My Breakfast with Marianne D

After having a restless night my breakfast with Marianne was really cool.  I was one of thirteen invited guests.  Members of follow up, Training and software, Finance, Collections, Credit Balance team, Patient Services, and Administration all met in the Board room.  We had pastries, bagels, fruit, and coffee.  Marianne updated on us two rather important activities.  The manage workstation (our new computers) that is supposed to be better equipped at handling patient information and privacy.  We will be getting a new electronic filing system for Medical Records where everything will be accessed via computer.  The hospital will have to switch over to the new system as well.  We interviewed each other and introduced each other and relayed it to the rest of the group.

I was happy that I got pretty much everything done.   I still have the readdress mail to do and that can be done today.  I have stuff to deliver to the rest of the building I can do that as well.  I am hoping the volume of mail for today is light so I can straighten up the office a bit.  I won’t be staying for OT because we are going out to dinner with Bob and Ethel for birthdays and Anniversaries.

AT lunch time I walked to the bank and got some money out to get lunch and to repay for some candy collections.  I couldn’t believe how hungry I was.  I was weak it seemed.  Have you ever gotten to a point where you were shaking? That’s how I was.  I didn’t have very much at the breakfast (half a scone) and two or three cups of coffee (that may have been the real reason for the shakes.  Anyway I did get something to eat.  I got some salad (salsa type) and soup.  They were delicious.  Unfortunately by the end of the day it caused my leg to ache.

There is a petition going around from Local 34 (started by Lee Ann) on racial intolerance policies.  Apparently something happened recently and nothing was done about it.  I was talking to Stephanie G about it yesterday.  She feels it doesn’t matter what color a person is no intolerance or hate should be tolerated in the work place and there should be some type of policy in place.  I shared with her the incident between Gwen and me years ago where I was suspended for three days for saying something hateful.   I also felt she (Gwen) ran with it.  I don’t know if Stephanie realized I had stopped myself from saying it and I was going to say something else.  I may have to go back and explain to her later. 

I got home from work and immediately got into a nice warm bath and into my pajamas before having dinner.  Mom had gotten a phone call from her friend Stella.  They are going to the Opera in Branford on Saturday.  That’s if Stella doesn’t happen to cancel because of the impending storm.

I got a call from Dave last night.  The play is next Friday at 8 pm.  He couldn’t do it tonight because he is finally taking his nephew Matthew to the Blue Man Group Concert.  It’s about a year overdue.

Well it is time for me to get to work …have a great one.

Our Annual Trip to NY

We had a late start getting up for the day but we managed to leave the house a little after 9.  We headed straight to town for the train and while we waited for the train (it was brutally cold) we waited in the waiting area inside the small train station.  It was the first time either of us had been inside and it was a pleasant experience.  There was a coffee clutch but in the next area there was a sitting room to watch TV and above were vintage model trains from a circus train to the updated Amtrak line on rails near the ceiling.  We didn’t have long to wait.  After having a brief chat with the cashier in the coffee clutch we caught our train. 

The train ride was uneventful (except for the loud young woman sitting in front of us) Mom found her annoying.  I think it was the pitch of the young girl’s voice.  Mom couldn’t hear the other woman occasionally speaking but I could.  We made several stops until we got to Westport where the rest of the ride became an express to Grand Central Station.  I took the opportunity to sleep.  We got into GCS by 11:30 Mom had a hard time walking up the ramp to the main concourse so we had to take it slow.  We stopped at the info booth to get info about the bus we needed to take to get to the Met.  After that we made run to the ladies room and then walked back to the bus stop.  We didn’t have long to wait.

The bus ride was nice.  The bus was also crowded and it didn’t take long for us to get to the Opera House.  We stopped in one of the buildings that hosues Avery Fisher Hall and the coffee shop to see if it was opened and it was.  We walked over to where the Hansel and Gretel Performance was to be held to wait for Jim.  We walked in and stood near the shop and as we were waiting I saw a girl it turned out to be Emily.  The next person I saw was Jim.  I pointed them out to Mom and we walked over and greeted each other.

Soon it was time to go into the theater Jim wanted the kids to sit in between each adult the girls had other ideas and objected.  They lost. Kristina sat between Mom and me while Emily sat next to Mom. 

The performance was a little disappointing and made three of us (yes I did) fall asleep within the first act.  At the intermission it was decided we would leave before the show ended.  When it was time for us to leave I left my scarf behind and was a little upset but I was able to get it when the show ended.

We had a late supper in the coffee shop in the Avery Fisher Hall next door.  The girls were not behaving very well and caused Mom to get a little upset.  After we ate and after Mom and Jim had a long discussion we said Goodbye and left for home.

Mom and I made the 5 pm train and got home by 6:30.  I spent the rest of the evening watching the NCIS Marathon on USA.

can the first week of December be over

It is a rainy Saturday morning. It is supposed to start snowing sometime early evening. I have been awake since 9 and probably will keep it low key today. I have some laundry I will be doing shortly and just make sure the room is straightened up. This entire week literally flew by. All I did is work I think I did overtime once this week. Mom asked me why I didn’t do it today. I was getting a little annoyed because I don’t feel that I need to check with her or give her reasons. Most nights I went to bed by 8:30 or 9. Slept pretty well once the coughing stopped. I took a lot of the Halls sugarless cough drops. I went to the library last night to renew Mom’s book but she had already done it and I was going to lose my temper until I heard rather than saw Telka’s voice behind me. Mom had already renewed the book without telling me (after calling me asking me where it was and I told her I would do it). Anyway it was cleared up and I could take it home with me. After that was taken care of I helped Telka dissemble the two displays in the library. Afterwards I came home. I stopped coughing for the most part early on in the evening I took the Nyquil and hopefully it has really worked. I think sleeping until 9 says it did. Well it is time for me to close out for now….the laundry awaits….

A lot has happened

Monday November 2: I got up bright an early and got ready for work and got the car over to the garage all by 7. Happily it was someone else there instead of the guy from yesterday. I explained to the guy what happened and I think he understood. The only thing is the thermostat didn’t do anything on the way over. He said he would have Frank call me. The car was fixed later that day. Election Day 2009: Was a royal disappointment for us in Milford. The Republican incumbent for mayor retained his job and a number of our candidates lost their seats and some never made it. It was a sad day indeed. Work has been overall stressful. I had been doing OT trying to get the office back into shape. Last Saturday both Gayle and I worked on it and now it is beautiful. More tasks have been added (collection letters) and after a few days Gayle doesn’t want to have any of us (me especially) do it. Considering we have so much filing and scanning to be done. There have been a lot of budget concerns all over the place. So the management staff has been pulled every which way. When I finish the mail which has been daily I have been helping out with the scanning. Going in on Saturdays etc and staying until 6 most nights unless I have appointments. The new Kronos/My Time payroll system went into effect this week. I did pretty well with it so far despite the no training. I never had the time to go to the classes. They were always held outside of the office in another building. Over the last couple of weeks several co workers and their families have had some form of the flu (both regular and the swine). I hope this passes soon because I sure do not want to bring it home to Mom. Despite the stress level we have managed to continue to meet our goals that have been set by the Administration as far as AR are concerned. As I said our immediate area has been behind in the scanning. Nationally it was a sad week when a gunman shot twelve people including himself at Fort Hood in Killeen Texas. The gunman survived and is currently in the hospital recovering. There was a memorial Service held earlier this week that happened shortly after the Election Day. According to the reports the gunman who had been a medic and helping people get ready for deployment was unhappy about going to Iraq as well. Volunteering is going okay. Bingo remains to be enjoyable for the residents. I was on my own last week as Natalie was doing a breakfast sandwich fundraiser for their company Christmas party. The woman’s club’s activities are doing pretty well. Although I was unable to attend the Veteran’s Day service at the nursing home it was most successful. Many of the girls club members participated and the residents who were veterans appreciated it. The next big event is the Pie in the Sky baking which will take place at Hopkins School in New Haven next Saturday. This will be the first time we have done it with another organization so it should be very interesting. This year we are even taking orders for the pies. The Democratic Party is licking its wounds from the trouncing we received in the municipal election 2 weeks ago. Each district will be discussing what happened in their perspective district meetings. Ours will take place on the 18th at our home. Our next big goal will be the Governors Race in 2010. As it is our current Governor Jodi Rell has opted to not run for reelection. Mom is doing pretty well. Her cough/cold has subsided after another antibiotic was given to her. She has been doing her meetings, reports, and getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday already. Bob and Ethel are keeping busy with their schedules and I just found out they will be joining us for the Thanksgiving dinner. The children will be all over the place. Diane is currently in the Carolinas on the South Pacific National Tour. John is preparing for Special Forces. I keep in touch with him via Facebook. I also keep tabs on their brother Rob through facebook as well. He doesn’t post to that very often either. Jim and the kids will be here for Thanksgiving as well. They will be here the entire weekend and Mom has planned a few activities such as visiting the Knights of Columbus Museum. We have a family connection to it. My Dad’s uncle or Great Uncle or Cousin is one of the Founding Fathers Knights of Columbus . We hope to also go to NYC and go to the Rock and Roll Museum. Liz and Nelson and their families are doing okay. Liz just got over another bout of Bronchitis. She was with the grandkids on Veteran’s Day and had a ball. They are also getting read for Nelson Jr & Lisa’s wedding next month. It’s actually a month from yesterday. I still have to get a gift and perhaps look at another dress for the wedding. Tomorrow afternoon I am going to the movies and dinner with my friend Dave. Last week we attended the Yale VS Brown football game. It was different. Yale also lost by 13 points. We had dinner at popular restaurant (Pepe’s) in the Wooster Square section of New Haven. It was fun. Well that’s about all the news I have for now. I have a few things to do before I have dinner tonight so I will chat with you later.

November 1, 2009

Happy November 1^st!  It is the day after Halloween and in a few minutes Daylight Savings Time will have ended for 2009.  Halloween was its usual fare.  Six people came to the door by 7.  At 7:50 we turned the lights off and closed the door.  I watched a little bit more of the NCIS Viewers choice Scare-a thon marathon. 

 

Earlier in the day I was at work.  I was the only one there until 11 and that’s when Gayle arrived.  She was tired but really happy she went to the Michael Jackson “This is it” movie.  She is convinced that the Doctor who administered the drugs killed Michael Jackson because in this movie Jackson was very healthy and strong.

 

After work I headed to Headquarters the sun was playing peek-a-boo the entire afternoon.  No one was there so I called home but Mom wasn’t home yet.  I spent the afternoon watching TV and trying to nap.  I did put the candy out for the kids.  Around 9 I went to bed and had a good night.

 

Mom spent most of the day driving the candidates around the 4^th District for the final lit drop.  She was exhausted by the time she got home.  Neither of us was really that gung ho on dinner making so we did our own stuff.

 

Today is the normal Sunday morning activity.  Bingo and Church.  After church I am going to call my friends Mike and Tessa for any last minute stuff.  I need to get his number from Mom. 

 

It is now several hours later and I am exhausted.  Nothing went according to my plan (get to bingo on time and start on time) I got there early but we didn’t start doing anything until later.  I finished bingo around 11:30 and I was very late getting to church.   Before getting to church and after I made calls to Tessa.  I wanted to let her know that I was ready and available.  She told me to head to headquarters.  That’s what I did.

 

On the way there I saw a police escort for antique cars.  I am not sure if it was for a show or wake or what but it was very interesting.

 

Once I got to the headquarters I saw the others from our district and that of district 3 and waited for the afternoon to begin.  I was to drive Mike, Susan, and another young girl around while Dave A and Phil V did their lit drop.  We started around New Haven Avenue Settlers Wood and it was about that time I noticed that the thermostat in my car was going to the hot end.  I could see the steam come from the car.  I was so worried.

 

I called the garage and the guy there told me that I would have to call tomorrow and get an appointment.  Well I drove around for a while longer and then after talking with Mom decided to use her car.  We were not that far away that we couldn’t switch.  After the switch it was time to take Tess home and then back to the headquarters. 

 

It was after 5 when I got back and tried a second time and the guy was a freaking asshole.  He wouldn’t let me keep the car there and he explained that Tim may not be able to work on it until later.  I walked out of there annoyed and called the guy an asshole.  He followed me to my car and told him to get away from me.  I drove off determined to go some where else.   I came home and told Mom I couldn’t leave the car there and she said well if it’s the rules then that’s it.  WTF?  My car could have blown up and stalled (which it almost did twice!). 

 

Now I have to take it there tomorrow morning and that guy better not be there or so help me I would kick his ass.   After this I am going to find another garage.  This is outrageous. 

 

I have my ride to work all worked out on the way home from Headquarters I called Dolette and arranged to have her pick me up around 7:30.  That means I need to get to the garage and back here by 7.

 

Mom made soup for dinner.  It was a delicious chicken soup.  I will have it for tomorrow for lunch. 

 

Other than the dramatic car problems things in general have been pretty good.  Between Working, Health, family, and volunteering I have been keeping busy. 

 

Work is going okay.  Things are changing of course and usually it does.  Staff changes are going on.  Some have moved on to other departments, some have had to leave altogether.  We did have some OT and I have been able to use it.   I am trying to organize my office better and it is slowly happening.  Sally was giving us grief because of things not going on.  Happily we surpassed our cash posting goals as of yesterday.  We also started our new weekly paycheck.  It’s going to be really hard to get adjusted.  Our online method of Pay records also starts.

 

Health has been mixed.  There were some days in which the lupus flared and that was most recently.  I saw the Doctor last week and told him about the night I wasn’t able to move at all in bed.  He didn’t seem to overtly worried but he did tell me the results of the blood work I had gotten done a couple of weeks ago.  The ANA and DNA were elevated and that is apparent this weekend with the knees. 

 

In Mid September I had a cold that seemed to last a long time.  I went to my Primary doctor and I was given some Allegra to get rid of the post nasal yahoo.   It is much better there.  They were concerned with my BP.  It was very high and that was due to the over the counter meds I was taking.

 

The family is doing well I guess.  Mom is still fighting a cough.  She has more trouble at night and is taking a whole bunch of stuff.  Her eyes are still giving her grief.  Other than that she is healthy.  I guess she is able to do more than most people her age.  She is doing her Community Service activities, and still worries about the rest of us.

 

 

 

Bob is still teaching this semester and enjoys it.  He is currently at Quinnipiac College, UNH, and Housatonic in Norwalk.  He is keeping tabs on his children one way or another.  It’s been a few weeks since I actually talked with him but now with the holidays approaching I suspect I will see him soon.  Ethel is still in real estate and made a trip to California to see Diane in South Pacific.  I just found out Mom talked with Bob this morning.  See below.

 

As I mentioned Diane is part of the national Tour of South Pacific.  She has a twitter page here.  She has a couple of facebook pages but I haven’t befriended her yet because I am not sure if I would be intruding.  Anyway, Diane seems to be really busy.  She was home for a couple of days and now is down in the Carolinas with the tour.

 

John has a facebook page but for some reason I can’t link to it.   You can go to mine. I am not so sure he is really all that happy right now but he is keeping busy.  I believe he goes to 197^th   soon.

 

Robert well we haven’t heard from him either.  He also has a facebook but all he has is pictures.  I don’t think his parents have heard from him but I suspect his siblings have.  Luckily they keep in touch.

 

Mom talked with Jim today as well.  He is taking each day as it comes.  He had Mom worried for a bit last week when he didn’t return her calls but he called early last week and things are okay.  Mom wasn’t specific in what they talked about except for the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend they will be coming up and we will be going to the city.  Jim had some bronchitis infection a couple of weeks back that through him for a loop.  He has since recovered.  The kids are well.  Mom and I received a note from Kristina with her school picture in it.  There was only one and so that logically goes to Mom.  We are still waiting on Emily’s and Jamie’s. 

 

It will be good to see them at Thanksgiving and I hope that I can be patient with them.  I couldn’t help feel that it was uncomfortable the last time we were together.

 

Liz and Nelson have been busy.  I have been spending a lot of time with them.  We had family birthday parties and weddings together.  They have been sharing pictures of the little ones as well.  The most recent was Jason’s costume parade.  It has been a lot of fun.  I try and talk with them still a few times a week.  I just spoke to Liz on facebook as well. 

 

Cheryl and Mike’s family have all been busy.  Cheryl has been working and performing weddings and taking care of her family.  Their daughter Jess is getting married some time next year. 

 

Nelson Junior and Lisa have moved into their home in Killingworth CT.  They love it.  Lisa starts her new Job at the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale.  They get married in December.  Nelson will still commute to Boston until the end of the year.

 

 

Adam is still working in NY at the Law firm but has plans on coming back to Connecticut.  He has a lovely girlfriend.  Her name is Olga and lives and works in and around New London.

 

Rich is busy working still with his own construction company but finds it hard in this economy.  So I am guessing by the way he spoke a few weeks ago at the birthday party for Jason and Audrey.  No girlfriend right now that I know of.

 

Chris is still struggling with a lot of issues.  He did come to the joint birthday party for his kids.  He is working in West Haven. 

 

I remember the last time I wrote was right before Labor Day.  Well I didn’t get to go tubing because I ended up getting sick and feeling a little under the weather however as usual Dave was his usual self. 

 

He was sort of like that during our annual trip to Vermont.  We ended up in the Newfane Vermont area.  There was a harvest festival up there and we checked it out.  The town is outside of Brattleboro.  It is also where the Dolan’s have family (Kim’s parents) have a house there.  We ended up having dinner in Brattleboro that night before getting home by 11.

 

The woman’s club is in full swing we have our annual Veteran’s day services next week.  We are getting ready for PITS.  This year we will be doing it from Hamden Day School in Hamden.  It was one of the girl’s ideas.  It is meeting with resistance from one of the woman’s club members Donna K.  She has been having a really negative attitude and questioning everything we do. 

 

The 2009 municipal campaign is drawing to a close with the election on Tuesday.  There have been fundraisers, parties, literature drops and candidate parties and their door to door visits.  We have had a marketing group help with the phone banking.  Members have not had to do it this year so hopefully it went well.  After this election we prepare for the Governor’s Race and work on James Amann’s campaign.

 

Well it is getting late and I need to hit the sack.  I hope you enjoyed this entry…

Another Beautiful Day

            Hey everyone Happy Labor Day Weekend!  I Hope you are all enjoying it.  It is currently 70 degrees and a breeze outside.  The sun is shining and it is a day I think all of us have wanted for a long time.  Alas I am sure it will pass quickly.

 

            Right now I am doing laundry and relaxing.  I had a headache earlier today and I can still feel a little bit of it but I may lay down again for a bit.  Earlier this spent some time with the animals before going off to Bingo.  Yes I am watching Junior this entire week while Roberta and Michael are in Aruba.  It started yesterday.

 

Bingo went well.  I think I had about 10 residents playing and I pretty much did it myself.  Marissa and her family weren’t there but I suspect it’s because of the weekend. After Bingo I came straight home.  Mom was shopping so I took a little nap.

 

Tonight I have a board meeting for the MYWC in preparations for the General meeting this Wednesday.  I was afraid I wouldn’t find the notebook I had been using for the minutes but happily they are over on my dresser.  I really do need to put them in order.

 

So how was your Saturday?  Mine was busy.  I wrote a letter to Debra (but still need to mail it) worked until 2.  I was too tired to do much of anything else last night except feed the cat and go to church at St Agnes.

 

That was fun too.  The AC was not working and it was very stuffy in the church.  OH and you should have seen the goose poo all over the sidewalks and parking lot.  They are supposed to be having their annual end of summer picnic next week.    I hope they have it all cleaned up by then.

 

I talked with Dave yesterday.  We discussed the time we are meeting for the tubing down the river tomorrow and for the picnic.  I had originally asked him if I could borrow a little money for it but it turned out I had enough.

 

Well it is time for me to check on the laundry and so some stuff so I will see you all after awhile.

Birthdays and Festivals

Today is going to be a busy day for me.  Today is the Annual Milford Oyster Festival.   I will be working with the DTC this morning prepping the food for cooking.  We have a tent that sells food.  We usually do hot dogs and hamburgers, and gyros and fried dough.  This year though no Gyros it is too much to keep an eye on.  After I do my stint there I am going to be walking with Jim Amann our candidate for Governor of Connecticut.    

 

Once that is done I will be coming home and getting ready for Bryan’s Birthday party.  It is at 2 pm but I still need to get a card for him.  I will be giving him money for his birthday.  Then I will leave here by 1:30 or so and get to their home in North Haven.  Mom will hopefully join me there.

 

The reason I said “Mom will hopefully join me there” is because she is still not feeling well.  I am going to give her myself number when I get to the tent so that she if she needs me for something she can have someone call me.

 

Today is also Dave’s Birthday he is 46 years young.  He says he will be at the Osyter festival at some point (probably when it starts) and then he and Rose will be having dinner later at his place. 

 

I still have to get the tickets for the Pilot Pen Tennis tourney and I hope I can still get them for the 21^st.  That’s the only day that Dave can attend because he will be leaving the next day for his Alaskan Cruise.

 

Well the iron is hot and I need to move along.  Have a great day.

I am Back

Well hello everyone!  I know it’s been months since I wrote and to be honest I wasn’t sure what to write.  There had been a lot of stress in family issues I wasn’t really prepared to write about.  I am glad to report that although the stress and concerns are still there and probably will be for a long time there is still hope.

 

            I have been trying to keep busy with all the activities that I can.  Work is going well and my health has had good days and bad days.  I managed to lose some weight but I also have been having a lot of aches and pains.  As I am writing this not so much pain but the day is still young.

 

            I have completely dropped out of the pen pal hobby after recent activities.  I had received a prison letter and it caused some stress and I handled it the best way I could.  The methods didn’t please Mom but by the beginning of the summer I had decided to stop it completely.  I have to inform all of my pals that are not on my groups (dropped out of them too) but in contact with a few still via Facebook and perhaps twitter.

 

            I also joined a new “fandom”.  It has provided me with a lot of entertainment during the stressful times and that fandom is NCIS.  I am sure most of you if not all of you have heard of it at sometime.  It has been on since September 2003 and is a spin off of JAG but it is one of the most top rated shows on TV.  Even if the Emmy’s don’t seem to think so the rest of the world does.  It has such talent as Mark Harmon as Jethro Gibbs, David McCullum as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard.   I really enjoy coming home and watching the episodes-well most of them. 

 

            The Volunteering is continuing.  The Woman’s Club activities are slow for now but should be picking back up sometime this month.  We will be in full swing in September.  The political season has picked for Milford and we have a lot of things going on here. 

 

            I have done some traveling most recently to Falmouth and Martha’s Vineyard to visit relatives.  It was a lot of fun and I managed to get a new hat for the summer and a few little t-shirts for my great niece and nephew.

 

Well, I am going to close out for now and I hope to be able to write again.  Have a great Saturday and be safe.

Superbowl Sunday

It is Superbowl Sunday.  Most important day of the year for sports fans, advertisers, network(S), players etc.  There were pregame activities all day and from what I read the city of Pittsburgh had pep rallies through out the weekend.  I wish I could say I am interested but if you read this blog long enough or knew me at all you would know I am not interested.  I was watching other things or on line with the emails and websites

 

I didn’t write at all yesterday because I didn’t feel like it.  On top of that things are still unsettling as far as Jim is concerned.  He was supposed to contact Liz for a ticket to Florida so he could get into a facility to get him some help with his health crisis.  Mom has been worried and made calls and talked with Liz and inadvertently hurt her feelings for telling her she should have stayed with Jim until he got on the plane.  He never did and didn’t answer any of his phones and so Liz called the police and when it was done Jim disowned her.  Apparently he was with the kids.  Mom has been trying to let her know that Mom has been grateful. 

 

Mom is talking with Liz right now and telling her that she talked with our Bob (my older brother).  He did talk with Mr. B and I am not sure what he feels but Mom is disappointed in the Bob B because he left Jim alone for two days and never returned her call yesterday.

 

It really is a big mess right now and Mom is so incredibly worried and frightened.  I am probably not getting all the facts right but if you were here you would know.

We Got Snow

The snow came just about 1:30. I was on my way out of Costco with the milk and pork chops that Mom wanted to have. I had my morning of errands that included a haircut and picking up the dry cleaning.

The rest of the afternoon I spent watching TV and treading lightly around Mom. I was getting the feeling that she was still upset with me from the pen pal scare a few days earlier. At times she had annoyed me with her attitude and behavior. She would be impatient with me when we spoke because she couldn’t’t hear me. There were other times it was fine.

We went to church at St Agnes and by then the snow was in full force. Mom drove up on the curb/sidewalk thinking it was the driveway. It really was unsettling and annoying me because she should have seen it. During the mass I had to explain a joke that Father Callahan made as the mass was starting.

Sunday I got ready for bingo. While I was getting ready Mom was getting on me about having minutes ready for the next meeting. She was I felt interfering with something that didn’t concern her. It annoyed me and I am sure it was pretty obvious to her. I did do as she suggested and emailed Mike. I feel that it isn’t her place but I didn’t want to argue with her. I just figured it was her way to control any and all situations.

The rest of the day went by without incident (well I had gotten a headache again) and we did our own thing. We had stuffed pork chops for dinner and watched the normal PBS programming. I was under the mistaken impression that it was fundraising time again as the schedules seemed to indicate that on the web site.

Bingo went well. We had seventeen residents and the crew was back in force. It was really good to see them all and they all participated with ease. They will be there next week as well.

The rest of the night was spent watching TV and me on the computer responding to the posts I made on Thursday and Friday. Apparently a couple of them became confused when they didn’t like the bitching and they read to conflicting emails. I wanted to bitch slap them

Today was very cold out. I didn’t go out at all until it was time for me to go to Debra’s. I will say today went a lot better. Despite the fact a number of people were still annoyed with my behavior and activities on Friday. I apologized to a number of people including Terry, Dottie, and Lee Ann who led into me and told me I was over the top and I need to be careful. She pointed out (rather rudely to me) that management could get pissed at me. I really wanted to tell her to take a flying leap but the only problem is she is right.

I managed to get almost everything done. I do have to finish today’s lockbox but that was to be expected. I very rarely get all of Monday’s mail done. It usually is either lockbox or Post office. Everything else including the return mail tallies for the last two days was done.

We did have a visit from Evette H today. Her brother drove her in and she wanted to see everyone and to let us know she would be returning next week sometime. She looked great. We were all pretty happy to see her.

I found out near the end of the day that Liz R was in a very serious car accident. I called her because I thought she was sitting in Howard’s Area. Information I got from Lucinda. She says that Liz is no longer on our team will be working in Howard’s team. Now I am not sure if this was her attempt to start gossip (it’s hard to tell with her) or she was miss-informed. I did ask Liz if Elinor (Step Mom) and Gayle knew she said yes. When I was walking with Christina to the garage I told her about it and she agreed I shouldn’t say anything as of yet.

On my way to Debra’s I was walking passed the Stone Cold Creamery and I noticed it was dark. There was a note that said it went out of Business!!! I can’t believe it. There were people in there last week. At least I thought there was. I haven’t seen anything in the news but then again I didn’t see the news where a greyhound went MIA

Telka emailed me tonight asking if I had gotten the email about phone squad. It was sent to my msn account. I found it and it looks like we are not meeting this week. Telka has a cold and so it will be the following week. I am glad because I wasn’t ready with the minutes. I hope she gets better soon.

Man the computer is slow tonight. It is moving from page to page incredibly slow. It is very annoying. I know the virus check is okay because it got everything already.

Well I am going to get ready for bed….

Stay Warm!