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Things mothers should not do

Well Tuesday is over. Well actually in about 4 hours and 15 minutes Tuesday will be over. It rained for most of the day and is continuing right now. The temperature went to 67 today here in Milford. It is now 65 degrees with light rain

I am just really angry right now. Mom and I were talking about the letter from our cable service informing us we will need to get a cable box if we want the stuff we have been having. Well if she fucking read it right we would still get the stuff we have now we just wouldn’t be getting ESPN. So I looked it up and it gave the pricing and the package and what we have. While I was reading the letter she tells me I look like I put on ten pounds. I mean how god damn insulting is that??? We had finished dinner nearly two fucking hours ago. “Oh don’t go away angry”. I am fucking insulted and you want me to take a look at what we will be doing for cable???? You don’t have enough money to put out for it????? Yet you want to buy fucking rugs????

Now I am feeling incredibly self conscious. Where the hell does she think its okay to say things like that to me? I just got on the scale and I am 219. Yet she can stuff what ever she likes in her mouth???

I am going to bed.

Oh I got letters from T Jones, and a birthday card from Dave today.

Not a bad start to the week

I am heading to bed. I am hoping I will be asleep soon. I had a pretty good sleep despite getting a muscle cramp behind my knee early this morning. There are hints of it still flaring up even now.

I got ready for work, moved some clothes around in the machines and got them out and put them in the spare room. It was raining when I left. I didn’t have any problems getting to work.

When I got there worked on the collection letters first and got them done and then got stared on the rest of the mail. Nothing really major happening there. Shirley just reminded me or asked me to make sure that when I get the correspondence to stamp it for that day. I am now just one day behind with the Rejection piles and the bad addresses. I did manage to work on the “redirecting mail”. Still have a long way to go.

I paid one of the birthday clubs today. I have to pay the other one tomorrow. Heidi T wasn’t here today and she is in charge of that one. Unfortunately, I spent part of it on food.

When I left the office today I was in a pretty good mood. I felt much better and not as stressed about being behind. On top of that the rain had stopped for the time being. I got home by 4:30.

Mom was upstairs on the computer and would be going to her meeting. The dinner was cooking in the oven. I checked my mail. I got changed and sat down and read the mail.

I got my Union Plus bill (yuck), a Citibank credit card application (toss). Two pen pal letters and my introduction letter to Silvia in Germany returned.

The bill is going to give me stress so now I am even more certain I can’t use it now until it’s down to a manageable level. I hope it won’t take me long to pay it off because Mom and I are supposed to go shopping sometime next week for fall clothes.

The two letters were from Amy P in Harrisburg. It was a quick note letting me know that she is taking a break from pen paling right now. I guess she has a lot going on. I wrote her a one page letter letting her know I understand and apologizing for not being the best pen pal. I suspect that’s why she sent me this. I can’t remember the last time I wrote her.

The other was from a Jamie C in California. She is in one of the pen pal groups with me and wanted to be my pen pal. She is originally from PA and now resides in San Diego with her husband who is in the Navy. I have an intro ready to be mailed to her tomorrow.

Jennie has asked me to print two more pictures for her scrap book. I will do that tomorrow when I get home and I will get them to her probably by Wednesday. I am also going to drop off some of the FB’s I have that I have gotten from others.
I did mail an introduction letter that I wrote yesterday. For the life of me can’t remember who it is to. I had left the one for Lori W in Florida here and that annoyed me.

I made the phone calls to the members of the Orangewood Woman’s Club to invite them to the meeting next month. I am not really sure if they will come. Actually I know one won’t be. Ronnie H is going to be in the Grand Canyon then. I left word with Telka that it was done and she called me back around 8. She tells me that we will be doing the baby contest at the mall (yes) and just getting final confirmation if it will be at the fountain.

Aw I just was at the SF-Fandom Board and got some bad news. Sarge Mom lost her son. It has been a long struggle apparently. She has been keeping us posted and it hasn’t been good.

Well, I am going to bed…see you all in the AM.

Today was cool

It is almost 2:30 Sunday afternoon; Sunday Afternoon Matinee is playing on the radio. It is raining and has been for most of the day. Mom is at the literary club picnic and won’t be back until later on in the evening. The aroma of Kielbasa and Sauer Kraut is all but left the house.

I had 15 people at bingo today and it went well. I showed everyone my new license picture and they all liked it. I had to think how many years I have had the license. It has been twenty one years since I got it. Sam told me he had his for 70 years. Argh. I can’t imagine me at that age yet.

I talked to Dave today. It was mainly about inviting him and Patrick to Liz’s for my birthday but he will be working that day. We talked about a few family issues that seemed to be bothering me. I sort of got aggravated and loud when I started thinking about how Liz wants to make the world (or her immediate world) acknowledge the wrongs that were done to her. Then we got to talking about the whole thing with Tom Cruise.

It is after 5:30 now and since the last few hours I got some laundry done and I talked with Mardi. She is recovering from her surgery and still in some pain. We talked about the family activities, and the Entertainment world. I told her about the card I am sending to her daughter and I am going to be sending to all her daughters. This is a big thing for all of them. Erin the oldest is starting High School. Emily begins 8th grade.

Mom came home around 10 of 6 checked her emails and got into her pajamas for the night. The party was a great one she says. Everyone was asking for me (or about me).

It is almost 9 now and I have managed to print out a couple more introduction letters and updated the files. I wrote a letter to Debra and will eventually put it in folder to be put in a binder. Once I get all of those things together I will be putting them into binder. I don’t know when that will.

I have also watched a little bit of TV. There are a bunch of movies on like the Jurassic Park 3 and The Mummy but I really wanted to work on the computer. Of course there is charmed.

Well I am going to hit the sack. I want to be at work early so I can get an early start on the work.

It was quiet and chilly today

Hey all it is after 8:30 and I am getting ready to run some errands. I need to renew my license today and that will be before I get my hair done. Mom says I was really cutting the time short with the license. I hate going to the DMV and I highly recommend the AAA travel center. All you have to do is sign a couple of things and pay your $66. Now I don’t have to renew my license until August of 2012

Well I did get an email last Wednesday from CC in Washington and she says she never got the letter. I am certain I sent it. I just replied to her and told her I would get another one out. I think this time so that I know she got it *incase* she is playing me I will get those signature cards attached.

I got a reply from Tina in regards to Marc and Dave. Apparently when Tina asked that Marci send her the magnet as new and not “previously owned” Marci was put off of it. The woman hasn’t returned any of the things she said she would to Tina. Tina also added a rule to the group that when we send or receive letters to post to the group.

I also have been replying to emails from Layla C. We were discussing the Long Letter Gal Pal Snail Mail pen pal list and things in general. Lalaya has been having employment problems unexpectedly.

I responded to Hazel’s emails as well. We all agreed that the drama on the lists is getting old and needs to stop.

Well Mom is downstairs cooking her contribution to the literary club picnic tomorrow. She is definitely getting tired. The picnic is around 1 tomorrow and she will be leaving here probably by 12. I am not sure what time she will be back but I am imagining it will be late tomorrow.

Well the weekend has officially started. Today was pretty good even though it was another one of those days where I didn’t get everything finished. We had cake for Jean T who is moving up to Insurance Follow-up.

My wrist has been hurting all day today. Any time I would move it a certain way it was ached and it is still doing it now. I took some Aleve® for it. A couple of times today and no result yet.

I had a good session with Debra today. She gave me a statement for the last two months and she has filled out the HCFA forms. All she needs is the group number and I will call her with that tomorrow. We are both hoping that this will get the insurance company to reimburse me for the sessions.

We talked about the weekends and how aggravated I was with Dave last week for almost missing the schooner ride and his behavior and how I felt when Mom defended him. I also told her that I had been procrastinating about ordering the Welbutrin from Dr. H. I promised her I would call when I got home tonight. Instead I emailed him.

I also told her about the stuff that went on with the pen pal groups this week and my concerns that I hadn’t heard from my pen pals who where part of a swap and haven’t acknowledged whether or not they received the swap or the letter. I don’t want to end up being like the others who haven’t heard from their pen pals (me) and become anxious.

It rained for a good part of the day today and it has made the evening incredibly cooler than it has been. I put on my heavy nightgown and made me feel better. I guess it is supposed to be cloudy and rainy for most of the weekend. That’s okay. I have only a few outside activities for this weekend the rest I will be writing letters.

There were some pretty scary moments at a few airports around the world. In Houston Texas a man had dynamite from Bolivia in his luggage. He is twenty one years old and according one newspaper article he could go to prison for ten years for bringing an explosive on board an airplane. Apparently he got it as a souvenir. I mean really you would have to be living under a rock to not know that you don’t bring any thing that could be considered dangerous on a plane.

I am just checking some emails. Some groups have dropped having games. Its about time.

God I am getting aggravated. Everything seems sluggish and I know that there is nothing wrong. I just did a scan and everything is fine. Loading of the emails are taking for ever. No matter what I touch something is wrong.


Family news: Aunt Rosemary became a grandma today. Judy had a girl this morning. Choices of names were Cloe and Kayra..

August 24, 2006

Good morning it is 9:30 and I am working on yesterday’s lock box once again. I just finished sorting Tuesdays and will be delivering that as soon as I finish with the work in front of me. I was reading Linda Lael Miller's Journal and she is truly inspiring. She is the author of a book entitled “Last Chance Café” in which Kevin Sorbo is starring in. I always think I write lousily in journals by writing every detail of what I am doing and when. For me it sounds like it would be boring.

Work yesterday went okay. There were no major problems to speak of and when it was time for me to leave for the retirement dinner I had no problems getting there. The drive past Fort Nathan Hale Park was lovely.

The entire evening was great. The Restaurant was lovely and the food great. I got to see people I haven’t seen in a long time. We all signed a Message book and address book in case she wanted to contact us. I sat with Paula J, Dottie C, and two other women I had never met but had heard of. It was fun listening to the stories from the old days prior to my starting at Yale.

I left around 8 and headed home. The ride was fine but I was getting tired and not really feeling great. When I got home I found a trailer of sorts in front of our house. Sean D put it there and Mom is not happy. It is from Marren’s Landscaping Company that Sean has been working with this summer. He pulls this a lot. Mom commented last night that his sense of right and wrong should have told him not to do it. He has a driveway. I agree with her but didn’t want to say negative things about it.

I got changed bathed and did the garbage and recycle stuff and watched the last half hour of LHOT it was part two of the episode ‘May We Make Them Proud’. I got online for a few hours and checked emails and the forums and checked out the Milford Democrats site and it looks great.

I heard from Kim T from one of my groups. She is really nice we have been chatting for the last few days about what kinds of things to do in our cities and she was telling me she is going to China in November. She seemed excited and a little nervous. It will be her first trip.

Before turning in for the night I managed to print out some team labels for work. I did about ten of them because I was tired. I put them in the pile of labels I have on the desk.

After work today I am going to pick Jennie up and we are going to the post office and then to Oyster River Tavern and have dinner. My intention is to have salad and nothing else. No dessert and no bread of any kind. I won’t be having soda or beer (I don’t like beer anyway). I will take Jennie home and then head to the meeting.

There is a board meeting for MYWC to vote on the new potential members for both clubs. I am sure we will talk about the baby contest and all the upcoming events. It should be a fun year. I just wish we didn’t have so many hassles or what feels like hassles. We were told we couldn’t hold the baby contest in Baby’s Are Us because they will be doing a Baby Modeling contest in March and they think it’s a conflict of interest. Telka isn’t buying it and neither are the other girls but I feel its BRUS loss but they can do what ever they want.

Rhonda Gemini emailed me and urged me to take care of myself. She read my journal entries and she is so sweet. She also posted to the IMDB and asked me about what there were changes made from Linda’s book for the movie. I am thinking it was because of Logistics and finances. Unless there was something else and I hope that someone with better knowledge (and preferably not Themis) than I do will have the answers.

I best get back to work. Shirley called to let me know there are collection letters to be done.

Milford Democratic Party now has a blog!

Just got a message from Bruce this morning and he sent us here: http://milforddemocrats.blogspot.com/

today.

It is after 9 pm and I just finished watching the end of part one of “May we make them Proud episode of Little House on the Prairie”. I had missed the fire part but I had seen it so many times.

Tonight was a quiet night. I was updating my calendar and reading some emails. Mom’s been watching TV. She went out to a Political thing for Dick Roy. He is the State Representative for Milford. She got home a little after 7.

She made some phone calls and got online to check emails. Then she changed into her pajamas and has been watching TV. I am not sure what she has planned for tomorrow. She has work for CPAC and the MHB. She has the wake to go to tomorrow night. She has the Funeral for Ann Marie on Thursday. There are meetings for the rest of the week.

My day went pretty well. I got more accomplished then yesterday and made a concerted effort to not use the computer as much. I still have lots to do though. I have to finish the lockbox from today. The mail from previous day has to be sorted then I have to do the bad addresses from Friday and the last couple of days.

I had my appointment with Dr. Martin today and you can read about it. I told Mom about it and she read the flyer I brought home. I have to start really doing things about the health. I am not really worried about it because well I think I feel okay.

I sent an email to Dan letting him know that if he needs to get a hold of me (I didn’t get the previous email about Ann Marie) that he could do my work email. He sent me the other email today about the funeral arrangements for Ann Marie.

Well, I better get ready for bed I am going to have a long day tomorrow and I want to look nice…

PS

I haven't heard from Marci R but noticed she and her husband joined a few other groups.

Monday went by too fast

It is almost 7:20 Monday morning. I have been up for about 40 minutes and have bathed and ironed my pants for work. The radio is on and reports about Kurdish communities that Sadam Hussein had destroyed during his regime. These are accusations that are being hurled at Sadam and he is going to court for these.

It is after 5 and I have been home since 20 of five. Today went by so quickly. I didn’t get everything done either. I had forgotten I had some team stuff to sort and deliver. No not the Rejection/EOBS but correspondence, requests. I haven’t even begun to open the lock bock mail.

I am heading to bed. For some reason the computer is sluggish and it’s starting to piss me off. The other things that are starting to piss me off are the following:

People are continuing to get on CeCe’s back about her not sending out
Letters to her new pen pals and she continues to ask for new pen pals. I haven’t heard from her yet either. It doesn’t bother me

I just found out the Marci and Dave left a group because of a misunderstanding. I don’t know if she got the swap yet.

People are still fucking arguing over stupid ass stuff.

I am going to get together with Jennie on Thursday. We are going to the post office and then probably out to dinner. I have to let her know I have a 7:30 meeting for the Club.
Telka called a board meeting together so we can vote on the new members

My Sunday

It is almost 2:30 on Sunday afternoon. I have done bingo, church, and some ironing, and got into a slight disagreement with Mom about Dave and how he was running later then he had expected to the boat last night. She is so goddamned annoying and disloyal to me. She saw nothing wrong that he and Patrick and Mary showed up nearly 15 minutes before the boat was to leave. He got there didn’t’ he??? If I had done that she would be reading me the fucking riot act.

Anyway, she is doing some paper work, and I am surfing the net. Sorbonut posted that Kevin Sorbo will be attending Megacon 2007 in February. I saw the website promoting it but I didn’t read fully where it was going to bed. He will be there around Valentines Day. I shared the info with a few boards. No one responded yet.

In the pen pal world the first message I see here is from the ladiesplace group and they appointed a new moderator. Her name is Jayne. In the other groups swap partners were announced in several swaps. I didn’t do anymore. In some of the other groups its photo sharing day.

It is now after 11 and I am heading to bed. The rest of the day went well. I got most of my ironing done and put the rest of the clothes away without ironing with the intent to do them before I wear them.

I spent a lot of time online checking emails and replying to emails to various groups. I was reading some of them and they were about the same conversations (FB’s, short letters etc) from the past week.

We had dinner around 5. Mom put steak on the grill and we had that with yams (yellow potatoes and bread. We had a wonderful surprise while eating. PBS had a Simply Ming show on and usually it is "Cooking with Daisy". Now I am not sure if they rearranged their schedule again or moved the shows. It was good to see him though.

After dinner I got ready for the ice cream social and also phoned Telka to ask her what was needed. She told me to bring an ice cream scoop and Ice cream I liked and some whipped cream. Well I asked Mom if I could bring the one we had and she said yes. I took it with me and went to the store and got the canned whipped cream and Cookies and Cream ice cream. I got to Telka’s at 6:30 and there were already several people there. Mostly were young girls with a few Mothers. Telka had a few of us talk about certain activities that we did over the years. I was nearly the last person to go and I spoke about the time we hosted the South African gymnastic team. The whole thing lasted until 9 and we all had a good time.

Lucille and I were the last to leave and it started to pour. It made driving very hard but I went slow and got home okay.

Mom was in the back watching TV and she was peeved at me. Why? She came in here to close the windows. She was not pleased by the stuff in the room (it was a mess) I told her oh okay well I will take care of it. I came upstairs and closed the door. I started to swear. I acted as though I was talking to her. She says she came in her to close the windows (they were already closed) I think she just wanted to snoop and see things. Do you realize if she had done that to anyone else she would have been fined by the housing authority? I just talked out loud saying this was unacceptable. This is my space and I have a right to have it the way I want. All the while making my bed and picking up some of the stuff. The next time I will lock the door and she will need to have a search warrant to come in. Once I got that out of my system I went down and told her what I did do. I just told Mom that I made the bed and that I picked stuff up and not to worry it will be taken care of. She just dismissed me.

When I checked my emails I noticed I got a nice reply from Jim. He said Emily and Jamie are sleeping over and took over his bed and kicked him out so he might sleep on the floor. He tells me that Kristina moved Sophie to a new stable and had a horse show and won three blue ribbons. He told me about his doctor’s appoint and the doctor says he is coming along. But still has a long way to go. He says he isn’t going to be in the marathon but a 5 mile race and that’s going to be on November 19th. He says he will get back to me about the time. I am going to reply to his email tomorrow afternoon.

Well the rain stopped an hour ago and hasn’t done much for the humidity. I have the AC on and will be going to bed now.

This Weekend

It has been a couple of days since my last entry. In that time I worked and it went well. I helped out at the Oyster fest last night and this morning and I am very tired. I am in the middle of getting ready to meet Dave and Patrick and Mary and Rose and her Mom at Cancun Charlie’s Restaurant so we can take the schooner cruise at five. I am leaving here at 3:30. Mom graciously has offered to drive me to town as far as we can go and then I will walk from there to Factory lane. She plans on dropping me off at the Shelter. I just hope that fucking bitch isn’t there. She threatened to have our car towed from the shelter parking lot if we parked there again. Mom didn’t even tell her she is a board member.

Anyway we got home by 11. I had several messages on the answering machine. One was from Jennie calling to thank me for the pictures and to see her at the Oyster fest. The other three were from Dave. He called to update on where we were going to meet. It was to be at 4:00 in front of Cancun Charlie’s and then walk to the boat. We talked two other times.

After I talked with him I did some chores, got online, and took a nap, watched TV, and had done some ironing. I started getting ready around 3. Dave called shortly after that and told me to not worry that they weren’t there at Cancun Charlie’s right @ 4. They had to run to his aunt’s house. He wanted to drop stuff off.

Mom and I left here a little after 3:30 and got back to Milford by quarter of 4. I walked over to the Democratic TC tent said hello and then walked to the restaurant via the foot bridge. I saw Rose and her Mother. We waited and then got a call from Patrick because it was getting late and they said they wouldn’t be there until 4:30. Well we had to be at the boat by 4:30. We walked to the boat pier and waited. They didn’t get there until 20 of 5. Of course it was Dave’s fault.
The skies looked ominous. We took the boat ride we got back by 7. It was wonderful. We talked about all things. When it was over we headed over to Cancun Charlie’s. It was a half hour wait. The service was lousy; I ended up spending all thirty dollars. We didn’t get out of the restaurant until 10. We walked back to the cars and had to chat with Dave’s Aunt. He was his typical self.

It did end up raining for part of the night.

Now I am full and heading to bed.

Things I won't be sharing with the SF-Fandom Board

Every day I do a search on any journals or things I might see about Kevin Sorbo to share with the SF-Fandom Board. So that I can be a viable member (and not always point out the negative of the fandom. Like when certain fans do the unthinkable (such as stalk) well today I saw this: annalytical - http://annalytical-annalytical.blogspot.com and I did share it with Gemini today and wrote to her "I won't be sharing this with the fandom."

Why do you ask? They would probably and in all likelihood rush to his defense and then say the girl is stupid or give their reasons why Kevin would never do what was reported here. Then perhaps they would say "well he must have been having an off day". In otherwords basically make excuses for him.

Don't get me wrong I do like Kevin and think he is a good actor but I have a slight problem with "want to be a good role model" and yet he does or says things that would not be considered "good role model" material. For example in one of the IMDB threads for Kevin someone had asked if he was now out of a job because of the way things happened on Andromeda behind the camera and in front. The poster pointed out the time Kevin clearly made passes at a model while on a talk show.

I guess i have a problem with the fans who think he can do no wrong and when anyone else (read me) points out some negative things they feel they have the exclusive right to be called fans. That they can do anything they want when they want.

two days now

It has been a couple of days since my last entry. In that time I worked and it went well. I had a lot of stuff going on and managed to make a dent in it. I went to Mrs. Jepson’s wake after work and then over to Liz’s.

While over there we talked about our health, and she asked me questions about the plaquenil. It isn’t working for her too much. We also talked about getting the birthday party organized for Mom. We talked about family stuff. Then one of the discussions came around to me freaking out. I said to her when Mom came home sick that day I freaked out. She started telling me that I should talk about that with my therapist. WTF is she to tell me what I should be talking about to MY therapist. I thought it was really out of line. She said how I will deal with the time that Mom will eventually die. Just make sure you don’t get melodramatic and we will be fine.

I was sort of glad I left there around 6:30. When I got home Mom was waiting for me and we were going to have sandwiches made form the meat we had Monday night. The rest of the night I did various things. I made some labels for work. I checked the various sites on the net, made some pen pal labels.

Jim called last night he is feeling better. I didn’t get to talk to him long but I felt bad. I am going to write him a letter and just say hi to him.

Speaking of letters, the discussion of typed letters showed up in the long letter snail mail gal pal list again. It’s like a broken record on that list. Some object to them and this time around a number of them don’t mind them.

Rhona came back to work today. She looked great despite the fact she must have been in pain.

I went for a walk tonight it was nice despite the freaking flies and gnats. I got bit. ON the way back stopped and talked with some neighbors. It was around 8:15 and it was getting dark by then.

Tomorrow is garbage day. I have already put the garbage out and will put the rest out tomorrow. Luckily we don’t have to do the recycle stuff until next week.

We have the farewell party for Heidi. I have to bring soda. I will get it when I leave for work tomorrow.

Okay I am going to bed..

I was so tired today.

It is now after midnight on Monday morning. Mom went to bed a short time ago. I tried to go to sleep unfortunately the three small cups of coffee with lots of milk are keeping me up. The cramps are starting up a little too. I did have a bowl of cereal that I spilled on the floor and rug already.

I am going to surf the net for a bit and then try and go back to sleep. I want to get back up at 5 so I can start my day.

Well it is now after 9:30 Monday night. It took me a long while to get to sleep and I ended up sleeping until 6:30. I rushed around and got ready for work. I left after 7:30. I got to work after 8 and began working on the collection letters. Shirley was out for the day. I didn’t get a lot of those letters done.

I did manage to sort the 9th’s EOB rejection piles and deliver them but didn’t finish current day’s mail. I did manage to do Friday’s bad address pile. Shirley will be back tomorrow while Ann will be at a conference.

I was exhausted all day. I would imagine that’s why I did not get much done. I am going to bed shortly so I hope to catch up on sleep.

I talked to Jennie today. She called hoping I was okay about Saturday and I told her I was and that I wasn’t really feeling that well over the weekend. I told her about the question I posed to the lists. That was about critiquing a pen pal’s letters to us. I got a great response to them. All but one said they wouldn’t.

I called Mom today and she was doing paperwork. She said I had gotten my stockings. They came early today. She also sent me an email about a potential virus warning that Nagel sent her again. It gave instructions etc. I looked at it and while I was looking at it saw an email from Tina D (Sorbo Fandom) sending out a general reminder about hoaxes and virus stuff. I went downstairs and told her that before she does anything to check out Symantec. She said oh you mean do a virus check. NO you asshole. Would you please listen to me! I told her before you do anything check urbanlegends.com or Symantec or McAfee for virus warnings etc. I truly resent when Nagle does this. The next time he sends stuff out like this I will personally report him.

Well I better get to bed. I am so cranky again.

The Birthday party

It is after 7 at night the sun is still out but I suspect within the hour the sun will have set. We have been home from Mike and Cheryl’s for about 45 minutes. Mom got into her pajamas and I was watching TV. We had a great time and had lots to eat.

I got up around 8 I think (its becoming a blur) and got ready for Bingo. I showered dressed and got online and checked some emails. I also joined another list from Nicola. I did notice I got a lot of “can’t deliver your message because” I was bouncing messages. Luckily it was fixed.

Bingo went pretty well had about 16 players but I really wasn’t feeling well. The cramps were starting to get me drained and I was very uncomfortable. I also had one patient that the nurses decided to hand over to me to baby sit... After bingo I went to pick up my medication and some napkins and some lotion. The one thing I forgot was the greeting cards. I went home got freshened up and went to church. I was still feeling crappy.

As I was going to the ladies room I saw Ethel. When I returned I sat with her. I must have looked like I was suffering from hemorrhoids because I was squirming for several minutes. As soon as communion was served I left. I went and got cards.

I got two our three birthday cards (Brian’s, Paula J’s, Venita S’s, and a get well card for Mardi, and thinking of you for Erin S who starts high school in the fall. I came home and Mom was just finishing up getting ready for the afternoon. I told her I wasn’t feeling well and that I was going to take a bath.

I soaked in the bath tub for 45 minutes and felt a little better. I got dressed, signed the card. Mom went to get some cash (she criticized me for giving a check). I made some 4th District phone calls to my team. We found out that Alan J lost his wife last night and we needed to tell people so that they could attend the services. I folded some clothes too.

When Mom came back for me I was starting to feel better. The cramps were subsiding and that was because I had taken some Ibuprofen. I was feeling much better by the time we got to Mike and Cheryl’s house. We were 15 minutes late. It usually happens because we took a wrong turn despite the fact we had directions.

We got to see Chris, Stephanie, and Jason who was a little shy and had just woken up from a short nap. We had a great time. There was a lot of food. I drank a lot of water and had some chips and occasional “take it easy” from mom. Rich was there, Cheryl’s family and friends, and of course the rest of us. WE left around 6 and the drive was uneventful.

I am staring at this desk wondering if I should straighten it out or write some letters. I really don’t feel like doing either one right now. I am just plain tired...

This week is going to be fairly quiet. That is until Friday night. Set up for the Oyster fest begins that night and will last until 10. Saturday is the Festival. That afternoon I am going on a schooner right (the one I mentioned in yesterday’s entry here )

Sunday is the Ice cream social at Telka’s. I am not sure how many people will be there if any. I am not swimming although I wouldn’t be surprised if anyone else doesn’t go.

Tuesday is the appointment with Dr. Martin. I still have to submit that as a PTO request. I forgot to do that earlier. I don’t think I will have any problems at least not expecting any.

Wednesday is Angela Vigent’s retirement party. It will be cool to go. I haven’t seen her since she left but I understand she does talk with Joyce, Lorraine, and Betty. They are in charge of her party.

Well, I am going to see what episode is airing for Charmed tonight. After that I am going to bed.

My Day

Good Morning! It is almost 9:30 and I have been out of bed since 8:15. I have been spending the last hour on the computer. I did a windows update (there were 8 high priority ones) and they needed to be done. I also did a long sheet for it too. I also included the Webroot Spy ware update too. Instead of reaching for paper all the time I could just write it out in case Donny wanted to know something. There was a Hardware update for the NEC screen. I did that one too.

I have also been checking emails. I answered some of the QOTD in one of the groups. For example one of the questions was “Is your online personality the same as your RL personality” or something like that and I answered it’s pretty much the same for me. The other one was would you buy a copy of any popular fashion ware (pocketbooks etc). I told them if I really liked it I would. The other question is “What is the most ridiculous argument you and your significant other have had. At first I thought about the pen pal argument with Mom but now I am thinking over the pizza one I had with Dave many years ago. We were discussing Dominos VS Dominick’s. He ended up leaving.

I wrote a quick letter to Debra telling her about my evening last night and what the day is supposed to be like. She already knew about it but I just felt like writing her. I told her I would check with Aetna to see what was going on with the reimbursements but I just tried accessing it and my username and password isn’t working. I tried it three different ways and it didn’t work. Now I have to call them Monday.

I just ordered my plaquenil from Walgreen’s Pharmacy. I have to get a refill from Dr. Hills for the Welbutrin. I will email him shortly.

Well it is after 10: 30 and I just finished eating breakfast. While I was having breakfast I got a call from Dave. He wanted to know what time I was finishing at the oyster festival next week so that we can go on a schooner ride that same day. It will cost $30 and there is one at 5 that day. He is going to stop by and drop off the paper work for me to fill out and sign.

Well I was getting a little frustrated when I couldn’t find my stamps. I found them a short while later. This only reconfirms that this desk really needs organizing again.

I am still just potting around and doing the laundry. I am going to write up a few intro letters and get the files started.


Oh well someone names Cassie bitched about Tamara Stevens group. She posted a message that the group needs some serious cleaning up because there is 66 people who are bouncing and that the owner is no where to be seen and no moderator. Well in my always tactful way I basically told her it’s none of her business and Tamara may have other things that are taking up her time. IF she freaking doesn’t like it then freaking leave the damn group.

I also sent a message to Chrissie from one of the groups who responded to Rhonda G in regards to CeCe request for pen pals. Rhonda G is incredibly rude and obnoxious.

It is nearly 4 pm and I am still here. Dave came around 12:30 or 1 to get the money for the schooner ride and to chat. He left shortly before 2 and I ate lunch. While I was downstairs Jennie called.

Jennie called to tell me that she and Marc were not going to go to the scrapbook thing because as expected the other girl was going to be there and Jennie didn’t want to get into fighting. That’s okay by me. I didn’t really want to go up there and fight anyway. Besides I couldn’t find the pictures I wanted to use anyway.

So I watched TV for a while and now probably will write some letters for a while and then get this room straightened up a little.

It is after 7 p.m. Mom got home a little bit ago from church and the continuing search for a shelf for the upstairs TV stand. She got home around 5 from her lunch date with Stella and Irene. She went to the 5:30 mass and then out shopping. She went back out again before eight.

It really is amazing but it is 8:17 and it the sun has been setting earlier each night. There is coolness in the air which is also another sign that summer is getting closer to the end.

Well its time for me to get to bed. I am getting cranky and things are taking way too long to move. Its not the computers fault but mine.

Glad it is Friday

It is almost 10:30. I have been home from work since 4:15. Mom was doing some cooking and I just hung out.

I got to work at a fairly decent hour and started working on the letters. I got a lot done and stayed with it for over an hour.

The rest of the day I worked on lockbox, the regular mail, and the charts with littler or no problem. I still have a lot more letters to do (Heidi L’s) but I can finish those on Monday. I still have to resend t he “personal’ mail out as well. I have the “special project” and the bad addresses to do on Monday.

I will have to finish sorting the EOB’s from the previous days. I had forgotten they needed to be done. I managed to get the 8th done.
I got a phone call here on my phone from Phil’s Pharmacy again for “Irma P” and it was about her prescription and stuff. I called them back telling them they keep calling here and it’s the wrong number. I was really getting aggravated because they are leaving way too much info on the phone. That’ is a clear violation of the HIPAA laws. The first time I called the woman hung up when I was getting annoyed. The second time the woman said she wasn’t the person who answered the phone. She said that my number was the one on the system. I told her I didn’t care. It’s not the right one. I told Shirley about it and she said they are clearly wrong. I am beginning to think I am going to keep track of them calling here. When I get enough data I am going to write them a letter informing them they will be reported for HIPAA violations.

The rest of the day went okay. I managed to leave on time and got to Debra’s with relative ease. I hadn’t brought my bag today for that reason.

I told her about the past week and what occurred. I told her about last weekend and what my plans were for this weekend and the rest of the summer and parts of the fall.

After the session I walked back to the car. I stopped at Quizno’s for their new sandwich. The Smokehouse Beef Sandwich. Let me tell you. It was not that great. I had a bag of chips and soda. I ate it in the car before coming home. I was still hungry by the time I got home.

Mom made salmon on the grill with vegetables, and she also made baked apples on the grill. While she was cooking it I was reading my mail.

I got a wonderful letter from Kathy F in KY. She sent me a birthday card too. I even got my next bill for the car insurance. I can pay it off next pay check.

We sat down to dinner around 5:30. We watched the news. The main report was the continuing coverage of the averted Terror plot and how people are really dealing with the new security issues at the airports.

After Dinner I went for a walk for an hour. I came home and Mom was on her way to Target. She wanted to get a few things. She came home nearly an hour a go with very little.
While she was out I was reading some emails, updating the spy ware program and surfing the net. I also watched TV for a bit. Now I am going to bed…

After finally going to bed after midnight I finally got up around 6:30. I woke up to the news that a potential terrorist plot had been stopped at Heathrow Airport in London. That put this country on High Security alert. I Showered and ironed my clothes and got ready to go. Mom was up before me and started getting a little nervous when she didn’t here any noise.

Because of this latest event all the airports have changed security precautions. No liquids can be brought on any planes and trains. The list of liquids includes such things as shampoo, water and anything else that you can imagine.

The reports have been on the radio and TV through out the day and including any traffic reports there were. This heightened security will be for a while (I am guessing). Even Liz was telling me about it when I called her today.

My Day was pretty good. I parked on the tenth level of the parking garage and got to work exactly at 8. I rode the elevator with Sally T and we talked about our families. I told her about Jim. She felt bad. When I got into the office I got the mail from the trays and then put them in the mailroom and then started on the collection letters. I finally finished Heidy L’s. It took me about 45 minutes. I went back and did the charts and delivered them. I then did today’s lockbox.

Around 10 I had breakfast of bagel, Key Lime square and coffee. I also bought two cookies and gave them to Ann. The rest of the day I did the mail, ordered the charts, and spent about an hour and half more on the collection letters. I also made a few phone calls. I called Dave, Liz and Bob. I spoke with Ethel.

I left the office a little after 4 and managed to get home by quarter of five. Mom was at her meeting and so I read my mail, and watched TV. I got a wonderful birthday card from Kathy Z in Washington State.

Mom came home around 5:30 or so and was going to go out again but she got tired. She made herself some dinner and checked emails. I emptied the dishwasher, checked emails, and watched more TV.

It was about 7 when it started to cloud up and started to rain. It has been raining on and off all evening. I was going to go for a walk until it started to rain I put some of the potted flowers outside.

I have been watching TV and writing this journal entry. I haven’t really felt like writing any letters either. I don’t know why.

I just had a call from Jennie. We were figuring out what time we were going to leave for the scrapbook party and we figured around 4. She will be giving me a scrapbook to start with it since I don’t have a lot of pictures yet. I asked her if she had heard from our friend Nicole who recently moved back to Vermont. She hasn’t yet. I told her I had posted to Nicole’s 360 blog and hopefully she will be able to read it.

I am beginning to think I am letting the room get messy again. I still have the box the monitor came in on the floor and the Styrofoam sitting on the floor and the old monitor on the floor as well. It’s been a couple of days since I actually made the bed.

I don’t want the room to get to the point were it is cluttered and messy. The desk is almost there now. I am thinking of restarting the schedule documents so that I can plan my days better than I have.

Well I have a few things to do before going to bed so I am going to close out for now. Have a great night all!

Kate

Its been a crazy couple of days

It is almost 9 and I am heading to bed. Yesterday was wild. I left here around 7:20 and made it to the highway a short time later. That’s when the shit hit the fans. There had been an accident that blocked two lanes then it shut down the highway. I was stuck on the highway for nearly an hour and half. I finally got off at exit 43 and took the side roads. I didn’t get to work until shortly before ten. I was livid. Everyone at work was pretty worried about me.

The rest of the day I worked on the mail for the last two days. If only the lockbox that I got. The Post office mail never came because the truck never showed up. I sorted Monday’s rejection piles and delivered them late. I still have Tuesday’s and Today’s. I tried to stay off the internet and I did okay for the most part. I got the bad addresses done but I have a ton of collection letters to fold. I have to get to them tomorrow. Some of them are old.

I left work right on time yesterday and got to Jennie’s right around 4:30. Even with the heavy traffic from the morning accident. I told her about my experiences yesterday and she giggled. It was funny actually. We talked about her day and she asked me to take her to her Aunt’s house and so we went and I got to meet her wonderful Aunt and got to see Picci. We talked about the accident that morning and how we dealt with it. Once I left there I headed to the polling place and did the voting. I saw a few people I recognized from the democratic town committee and we chatted and then I headed home.

I had dinner by myself and then spent the evening installing my monitor. I finally got it done by 9 or so and that’s about the time Mom came home. She watched some of the final tallies.

This morning I woke up to the news that Ned LaMont had one the bid for the Democratic Party for Senator and that John won his bid for the governors race. . There were reports from each of the headquarters and what was next for the candidates here is my view on it.

I did get on line a bit before going off to work but I did leave a little after 7 and made it to the office by 7:30. I stopped and got breakfast and then did some work when I got to the office. I managed to get caught up a little.

After work I headed home. Mom was with the Knitwits for the afternoon and would be getting home later (around 6). I had dinner and watched TV and got online and tried to update some of the pen pal files. I had every intention to write some letters but didn’t.

I trimmed the Hydrangea bush of all the dead stuff and took care of the garbage. I also spent time with the Dolan’s. I watched TV and did some more pen pal updating. I also did this entry.

Now I am going to bed….

PS the moon has been full for the past three days and its beautiful..:)

August 7, 2006

It has been a few days since I wrote. I started to write on Friday but got tired. Saturday Morning the monitor died so I spent the morning looking into getting one. Donny came and checked out the other one. He wanted to see if it had been the computer itself and thankfully no.
So I bought one online from www.newegg.com and it should be here in a few days. I almost had a heart attack because they said it couldn’t be processed because the account number was wrong. I had left out a particular number and fixed it yesterday. Now its okay.
The rest of the day Mom and I were going at it. Mom was criticizing me for either not getting money for my excursion to the carnival in Orange or the fact I was going to meet Jennie and Marc up there and not ride with them. Needless to say she let me borrow $20 to go. I had to spend it all. Tickets were one dollar and each ride took four tickets.
We got home by 6:30-7 pm. I spent the rest of the evening watching TV and doing laundry.
Sunday I did bingo, went to church, came home and then went to Tessa and Michael’s office to do some phone banking for Ned LaMont. Had some interesting responses (ranging from f*ck off
or none of your business. I converted some undecided voters to vote for Mr. LaMont. I was there until 4:15 then I left and went and fed Junior for Roberta and Mike. Then I finally delivered the envelopes that telka gave me two weeks ago to give out. I still have one more to give but I can do that tomorrow. When I finished that I came home and did some weeding while Mom made dinner. I also did some more laundry and finally got it out tonight.
Hey we had some critters in the yard this weekend. Donny had a doe (a deer, a female deer) by his chicken coop. Woody the woodchuck was in our yard but not near the garage.
I went to type a letter to Angel C in Washington state but mom’s ink was running out. It really annoyed me. She could have told me to change it. I will rewrite it when I get mine back up and sent it out.
I finally mailed out a couple of intro letters this past weekend and I managed to mail my car payment. I haven’t heard anything from the insurance agent or company in regards to my last late payment. It hasn’t been cashed/deposited yet but I hope they got it and won’t cancel the policy.

Today started out humid and rainy. The rain stopped mid day and was very warm through out the day. I didn’t go out at all. The first hour at work I worked on the collection letters and then started on the charts and lockbox. I got the three charts I ordered. I had no problems with them. I worked on the lockbox mail but didn’t finish. Neither did I finish the post office mail that came late to me. I will have to finish those tomorrow. I did manage to do the "Bad Addresses" for Friday and today and the "special project" for both days. I know the main reason I didn’t finish the mail was because I spent a lot of time online. Where I should not have been. Tomorrow will have to make sure I don’t do that.
One of the discussions was on the "EX Isle" Board. The same old discussion on holding Moderators accountable for bad mouthing members on another board. I personally do not feel they need to account to anyone when it is not on that board. However, several points were made that their authority would not be respected and they should not remain moderators. What moderators say in their own online blogs or journals is their right. I have made my comments and will continue to read but I won’t be contributing to it anymore.
CeCe M will be my new pen pal. She is going to be sending me her address and I will get a letter out to her soon. She was very pleased that I would be her pen pal. I guess she hasn’t been getting any responses. If she has (which I think she has) she should be feeling better.
I got home around 5 and got online and checked some emails. Then I checked my mail. I got a nice little Member of the Month gift from Marian S today. They are post cards from North Carolina and I think business cards. I posted to her group that I got them.
I got a message from Open Diary they were going to close/delete my journal for inactivity. I just posted a quick "I have been busy" post.
We had dinner around 6. It was chicken and dumplings and corn on the cob and salad. We watched the news and then cleared the kitchen and I watched a little bit of TV and then talked to Liz.
Liz was complaining that she got a lot of Phone calls from the candidates teams and it was pissing them off. I said you are not alone. Then we talked about how Mom was doing and I asked her how she was doing and she seemed fine. After awhile we hung up.
I got my clothes out of the dryer and then went walking. I got back a little after 8 and started watching TV while Mom was up here doing stuff. When she came down I came upstairs and checkekd emails and started writing in my journal. I think this is the longest one in a while.
I am going to go to bed. After work I am picking Jennie up (she called to ask me for a ride to the post office) and I told her I would but I had to be some where afterwards (the polls).
I will see you all later...

many days

It has been a 3 days since I wrote. I went to work Tuesday and it was hot. Work went well got stuff done. I went to the wake and then came home and made dinner. Yes I said made dinner! We had cheeseburgers on the grill and I did it. J Mom was still pretty weak. It seems she DID have pneumonia.

During dinner it started to thunder and after a while the storm that was predicted came through. Around 6:30 we lost power. We got it back around 12:45 am Wednesday morning. Because it was so hot upstairs and since we really couldn’t do anything we slept downstairs. You should have seen the rain though it literally poured into the windows and then the rain subsided and the sun was coming out.

We talked to Liz and Nelson too. They only lost power for a brief moment. We talked about my weekend with Jim and Liz was saying she talked to Jim after I left on Sunday and she felt he had pneumonia and that Mom gave it to him. I really wanted to tell her off but decided not to. She invited us to come over there for the night but Mom said no thanks.

I had a wonderful phone call with Mardi on Tuesday. She was doing a budget for work and watching a movie with her husband David. The kids were up in NY with their grandparents. We talked about everything. Family stuff, work, the Kevin Sorbo fandom, and pen pal stuff.

I was checking the emails there was a discussion on SS4S that I didn’t quite get so I deleted it. I will have to look at the rest later.

Jennie has more pictures for me to print out. I will do that tonight while I am doing the laundry.

Yesterday Bob and Rob put in the small air conditioner in my room and it’s wonderful. It was good because all day it was very bad out as it has been all week. Work was well. Mom got really snotty with me over something stupid (getting the grill started). After I went upstairs I cooled down but I tell you I don’t care how fucking sick she is she had no right to swear at me. I understand she doesn’t feel well or she is worried about Jim but so am I and I know she wouldn’t tolerate me being disrespectful.

Jim has a type of Virus and it could be very dangerous. Liz went down yesterday and is going to stay with him. Claudia was with him with the kids. Apparently the doctor suggested anyone who was in contact with him get a culture. If he had gotten worse then he was to go to the hospital. According to a phone Mom had from Liz he seems to be better. I may be going down again this weekend. Liz will let me know.

IF I don’t go down then I will be going to the Orange Fireman’s Carnival with Jennie and Marc this weekend. I think the gang at the nursing home will be happy to see me.

Oh I got a wonderful birthday card from Rebecca M from the Birthday Twins and Pals group. She had posted earlier in the week she was sending it out. I didn’t see it until I posted that I got the card. I printed out an introduction letter and mailed it today.

I did call Dr. Martin to let him know what was going on and he seems to be not concerned about this. The chances of me getting it are very low. He is very much interested in knowing what type of virus it is.

I also called the dentist and my appointment to get the filling is on August 31 at 4:30 pm. I could have had an earlier one but it would have been at 4 pm. I just didn’t want to do that.

In the mailbox I am up to the Google alerts for Education. The first one is from one week ago. There was a Guggenheim study is suggesting that Arts Education Benefits Literacy Skills. The second report from the UK says that Schools are failing drugs and sex education. Some others were reports along the same line in other countries. In North Korea there is some controversy over the deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister and it is progressing to very bad.

On Saturday the 29th Marian was excited she got caught up on all of her emails (I wish I was). Sherry M. is not so lucky. She had over 700 and was not looking forward to reading all of hers. On Sunday Marian must have sent Sherry an email.

The next discussion was from last weekend about story about dog food and dieting. Someone was buying a bag of dog food and someone asked the person if they had a dog. The woman came up with a story that she eats them now and then. As the story goes on she says she was hospitalized and then asked why she said because she was licking herself and got hit by a car.

On Friday Sherry checked in and was checking in before going to bed. She was saying she had been very busy and her work schedule was really crazy. Marian replied to her letting her know that Lou (sherry’s husband I guess) should do the running around instead of her. Later on in the day Sherry, did let her know that Lou did do the errand running and she was going to cook dinner that night. Marian was saying how she has to rearrange her kitchen. Apparently her husband went and bought some cabinets.

Cherie Chadwick responded to a post by Joy Lynne W. Apparently Joy met up with her daughter she had given up and they had it out which caused Joy to have a seizure. Apparently she has just had one problem after another. Cherie was offering to get school supplies for Joy’s sons. That message came in on Sunday morning.

Well it looks like I will be here this weekend. Liz called about an hour ago and said all he wants to do this weekend is sleep. There will be people coming in to do things for him and check in on him. It’s okay because I wanted to go to the carnival and to do bingo this weekend.

I have set the inbox to oldest day first…and other words here it goes...

On July 20th, Jodie B from pen pal friends R Us was updating everyone on her life. Work doesn’t seem to be satisfying her and she sounds like she is being over worked.

Erin from the Birthday Twins and Pals group was answering the Question “What is your favorite store to shop?” and her favorite place is antique shops.

Linda C’s answer to “Do you change the color of your hair? To what color?” She used to highlight it red.

Pat at the 40’s and over pen pal group expressed her wish that stereotyping by employers is over. This had to do with a conversation earlier in the month in regards to some people jobs.

Leann had logged off for the night on the 20th. She had just watched “Saw” and she didn’t like it. Roxie responded with a “goodnight”.

That same day it was Wish Day at the Letter Box Group and Diane W and Tammy were wishing for colored paper and long letters.

Over at P2PP it was share day and what we were grateful for and Roxie told us it was her bf and seven cats.

On another group Just us girls Pen friends Angela listed her outgoing mail.

Back on the pen pal friends R Us group Mandy S and Jodie B and Kelly answered the question “Who is your favorite Comedian” They both mentioned The Blue Collar Guys (in other words Jeff Foxworthy).

It is almost 11 and I printed out the pictures for Jennie. All 19 of them! J I hope they are what she wanted. I will give them to her tomorrow.

Let’s get back to the emails. Linda was sharing a story about a coworker who quit/fired. She apparently wasn’t a very good worker. Linda and the rest of the people were very happy she left.

ON the International Snail Mail Pen pal list Rhonda G responded to a girl named Claudia request to be removed from the list (or called unsubscribed). In her usual spicy she told the girl to do it herself. Why do people have to be so damn rude?

Over at the Journal Writing list Jodie F was venting about some medical benefit being denied and Patches was offering some support.

Okay now this is getting ridiculous. I would imagine to anyone else kind of boring. So I am going to rethink this I am going to mention and not mention.

A girl named Tonya returned to the Addicted to Snail Mail list. She had problems with her computer. I know that feeling.

I just answered a whole of polls at Friends for _everyone_snailmailpenpals group. I just saw a story over at Amanda’s Hangout list and it was about being in the airport.

Well it is getting late so I am going to bed.