We know what I’ll be doing on the following days. :)

Saturday, August 30 - 12:30 p.m. ET
Hawaii @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, September 6 - 8 p.m. ET
Miami (FL) @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, September 20
Tennessee @ Knoxville, TN

Saturday, September 27
Ole Miss @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, October 4
Arkansas @ Fayetteville, AR

Saturday, October 11
LSU @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, October 25
Kentucky @ Gainesville, FL ** Homecoming! **

Saturday, November 1 ** Florida-Georgia Game! **
Georgia @ Jacksonville, FL

Saturday, November 8
Vanderbilt @ Nashville, TN

Saturday, November 15
South Carolina @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, November 22
The Citadel @ Gainesville, FL

Saturday, November 29
Florida State University @ Tallahassee, FL

Key:
- Home games in bold.
- SEC Games in italics.

After an action-packed, kind of stress-filled last couple of weeks, this weekend was a nice change of pace that allowed me to get a few projects done around the house and actually prepare for this week.

The dry-wall and paint job in my living room dried nicely enough, which allowed me to re-position my furniture back where it belonged and to move all of the books that had taken over my dining room table back to their rightful places. This doesn’t sound like it would take six-plus hours, but it did. (Yikes!) Next, I have to re-assemble my library. I’m not looking forward to that particular chore.

Also, I watched a couple movies — I’ll talk about those during one of my next posts — and I also re-watched/listened to Season 6 of Smallville as I was working on all of the above over the last three or four days.

I’m consistently a full season behind on this series — and Supernatural — because they air on Thursdays, and I don’t usually finish up my work for the Stuf and/or the band until later in the evening.

I was going back and forth about whether or not to pick up Season 7, especially when I realized a certain female lead was going to be back for all or part of it after I had celebrated her demise at the end of the sixth. :( But after doing a little online digging, and confirming that the Green Arrow/Ollie appeared in S7 — and is increasingly likely to be a regular for Season 8 — I’m leaning toward “yes.” The non-Lana/Lex, Green Arrow episodes were the best, most FUN episodes to watch… and the actor they have playing him, Justin Hartley, just has chemistry with everyone — male or female — that shares the screen with him.

But in the purchasing queue, Supernatural is still the priority. ;-)

Instead of today’s dose of weird, I’m going to borrow a page from Mr. B’s blog that was kind of interesting.

Instructions:
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births, 2 deaths and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

Events: I’m too close to Christmas for too many super-interesting things. A lot of the stuff listed is kind of a stretch.

1606 - The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

Births:

1898 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)

1932 - John Hillerman, American actor, Magnum P.I.

1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)

1982 - David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol.

Deaths:

1954 - James Hilton, British author (b. 1900)

1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)

Holidays:

Some saint’s day.

Drama, drama, drama. That’s all this blog’s been about for the last few entries, and I apologize. I’m just really stressed. Not about work stuff, necessarily, but stuff in general.

First, it was the water leak at the secret hide out (dry-wall dude coming on Tuesday), then it was Kitty-mon’s recent illness and recovery, and now…

A hurricane is passing through the keys and likely to make (hopefully just) a flyby past the Tampa Bay area, where The Mom and The Bro and the rest of both sides of my family live. Just a little anxious at this point, and I feel bad for my mom, a teacher, because tomorrow is the first day of classes for students, and you know it’s going to be even more crazy than usual. It’s hard for me to concentrate on what I need to do, right now.

Just so this post isn’t all gloom and doom(!), here’s a nifty, sports-related news flash: The Bucs beat the Patriots tonight, 27-10, in their second pre-season game. Yay!

Five days, time out from work, and $500 dollars at the vet (two exams, two rounds of blood work, one set of x-rays, three cans of special cat food and one round of antibiotics) later, Kitty-mon is back to her normal personality and starting to eat again.

I’m really happy about this. However, I’m a little irritated at her: This morning, as I cleaned her cat litter, I noticed a rubber band in yesterday’s poop. I have no doubt this is/was the source of her ailment, and I have NO idea where she found it to eat it because I don’t use rubber bands in my house. (They break, and — duh — she might eat them.)

Again, I love her, but ARGH! Why couldn’t it have traveled through her cat body before the vet bills drained my project stash? >_<

I’m really, really bummed out right now.

Today, Kitty-mon woke me up at about 4:15 a.m. crying. And puking.

Now, she has always had periods where she’s done the projectile vomiting thing, but it’s usually because she gobbled up her food too fast. She’s usually fine a couple hours later.

Not this morning. She continued to get sick on and off until I went to work. She didn’t eat anything while I was away, and she’s still acting sluggy.

If she’s still like this tomorrow, we’re making a morning trip to the vet. :-(

But not enough time to actually type it all out.

Busy, busy, busy weekend…

• Continuing to read Prisoner of Azkaban.
• A new haircut. (But my hair is still pretty long.)
• Buying a 6-foot ladder at Home Depot.
• Measuring my living room windows for new window treatments.
• Lots of laundry.
• Ordering yarn for my next knitting project.
• Cleaning up and moving things to make way for the drywall people.
• Lots of homework.

I’m SOOOO exciting! ;-)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good, middle-of-the-road web cam? I’m starting to look for one for a couple different side projects of mine…

Last night, I had a MONSTER headache — one of those ocular migraines where my head and neck hurt so much that my equilibrium is affected. (I’m already fairly clumsy, and I don’t need any “help” in that area.) I woke up with it this morning, too, even though I took some medicine and went to bed early.

I’m still not feeling so hot. I hope tomorrow’s better because I just don’t have the luxury of being sick right now.

Vent. Over.

But after a lame period of posting, I’m trying to keep in the habit.

So here’s a picture of Kitty-mon. She’s been spending a lot of time staring at the little brown jack rabbits that hop onto the patio.