The gorilla in my room February 27, 2008

I blog about a lot of personal, family type stuff. And I don’t hesitate to ask for prayer requests. I keep a lot to myself, though, believe it or not. I tend to keep my thoughts about important things to myself, I keep how I feel to myself. I am very tempted in this case to continue doing the same thing – but I decided after talking to a good friend at length last night that it just can’t hurt to ask people to keep a good thought for me. So, I’m asking. Would you keep a good thought for me, please?

Yesterday, I got a letter from the hospital saying that there had been a finding in my recent mammogram that “requires additional study” (my left breast, which is the one I’ve been having pain in, though neither my doctor or myself could feel any lumps). I have an appointment for that a week from today. Chances are, it is nothing to worry about – but quite honestly, it is extremely difficult NOT to worry. For the most part, I’ll just put it out of my mind, focus on things like working on the new house and the move, and hope I don’t have too many nights like last night where I woke up feeling scared.

Thank you in advance, and yes, I will keep you posted, though I won’t have any more information for a few weeks.

Take care, now.

A little more about the “concert” (movie)… February 23, 2008

… while it is still fresh in my mind.

It really was the closest I’m likely to ever get to seeing U2 live. In some ways, it was even better. The way they filmed it, it felt like we were part of the crowd, with seats fairly close to the stage, but with much better access than a regular concert-goer would get. At times, it felt like I was right on stage with the band – the 3D was done in such a way in places that it seemed like I was standing right next to Larry as he banged away on the drums, or Adam as he thumped the bass, or was close enough to put my hand on The Edge’s shoulder while he laid out another of his ringing solos. And Bono, oh, Bono was up close and personal more than once (though not often enough, lol). It wasn’t done in a cheesy, “aware it was being filmed in 3D” way. There were times when it felt like he was looking right at me, from just a few feet away. Another time or two, he was reaching out his hand, like he was going to touch my face. Needless to say, it was extremely cool. And I didn’t drool once, lol, though “up close” like that, it was hard not to be completely captivated by his charisma. Damn, that man is something else.

He puts on a good show, and the band is incredibly tight. It was a short movie – a bit less than an hour and a half, and I know the concert was closer to three hours long, so they edited quite a bit out. Some of the more obscure songs, more than likely, and some of their older pieces (as it was the Vertigo tour, they played several off of “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”) though they did play Miss Sarajevo and The Fly. It appears from other people’s comments regarding it, that their biggest (only) complaint was the same as ours – too short! We wanted more, more, more.

Hubby said as we were leaving that he was really glad we were able to see it in the theater (and would love to go see it again). I’m with him. It really was just like being at the concert….

I loved it.

WHOO-HOO!!! February 23, 2008

I got to spend (another) birthday with Bono!

Hubby took me to see U2 3D tonight. It was fantastic! That new digital 3D stuff isn’t like any other 3D I’ve seen. No blue/red lensed paper “glasses” (we got cool black plastic, relatively sturdy clear-lens glasses to wear). And the 3D effects were just amazing…

I’m so glad we got to go. It was definitely worth it.

Moving right along… February 19, 2008

I seem to be posting pretty sporadically again. Chances are, it will be that way for a while, until things aren’t as busy away from the keyboard.

We’ve been making a bit of progress at the house. The last two weekends we’ve been out there with our contractor, working on the plumbing. Almost done with that task now. 18 cracked or broken or otherwise leaking sections have been fixed now. There is one left to go, but we didn’t have the right size pipe for that, so it will get taken care of this coming weekend. Also one toilet needs to be replaced – it is cheaper to do that than to replace just the tank. That will also get done this weekend. There are a few holes that need to be fixed now, too – in the living room ceiling, the master bath, and Peanut’s bedroom, but as we were going to repaint anyway, that’s no big deal. I’m just glad we had someone who knows what they’re doing with us when we turned the water on.

Other than that, we’re just going to be spending our weekends cleaning, packing, and moving. I’ve found a few things at Craig’s List that we’ve been looking for for the new house. We’re picking up Princess’s new bed this evening. I’m still looking for a couple of things – a china cabinet, a computer armoire, and a comfy reading chair for Princess. There is time to find those things, so I’ll just keep looking. We went to a couple of Salvation Army stores to look yesterday, but it appears that prices have gone up there, so I’ll stick with CL for the time being.

One of our cats passed away the beginning of the month. We adopted another from my brother and sil last Friday. We call her “Cream Puff Annie” because she’s a tubby little thing. She’s been in hiding since we brought her home. I finally decided this morning that enough was enough. I lured her out of the storage room with a bowl of tuna juice, then shut the door behind her. It was the right thing to do. She’s been out socializing with everyone all morning. She and Boom (our other cat) haven’t made friends yet, but they are tolerating each other, which is the first step.

Hope everything is going well in your neck of the woods.