MOVIE REVIEW....

As is common with my viewing habits, I came across this film entirely by accident surfing the channels.  Ah hah! Let's see what this is all about.

The above picture is from Julie & Julia.  A young woman's husband challenges herself to cook all of Julia Child's recipes over the period of one year and blogs about it.  Interspersed are peeks into both of their lives.  I thought Meryl Streep did an outstanding job of looking 6 foot tall and only a little over the top portrayal of Julie Child, not quite a over the as that of SNL.  There were two instances during the film that truly deserved two hankies; the first one came along in the early years in Paris, Julia had just received a letter from her recently married sister announcing that she was pregnant.  Julia had always wanted children and burst into tears, as her husband comforted her, she sobbed briefly into his chest, patted him dearly and assured him that she was so happy.  I wept.

The second instance was near the end of the film, the young blogger couple had gone to visit the display of Julia Child's kitchen that had been donated to the Smithsonian (I could have the wrong museum here..) and they were taking picture and oohing and ahhing.   To one site was a portrait of Julie Child and during a close up, Julie looks up at the portrait sneaks a block of butter on the niche beneath and whispers, "I love you, Julia.".  I wept.

DONATING BLOOD

Yesterday was donate blood day at the community building.  I had  a 4:45 pm appointment and I walked in, handed over my donor card and didn't have to wait very long at all.  The whole thing took about an hour.  They were very busy.  There were four donation tables.  They take your blood pressure, pulse, weight and do a finger stick to check your hemoglobin.  Then you sit in front a computer and answer 49 questions about travel, exposure to Aids, drugs, etc.  I had to have help with one question, I inadvertently answered yes to did I take aspirin so the nice man had to sign on and get that straightened out.  After giving a pint, I got to go to the "canteen" area for juice and a cookie.  They ladies at the canteen very carefully disposed of the empty juice can because not do they recycle they take off the tabs for donation to Ronald McDonald houses.

Very cool. 

Christmas Cactus

This is the Christmas Cactus I have had for several years, as soon as the days begin to shorten, the blooms start forming and this year is the most blooms I have ever had.  Husband thinks it is blooming in appreciation for actually getting watered on a semi-occasional basis.  What ever works.

I am going to think peaceful thoughts, I am not going to envision choking anyone that I work with.  Really....I am going to Pray mightily that certain people get what they need most and if they can throw in a tenor solo (ten or more miles away and so low I cannot hear them) so much the better.

WALK ABOUT TODAY

Today I went walk about as I had a 9 am appointment at the clinic just down the hill.  I left a bit early in order to take a few pictures.  This is the west side of the building lower level.

The road has undergone a bit of construction this week, there were three great huge concrete box like structures brought and placed in trenches cut across the road, for under ground utilities, we had flaggers, and traffic has been one way for a couple of days now.

This is the view from the clinic parking lot looking up hill.  The part of the building that is standing out from the surface is where radiology and lab and respiratory therapy and maybe physical therapy will be located.  Mr. Z's office is on the floor beneath that in roughly the same location.

This is the view from the north end, if you will look very carefully you may notice that they have windows installed.  Good tight windows are a very good thing when it rains sideways here.

New art work

Today the auxiliary put up new art work, all photography.
This little beauty is a photo mounted on canvas.  It is gorgeous, NOT FOR SALE and the only thing that would make it better is if the pears were actually dripping juice.  I love still life this is all dark and moody like an old master.  Yumm!  Other artists have lovely nature shots of birds, trees, but give me a bowl of fruit any time.

Now let me describe lunch today. It being Halloween, dietary really got into the spirit of things.  We had beef stew inside a hollowed pumpkin, quite delicious.  The biscuits were lovely and light. There was green salad with cockroaches made of dates stuffed with cream cheese.   There was some nice green brain cottage cheese salad. The brown and black worms were made of jello.   There was an unappetizing serving of poopy diaper dip.  And the piece de resistance was the dog logs made of crispy rice cereal, very dark brown chocolate and candy corn.  Thank god they forgot to make the kitty litter cake.  The pumpkin contest had one outstanding entry, Beth in the business office sacrificed several hundred paper clips to make a very complex paisley pattern on the pumpkin, very pretty. I should have taken a picture of that, too. 

Um happy birth little 7th billion

Today is apparently the day that the seven BILLIONTH human will be born on this planet.
Apparently 1000 years ago, there were 300 million people in the entire world.  That is roughly the population of the USA at present.  Due to inventions in medicine, better food more people survived to reproduce, and here we have the current population.

My question is this, how much does the earth weigh?  Wikipedia says 6.585 x 10 to the 21st power.  Oh and I am sure we do pick up a few tons from meteor impacts on the surface, eh? Just a thought.


Gulp, given that nothing comes from nothing uh unless you live in the Quantum universe, do 7 billion people make the planet heavier?  I think there is a law of physics something like the conservation of energy and matter that covers this.

I'm thinking we need a plague before we consume everything and the planet is reduced a pile of dust and a few surviving microbes. 

A few years ago one of my roomies had a very nice picture hanging in the living room it was a landscape of the seashore, mountains, forest etc...until you walk up to and take a closer look, everything was covered with people...EVERYTHING. 

New structure

This odd looking "patio" was just built in the last couple of days, so far it has three walls and no roof.   It will hold the back up power generator for the new hospital.  It cuts off the view out of the medical records window, this view is from my desk.  I wonder if the will put in a new generator, maybe a big old Caterpillar thingy.
Should be very noisy.  I'm thinking the bushes probably need to come out if they plan to somehow put on doors to enclose it.  We shall see.