It Only Hurts When I Blog

Avast there, ye bloggy-eyed swabs!

It's Friday and a long weekend is coming up!

Rejoice and be merry, for I predict that next Tuesday will feel like a Monday.

Here in the south, the temperature has risen from 'darn cold' right to 'darn hot' in a few days.

Here is a photo of my son, freezing to death the morning after Mother's Day.

I think the temperature in the den was around 65 degrees. Chilly.

The last couple of days have been near 90 with thunderstorms around again. We had a good thunder and lightning show overnight last night, and yesterday morning while I was swimming there were thunderstorms.

Question - is it safe to be in an indoor pool (with glass walls) while there is lightning around?

I didn't feel really good about being zapped in the water, but I didn't get out either! Death-defying swimmer that I am.

It's Friday, which means our newspaper was late.

It's always late on Fridays. Our newspaper guy must go out and party on Thursday nights or something.

Poor Charlie - yesterday no lunch, today no newspaper.

AND BY THE WAY - Charlie didn't even have to go out for lunch yesterday - a coworker did the 'gophering' and brought back everyone's orders from Wendy's.

Now tell me this - which is better - Wendy's or peanut butter and jelly?

I can't get over the fact that the most comments I've ever received on any topic on my blog was about Charlie's LUNCH. Good grief - what do I spend an hour a day writing for anyway? (She says with a fetching little snarl.)

Moving right along...

It's Memorial Weekend, so here's a big THANK YOU to all our veterans and soldiers out there. If you want to learn more about the origins of Memorial Day, here is a link:

http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

I went to a blood drive and donated blood yesterday. I got a little heart-shaped pin with stars and stripes and 'Remember' written on it, and a t-shirt for Charlie.

Everyone else giving blood at two o'clock in the afternoon were retirees. They were great fun. One guy was wearing a shirt that said 'The older I get, the better I was'. He was originally from Boston, so we had a nice chat about the cold ocean waters of New England.

By the way - without any stress and with all the swimming, my blood pressure and pulse rate have gone DOWN since I've been out of work. No big surprise there. ;-)

Well, I have a busy day planned with lots of errands to run and MAYBE a new batch of homemade wontons.

TTFN!