Thursday's post:

Good morning gals. Well, we are at the 48 hour countdown now! We sat around and watched Las Vegas stuff most of the day yesterday, some of it pretty outdated as some of the restaurants and casinos are either closed or have been imploded. There used to be a casino called Westward Ho that had these huge 3/4 lb hot dogs for 99 cents and they had huge frozen margaritas for the same price. The one show was talking it all up, but the show was dated around 2001 and the casino has already been imploded so no hot dogs or margaritas for anyone anymore! If you want really cheap eats, the lower casinos are the place to go. They do that to draw people in as they can't compete with the mega resorts.

Today is hair and nail and library day along with going to the atm and getting money and then going to the grocery store for something to fix to eat tonight and getting some one dollar bills for tips until we can get into the casino and get change. None of the banks will change money for you here unless you have an account so I have to get change at the customer service desk at the grocery store. I am not driving 25 miles to Millington to the Navy Federal outside the base.

I am pretty caught up on my list and packing too, which is great. Jack is going to try and get comp time for the overtime they didn't pay him for. If he can, he will just take all day off tomorrow and then take 2 hours of sick time. It would be nice for him if he could do that as then he wouldn't have to get up early tomorrow. His dr appt isn't until 11 though we have to leave early to try and find their new offices.

Better hop to it and get chores done and get into the shower. I want to be at the hair salon right when they open.

Hopefully I will get in here tomorrow, but if not, I will talk to you when I get back if I can't get in here while on vacation and send a couple pics.

Faye
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I started a thread yesterday morning that Jean must not have seen so I just cut and pasted yesterday's post here. It wouldn't let me delete it so be sure you post to Jean's thread and not mine. Mine should move to page two sometime today.

Jack is dressing for us to go to his cardio appt so thought I would just peek in this morning before we get out and going today. I have already had to drive to the post office because they delivered mail yesterday. I stopped it on Saturday! {{{SIGH}}} I now have a lot of stuff crossed off my lists so we are raring to go.

Susan: Glad Stan is feeling better. My son and Jack don't like the Vista program, but who knows?

Jean: Sorry you didn't see my new thread! lol

Everyone have a great weekend! lolololol I just realized it isn't Friday!
Faye

Good morning! A lovely day here in VA and only 80 degrees at 11 am. But HUMID.

Jean, Electric Quilt is computer software to design quilts. I went with Vista because I will keep this computer a long time and after awhile you can't run get new software anymore.

When Stan goes to dialysis he gets weighed and again after treatment before he leaves. The weight he leaves at is his dry weight - after treatment has removed the excess water. When he goes for the next treatment, they compare his incoming weight to his dry weight so they know how much water to remove. No matter what, they can't remove more than 4 liters because that is all the machine is capble of. If they take off too much, it makes blood pressure fall very low, chills, nausea, and horrible thirst. It's a fine line to walk.

Faye, I know you are excited - have a really great time.

Just a quick note to let you know we got to Vegas just fine. Jack is snoozing as we were up at 3 AM.

Your chuckle for the day. I was more than embarrassed:

We left for Vegas and had just taken off from Atlanta. We were sitting in first class, I took out my knitting (a sweater for my dd for her birthday) and as I pulled the needles out of the ball, it slipped out of my hands, slid between our seats and fell on the floor behind us . The couple behind us were sleeping so when the flight attendent came to ask what we would like to drink I ask him if he could retrieve my ball of yarn and just hand it back over the seat. Welllll, the plane was climbing which caused the yarn to roll underneath the seats all the way back through coach until it ran out of yarn!!!! I ended up having to re-roll the ball just so I could get my yarn back! Not one person noticed this purple ball of yarn rolling between their legs!

See you in a week!
Faye

Faye, that was definitely my laugh for the day. I can just see the yarn rolling down the aisle. Too bad Jack didn't have a video camera - that would have surely gotten you $10,000 on Funniest Home Videos.

Dell sent me a different monitor (actually better than the one I was supposed to get) so I'll be putting the new computer together over the weekend. Also carrying on with the weeding out process.

It's been down in the 60s at night and very pleasant in the 80s during the day but the darn humidity is till high.

Have a great weekend!

A quick note to wish Jean a Very Happy Anniversary!

Also I hope that Faye is enjoying her stay in Vegas. Stay out of the hot sun, Faye! That was a really funny sight...you rolling up the ball of yarn.

Susan, Wow, it doesn't happen often that they send you a better product than you asked for. Hope it all goes together easily.

Today was a good day for me. That kidney stone that had taken up residence has finally left. I feel like a totally different woman. On Tuesday I see the Dr. for the final word....I hope it is that there are no more stones in my future.
Gloria

Jean - on your 40th. Bob sounds like a keeper! I always say I've been married so long I can't remember how it was to be single.

Gloria, nice to hear from you!

Stan has been doing much better. We went for a drive Sunday to Smithfield and had a scoop of ice cream in the old-fashioned ice cream parlor there then walked around. It's one of those old, old towns that still has a downtown.

Labor Day was dialysis day so that took care of that day. I did laundry and cleaned house.

I've kind of let my diet slide - and gained 4 pounds - lately so I got back on the wagon yesterday. I figure there are 12 weeks until Christmas so I have to get busy so I don't gain more over the holidays.