Sunday Seven

Well, why not? If you can do Thursday Thirteen, I can start Sunday Seven, can't I? LOL

1. I just watched a movie titled "The Upside of Anger", with Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Alicia Witt, Kerrie somebody and Evan Rachel Wood (who is from my city). It has a fairly interesting ending and for me, it was worth all the angst and anger in the movie. If you have HBO, and a few hours to spare, check it out.

2. Thanks to everyone who comments here, and especially for your caring and thoughtful messages to my post about the quandary. My friend said almost exactly what you guys advised; she will need me far more in a month than she will for the funeral. We have made plans to be together ASAP, and I feel good about the decision to go on spring break.

3. We are having a heat wave again. It was 88* today by the thermometer at my kitchen window. I would lots rather be hot than cold, but it is too early in the spring for all that heat, especially since we are in a drought as well. Let's all ask Mother Nature to back off for a while, okay? I know that you guys in TN and IN (and wherever else the tornadoes struck) would agree with that!

4. Mr. kenju's pipe club is having their annual pipe and cigar expo at the fairgrounds next weekend. They started the expo 5-6 years ago at a hotel, but they were sort of asked not to come back due to the complaints they got from guests about all the smoke. They went through 3-4 different hotels and finally ended up at the state fairgrounds. You can imagine how bad the smoke is if upwards of 200 men are smoking almost constantly, at any given time. I went to the first expo and had to leave after 30 minutes because the smoke was hanging in the air like a blue haze. The smog in LA is not that bad! The next morning, I could have drawn the outline of my lungs on my body with a magic marker; that's how badly they hurt. How much damage is that doing to all the people who go to the expo and stay there for hours? I don't even want to think about it.

5. My good friend here in Raleigh has been so busy for the last 2-3 months that we have hardly been able to get together. We swap books, go out to lunch, see movies our husbands would never attend and that has all been in short supply lately. I miss her, and now she is planning a trip to Italy for later in the spring. I am ecstatic for her - but sad that I will have so little time with her until the summer.

6. Do you play the lottery? NC just got the lotto at the end of March, and already I can see how people can get addicted to it. I have only bought one ticket so far, and I have set a limit of no more than 1 per week (or less). But oh, Lord, how I would have liked to be one of the 3 or 4 people who bought a $5 card, scratched it off, and discovered they had won $100K!

They were able to take home about $68K, after taxes. I could surely put that to good use.

7. Lastly, I sincerely hope that all of you have a good Easter weekend, whether you are Christian, Pagan, Muslim or Jewish (Do you say have a good Passover?), and that you get to spend it with people you care about. Take care and be good to yourselves.