3 Weeks of Sundays, Movies & Errands!

Hi!

Well. Here we are on another sunny Sunday afternoon. The weather has been gross and hot all day but was just thankfully, briefly, broken by a flash of a storm, which has brought the temperature down a good five degrees but feels like it's creeping back up. Yuck. And that brief flash of a storm sent the birds into hiding, but they're slowly coming back out. Kona is still under the bed (but it's cooler under there anyways). I managed to get the happily dry laundry just in time........ Yes, just a typical summer Sunday! Have got the hip n' groovy jazz tunes, just had a perfectly ripe nectarine for lunch, and even splurged on a very nice, cool glass of real champagne, my favorite stuff, Cattier (and from looking at their website, I'd love to visit their vineyard and village one day!) Mmmmmm, yes, life is good!

So work. Yep. I'm hoping all is well..... I haven't been in three weeks (hooray for post-surgery recovery!)! Work wanted me to come back last week but I told them my hand therapist said I wasn't quite ready yet, which is mainly true. I'm thinking I may have to go back this coming

Wednesday after I see my Doc on Tuesday, but he'll decide when/if and write the note to say am allowed back to a desk. Bummer dude, but I guess I can't stay away forever! Especially in light of the fact that Ernst & Young, the folks work is paying to help me with my PR application, sent me an email on Monday with a laundry list of things and documents I have to do and get to them. Wow! Holy sheet something is actually happening?! Thankfully I had the week to get that stuff together.... And most thankfully, I had nearly all of it already from my first spectacularly failed attempt a couple years ago. Bummer is, some of the documents have to be recent, so off went the requests for my background checks to three different police, again.... And I have to do the medical check again - bleck, but at least the medical office is directly across the street from work, so when E&Y tell me to go, it'll be quick and easy, again. So how about that? Amazing. 'Course, it's one thing for me to bust my rump getting all this stuff together for them, it'll be another for work to do their bit in a timely manner...... Man, I hope work can get it together before the country shuts down for a month, month and a half around the middle of December for Xmas......... Ahhhh well, I can only wait and see! But wow, E&Y, imagine that. Here's hoping it goes through this time! And, if nothing else, here's hoping work actually wants to keep me, like, for reals this time! Wait and see.............!

And then there were a few weekends in there. Apologies for not checking in last weekend. I can't remember why I didn't............... Chores......... Lots and lots of movies........ I think I had just been to see the hand therapist that Friday and while the brace and bulk of the bandages came off (YAY), I'd just started the physio exercises, which understandably makes the little wrist ache something fierce. So maybe I just didn't feel up to it. No surprise, it'd only been just two weeks (and I shouldn't be typing anyways)!

This weekend has been kind of the same - quiet, movies, laundry..... maintenance issues....... My bathroom sink has always had a great big crack in it that finally grew and now is in danger of coming apart, so yesterday the Owner came around to measure the sink and the pipes, highly concerned that he find one with the exact measurements because he's sooooooo cheap. Never mind that any ol' new sink and tap will probably be fine and just as cheap, and the fact 

that the plumber is going to have to make some adjustments anyways seeing as the sink that's in there probably went in, oh, 50-70 years ago. I also seized the chance to ask him for a mixed tap (it's had the two, suuuuuper old-fashioned, separate hot and cold taps - nearly impossible to use like a normal person) since we were on the subject (and I know they're dirt cheap), but he only said "That depends on the sink we get". Gah. I would almost hazard a guess that sinks these days with the two separate hot and cold taps probably cost more than a dumb ol' basic one with only one mixed tap.......... Sigh. The owners of the Palace, they're a strange, extremely penny-pinching lot without much common sense. So I will somehow have to deal with that sometime this week........ Shame I'll probably be at work.... I like to be here when strangers are roaming around in my little place......... I might just have to lock away the crown jewels and hope for the best.........!

And that's about that! During the weeks have been nice, almost nicer than the weekends - running errands and stuff like a normal person, tho I've noticed most of the people out and about are mainly women with babies and strollers....... Have been to see "Gravity" - it was really gooooood in 3D - highly recommend it! In fact, I may go once more before I have to go back to work.......! I was making a teeny bit of progress on The Screenplay before E&Y derailed my attention with paperwork....... Have met up a few times with my friend Kim, who I used to work with until work let her go (she was actually very happy to go), for lunches and errands. Boy, it's nice to have someone to run around with who doesn't have to work either! It's been good for the most part. Really good. Like, 'I could get used to this' good....... Oh well, it had to end sooner or later........ Tho I did make sure to buy a lottery ticket for the $20 million draw on Tuesday......... Fingers crossed I too may join the stroller brigades (albeit without the stroller or the kid)........!?! 

So there you have it! Wrist is feeling better tho stiff and achy, but then again, it hasn't even been three weeks yet and I've only just been allowed out of the splint and bandages! Otherwise, all is well in these here parts - hope you're all well up there? Shame the summer is finally here...... Oh well, March isn't too far away (tho it is when it's in the mid-90s with 90% humidity almost every day.....), feel free to plan that big visit down here any time around then! And, as always, if you need any planning tips, just drop a line!!!!

BYE!
J!