Shad
That's one thing about working with different cultures, you pick up on their language. I know you are excited about returning home.

Dee
I had my baseline 5 years ago. But with the heart disease that runs in my family I'm ready to do it again. My heart has started racing again too so that needs to be checked. The only thing they found was that I was low on potassium.

Happy
Yeah for DH helping you clean the house. Maybe all the cleaning you did before your company rubbed off on him. I baked or boil most of my foods now. Like you I will have a burger and fries but will not fix them at home.

Annie
I'm going to try to keep my appointment tomorrow. The boss has given me tomorrow to that. Ii will work Friday and Saturday for L.

Laura
Sorry I've given you night mares over the mouse in the house. I saw it again last night so I'm going out tonight to get some ordinary traps. I hate setting those things. I hope I can keep up the momentum on this exercising thing. It's a mind set.

Hello's to Michelle, Terra and Susie.
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I went to the car last night to leave work and opened the back door as usual
to put my things in there. I thought, that's weird that someone put ice cubes on top of my car and then opened the door a little more and the window fell out. Some on the ground and some in the vehicle. I text my boss and he said he would view the video from the camera when he got here this morning. I pray that I can get it fixed today and it can be driven tomorrow for my appointment tomorrow. I was really upset over this.
Met my goals again yesterday.

My boss has called the police department and an officer has come out to get information for the report. When I looked in the car this morning there was a rock laying in the floor board of the car. So it's evident that a child/teen ager/young adult has thrown a rock. In my opinion hatred of city employees. May need to park my car else where. Think my boss is going to have the city pay for it too.

Morning all. A bit foggy this morning, but the temps are still nice and mild.

Shad - I've always found it interesting to work with people of various cultures. So is it getting springlike yet in Auckland?

Ceejay - That's terrible that your car got vandalized!! That would be very upsetting. I hope they can find who did it, and I also hope it can get repaired quickly, and that you don't have to pay for it.

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Bf told me that his mom's clot is responding to the drugs and it appears surgery will be unnecessary. So glad to hear that.

Tonight I have to remember to dig out a doctor bill for something I paid for through my flex spending account because they need the supporting detail. And I have to check what the remaining balance is in my FSA. I think the balance may be higher than can reasonably be spent in two months. But then again, I think I might have paid for some items out of my own funds and not out of the FSA. What a PITA. Our open enrollment for benefits starts next week and we are supposedly with a different company that administers the enrollment and the FSA accounts. I sure hope the FSA stuff will be easier with this new company.

That's it for me. TTFN.

Laura & Ceejay52 ~ Hi Ladies, How are you doing? I hope you are both doing well.

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Woke up at 4:00 a.m. Its now almost 7:30 a.m. I need to start watching for my bus at 7:45 a.m. I'll get to school by 8:30 or 9 a.m. at the latest and I'll come back home at 4:00 or 4:30, 5:00 at the latest. I have music and movement class today.

Good Morning.

Today is Samantha's 30th birthday. Yikes, how can that be? I am only 29. lol Guess I am babysitting tonight so Chris can take her out for her BD. He text me this morning to see if I could. Nothing like waiting til the last minute. I only had to rearrange one thing to make it work out.

I rented and watched Southpaw last night. C was not back from fishing. It is a really good movie. I liked it. It actually had a good story to it.

No personals this morning, make it a great day all.

Morning peeps. It's overcast today, but still mild temps. I'll take it.

Annie - Happy b-day to your DD! Nice you could babysit the g-kids, even at the last minute. Your son-in-law knows he owes you, right?? :D

Terra - Hi Stranger. Gosh, what an early wake-up time! Enjoy your class today.

Hellos to the rest of you. :wave:

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Nothing much to report. Couldn't get my mom on the phone for the past couple days, so I phoned my sister to see if she'd reached her. She told me my mom's been having phone issues with her land line and mom had left her a message saying that. So I'll phone her today on her cell phone. I should think she's keeping it charged and turned on until she gets her phone issue resolved...Anyway, my sis and I had a nice chat.

Didn't do much of anything else last night. Finished reading my book - Mystic River. Yep, that's an old one, but I'm slowly working my way chronologically through the author Dennis Lehane's novels. I'd seen the movie when it first came out and didn't remember much from it and now I want to watch it again. We'll see if the library has the dvd.

Bf is wanting a food dehydrator so he can make his own jerky. I've kind of been wanting one too (for what, I'm not really sure), so we'll get one. He found one from Walmart, so we'll redeem my Savings Catcher money to put towards it. Have any of you used a dehydrator? If so, what for??

Today's our fundraiser finale in the afternoon, but I think I'll skip it. I might, however, buy some raffle tickets at lunchtime.

I got one big icky to-do done at work yesterday and now I can move on to the others. Whoopee.

Have a good day everyone!

Morning everyone,

Yesterday we drove 6 hours (3 up and 3 back) to go to Minneapolis to the zoo. I thought that was a bit too far for me. It was supposed to be near 70 and sunny and instead was 60 and very cloudy and overcast with gusts of a chilly wind. I wore a t-shirt because it was supposed to be warm and was super glad I grabbed a hoodie light sweatshirt and that was only to keep me warm in the car because DH likes it freezing when he drives. I got a good walk in although sitting in the car for 3 hours leaves one kind of stiff. As we were walking to the zoo entrance I started to cringe. All around us we were surrounded by young moms and their "stroller buses" - you know, those giant humongous strollers that are about as long as I am tall. And the place was just crawling with running, screaming, shrieking kids bumping into you, banging on the windows, etc. It was a nightmare. DH said he thought these kids would be in school but I said they were, the school age ones were on field trips. I used to love kids and I can still take them one at a time up to the age of 5. After age 50, I can no longer stand bunches of kids. Especially today's kids who are like banshees. DH and I were talking as we left the zoo, we would never be allowed to run as wild and out of control as they did. I told DH that I really felt sorry for the animals - to me they looked sad and depressed. Their enclosures, while an open pen are small for the size of the animal. The zoo keepers try to stimulate them with various foods and objects - for example, a tiger was playing with a large ball, but many of them were at the very far end of their enclosures and the ones in the front looked very disinterested. I do believe that they were trying to get away from the constant shrieking of the kids all around. So for me, it was a sad trip. Also when we got back to our car the ignorant clod with the giant SUV that was parked next to us whammed open their back door and put a big dent and and inch and a half white paint streak into my passenger side back door. He was parked close to us but not that close since I got out without slamming their car. Must have been a big fat azzzzz because to put that big of a dent and scratch into the car they not only opened the door hard but pushed it heavy. People are so ignorant. I only wished I had seen that... :mad:

We stopped on the way back at an Italian restaurant we noticed on the way up. It was in a really neat old house that was built in the 1880's and used to be a rooming house. We were an hour away from home and I did not want to get sick from a large and heavy meal so I got chicken parmesan with spaghetti. It came with a side salad, I ate that and a few bites of the chicken and some of the cauliflower and boxed the rest up. The cheese they used was a salt bomb. DH got shrimp scampi which he said was really, really good. They have a nice outdoor patio and he said he'd like to come back in the summer and have drinks and an appetizer or dinner outside.

We got home about 8pm after a long day and a tiring drive and I checked my email only to find that there is some reports that are due to the ASPCA from the shelter. And they are due today at end of day. And the email requested them was sent to the shelter mgr on October 19. So she gives me less than 24 hours to do this. I was ticked off. The base reports only take 5 minutes to run BUT in reading the trail of emails dating back to the beginning of September (emails I was never copied on), it seems they have some requirements for how you categorize aging classes of the animals. So I had to figure out how to change the drop down boxes in my system and then go and update 80 animals to the right categories. That took several hours last night. And then when I ran the report again, it appears that there is a bug in the program that is not taking the new values even though they show up on the individual records themselves. I quit working at 1am when my eyes got too blurry to see. I am totally over this not communicating and constantly leaving things until the last minute. This is the third time in a row I was blindsided right up to the deadline. Then this morning I was looking at the email again and see there are 2 embedded reports that need to be done. Well, I don't have enough info to do them. So I'm not. :shrug: I ran the 2 reports that I needed to and since the output is an Excel spreadsheet, I manually went in and "fixed" the stuff on the report just to get it done. I will call in a support ticket to the software company - AFTER I get my personal stuff done. I am not rearranging my life and enabling these last minute crisis's. If you want that, you will need to pay me the big bucks I used to get for being aggravated all the time. :yes:

Then when we got home we noticed that Nina peed in the cat bed that her sister uses. DH was really mad. Nina is very jealous - I have never seen a cat react that way but then again we have almost always had single cats. Meadow is really laid back and mellow and Nina chases her around, if we are feeding Meadow treats, Nina gets right between her and us and makes sure she gets her share. By herself she is a good kitty. But DH is not going to put up with peeing outside of the box, so she is riding a thin line here. He will surrender her back to the shelter and I will cry because it will be a most traumatic experience for her. She is afraid of everything strange and has become very nervous and skittish and if she got returned to a room full of strange cats, she would be terrified. I can't for the life of me imagine why she peed like that and I sincerely hope for her sake that this was a one and only incident.

So yesterday was not the best of days. Today I need to catch up on laundry and stop at Walmart. I will have to go back to the shelter and pick up adoption papers for October's animals to enter into the system. It's supposed to start raining shortly and get cold and awful - our typical gray, chilly weather before the snow starts to fall.

From what I understand, my sister is not very happy to be back in city life again. :( She said she hates the traffic and hustle bustle and misses the peace and serenity up here. :hug: 4 more years Sis. IF the parents cooperate too.

Laura - from what I understand people either love the dehydrator or it's one of those things that you use once and it lays on the shelf. People up here make their own jerky a lot. And the ones who make it well treat their recipes as closely guarded secrets - no lie. If someone gives you some of their jerky, they really LOVE you. :lol: I did have goose jerky when I was visiting a friend at the library - one of the volunteers brought it in. Tasted like salami with the seasonings and texture of the meat. Not something I would eat all the time. People also make fruit leathers with it but because of the dehydration process, you tend to get a larger concentration of sugars like you would in dried fruit. Nutritionists would recommend eating the regular fruit over dried or leathers and skip the jerky. So it's up to you. DH says he has to die of something. :rolleyes: For me I guess it's just not on my taste preferences! I'm glad BF's mom can be treated without surgery. That had to be a scary experience.

Annie - happy birthday to Samantha! I can imagine when they hit a milestone birthday it also affects you. Hope she has a nice day - good of you to pinch hit babysit. I'm sure they feel like grandma doesn't ever have any fun plans like dancing or partying herself :rofl:

Terra - are you coming back home in the dark now? Ugh - seems like you eat dinner and it's bedtime already.

Ceejay - that is really awful about your car. Seems like you have a rash of trouble making kids around the area. Were they able to repair your car quickly? I know a front window is pretty quick but not sure how complicated repairing the other windows can be.

Shad - your workplace has always been a most diverse melting pot of cultures. When I started we had lots of groups but they tended to center around the English language and "fitting in". But as we got more people in groups - the Indians, the Chinese and the Russians - they tended to stick with folks in their own groups and we started to struggle with things like language and customs. Tip my hat to you and here's this week's "boy I don't envy you". ;)

Hellos to the rest of the chicks. :wave: Think I'm going to get a second cup of coffee and pop a load in the washer. Have a good Thursday.

Hello Everyone! TGIF for sure!! What a week it has been. Work, work, work!!! We have a department meeting this coming Monday. All I have been doing it Power Point it seems.

That and both of my bosses decided that next Wednesday they are going to go to a consumer research project they will be doing in Nashville Wed-Friday and so I had to book travel and clear & rearrange their calendars for next week. Let me tell you, I'm living for next Wed-Friday when they are both gone.

We also had PC trade up this week and I was slotted for that, so for 1/2 day I didn't have my computer; I couldn't work on anything like emails, calendars or PowerPoints for upcoming meeting on Monday but I worked on cleaning out file cabinets.

I did make it to the tread desk twice this week. On Monday, I went. I had my fit bit, or so I thought. It turns out I left the little chip thing in the charger of the home computer and just put the band on!!! I think I was channeling Annie as I saw she forgot her fitbit on Monday.

I did awful at TOPS last night. I gained!! Almost 3 lbs. I know why. I had a lot of soda when I had the stomach thing last Friday-Monday and couldn't deal with water and ate a lot of crackers...so I think the salt got me and the calories of soda and I didn't have time to rebound on all of it.

I plan on seeing all that gone and at least one more next Thursday when I weigh.

I need to get ready for work so no personals this morning. I have read through them and will come back and do them tonight or Saturday (I told DH we were staying in tonight after work and bringing dinner home so we can just rest--we are going out with friends on Saturday night...I need some down time at home!)

Have a great Friday everyone!

TGIF FO SHO...to mimic SUSIE....and pay Friday, money in, money out. Thank God for 401K.

Nothing too exciting last night, made turkey meatloaf with fresh tomatos from the garden, use them as they ripen from green to red/yellow in the paper bag, very delish to say the least. Used low sodium bbq sauce instead of ketchup. Oven basil potato wedges and kidney beans for a little change. All was very yummy and enough for tonight, so I don't have to cook. We watched 3 episodes of McGyver. We have all the seasons. It seems a little goofy in 2015 considering it was filmed in 1980s. Wall phones, outdated computers and such in the episodes. We kind of laugh through it and guess the ending. More fun than interest in the story line. Doesn't take much to entertain me, haha.

SUSIE...glad you are getting some down time. Your job wears me out. I won't tell you I forgot my fitbit again this morning. I put it on the charger and it is still there charging. Sheesh. I know you will do great at TOPS next week, when one is determined, it is accomplished.

HAPPY...wow, for being a volunteer job, you sure do put a lot of time into it. I think you need to speak with that woman about getting you the information quicker, or hey, tell her you cannot do the job if she doesn't. Maybe scare her into doing right. Ended up not babysitting. Samantha is so over protective of me after the heart attack. She will not let me do anything. Like Halloween night, she wouldn't even let me pull the wagon with the kids in it. I am not invalid. I have been released to go back to normal activities, please sister. Really? QUESTION: How do you know it was Nina that peed in the bed. Maybe Meadow is trying to make Nina look bad and did it herself? lol. You know like Garfield.

LAURA...I used a dehydrator back in the day to make jerky. It turned out very good. Marinated it in teriyaki sauce before dehydrating. Very tasty. Have not used one since. How is you MIL? Hope everything is going well and coming home soon. Did you get a hold of you momma? Did you win anything in the raffle?

CEEG...did you boss see anything on the video of the parking lot and your car? WTH is this world coming to? Kids have no respect for anything.

CHELLE...have you recouped from all that work of last week? Rest up sister. How did the interviews go, hear anything new?

Hello to the rest of you. Hugs and prayers.

Morning all. TGIF! :) It’s very gusty and cooler outside today. I was walking to the train station this morning and a neighbor about a block away offered me a ride and I took it. That was nice of her.

Happy – I’m sorry the day of your trip to the zoo wasn’t all that great. Bf and I also have a low tolerance for kids when they are allowed to do as they please because it does involve a lot of screaming and running around without a thought to the safety of themselves and others. Save that for the playground. What a bummer about the damage to your car. I’m thinking that it was actually a kid that did the damage – why would they be at all careful opening a car door, especially if an adult hadn’t warned them to be??

How frustrating re the HS work! I would really be steamed if someone held onto something until the last minute when the deadline’s upon you. Aaargh! Good of you to take a stand - you are doing this voluntarily! I was wondering when there will be training for other users – I know you won’t be personally entering new animals in the system permanently. I guess you have to get everything set up before training and handoff… Yeh, I can see this dehydrator eventually sitting on a shelf, but it’ll be fun to give it a go. Bf doesn’t care about turkey, but I wouldn’t mind trying teriyaki turkey jerky. I’d also probably try dried apple slices, and drying some herbs. One year I grew basil in the veg garden and ended up stringing the leaves on thread and hanging it in the basement to dry. It was a bit laborious, but worked fine and was well worth it. The flavor was so much better than the store-bought dried basil. I can’t imagine how old the stuff from the store might be.

Hi Susie – I do not envy your workload! It’ll be nice when your bosses are out for part of next week. Have you had any time to check out any internal job opportunities? Maybe next week… I’m sorry about the TOPS gain, but once you get back to the routine, I’m sure the gain will come off. Yep, I’ve worn the fitbit wristband without the fitbit itself once or twice!

Annie – LOL re watching McGyver. I enjoy watching the older shows just for the “throwback” factor – the clothes, hairstyles, furnishings, and technology (or lack thereof, lol) popular/available at the time. MIL is doing fine. The 3 clots she had are being broken up fine and it’s possible she will be released from the hospital tomorrow. She will have to be on the blood thinner drugs for many months after this, but if that’s what it takes, so be it. Awww, your DD must be so worried for you. But you’re right, you’re not an invalid and you have to get physical activity to stay healthy. No, haven’t gotten in touch w/ mom yet – by the time I get home from work, it’s later than she prefers to get phone calls. She likes to talk a bit, so I usually reserve that for weekends. As long as I knew why she wasn’t answering the phone, I'm okay.

Hellos to the rest of you. I hope your week went well and you have a good weekend. Safe travels Shad!
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Nothing much to report. Bf and I ended up going out for half-price burgers last night. Different restaurant though – a new-ish sports bar/restaurant near the house. It was SOOOO loud in there last night – not like past visits. Anyway, during commercial breaks from the basketball game, they switched over to music. The Kinks song “Girl, You Really Got Me Going” as covered by Van Halen came on and all of a sudden I remembered that great TV commercial where Barbie dumps Ken to go off with GI Joe in his car (with that song playing). Do you girls remember that one?? For some reason I thought it was an ad for Jeep, but it turned out to be for Nissan (of course I had to look it up on you-tube to watch it, lol). So funny how memories pop up like that just from hearing a song.

I didn’t buy any raffle tickets for the fundraiser finale, so nope, didn’t win anything.

The boss is taking a vacation day today, so it'll be calm here.

No plans this weekend, but there’s plenty that needs doing around the house. I will get those last two shrubs dug out, even if I have to dig in the mud to do it! I also think I'm gonna take out the screens on all the windows in the 3-season room. These are awning style crank-out windows original to the house. The screens are on the inside. I like to take them out in the cooler weather because there's a clearer view to the yard without them. Maybe it's still too early. Do you think all the bugs are now gone for the year?? I haven't seen any lately.

That’s it for me, so I’ll get this posted. TTFN!

Good morning all,

I still have 8 minutes left before the click ticks to noon :D

I saw an infomercial for a Shark vacuum cleaner last night on TV. Looked like it picked up pet hair especially well and since I have lots of that... So I was researching comments and before I knew it, I didn't get to bed until 3am so kind of slept in today. :o WHEN I have my own schedule instead of being dragged around by the nose by all kinds of demands, I will have a more relaxed day. I have recorded probably 25 movies on our DVR and along with DH's 20 tv shows he's not watching, it tends to fill up. So I try for 2 nights to at least stay on top of the couple of tv shows I like. More often than not, I tend to nod off sitting in the warm and comfy chair. I dose on and off for about an hour which really tends to mess with me not getting to bed at an earlier hour. Gotta work on that ;)

Yesterday we noticed a new restaurant in town so we decided to give it a try for lunch. It's a bar and grill - this is the 3rd owner of this place. A nice guy from the southwest side of Chicago - just the other side of the expressway from where I grew up. He is doing bar food but with an upscale touch. Which means instead of everything thrown in the same deep fryer or grill, he actually has FLAVOR on his food. We had an order of naked chicken wings and cheese burgers. Yum all good. I took half my order home as I often do nowadays and that was my supper. DH was full too - he ate all of his lunch and just nibbled on something light for his dinner. I think we are going to go back there tonight and try his fish fry. I do have my Italian beef from Portillo's in Chicago that my sister brought thawing in the refrigerator and we need to eat that up too. But it will keep one more day if I get the chance to go out to eat :D

I did get a bunch of laundry done yesterday and ran some errands. Still have a few more things to do today so I should get going soon as I need to shower too.

Laura - regarding the New Balance / Aravon lines - you can periodically watch Amazon. There are sellers online and sometimes they have sales going on. Zappos also carries their shoes but it's only closeouts that they have sales on and not very frequently. I like Zappos for their easy return policy. Foot Smart also carries that line but they are a big hassle when it comes to returning anything and getting your money back so I don't really use them unless I am replacing a favorite shoe and know the exact size and width that I need. Regarding the dent in the car, I too thought it might be a kid because it's the back passenger side door but it's such a heavy scrape and deep dent that someone had to push it with a lot of force. It's almost as if someone really big and heavy had to wedge the door hard to get into the car and put a lot of force on it - not your typical open and bang kind of dent. My poor car - the Avalon - has all sorts of pock mocks from hail damage, ignorant drivers and general wear and tear. :( But I still love it more than the new 4Runner and resist all efforts by DH to replace it. I keep seeing a lot of older 4Runners and I still regret not getting mine fixed instead of trading it in. Anyway I digress... as usual.

Laura - I can see how McGiver would be fun to watch. Kind of like the very old Flash Gordon from the 1950's - campy I think they call it. I would also think that The Mod Squad would be equally funny to watch. We have come a long way with inventions but are still not living in a "Jetson's" world of the future. Yes, I remember that Barbie commercial. That was funny - I forgot it was to advertise a car. I never liked Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant - although the food was good - we'd get take out - because they also cranked up the volume in there. Not sure why anyone would want it that loud that they can't hear each other speak. Good luck on your yard work. As for the bugs, hard to say - we had the invasion of the Asian beetles 2 weeks ago when it got up to 70. Then the temps dropped and they went into hiding. Earlier this week we got a warm up and they came out of hiding and we flying around all over the place. I have to believe that like us, you also got your last dose of Indian Summer so maybe it's safe to take the screens down now.

Annie - I can understand how people will treat you delicately after your heart attack and how ANNOYING it can be to be treated that way. I'm sure it's just human nature, care and concern. :hug: You have to work with Samantha to understand that you know your limits and will promise not to enter any marathon jump roping contests right now but babysitting is ok. Grandma WILL sit down when she gets tired. :D Yes, I did have a talk with the shelter manager about last minute and lack of communications - she apologized and it will probably happen again BUT this time I won't stay up half the night trying to make up for lost time so all is good. And yes, volunteering is no different that working in that if you are good and responsible that the reward for hard work is MORE hard work. So if you're good you get dumped on. Have to keep in mind that sometimes we have to push back - it's just that most of us want to be helpful. I find that when someone needs something - let's say I stopped at the shelter to set up training and she tells me she can't do Wednesday because she is short a cleaning volunteer - I will tend to just blurt out - ok, I can help with that even though I am choking right now on this full plate of mine. I have to start biting my tongue and stop trying to take care of the whole world. I'm sure you are the same. And we know it was Nina who peed in the bed because when we came home from our trip she was sitting on the table where Meadow usually sleeps. She jumped from the table to the bed on the floor where Meadow sometimes sits and DH then noticed her "burying" on the pillow in the bed and saw fresh pee in it. So not sure if she was expressing her displeasure that we were gone all day long or she was nervous or just being mean to her sister. She is slinking along here waiting to get yelled at and I told DH we need to actively give her more attention. Siamese cats like Husky dogs need a lot of attention and stimulation, otherwise they tend to get into trouble if trying to amuse themselves alone. So far she's been ok. :crossed: Yum your meatloaf sounded delish - I love meatloaf - beef or turkey I don't care. It sounds like you are not having too difficult a time modifying your food for the low sodium eating.

Well DH just saw on FB our favorite Italian restaurant is having the grilled swordfish special he liked so much so I guess we will be going there for dinner tonight.

Susie - busy as ever with work. Worst timing to have to give up your PC also. And it never comes back working the same. I'll bet you are looking forward to both of them being gone next week. Give you a chance to catch up and sit there, do nothing and just think of ways to be more efficient, eh? :chin: :?: right ! :rofl: :lol3:

Hello to the rest of the chicks, I have one more email to send out and then I have to get busy here. Have a great weekend everyone.

Hi girls,
Wow what a busy Beautiful week w our temps 70* to 74* what a wonderful surprise :cool:

Ceeg, I just read back a few posts on this page, OMG what is wrong w ppl damaging your truck. I hoped that it was just some kids playing ball that accidentally hit your truck & they panicked & didn't come inside your building to apologize, instead of the vandalism. Seeing that rock is scary, what if u had been close to your truck when it had been thrown, u would've been injured by the broken glass. Hopefully your auto insurance won't make u pay a deductible to get the glass replaced.

Anne, It's really understandable that your family will b taking care of u :val2: for several weeks like 'a fragile flower'; w u getting the catheter they just want to 'mother u for a change' because heart attacks kill, so enjoy their Loving care. Soon enough they will b behaving normally to u again :smug: About u watching McGyver, we watch the old TV series too, hey Don Johnson is still as sexy on his new TV show as he was on Miami Vice. I laugh @ Dh when he watches the old corny Bay Watch episodes, etc. When our g-babes were here in the summer, I turned on Saved By the Bell & they watched it but were puzzled by the clothes until I explained it was made when their dad & mom were in high school. Shows like that have a innocence & lesson in it, I wonder if there are any TV shows w teens & morality anymore.

Terra, Has anybody contacted u about a job interview yet? Hang in there & have patience & a job that u really want will come along in time ;)

Laura, Have u used your new food dehydrator yet? I have one that I use for dill weed, herbs, etc. I know some ppl make fruit leather for their kids & hubby's because it's less messy than trying to eat fruit on the go & put it into the lunches instead of candy bars. That's awesome that you MIL is doing okay now.

Susie, :yay: about your bosses being gone Wednesday to Friday, no stress or pressure for awhile! Yep, I agree your gain was basically Salt :mad: but I know u Will take that 3# off, I've seen u do it before! While your @ home relaxing maybe u can catch up on some TV too. Are u watching this season of Nashville again, did u know that in real life Hayden P. admitted herself into the psych unit for Postpartum depression, like the roll she is playing on the TV show.

Happy, What... do u have a arrow pointing down from the sky toward your autos w a big bull's-eye on it saying 'hit me' :o If your autos could talk it would b screaming mad @ everybody right now, or crying. I was at our local library this week & a H. Society volunteer walked over to a few kids @ the computers & offered them cats & kittens & show them flyers that she was putting on the bulletin board. I told her about using Face B. like u said u are successfully doing.

A few days this week I drove 1 1/2 hours to our Ds1 new home, he's the one who transferred from Milwaukee. I washed the cupboards out, vacuumed etc. & I took Sundae our GoldenDoodle w me to keep me company & to walk her around the yard occasionally, she's pregnant & I want her to stay fit to whelp her litter in December. She's so cute when she sees me put my shoes on, she brings me her leash expecting to go outdoors w me. I got my Fitbit steps done on those days. Today it was back to the cold, fall temps & it rained :( the whole time I ran errands. I might b overdoing stuff, because I've been sort of shaky on & off the last few days & I've never felt weird like that before. I probably should get my flu shot next week.

Hello :wave: to Michelle & Shad, both of u have been super busy & I hope that life is being good to u & u have a relaxing weekend. Shad, TY for making me smile :Dwhen I see your New avatar :D

Blessings to you'all & I hope your weather is nice where u are :cool:

:hug: Dee

Morning
I've been upset since my doctor's visit on Thursday. My blood pressure was 180/80. Think most of it was due to stress of the broken window and told her so. But she wants me to monitor my blood pressure on a daily basis record it and bring that back next visit in December. I told them about me having jury duty but they told me if I had to go to call and reschedule. If my bp stays at 150/80 I'm supposed to take another blood pressure med that she prescribed. Yesterday after work it was in the 150's and this morning it was in the 150's. I don't want to start another med. Guess I have inherited my mom's blood pressure issue's.
The boss had my window fixed. It took about a day and they fixed while I was at work. I'm good to go. He didn't comment on whether he saw any thing on camera.
He brought my Christmas bonus to me yesterday also. :woohoo:
Now I'm confused. I didn't notice that a pump was in the off position until now. I did notice some low run time. I'll try it and see if there is a noise on it and if there is I'll turn it back off and call the maintenance man. It's not taped off like it usually is if there is something wrong with it.

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Susie
I'm tired just reading your post about work. I hope you can get some rest when your bosses are out of the office.

Dee
How nice of you to clean for your son! I didn't realize that your GoldenDoodle
was going to have puppies in December. Bet you are excited. Good for you in getting in your steps. I didn't get mine in yesterday but will today. I forgot to put my fitbit on my shoe last night when I rode my bike.

Annie
Nice of you to keep the boys while the kids had a date for Sam's birthday. Enjoy being pampered. It show's they love you.

Happy
Wow, you have a busy job for volunteer work. I hope DH doesn't return Nina to the shelter.

Laura
I love the old reruns. I like to watch Perry Mason and Matlock. I'd watched McGiver if he were on. I always like how he could make something out of nothing.

Terra
Any results from the job fair?

Good morning. Slept like a baby last night and it felt good! We stayed in last night as I was very tired from the work week and I knew this morning I needed to finish the PowerPoint Deck for the Department meeting on Monday.

As soon as I got up at 8:00 a.m., I started working on it and sent it to my boss to put his slides in. I told him I won't be looking at email anymore this weekend so if something majorly needs changed he needs to text me and I'll get to it early Sunday evening. I am documenting things like this so at my next qrtly review we will review these sort of things and I have decided if they tell me that I'm still not tracking for a 1, I'm going to HR.

The reason I'm working on it so late is that I asked for information by Monday, especially the awards that have happened since the last qrtly meeting so I can get them into slides..the managers had two weeks to meet that deadline and on Monday I had 3...and there are 9 managers!! I can't work on them until I have everyone's because the information is put into tables and those need to flow. :mad: It happens all the time like that.

I had gone ahead and built the transitions slides and things for the skeleton of the deck so that was done. I don't think I am inefficient...I think it is the crew around me! Believe me I'm tracking that too!

Ok..enough about work! I'm cleaning some of the house today and have laundry going. DH went to the grocery. We are going to O'Charlies tonight for dinner with friends--looking forward to that. I'm wearing cute boots and a cute sweater with new jeans.

My BFF asked me if I wanted to go with her to Indianapolis on Friday for the Bands of America competition. She has a kid in the local high school band. So I've decided to take Friday off and go with her. I'm excited! It will be a Lucas Oil Stadium. I think we will get there around 1 and we will be there until about 9 and then driving home.

--Annie---how close is Lucas Oil Stadium to your work?

Sorry again for no personals. I need to get moving on this house.

Sunday I'll do personals. :p

Have a great day everyone!

Morning all,
Got in on Friday but too darn tired to do anything except sleep. Then Saturday (yesterday) I went to get the eyes checked and they are fine, just a slight adjustment to my lenses and I am good to go for another year. There are apparently the beginnings of cataracts in both eyes but she said that they would take at least 10 years to grow. I don't know if I have 10 years in me. But then no one knows that. Anyway, today we went out to breakfast with the family and tomorrow they go to NZ for a holiday. I shall no doubt meet up with them in Wellington later in the month.
Tomorrow is dentist time. I know what he is going to say. However nothing can be done apart from a check up until I get back at Christmas.

Speaking of which (which I hardly ever do) apparently my offer to fly the DS1 and DIL + granddaughter to Brisbane for Christmas has been accepted. They haven't told me yet, but no doubt I shall get to hear shortly. Hope it is in time for some reasonable fares. No doubt I will have to give them a push.

I can't do personals right now. Need to get myself cracking and do some yard work. It's rained everyday since I have been here. Seems the storm season has arrived and there are some tree branches to be picked up and some neighbours to catch up with etc. So while it is not raining at the moment, might be a good move to go out there and do it.