Saw the movie "A Prairie Home Companion" on Saturday. It was alright, it was the first movie I've since February because what's come out so far this year has been nothing short of trash. There are a couple more movies I would like to see and I think that will be for movies this year.

We got a little rain both Saturday and Sunday early in the morning. The weather was nice during the weekend for a change, sure it was warm but it didn't feel too bad. The heat returns for the week, the chance of rain is slim. This is turning into a bit of a dry year, although some parts of the country have it worse so I cant complain too much.

Cant seem to get myself motivated to do the things I know I need to do. Although I can try my best and blame the heat, that's only one part of it.

The previous two days were cool and nice, but we are now going back on to the Mother Nature roller coaster ride. The temperatures are going to be all over the map for the rest of the week apparently. I don't know if I put much stock into it though.

Today the movie "The Quiet Earth" is going to be released on DVD and I am very happy. Before long the copy I pre-ordered will arrive. I have been waiting for some years to get my hands on a copy of this movie, so when I found out it was being released on DVD I was overjoyed. The movie is fairly interesting, will watch and see if it holds up to how I remember it. One thing is for certain though, even if I don't like, there is not a chance in Hades that I will EVER sell it. No matter what, that will never happen.

Woke up with a headache and my allergies bothering me. Hopefully some aspirin and a allergy pill will make me feel a tad better, if not I'll just lay on the floor and moan like a three year old.

Yesterday and today have been warmer then normal. The heat is to extend into the weekend. What would be nice is a cool stretch of weather with a bit of rain. But I think this is going to be a warmer then normal summer, somewhat like what last year was like. So I will just have to plan accordingly and be happy when we get cool weather. Good thing is that it cools off a bit at night and the house isn't to bad. You do notice it being warmer when you're a bit sluggish and sweating.

Have not slept well the past couple nights and its not because of the heat, it does cool off a bit at night which helps a lot. Not really sure why I am having troubles sleeping. I am not having nightmares or anything. It could be just one of those normal things.

Have a couple errands to take care of in the morning. Need to go to the bank and the laundromat. Will let Mom catch up on her mail, sleep and a few chores. Next weekend we will go see a movie. The four day July fourth weekend, we plan on seeing a couple more movies and do some shopping.

It never rained here yesterday like had been forecast, though east of here there were thunderstorm warnings. So the total for Monday and the previous rain was three quarters of an inch. Much of that rain came in Monday's thunderstorm.

I don't know why, but I am a bit uneasy today. Could have something to so with it being 06-06-06, but I could be wrong.

Had a severe thunderstorm system roar through the area last night. The power went out for about thirty seconds, thought it would be out for awhile but I was wrong. The power never went out again during the storm. Since it looks like we might get some rain today, I will hold off with the rain tally.

Finished one of the afghans I had put off for months. It was just cool enough yesterday for me to finish it while I watched TV. The other one will wait until fall. Have decided to start another afghan and work on it when I can. Will be using some scrape yarn to create this one. Although I have a large quantity of yarn at my disposal, I want to use up some of this leftover yarn rather then store it.

We got some rain this morning, don't think it was forecast. The day turned out to be cooler then had been forecasted. This week it is supposed to be in the mid to upper eighties, but it cools off at night so it should be fairly nice in the house.

Finally getting around to finishing an afghan I started some months ago. I am very close to the end on it and will push to get it done so that we can wash it the next trip to the laundromat. I have another afghan, this one for a bed, that I need to finish but the thing would have to be covering my legs in order for me to finish it and it's a little warm for that. The thing can wait until fall, or a cool spell this summer. I might end up crocheting a couple small afghans this summer just to keep myself busy. Might even try knitting a scarf, a project I have been putting off. While I may not be very good at crocheting or knitting, my Mom doesn't care and she likes the things I make for her.

I got the MST3K DVD set last week and watched the movies. Loved "Wild Rebels" and "The Sinister Urge", but the "Women on the prehistoric planet" was bad and although I had seen the "Mixed-up Zombie" movie before it was as bad as I remembered. I can never remember the full title so I always call it the "Mixed-up Zombie" flick. I wonder what Rhino will put out for volume 10. Three films I would like are "The Mole People", "Revenge Of The Creature" and "Riding With Death". It wouldn't matter what the fourth film was, so long as I had those three.

We got a little rain on Monday, got a little more rain on Tuesday, got two inches of rain yesterday. It rained hard for about twenty minutes and then slowed done a little. The end result is as I said, two inches of rain. The air smelled great after it rained. I was a little afraid to go downstairs to open the garage door, because I was sure we had a bunch of water in the basement. But alas, the basement was pretty dry. There was a little around one pipe in the basement and a little water around the outtake pipe in the laundry room and that was it. This was despite the fact that we had a flash flood due to so much water in such a short time.

What standing water there had been right after the rain was gone within a couple hours. The fact we haven't had much rain lately was a good thing, the ground just drank the water up because we were a bit dry.

There was a bit of fog this morning, it left once the sun started to rise. I love fog, so I wish it had been thicker and had stayed around awhile longer.

Yesterday was supposed to get into the nineties like it done the previous few days, but we got a reprieve from the heat and got some much needed rain. Although it didn't rain a lot, it at least cooled things off.

Spent much the day watching 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery channel. Great program I have seen before, but got caught up with the show during the marathon.

It has been warmer then normal for the past few days. Yesterday you could really feel it, Friday it didn't seem so bad because of some cloud cover. Summer came early and has announced she will be nasty this year. Am hoping we get some much needed rain soon. I know it will raise the humidity, but we do need the rain.

My plans for the rest of the day are to get out and mow, then take a shower and relax. Have already done a couple chores. I'm waiting for Mom to finish her stuff so we can go take care of a couple errands. I am a bit irked at her because I got my chores done earlier thinking we would get the errands done so that I could mow. But she likes to be slow about things some times.

Even though I said I was going to give Resident Evil a rest, I played it again and finished it in a little over nine hours. I will now give it a rest because I would like to give my other games a chance.

Went out an bought an ice cream maker last night. Will probably make ice cream at least once a week.

Got some much needed rain early this morning. I don't know how much yet, but I would guess around half an inch. We could use a little more rain.

It is going to be fairly warm, borderline hot, the next few days. So we really never had a normal spring, at least not so far. But we could get a cooling trend at some point, which would make everyone happy. Of course, a cool wet summer is not a bad thing.

I got my three disaster movies this past week, forgot to mention it in an earlier post. Had to watch Earthquake first because I have waited years to get it on DVD. It was great, the picture was clear and it was fun being able to skip ahead or rewatch something easily in a way you cant do with video. Did watch Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure, but didn't give them my full attention. Both those movies and their extras look great.

Have a headache today. It has been strange lately, I have had mild headaches almost every day for about a week and a half. Generally they have left on their own, but I have a couple that stayed around and were just bad enough for me to need a couple advil and a nap. I just hope this isn't a sign of something much worse. Figure the roller coaster weather we have had lately is the villain in all this.

It was ten+ degrees cooler today then it was yesterday. The forecast for the coming week it supposed to be highs in the eighties. Mom wanted it to be a little warmer, well she got it and then some. I thought the cooler temps were delightful.

Did laundry, bought a quilt and laundry baskets for Mom, washed the car, gassed the car up and rented a couple videos for Mom to watch this morning. I was a bit tired from that, the fits of insomnia I've been having lately and not enough coffee before we left.

Will do some cleaning tomorrow and at least a couple errands. Because Mom will have this coming Friday off, I will need to do a little more around the house this coming week.

Finished the book "All The President's Men" this week. I started the book "The Da Vinci Code" Thursday. So far it is an interesting read.

Finished Resident Evil 4 for the third time and will be giving it a rest, a much deserved rest, for awhile. I would never have guessed that I would love the game so much that I would want to play it that much. So far I have logged in over forty hours on the game, that doesn't include the amount of time I have played the side games. At any rate it will get a vacation.

Earlier in the week there was a woodchuck in the neighbors yard. Have never seen one in the neighborhood before. I have seen them a few times along the roadside as we were traveling, on the way to do some shopping or whatever. But I had never had the chance to get a really good look at one. The poor thing was a bit terrified of the Huskies, even though it wasn't in danger as it was in our neighbors yard. I contemplated calling animal control, but didn't have to. It climbed over the fenced and got into a tree when I went inside to answer the phone. Sometime later I managed to get it to get it out of the tree and realize it wasn't in harms way. It ran like hell once it was out of the tree. Haven't seen it since and probably never will.

Will be ordering the MST3K set sometime next week, will be ordering a book on North American Wildlife with it.

Recently I had pre-ordered both Earthquake and MST3k set 9 DVD's. Last week I found out that there were special editions of The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure coming out. So I cancelled the MST3K set ( I will get it soon) and changed my order to get the other two disaster films. Now I am just waiting for the movies to be delivered.

Have started playing Resident Evil 4 again. I don't know what it is about that game, but I love it. Will get around to playing Eternal Darkness sometime, have had it awhile and haven't done much with it, I need to either play it or sell it.

Had a headache this morning, but managed to kill it. The one I had Saturday just wouldn't let go, it finally left late afternoon. So I didn't get much Saturday as I would have liked.

Beat Resident Evil 4 for the second time. The first time it took me 22 hours 22 minutes and 29 seconds to finish it. This time it took me 13 hours 3 minutes and 11 seconds to clear it. The second time through I had Leon wearing his RPD outfit. I bought another Resident Evil game last weekend and have only given it a quick look. I don't like it, but I am guessing if I play it long enough, I might get into it. I don't know if there is going to be another Resident Evil game, but I would probably buy it. I have another game that I bought last year (can't think of the name off hand) that is in a similar vain as RE that I need to play.

Woke up with a migraine that got worse as the day progressed. I am just starting to feel better. Wonder if something is coming it.

Got the second half of our Michigan Bulb order. Will plant the stuff in the morning and do some yard work.

This evening or Sunday will place a order with Bath & Bodyworks. They finally have their website set up to allow customers to purchase things online. Before they just gave some product information and that was it. Guess they realized how important having a online presence is to a company.

Had to go the Laundromat last night to wash some things the cats hate pissed on. While we were waiting the load to finish, one of the gals that works there said something about a car being on fire. Turned to look out the window, lo and behold across the street a SUV had smoke pouring out from under the hood. One of the attendants called 911 and as Mom and I were leaving, the fire truck had finished putting the blaze out. We figured the vehicle had to be totaled, because the engine was damaged and the tires had been burned a bit.

Today is cooler then it was yesterday and is a bit windy.

Got a little bit of rain this morning, around 1 am. Was awake when it there was some good lightning. Has been mostly cloudy all day. Has looked like it was going to rain several times today.

My weather channel program I have on my desktop stopped working. Have tried reinstalling it to no avail. I hate that it has stopped working, it was a really great program. Guess I'll have to look around for another desktop weather program.

Went to the zoo and a pet expo on Saturday. Both of which involved a lot of walking. We also had a nice lunch out and did some shopping. Although it was good for me, it left me a bit sore.

Sunday we got laundry done, planted some bulbs and mowed in the backyard. Could hardly move after that, but had to so I could take a shower.

Been having some strange dreams lately. Last night I dreamt that I was driving at night and Mom was in the passenger seat. It was a cloudy evening and it looked it had rained earlier. The area looked very much like our town, like so often in my dreams everything I am familiar with changes even in just minor ways. As we headed east, I looked up and saw the Aurora Borealis. At first it looked a bit odd. It started in the north and was brighter then I thought it would be and had strange formations which stopped and began to look like what it should. Then from the south, a band of color began to form and head north. After a few seconds, a band of color began to take shape about in the middle and within seconds everything joined up and put on a brilliant display. That's all I remember.

We got one and a quarter inches of rain yesterday morning in a brief but heavy downpour. It rained very briefly in the afternoon and then just looking like it was going to do something but didn't the rest of the day. Looks like it might do something today as well.

I planted flowers that we purchased Saturday on Monday. Tuesday we bought one more four pack to fill the garden out. Now it looks nice in our little container garden. Also planted some Zinnia and wild flower seeds. Will get the hummingbird feeder cleaned up and put it out this weekend.