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DAMN! i love this show! from the nerd as unwitting super hero to the wildly fabulous wavy hair and gratuitous sideburns of our hero to the foxy kick ass girl agent and – coup de grace - 
“my bodyguard” (excellent movie) star as the triad agent, i have been waiting for this show to come back on.
its just awesome. quirky. odd. pop culture references abound, but not in a cheesy way. it flows. and comments on the whole “big box”/”geek patrol” phenomenon culture.
seriously, you can watch back episodes online. and the season opener catches you up just fine so you can hop right on the band wagon.
tivo is your friend.
i love me a man in a skinny tie and a button up short sleeve work shirt.
oh, and its hip to be square.
i have a mental list of “things my man and i need to do”. a while back, a friend helped me compile them in written form and it is seeming fitting at this time that i might float this out there, for any interested party to make note…
Things We Need to Do (a work in progress)
1. Lisa’s Pepsi Challenge
2. Go to Disneyland together
3. Verandah room on the Disney Cruise Line
4. Visit San Francisco
5. Create a podcast/blog
6. Vacation somewhere in Europe
7. Move in together
8. Learn some type of dance together, preferably swing, salsa or ballroom
9. Run a marathon
10. Watch The Blues Brothers
11. Dress as the Blues Brothers for Halloween
12. Throw a surprise party for one of us
13. Go scuba diving
14. Take a hike in the Smoky Mountains
15. Run a fantasy football/baseball team together and DOMINATE!
16. Go to a Broadway play
17. See (insert favorite band here) in concert
18. Exchange gifts on Christmas morning
19. Kiss at midnight on the New Year
20. Decide on a tattoo for each of us (no names or anything goofy like that)
21. Go to a pro baseball and a pro football game
22. Get our picture together professionally
23. Go on a picnic
24. Play Pictionary. Draw something resembling anything.
25. Go bowling
26. Re-learn french. Celebrate in Paris.
27. Kiss along the waves of a beach
28. Get our pictures taken in a photo booth
29. Build a snowman. And snow angels. In a place where we do NOT live, because snow is incompatible with life.
30. Get take out Chinese food and eat it straight from the container
31. Spend a whole day in bed together (just one?)
32. Take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage
33. Throw a party (Super Bowl, Oscars, etc)
34. Go to the Kentucky Derby
35. Make love on the dining room table (not the kitchen floor, as there are these very hard, cold mexican tiles…)
36. have a dinner party
37. eat at the chefs table, V&A
38. get into club 33
39. lay at the pool all day
40. get a friend for maggie
41. go to a spa
42. spend a weekend in new york city
43. Go to the batting cages
44. Watch the entire 1st season of ‘The West Wing’
45. Spend an afternoon at an outdoor art festival
strangely, i am feeling weirdly optimistic right now. and i am not even drunk.
that there are others in the world who also have nothing better to do with their time…
some people find more creative ways to spend their time…. sigh…
i think post surgical, post toonfest, post everything depression has set in.
tomorrow i go for my repeat MRI and i see my surgeon next wednesday (since restarting the soma and taking some pain meds in the evenings – every night- i actually feel ok). today i woke up at 1130. 1130 am. i have eaten some olives, a piece of cheese and a cup of peppermint ice cream. it is very yukky weather out, a nor’easter blowing in (maybe george clooney will wash up on my doorstep). i actually watched an entire maury povich to find out if scott really was the father to the three children of his cheating wife katie, who his mother refers to as “the whore-ah”. he was – just so you dont have to watch.
i think tomorrow is payday. or not payday. “time to pay the piper for my poor savings habits”-day. will have to dip into some hard to get at savings to bridge the gap to my actually working again. and get this – i live in this apartment building and the utilities here are very weird. i got a note from the management saying i was behind like $800 in utilities! um, i have paid at least $600 over the last 3 months, so that hardly seems possible. and consider that i have a small 2 bedroom apartment, and , although i love to run me some icy cold air during the summer, i didn’t have utility bills that high in my own 4 bedroom house (which i also kept nicely chilled during the summer months). the problem there is they do some kind of tricky math about dividing up the utilities for this whole building and there never seems to be a CREDIT FOR THE PREVIOUS MONTHS BILL!!! actually, i lived here for 3 months before i even got a bill, after asking about it all the time…. arg!
in short, i just have several phoine calls to make, all of which will result in some action that i know will be far less painful and involved than anything i am imagining… and yet….
i am sitting here like a lump. inertia (is that the 2nd law?) is always my biggest foe. i think i have become one with my chair and a half.
i think post surgical, post toonfest, post everything depression has set in.
back from a whirlwind tour of marceline, mo – walt disney’s boyhood home town (if you don’t know WHY i would be there or are going “huh?”, you haven’t been reading long…..
LOTS of pictures and podcasting audio potential to sort through. also, a third of a bag of delicious kettle korn to finish eating. mostly just sorting through the events of the weekend and catching up on sleep. i did good, i know my purse was many times a bit too heavy for me to really be carrying, but i had lots of help and did great. it was nice to push myslef a little bit physically.
the trip was good. illuminating in some ways. made several new friends – all of whom rock. now there is just one question…. what to do next?
doing a brief out of town for the weekend. looking forward to good friends and good times. i am all packed, but for throwing my toiletries in the suitcase in the morning.
got my pain meds and am back to consistent muscle relaxers. its not completely removed my discomfort, but i must admit it has helped significantly. no word about when this MRI appointment is supposed to happen.
my main source of anxiety at this exact moment – i have decided not to take my lap top with me and let me tell you, forget that i can get on the net off the crackberry, i hate being without my computer!!!! i am taking a camera and recording equipment, as i plan to get a lot of podcast material documented there, and i have yet to have filled my expansion card on my camera and my digital voice recorder can hold like 40 hours of material or something. i have never filled either of these items to their full memory capacity so i should not need to be downloading stuff on the computer. and geeez, i am only going for two whole nights!
i’m getting really excited about the trip – i will be meeting up with several people (the group keeps growing!!!) i have met online and a friend or two from “the real world”. i have a lot of excitement and nervousness. i think it is going to be a lot of fun, i am dying to get out of the house and the potential for travel related discomfort post surgery seems very manageable. i am going to check my bag so i dont have to hoist it up over my head and, since i THINK i am leaving my computer behind, it ought to be manageable to travel and maintain my activity restrictions, such as they are.
on return, i will be checking in with the surgeons office to see when i can get that MRI done. and i need to speak with my surgeon personally i think and feel him out about my return to work status. i had assumed that following my next scheduled office visit on 10/1, i would be cleared for work. if he is for any reason thinking i need to be off longer, given that i am hurting still or what not, i need to get that straight so i can let work know. and find someone to buy my kidney.
see ya all real soon!! 
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