Bits & Pieces

Let's see. Status is tired as sleep was rough last night.
Highlight of the day: spending $255 for the honour of reentering this country in August when I return from Ontario (green card renewal, even tho' I'm applying for "dual" citizenship--that could take a loooong time to process and I have to be here legally in the meantime). They do a bio-scan thingie now when one gets her resident alien card. The former Immigration and Naturalization Service is now run by :gulp: Homeland Security so I figure it won't be long before we have to have microchips with all our vital stats embedded in the back of our necks. I've been telling people that I'm having that done and they believe me.

My (one and only) sis-in-law on my side of the family was very sweet to offer to come out yesterday to help in any way as I sent her the same msg as I posted here about things being a bit screwy. Most of my symptoms did finally wear off after about 36 hours, so I was up for her suggestion of taking the squirt to the movies. It was my spouse's 46th birthday, though and I thought it insensitive to leave him home in pain--may as well come with us and be in pain--so we all went to see Howl's Moving Castle (us for the second time). My brother remarked that it would have been something he'd have gone to see at a midnite showing whilst in college--high on 'shrooms. and yeah, it is kind of a dreamy-stoned kinda flick at times but anyway--great to see them and fun to see how much my son resembles his uncle at the same age. I know he'd (my bro) have rather have seen Romero's Land of the Dead. I think I'll wait for the DVD on that one.


We are having really hot and humid days but amazingly, it's cooling down at night. That is just not normal here. I thinik it's time to throw out the book on what constitutes "normal" for weather over say, the past 10 years or so.

I just realized--today--that the Hawai'i trip is on the 13th NOT on the 21th as I've been planning and telling folks. That's 2.5 weeks when my mind-set was closer to a month. Now I'm panicking. I know I'm supposed to be excited--but I'm overwhelmed. I think I need to get some sleep--that's a good way to deal with anxiety--sleep it off.

Until later...

--Cyn