Very quiet

I'm here. I just came home from shopping for jeans and not finding the ones I wanted in my size, searching for a matching t-shirt for a friend's new slacks that don't match anything and a so-so lunch out.

Come up with a good subject for a good solid, even a noisy discussion. I'm ready.

I have Verizon which gave a long drawn out burp a little earlier this morning. Now it wants me to enter user name and password each time I want to read newsgroups. Very annoying!!!!

mag

Gillian is verizon - but hush - don't tell her about that, let her think it is a plot and we are just not letting her see the posts lol Maybe one of her dogs chewed a cable ?

I spent the day driving two young friends from Ohio all around the older part of N.O. They are in town for a wedding, thought they were going to stay with us, but at the last minute his parents (who will also be at the wedding) sprang for hotel rooms in the Quarter. The kids were just thrilled at being abe to sit at a sidewalk cafe for lunch, and will brag about it to all their friends back home when they get there Monday. Mind you, we couldn't have lunched al fresco the last two days, it was FREEEZING here, or so the locals would tell you. It got all the way down to about 34F duting the nights, and only got up to 50 or 55 during the days, so the locals were bundled up in down parkas or fur coats if they have them. (I was wearing a wool sweater outdoors).

Now the tour guide is going to put her feet up.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Glad to hear it wasn't just me. Every once in a while I notice this with using my newsgroup reader. I just read in Entourage, and will have no problems with mail in the same account, but when switching to the newsgroup side, suddenly I'm getting the message to re-enter my password. Annoying. But, then it will be fine for weeks, or keep burping for a couple of days.

I, today, have been a total slug - I actually read 1.5 books (having gone to the library en route home yesterday). And didn't do much else useful. DH is skating high school hockey - on the ice right now (fortunately at the rink only a few miles from the house - I can hear Cheryl sighing), then he has a break, and another game at 9 pm. So, I won't see him til around 11 - depedning on if I give in to temptation and have him pick up some snack-ems on the way home. And, I may just finally clean the kitchen. More likely I'm going to take my depressive guilt, go back downstairs, lay on the couch in the family room, with a 62# lap/leg warmer, with the fireplace on, and go for another book! And watch not terrible tv (well, it depends on your POV).

I'll be on the cleaning and stitching marathon for the rest of the weekend. Teaching on Sunday so have to finish typing up the class hand-outs.

Ellice

Sounds like fun. It's just been cold here. Was about 12 F yesterday most of the morning, and never seemed to get past the mid 20s. Today, not as cold - nice in the afternoon - about 40-45 here, but as soon as the sun started to drop, the house got really cold. It would be nice to sit at a café in NO.

Enjoy a little rest. Our favorite tourist dragging is "Monuments by Moonlight" - traffic low, lights on, city is lovely, and you can park near them. Reduces walking - except for all those steps.

Ellice

Marg,..that is what it is wanting me to do, too. It is enough to pi** off the Pope. LOl

off the Pope. LOl

Well, Gillian, I've been re-thinking my issues and now believe perhaps the dog ate the cable.

mag

Your turn to start a mind expanding discussion.

My brain is dealing with the prescription nasal spray the doctor prescribed

- maybe it is all in my head, but I feel weird - almost spacey for an hour or so after taking it. I feel less head-achy and generally better and the sinus pressure is about gone.

Other than a brief rink run for DD later today, my plan is to catch back up on the housework - laundry, floors, receipts, maybe plan next weeks meals....

Maybe you should read all the symptoms that come with the spray and see what's up ?

Well don't do another spray until after you are back !

I returned home from hospital today (Saturday) after surgery Thursday evening. They let you leave early if you have a nurse (daughter) in the family.

Edna in hot Sydney

Hope you soon feel better, no fun having surgery when the temperatures are zooming. Or freezing either lol

Did - nothing like the odd almost dizzy sensation I get. I wasn¹t thrilled to need this stuff again. Happened last time I used it too. Might be some extra weird inner ear thing. Goes away quickly enough. Just don't like feeling that way.

Don't need to until bed time

How you feeling Edna? Every thing went ok? Planned or emergency? | C

So what are you reading? I finished "Plum Spooky" (Evanovich) - very funny. The Georgette Heyer I grabbed is too frothy for me right now.

DS had an away game last night - bus ride time. But rinks close enough to come home between games - what a luxury.

DD and I watched reruns of CSI until the Rangers game started.

Accomplished so far - two loads of laundry, a skate sharpening run and emptied/refilled the dishwasher. Oh and took quizzes.

Cheryl

The guest room will be free as of Monday. The Carnival parades start next Friday (the 13th!!), carry on Sat and Sun, then more again Thurs through the following Tues (Mardi Gras, Feb 24th this year)

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Let you leave early???? Over here they positively push you out the door the day after surgery - if, that is, they allowed you to stay overnight in the first place!!

Doncha know you are supposed to let us know ahead of time so we can concentrate good thoughts coming your way? Never mind, we'll send them all on now. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

I was in for three days after my hysterectomy. The morning they discharged me, the surgeon on call asked if I wanted to leave or stay another day. I chose leave because I had gotten a new roommate with an entourage and I figured (correctly) that I'd get more sleep at home.

Elizabeth

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Hope the post-op medicine doesn't make you too woozy for stitching! Catch up on your UFOs!

Sue