The crazy lady strikes again for Thursday, July 20, 2006

I used the words "time sure flies" in Organ Donor Awareness Week near one of the anniversaries of my transplant. (I had my 27th such anniversary nearly six months ago, before I came down with bacterial meningitis.) I am re-using the title, this time in reference to the anniversary of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. On this date in 1969, he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon at (I think) around 3:15 or 3:30 Central Daylight Time that day. (Aldrin later served as the... Sign in to see full entry.

Remember the post I made a day or two (maybe more) ago, entitled I'm tired too? I saw the son of the man who delivered the sermon (also entitled I'm tired, too ) recently on a Discovery Health Channel program on the topic of sex addiction. (They've done several over the years - at least two, to my knowledge.) This son cannot reveal his full last name publicly because most 12-step programs have an ironclad policy prohibiting members from revealing same. Only this man's first name was revealed.... Sign in to see full entry.

It took some doing on my husband's part, but we got our dial tone back. We had to pay something upfront, and we ended up making arrangements to pay the rest of the back balance. However, my husband mentioned that the phone company "representative" with whom he made those arrangements was very rude and demanding, wanting the entire back balance at the time he talked to my husband (which is why I put the word "representative" in quotation marks). (I won't reveal just when my husband called the... Sign in to see full entry.

Today hasn't gone as well as yesterday. At 5 AM Central Daylight Time, the power went out due to what I'd politely call bad weather - in other words, a severe line of thunderstorms crossing the Chicago area and serving as the southern border of a cool front. My suburb, and those suburbs bordering mine, were all affected by this outage, as I found out when I called ComEd (our local power company). I'd say fifteen to thirty minutes prior to this outage, I'd heard about the aforementioned line of... Sign in to see full entry.