Dance, Mimi

Got to eat lunch out with my granddaughter and family on Saturday. As we were enjoying one another's company, you could hear the Mexican music in the background. My granddaughter bobbed her head to the music and proceeded to tell each one of us by name to "dance." We did, and she smiled broadly, knowing that all was right in her world. Don't you wish life could really be that simple?

Plutoed

Just read this week about the new word of 2006--plutoed. One of its meanings is to be demoted. Some how, it doesn't have the same connotation or sound to it as "You're fired!" Guess if you are fired or plutoed, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference what you call it.

Hey, That's My License Plate

Got a forwarded email today that really fits my mood/personality these days since I stopped taking my hormone pills. The plate said PMS24/7. It should be preceded and followed with vehicles with yellow flashing lights. You get the picture.

Some Real News Again

Last year we switched from cable to dish because cable was going up ridiculously in cost. With dish we pay 1/2 that price and have tivo. Well, Dec. 1, without warning, (well, actually we got the notice in the mail 4 days later) we lost Channel 13 in Indy as well as the Indy ABC channel due to a lawsuit. I have been so news deprived ever since. I had to watch the local news, but missed all the state information as well as Indy happenings. I don't care what Mr. Food is cooking today, nor do I care what the weather is in western Illinois. And please don't use the same lead story for the third day. If you are desperate for news, send your reporters out a little bit farther, or watch Indy's news and cabbage on to the stories. Our local ABC channel IS Indy. Somehow dish was going to get ABC for us out of San Fransico or Atlanta, but not until mid or late Feb. Oh, goody, I will be able to watch Grey's Anatomy while I recover from knee surgery and enjoy the commercials from the West Coast or deep South. Fortunately, we just added the basic cable program to our dish and now get all the Indy channels for a very small fee and are paying 1/4 less than the original cable bill. Put that on your news!

Hurry Up and Wait

I was suppose to have knee surgery this past Thurs. Somehow I missed the instructions that I had to have approval by my heart doctor before I could have the surgery. So when I was made aware of this in late Dec., I began calling the heart doctor's office. "He is not in this week, but will be back on Tuesday, call then." So I did. Same answer except "call back Wed." I did. "Oh, he is not in today, but we will get back with you about your surgery tomorrow." I finally heard late in the afternoon on Wed. that I could not have the procedure until I had tests run by the heart doctor. Wed. evening the heart doc actually called me. He said that my 40% blockage in one artery could now be 70% or 75% in 2 years and that I couldn't risk it. He would get me in the first of next week to have tests run. Just call his office in the morning (Thursday, the day my knee surgery was scheduled). So I did. But they couldn't get me in until February. When I relayed what the doc had said it didn't seem to matter. The lady making the appointment pushed for me to have it on the 9th, but I had a conflict at school. She said I needed to get in so that I could have the knee surgery. I replied, nicely, that since this was the day of the surgery that I was already missing, it no longer was an emergency. So now I see the heart doc for tests Feb. 19 and go in for the follow-up visit Feb. 27. Had I begun the process to get into the heart doc on the actual day in Dec. that they scheduled my knee surgery I would still be waiting for Feb. 19. Glad my knee surgery can wait.

Great New Year's Party

Went to a friend's house last night, along with several other friends to eat, play games, go to church, back to eat more, play games, and visit. Had a great time. Didn't imbibe in anything stronger than 7-Up so why am I up this morning with a roaring headache? Must be the late hour. When you get older, 10:00 pm is the new midnight. So midnight becomes the new 4:00 am.