I have so much to blog about and so little 'upright' time left this morning, so I'm going to make this article a mishmash of this and that and the other.

I got '100 people who are screwing up America' at the bookstore today, and I'm very, very excited to read it.  Mikey Moore, Al Sharpton, Dan Rather...they're all in there.  This book looks to be good stuff!

I found out today just how rude some folks are.  I don't move real fast or real easy right now, so I try to stay out of people's way when I'm in public.  In the store today three different people about knocked me down.  I'm not that hard to miss, I have a back brace, bone growth stimulator and cane, and I deliberately stay to the edge of the aisle.....but still, people who weren't paying attention to what they managed to miss me and hurtle into me.  One lady apologized for her little girl who about fell over me - I said it was ok, that I didn't mind kids not looking where they were going, it was the grown ups who did it that scared me!

My husband....has been pretty darn fantastic about some things this past week.  He's fetched things for me so I don't have to get up, he's helped me on and off the potty...and get this: he's even shaved my legs and washed my stinky feet for me in the shower (in addition to helping me in and out of the shower).  That's amazing.  He even volunteered to go and get tampons and pads for our daughter earlier this week so that I wouldn't have to leave the house.  For a guy who shudders every time the subject of puberty comes up, that's a huge deal.

Henry our daschshund has been better about going outside to pee since D got home.  He was marking the trashcan regularly and pooing in the laundry room occasionally, but that's almost stopped now.  We're his 'pack', see, and D's the alpha dog.  Henry wants to be in the alpha dog's good graces, and knows the peeing in the house won't achieve that.  He's also learned a new trick...when we say 'weee-nah!',  he howls.  D doesn't like it, but I think it's cute.

I got some really pretty yarn last week.  It's the color of autumn leaves, and I'm going to make a shawl out of it.  If it turns out ok, I'm going to make another one for someone I know.  I think she'll like it....

We've decided that having a house phone is redundant, so we're getting rid of it next month.  The only people we call on it are my folks in the UK, and we figured out that we can use pre-paid calling cards and our cell phones to do that...so the home number is going and we're just going to have cell phones.  SBC have screwed up our bill and/or service since day one, and we're tired of it.  So, we're going to go with cable internet (same price as DSL, but twice as fast) and save ourselves $40 a month.  We have free long distance on our cell phone plan, so we use those to make most of our calls as it is....it just seems silly to pay for something that we're not using.

I got me a new camera phone yesterday, and I'm really digging it....taking pictures all over the place and fooling around with ringtones and graphics and stuff.

My upright time is over, JU.  I'm going to go park my ass on the couch, start knitting that shawl and watch 'The Jacket'.  When that's over, I'm going to get stuck into my new book....