Busy Busy Busy

WOW what a busy week. Learning a new job an helping with VBS has totally exhausted me.

Might i say 'I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVE MY NEW JOB'. I never want to go back to data conversion. Hopefully i won't have to. Everybody else that has ever taken a detail up here is still up here so I want to stay too. They are supposed to put jobs up on the board to bid on so we will have the experience and have already been trained so so so....i can only hope. They already told us the detail could be extended. i sure hope so. OH...and did i tell you that i have my own cubicle....i don't share it with anyone. I can put up pictures and decorate it any way i want. I have a 3 drawer cabinet and a 2 drawer cabinet and two overhead cabinets, my own computer on which i can send emails to anyone i want to, just can't go on the internet cuz it is just intRAnet and the internet is prohibited (government and all) and anything that is emailed to me can be monitored so if you email me...no naughty stuff ok hahaha. If you ask me i will give you my email address. I have emailed Mel already so she has it. Did i say i LOVE this job? There is no pressure like in the other department..no pushing to get stuff done. And since there is no pushing...you just get it done and enjoy doing it. So without the pressure...no stress...no stress...no stress. Ahhh....I love it.

So this week was VBS and i was helping in the craft room again. It was fun but exhausting. I was with the 4th, 5th and 6th graders this year so i didn't have to help them AS much as with the smaller ones. They did good with the first 2 crafts which were very simple. Day 1 was a sand project. They put different colored sand in a test tube (the theme was POWER LAB) with a rubber stopper and a key chain type clip on it. Then day 2 was a super bounce ball. It wasa powder like stuff that you poured into a mold and submerged into water for 2 minutes and then take it out and let it sit for 2 minutes and take it out and kind of roll it between your hands and its done and it bounces crazy cuz the mold had flat surfaces and it was super cool. They loved it. Day 3 was slime. It came with a beaker with a lid that you mix it in. Put the powder into water in the beaker and shake it for 2 minutes. Let it sit for 2 minutes and its done. They took it out and played with it for a while. Then came the day of total disaster. It was only a cross neclace made of beads and string...butttttttt....it was also the night we were supposed to play a game and tell a bible story, which Betsy did with the first group. (which by the way was our biggest group) She played the game and the story and then we started the neclaces which were far too difficult for the kids to do and everyone was yelling for help and there were only 3 of us (and one didn't know how to make the neclaces) and 5 tables of kids. OH MY. The bell rang and we had just gotten started with their projects. So they had to take them home not done. We sent the instructions but not sure any of them will finish them. The next group came in before we could even get the tables set up. We started right in on the neclaces this time but it was also our second biggest group. Joy still didn't understand how to make the neclaces so she wasn't a big help but she did what she could. This group only got half way through theirs. I kept a few of the girls' and finished them for them. The last 2 groups were the only ones to finish theirs (and they were really small groups so we could do the helping easy). We couldn't figure out why they planned the game and bible story on a night with such a hard project. Day 2 and 3 would have been much better cuz they had so much time left over after their craft they were rowdy. Anyway day 5 was signing the soccer balls we were sending to South Aftica kids and coloring a picture on the book that went with them telling how to play soccer in thir language. We then made prayer bead bracelets which was very easy...just tie a knot in the stretchy string and put on a bead...knot..bead..knot...bead...5 beads and then it was done. All the groups got theirs finished. I never realized how many kids can NOT tie a knot. All in all it was a pretty fun week but i am glad its over.

And did i tell you i LOVE my new job?? hehehe.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Well its another 4th of July. Hope everyone has a good and safe holiday. I am just gonna go to a friends house and watch the fireworks from her yard. We usually grill some stuff but this year we are gonna get some Subway sandwiches (they have a 5.00 special going) and some chips and dip and call it a day. No mess not much clean up. Not as yummy but much easier.

On the work front...they came around and asked for volunteers for a detail job in a department called RAIVS (not sure what that acronym stands for but). I had applied for a job in this department at one time but they put the job on hold and froze it for a while. So now they want help and of course i volunteered. Its a 60 day detail. They wanted about 9 people. They got like 50 volunteers so they went by our EOD (enter on duty) date....its so nice to have an old EOD cuz you get chosen before all the others...LOL. Yes i got the detail cuz for once seniority pays off. Also a friend of mine that got to be in this department cuz she was already a perm said they are gonna have some openings in this department soon so since i am gonna detail there i will see if i like it now. YIPPEE...I start this next Wednesday. I kinda hate leaving SCRIPS (which is the part of data conversion that i really like) and the gainshare incentive money but you gotta branch out and try something new if you want to get anywhere at the good ole IRS...ugh.

Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th of July. Love you all!

Nothin new

Same ol' stuff different day. No news on the job. Still working overtime. Feel like i live up there sometimes. With gas the way it is...i wish i did...wouldn't be spending all my overtime money on gas to get there. Glad i share rides with Marcia. Don't think i could afford to drive every week.

Got to see Amanda's new mode of transportation. Its cool...and you can pick her out of a crowd. LOL. Wish i could afford one of those Hybrid cars, would be kinda nice to get 40 miles to the gallon right now.

We are scrapbooking this Friday night 6 to 12 and Saturday morning 9 to noon at the Church. I love to get together with the girls and talk and try to work on our books...lol. Wish you could come Jen but your stuff is probably all packed away isn't it.

Bored bored bored.......

Wish i could have gone out of town this weekend since i have been off since friday and don't go back till tuesday. Down to Moms or somewhere...but gas is so dang high you just can't go anywhere...unless you take out a loan...HAHA.

Today i went to church and after church i came home...whoopie. Well i was gonna see if Marcia wanted to go to lunch but she had her kids there and i didn't know when they were leaving so i came on home and took chomper out. Talked to Phyllis about how Pat was doing...pat had a seizure and fell off a truckbed while unloading potatoes for the pantry...he broke his cheek bone. he fell flat on his face and got some really deep road burns on his chin too. they life flighted him up to st lukes???maybe not there..one of those hospitals up there though...and he messed up his hand..might have broken his wrist and cut the palm really bad..stitches across the palm...they might have to operate on his face. Anyway after she left to go up to the hospital i changed clothes and put on a tank top and some capris and went out and worked on a little rock garden down at the bottom and to the right of my steps where my angel is and the iron cross i put up last year. I got really really hot and was almost ready to pass out from the heat and bending over to do the garden which is only about a 2 foot by 4 foot little garden. i gotta get more rock to put in it and maybe some more cute things to sit in there...but i got it almost done. Had to come back in the house and cool off and took a little nap. Found out i got a bit of a sunburn when i woke up. my back and my arms are a bit tingly. First sunburn i have had in years.

Guess tomorrow i am gonna grill some pork steaks and some brat patties and some hot dogs. and phyllis is gonna make some taters and onions and some veggie.

Hope you all have a good memorial day. Stay cool and stay safe. Love you all!!!

Hello out there

I haven't been doing much other than working and oh yeah...working overtime. Sometimes i even get to go to church. Wish i could say i was getting lots of money stored up but the price of everything going up...specially GAS...has put a cramp in that theory. It is so crazy to have to spend half your paycheck to get back and forth to work. Will it ever end or will we all have to stop working cuz we can't afford to get there. It was 3.75 today when i was out. That's just wrong.

They have opened a few more job openings in the department i want in. This time i made sure i redid my application and used all their "KEY" words and had my manager go over it with me. She made some changes for me and i typed them into my MPQ (government application) and i faxed it to personnel Thursday. Now we wait AGAIN and see what happens. Marcia got a perm job in the department she is in. So now its my turn dang it. I am hopeing but you never know cuz i have heard a whole lot of people say they are going to apply and there are only "2" openings. UGH UGH UGH!

Say a few prayers for me.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Thank you all

I had a very good birthday dinner with all of you and Thank you very very much. I did like the food this time...hehehe...and i got a hug from Derek when we left...woohoo. thanks every one...gotta leave for work now...LOVE YOU ALL

GEEZE give me a break

Do ya KNOW what time of the year it is??? Lots of work...lots of overtime...lots of pain in my shoulder and back. Stress and pain...yippee. Tax day..UGH!!

Ok. My shoulder is still killing me as is my back and i can't take the pain pills cuz they put me to sleep at work and i can't do that right now.

They are offering us 2 hours a day overtime and 10 hours a day on Saturday AND Sunday. And if they don't get enough participation on the weekends they will become "required" of us...they are calling it required now instead of mandatory cuz they think it sounds better. Its all the same. They were going to make it "reqired" for the next 3 weekends but decided not to make this one required to see how many people comply...i am sure the next 2 will be cuz people will wait till it is. Last weekend was overtime too. AHH the good old IRS blues. Hope you all did your taxes. hehehe I was going to wait to send them my check till today but i was afraid i would forget so i sent it last week.

and i posted on Mels blog by the way.

News for the masses

Ok, I am still alive. A little sore and stiff but doing some better. Oh, did i tell you why i am sore and stiff? No i don't think i did. Some of you know that i fell at work. If you didn't, its cuz you weren't at Glo's at Easter and i really missed ya!! Ok..here is the story. I was in the handicapped bathroom stall at work and had just finished my business. When i stood up i kinda turned sideways to pull up my pants for some reason of which i am not sure of now and my pant leg got under my foot and the floor was slick and my foot just kept sliding when i put it down and i fell flat butted on the floor and my back hit the wall of the stall. I hit pretty hard cuz it shook the rest of the stall doors down the line, of which there were several people occupying at the time. (stop laughing) Now remember i was in the process of pulling up my pants so i may have mooned anyone outside the stall. The little mexican lady that cleans the bathroom was out there and said "Oh my miss are you ok?" Well i said yes at the time all that was bruised was my ego. I had to crawl over to the bar on the wall to help myself up since my knees are bad and i can't just hop up like i used to when i was young. So i get up and pull my pants up and suck in my pride and go out to wash my hands. Joyce, one of the girls i work with and know really well, came out of the stall at the opposit end of the bathroom and said..Judy I thought that was your voice (when i fell i guess i said 'OH $HIT') are you OK? I told her yeah i was except for the ego thing. So we laughed a while and i went back to my work area. I told my manager that she may have to fill out an accident report. She goes are you kidding? filling out accident reports for the government is not fun. Anyway, I proceded to tell her what happened. By the time i was done telling my story, her and the girl that sits next to me, my work leader and the clerk were in tears laughing so hard as was i telling the story. She asked if i was ok and did i really want to do the accident report. I said maybe not right now. At that time i didn't really hurt much.

As i sat there though i got a little bit stiffer and soreness set in. By the time i got home i was hurting. Went to Moms Saturday and was hurting a little more. Made it through Easter and went to work Monday. I started hurting really bad sitting there at work and typing was killing my shoulder. I went in to the manager and she started up the paperwork for the accident. I stayed home Tuesday and went to the Dr for the rash on my leg cuz he wouldn't work with the Dept of Labor on a workmans Comp claim. So i had to go out to the ER to see a doctor there so i could get paperwork and X-rays for workmans comp. They took many many X-rays and nothing was broken so he gave me pain pills and had me stay home another day. My manager put on my paperwork that i sat all day and typed all day and the Doctor put on my return to work papers that i should do light work....no lifting over 10 lbs. and no bending from the waist or squating.....Ok...so how do those two things mesh??!??i still had to sit, which was hurting my back and type, which killed my right shoulder. Well i am still hurting on the shoulder and lower back.

Marcia and I started exercising and i am sore from that too....lol I am hoping to work out the kinks on the shoulder but its not working so far...just getting a little bit more sore. It should get better soon (I hope)!!

And i will get the pictures from St Pattys day on here when i can figure out how i did it before. Sorry its taking so long.

Life stinks

So...I put in for that job...only to find out my unit supervisor sent me the wrong job info so i actually put in for a job in Quality Assurance which i have done before but it is a very boring job and i didn't get it anyway. I guess i am nust not meant to work at IRS full time. It doesn't matter what job i put in for i won't get it because i haven't kissed the right butt or i just am not good enough for these people. We have to fill out this form called an MPQ which details your job experience and what you do and all your job awards and education....but the difference in this and a regular resume is....you have to use the right verb or the right sentence or some such crap that makes you look special. Its really discouraging that every time i put in for a job that someone with less time at the IRS gets it before i do. It really sucks that 29 years of experience at this place means absolutely NOTHING towards geting a full time job. It really irks me. It really ticked me off that my unit manager didn't give me the right info and that i didn't even get the chance to be denied the job i REALLY wanted. They just don't have openings that often in this department so when they tell you to try again next time....i could be 90 before they open full time jobs in there again. And it is really discouraging for everyone to say how come you aren't full time...apply for a full time job. Well when you DO apply for full time jobs and you get denied and someone off the street who has never worked there ever before gets it ahead of you makes it even worse. I hate to say this but even part of my family came in off the street and has a full time job. Mike is full time in a different department. He has only been there a few years but he came in off the street...hadn't gone to college...got a full time job....My neighbors brother applied for a full time job and got it just this year...he came in off the street...Life stinks.

Well you all wanted an update...didn't know i was gonna be bitter...LOL.

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On a better note....YEAHHHHHHHHHH we are going out together again....FUN FUN FUN.
AND Ruthie and Mitzi are gonna join us this year. More girls for Girls Night Out. Hope we get the living room again this year...that was pretty cool. See you girls tomorrow night. I am scrapbooking friday night...working overtime saturday morning...going to Mels after i get off and maybe help her move some stuff and then we are going out. I may need a nap. I will have to go back to work to get some rest after this weekend...HAHA.

Hey Ruthie...I can sit and watch with you...I am not a good bowler so it won't bother me.

Budget problems at IRS

They cancelled the one job that i really wanted because of budget issues. Go figure..always happens when its something I really want. BUT on a good note...the other job i want is still open and we are waiting to hear about it. ALSO they "reassigned" people from Data Conversion where i have been forever to SCRIPS and I was one of them so i am over there now this season at least unless the other Perms (permanent employees) start throwing fits like they always do and stir up crap and get us all broght back over to DC....if they do there are gonna be a LOT of disgruntled IRS employees...lol. But for now i am where i really want to be and hopefully whenever they decide to tell us who gets the perm jobs over there I will be one of them.

Other than that....IT REALLY SUCKS NOT HAVING ANY DEPENDENTS THIS YEAR!! Talking tax return and all. I OWE for the very first time ever in my life. SUCKSSSSSSSSS!!!! Specially when i am not sure where the money is gonna come from to pay it before the 15th of April so i don't lose my job. COME ON OVERTIME!!!!

OK i am done venting. Hope you are all well and that you had a much better Valentines day than i did. Sat here all alone and nobody even called me. (Yes its a pitty party so just deal with it...lol)

Yeah that was one more vent...closing this vent. Later guys...Love you all.

Back to the grindstone

Got back to work and all seems like its the same...but there are a lot of program changes to learn. I hate when you get the program and your rythm going on the forms and then they throw in a stupid box you have to look for one year...then the next year you come in and they have taken that box out so you have to remember not to try to put it in....and THEN the next year they put it back in so you have to now remember to pick it up. They did that to us this year. We have to remember to put in a 1 or a 2 for this box on the form for your deductions when you itemize. Its a total pain in the hiney. So you watch...we will just get it down pat this year putting in that box and next year they will take it away again. Anyway i am rambling on about something you are probably sitting there going..."HUH??" Its back to the same old grind. not sure yet if Marcia and I are gonna work the 5 8hr days or work 4 10hr days. We plan on working more overtime this year (if we get to work any)which is good. Traffic sucks when we have to stay late which is what we will be in if we do the 4/10s but thats life.

Well i thought i had my shelf in the closet fixed and started to put stuff back up on it...when it fell again. The brackets i bought didn't work very well. But my very good friend and fellow small group member David is gonna come fix it for me. Him and Jamie came by after small group last night to look at it and see what he was gonna have to do to get it so i can use it again. Jamie has Contada (sp?) practice Monday night so he is gonna come fix it while she is doing that. I love my small group. They are all wonderful.

Chomper is still trying to figure out whats going on with me leaving him all day. I get home and he won't let me out of his sight. I almost trip over him at times. I have to yell at him to go lay down so i don't end up on the floor. He is getting bigger...but he won't get too much bigger now i don't think. He is so fun to watch sometimes, specially when he starts going psycho running from the bathroom up front clear to my bedroom door and back and then he starts a circle around my recliner and around the living room and back around my chair again...he does this circle about 3 times and then he sprawls out on the floor, feet straight out back with his tummy flat on the floor and front paws under his chin, like he is totally exhausted. He loves his squeeky toys too. Luckily he hasn't broken the squeeker on a couple of them.

Hope the weather stays nice and doesn't get nasty. I am sooooo ready for good weather and no more of this cold stuff.

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I have a few things to add to my "list"

I want to be a grandma, probably cuz most of my friends are grandmas.
I fear getting old and being too old to be a good or fun grandma. (no pressure Amanda its just something i think about)
I fear not losing any more weight and gaining it all back even with the band still in place.
I love watching movies with Sean Connery in them. My favorite being Medicine Man. Wishing i could find someone like him.
I love crafting of any kind. Making things is so cool. Jewelry & scrapbooks are my most favorite.
I would love to have a real house to live in with real water pressure. (i had none again this morning)
I would like to go back to Florida again some day and go to Disney World this time.
I would like to go visit my friend Gail in California someday.
I don't like to have to think of something to cook.
Once i start cooking i really don't mind it.

Lists...hmmmm things you may not know

I love;

the smell of sheets after hanging on the line to dry on a crisp windy day
the feel of a baby's skin
the softmess of a babys hair
the gentle touch of someone that loves you
the softness of the blanket amanda made me for christmas
how proud i am of my daughters accomplishments
sad movies
funny movies
people that are not fake
my friends
the people in my snall group
the fact that i had a girl and not a boy (i had no desire to have a baby boy)
happy babies
cool summer nights
holding babies and putting them to sleep when no one else can
my puppy
taking naps in the middle of the day
listening to the funny stuff that happens during other peoples days at work
hearing a baby laugh for the first time

I hate;

not being part of a pair
not being married
being alone
my weight
some parts of my job
being sick
to drive at night
to drive in the city
feeling like i may never be good enough
being broke all the time
that i may grow old alone and never be married
getting up early
going to bed early so i can get up early (i can't ever get to sleep when i have to)
getting old
feeling old
rude people staring at me
feeling like everyone is talking about me behind my back

Thats just a few of the things that make me tick.

gotta go to bed now...work tomorrow.
Oh...Marcia and I went out to eat a late lunch today at Olvie Garden. Might i say it was super yummy. I had Lasagna Tuscan Chicken...it was very very good and of course the salad and breadsticks..YUMOLA. She treated cuz she got a refund on a service contract that she had on the car she just traded in to get the new one she has now which looks like a mini Hummer...its a Nitro, a Dodge i think. Red. Its cool. It was our last hurrah before going back to work...lol.

ok...time to try to sleep...if i can.

Love you all.

All right all right all right already....sheesh

NOTHING NEW.

Well ok I go back to work this Thursday for sure. Didn't get to come to Jens shower...was bummed. No money for gas sucks. Marcia is gonna drive till we start getting a check. I have applied for two different full time jobs at work. Hopefully one will come through. And i hope its the one i want. Either one will be ok but I would really like to get out of Data Comversion which one of them is but the other one is in the department of data conversion that i actually like. Well i am hopeful anyway. One is under reporter and the other one is SCRIPS....i really want the under reporter but SCRIPS would do nicely.

Got my living room rearranged and it looks pretty cool now i think. Also went through the kitchen and got rid of some stuff so i could get my dishes all in the cabinets. Looks pretty good. NOW for my room...OMG the shelf in the closet fell down and everything is loaded on my bed. Good thing i can sleep in my recliner. Gotta get some brackets to hold up the shelf cuz the cheep plastic ones they put on them when they make these things broke. all 3 of them on the wall broke. So now i just gotta find some brackets. (and money haha). April (one of the girls i work with that came in to help me rearrange the living room and kitchen) said she would see if her husband had some out in his tool box. She will hopefully be back Tues. so we can get my bed emptied so i can sleep there since i am going back to work.

And did i say I'm going back to work?? lol

OK....talk to you after i go back to work and see whats new and how crazy its gonna be this year.

Love ya all.

One day they might get it right.

Thought i was gonna go back to work this week but called to make sure and they said not to come in till someone calls for you to come in cuz they once again didn't get the work in that they thought they would. So, I will have to wait now till they think they have enough work for us. Guess people didn't file as soon as they thought they would.

It has been raining off and on all day today. It is now raining once again and we are out of the tornado watch and into just a storm watch. I am up right now cuz of this wonderful cold i have. Isn't life wonderful. I think the medicine i am taking for it (which is the mucinex dm) has wired me and i can't sleep. It does taht to me sometimes. Anyway I just decided to post cuz i was bored. During the day i feel like i am just so tired and i guess its cuz at night i can't sleep. I can tell when the meds wear off cuz i start wheezing so i take another one and its better. I would love to go take a shower right now but the lightening scares me so I will just wait till it stops.

We are going to scrapbook this Friday night at the church. Was gonna tell you Jen but didn't think you should drive at night this far. You could come early and stay all night (and are very welcome to do so still) but I don't think i would be good at running you to the hospital should the need arise. LOL. I know it's short notice but they just told me Sunday.

Nothing else going on so I will quit now. Love you all.

Well Here is 2008

Happy New Year all. Hope you had a more exciting evening than I did. I slept till about 10:45 and Tanya called me and said she was coming over. Phyllis had to take Tyler to urgent care cuz of his leg bothering him from a fall he took about a month ago. I guess he hit it so hard it still had a hematoma on the bone and they were afraid there was infection in it. They did blood work and there wasn't so they sent him home. She didn't get back till after 12. So mostly Tanya and I sat here and ate some chips and turkey and talked and texted people. Phyllis finally got here and she ate some turkey cuz she had been at the hospital for about 8 hours and was starved. So any party plans we had to play some cards and so on were zilched and not much else happened. We even forgot to watch the ball drop...oh well. It got here without us watching anyway. So here is hopeing that 2008 is a much better year than 2007 was.

Love you all and again....Happy New Year and GOD Bless one and all.

Well it came and went

Christmas came and went with Amanda in attendance. She got to come to Mel's Christmas Eve. We had turkey and green beans for supper. She wasn't feeling all that well so she took a nap and after we opened presents she went to bed early but she was there and I was very happy. She got up early Christmas morning and had to get ready to go in to work but we got to wish her Merry Christmas that morning. She was a busy girl making blankets for me and Mel and mom and she made the boys some pillows which were pretty cool. The fleece kind that you tie together on the edges and they are super warm. I love it.

We then got the food going and got ready for company to get there. Unfortunately Christy didn't quite make it. She had an accident at the corner before she even left home. So she didn't get to come up to Mel's and we missed her and sorry that she didn't get to come because of the wreck. Mom came home with me from Mels and stayed till Thursday. David came to get her after he took Christy to get a loaner car.

Not sure what I am doing for New Years Eve but probably nothing like I have for the last 2 years or more. Hope everyone else has better plans to celebrate the new year.

GOD Bless you all and I love you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR be safe and sensible.

Boring - Boring...gee my life is BORING

wha wha whawha wha wha wha wha....its a Charlie Brown grown up talking. Thats how i feel lately.

I am almost not hurting anymore from my fall. My back still hurts a little but that isn't anything new. And my legs hurt a bit..but thats nothing new either. so i guess everything is back to normal for me.

I can't believe that Christmas is only a week away. Where does time go??? This will be the first Christmas that i won't be spending with my Daughter since she was born. I am so sad. I will miss you kiddo. Love you!!! Hope you don't have to work too hard.

OUCHIE!!

Ok...not to copy anyone...but this morning i was taking Chomper out to potty and not thinking anything about ice build up on the deck or things like that...I put on my shoes i have by the front door that i slip on to take him out. I had him in my arms and opened the door and stepped out onto the deck. Well to my surprise, one foot went to sliding so i put the other one down and it went out in front of me like ZIP...and the next thing i knew i was sitting PLOP on my butt on the deck. I couldn't catch myself because i had him in my left arm but i must have grabbed for something with my right but don't remember. I was in shock for a few seconds. Realizing my butt was cold and getting wet i had to scoot back into the house because every time i tried to put my feet under me they slid away from me. So here i am scooting my way back into the doorway and I cannot get up without something to lean on anyway and Chomper is looking at me like...come on i gotta go....and i have to kinda lean on my elbow to pull myself the rest of the way into the house and he starts thinking i am playing with him and he is jumping on my head. I finally get into the house and the door shut and get up on my knees(and this hurts by the way) to get stood up with the help of the arm of the couch and he has already peed on the carpet. BUT i figured i better still take him out so he can do the other stuff. Found my salt and spread some on the porch before i take each step and i get him out there to finish his business. He went and we came back inside. I thought wow i don't hurt much for falling that hard....YEAH RIGHT...its now about 6 hours later and i HURT big time. Took some advil right after i fell so its not terribly bad right now. Been moving around so i don't get too stiff but its still happening. Also my right wrist kinda hurts from my thumb down and my shoulder hurts on that side too which is why i think i tried to use the right hand to catch myself. YIPPEE for winter...grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Had a really busy weekend planned too but this weather is starting to tick me off cuz most of it is gonna fall through. That and the fall. Was supposed to go with my small group to the pagent but had already decided that i couldn't afford to go out to eat with them and now this fall has made me think i couldn't have gone anyway. Also Sunday is iffy on whether i get to church or not since i don't drive on this stuff and Marcia had a little fender bender this morning on the ice so she is paranoid about driving on it again...We are supposed to make Christmas goodies tomorrow at Marcia's house but if the weather is too bad her sister and niece won't be able to get down here from Raymore to bring all the stuff for the goodies...so that may be on the back burner till next weekend. It's kind of an annual thing for Marcia's family to make fudge, cookies, and other good stuff for Christmas which i was in on last year at this time too. It was lots of fun and hope we get to do it again this year. We shall see tomorrow if the weather is against us or not.

Ok..thats enough rambling for this post. Love you all.

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WOW what a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

I am so sure that we all know that we had such a wonderful day with family. It has been many many years since we were all together in one place. So cool to see Todd and Vanessa and girls. They have been missed for quite a while now. Ruthies house looked really big till all the people got there...LOL. It kept getting smaller and smaller as the morning progressed. But there was enough room for all and we all had a good day. Good food and good company....you just can't beat it. I still have to get my pictures onto the computer but my program isn't cooperating too well at the moment so it may be a while before i get them posted. Rob...i love the beard and mustache. Makes you look distinguished. It was good to see you and the kids. Kudos Ruthie for all the good food and a kitchen big enough for everyone to be in there and cook at the same time. We may have ran over each other but we got it all done without an injury...HAHA. I think I missed a few hours of the day with my eyes closed...LOL. I couldn't sleep the night before and only got 1 hour of sleep at Mel's house, so i needed a little time out that day.

All in all...IT WAS SUPER!!!

Sunday Marcia (my friend from work who lives about 5 blocks from me) and I went to church and then went to the Chinese restaurant here in town for lunch. Amanda was going to go with us but we left after church and she stayed for sunday school to run the power point for Dennis during class, and she had some stuff to do after she got though so we made plans with her to go up to her house so Marcia could see her place. We went up Monday morning and went out to eat at a Mongolian BBQ place. I have never been to a place like that before...it was very interesting. The food was good too. We then went to Kohl's so Amanda could get some stuff for her naked tree. We used Marcia's old lady discount and got and extra 15% off of the sale prices on the things we bought. We then went back to Amanda's house and Marcia and I supervised while Amanda decorated her tree. It turned out beautiful for sure. (see her blog for a pic)