Ok I’m back

Dinner was good. I had Hamburger Helper, but I had to have the cheeseburger macaroni instead of the beef fried rice I was so eager to try. The fried rice one requires eggs, and I don’t have any. Ooops.

Saw the Discovery Channel special on the earthquake in Haiti, "Haiti’s Earthquake: Why It Happened." It was pretty good, and pretty well summed up everything I suspected, although I did half expect the republicans to get blamed at some point… What was a little disturbing though was that this has happened before, and it started a whole string of quakes along that fault. After the last big one near Port-au-Prince, there was another one eighteen or so years later, and then they started moving west along the fault, finally ending with the devastating quake in Kingston, Jamaica in 1907. Great. They also pointed out that most of the buildings were not at all earthquake resistant. I certainly hope that when Haiti is rebuilt more stringent building codes are enforced. At least at the Presidential Palace for crying out loud. Think how demoralizing it would be for us if there was a major disaster and CNN and FOX kept parading pictures of the White House collapsed in a pile of rubble.

I’m just waiting for CSI to come on right now. House is playing in the background for noise, but that’s about it.

The phone battery is up to 88% capacity now. Yeah, that’s the high point of my evening.

I’ve still got half a pan of Hamburger Helper on the stove. I’m not hungry, but I’m pretty sure if I don’t do something with it I’ll have it eaten before I go to bed. Yuck.

My blood pressure has been kinda high lately. I have got to start walking again. It’s the only thing I can do to get the weight under control, and by extension the blood pressure. And hopefully other things as well. It’s just as well I canceled my doctor’s appointment for yesterday, she’d have had a fit and I’m not really in the mood. Just the ARC volunteer deciding (for the first time in three years) to write my BP down on the back of my card in the space provided was enough to motivate me. I don’t know why, Dr. K and her nurse are both smokin’ hot, and you’d think I’d want to lose as much weight as possible before she realizes it’s been fifteen years since the last time I had even a cursory physical and wants to start poking and prodding. And no, I have no delusions of a doctor/patient/nurse porno scene happening to me, I just want to look good again.

Oh! CSI is on! Bye!