California, you have some crazy rules.  My new puzzler involves buying a 6-pack of beer at the grocery store, as I did the other day.  I said to the cashier, "I'll just carry the milk and the beer", meaning please don't give me more plastic bags (oi, I have enough of these).  The cashier then said, "But I have to bag your beer", to which I asked ( Read more... )

Life in Southern California is odd -- these fires are really like nothing else I've ever dealt with.  When you walk outside at our apartment, it smells like someone has a campfire going a block or two away -- at first, kind of a nice smell.  The sky here is still mostly blue during the day, though a little hazy.  The crazy winds from the other day ( Read more... )

Husband & I went to see "Into the Wild" this afternoon and I really enjoyed it -- beautiful American cinematography, an emotional plot line, which made me cry at times with its depth & yearning for a simpler existence.  I connected with the quest of the main character in a way -- but could never completely abandon my current life the way that he ( Read more... )

A few notes this AM:

• I woke up with the Tiger Woods/Big Balls song in my head.  Thanks, Meg!
• I had a quote in my head when I first woke up too -- but now it's gone.  I guess I showered it down the drain?  It was something about "Things are always different when they're happening to you", but it was more eloquent or cryptic or meaningful in the ( Read more... )

Yes, that's what I ate today -- chicken and noodles.  For lunch, I went to Alfredo's with 3 of my coworkers, and had chicken parmigiana (soooo good, and happy for leftovers).  For dinner, Husband & I went out for Thai at Gra!Pow on date night, and I had chicken pad thai, (also quite good, and happy for leftovers), which I didn't realize was ( Read more... )

Today could have been a train-wreck of a day... the other two outpatient PTs called in sick, which left just me and the PTAs to see all of the patients.  I think we actually pulled it off with minimal cancellations -- the PTAs got pretty doubled-up with their sessions, as I had to take the evals & I had quite a few one-on-one patients (ah, the life ( Read more... )

I had a really long day and I could whine and moan about it here, but instead I am going to be positive and list 10 good things about my day instead. 

1. No delays in traffic on the way to or back home from work today.
2. My Husband thinks I'm a wonderful woman, not a good-for-nothing one, like Winnie Cooper.
3. Chocolate covered raisins -- dark chocolate, no ( Read more... )

Work today consisted of 5 stroke patients back to back (including one on a home visit, which involved car transfers in 90 degree heat & midday sun), a shoulder patient, and a spinal cord patient... leaving work at 5:45 pm, I then found out that my on-ramp to the Interstate was blocked.  No big deal, I turned around and went and got on the on-ramp a ( Read more... )

It is currently raining here -- and hard enough to be able to hear it hitting the pavement outside.  It's only 61 degrees here and I'm wearing long sleeves!  Maybe I will get my fall weather after all, even if there aren't trees to change colors & lose leaves.

So far, it's been a lazy day here.  I've gotten some bills paid, worked on the crossword ( ( Read more... )

Today was a semi-odd day at work because I had two evals which wound up not being evaluated, and hence two hours in which I had downtime or wound up covering in the hospital.  At lunch, I played volleyball (in the hallway, with a beach ball) on a team as part of Rehab week, and we won!  I actually got a little winded, which surprised me -- I must ( Read more... )