currents to celebrate a shockingly quiet day in shiny things

Current location My office. It is quiet. It is peaceful. It is weird. The phone is not ringing. I am not getting any emails. Did some catastrophic event occur, wiping out mankind, and nobody told me? Good!!!

This is a happy change from all my other recent days. This whole week has been a madhouse, what with Mr. Organized on jury duty all week and Aggravation Receptionist experiencing the usual DramaFest that resulted in her either not being here at all, or being here in a weepy state that required her to go from office to office tearily telling each of us in great detail about her drama. And actually the drama is sad and I'm sorry for her -- she has a very sick elderly dog, and yesterday couldn't get the dog to get up and couldn't get her to the car to take her to the vet (the dog is a large pit bull and she has about fifty steps down the deck to get from her house to her car and AR is a spindly weak little thing) and her husband was out of town (she'd asked him to please not go and leave her with the sick dog and he went anyhow).

She apparently has no friends despite living here 30+ years, and having a sister nearby that you'd think could help her. She finally got in touch with a neighbor and got the dog to the vet, (thank god, I was feeling terrible for not offering to help her but she lives a good half hour from here and I didn't want to have my arm ripped off by an angry, upset pit bull who is in pain and doesn't know me and isn't very friendly to most of the people she does know apparently) and they think she has a tumor but can't tell if it's cancerous without taking her to another town far from here for bone tests.

SO I do feel bad for her and at least this isn't as idiotic as most of her drama... but we've had SO MUCH TO DO and it's been really difficult with her either gone or here weeping and talking about it. And now the dog does at least have the proper medication and isn't in pain. The poor dog is quite old and has been in poor health for quite some time.

ANYHOW, my point is really that after a grueling week, it's bizarrely quiet and peaceful today. And it's Friday!!

current weather Because that's always the Number One Topic here. Right now it is 59 degrees!!! And sunny!!!! Naturally this is not going to last. Sunday the low is back down to below freezing. Tuesday the high is 35 and the low is 18 and we're due snow. I am SO READY TO MOVE. And it's much worse in the Icy North, I know. I want to see flowers. I want to see warm weather that's here for good. I want summer, dammit.

current television obsession I think I mentioned this in my last entry -- we are finally watching Breaking Bad. And by "watching" I mean devouring, as it's been a rare night when we didn't watch two episodes and have to force ourselves to stop there. I was a little leery of a show about making meth where the meth makers are the good guys (meth is a serious problem around here. Serious and scary) but .... I don't approve of serial killers either and Dexter is one of my favorite shows in all of ever. So we gave it a shot and OMG it's fantastic.

I also FINALLY got to watch Season 3 of my beloved Vera recently --- it aired ages ago in the UK but NOBODY has had it here- not Amazon, where I watched the first two seasons, not Hulu, not Netflix, not iTunes even. I was ready to PAY if I had to, but I couldn't even pay to stream it. Then, all of a sudden, (in usual Netflix fashion, actually), it magically appeared on Netflix DVD (after not even being a "save" option) and was available and I snatched it up. I loved it-- and want to watch them again but I'm thinking surely Amazon or Hulu will get it soon now it's out on DVD and I can re-watch at my leisure. Vera always bears multiple viewings and every episode is like a movie - an hour and a half long.

In a similar fashion, we FINALLY got to see the last half of the most recent Doctor Who- season "7.5" - and that showed up on Hulu out of the clear blue sky. I don't think it's available yet on Netflix DVD. So we've been kind of hitting everything at weird unexpected times.

WELL, these aren't much in the way of currents - and now it's time to go, yippie!!!

I'll leave with a few pictures of Real Live Spring from my MIL's house last weekend. She lives an hour south of us in the foothills where spring arrives like a normal season and doesn't wait till MAY.

I was surprised at how well these came out- I was using my phone and it was nearly dark:

I'm not sure why they have this in their back yard- you see these in Charleston, leftovers from when people needed something to tie their horses onto, but I do like it:

The MIL has cool bottles in her windows.