Random Thoughts and Stuff

Last night I had a weird dream and while I was dreaming it I was telling myself to remember the dream so I could tell Keith about it but of course I forgot the dream as soon as I woke up, except for the part about telling Keith. But there is nothing to tell now since the dream is totally forgotten.

Yesterday I was riding the bike and saw a dog being walked and the dog was SO excited and I got to thinking that maybe humans would be happier if only we lived like dogs. Where a walk is something to run and jump about, and laying in the sun is the best thing all day, and your tail is always wagging because life is so much fun! Except I don't think most people's bosses would appreciate them laying in the sun while they are supposed to be working, and then there is that whole sniffing each others butts thing.

I was looking on the internet last night to see what was on TV, and there is some new show called American Ninja Fighters or something like that. Needless to say I did not watch it. Soon the only thing on TV will be reality shows and stupid stunt and game shows. Although I did get sucked into watching one of those real housewives shows that was playing reruns on one of the weird local channels. The one with the husband whose wife doesn't realize that he is gay and that Bethenny person who is so annoying but oddly fascinating to watch. Kind of like a trainwreck, you don't want to look but you just can't resist. The only game type show that we like to watch is Jeopardy, and we really like it when they have the elementary school kids on there because then we actually know some of the answers.

This afternoon we have our annual physicals scheduled. Fun! We can find out (once again) how fat and unhealthy we are. Keith has not been feeling well with stomach troubles, which is worrisome because of that whole cancer survivor thing, so it's good that we are going so they can figure out what's wrong with him. Plus if we don't go, our new insurance will cost us more. We have that Health Savings Account type insurance again where they don't pay for much and you have to save your own money in a special account for the big expenses. It's supposed to cover the annual though, so we'll see. Hopefully that means covering the blood work, too.

And that is about all I have today.

What's Up This Week

Um, not a whole lot yet. It is supposed to get up to 107 degrees today. I set my alarm for 6:30 today in the hopes of getting out for a bike ride before it's 107 since I haven't been out yet this week. We went for our annuals at the doctors on Monday morning and then yesterday morning were at the blood lab at 8 am for our blood work. We didn't get out of there until almost 9. I hadn't been to the doctor in almost 2 years, last year being the year of Putting Everything Off because we were (and still are) extremely poor. After Keith getting his colonoscopy and lots of blood work last year that ended up costing us about $800.00 in co-pays I decided that nobody else was running up any medical bills last year.

We'll see what the insurance will or won't pay on this year. I hate insurance companies.

We rented a few movies this weekend, going to the rental box in Vons which had turned into a Blockbuster rental box (if you can't beat em, join em) which was only $1.00 per movie and didn't even charge sales tax like the Red Box does, but Blockbusters rental boxes take FOREVER to get the movie out and when you return it it takes FOREVER and you are standing there wondering if it is going to credit you with returning the movie or if you'll be paying $1.00 a day for it for the rest of your life.

Anyway, we watched Hot Tub Time Machine, silly silly movie but funny, funny at the same time. No Oscar winner there, but fun and silly to watch. Then we watched The Road, which was so totally opposite of Hot Tub Time Machine, very dark and depressing, but excellently acted. Depressing, though. If we have a nuclear war any time soon I don't think I'd want to survive and have to eat the cats first, children next.

After we took those two movies back we got Ghost Writer and Gamers, again totally opposite types of movies. Ghost Writer was really good and reminded me of Hitchcock movies from the sixties, the dark style of filming and the dramatic music and intrigue. Gamers was a little boring at parts, lots of blood and guts, but the premise of the whole thing of mind control and video games interesting.

What else? Oh, we had a good dinner last night, when I was trying to come up with the week's menu Keith suggested cheese ravioli, which I never think to make and I don't know why, because how easy is cooking up ravioli and warming up some spaghetti sauce anyway? I steamed a cauliflower to go with it, and how easy is that when you use the plastic steaming bags that you can buy in a box right next to the tin foils and plastic wraps. Put your vegetables in the steaming bag and into the microwave for a few minutes and they come out perfect and no pots and pans to clean up. So ravioli will definitely go into our dinner menu rotation from now on.

Did anyone else watch America's Got Talent last night? It's the semi-finals now, exciting stuff! I'm still kind of embarrassed that I got hooked on this show but it's the ONLY reality type show that I am hooked on, so...

That Prince Poppycock is one good looking man in real life. If he doesn't get a gig being Prince Poppycock on a stage somewhere he will get one as an underwear model or posing for the covers of romance novels, that's for sure. I'm also partial to the one singer who did the Joe Cocker song last night, he's pretty good. And the ballroom dancer kids, they're fun to watch. I was really disappointed in the goth magician's act last night, the first time I saw him I thought he'd be going somewhere but after last night the only place he'll be going is back home. And that poor girl singer from YouTube, sorry, you just don't have a good enough voice.

Can't wait for next week's show!