Archive for July, 2007
The End
Okay…I’ll confess…I cried through the last two chapters of HP7. Geesh…what a great ending.
7 comments July 24, 2007
Potter Update *No Spoilers*
Okay, so I’m up to page 200. Not bad so far. Moving a little slowly in the beginning. Will require a re-read of Book 6 then Book 7 again to get the characters all straight. I’m getting confused as to who is related to whom.
Gotta read Tacitus for tomorrow nights class…sigh…how difficult it is to determine one’s priorities.
Of course, Harry’s won out for the time being!
2 comments July 22, 2007
Patience!
She sits waiting patiently for the USPS man to deliver the package. And she waits. And she waits. Foot tapping all the while. And.she.waits.
As Huw says, “Happy Harrymass one and all!”
This Matushka says it all. Props to Fr. Joseph Huneycott for the link.
1 comment July 21, 2007
One thing about me, I am very observant. Yup! I observe that it has been a dang long time since my last post! YIKES! And of course you ask, “So Philippa, what have you been up to all this time?” Philippa pauses and replies, “Ya know…I don’t remember…I have however been informed that I have started menopause!” THAT, dear readers, explains it all!!! No longer can I remember anything! My memory is going…along with a whole lot else! LOL!
This morning I had a routine doc visit. Blood work came back stellar! The doc was most pleased, as was I, that the cholesterol has dropped from 201 to 185. Amazing what an organic diet and not eating at restaurants will do! And, sadly…lack of chocolate. But I’m working on that…so shhhhhh…don’t tell the doc. All blood levels are happily normal. No wonder I feel so good. Now if I could only get rid of the tight throat, I’d be really thrilled. But as I a said to the doc, “I’ll take what I can get!”
Daughter had a car accident last evening after work. It had just finished a torrential downpour of rain and you drivers know how slick macadam can be after rain fall on it after a humid and sultry day. She was coming down a slight hill and going into a left curve. The car hydroplaned. The right front tire hit the curb and the car flew up into the grass after spinning around. She missed two very, very large trees by mere inches. Thanks be to God the girl wears her seatbelt ALL THE TIME, thus she was unhurt – other than her ego. I’d rather that be bruised than her body, if you know what I mean.
The contents of her car flew all over. (It’s like a bloody closet on wheels! What IS it with young people and loads of crap in their cars?!) We have since spoken about this issue, with my reminding her that trunks are for junk…not back seats. Many people stopped to offer assistance. She called us first, then the tow truck. She did quite a bit of damage to the wheel. The rim is quite bent up, the tire is beat up, and the whole thing is shoved against the rear inner fender. I’m not looking forward to the price of repair. Since we were driving in her direction to get to the airport, we got her first, then went to drop the boys at the hotel. Their flight was early this morning.
Lousy way to spend mother/daughter time, but hey…I’ll take what I can get. So we dropped the boys, and chatted all the way home. It was nice to see her.
The boys are spending the weekend in Bean Town and have tickets to see the Sox play. Unbeknownst to son, they have tickets for the game tonight too, which is a surprise. Hubster is really excited to be springing that “extra” on the boy.
And I get a nice quiet weekend at home. Reading for my history class on Ancient Rome, cleaning, laundry, food shopping, gardening and crocheting. Pure bliss!
Update: Heard from the auto repair shop. Repairs will cost upwards of $1100 when all is said and done. And cheap fix when one thinks of what could have been. Hospital bills are much more costly.
4 comments July 20, 2007
What is unfair?
In this article, Oscar Pistorius is planning to run the 400 meter race at the Norwich Union Grand Prix. The only difference is Oscar will be racing against “able bodied” runners. Oscar is disabled. When a child, he had to have both legs amputated below the knee due to the lack of the fibulas. He races on carbon fiber blades. He hopes to make it to the Olympic level. Unfortunately, it appears that there are those who say he has an unfair advantage by running on the curved blades.
What I want to know is this. How is it that an athletic organization (it is unclear to me if it is the IAAF or not), or even other athletes are complaining Oscar has an unfair advantage when there are so many athletes who have, and are, competing using anabolic steroids? You will remember Ben Johnson and the fiasco surrounding his Olympic race. Of course, Flo-Jo’s premature death caused speculation of drug use. And don’t even get me started on Barry Bonds, who in my mind should have been removed from baseball a long time ago for illegal steriod use.
Frankly, I don’t think any athlete has any room to complain when it comes to the argument of Oscar’s competing. If Oscar beats any of them, I say “You GO Oscar…all the way to the Olympics!!” Yee-haw!
July 13, 2007
