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I'm actually waving, not drowning....

The obscure literary reference felt appropriate since summer league ended weekend before last. I'm pleased to report that our team was DSSL champions for the 7th straight year. I always think that summer vacation will be restful, but it turns out to just be a different kind of crazy busy.

Random things going on in my life. Let's see, saw Half Blood Prince at the midnight showing. I liked it, but didn't love it. I think Prisoner of Azkaban is still my favorite although Goblet of Fire was quite good as well. ( My HBP reactions, let me show you them )Star Trek is still my pick for best movie so far this year though.

I've read 52 books so far this year.  I haven't posted about them here or at 50books1year  as of yet, but I will do so hopefully before too much more times passes. *swears solemnly on large To Be Read pile*

My youngest turned 10 this month. No more single digits at my house.  All my kids have milestone birthdays in '09. N turned 10, J turns 16 next month, and E and M turn 18 and 13 respectively in December.  In other milestone birthday info, I just got back from visiting my family.  My mom just celebrated her 60th.

I'm not fannish about much of anything these days, but I have started watching "Burn Notice" which is summer fun.  There's definitely a place for brain candy viewing.   We'll see how it looks on the new 42" HDTV plasma that should be delivered later this week.  The old tv was giving up the ghost, so I decided it was time to join the 21st century.  I'm curious to see if all the raving about picture quality, "the blackness of the blacks", and the like is true.  

Now, back to lurkerage I shall go.

muffinkath7 , I hope that you're having a marvelous birthday!  You deserve to have wonderful things and I hope that you find much joy in your new apartment and that unexpected pleasures await you in the coming year.

Happy Birthday my dear!  Eat some cake for me.

Love,
Angela

Wow, it's been a long time since I last posted.  It's hard to believe that much time has passed since my last entry.  Hawaii was beautiful although the trip seems like it was ages ago rather than just last month.  We're coming into the end stretch of the school year and that's taking up most of my time.  J is in GA doing an internship and E leaves tomorrow to act as a counselor for the annual freshman trip to the Episcopal Farmworker's Ministry.  It's going to be just M and N for a week which will be odd.

Saw Star Trek (okay, saw it three times) and loved it.  I thought it was a very clever way to reboot the franchise and I laughed at the nods not only to the original series, but to JJ's other shows as well.  Plus, I was totally into the romantic pairing.  Not a couple I ever considered, but it totally worked.  I may have sought out fic already.

In other news, I'm currently somewhat incapacitated,  I slipped and fell in my house earlier in the week and managed to bang up my ribs.  No obvious fractures on the x-rays, but a lot of pain.  I'm told that "it will hurt until it gets better.   It just takes time."  Great.  I've also learned that while Percocet does help with the pain, it also causes me to wake up repeatedly at night and gives me systemic itching.  Since Vicodin doesn't really have any effect on me at all, I guess it's a good thing that I don't have a yen for the opiates.

I've also got 30ish books that I need to record for this year's 50 Books challenge, but I'm not up for that right now.  Maybe later in the week.

Now, I'm going to try and find a position to sleep in where nothing hurts.  Wish me luck.

*waves at FL*  In case there were any questions, I'm still among the living.  I've had a major work project whose initial deadline was yesterday.  I've been lurking on LJ, but haven't felt the burning urge to post.  Now that this phase of the project is complete, I hope to be around more.  But, not in the short term because Friday I'm leaving for Maui.  My icon is from the place where I'll be on Kaanapali Beach.  So, aloha and try to stay out of major trouble through Easter.

Well, almost anyway.  I'm sending birthday wishes winging east over the Atlantic to tasyfa .  It's already the wee hours of your birthday there, but I'm being anticipatory here in the States.  May you be plied with great music, food, and gifts, my dear, in honor of your natal day.  And cake!  We musn't forget that.

I hope that it's a wonderful day and the start of an even better year!

Today is cookie2697 's birthday and it must be appropriately celebrated.  I hope that you're having a wonderful day at the House of Mouse Anne.  I remember going to Disneyland years ago on your birthday.  It seems appropriate that you're back there today.

Here's wishing you great trips, great presents, and great friends in the year ahead!  Not to mention cake.  You can't forget the cake.

Happy Birthday!!!

Life has been busier than usual lately as the winter trimester winds down.  E and J's sports schedules have intensified and M was in the Middle School production of "The Music Man" which had its performances this past weekend.  Practices, games, meets, and rehearsals translates into even more driving for me.   Which isn't awful, but is made less pleasant due to the loss of my much lamented stolen iPod.  Radio is horrible around here and being subjected to its vagaries was no fun at all.  But, in happy news, my father-in-law was in town to see E's basketball game and M's play, and he took me shopping and bought me a new iPod classic to replace the one that was stolen.  So, tomorrow's drive to school will be to the soundtrack that shuffle designates for me.   Maybe that will help combat the winter doldrums that I seem to be stuck in these days.

Now that I have all this extra iPod space to fill up, what were your favorite cds of 2008?  I need to discover some new music.  I have the new Bon Iver, Snow Patrol, Elbow, and Fleet Foxes.  If there's something else that you think I might like, please feel free to recommend it.  I'm generally an alternative/indie kind of gal.

In other news, it was in the 70s here today.  This after snow on inagural day.  Screwy Mother Nature makes me nervous.

Apparently someone broke into my car sometime this weekend, while it was parked in my driveway, and stole my 80 gig iPod and car adapter.  I can't decide which feels more unsettling.  That it happened at all.  Or that it happened right next to my house.  It was a gift from a friend and had an inscription engraved on the back.  Can it be traced via the iTunes software if someone tries to download new music onto it?

Here's to nephele !  May the furniture arrive smoothly and may this be a year full of wonderful things for you (like the cake above).

Happy Birthday!

Love,
Angela

mockingbird39 , I'm so sorry that I missed your birthday yesterday!  I hope that it was filled with wonderful people, presents, and treats.

Here's to a great 2009 for you!

Love,
Angela