Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
health & wellness

bird flu

It’s that time of the year again. I scanned through a really interesting online book about the bird flu the other day. It’s mostly a discussion of past pandemics and how the current bird flu is brewing.

And, I stumbled upon this great preparedness guide today. The password is ‘fluwikie‘. Get it while it’s hot.

And while we’re on the subject of the flu, why is it that I can’t seem to find a flu shot anywhere? Well, ok, there are some flu clinics going on at various drugstores and grocery stores, but who wants to wait in line for an hour for that? Supposedly, there were more flu shots available this year than people who would want to get them. But, I read something about a distribution problem and that certainly seems to be the case. Um, how about if someone gets in a truck and delivers this stuff? If I get the flu this year because I missed my shot, I’m going to be really pissed.

movies

an american haunting

This was a movie about a witch– The Bell Witch. By all accounts, I think John Bell may have died of bordedom. What an awful movie. And, it wasn’t awful in a good way that you could laugh at, it was just terribly not interesting.

Two thumbs down.

work

it’s alive!

OK, it’s just live, but alive sounded better on this All Hallow’s Eve.

Brian’s design site went live tonight. Can you think of a better day?

Check it out at primedesignsolutions.com.

holidays

trick or treat

I thought it was going to be the perfect evening for trick or treating. The weather was beautiful today–it was 60 degrees out at the start of trick or treat night. But, then the rain came. I think that might have put a damper on things. Turnout wasn’t bad, but it was definitely less than we normally get. Jake had a pretty good time because he went with the neighbor kids who moved into the house behind ours this past summer. Jake went as some sort of weird ninja this year. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture to share.

Note to self: make up less bags of candy next year and buy some bags of chips or pretzels to hand out for the second half of the evening. At least if we’re stuck with a bunch of stuff, it won’t be candy.

miscellany

sleep

I think this is my favorite weekend of the year. When else do you get an extra hour of sleep for free? My only concern is that I got extra sleep Friday night, and then extra sleep last night, and then, just for the hell of it, I took a catnap this afternoon. I may be up all night tonight, but at least I haven’t been tired all weekend.

It was a good weekend, too. We didn’t go anywhere or do anything, so I had plenty of time to do whatever I wanted to do around the house. I guess that’s not uncommon for us at this time of the year, but I still have the busy summer weekends on my mind, so I’m still enjoying our new winter lifestyle (if not the weather).