Under a Blue Moon

 
Happy Monday everyone.  I hope you all had a splendid weekend.  Mine was one of those delightful ones without any plans or direction. 

I slept in like a teenager.  Made Flan (disaster).  Watched Mad Men.  Went out for dinner.  Went to a Home & Garden show. 

Pretty much nothing productive happened.  Except cleaning out the chicken palace.  Going to the Home & Garden show was fun.  We actually had an agenda.  We wanted to talk to decking people, retaining wall people and fireplace people. 

We have a beautiful fireplace in our bedroom that needs some attention.  We never use it because it smokes plus it has an unfinished look to it.  Since it is in our bedroom it is really just for ambiance.  It's a wood burning fireplace but has gas running to it to help start the fire. 

What we want is to just put a fake log in there and put on a glass door to finish it off.  Every fireplace person we talked to launches into a fireplace insert, btu's, direct vent vs. natural vent, blah blah blah.   Blah to the tune of $2,000.00 or more.

We finally found a vendor that is conveniently located to us and when we told her what we were looking for she said "Well – that's easy.  You just need a log and door."  

I'll save the decking and retaining wall discussions for another post or two. 

Oh – we watched Ondine over the weekend too.  Filmed on the South-East coast of Ireland.  You feel like you are really there.  It's hard to explain the plot except that it is part fairy-tale, part gritty, realistic view of what it's like to be an Irish fisherman.   You never quite know what is real and what is fantasy in the movie.

I am sitting in the Sutter Hospital waiting room.  Nothing alarming.  Rick is having an MRI under anesthesia and I'm hanging out in the waiting room.

Why are all waiting rooms just so dismal? 

I do thank them for the free WIFI.  So you get an up to the minute update on my life.  I know – try to contain yourself.

Rick is one of those eternally fit people.  He has been working out since he was in his early 20's.  He has had three knee surgeries, two wrist surgeries, elbow surgery and shoulder surgery.  This MRI is to check out his other shoulder.

I would say this is proof positive that working out doesn't pay off in the long run.  We might as well just sit on the coach and watch TV.

Well that's all I got.  Thanks for sitting here with me.

Update:  Diagnosis – torn rotator cuff.

Hello.  Me here. 

I have a question for you – what type of posts do you like the best?  While I'll never promise that this blog will have a clear focus (I'm a bit too scattered for that…) I would like to at least be entertaining and do posts on those topics that you find the most interesting.

Do you like the hodge-podgy aspect or would you prefer to see more craft, decorating (or scenes around my house), cooking, gardening or places of interest type posts?

Thank you for any and all input. 

(Please note how I have artfully cut off the jowly part of my face.  I may have a new category coming soon – Andrea's Adventures with Cosmetic Surgery….)