Wow, another entry

This may be due to the fact that I’ve been enjoying some nice Italian wine and have a pleasant buzz going on right now. *smile*

I’ve been enjoying my days off and have been doing nothing. I should go to the hospital to see that grandbaby, but my daughter has my car, and I think she’s had enough driving around and back and forth to their home, which is a four to five hour round trip if one doesn’t do anything there, just turns around and comes back. Ryker has gained a couple of pounds and seems to be stuck at the moment. I still wish he’d be sent on to the city to the children’s hospital, but I’m sure my daughter and her family just want to go home at this point and hope for the best. I don’t know what to think–a root cause for his difficulty in gaining weight would be good. 

My sister who had the mastectomy in November had some issues with the incision and infection, but is doing reasonably well on antibiotics and such. There has been no cancer in the lymph nodes or peripheral tissues, so we’re all quite hopeful for her. I should give her a call.

I’ve been lightly mulling over my own goals for the coming year and thinking it might be nice to get back in the swing of writing. It’s something I enjoy, and although I read like a maniac (current books are the ones by Stieg Larsson–I read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" the last couple of days and started the second book this morning), sometimes I do like to write stories I would like to read. I’ve just not been inspired for the longest time, though. Don’t know why–just is. I do tend to take life and inspiration as it comes, rather than sitting myself down and writing for an hour every day. Self-discipline when I’m at home has never been my strong suit. Mind you, now that I’m alone, I do keep a tidier house than I did when the kids were smaller and at home, but I am very much NOT an "A type" personality. Nope. Not at all.

I’m somewhat distressed that my silver box chain necklace that I have worn for 30 years has disappeared on me. The catch tends to break or let go from time to time, but usually when I’m getting undressed. I realized the other day that my chain was not on my neck and I don’t know if it fell off at work or at home.  I haven’t found it at home yet, and I am hopeful that it will turn up at work, or maybe in the car; not that I got undressed in either of those locations, but it does sometimes launch itself without warning. I like that chain. I hope it comes home.

Still missing the TV remote from when Reese was here. I’m guessing it’s vanished into some trans-dimensional void similar to the one his Auntie B has been able to manifest from the time she was very young. We refer to hers as "The Bailey Void" because often all she has to do is to touch a thing for it to vanish from human ken for some time. No one knows why. But whenever anything goes missing in my home, the first question is, "Did Bailey touch it?" She doesn’t even have to use it. So it goes.

Perhaps I’ll update my diary here more often. I’m online every damn day, pretty much, unless I’m away from home and that hardly ever happens. So, we’ll see.

I’m off for now. I have a bottle of wine to finish off and a good book to read.