As for people having a rough time, please keep my co-worker Diana and her family in your prayers. I know I am going to miss something that has happened, but her husband recently had emergency heart surgery. Her brother in law and sister in law were in a horrible car crash. He died, she is still in the ICU and does not know her husband has died. Her son has been having medical issues and his wife is 28, she just had a stroke and has bleeding in the brain. All of this has been since the start of this year. I am impressed she is holding it together as well as she is.
PD to Diana. I bet you did better on the test than you think you did. Sending PD for the results!
We are here... in Hartford, CT. The roads started to get bad and when we called to check on availability at any hotel in the Brookline area we found they were all booked. We don't have to check out of here until 11:00 and they have breakfast from 7-10. We all decided to take our time in the morning and see what is out there when we wake up. Thanks for all the good wishes. So far, so good!
I'm glad you made it there and back safely. Sweet dreams this morning!
I am in such a funk today. I really just want to sleep which is my typical getting depressed MO. We are so sick of winter and snow. It'll be July before it all melts at this point. The good news is that the foot we had expected ended up being only 3 inches
I need to get my butt in gear as I need to we AT work in an hour. I'm not looking forward to going as I am in the back room (usually big parties) and there is only a 12 and 8 planned in there. We work 2 waitstaff in that room and pool tips and I greatly dislike the girl that I am scheduled with. Now mind you I can get along with about anyone, but she is just a negative constantly complaining person. I can't wait for tonight to be over with.
We are debating whether to take the boys skiing tomorrow or not. It is supposed to be highs around 30 degrees and windy. I would wait another week, but we need to tap the trees very soon and I don't know when another opportunity will arise.
PD for your funk. I was going to ask this morning about the syrup. I was in Central Market on Friday and went down the syrup aisle. I suddenly remembered I hadn't heard much from you about it. I think I remember that you thought the conditions were good for a good tap this year. I certainly hope that is the case. I also hope you get lots of tips this week. You might use them to invest in a t-shirt press --you'd be done in no time! Randy loves ours. We're usually finishing up things at the last minute before trips, so I can pack while he presses.
I hate always coming on and posting about my upside down life but here it is:
I had to take Jim to the ER this morning....goober was being a baby and wouldn't walk so I had to call the ambulance. Thankfully a friend stayed with me for the entire time.
Official ER diagnosis: acute laryngitis. I am so thankful for our medical care but it is very expensive at a time when our purse strings are pulled so very, very tight.
On top of that I've gotten a whole lot less sleep than he has because they don't give beds to those stuck in the ER for 5+ hours with their loved ones (plus I didn't sleep much anyway last night).
I hope Jim is feeling better and you got some rest.
Good Morning. I was awoken this morning by the phone ringing. It was the Obama campaign. They keep calling and the tv ads are every single commercial break. If he wants my vote then waking me up in the morning is NOT the way to get it. Our primary is tomorrow so they are really pushing here.
I have 17 t-shirts to put the transfers on this morning. I guess I'd better get moving.
TTYL
Our primary is tomorrow and I can't wait for it to be over. Clinton (Hillary, Bill and Chelsea) and Obama have practically lived in Texas the past couple of weeks, and I'm so tired of the radio ads. There is also a particularly nasty local race and we're getting 1 - 3 calls a day and 4 - 5 mailers from both sides.
Tammi -- I'm glad you had fun at the concert. I'm so jealous! I love GS! PD for your RL issues with the ex.
Tia -- congrats on WISH. WTG! I'm trying to find motivation right now, but it's not happening. I like Deb's idea of rewards, so I need to come up with something soon.
Elizabeth -- the board looks great!
Lindsay -- I'm glad your fur baby is better. I hope you had no more problems from the smoke detector.
Thanks for all the PD for Andrew and the games. His team won the tournament! Andrew was on cloud 9 last night. He played pretty well. He played 1/2 of the first game, all of the second game, 1/2 of the third game and the fourth game only lasted 1/2 of an inning. He held his own -- actually played pretty good, but didn't have any on-base hits. He connected a few times for foul balls and a pop-up someone caught, but he also walked a few times and made a couple of important runs.
The weather was nuts. Saturday, the wind was gusting at about 25 - 35 most of the afternoon, and it was cool in the morning but warmed up. It was sunny, so I had to stay in shade and got a little red on my neck, but was mostly just wind burned. I didn't get home until about 9 that night, as I stayed to watch my youngest nephew's team play, then went to eat with Dad and my brother's family. (I had sent Randy home with Jake, Andrew and my nephew Quattro so he could wash uniforms and the kids could get some rest.)
We had to get up before 5 yesterday, as we had to be there by 7:30. It was extremely windy and cold -- windchill in the low 30s. No one was really that prepared --it was supposed to get up to 75, but I'm not sure we reached that, though it did get warmer. Winds gusting 30 - 45 mph. We then had to wait around all day to get the pool play finished and seeded. We ended up seeded first in our pool, which was what ended up with our win. We were supposed to play at 4:50, but they were running around an hour behind schedule. We started the inning, and before we finished batting a monsoon came through. Since we were seeded first we won the tournament. I'll try to get a pic of Andrew with his trophy. I'll ask for more PD before the next tournament, specifically so he can start getting the hits he needs to improve his confidence.
Today I drove to work in a terrible thunderstorm. I could't really see the road, and it was still dark out so that didn't help. The temps are falling in to the 30s today and we might see some snow. I'm praying for some big fat flakes. Since they don't expect accumulation or problems with the roads, we might as well have something pretty to watch.
Have a good day everyone!
I don't want to go infect any of the kids, but we don't have subs available. I hope that I didn't infect everyone at the synchro meet yesterday. I'm usually much more respectful, but they really needed me to drive.
The craft store only sells short metal fasteners - for long ones you must go to the office supply store. When you push the fastener through the foam-core board you have to be REALLY careful, because if the board bends it leaves a BIG wrinkle that can't be fixed. That could cause a 4 letter word to pop out of your mouth.
If your child is a snot he might look rather critically at the board and wonder aloud what else could be added to make it look better, because the board wasn't SUPPOSED to be white. Never mind that white is all they sell at Target. Never mind that this project already cost us about $20. (Which isn't THAT expensive, but for something that has no practical use, it kind of IS expensive.) We do have plenty of nice blue Saran Wrap and a bunch of craft foam left over, as well as a big box of fasteners so our next project will be cheaper. 
Of course snow is mentioned in the mix as well. I'm tired of these little teasers of warm days, I want it to stay!
I feel like a zombie today!
Hopefully things will improve soon.
So, which cleaner should I be using? 
$4000 for a week without food or airfare.
Andrew. Congrats on the tournament.
