who knows

Two weeks since my last post. Mostly I have been agonizing about the new 13abc.com which should launch this Saturday, barring a variety of things that could go wrong between now and then.

The kitchen remodel is slogging along. The cabinets are in, the painting is done, the microwave is installed over the stove, which is back in place. The guy comes tomorrow to measure for the countertop which I have no hope of getting before Christmas but c'est la vie (say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell).

Haven't had a radio show since Nov. 10 and don't have one until Dec. 8.

Mexico two weeks from today. Tanning, dries my skin out. Annie and I went to see Spamalot Tuesday at the Stranahan. It was hilarious. Great costumes, choreography. The old Monty Python jokes we love like catapulting the cow and the Black Knight ("It's only a flesh wound").

Went to see my mom Sunday. She says my sister hates Ohio blah blah. What did she think? She'd come back and suddenly the weather and scenery would be much nicer?

Had the turkey dinner at Annie's on Thanksgiving and played cards at the Butterfly Blues Ranch the next night. Next week, it's a radio meeting Monday, a haircut Tuesday, GNO and Eddie Shaw Wednesday.

I need to figure out how the shelves go into my pantry cabinet so I can put some of this stuff away that's sitting around in boxes and bags and I can clean and feel like I actually live here.

All in good time, my little pretty, all in good time. But now, I think I'll hit the sack after working a 12-hour day.

home remodeling

Today, Wayne Welling came and tore out my kitchen cabinets. Tomorrow, the new ones arrive. He still has some work to do, he says, with drywall mud etc. But I think he can start in ASAP. I need to buy a microwave. Timing will be tight to get that countertop in by Xmas.

All my kitchen stuff is stacked up in the green room with some less used items in the basement from which they may never emerge.

Kim called to say she is having cards at the Butterfly Blues Ranch or Farm on Nov. 23. Miss Jenks has invited me for turkey day or as it is at her house, capon day.

This weekend is the downtown holiday parade followed immediately by the Buckeyes game with Meeeesh-igan. Unfortunately, I signed up to answer the phones at the WBGU fund drive noon to 2. Duh. May have to skate early, although for me, it's all about the potluck, and the game, not so much.

Going to the gym religiously, Body Sculpt on Mondays, Turbo Kick on one week night and one weekend day. Starting to tone up but am still a ways from supermodel.

The web redesign launches Dec. 1 and so we're scurrying around at work, practicing with the new tools and objects. I will be SO ready for Mexico on Dec. 13 but alas no Xmas presents will have been obtained. May have to shop in Playa.

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles were really good at GFT last Friday. Bought their CD Diamonds in the Dark. Cards was a success, if smally attended and full of cheese. Went to Fred and Sherry's for the Browns game on Sunday because I had intended to do yard work but it was too damp. Now all the leaves are down (all the leaves are down, and the sky is gray) so maybe this Sunday I can finish the raking. Well, the magnolia or whatever is still leafy but I'm sure the rain between now and Sunday will finish it off.

Called my mom yesterday who sounds like she is doing OK although Karen has the usual story: she's been there more than 3 months and still no health insurance, no paid holidays, no sick time so when she called in sick 3 days last week, her pay was reduced accordingly. Whatever.

Now, besides Eddie Shaw at GFT on Dec. 5, they are having Melvin Taylor on Dec. 27.

Also, I bought Tom this slamming set of cookware for his 26th birthday. Now I just have to ship it but it was a great deal. And something he actually expressed an interest in. I could have bought it online but I wouldn't have been able to see how lovely it is. Plus I got some bonus covered pot thing that I'm keeping for myself. Because that's the kind of mom I am.

A grueling week

Monday, I did Body Sculpt at the gym and then drank a bottle of wine with Amy (Yellow Tail Shiraz-Cab) and went to the radio meeting where after the role was called, Don Smith asked if Dave Horger was not in attendance. Then he asked when we were going to see the financial benefit of Dave being on the morning show or when he was going to start mentoring students with his "years of experinence." We were told that we'd be getting a report on the financial part in January and that the working with students was not what had been expected.

Tuesday, home, high finance, Boston Legal. Wednesday, Turbo Kick at the gym before GNO at 149 North where the wine is $3 for the first glass and $1 each glass thereafter and ladies get buy one get one free appetizers. I think we may have found our new GNO location. Plus going out back to smoke is not as heinous as it is at Howard's. Although, you gotta watch that Woodbridge cab. Four glasses is about max or next day it's fog city.

On to the weekend. GFT Friday night and cards at my house on Saturday. Yard work with mild temps.

misinformation

Friday night, Amy and Connie and I went out to eat at Trotter's before we went to see Rod's Collision at Nate and Wally's but ALAS the band was not playing, upon calling Sherry we discover. We were misinformed. Gus had no further light to shine on this when I talked to him Saturday. Kim and Jim were on their way up from the hinterlands so they came on and we played 5-handed euchre at Amy's, a game I had never played and that I believe I may not play again. Too complicated, disagreement on rules, etc. Jim won and I came in second, so I don't know what I'm bitching about.

Then, I thought I had a radio show now til Christmas but ALAS, I was misinformed so I'm on next week and then not for the next 2. Although I will probably do a show on Friday of Thanksgiving weekend because the utes will be gone. I'll keep you posted.

Saturday, I took all the windows out of my living room and the green room and washed them inside out, after going to TurboKick at the gym. Man, the windows are stunning. Then I raked the front yard and cleaned my house, including bathtub tile grout and did 4 loads of laundry, which I hardly ever have that much, and had a couple whiskey drinks at Annie's on the porch where it was nice out of the little wind, and then slept like a rock in my clean flannel sheets. Mmmmmmmmmm.

Sunday, I mowed the front and put away a bunch of stuff for winter and picked up 100 lbs. of pinecones and emptied all my pots and planters and hauled all that stuff to the yard waste. Then cooking school commenced. I put a half a roast in the crockpot with carrots and onions and made chicken enchiladas and tuna salad and that pear dessert in the oven with crystallized ginger and biscuit top. Listened to the "I Love Being a Girl" show on WBGU and the world music show. Let me tell you this about cooking school: do not try to thaw a bag of frozen grated cheese by running hot water on it. It just starts to be grilled cheese in a bag.

This Friday, it's Sarah Borges at GFT. Kelly called my radio show the other day, which is good because it means he was listening when I played Terri Hendrix, to tell me the upcoming music schedule there: Dec. 5, Eddie Shaw; January something (TBD), Melvin Taylor; March, Jim Jorgensen who was Elton John's guitar player; and April, Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines.

I emailed Kelly today with info on booking the Doghouse Daddies and Twistin' Tarantulas and Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band. Just need to get him the CDs.

The cabinets are theoretically coming the Monday of Thanksgiving week so I should call Wayne and get him lined up. Those cabinets in the picture have the spice glaze which I not getting. I'm having natural which I can't find a link for. I'm excited.

road rage

Today, I get on I-475 at 25 and some guy in a Malibu is going 69 in the passing or "fast" lane in front of me. I stay behind him until it's clear he's not going to move into the slow lane so I whip into the slow lane and punch it to about 76 at which point HE punches it in the fast lane to about 83, just in time for us to come upon the statie that sits there right before the bridge over the Maumee. Not much traffic, so the statie has plenty o time to pull out and nail Mr. "I Can Go Faster Than You." I shouldn't gloat; it's bad karma. But hey, run with the big dogs, etc.

Had 98 trick or treaters. Took some pictures but didn't get them up yet although I had told two teen girls they would be on 13abc.com today in my Halloween slideshow. There were too many people pushing mere infants in strollers and then holding out the bag for treats these babies were frankly not going to be eating.