Hi all, I hope you've had a great weekend. I'm a bit overwhelmed. Lots going on. Best to dive right in.

First: Rick made church council. They voted him on this morning. Everybody's really proud of him. He starts his three year term next month. He's the first person on this side of the family to make it. Granddaddy ran, but he didn't make it. I think this will be a great thing for Rick. He needs something in his life to give him a sense of purpose and accomplishment BESIDES his job. Now, of course, he's wondering what I'll be doing while he's at those meetings on the second Sunday of every month. Most likely answer: Writing.

Second: My in-laws have bought the house next door. You heard me right. They're closing December 15th. They'll be sandwiched in between us and my own parents. I'm a bit surprised they made this move. There are pros (the most obvious being MUCH less travel in my life) and cons (the most obvious being that my ENTIRE FAMILY will be on top of me). I'm sure the Lord has set this in motion for a reason. Truthfully, I don't know how I feel about this now. At this moment, I'm having visions of a bad sitcom in the making. I just need more time for this to sink in. It's a lot. Yes, my family is already around but his folks are a lot different from mine. I don't know. And by the way, go ahead and call me a hypocrite. I know. My parents live two houses over. My brother and sister-in-law live behind us. And now I'm off center because Rick's folks want to move in next door. I'm surprised they want to uproot at this point in their life. I'm a little afraid they'll get up here and hate it. Maybe THAT'S what my problem is. I mean, it's all conveient and good for us (read: NO MORE SPLIT HOLIDAYS - HOORAY!). But this isn't so simple for them. It's not like choosing a strawberry or chocolate milkshake for crying out loud, and they did this so fast. *Deep breath* Ok.

Third: My overall health seems to be on the uphill swing, but this cough has been a pain. Thursday night and Friday night were the worst times so far. I've pulled a muscle in my side coughing and at this point, I'm wondering when/if I'll ever get better.

I guess I'm just a little pissy. First, it's all so weird. Second, It seems things are all going Rick's way these days and nothing is going my way. Everything by his efforts have succeeded. Everything by my own have failed. Yea, I'm peevish. Mom tells me to quit worrying and that I need to take it easy. I'm sure she's right. It's just - I don't know where I'm at these days. This is all a lot to take in. I mean, can I get a writing contract for goodness sake? I don't ask for much.

*Sigh* I guess we can find something else to do with the guest room because it doesn't look like we'll need it anymore. Which isn't an altogether bad thing. As I said, pros and cons. But Rick and Mom have both told me I'm being a bit odd about the whole thing. I don't know folks. I'm just overwhelmed. Am I being weird about it? Anyway, moving on ...

I did have a mood boost Friday night. We were watching Smallville. That show - I don't know if I fell asleep at an important point or if I just missed something. I've been largely lost until Friday night's episode, where many things were FINALLY explained. But better than that was the preview of next week's episode. They're bringing in the Wonder Twins. I was sooooo excited!

Ok, I'll admit it. When I was a kid, one of my favorite cartoons was Superfriends. My favorite characters on that series were Zan and Jayna (aka The Wonder Twins). They're shapeshifters, and I thought that was so neat as a kid. I thought Jayna was really awesome because she could be any animal she wanted, real or mythical (go for it girl, be a Phoenix!). Heck, I still do like shapeshifters. They're what kept me watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the early to mid 90's. The Dominion War - that was awesome.

Anyway, The Cartoon Network has resurrected some of the characters from that old series in The Justice League, and Smallville has been picking up people from that series throughout it's run. The Wonder Twins were never really big characters and I didn't expect them to ever use them. I don't think Zan and Jayna are even in the current rendition of The Justice League anymore. I know they were young, inexperienced and goofed up a fair deal - but they're shapeshifters! And they seemed to have more realism about them than the others. But they'll be on Smallville Friday night, so I'm psyched. Now as long as they leave out that darn monkey of theirs - what was that things name, Gleek? He sucked.

In the state I'm in, it doesn't take much to make me happy. It never really does but these days it seems to take less.

And finally, Netflix has anted up the past couple of weeks. They finally sent Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Those three movies have been on our waiting list forever it seems, and they finally showed up. Seems Rick and I have been having a lot of flashbacks to our childhood lately. It's amazing what they can do now, between Generation X getting a hold of these things that were big when we were kids and computer animation.

Maybe the whole problem is that I need more nonsense in my life. Yea, that's it. Things are way too serious. I need more fluff and stuff in my brain.

Ok, I don't have a twin, but I'm gonna activate my wonder powers and morph on outta here. I hope you have a good day and a great start to the new week.

Bye!