Weekend Update!

YaY!!! *laughs* Or something.

So Friday- after work I went to get my blood drawn and it went only kinda okay. The person had a little trouble- again, getting the vein. I still have a bruise to show for it. Got home grumpy, got grumpy with the hubby, took a nap and felt better. *laughs* Talked to my sis-in-law M, and my mom, before getting gussied up and going out to dinner with hubby. So most of the day was crap- but it ended well!

Saturday started early. But hubby had to be off to join my brothers in attending a pro-soccer game in Chicago (Chicago Fire - great name- vs. DC United. I hear the score was 1-0 DC United). I was off to see my SIL up in Bay City (since the boys were off having fun). We gabbed for awhile, and she showed me around their house (I had never been there). I got to pet her dog Sophie- a very, VERY sweet 5 year old springer spaniel (mix, purebred? minus the docked tail). Sophie was adopted a few months ago by them- she had been very neglected by some very bad people. Who are now in jail (for what they did to Sophie and some other things- drugs, etc). My SIL works for the DAs office and actually had the woman's file cross her desk a few days after she and my brother adopted Sophie. The info made her very angry, but also very glad that Sophie was with them. Like I wrote, she's a very sweet dog, who is very happy to just sit quietly next to you and let you pet her for hours. When I first got there she barked at me a little, but being a wise-Anne, I just stood still and let her sniff me, and didn't try to make any moves towards her. She approved quickly, and five minutes later was half in my lap asking me to pet her tummy... *laughs*

Then it was lunch and a bit of a walk on the water front. Bay City has done a lot to improve the area by the water- and it looks great. Then- it was off to the Stitching Well for cross stitch stuff. This store is amazing. The selection of cross stitch patterns is a bit smaller than say Rocking Horse- BUT the floss/fiber selection? Blows RH away! Wow. In addition to DMC they had the full Anchor line, several different over-dyed thread companies, as well as different silks and ribbons. It was so cool! In the end I did find a few things I wanted, and my SIL got so into it that she bought a small Lizzy Kate pattern (and everything needed to make it). It was funny- at one point the owner called out- asking if we needed any help, and SIL replied that we were looking for a beginner's pattern for her. The woman suggested we look at the Lizzy Kates, that we were standing right in front of and I was in the process of handing one to SIL... The owner and I were also in agreement as to what fabric she should get, needle size (though we each prefer the petite 28s). I was highly amused.

Hubby did not get back from the match until 5 am... I was trying to wait up for him, but ended up snoozing on the couch- which was a good thing. This meant that Sunday got off to a very late start, but as we had no plans other than to spend time together- that was just fine. We had a very lovely day doing a whole lot of not much. :) Went to bed too late, of course, to be expected after sleeping in. Ah well. I'll live. ;)

Okay, I'm annoyed...

I just called the pharmacy to have my migraine med filled (I had dropped off a scrip to be put on file). According to their computer check with my insurance- I can't get anymore Zomig until September 3rd!! WTF? The last time I got a prescription filled I got 6 pills, which according to doctor dosing is like 9 days, according to my insurance it's 14+ days...

I did get a letter from them a few weeks ago saying that they would allow 8 pills to be distributed at a time, but I didn't see that amount as the monthly amount- and that doesn't even correspond to dosing schedules! So the one medication that really works for me - I won't be able to get for two weeks? And even then it'll be EIGHT pills for the whole month?! No no no no... this will not work. Sure... they'll give me 30 darvocet, no problem- but zomig? Oooh no...

The only plus I can see at this moment- I have an appointment with my neurologist's office tonight.

Book Meme!

Stolen from devoosha because like she said- I can't resist a book meme!

1.) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you own.
3) Underline the books you HAVE SEEN A MOVIE OR TV PRODUCTION OF.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (only some)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (stage production/cartoon)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Haven’t been able to finish it…
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Though why do they list the Chronicles of Narnia and then Lion Witch and the Wardrobe separately? Same question for 'Works of Shakespeare' and Hamlet...