BAD Reads
Trying to Be Positive On A Monday
Good thoughts to start my week:
The horrible (itchy beyond belief) hives that I have NOT blogged about but have suffered with for the last 2 weeks are going, going, and soon to be gone. And it only took two visits to the doctor and three useless topical creams before I got the oral steroids that stopped the itching within hours....
Have you ever seen For Better or For Worse cartoonist Lynne Johnston's book David, We're Pregnant? There's a cartoon in it with a very pregnant women in a hospital bed being examined by a whole team of (male doctors) and thinking "And to think I used to be embarassed to be seen in my underwear?"
Well, I did something similar at the doctors. When my GP and the allergist needed me to show them how far the hives/rash extended, they offered to get me a gown. I just said, "It's okay, I've had 2 kids" and dropped my pants to show them!!!!
I neglected my community garden because of vacation and hives, but it didn't get mad at me. Indeed, the $80 or so I put into all those organic additives this spring seems to have restored my worn out soil, and I am going to have to get out there frequently if I don't want the zucchinis to become the size of baseballs. And we are going to have TONS of tomatoes--YUM!
SC is enjoying the summer program she is going to via the schools. Right now she is taking "Cooking With Science", and next week will start a two week session on "Flight and Space Travel". The school bus drops her at the library in the afternoon and she is happy to hang out here reading or using the computers until it's time to go home.
As an added bonus, because I have to get SC or be at work to meet her bus I get to get out of my boring monthly book meeting EARLY tomorrow. Heh, heh, heh....
JR is having a wonderful time back at her old preschool's summer camp. Her best friend/almost twin sister since they were babies in day care is there too, as well as some of her other old classmates.
Bella the cat seems to have ended her recent spree of peeing on the furniture which started before we left for vacation, but really seemed to crank into high gear while we were away. After boarding overnight at the vet in order to get a urine sample, he concluded she didn't have any sort of infection. Of course, this means the problem continues to be purely psychological, but it also means I don't have to shove medication in her mouth for a few weeks, never a fun thing.....
The peaches have arrived at our local farmer's market!
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out on Saturday, and since I am the children's librarian, I get first crack at a copy. AND I am off this weekend, so I should be able to read it over the weekend in between family things......
Three more weeks of summer reading programs and then I am done with programs until September. I can do this, I can do this....................
