Good Golly Miss Molly...Where did the time go?

Wow, here it is August and I realized I hadn't posted in more than a month.
To recap:
Both DH and I are doing pretty good.
He is still having bouts of unexplained nerve pain, especially on one side, so that is disconcerting. So many tests have been run, so not sure where to go from here. Fortunately it is not horrible all of the time. It is there all the time, but as he says "It is a matter of degree".  Some days bad, some days, not so much. Still...worrisome.
However he is not letting this stop him.  In fact, his keeping busy seems to make him forget the really tough times. He has been building a fence and as always, it is meticulous and precise. A thing of beauty and a joy forever, okay, we'll settle for 20 years or so.

I myself have been trying to find humor in everyday life. I do not have to look too far. I was watching a cooking show with the Barefoot Contessa at the gym. I am not listening to the sound, but glancing at the screen now and again. I look up and for some bizarre reason, someone is showing someone how to use a weird condom. I was outraged! Porn on a cooking show! Oh wait, they are making sausage. Good joke!

I have also had a real problem with patience while driving. People don't go when the light changes to green. People cut you off in traffic or they don't let you in. Aggressive drivers frankly make me nuts. But then so do slow slow slow drivers. Move it already!

I have really been working on this because I feel the problem is with ME. As they say, everyone has crap thrown at them, it's how you handle it. What to do? Well, I figured it out. So so simple!
I got books on tape! I don't care if I am stuck in traffic! More chances to hear my book! It is bizarre though, I am listening to one, reading another at the gym on my Kindle, and then a paperback at bedtime. It is hard to keep them apart.... But I digress. Truly, it has really changed my life. I am more relaxed and just happy to listen to a book. I have "read" 4 or 5 since the start of summer. I am a happy camper.

So, here's a very weird thing that happened to me last night. We had gone to an outdoor event honoring our second to the youngest granddaughter. It was in a beautiful outdoor setting. a garden with a pond, a tea house, picnic facilities. Lovely. We left after and on the way home, I looked down and saw this weird dark hair like thing on my arm. standing straight up. As I examined it closer, I see it is a caterpillar worm-like thing that probably fell from a tree. I was fascinated because it was standing straight up, not crawling...
OH MY GOODNESS, it was burrowing into my skin! I calmly stated screamed to my husband "what do I do????" It was one of those stunning surreal moments when you are kind of in denial. I mean it is boring into me head first! My husband says "Pull it out!!!!" (Duh, why didn't I think of that????)
 So I did. Then threw it out the window. I started thinking of all those third world countries where things bore into people and become a parasitic thing or causes blindness or some other horrible disease. I just never thought of something in the US doing that very thing. Alas, they are not uncommon, it is a matter of which ones in what part of the world. I think one should not think too much about it. It will make you CRAZY. Meanwhile, I called my stepdaughter and told her "Check the kids' skin and hair!!!!"  I never want to see THAT again!
Of course he tells me later that they secrete some kind of scuzzy stuff to break down tissue. Thanks. I need more to think about. It left a hole in my arm the size of a pin dot and it still is tender. But...it won't live to see another arm!
Have a great week! (and watch out for worms...)