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Yeah, yeah, I know, almost 2 weeks without a post. I've been busy, so sue me.
Work's been, well, work. However I've been really good about sticking to my resolutions about it. I have been out by 5:00 (ish) every day. I have been very careful not to let things stress me. If I don't get something done by end of day, I've discovered that it's still there the next day. What an amazing discovery. All these years I thought things had to be done by end of day. ;-) I'm feeling a whole lot better living this philosophy at work. Now if only I could get Monique to adopt it at her work.
Having said that I know I'll catch crap for saying that I worked the entire day that our company had off on July 3rd. However, there was critical stuff that needed to be done last week and I took off July 10th, my anniversary, to make up for it, so it all evened out in the end.
The fourth of July was pretty quiet. My son came over with his girlfriend and his son. We played games and cooked out on the grill. It was a nice change. We went out to dinner with sans_peur and enjoyed a long and lovely conversation. She made some fine points of logic on some philosophical discussions Monique and I have had. It was just wonderful to sit and not talk work... with either of them.
Last Sunday we went to the wedding of winterswan and vayrocklord. It was out at Newport RI. I had never been to this area of RI before. It's absolutely gorgeous out there. The wedding itself was perhaps the most perfect one I've ever seen. The weather was marvelous. The setting for it was amazing. Everything about it was just beautiful. Of course there was a huge LARPer crowd and it was so nice to talk to some of the people I rarely get to see, as well as the standard folks I see somewhat regularly. I have to thank my darling wife publicly for going with me and putting up with it. I know that war stories, the staple conversation of LARPers, gets real old for her real fast.
Thursday night, Monique and I went to the Long Wharf Theatre to see Late Night Catechism, 'Til Death Do Us Part. This was one of the funniest shows I have seen in a very long time. I would imagine if you've never been taught by a Catholic nun, you'd have found the show funny. If you have been taught by a Catholic nun, you would find it unbelievably hysterical. It was like being in a classroom. She actually went among the crowd and took gum away from people for chewing it in class... and shared it with the rest of the class. She scolded couples for sitting too close to each other and touching each other (including Monique who had an arm around me). If you haven't seen this show and you like comedy, go see it.
Part of the show was about the Catholic views on marriage, a very appropriate show for us since our anniversary was the next day, thus me earlier saying I was taking off Friday for our anniversary. The "nun" asked the audience what the secret was to a good Catholic marriage. In true classroom fashion, no one from the class answered, so she asked everyone to raise their hands if they were married. Naturally, Monique and I (in the front row) put our hands up. She then asked people who were married and Catholic to put their hands up. Monique and I are sort of Catholic, born and raised that way, so we kept our hands up. She asked us how long we'd been married and I said, "27 years tomorow". After the applause died down she asked us what the secret was to our long marriage. I was thinking, "I don't try to run her life and I don't try to run mine" but figured while it would get laughs, it would also get me hit. ;-) Monique answered that we were each others' best friends and that was an acceptable answer that got us off the hook.
Friday we slept in late (until almost 7:30). I started the anniversary with a 45 minute back massage for Monique. We went out for breakfast, then went to see "Up". This is a truly heart warming story and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for? It was original and funny and a bit of a tear jerker. It was somewhat far fetched, but what good Disney/Pixar stories aren't? Even Monique loved it and she kept giving me that, "*sigh* OK, I'll go see it because *you* want to".
After the movie, we decided that since Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is coming out next week, that we'd watch all five of the prior movies to get it all back fresh in our heads. We found a box set of them for $50.
We have a large group of friends coming over to the house in August so we decided we should probably get some furniture to take advantage of our now mostly empty basement in-law apartment. We stopped at a lot of furniture stores and ended up getting two new futons which increases the sleeping downstairs by 2 - 4, depending on whether people pair up.
After we got home we watched about 42 minutes of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (movie one) before Monique started to drift off, so we went to bed. It was a wonderful anniversary, just her and I, no phones, no computers, no responsibilities.
Saturday we ran a few errands and then went home to watch the rest of the first Harry Potter movie and then moved into Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and then Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and then we moved up to the bedroom to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Unfortunately, when you move to a bed to watch a movie, it's easy to get drowsy and put the movie on hold until the morning, which is exactly what we did.
Today, we picked up the movie right where we left off last night. I had to get Monique to the airport for a business trip to Chicago, so Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have to wait until next weekend.
On health related notes, I have now had a CT scan, the one in Canada right after the TIA, which showed completely normal. Monday I had an MRI. Tuesday I had an ultrasound of the carotid arteries. Tomorrow I'm having an EKG and Thursday I'm seeing a neurologist who should in theory put all that together and come up with a final diagnosis. in the meantime I'm taking an aspirin a day and behaving myself as much as possible. I've added daily fruit to my diet. I borrowed an exercise machine from sans_peur that I have been using faithfully for four days now. I reduced my stress and hours at work. With any luck, I'm as back to normal as I'll ever get. So for those of you who have worried about me and asked about me seemingly non-stop, thank you for all your well wishes. I have taken the wakeup call I was given as what it was.
I think that's about it. Any questions?
Work's been, well, work. However I've been really good about sticking to my resolutions about it. I have been out by 5:00 (ish) every day. I have been very careful not to let things stress me. If I don't get something done by end of day, I've discovered that it's still there the next day. What an amazing discovery. All these years I thought things had to be done by end of day. ;-) I'm feeling a whole lot better living this philosophy at work. Now if only I could get Monique to adopt it at her work.
Having said that I know I'll catch crap for saying that I worked the entire day that our company had off on July 3rd. However, there was critical stuff that needed to be done last week and I took off July 10th, my anniversary, to make up for it, so it all evened out in the end.
The fourth of July was pretty quiet. My son came over with his girlfriend and his son. We played games and cooked out on the grill. It was a nice change. We went out to dinner with sans_peur and enjoyed a long and lovely conversation. She made some fine points of logic on some philosophical discussions Monique and I have had. It was just wonderful to sit and not talk work... with either of them.
Last Sunday we went to the wedding of winterswan and vayrocklord. It was out at Newport RI. I had never been to this area of RI before. It's absolutely gorgeous out there. The wedding itself was perhaps the most perfect one I've ever seen. The weather was marvelous. The setting for it was amazing. Everything about it was just beautiful. Of course there was a huge LARPer crowd and it was so nice to talk to some of the people I rarely get to see, as well as the standard folks I see somewhat regularly. I have to thank my darling wife publicly for going with me and putting up with it. I know that war stories, the staple conversation of LARPers, gets real old for her real fast.
Thursday night, Monique and I went to the Long Wharf Theatre to see Late Night Catechism, 'Til Death Do Us Part. This was one of the funniest shows I have seen in a very long time. I would imagine if you've never been taught by a Catholic nun, you'd have found the show funny. If you have been taught by a Catholic nun, you would find it unbelievably hysterical. It was like being in a classroom. She actually went among the crowd and took gum away from people for chewing it in class... and shared it with the rest of the class. She scolded couples for sitting too close to each other and touching each other (including Monique who had an arm around me). If you haven't seen this show and you like comedy, go see it.
Part of the show was about the Catholic views on marriage, a very appropriate show for us since our anniversary was the next day, thus me earlier saying I was taking off Friday for our anniversary. The "nun" asked the audience what the secret was to a good Catholic marriage. In true classroom fashion, no one from the class answered, so she asked everyone to raise their hands if they were married. Naturally, Monique and I (in the front row) put our hands up. She then asked people who were married and Catholic to put their hands up. Monique and I are sort of Catholic, born and raised that way, so we kept our hands up. She asked us how long we'd been married and I said, "27 years tomorow". After the applause died down she asked us what the secret was to our long marriage. I was thinking, "I don't try to run her life and I don't try to run mine" but figured while it would get laughs, it would also get me hit. ;-) Monique answered that we were each others' best friends and that was an acceptable answer that got us off the hook.
Friday we slept in late (until almost 7:30). I started the anniversary with a 45 minute back massage for Monique. We went out for breakfast, then went to see "Up". This is a truly heart warming story and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for? It was original and funny and a bit of a tear jerker. It was somewhat far fetched, but what good Disney/Pixar stories aren't? Even Monique loved it and she kept giving me that, "*sigh* OK, I'll go see it because *you* want to".
After the movie, we decided that since Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is coming out next week, that we'd watch all five of the prior movies to get it all back fresh in our heads. We found a box set of them for $50.
We have a large group of friends coming over to the house in August so we decided we should probably get some furniture to take advantage of our now mostly empty basement in-law apartment. We stopped at a lot of furniture stores and ended up getting two new futons which increases the sleeping downstairs by 2 - 4, depending on whether people pair up.
After we got home we watched about 42 minutes of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (movie one) before Monique started to drift off, so we went to bed. It was a wonderful anniversary, just her and I, no phones, no computers, no responsibilities.
Saturday we ran a few errands and then went home to watch the rest of the first Harry Potter movie and then moved into Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and then Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and then we moved up to the bedroom to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Unfortunately, when you move to a bed to watch a movie, it's easy to get drowsy and put the movie on hold until the morning, which is exactly what we did.
Today, we picked up the movie right where we left off last night. I had to get Monique to the airport for a business trip to Chicago, so Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have to wait until next weekend.
On health related notes, I have now had a CT scan, the one in Canada right after the TIA, which showed completely normal. Monday I had an MRI. Tuesday I had an ultrasound of the carotid arteries. Tomorrow I'm having an EKG and Thursday I'm seeing a neurologist who should in theory put all that together and come up with a final diagnosis. in the meantime I'm taking an aspirin a day and behaving myself as much as possible. I've added daily fruit to my diet. I borrowed an exercise machine from sans_peur that I have been using faithfully for four days now. I reduced my stress and hours at work. With any luck, I'm as back to normal as I'll ever get. So for those of you who have worried about me and asked about me seemingly non-stop, thank you for all your well wishes. I have taken the wakeup call I was given as what it was.
I think that's about it. Any questions?
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Do you like the ski machine?
Re: Do you like the ski machine?
I'm not sure how it compares to real cross country skiing, having never dont that. I wouldn't mind renting some equipment and giving it a try.