Hmmm.. ok

I feel like blogging again. Apparently I have had a good enough break. Its the end of summer. A couple weeks, a normal man's vacation. Then I am back to work. I can't wait. I kinda wish it was now! I have some............ IDEAS. I have done so freaking much this summer, its crazy. All the while, I am maintaining my garden. Its this back-burner calm in my mind. I can go crazy painting the bathroom, freak out cleaning the cellar, try to understand how to frame in the tub upstairs, and all the while my tomatoes are slowly growing bigger and bigger, just a little day by day. They are beautiful, heirloom, brandywines. What a beautiful word, brandywine. I have never tasted one, but supposedly they are the holy grail of tomatoes. And, I have so many of them. I also have a whole row of cilantro. I never liked cilantro until I tasted and smelled fresh cilantro. I have fresh thyme, oregano and sage. I also have butternut squash, leeks, celery, two carrots :), English cucumbers, (the only fruit that I have harvested yet) and I think that's it. Oh, radishes... tons of radishes. Its was really nice to grow all of these. My back/neck almost ended my garden this year. Oh, btw, I had my neurologist appointment two days ago. I actually ruptured a disk in my neck... that means, some of the viscous fluid in my spine, shot out into the area outside of it and put tons of pressure on the surrounding nerves. No wonder I was in pain. Also, thank God I am out of it now.

I went to my yearly physical right after the neurologist. I have a female general practitioner. I chose that on purpose because guys are so sexist. So anyway, my ekg was slightly abnormal, which means my WPW is still kinda there. I freaked out a little but she said it was the same as last year. I don't know. it isn't bothering me anymore, and I just wish it were really gone. You would have to go way into the archives of this blog to find the entry in which I was pronounced cured. She also said that it may be just the way my heart looks, it may "be your heart David." I knew that was somewhat profound when she said it and I shrugged it off. If I live the rest of my life with a slightly different ekg than the rest of the world and it doesn't really affect me, so be it. I just have to get over this one bump, (being told its still there) and I will be fine.

I put our AC unit in our window yesterday. I have a love/hate relationship with that brownish box. I am happy that it makes the house somewhat cooler. But its loud and ugly and blocks sunlight from that window. I wanted to go the whole year without it. I couldn't. It was friggen hot out yesterday!! And it will be again today so they say. I washed the front of our house today. Its nice and clean! I have never washed a house before and I didn't even know I could. But, our house was looking kind of mangy, and I looked it up online, and it was possible. So, much better now, and it wasn't even that hard. Just a brush, water, dish soap, and a long handle, how hard could that be?

Shane Couming offered me flowers in my email this morning. I don't think anybody that reads this knows him, but that is very funny. Student last year, brilliant. His father rode his bike past our house and noticed that there weren't any flowers etc in the front of our house, he was clipping his and Shane offered me the clippings. All in all, that was pretty nice, minus the embarrassment of having a noticeably barren front-of-house. My yard is a wastebasket of second rate grass. I want to have a nice yard, I just have no money to make one. There are a lot of things like that about owning a house and having no money. Well, the plumber is coming all week to install both heating and ....um... plumbing I guess, in the upstairs so we are that much closer to have livable rooms up there.

Kind of a varied post....its been a while I guess.