Not much new, but....

Hey all! Not much going on here in FL lately, but just thought I'd check in. The good news of the week is that my grandmother was released from the hospital yesterday and got to go home!! There was talk all week that she would have to go to a nursing home, but my mom convinced them otherwise. She's on the road to recovery and that's all that counts!! :)

School ends this Friday and you better believe I'm counting down the days!! There's so much to be done between now and then, but I just have to keep up the pace and it will be over before I know it. Thank God for Bill.....he does all the little things that allow me to just focus on finals this week. The house is clean (well, most of it....not the room I'm hiding out in :P ), we have groceries, food gets delivered to my computer desk, and the fridge is stocked with caffeine.......what more could a girl ask for!

My dad is coming for a visit this coming Friday for a few days. Who comes to Florida in August?! People with free lodging and food, that's who! The timing is good and I'm sure we will hang out at the beach most of the time. We might take a day trip to St. Augustine too. I'm sure I'll have more fun things to post next weekend.

Have a wonderful week everyone! :)

Off to the Capital!

Last Friday I took a trip to our state's capital, Tallahassee. I attended a workshop on Asperger's Syndrome and also one on Ethics . Unfortunately Tally is about 2 1/2 hours away, west of Jacksonville. And you know what is west of Jacksonville? NOTHING!!! I rode with a friend and we arrived about midnight, driving down a dark, desolete stretch of highway avoiding the occasional deer....not fun. In the morning I was excited to see what the capital was all about. Well, my assessment is that it looked like Manchester, CT but with a few tall buildings in the center......not what I had pictured. Apparently the original capitol building was just a few log cabins, but now we have this ugly building that really isn't inspiring (see above). Tallahassee is also the home to Florida State University, so I'm sure that when college is in session, the place is hopping, but the day I visited I was wondering where all the people were...very quiet. The ride home was pretty with lots of fields and oak trees.....kind of like home, but their "rolling hills" are nothing like home....they would be amazed by the hill at VCMS.

Bill saw the new Batman movie this weekend and really liked it. He said it lived up to all of its hype, but that you feel sad at the end (maybe more "disturbed"?). So for all of you Batman fans out there, Bill gives it two thumbs up!

Thanks to everyone for their emails about my grandmother. She did end up having to have surgery this week and is still in the ICU. Things were worse than they thought, but thankfully she pulled through surgery and now we can focus on recovery (no easy feat in itself). I believe in the power of prayer and thank you to everyone who joined me.

Two more weeks and the summer semester will be over! So if I fall off the face of the planet between now and then, you'll know why. Too many final exams, essays, and projects to count, but it'll all be over soon! :)

Have a great week!

Week 2

So ends another hot week in Florida.....with more hot to come. With it brings some wicked showers in the afternoon that we aren't used to seeing lately. If you are afraid of thunder and/or lightning, move to Florida......you'll be forced into accepting it (or die of a nervous breakdown I guess)!

So my dish washer and laundry folder has returned from his business trip which makes me very happy! The cats aren't very good at conversation, but they do listen to me as I yell at the computer for crashing repeatedly. So I was glad to see Bill! We saw "Hancock" and were disappointed. We finally escape the house and were treated to two hours of a very slow moving story that wasn't very entertaining. Bill got sick off of all the candy he ate and I had stale nachos, so we weren't happy campers.

The lawn guy said that in order to fix the dead spots in our lawn (how did it get this bad??!!) we have to fill in the areas with a mixture of sand and manure. I doubted his story....it's the most insane thing I've ever heard. Turns out he knows what he's talking about; I checked out this info with other "floridians" and they said they do this too. So Bill brought back a car full of sand and manure in bags to put out today. He's insane. It's literally 95 degrees outside and he's out at the hottest part of the day spreading this stuff. He's not nearly close to being done as we have way more holes than we thought. This only helps my case for moving into a condo. If that were me I would have dropped dead from the heat.....Bill comes back in tanned....Needless to say I'm not going in the yard any time soon.

I'm in charge of weeding and trimming the trees and bushes. Doesn't sound like much, but when you live here in the amazon, things grow like crazy! I was outside for 2 1/2 hrs Sat. just weeding....it had been two weeks since the previous outing and the weeds were winning. My little trimmer ran out of juice half way through trimming the bushes, so only half of them are neat again.....looks crazy, but it'll have to do until next week. It's always nice to be outside weeding while you watch the neighborhood actually enjoy their Saturday.....joggers, boaters, even dogs are out playing!

On a different note, if you're so inclined, please say a prayer for my grandma. She had to be admitted to the hospital last night. They are trying to control things through medication so that she won't have to have surgery because it would be an extremely risky operation. So the next few days are important. It's times like these that it truly stinks to live so far away.

I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend.......see you next week?