3/21/2005 11:39:00 AM|||Garnet|||Mondays are blah days. I usually have therapy on Mondays but I cancelled it today because A) it's rainy and cloudy and grey outside which forces me inside, B) I want to start scaling back my sessions to once every two weeks and C) I ain't got nothing to talk to her about today! WOO HOO!! No drama over the weekend to recap with her! Yeah!!! Okay, I'll shut it about therapy and save it for my other blog...
So, yeah, it's all grey and damp here today. I like these kinds of days. They force me to stay inside and cuddle up. My shoulder and neck are better than they were on Friday but still very painful when I'm up and mobile for too long. While Spring Break ended over the weekend, today still feels like a break for me...I got no homework, no school, no nothin'. Yesterday, Honey and I tried to think of some place to go to get me out of the house for a little while (I had been home since Thursday! ugh!). Try as we may, we couldn't think of a single place to go that didn't require (or at least heavily suggest) that we spend money: the mall, bookstore, craft store, guitar store, etc. It was raining so we couldn't go to the FREE bark park with the dog. I suggested a trip to the library (FREE) since we haven't been to the one here yet since we moved but Honey shot that down, claiming it sounded boring and dull. Eventually, we agreed on a trip to Michael's for some frames I need for my finished cross-stitch projects and Barnes & Noble so Honey could find a Bluegrass magazine. Yeah, we spent money. Go figure.
Last night, I tried to watch Animal Planet's special, Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. The commercials for the show looked awesome and exciting. But the show itself was a real disappointment. I liked the parts where they had CGI dragons flying around, stalking prey, guarding their eggs and whatnot. I also enjoyed the brief description of the various dragon legends around the world over the centuries. But when they did the parts with the "scientists" who were "examining" the "remains of an actual dragon found in a glacier" that's when it got a bit annoying. It's not real. It claims as such at the very beginning. The whole "documentary" is a work of fiction. So why bother trying to blab all these scientific studies and results and such? It just confuses me. Such a disappointment.
We're talking about taking a long weekend in early April to go up to the Durango Meltdown Bluegrass Festival. There are a variety of concerts going on at a couple different venues in town, open-jam sessions in the lobbies of some hotels, coffeshops and the like, and vendors selling their bluegrass wares. Personally, I don't think I can handle an entire weekend of bluegrass in Durango but I'll go because Honey really wants to. That, and I get to take the dog AND "Play Hotel"!!! We'll probably make a trip out of it with dad and his gf which will be fun, too!
Did I mention that is all I ever hear in this house lately...Bluegrass? A typical weekend day begins with Honey getting up and turning on the Bluegrass music channel on our digital cable, while he makes breakfast and whatnot. Then, as we bum around the house for a while, I blog and he picks away at his banjo for a couple hours. Eventually, we get off our butts and into the car, where he'll put on a bluegrass CD while we drive around. The evenings are filled in with more bluegrass on the TV or banjo in the "music room." And when he goes to bed at 8pm, he puts that Bluegrass channel on again and falls asleep. You'd think he'd get sick of it. But I guess not. I'm not really, as it's a nice change from death metal scary stuff! Although, I can't tell you how many times I've heard Dolly Parton and some other hillbilly guy singing "Viva Las Vegas"! ARGH!
What the deal with Terri Schiavo? There is so much debate and anxiety wrapped around this woman! My heart goes out to her parents, husband, sister, friends. But mostly, I feel for her. That's what this is all about, right? Let's not lose sight of the person for whom all of this fighting is about. If you want my personal opinion, I think they should just shut up, back off and let her pass away in peace. I understand her parents' inability to not let her go. But tying this all up in the Federal courts is pure madness. This is a woman's life and death we're talking about here. Unfortunately, they lost most of her a long time ago. Why must they continue with her and their own suffering? Since I don't often wane political or current eventy on my blog, and in attempts to keepin' it real, please take a moment to check out some other bloggers' opinions:
Finally, in the words of Forrest Gump, "That is all I have to say about that."|||111143282861705831|||Blabbity Blah blah blah