Peace and Quiet: HA!!!

Argh world. It rained today, hooray!

Talked to GI. My fasting blood sugar is 6.2, which is impaired fasting glucose (will see my own doc tomorrow). That’s the doorstep to diabetes type 2.

NOT happy about that.

At least the bad cholesterol is 2.2, which is the lowest ever (started at 10.5 several years ago).

Otherwise the day was good. The course is going well (actually got applause for a role play!).  All I can think about is that test result.

Will post more later in the week.

HOpe you are all well and safe!

BJ

p.s. Apologies if you’ve been unable to comment. WC advised me of this situation and I’ve written to blog.com to get it fixed.

It is still in the 40s here, humid and yicky in the extreme. Am now stuck in a classroom learning how to mediate
(but I already knew this—the course was described as how to deal with difficult people!). Am with one of the
admin assistants in the office on this course. She is wonderful, sweet, psychic and cool. Unfortunately she also
likes to talk. A lot. Which provides a lot of enthusiasm but much more than I usually get. Oh well.

The classroom isn’t ventilated/well cooled. We are all cooking. But some of the people in this class are really interesting, which makes up for the temperature. They’re mostly in their 30s, some in their 20s, and one quite judgemental/rigid. Very interesting mix.

Not much else going on. Missed a call from GI this morning, because I have to leave at the crack of dawn to get
to this class. D*mn morning folks, why are you guys all in charge of setting course times (I jest semi-seriously).

Heard that much of the eastern seabord is having really odd weather (this is more like July than June) too.
Here’s hoping we all escape it unscathed.

They found the body of a third woman in Ottawa in a week murdered (two by their partners, one not yet known). What the heck is going on out there?  Really makes us single/divorced types uneasy.

Later, world.

BJ

It’s a whopping 40 something here including humidity. Too hot for much. There’s almost no traffic anywhere in O town–everyone seems to have left town or be hunkering in front of A/C units.  The Most Spoiled Cat In The Universe is happy and coughing less.

The week’s gone really well. Got tons of stuff done quickly (and met with enthusiasm) at work. Family’s very happy. There is one bully in my life who’s about to get a whopping come-uppance, which is good (IMHO), and which will take the negativity out of my range yahoo!

Got all kinds of errands done yesterday; am going on a course on (giggle) how to deal with difficult people for the next three days. This course is about 10 years late, but better late than never!

Sorry this is short, have to catch up with all of your blogs.

Later, world!

BJ

According to Peter T, MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE 

NICKNAMES
If Lisa, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Lisa, Kate and  Sarah.
If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.

EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50.  None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need but it’s on sale.

BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom:  toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a  towel .
The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337.  A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these  items.

ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in  any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.

DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a  book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and  funerals.

NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

OFFSPRING
Ah, children.  A woman knows all about her children.  She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE  DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes.  There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Thanks Peter M….
don’t blame ME for this one….

  HUMOUR FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a day care where a  three-year-old was resisting a  rest.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?  He’s all  right
now.

The  roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his 
work.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at  large.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a  hardened criminal.

Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.

We’ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles,  U.C.L.A.

The math professor went  crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

The dead  batteries were given out free of charge.

If you take a laptop computer for a run, you could jog your  memory.

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.

A will is a dead giveaway.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

A backward poet writes inverse.

In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that 
votes.

A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

Show me a  piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat  miner.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted  in Linoleum
Blownapart.

You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.

A calendar’s days are numbered.

A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

He  had a photographic memory which was never developed.

A plateau is a high form of  flattery.

Those who get too big for their britcheswill be exposed in the end.

W hen you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.

If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.

Acupuncture: a jab well done

Hello world, how goes it? Everyone happy about the weekend?

It was pouring buckets here when I got up, and man it was hard to get out of bed (at the crack of 10:00) but the got junk guys were coming at 1:00. Soooooooooo The Most Spoiled Cat In The Universe worked her magic and got me up. Not easy.

The junk guys came early, and cleared out my garage. It cost $265, but all the junk is gone. It was worth it to get rid of that stuff (stones, soil, old pots, you name it, it was in that garage). Also got rid of household stuff too–a humidifier (huge) that hasn’t bee used in 10 years, a vacuum that hasn’t WORKED in the same amount of time, and about 15 three ring binder. The garage looks wonderful now, and the house looks better too without the junk. The junk guys  couldn’t take the pesticides (which I’ve never used), so I’ll have to wait until the city has a household dangerous chemicals day (they have one every week, apparently). We do have bugs here, but I like the birds better, so no ‘better living through chemicals’ for me.

Took Mom to get her hair done, and to lunch. We ran into our dear g.p. doc in Subway! He is the best–had a great big smile on his face and he said hi first (neither of us had noticed him when he came in). Cool.

Work went very well–we had a group lunch for a few birthdays in the group on Friday. The person with whom I walked to the restaurant is a psychic. Told me I have four angels (boy I must be bad to rate that many, huh?) and a grandfather with me all the time. She described him pretty closely–he’s my dad’s father.

Ran into a few old friends going to and from the restaurant too.

Am definitely in heaven.

So Mom’s hair is fine, I know that she had a filling lunch, the garage is looking great and the junk in the house that’s been bugging me for months is gone. Yahoo.

Onto bigger and better stuff (like the lawn/back yard) next.

AND the sun’s out now!

Life is good. Hope yours is at least as good, world.

MWAH!

BJ