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[tenaya]

It rained last week and that was wonderful. Out here in Southern California, the winter (if we're lucky) means rain and the rain causes everything to turn green and the native type plants flower. It's rejuvenation, rebirth and so, so refreshing!

Work was eh.

In culling stories to read from my flist, I saw a rec for Scarification by
green_grrl and that is such a fantastic story. Well worth a reread:
http://green-grrl.livejournal.com/68962.html

The economy is still in a death spiral. I *think* the hospital is okay, but the ratio of patients has definitely changed. Gone are a lot of the elective surgeries and up are admissions of people without health insurance. What exactly will happen when all the hospitals fold? Oh, who cares? They're all evil money grubbers, right?

Anyway, I had been neglectful of my own health care for the past 4 years so I thought I'd get everything checked while I'm still employed with health care. So, yesterday was the mammogram. The hospital has a new Woman's Center where they do those now. It's in an adjacent building that has gone through many uses. The Woman's Center is up on the third floor from with fantastic views of the mountains (which are all snow covered right now.) The waiting room was very classy with black lacquer furniture, grey upholstery and blood red highlights. In the back room where you change, there was a big walnut cupboard to store the gowns and the room is what I called, bordello chic. The beige wallpaper was designed to look like thick cloth that had been quilted with large buttons. More black lacquer, black checked curtains with big tassels, more blood red accents. Very sumptuous. I'm just glad the interior designer decided against pastels, bows and hearts. Definitely not girly, and a lot of fun.

Then we went out to dinner at a popular Chinese buffet. We were there at 6pm and there was only two other parties there. Very scary. Three other pairs of people had come by before we left but still!

TV....
For NCIS, I know the folks that like Tony will be happy but I thought it a strange ep. Okay for a change but please don't make a habit of it. Afterwards, Mom and I tried without much success to figure out who did what and finally gave up. And what's with that scene with Palmer? Tony doesn't like geeks. It works okay as a strange dream ep but not really as a regular ep. Imho, of course. *g*

Criminal Minds. Rossi's arrogance comes back to smack him in the ass, eh? I do admit that I now like Rossi where I didn't for most of last season. The main thing is that the actor isn't trying to take over the show like LaPaglia did with Without a Trace. Rossi has made specific connections with the rest of the cast and his character has made a space for himself within the balance of the team. And the episode was really good, as always. That moment when they go to tell Zoey's mom the bad news was so real, I had tears. That cry of devastating loss was so real.

I'm still catching up but the tv watching has been impaired by me needing to finish Sovereign by CJ Sansom. A mystery that takes place in 1541 (?) when Henry VIII goes to York. I love how rich the details are. And I'm quite familiar with York so I can easily see the settings.

So much to do, so little time.

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[deej1957.livejournal.com]

rain rain rain, isn't it lovely? And I think we're supposed to get more this weekend!

Mom and I have seen the first four eps of CI. The next four should arrive in the mail tomorow. Or it may be the next four eps of Bones, I forget. We're liking both-- not loving them, but we like them enough so far to keep ordering them.

I watched NCIS for the first time in a long time the other night-- when did Tony get so chunky? I kept sniping "dude, unbutton the suit jacket!!!"

Good that you're getting all your health stuff done. I did that in january and got a clean bill around. The mamogram was a hoot, though. When I stuff all the skin into my bra, I look a lot smaller than I am. The poor girl set me up on the machine and began to straighten me out and I just sort of kept going.... she finally said "I think we need the bigger trays (or whatever they are)" She was beet read and I was laughing.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

It took me a half a season to really take a shine to both Bones and Criminal Minds. In fact, both get better in later seasons. I think it's because the viewer gets more interested in the continuing characters and since they are police procedural shows, the characters only get a little time per episode and it takes a while to get to know them better. And both have their gruesome sides, which doesn't help.

Yes, I can imagine the issues with all that excess skin! She kinda had to do mine in two goes to get the bottom area. All that skin would mean even more flattening. Too bad she didn't think quicker and start to compliment you on the obvious weight loss, but at least you found it humorous. *g* And congrats on the clean bill of health!

I'm gonna burn the SPN eps later tonight after Mom hits the hay. Sorry it's taking so long. She stays up later and I feel like going to bed earlier and all my private time disappears.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

♥ Thank you!

The interior design in the Women's Center sounds awesome! I wish more institutional settings would have fun like that.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I just love how you wrote both Jack and Daniel, and how they dealt with the whole situation, and that you gave them some peace and happiness at the end. I was even more impressed with the story on rereading. It was an excellent story. :)

The Woman's Center. Not girly, but womanly with a capital W. *g*