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llcoolvadI haven't been posting much lately, have I? Not really sure why. I haven't even been updating my reading list. So here's the latest, newsletter-style:
If you're on Facebook or know me in real life, you already know that I recently started dating again. For the rest of you: I recently started dating again! Since it's been 15 years since my last dating experience, this is rather new and interesting. What makes it more interesting is that the guy and I are almost complete opposites: he's conservative to my liberal, is religious to my atheist, is a dog person to my cat person, and has two ex-wives to my zero marriages. We spend a lot of time arguing about stuff. He hates Bush, though, and wouldn't vote for McCain if you held a gun to his head. And he makes me smile. So it's not all sturm und drang.
On the medical front, the surgery date is finally nearing. I can't wait, seriously. I just want it over with! Biopsy is on Nov 13, surgery Nov 21. CUT ME already! And, joy of joys, between now and then I have to get a crown, get a filling, have my eyes checked AGAIN, and have my pre-op appointment. Good times, good times. Aging is my favorite thing EVAR!
Baseball took up a lot of time until recently (sigh) so I've been building up a Tivo backlog. I guess I should save all of "Mad Men," "Pushing Daisies," and "Sons of Anarchy" to watch while I heal up. Just plowed through "Heroes" this weekend. A little disappointing. Loving "Chuck," "Life," "Fringe," "The Mentalist," "The Shield," "Criminal Minds," "Life on Mars," and "Supernatural." Yes, geek much? Watching but less impressed with "Sanctuary" and "Stargate: Atlantis". And that's not everything I watch, trust me. I need a tv intervention, I think.
I haven't been terribly productive at home lately. Big project at work that's been eating my brain. I get home and I'm too fried to stay motivated to get stuff done. I've decided, though, that I need to get the house clean before my surgery, so I started today and did almost the whole living room. I had to move furniture anyway to re-plastic the windows so I vacuumed, and washed the floors, and dusted, and cleaned picture frames, and removed spiders, and I don't know what all. Tomorrow is my crown and it's smack in the middle of the day so I anticipate any potential productivity is already blown, there. Ah well, four more weeks. I can fit cleaning in somewhere in there. Right? I want to recuperate in a clean, fresh-smelling, non-spidered house. That should be doable. Right?
So to sum up: new guy, health stuff, tv, cleaning. Whoo! Life moves pretty fast around here.
Love and Kisses,
Laurie Lee
If you're on Facebook or know me in real life, you already know that I recently started dating again. For the rest of you: I recently started dating again! Since it's been 15 years since my last dating experience, this is rather new and interesting. What makes it more interesting is that the guy and I are almost complete opposites: he's conservative to my liberal, is religious to my atheist, is a dog person to my cat person, and has two ex-wives to my zero marriages. We spend a lot of time arguing about stuff. He hates Bush, though, and wouldn't vote for McCain if you held a gun to his head. And he makes me smile. So it's not all sturm und drang.
On the medical front, the surgery date is finally nearing. I can't wait, seriously. I just want it over with! Biopsy is on Nov 13, surgery Nov 21. CUT ME already! And, joy of joys, between now and then I have to get a crown, get a filling, have my eyes checked AGAIN, and have my pre-op appointment. Good times, good times. Aging is my favorite thing EVAR!
Baseball took up a lot of time until recently (sigh) so I've been building up a Tivo backlog. I guess I should save all of "Mad Men," "Pushing Daisies," and "Sons of Anarchy" to watch while I heal up. Just plowed through "Heroes" this weekend. A little disappointing. Loving "Chuck," "Life," "Fringe," "The Mentalist," "The Shield," "Criminal Minds," "Life on Mars," and "Supernatural." Yes, geek much? Watching but less impressed with "Sanctuary" and "Stargate: Atlantis". And that's not everything I watch, trust me. I need a tv intervention, I think.
I haven't been terribly productive at home lately. Big project at work that's been eating my brain. I get home and I'm too fried to stay motivated to get stuff done. I've decided, though, that I need to get the house clean before my surgery, so I started today and did almost the whole living room. I had to move furniture anyway to re-plastic the windows so I vacuumed, and washed the floors, and dusted, and cleaned picture frames, and removed spiders, and I don't know what all. Tomorrow is my crown and it's smack in the middle of the day so I anticipate any potential productivity is already blown, there. Ah well, four more weeks. I can fit cleaning in somewhere in there. Right? I want to recuperate in a clean, fresh-smelling, non-spidered house. That should be doable. Right?
So to sum up: new guy, health stuff, tv, cleaning. Whoo! Life moves pretty fast around here.
Love and Kisses,
Laurie Lee
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Date: 2008-10-27 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 09:53 pm (UTC)[It wasn't entirely out of the blue. He's a coworker -- different department -- and he'd been flirting for a few weeks. I even had the opportunity to email a couple friends to get thier opinions on cross-party dating before he asked.]
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Date: 2008-10-27 10:27 pm (UTC)And speaking as a lefty Christian married to a conservative atheist... it doesn't always matter whether it sounds likely on paper.
The pre-surgery to-do list sounds a bit daunting but, well, the date will arrive and everything that's really vital will have got done, I'm sure.
Can you save the TV to watch when you're recuperating, or something? I've recently been quite ill with asthma and spent a lot of time on the sofa watching Firefly and Heroes. It was about all I was up to.
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Date: 2008-10-28 01:24 am (UTC)Well if
And he makes me smile.
There you go, that's the important bit. :)
Good luck with the operation...curious as to how it turns out.
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Date: 2008-10-28 02:43 am (UTC)And the cat/dog thing: don't get me wrong, I LOVE dogs! I had a dog for 14 years or so growing up. Loved my dog. But I will always have cats, so any dog in my life has gotta get along with the kitties...my childhood dog came to us as a stray and he understood immediately that if he was going to live with us he would have to adapt to the cats, and he managed quite well -- to the extent that one of the cats used to curl up in between Ruff's front paws and sleep that way for hours. Ruff would sit there with the most interesting expression on his face, not moving. Like he was thinking "This is cool! Don't move! This is cool! Don't move!"