive game and came on in the second half with scoring--maybe his best complete game; he has great halves but really hasn't managed to put together a whole great game.
But, we needed a close game win (behind most of the second half, but kept it within two-six points mostly) to show our boys they can do it. Keep your composure and keep banging. Oddly called game of course--becoming the norm. They called brush fouls twenty feet from the basket and let them be really rough underneath it. But, we won on the road against a type of team we haven't faced--they tended to score in the last five seconds of each thirty five second shot clock. Of course they weren't a good three point shooting team so they rained them down on us. *sigh* As someone on the forum wrote, for a lot of teams, playing KU at their home is kind of like the superbowl. They all bring their A+ game.
I mentioned to dad (as we were losing) that we're very spoiled. We've won at least twenty games every year for the last twenty-five. We've made the tournament every year since 1990 (couldn't go in 1989 due to ban for Larry Brown idiocy, though we only had nineteen wins that year and back then you needed to win your conference championship or have twenty wins usually to be selected). Bill Self has lost like eight home games during his eleven year tenure. KU wins basketball games. It's expected. And we also play killer defense and we aren't this year and that's what is so frustrating.
Speaking of basketball, in a month from today the tournie starts (I don't count the play in games). :) Oh so happy. I'll be ensconced on my couch as I'm taking those two days off. :)
I made a car tune up appointment for this Saturday. Skipping church because of death penalty topic, so I'll bake my monthly bread tonight and take it out on Saturday before my 11:00 appointment. Would have preferred earlier, but I always put off calling. Noticed a tire is kind of low (the tire light's been on for months but it's always on).
So, I was very impressed with all three of our female figure skaters, especially the young one--great musical choice, lots of emotion; she was having fun. Cannot believe the Russian fell! Neither could Tara or Johnny--they were just obviously stunned and didn't know what to say. Our girls all went clean which was really nice. Most of the top women did. I remember Olympics past when almost everyone, including gold medalists, fell. Maybe conditioning is better? And some of those women have big, muscular legs for the jumps. You don't see has many little tiny elf like girls anymore. Tall, lanky, strong is the way it's going, or so it looks.
Watching women's halfpipe qualifying. We have two in the finals, two more trying. It's too bad there's crappy financial support in our country for some sports or we would have had another gold yesterday. An American guy won parallel giant slalom for his wife's home country of Russia because they gave him money to train and the US didn't.
Mom noticed I'd lost weight. Over the weekend I really didn't eat much. With the cold, nothing but cheerios sounded good. Tuesday night I couldn't even eat all of dinner, left behind bits of rice, salmon and asparagus.
Why is my phone chiming?
I hope to get some writing done today/tonight. I've been so damn lazy.
I need to look into both prescription insurance and getting a home equity loan to pay off my credit card. The $500 a month on average for drugs is killing me. One small way to save money--I removed all the DC comics except for Swamp Thing from my pull list. The New52 just never thrilled me. That was like ten books, so around $40 a month. I'm also thinking of buying my car when the lease is up in May if the monthly payments aren't anymore than what I'm paying now. I do like it, haven't had any problems with it, and that will save me the $2000 downpayment on a new one and the higher insurance costs on a new car.
I dunno. I hate being poor.
Good, another American girl should make it into the final. (ETA all four did.)
It was nice to see Liggety finally have a great race yesterday--hell, he blew away the Men's Giant Slalom, winning the first run by a 1.33 seconds, and holding on in the second for gold.
I realize this post is all over the place.
Here's more--watched Beastly yesterday, modern Beauty & the Beast take off, and it didn't suck. Doogie Howser was hilariously dry and witty as the candlestick. *g*
Okay, the qualifying is nearly over so need to start doing letters for the hour before the finals start.