Road Trip

On Saturday of Labor Day weekend, we decided to get out of the city & make a loop north.  Eric had a park picked out to visit, but he also wanted to stop 1.5 hours in to golf 18 holes.  I told him that his plan sounded a tad ambitious (since it was already 11 am), but we could try.  

 We were told we could see some wildlife on the course, but that the deer are usually there in the early morning & a moose had moved on since earlier in the summer.  All we saw was a garter snake slithering across the fairway.  There was plenty of distance between me & the snake, but it still gave me the heebie-geebies.

I only have the attention span for 9 holes, so the last 9, I watched & enjoyed Cheetos & Pepsi!

We made it to the park right at sunset.  Too late to hike by the lake, but that was okay because at that point, we were tired.

After we left the park, we stopped for ice cream.  As I was looking at the flavor choices, I had this conversation with the girl working the counter:

        Me: "what is Bengal Tiger."  

                     Girl:  "it's the same as Tiger, Tiger."  

                                                Me, now smirking: "I guess I don't know what that is."

                           Girl:  "it's orange sorbet & black licorice."

  Me:  "oh, my....no thanks."

I'm sure this is not as funny now, but Eric & I had a good laugh out of it.

The book "Left Neglected"

   I just finished reading this book.

This book is quite popular, but I found a copy in the 'only 7-day checkout' area of the library.  I'm usually a fairly slow book reader, but if I am told to kick into high gear, I guess I can do it!

I enjoyed it.  It is a novel about a very busy mom, wife, & business woman who has a traumatic brain injury (No more revealed there than the back of the book).  The author studied neuroscience, and it looks like she did extensive research to write an accurate view of one's recovery.

One of my most rewarding parts of being a therapist has been seeing patients improve from Left Neglect.  I only saw it occasionally & we did not do all of the treatments they talk about in this book (although, maybe we should have), but I did see one patient go from not writing any part of the left side of the clock or drawing any part of the left side of a house to later really improving on that in the 3 mo. we worked together.  It was fun to show him exactly what he had done with the drawings in the past & really be able to see progress.  

This summer I also read The Help & The Hunger Games (Eric has also read both; we highly recommend them) & I am currently reading Wicked, but slowly.   I attempted Chelsea Handler's Vodka book, but couldn't get into it, which was a surprise to me since I find her quite funny.