Good morning ladies. It is chilly in the house this morning so I imagine it is cool outside but is it supposed to warm up nicely today. It got up to near 70 yesterday and was quite enjoyable with my running around.
Well, I put in a hold mail card to start today. You know with these bozos I always have to give them two or three days head start so I can call and say they didn't stop the mail so we shall see. It will be a miracle if they actually do what they are supposed to do. In all the times I have stopped the mail, not once have they done it without me calling the delivery supervisor.
I did all my testing yesterday but spent nearly 3 hours at the darn hospital, had to park in timbuktu and run all over the place. The phlebotimist was a doll and she hit the vein dead on and I never even felt the needle going in or coming out. I had to fill out all my admission paperwork, pay my copay and then waited for an hour to be seen. My next stop was cardiac for my ekg and of course it was back at the entrance to the hospital. I hotfooted it over there but it was noon so after sitting about 45 minutes the gal asked if I wanted to go over to xray to get my chest xray while I waited for ekg to get caught up so here we go again back to the back part of the hospital and again I sat for about 40 minutes and I was the only one in the waiting in room and one poor little old lady in a bed waiting. That took about 2 minutes to do so I then hoofed it back to ekg and luckily, the lady that does the ekg's was coming out to do a portable one. She asked me if I had come to get an ekg and I told her yes so she said they could wait a minute and took me right in and did it, which only takes a couple minutes. It takes longer to put on all the leads than it does to do the ekg. I was then finished. This is a huge complex and everything is so spread out. They were all really nice though and I just wanted to get it done. Luckily, I took a book. Don't tell anyone, but I filched a recipe out of a magazine. I know, it is horrible, but it looked great and I didn't have anything to write the recipe down on. The other side had recipes too so I didn't take out any stories or articles or anything. So now you know who the schmoo is who took the page out of the magazine you were reading.....
I left the hospital and took two loads of laundry to the laundromat then back home and had enough time to relax for about half an hour then Jack was home and I fixed dinner. We just had burgers last night so it was a quick cleanup. I have to say they hit the spot. Homemade burgers are always so much better than the stuff you get at fast food places.
I didn't tell you that Jack won 2 free buffets with drink at the cub scout blue and gold so we might use those one night before we go. Their committee does a spectacular job of getting free stuff from businesses to give away. Bass Pro shops gave them $100 to spend in their store and they got a sleeping bag, lantern and a bunch of first aid kits and flashlight kits. They also had boy scout popcorn to give away and movie tickets, they had 4 of these buffet tickets and they also had a couple other neat things. Great publicity for the stores too.
Well gals, I better get going. Hope you have a great Tuesday today. Faye
I like the biscuits at Hardees but we were late enough that they didn't have any left 
so I had to settle for Texas toast and I wasn't impressed with that at all. Like Bob said it will be a long time before we eat there again! I seriously think I would send our children to a private school if we had just moved here. The police visit our middle school (grades 5 - 8) on a daily basis and it isn't the white kids causing the problems. The paper just said we are now 72% nonwhite and that is SCARY! 
Good luck with your appt. this morning.
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from Iowa!
The reference and hard back books were a mess! I pawed through and never did find the SB diet book. Beth is going to check in Sioux City and if WM doesn't have it, then she will go to Barnes & Noble. I'd really prefer a paperback one because I don't think it will get used much. 
I keep thinking that I can feel my blood pressure going up by the minute. I've taken waiting room magazines to the reception desk and asked for a copy of a recipe. I've also torn them out if they happen to be my magazine that I'm donating to the hospital. I just try to make sure there is advertising on the back side and not the "rest of the story." Free buffet tickets is a nice thing to win at the banquet and something that you both can enjoy.
Tuesday
! Bob is at church for practice so we had our big meal at noon today -- meat loaf, baked potatoes, and escalloped corn. I'm thinking maybe a meat loaf sandwich for tonight. I'm trying to use up the high carb items I have on hand.
