1.  Gee whiz, it's great to have incredible friends in my life; I am truly blessed.  I want to thank everyone again for all your thoughts for me this past weekend.  One such incredible friend, Vickie, can always make me laugh.  She called me Saturday to see how I was doing.  I responded, "I'm hot and sweaty."  She asked, "Well, are you satisfied?"  Gee whiz, how do I respond to that?!  ;-)  I had just finished planting the rose bushes and was moving a chest of drawers into my basement and so I truly was, hot and sweaty... not from anything "satisfying."  Wait, I take that back, doing what I did was satisfying just not the gee whiz type of satisfying.  *snortle*

2.  This week in my Study of Family class, we watched The Squid and the Whale, which is an absolute stinker of a movie.  It's about a family of four (two parents, two sons) and how they all deal with a difficult divorce.  It is a movie that I saw in my Film & Literature class (same teacher as family class) and I swore I'd never see again.  Besides the horrible language and idiotic tantrums, there's scenes of a 13-year-old who has major hormone issues and does things that even grossed out the men in my class.  There were two in the class besides myself that were in the Film & Lit class together and we knew it was coming (literally) and warned those around us that they may not want to see.  The point in watching it?  To show how divorce can be a very bad thing for the kids.  Gee whiz, do yourself a favor, don't ever watch this movie.

3.  I had my Remicade treatment this week and my doc got on my case about getting my hips x-rayed... gee whiz, yadda, yadda, yadda.  I told him if the idiotic hospital radiation dept would schedule appointments, then I would have been in a while ago.  Now it's first come, first serve, unless it's an emergency then they get to be seen before all those who have waited hours to be seen.  As if I have the time to sit and wait for hours AND feel up to having the x-ray; sometimes the pain rules me.  The physical therapy is helping SO much that my hips don't hurt much any more.  YAY!  I'm still going 2/week and on Fridays, I stay an hour in the pool and exercise versus the half hour on a regular appointment.  I had a re-eval yesterday and the range of motion and strength are improving in my hips.  Tomorrow, my PT wants to add two exercises on machines.

4.   There are some really nice ladies in the pool at physical therapy.  They're not patients (most of them), they go in to exercise.  I met a lady that is also a photographer and she invited me to be part of a photo group in Salt Lake.  It sounds like so much fun and would be good to learn with them.  I told her I need to get school over with then I'm there.  Then she added, "Don't bother with the groups in Ogden, the average age is 85 and they hate digital."  I look forward to talking to her more because she's a kick and so is her mother.  Gee whiz, fun at physical therapy... who knew?

5.  There are three birthdays today: The Lovely D (Colin's wife), the Loverly Princess Roo, and Monica's son, Joshua.  Happy birthday to you all - and gee whiz, go out and have a great time.

6.  I'm happy it's Thursday - almost my weekend!  Actually, I am not sure why I'm excited for the weekend because I have to take a mid-term for Geology, work on my Family term paper, write another paper about that awful movie (see #2), and do my weekly reading.  Ohhh gee whiz... maybe I'll have a complete ME day on Sunday.  Gee whiz... what shall I do?!

UPDATE:  I could not resist editing this post when I read over at Raggedy's  place that she does not have MS or a brain tumor!!  Gee whiz, this is the best news I've heard in a long time.  I'm so happy for you, Raggedy!!!! 

Have a wonderful weekend!!