Hi all!
Remember me?????
Yes, I feel like I haven't been here in forever, which leads me to not doing replies and I know I will feel awful about that, but my head is already hitting the keyboard.
It has been a whirlwind week of working and such. Lots of jobs, all over the city. The absolute best part of the week was lunch with our dear Susie on Wednesday. I will admit that we were both VERY BAD. We were reasonable about lunch, but then we each had dessert. Yes, I said EACH of us had dessert, sharing was just NOT an option!
She had a decadent chocolate layered thing (HUGE), I had fried cheesecake in a BIG parfait glass with whipped cream and strawberry sauce.
Boy, now that I've written that, I realize that was a pretty mean thing to do. Should I erase it????
BTW, Susie says "hi". She really misses being here, but they're doing budgets and she just found out that she may have to be dealing with all new employees that she will have to retrain because of some Union bumping thing they're doing. So wish her luck. She likes the employees that she has. She's trained them and they're good workers. She's really worried about who she might get next.
Anyway, we had a wonderful time. Blew 3 hours yaking.
She's such a wonderful person. It's amazing how we can just step right into conversations like we've known each other for years. (oh, that's right, we have!
) I'm sure some of you girls that have met up will attest to that phenomenon. It will sure be fun getting together.
Thursday, I drove to the other side of town and mom-sat my friend's mother with dementia. She was not a happy camper when I got there. Didn't want me to sit with her. I'm a stranger and all that. But within a half hour we were good buddies and she wants me to come back again. I think I'll be taking Thursday's for my friend for a few weeks since her niece broke her leg and can't sit with "grandma".
After leaving my friend's house at 6:00, I had 3 jobs on her side of town to complete and then had to run clear to the east side and do a grocery before 8:00 at night. Let me tell you, that was a real riot trying to fit it all in.
#1 Son has been to Columbus, OH twice this week and is leaving for Lansing, MI in the morning. I have such a hard time not getting my "mom claws" out about his employer and their taking advantage of my kid. They say they can't justify giving him a raise but they can call him at all hours of the morning when he's not due in until 1:00 and then can run his butt all over the country. I'm just a little disturbed.
But he'll be 25 in June and I have to keep reminding myself that he is an adult and has to speak up for himself. That's a hard one to learn.
My eBay stuff is going well. It really is addicting. And I agree with Andria about the adrenilin rush of seeing how much something is selling for. All of the pieces I sold, I've gotten payment on except one and they've all been shipped too. It's really quite fun after you get over the original fear
of doing it. My second auction set is up Saturday night, so I've got to get some more listings together tomorrow.
I'm a "showgirl" Saturday and Sunday this week. Two trailer checks and an open count. The open count will keep us busy some, but it looks like only on two screens so that will be a good thing. I'd like to see
Twisted since we didn't get to see it the last couple of weeks. I don't really think there's anything else good on. We're counting for
Dawn of the Dead and I have NO desire to see that one.
Oh, we got some really good news this week. To back up and fill you all in, we had our kitchen lineoleum redone 3 years ago November. Well we got a guy to lay it (you know, a DEAL
) and anyway, the seams started to split open. So we tried to get Mannington to repair it, but they said it was an install problem and so we had to get a guy to come look and give us an estimate. Well when he got here, he looked at the floor and said he could repair it, but had we noticed that it had yellowed. Well, sure enough, when we lifted the big rug I had put in front of the sink to camouflage the seam splitting, we could see that the flooring had yellowed. So the guy says, yeah, I can fix it, but why don't you file a claim with Mannington on the discoloration because it's warranteed against that. So we did and we had to take pictures and everything and Thursday we got a call that they would pay to replace the flooring AND all of the labor to replace it and remove the old stuff.
We are definitely happy campers.
The area takes 40 yards of materials so this is no small thing!
Well, my dears, it is now 1:30 AM my time and I'm losing it fast. I think I've caught you up on my life. I'm really sorry that I can't do replies. Know that I have been thinking about all of you and I have read, so I know of your trials, tribulations and triumphs......
hey, that was pretty good, wasn't it??? 
I think of you guys (and talk about you) all the time. All of my real life friends get an earfull all the time about you guys and what great friends you are....my little "cyber buddies". Honey can even keep track of who's who pretty much.
I'm out of here for now. Love
ya bunches.
300+...and ready to try again....#505
for the both of you! Keep us posted.
I blame the Olive Garden, we went there for lunch and i stuffed myself with pasta and breadsticks (two points per breadstick)...however the pasta was not that bad..i avoided the white alfredo sauce 
I told him the real problem was that he didn't listen
wow, not much activity today
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Fun Friday...
