my friend ann sent me an e-mail a few days ago about different bluegrass groups performing on channel 4, public access tv, and i read the e-mail this afternoon and made a note of it…and then promptly forgot all about it. but i just turned on the light which is the same switch as the tv and the tv went on and THERE WERE MARK AND MOLLY MATHEWSON AS WELL AS ANN BOVA. how’s that for perfect timing?
perfect, i’d have to say. it’s just like they’re here in my living room performing.
i was going to call this posting FALLING DOWN because that has been the theme for the past few days.
friday evening, about five o’clock, i was having some difficulty with a cheesecake i was baking, and kevin called. “i’m ok, don’t worry, but i’m on the way to the hospital,” he said.
WHAT????!!!
he went to work at three in the afternoon, and before the hour had passed he tripped on a bunch of wires or on some kind of electric box thing they had put on the floor because they were re-doing the office. NOT A GOOD PLACE FOR THE WIRES AND THE BOXES.
i’m the one in the family who trips, not kevin. i am called grace, which used to be ironic because of all the times i’m tripping and falling, but my klutzyness has just become a way of life for me.
but kevin, he is much more light on his feet. he doesn’t fall down, not ever. doesn’t even trip and catch himself, which i do daily. so you see that obviously, the people putting all the stuff all over the floor in his office were very stupid.
kevin said he was going to the emergency room, his hand was numb and his knee hurt. but don’t worry, rick was driving him, it would be fine…
so i continued to have issues with my cheesecake which was turning into a blackened cheesecake, and things were ok for a while…but then suddenly it had been a hour and a half and WHAT WAS GOING ON? did he break his wrist? his leg?
he finally called. no broken bones. it was actually his elbow that was banged up, but it would be ok. his knee, also just badly banged up, no bones broken. he wanted me to come pick him up. ok, i’ll be at the emergency room in a minute, i said.
no, he said, i didn’t like it there, too many unsavory people loitering. i’m walking down the street, he said.
WHY ARE YOU WALKING DOWN THE STREET WHEN YOU HURT YOUR LEG?
kevin isn’t very good at sitting still. he could have gone to the hospital cafeteria, but i didn’t think to tell him that, i was in too much of a hurry to find him, wandering around downtown like a homeless person.
i picked him up and drove him home and then drove to the drugstore to get him the prescription drugs to stop the pain.
we were going to go to the katy trail over the weekend, but that was out. the note he got from the emergency room said DO NOTHING FOR 48 HOURS.
damn.
it has now been 48 hours, and i do have to say kevin is quite bad at doing nothing. today we went to menard’s and walked around a little but not too much, and i guess that wasn’t so bad, but then i was stringing halloween lights all around the outside of the house, and in order to connect them in the garage he CLIMBED UP ON HIS MOTORCYCLE to drape the extension cord. i don’t think standing up on the motorcycle qualifies as doing nothing. he said it was ok because his knee was already swollen and painful at that point, so it didn’t matter. somehow i find fault with his logic.
he did do some nothing, but not enough. he’s sleeping now, which is good, because he’s doing absolutely nothing.
i think i’m finished with putting up halloween decorations because all i have left now are two bags of that stupid spider web stuff and i already put some of it up and i hate it.
we had the blackened cheesecake last night and it was good despite the black color of the top.
i re-scheduled our trip for mid-november. the lady at the b&b where i’d made the reservation was very nice, especially considering how anxious i was about calling her to tell her that we weren’t coming and could we please re-schedule even though it says on the website that you can’t do that at all? i’ve always hated calling people on the phone, and i probably always will.
to add to the general pain level of the weekend, i woke up yesterday morning with an incredibly painful neck. slept on it wrong. i decided to ignore it, and went running yesterday. last night i woke up and thought i was going to die of the pain. this morning it was no better. so i didn’t run today, and i just took three motrin. perhaps it will be all better tomorrow.
it has become summer again, and it’s nice that it’s back. it was eighty today, i think. a lovely day, perfect for hanging halloween lights outside. plus i mowed and trimmed and pulled weeds. a busy sunday, pretty much.
we’ve watched a couple of episodes of “american idol rewind,” which are different auditions they had in various cities. tonight’s was atlanta 2002, and it included clay aiken. it’s kind of fun to watch them, and maybe we’ll even watch some of the actual show, which doesn’t start til january. that sees like a very long time from now.
this is the 7th season. i remember when my friend kelly was obsessed with watching it. that was quite a few years ago – i bet she still watches it. she sent me a photo the other day, of her and her daughter waiting to see the queen. of england. kelly looked very nice, with fancy pointy shoes, but she said that because she wasn’t wearing a dress and a hat, the queen didn’t acknowledge her existence. that seems like a shame. but on the other hand, she did get a really good shot of the queen. kelly must be very important, to have gotten that close to take such a photo.
ok, here it is.
and here’s kelly with her pointy shoes.
i have SO MANY PHOTOS of our bike trip to austria. at least this morning i wrote down a lot of them that i have to shrink down to put on here.
right now there’s this great show on tv again, i’ve mentioned it before, it’s on c-span, the british house of commons. it’s the actual, real house of commons, but it doesn’t seem like it could be real. the house of commons is doing a lot of cheering and laughing and they seem to be ridiculing poor gordon brown quite a bit…i keep trying to imagine our government being like this. our government is so incredibly boring in comparison, at least the snippets i’ve seen on tv.
gordon brown (the prime minister) is debating the inheritance tax with the conservative party leader, and they’re all laughing and jeering and brown and then the conservative leader take turns leaping to their feet to debate. fascinating, really.
sunday night, already mid-october. how did that happen?
ok then, goodnight,
october grace.