Today's prompt: What are the five best bands

Today's prompt:

What are the five best bands you've seen play live?

The Lettermen
at UNI 1970, before Richard

Peter, Paul, and Mary (twice)
in the 80's, once with kids, once without

Simon and Garfunkel (twice)
1967 Coe College in Cedar Rapids after their first hit Sound of Silence
in St. Paul, MN, reunion tour 2005

I'm so BORING!

Wet Sunday

OK, enough rain already! Still hot and humid. My yard looks like a jungle, it never gets dry enough to mow. My hibiscus loves it, thinks it is living in a tropical climate. Guess that's life in Iowa.

Spent my day thinking about cleaning house and finding reasons not to, watched a movie, A Serious Man, ho hum.

But the highlight of the day was the return of True Blood, just love that show, so much better than the Twilight series.

Running the Flood

Today I walked in a fundraiser to raise money for flood recovery. If you're not an Iowa person, you may not recall that in 2008 the Cedar River flooded the city and surrounding areas with record setting water levels. So much damage is still apparent even after two years. It as dark and cloudy but the rain stayed away until the walk was over. The air was very warm and humid. But any pounds I sweated off were replaced by the big breakfast we had after.

I'm very fortunate that my neighborhood is on a hill safe from the flooding.

I spent the day at a meeting about strategies

I spent the day at a meeting about strategies to combat resistant gonorrhea. Aren't you glad I decided to blog every day this month!

Thursday's bog prompt-

If you could go back in time and meet your 16-year-old self, what three things would you tell yourself?

1. You will marry the love of your life and your life together will be good

2. You will find a job/profession that you love.

3. You are not fat and don't smoke so you won't have to go through hell when you're trying to quit at age 37.

Good News: I won this jade plant today at work

Good News:
I won this jade plant today at work. It was part of a raffle for Relay for Life. I never win stuff.

Bad News
I burned the back of my throat eating a beet that was hotter than I thought. It really hurts! Ibuprofen!

Today's blog prompt: Japanese lore

Today's blog prompt:

Japanese lore suggests that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes, your wish will come true. What would your wish be, and what would you be willing to do 1,000 times to get it?

My wish would be to have Richard back and I'd do just about anything to make that happen. I guess that's more a fantasy or a dream than a real wish.

It's really depressing to read all the stuff

It's really depressing to read all the stuff on the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf. The pictures of the oil coated birds just break your heart.

Poor President Obama. First he inherits a tanking economy and now this. I really don't know what people expect him to do to fix this, I'm not sure that it's fixable.

Interesting...