Hm, had a tough time getting this screen to appear. Took its sweet time coming up. I wonder why? I just had to close down everything else in order to continue. Damn computer! Sometimes I just wish we didn’t depend on them the way we do!

I’m taking tomorrow off, mostly because I scheduled myself for a facial, manicure and pedicure at a place in Levittown (I have coupons only good on weekdays). I have to go get an EKG, which I should have done a few weeks ago, so I’m using sick leave, bad girl that I am. I’m sure it will be fine. All my blood work came back with good results; my A1C was 6.3, better than Dan’s 6.5. His individual numbers are still bad much of the time, though. I keep telling him he just EATS far too much, but he never changes his habits. The fact that we eat at buffets all the time doesn’t help matters, either. My plan/hope to lose weight before Eyecon isn’t going well. I’m still a hippo, and don’t seem to have the willpower to change that. I haven’t increased my visits to the gym and while I make an effort to eat better and less, I still often take the lazy way out instead, which isn’t the healthiest or best for me.

Last night, Dan, Brad and I went out to Giovanni’s for dinner. Brad drove me from home and Dan met us there from work. It was really nice, the three of us eating together, and I had a chance to ask Brad a little more about Melissa, the new gal he’s dating. She’s a five foot tall Italian gal; they went out Saturday night and Brad didn’t get home until 2:30 AM. She loves dogs but her parents own parakeets at the present time, and one of them sat on Brad’s shoulder and finger and took a shine to him. She drives a Hyundai and is an elementary school teacher in Queens. (They went to Adelphi together and reconnected through FaceBook on the net.)

Brad wants to invite Melissa to our home, but not in its tornado-like state, so over the weekend, we began a massive clean-up of the living room and record room. The living room looks pretty good now, the record room still has a ways to go. The kitchen definitely needs a similar cleanup, but my problem is, as it has always been, I just don’t have enough room to PUT anything! The storage space in my house is dreadful, and even though I’ve tried to add some over the years, it still seems as though we have more THINGS than places to put them. We were pretty brutal during the cleaning process, throwing out anything we hadn’t had use for since we tossed it into a bin or box. I would LOVE to have the kitchen looking as neat and clutter-free as our living room currently does, but have no idea where to start to making it look that way!

Anyway, Brad seems pretty pleased with Melissa so far. I wonder how Ali is doing since the breakup, but I don’t want to broach the subject with my son.

Someone posted on one of my SUPERNATURAL lists today that the San Diego affiliate has chosen to drop the CW. I wonder if that’s the beginning of the end of the entire network? If so, it really doesn’t matter if they have renewed our show for a fourth season or not; if the network folds, the show goes off the air regardless, unless another network picks it up!

Everything is heating up for the final 10 of AMERICAN IDOL. Frankly, I don’t see what the big deal is anymore. Dan is so enamored of that show, and of Paula Abdul, the slut judge, but her appeal just goes over my head. Maybe I’m a teeny bit jealous, but I do slobber over Jensen and Jared! Oh, and speaking of which, Brad took this past week of vacation to watch the first two eps of SUPERNATURAL. He likes it! He thinks it’s a great show, but not as good as, say, DEXTER, and I have a feeling he doesn’t want to catch up on all the eps he’s missed. He still seems to think my main reason for watching is the fabulous-looking actors, but they’re only part of my attraction, really. I happen to think it’s a quality show—writing, directing, acting, music, photography, etc.! It bothers me that my son thinks I’m that shallow.

Not much to report from my session with Tracey Tuesday. I told her about my trials and tribs with babysitters for Brad, and how I feared Rita may have abused him in some ways when she was watching him, that she revealed cruel character traits to me on a couple of occasions that disturbed me. I talked about Jeanne and how much I liked her, Saint Boniface, that awful school that got into trouble because it wasn’t licensed, blah blah blah. How you have to accept changes, even abrupt and unexpected ones, and find someone else to watch the most precious human being in the world—your child! How fucking difficult that is, how heart-wrenching, how much you hate your husband, for just a few moments, because he makes such a shitty salary and you can’t stay home and raise you son yourself.

(Except you know you would go crazy doing that, because while you love being Mommy, you also love being out in the business world, making money yourself. Be that honest with yourself, Robin!)

A week and a half to go and I head off to Florida and Eyecon! I can hardly believe it! I still expect to find out Jared isn’t coming due to filming constraints. It would kill the entire experience for me, but I would go anyway, of course. There’s still new friends to meet, and the rest of the actors who have been on the show as well. I’m really excited, but it’s tempered with knowledge; I went to more than one DARK SHADOWS con, and the only one I really enjoyed was my first. The rest were all downhill from there, sorry to say.

Yesterday we had a chance to enjoy some free food on the PO. They brought in breakfast, so after the supervisors got theirs, I had eggs, bacon, a bagel, juice--and some delicious fresh fruit later in the afternoon. Yummers!

Not much else to relate right now. It's warming up but due to rain quite a lot in the next few days. Blah!

Love, Robin