We heard you were feeling a little…..

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Things I should have done today:

-Bake pumpkin bread
-Return the incredibly large amount of soda cans to the redemption center
-Clean my room
-Put away my clean clothes
-Call my insurance company about my dental coverage
-Ordered campaign signs
-Gone to the salvation army and to consignments shops just to look around, and get out of the house

Things I actually did today:

- stayed in bed until noonish.  I was awake, and had gone downstairs to eat breakfast at 9, but then went back upstairs in bed because it was very cold downstairs.  So I sat in bed, chatted on Skype with Barny, and read a book

- Ran three miles

- Showered, ate lunch, got dressed

- Drove up to the Hospice House, and went to visit a patient with Lynne (at 4pm)

- Had dinner with the nurses at the HH, and then drove over to Nashua to the Memorial Service for all of the patients who died from March 2009 - August 2009.

-Drove home, and got very lost.  Luckily, my iPhone has GPS.

That’s what I get for staying in bed until noon.

Tomorrow is another full day at the HH.  Perhaps on Saturday I’ll be able to chisel down my to-do list.

This is a video of Nicole Eggert, some years after she was a hottie on Baywatch.

This bugs me because she looks great still!  She has a NORMAL body.  She’s not freakishly skinny, and she finally got rid of that awful wedgie.  But in the picture of her from the actual show, she does have nice strong looking legs!  You need to do a lot of running/exercise to have nice strong legs like that.  Speaking of strong legs, I ran another 4.5 miles today, and boy do my shins hurt!  I even stopped several times to stretch them, and they still really hurt!  I’m afraid of how they’ll feel tomorrow morning!  I have the heating pad on them now, but it is going from too hot, to not hot enough!

On a second note, here’s two pictures of Pamela Anderson from Baywatch.  This is her at age 40!  Good for her for still looking amazing.  As long as she’s healthy, it’s a good thing.

I was a lifeguard for eight years.  It is NOT possible to run, much less dive into water with a bathing suit that has a back like that.  The straps would very easily slide down your arms. How embarrassing!

ALL of my bathing suits had backs like this:

That was the ONE thing that bothered me about Baywatch.

Today at one of our local movie theaters, they’re showing Food, Inc., and having a big discussion group about it.  My mom is looking for a movie to go to (because it’s rainy, and I think she wants to get out of the house) so I suggested she go to that.  She replied, “I don’t really want to see that.  I’ll read the book about that instead.”

She would rather read the book than see the movie.  How many other people out there can say that?  Usually it is the opposite.  They’d rather see the movie than spend the time reading the book.

What about you?  Are there any movies that you’ve seen so you didn’t have to read the book?

For those who have experienced both the movie and the book of a certain story, which did you enjoy more?

Has seeing a movie ever inspired you to read the book?

Has reading the book ever made you want to see the movie?

Does it ever anger you when they make a movie out of one of your favorite books?

Does it bother you if they leave out a lot of important details?  (I know my brother won’t see any of the Harry Potter movies because of the details they leave out)

I know that I saw the movie Twilight before I had any idea about it - I just tagged along with friends.  I fell in love with it, and quickly read all four books.  After seeing Coraline, I made sure I read the Neil Gaiman book.

For Five People You Meet in Heaven, I enjoyed the movie more than the book.  I read the book first, and it was veeeeeery slow.  Then I saw the movie with Jon Voight, and although it was long, it went faster than the book did.

Food for thought!

Do do, do do do do do do!

I was looking at some volunteer website, and said “Mom, we should host a foreign exchange student or something.  We need to  do more.”  And she replied, “Well, I was thinking that if the city closes the library, then we could get a foster child.  That way, I’d be home for when they got out of school.”

And I said, “A foster baaaaaaby?” She said no, but she’d go as young as elementary school.

And I said, “You could get two siblings, since we have two open bedrooms!”    She didn’t reply.

I love being able to do good things for other people.  It is good to make a difference, no matter how large or small.  And it is nice that my mom could take the awfulness of the library being closed, to make a difference in someone else’s life.

What do you do to make the world a better place?

After seeing the movie Who Killed The Electric Car, I would tell people that I remember that the Alewife parking lot near Boston used to have reserved spots for electric cars.  No one else remembered it, and I felt almost crazy talking about it.

Then, when Barny and I hung out in Boston, I saw this sign, that clearly had been covered up with black plastic wrap, but I needed proof that I wasn’t crazy in remembering this.

This just makes me very sad that there really WERE electric cars that everyday people had.  I’ve seen the movie, but I don’t remember ever seeing an EV1.  Seeing this sign makes me shake my head, and be sad and ashamed of the car makers of America.

I love saving money.  Who doesn’t?  But I love it so much, I blog about it.  Oh, wait… a lot of other people do, too.  But anyway.

I went to CVS looking for a humidifier.  I’ve been having an awful time in the morning and feel awful, and my throat hurts.  They didn’t have the one I was looking for (a warm mist one, rather than a cool mist).  I had $3.50 in “extra care bucks” (CVS free money), so I knew I had to get something.  I grabbed some of those plastic dental floss things for work, (and didn’t think about it until after I bought them what a complete waste of plastic they are.  I’m ashamed.).  I then checked the coupon print out thing in the front of the store, and it gave me a $1 off any body wash or body lotion.  So I thought “well, if I can get a body wash for cheap, then I can just donate it to a food drive that’s also looking for household things.”  So I went to that aisle, and saw this one body was on sale for $2, AND you got a free body poof.  So for the poof and the wash, I would only be paying $1.  Then, my dental floss things were $2.50, bringing my total to exactly $3.50.  I handed over my little paper extra care bucks, and walked out of the store without paying anything.

Pretty damn exciting.  AND, I got a body wash to donate to someone less fortunate.  Oh, and I was at the CVS in Nashua (near my hospice house), so I didn’t have to pay sales tax.

Friday morning, we woke up in Danvers, and the four of us went out to breakfast in Salem, MA.  We all had delicious, copious amounts of food and drink.  It was a beautiful fall day, with the leaves changing and a brisk breeze.  I had never been to Salem before, so we walked a bit of the tourist walk (we had a map, thanks to the diner we ate at).

Barny was able to get some gifts for his friends back home, and I even picked up a Christmas present for my mom!

We went to an amazing book store, that was organized, but in a very haphazard way.  I felt as if the books would crush me if they fell.

We went and saw the statue of Samantha from Bewitched - Salem is the place where the Witch trials took place.

Maria, Kevin, and I trying to figure out what to do next!

Kevin went to work, and Maria, Barny and I went to get ice cream and to the batting cages!

Barny was amazed at how large his “kiddie” sized ice cream was.  (it’s the smallest they had!)

We got to visit the cows that made the milk for the ice cream!  (this one is just a baby, though).

We all took a shot at the batting cages.  Barny had never swung a bat in his life!  But he did pretty great.  He was good at line drives, which is the kind of shot that’s good!  Mine were mostly pop ups.

We left Friday night around 6pm, because we had to get to the Fitchburg High Football Game!  Barny had never seen an American football game, so we wanted to go to one!  Plus, he was able to see the cheerleaders!

After the game, we went over to have some beer and wine at Trevor’s.  My mom and dad brought over raspberry pie, and Trevor tried to fix Barny’s old camera.

Saturday, Barny and I drove down to West Boylston and saw the Time Traveler’s Wife.  Saturday was the one crappy rainy British day we had.  It really made Barny feel like home!  Luckily, it wasn’t too chilly.

We went to Il Ricordi on the way back and picked up delicious Italian food.  For Fitchburg peeps - if you’ve never been there, it’s the most delicious Italian food in the area.  We had loads of fun driving around together.

On Monday, Barny’s last day, he packed his bags, and I took him down to City Hall to say goodbye to my dad and Trevor.  We had hot dogs for lunch down at City Hall (Barny had to have one American hot dog!).  Then to the airport!  Where Barny left, but we were pretty good about not having a tearful goodbye.

But I think our GPS is broken, because it kept taking me through Sommerville to get to Logan Airport.   And that just ain’t right.

We had a great time.  I think I’m going over to England to visit Barny and Megan at Christmas time.  I think Barny is taking me to Devon to see his mom, and to Wales to see his dad.