Finally.......

The end of August is almost here. Hallelujah!! Amen Brother!!

Found out yesterday that T is flying out from SC to Germany in route to Qatar today and not on the 1st. That figures...well sorta being August still and all. I'm good. Got to talk with him yesterday and all.   He is actually looking forward to it, and getting away from SC.  All I can think is dude, like it is 135 and frickin cookin in Iraq.  In more ways than one, but I will zip it.....tis his life and career and he loves it so far.  Kudos T!  Kudos!

Other than that, life has been grand *cough-cough-choke*  We had a potty (aka upstairs toilet) leak thru our kitchen ceiling.  Nice---not!  We didn't really notice it since our ugly flourescent ceiling fixture (the norm in most So Ca tract homes) sorta blocked what was going on, til the drywall got really wet, soggy and sorta moldy, yeah, nasty biz.  Anyhooo, long story short is that I tore some of the ceiling down, sanded down the areas I could reach and sprayed bleach.  After the fact, I figured.....huh, shulda been wearing a mask since there was some mold.  Like whatever.  

Our plumber came out yesterday. 

Luckily it was just the toilet ring that needed to be replaced and not some major leak in the pipe in the ceiling itself.  Get this tho, this major ass pipe was right next to the electrical in the ceiling.  Can we say....stooopid and who the fuck thought that this was a good idea while drawing up plans??? 

Now we, like my hub's and I are in the process of patching and texturing our ceiling.  At the very least I get a decent lite fixture replacement out of it and new paint to commence sometime in Sept.  Sahweeet!

Work has been somewhat slow, which isn't a real good thing at times.  I'm still waiting for flu season.  C'mon flu season!!  Bird flu, SARS, piggy...I really don't give a crap at this point as long as I can work and maybe pick up some xtra hrs here and there.

My running is going.  My knee is sore at times, but the butt :-) of it is it is musculature gone wrong that travels from my hip primarily.  Told Brian it was p'bly too much hill work on my part.   I figure I will lay off doing hill repeats for the next 2 wks.  Hopefully, I can recover.  Plus, I usually trade out my shoes, but I'm still waiting on my trail shoes to arrive from ZR.  We shall see what transpires.  That's about all I can do at this point.

K, looking waaay forward to Sept. and a new month.  Man, I am soooo looking forward to 9/1.