18 years ago today

Well it is now morning and I am feeling better. There is no snow on the ground. I am a little disappointed but that’s the way it’s been going of late.

Today is the anniversary of Dad’s passing. I usually just look at the calendar and say notice it. This week however, because Mom is turning 80 it’s been on my mind more. I have talked more about it with people. At least the people at work! We buried him two days before Mom’s birthday. This year the anniversary of his burial is on the day of the party. I was also reminded of it this week when I saw an episode of Star Trek: TNG when a young boy lost his mother on a planet. The alien entity was trying to provide a fantasy lifestyle for the boy so he wouldn’t suffer.

It is now after 5 and the sun is just setting but it isn’t really dark yet. I haven’t been home long from work. I went to the wake for Dottie’s Aunt. I was probably one of a few that outside the family. I listened to the reading from this wonderful deacon from St Francis. I am going to have to ask Dottie if it was in New Haven or East Haven.

Today was a busy day and I did get a lot done despite the feeling of being unorganized. I managed to work a lot on the lockbox from yesterday. I did work on the letters as well as more came in later on in the day. I did get to Friday’s Bad Address pile and managed to do okay with it.

I still have buckets of mail to work on and it is getting a bit overwhelming but if I continue to concentrate and not surf the net I should be okay.

Shirley was out sick today. She got bit or had an allergic reaction to something yesterday as her eye was swelling up. I am not sure if she will be in tomorrow or not. Ann was the one I reported to today and almost got on her bad side quickly. I knocked these beautiful glass blown rose that Kent Barrett gave her. A section of it broke off. I told her I would replace it.

Things on line were okay. On one of the IDMB sites for Ryan Gosling someone posted the standard I don’t understand why people come to a board for an actor and bash it the actor and its fans. Here is the thread and my response. I loved the response the guy made after me. I sent him a message at his myspace.com site and he hasn’t responded yet but it looks like he has worked with Ryan before.

Oh wonderful news. Sylvia left to be with her daughter who is going to have a baby. She says she will be back in time for the party on Saturday.

Mom made hair appointment for me for Saturday with Carmen. I hope to god Carmen didn’t let on that the party is for Mom.

I noticed that Mom got a message from Aunt Betty about Tommy and Ashley’s daughter. It seems the tot will have to have open heart surgery. I haven’t seen them over the years since the wedding but we get pictures from them at holiday time. I think I will send them a card or something.
Well I have to get some letters written. I will see ya tomorrow…

I am not feeling well.

I am not staying up much longer tonight. I Have headache. It was brought on by eating nothing but a muffin and candy. I had Snapple and wore my boots all day. I did have dinner when Mom came home but it hasn’t gone away. My hands hurt and had a nosebleed today. I am not worried about the nosebleed and there really isn’t any cause to.

Work went okay. It was pretty much the same stuff but different day. Dottie lost her Aunt this morning. I still have a lot of letters to fold and lots of mail to open and readdress. I also have the bad addresses to do.

I need to send a complaint letter to Lord & Taylor they sent me a bill for six dollars because they couldn’t read the check I wrote out for $25. I am going to print out the check and send it to them.

It is supposed to snow tonight. I am not sure what to expect.

Oh better go to bed…feel sick.

I have a feeling

Something tells me I am going to have a very strange week. Last night I was checking emails and I noticed I got one nearly a week ago from Telka asking me not to tell anyone about her recent Health scares. I was sitting at my desk trying to think if I told anyone in the club. I can’t remember if I did. I am wondering if anyone said anything to her.

I reset all my groups that I have assigned to the AT&T email back on individual emails. I posted the entry and I had a great reply from Mardi. J They had snow flurries and would melt away. The same way it has done down here. She also told me the radio station she listens to. Unfortunately when I responded I got an error message which was pissing me off. I hope this doesn’t keep happening.

I got a message informing me that Jennie left my group. I sent her a short message asking her if she is okay. I don’t know if she got it I might have to check the myspace.com site to see what’s going on. Well it seems she is having problems with people who are not chatting with her or responding to her at Myspace. I just noticed there was a message from her on the 23rd. I don’t understand why myspace didn’t show it up but I am not sure what that’s about anyway. Some people were telling her she didn’t contact them either. It’s a mess.

I sent an e-card to Joanne H from the pen pal groups. She recently updated the groups on the prognosis of her husband and it doesn’t look at all well. HE is terminal.

Well it is the end of the day. I got to work and worked on the letters I mentioned. Actually I think I spent a better part of the day working on them. So much so that I didn’t get the lock box finished. There was a lot and of course there usually is on Monday.

I saw Gayle Rumley today. After I asked Shirley how she was doing and she told me Gayle was here but wait a day to say “I am sorry”. Well I went up and said Hi and hugged her. I just hope it didn’t make her feel like breaking down (again).

The world found out that Emma Faust Tillman who gained her fifteen minutes of fame two weeks ago as being the oldest living person in the world (and who lived in CT) died last night. She was 114 years old. Now there is a woman in Japan as being the oldest person in the world. Here is more about Emma. I talked to Shirley about it and felt a little uneasy because her Mother is 104 and I don’t want to jinx her in any way. We kind of speculated how the woman died. She had been left alone and had no one visiting caught something from her “visitors” the media. This was the woman mentioned in Jennie’s blog last week and we noticed she looked dead already.

It was 4:30 when I got home. Mom was getting ready to go to the prayer meeting in Madison. She seemed a bit cranky to me. A fact I mentioned to Liz later on in conversation. She gave me instructions for dinner and then around 5 or so she left.




I spent the next several hours watching TV and having dinner, talking on the phone. I called Liz to discuss party stuff. She hadn’t sent out an invitation to Greta and it was agreed that I would call Greta and invite. I had to leave a message and it really sounded lame.

Liz and this computer were really annoying me during the conversation. She was searching for the list with Greta’s name on (try being more organized sweetie) and the computer seemed slower and I was really getting pissed. Every button I clicked on or pressed wasn’t working for me. On top of that my dinner was getting cold. She seemed like she was getting pissed at me. That’s too fucking bad.

She did say she got a check from Jim. My response was “as I live and breath”. It’s a saying that I have been saying quite a lot lately especially when something unexpected happens.

She also got a card from the Henry’s and a few other people. I am not sure if anything else happened. She told me the other day she got a violinist for a few hours before dinner.

I need to go to bed. My right hand hurts and I don’t have any more medicine right now. I ordered some from Walgreens but it isn’t ready. They need to get a refill or confirmation from Dr. Martin.

House cleaning

Well it is a beautiful day here in Milford. I am listening to a radio station in Danbury CT online. It is 98.3 Q. I am wondering if this is one that Mary G or Mardi listens to when they are home.

The current temperature is 40. It apparently it rained during the night because the street and pavement and car were wet. I think it is supposed to stay this way for today. In some areas there was black ice.

I got to bingo early and found that Bunny was there today. She was working with out Chilly because there were some problems because she was docked because she was late one day. Natalie came in as well. I had seventeen residents for bingo. That was a lot of people.

I came straight home and got changed and started to set up my radio and then decided to start vacuuming so I did and now I need to get back down there.

I took a couple of breaks and managed to go talk to Sylvia. We talked about the party. I told her about Claire D and how she made her seating request. When I finished telling her about it and she told me her views (it‘s not about her). She asked me if the neighbors were coming. She was referring to Kim and Sean. She seemed fine but I encouraged her to not let it bother her if they are in the same area just walk away. She told me she would be fine. She better be or that so called Letter I plan on writing to Claire D is going to the other two as well.

Mom came home around 4 from her “lunch” with the Mercy center Crowd. I told her I going to send out the hounds to go find her. She explained that they all went to a woman’s house for lunch and it was out in the country. (At least that’s what I figured especially around Madison).

I finished the vacuuming around 5. I had told Mom I would tke care of dinner while she did what she wanted to. I even told her I wanted to do the kitchen floor and bathroom floor. I won’t be able to do it tonight nor will the wood cleaning be done.

It is now after 5:30 and I have been watching America’s Test Kitchen and Lidia’s Family Table (or what ever it is called these days) but I am starting to get tired.

The Dolan Girls came over tonight to get Mom to buy girl scout cookies. Apparently they have a section in which you can buy cookies that will automatically be delivered to the Military.

January 27, 2007

Well my plans to get up at 6 am to start chores didn’t work. I stayed in bed until 8 and then started my laundry. I did some straightening downstairs but the bulk of it will be done later.

I was just checking out my journals and someone replied to my journal entry here It was to a 2003 post entitled “Sunday Morning”. It was at www.my-diary.org I printed out the reply and now have to find that entry (if I have printed it out which I don’t think I did). Nope I didn’t print that one out but I bet it is from the other one. I just was at the Yahoo 360 page and had an invitation to connect from someone by the name of sugar. A 42 year old who wants to discreetly meet women. Not a chance. Ignored and deleted that one very quickly.

It is almost 11:30 and I have bathed and still doing laundry. I got some nice mail. I got a letter from my pal Jeanette Viers. Oh of course some bills. I need to take care of one like yesterday. I also got a letter from Human Resources at Yale. It was about the wage increase for 2007. It will start now but reflected in mid February paycheck.

I just was over at Ex Isle and found this and I was saddened to hear this. He was always an insightful person and even though I didn’t always agree with him thought he was pretty cool. My deepest sympathies go to his family.

The sun came out for a little while this afternoon. It looks like its going to set with some clouds.

The rest of the day I just hung out. I did some cleaning and watched TV and was online for a good part of the day. I did make a few calls in regards to the party. It seems that Greta didn’t get the invitation and I didn’t leave a message for Beverly... We got an email from Irene H. She and her husband will be there and offered to help.

I will have to finish the vacuuming and doing the wood cleaning tomorrow.

A Cold January Friday

It is after 7:30 on a chilly Friday night. It is about 15 degrees F outside. The sky was clear and I thought I saw some stars. The clouds are supposed to move in and get colder over night.

The day started out a little shaky. I got out of bed and slid to the floor. It is nothing serious just slid on a pile of clothes (clearly its time for me to clean my room!). I went to the Pilot Gas Station and of course the cold was apparently affecting the gas pumps because it took some time to use them. By the time I finally got on the highway it was closer to 8 then I would have liked. A truck was too close for comfort and a car swerved into my lane near West Haven/New Haven border.

I ended up being late for work. I got the mail from the lobby and brought it up and started working on it. Then when the charts came I worked on them and then my normal stuff. Around 10 Shirley came to me and said we would have to do the letters that were on the cabinet because they had the 24th on it. So we spent an hour and half on it.

The rest of the day went okay. We had the pizza celebration and Ann Marie Mongillo won the gift basket. Debra had to cancel our session for today so I worked until 4. We said goodbye to Jerri Klubek for a few weeks. She has to have another surgery and she won’t be back until March 26.

When I left for the day I headed to the Dry Cleaners and dropped off my suit and got my raincoat. I was expecting some heat for not coming sooner to pick up the raincoat but she was fine. I even offered to prepay for the suit. I know that sounds crazy but I felt bad. The suit will be ready by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Once I was finished there I went to Liz and Nelson’s house. I spent nearly 2 hours there. We saw the CD video montage that Michael made for the party and it was quite nice. We pointed at some of the pictures and commented at which ones Mom will kill us for. Some of them are from when she was a young girl in High School. Liz wants to use Alan Jackson’s song “Remember When”. It was a good video. We also reviewed the guest list.

We discussed how we would handle Claire D. I had called Liz earlier in the day and she told me that bitch insisted she was coming and demanding that we do not sit her near Dick Roy because of the fight she had here last autumn. I told Liz and Nelson that if that woman gets out of line I plan on telling her to leave and then writing her a letter. It would be banning her from the house. Liz says she is going to let Nelson and the boys handle her. We come to the conclusion she is as very sick person. I mean where does she get off telling us where we can sit her? If she doesn’t like the rest of the guests then maybe she should stay home? There are a number of people we haven’t heard from and three of them I need to call this weekend.

While I was there I got to talk to Jason tonight he was so adorable. Stephanie had called for advice on how to deal with Jason. He asked me how I was and that he loved me. Sigh. It’s great to be a great Aunt.
It was nearly six when I left there. The traffic was okay if not for a few drawn out traffic lights that were agitating me because I thought Mom was waiting on dinner for me. I found out she wasn’t. She was going to start it but then got tired and so she was watching TV.

We decided if we got hungry we would fend for ourselves. I watched TV and got a spurt of energy and did some cleaning. I told her I would clean the house tomorrow. I also have done some laundry. It’s in the dryer now.

Liz and I got a reply from Carla H’s tonight. She explained that it would not be feasible for them to come to the party because they had just returned from vacation. She would send an email to me or Liz (I told her she could send it to me) and it would be a letter to her at another time.

Well I am about to fizzle out and I am going to check my "To do” list for tomorrow. I know I have a lot of things to do. I will see you all tomorrow.

January 25, 2007

There is about an hour before midnight. I am really tired and the wrist is just starting to hurt. I am not feeling well right now stomach or something. Today was fulfilling.

Work went well despite the fact that a few charts got left behind and I had to go and take them to medical records. On the plus side I was able to get home a little earlier than normal.

Mom was shopping and setting up for the CPAC meeting when I got home. She got back around 6 and got dressed for the meeting. She got back after 10:30. I am not sure what she is doing now.

I had dinner and watched Charmed. The second episode I didn’t watch because it was the one where Phoebe calls on her past and future self when she questions if she should marry cole (who we find out is now the beginning of the source and the beginning of the end of Cole and the exit of the actor Julian McMahon).

I got online for a bit and then got ready for the meeting(s). It was nearly 7 when I got to the club. I sat with Antoinette Carey and we talked about the MB for various shows. I was telling her how some fans can be so rude and obnoxious and abusive (case in point the insult way someone talked to me in regards to Kevin Sorbo and Walking Tall 2.). It has gotten worse. They attack those who are supportive and have information and are just plain rude about it. Rhonda G and I have come to the conclusion we are going to ignore them but it is difficult.

The meetings went well. Kerri Rowland did very well. We got reports from the various boards and they did plan on honoring Mom for his birthday tonight but she wasn’t there. Tessa and Mike gave me back the pictures and gave me a rough cut of the CD video of Mom. . The only thing is I know I gave a whole box worth of pictures to Liz they should have all been together.


A few people told gave their RSVP about the party. I am still waiting on Bruce B for his final answer. I emailed Liz with the info. I got home around quarter of ten. Mom wasn’t home yet.

I found an email from Barry Kasdan sending his regrets He asked if I gotten the list of the entire office. I don’t remember getting but I forwarded the email to Liz. I also sent her a question about the Dolan’s bringing their kids.

Now though I am going to bed.

The Dentist Appointment

I made it to the dentist office in pretty good time. I just had to review the paperwork on file and sign it. I went in saw the hygienist. They have a new “toy” in the shape of a new tooth cleaner. It uses water. Then I had an exam from Dr. Chris. I have to go in again on the 15th to fend off a small cavity. My next appointment is in July. It was after 5:30 when I left.

When I got home I checked the mail and started on Dinner. Mom had left me soup but didn’t want it. I threw some hot dogs in the micro and had them. Watched TV and made a couple of calls.

I have printed out the letters for Jennie. I hope she won’t mind if I bring them first thing in the morning. I just got to busy and tired this afternoon.

I am going to check the emails and some forums.

January 23, 2007

It is after 6:30 and my wrist is hurting. I suspect it has to do with eating salt and using it a lot today. I will be taking my med soon and some Aleve®. It is a quiet night right now. Mom is at a meeting and I will be printing out the rest of Jennie’s letters for her. There are four more left I should be able to do it tonight.

The day started out a little shaky. I left in a fair amount of time but someone who was apparently in a rush at Saw Mill Road wanted me to turn on Red (there is no sign indicating either way) but I ignored them. Then some guy pulled up beside me and gave me some looks and gave me the finger. As I was walking from the garage to the office I was waiting for the crosswalk to change and some ding bat told me to go across (there was no traffic) and I told her that was rude and that if she wanted to get hit by a car to go for it. I apologized to her a short while later as we rode up in the elevator together.

Shirley told me there were more collection letters “collecting” on the cabinet. She also reminded me to let her know when I got backed up on it. I told her the dates I had been working on and that I did work on them yesterday. She told me they are 4 days old. . I spent most of the morning (until Lou picked up the mail) doing them. I also did the charts.

I finished yesterday’s mail (I still have to sort it) I started today’s stuff and worked on the stuff I got today (letter wise). I have to finish lockbox but I am going to do that after I do the letters and then work on that stuff.

I talked with Liz today after I checked my emails. She needed to know about Ann McLaughlin. She is going to invite her I guess. The grand total for the party is 92. She told me several people sent pictures or will be sending pictures. Mike Brown needed the pictures today to make the video collage.

After work I headed over to Jennie’s house to drop off the letters and the friend list from MySpace.com. She was on her way out with her Dad we chatted for a bit and I promised her I would do the rest tonight. However, I might not be able to if my wrist doesn’t stop aching. I could do it bright and early tomorrow morning and then drop them off. I did tell I would drop them off anyway.

When I got home Mom was on the computer and dinner was in the oven. Mom was going to a meeting at 5 so she wouldn’t be eating until she got home from the meeting. When she left I ate. It was pork chop and creamed cauliflower (loved it) and potatoes. I had yogurt and watched “Charmed”.

I got a thank you note from Kerri R. She was thanking me for supporting her in her bid to become the next Democratic Mayor for Milford. She called me Saturday I think. She wanted to let me know and ask me for support (by working for her). I am very enthusiastic about it. She even has a site www.kerri.rowland.com you have to register and it will have updates and stuff like that. She will be announcing her intentions at Thursday’s meeting. I hope it is received well. There was another person who was a potential candidate but not everyone is impressed with that other person.

I have a dentist appoint right after work tomorrow. It is at 4:30. I got the call today. I will try to leave on time tomorrow so that I can make it there on time.

I received another email today from Missy Anderson at Linden Hall. She was replying to the email I sent her the other day. I told her that we were planning the party for Mom. She was congratulating all of us I guess.

I have some Celtic music playing right now and the artist is listed below. It is pretty cool.


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Altan


In thirty six minutes President Bush will be giving the State of the Union address on National TV. It has been featured on the news this morning and for the last couple of days. The main topics will probably the War in Iraq. I expect to hear the term Jackass and Idiot quite a lot for that hour.

I am going to check the forums and some of the emails. I know kathleenp111@iwon.com is bouncing again. After that I am going to bed.

Its been a long day

Well it is the end of the long day. I can’t even remember what time I got up this morning but I do know I got to work at a fairly decent hour. I saw the remains of the coliseum and it felt weird seeing it that way. For a moment it felt like (at least to me) the moment when your eyes have just been dilated for tests (or you don’t your glasses on).

I took the time to make the various contributions to the birthday clubs and to the collection for Gayle R. I also managed to talk to everyone I knew about the implosion. Some did say they could feel the vibration and hear the implosion. In some areas it was a delayed reaction. There were others who didn’t and lived a short distance from it and could care less about it.

I started on my work right after I got some coffee. I was going to start on the letters but instead had to work on the charts and then lockbox. It was pretty high in volume. I also stopped to work on readdressing and the collection letters. I also had sorted the previous day’s worth of EOBS. I didn’t realize I had a pile from the 17th. I thought I had done it but those two dates worth of work are now safely on the desks of the team leaders. I will do Fridays and today’s tomorrow. The collection letters are now from the 18th and 19th. I think I saw another pile of letters from over the weekend.

I heard from Jennie today. She asked me if I could print out some letters for her and her friend list. She sent the letters to my work email. I felt bad because I did say she could use the email. I emailed her back tonight and explained that perhaps it would be better if we only used my work email for emails such as last minute car rides or emergencies. She was very understanding. She sent me the letters so I can’t print them out tonight. I think there are seven letters right now and so I am going to print out a couple tonight and the rest tomorrow before work.

I heard from Missy Anderson from Linden Hall in regards to Verna P (a fellow classmate) and she didn’t have any updates. Apparently Verna wanted to be removed from all lists. I forwarded the info to Gail T in PA. I updated both Missy and Gail of my own activities. Gail thanked me for the info.

Here is the latest on the Birthday party. Robin Maher sent an RSVP email and says they will be here for the party. Yes. I asked her if she had any pictures of Mom and Irene. I haven’t heard from her yet.

I called Liz later on in the day and relayed the message. She tells me there are 92 people for the party. She is going to Peschell’s to firm up any agreements there are (like deposits if any).

We had some snow earlier today and it was gone shortly afterwards. It was brisk out all day and cloudy. It was cloudy when I left and didn’t look like it was going to do anything then.



When I got home which was after 4:30. Mom was getting ready for a meeting. My dinner was cooking and it smelled delicious. It was turkey and gravy and potatoes and creamed cauliflower. Mom left around 5 and I began my dinner.

It started snowing around 6 or 7 it was covering everything on the street. The main road (New Haven avenue was clear). This was just a white blanket. The back yard wasn’t fully covered. I started the dishwasher after I had my dinner. I also did some laundry and finally worked on the Minutes for the 4th district and sent them to Tessa. I really didn’t do a good job on them this time. My hope is that Tessa will fill in the blanks for me and then I will have to be sure to do them right the next time.

The electrician called tonight. I let the answering machine pick up and the first words out of his mouth were “fuck you” then he went into the message for Mom. I picked up the phone to let him know that what he had said was on the answering machine. Do you know what is answer was? “We are all adults here”. What a load of crock. It was unprofessional. I just wanted to let him know that Mom could have heard that. He said it was his friend who said it. I would have fired him right then and there.

I heard from Maura P today. She was thanking me for the kudos and to let me know her pups (the Retrievers will be in the Dog show coming up soon). Unfortunately, we got some bad news about her niece. She is just 2 years old. She has a bad heart and needs surgery.

I better get to bed. I am starting to get tired. I have another full day tomorrow.

I sometimes wonder

I have noticed when I am obsessing about things or I should say when I am worrying over things such as work, family, or relationships I tend to find me in moments where things happen or explode for little or no reason. For example Mom and I were getting ready this morning and I was shredding an envelope and trying to clear out some of the remnants of the shreds and she got exasperated and she was wondering what I was doing and why wasn’t I getting ready. I told her and then under my breath I told her she isn’t to talk to me like that again. Then I try to figure out what it was that I contributed to a situation. I guess it is something I need to work on and it is continuous.

Bingo went well I got there around 9:30 or so. I had actually stopped at the Dunkin Doughnuts for coffee. We had 14 players for the games. There was a little confusion for one resident who though she had won two games when she didn’t.

I got home around noon and finished yesterday’s laundry. I watched some TV and got online. I also called Dave to find out what time we were meeting and where we were going to meet. Dave said around 4 or 4:15. He said he would call when they got back. AT this point we will meet at Rose’s and I would take them all. I am betting it won’t be until after 4:30.

Mom came home around 1 and did some stuff. She also sent me a couple of emails from Aunt Betty. Maura was on TV and here is the interview. Be sure to click on the video as well and you can see her picture. Also here is the rescue site that Maura is head of.

I have more birthday party news. I had sent an email to Liz to make sure she got the news bout Kerry wanting to come but not to include in the catering number. Liz didn’t get the original reply but we wondered if Mom is catching on or not. The wardrobe for that day was also discussed. I also let her know that one of our cousins (Mom’s cousin actually) couldn’t make it because she had to work that day. The woman owns a store or something. We were also afraid there was a possibility that we may have missed emails because our email service may have redirected the email to another folder.

I received a reminder from Tess to get the 4th District minutes written up before it gets too late. I haven’t worked on them in a coon’s age. I am hoping I can do it right after I post this entry.

New Haven Coliseum

Today is Demolition Day. At 7:30 am the New Haven Coliseum (what’s left of it) will be demolished. I was up at 10 of 6 this morning and saw the first 10 minutes of Channel 8’s coverage. There were some live pictures of it still up and Kent Pierce on the 9th Level of the Temple Garage and he reported 200 people were there waiting for it to happen. He asked a couple of people what their memories of the coliseum were and what it was they saw there. One said he saw Alice Cooper (which I remember that happening) and the Knights Hockey Game. The last event held at the Coliseum was the WWF Wrestling match. They also showed the perimeter of streets that would be blocked off for safety. It encompasses the entire area of the coliseum (From Temple North Frontage road Union Street and George I believe.

I didn’t want to sit through the entire newscast just to see it so I went back downstairs to watch it around 7:15.

While I was waiting for the demolition I checked emails and answered and sent some emails out. I sent one to Missy Anderson from Linden Hall. She is the Alumnae Office Representative and I let her know that I had response to my class letter. I also asked about another school mate.

I checked out some of the forums (okay not all of them but I will). Still compliments on the Walking Tall DVD and the recent appearance he made at the “Boom, Boom Room”. It’s for Celebrities with kids.

Well it is done. It was as it was described on the TV awesome. There had been a delay of about 20 minutes before it was demolished. The reasons were to make sure traffic was completely gone (some had the brilliant idea to park right on Route 34 in front to get a front seat look-it didn’t last long). At 7:50 am it exploded and came down. The cloud of dust was pushed out to the harbor. I was thinking I could see from here but the trees and hosues are blocking it. There were reports of people hearing it as far as Ansonia. I have a feeling people had the TV on so that’s how they heard it. Chris Valardi and Matt Scott said they could feel the impact from 7 blocks away at the studio. Even the Traffic Reporter in the chopper could feel the vibrations up there.

The rest of the day was quiet. The wind was blowing hard and blowing things around all day. Mom worked on stuff in her room and I spent time on the computer as well. I wrote a letter or two and answered some emails.

Mom and I went to Costco and it was a mad house. We didn’t get a lot of things and it didn’t take long either. I had to go back because the cashier didn’t take our coupons and so I got back a little after 5:30.

I got an email from Molly a student at Yale who had posted in her blog her adventures this morning. I had emailed her and told her I thought the exact time was 7:50 and she was replying and asking me what the pictures were like from channel 8. On the news tonight they showed the implosion from different angles then what was on this morning and they interviewed restaurateur Danny Scarpellino who was invited to see it from the 10th Floor of Tower One.

I got an email response from Liz today. It was family oriented and party oriented. I forwarded the Jackson’s regrets of not being able to come to the party. Anyway, she told me Nelson is achy but mending from his procedure on Thursday. She told me also that she had an odd call from Aunt Stella. Liz had the impression that Stella was pissed about something. She seemed awkward on the phone and couldn’t understand. I wanted to tell her Aunt Stella is the biggest stuck up cow in the world but chose not to. I did tell her that she could be stressed out or worried over her children’s problems.

Liz also heard from Del Mulcahy and we are not sure if she is coming or not. We will find out on the third. The number of guests is now at 86.

I watched one of the episodes from “This Old House”. Channel 13 had different programming and then TOH at 7:30 but we watched it from CPTV here in CT. It was pretty cool. Other than that there is absolutely nothing worth watching.

Oh I saw a young Bruce Willis on an episode of Miami Vice today. He played the bad guy. I am not sure if this was before Moonlighting or after.

I am exhausted

I can’t sleep yet. I tried but I can’t. I even tried warm milk and there isn’t enough milk left. I had to remind Mom about it. We’ll probably get it later on today or Saturday.

I guess the reason I am sleepless is I have a ton of things going through my head. The list of bills that I need to pay this week, the thank you notes that are not written yet from Christmas (particularly to Claudia and the kids). The letter to Marian in Stony Creek I have wanted to write. The 4th District minutes I haven’t written up. I have so much going on that I do get a little overwhelmed. When I get overwhelmed I start to organize my time by putting up a schedule. As I start that I get disgusted because I realize that’s wasting time when I could be doing the activity.

Well I better at least try and get some sleep. Good Night.

It is quarter of nine now and I have been home for an hour. It seems much later but then again I am exhausted. As soon as I finish paying some bills I am going straight to bed.

I finally got to sleep and got up around quarter of seven. It was snowing when I got up and continued to snow for at least 2 or three hours. It didn’t stick but it looked pretty.

I got to work on time and started working on some of the letters and then the charts when they came in. I didn’t sort the EOBs from yesterday or today or Wednesday’s but that I can do Monday. I did get little overwhelmed when I got a lot of collection letters to fold and I didn’t organize it very well by the time I left. I just hope Shirley doesn’t see it. Oh we got a new container for the charts (when there are only a few of them) and it is locked by…combo.

I had a pretty good session with Debra. We discussed work, family dynamics, the party, and my continuous success at keeping the bed made this week. We hoped I would allow myself some down time as well.

After the session went to the bank so I could have money for the weekend. I went to Jennie’s house and Jennie helped me clear out my car and Marc did some laundry. Then we went to dinner at Hometown Buffet and I got stuffed. We had a good time (at least I hope we did). WE talked about fandom’s mine and Marc’s. We also talked about scary rides at theme parks we have been to. After wards we headed over to the new Barnes and Noble by the mall. It is huge. After Jennie got a Danielle Steele novel we went home. I was really tired so I sort of asked if we could go. I know that sounds like a party pooper move but I wasn’t really feeling well either.

I watched a little TV (nada on). I talked with Mom and then came upstairs and paid some more bills. Now I am going to bed. See you tomorrow.

It is quarter of 7 and there is a light rain coming down. It has been raining since I left the office around 4 today. The temperature is 38 degrees. My plans for tonight changed. I got to Jennie’s house to find that she was in her pajamas and not feeling well. She tried to call me but my answer machine is still not functioning. I told her I would give her my work email and my office number. Nicole also couldn’t make it.

When I got home I recognized tomato sauce. Mom had cooked it before going off to her meeting and it was still warm when I peeked in at it. I had cereal for dinner and watched TV.

After I ate my dinner I went upstairs and checked emails. I got an email from a classmate from Linden hall. She thanked me for the letter and said she would be at the reunion with her sister. She asked me if I had heard from another classmate and I told her no but that I would pass on the info to Missy at the School.

I also checked other emails. Some of them were from Levonne in By Still Waters. She posted her journal entries from the last couple of days. There was an assortment of emails. Some of the emails I saved and some I didn’t.

Jennie called me called me around 7 to ask if we could get together tomorrow because Nicole says it would be better and I said of course.

Work went pretty well. I got pretty much caught up. I have to sort the last two days worth of EOBS that go to the teams and I am now two days behind in the collection letters. I spent a lot of time on those. I got a lot of paper cuts today and the hurt like hell.

There is one thing that was sad. Jennifer T informed me that she and her husband Matt have decided to get a divorce. I was heart broken and shocked. I always liked Matt and thought they were cute together. She even joked that he is on the market now. She cited nothing in common (except the kids) and that they are still ‘friends’. I really thought I was going to cry.

Well I just checked some forums and emails. In the Kevin Sorbo forums the Walking Tall Video cover is still a strong discussion as well as a video trailer that Jewels found. It seemed pretty intense.

Well it is after 10 and I was going to look for Fred Child’s Peformance Today and it is no longer being produced by NPR. It is now on American Public Media. It uses Real Player for anything online (I don’t want to use it)

I think I am going to bed.

I am getting a little anxious

I had an okay day today. I did finish yesterday’s mail but I still have today’s to do. I had put off doing today’s until I finished yesterday’s and did some of the other stuff. I am getting anxious over the collection letters. I still have some from the 11th that I got on Friday and of course I have some of Friday’s and received more today and I am just worried that Shirley will see them. I did try working on them for a total of an hour. There really isn’t a lot to do except fold them in threes and then stuff them. I did manage to get some readdress mail done but it was most for internal (the immediate staff and some for other departments and Doctors). I am hoping to get into the office as early as possible and work on it.

We got word today that Gayle R’s Father died last night. When I talked to Shirley about it later she told me that Gayle was planning on going down today anyway. Gayle’s father’s health had been failing for quite some time. Rhona is doing a collection.

The Yale Police Chief sent out his annual safety email and acknowledged the attack last week in the Air Rights garage and most recently the robbery attempt of a Yale Student. He was reminding everyone to use the Blue Call boxes and the Escort service and to not be out late at night if you don’t have to.

Jennie emailed me today. She was replying to my suggestion to change the date for “girl’s night out “. I had forgotten that Marc is coming in to town and the weekend they like to be together. I suggested Thursday. She also wasn’t sure if Hamden is a long distance for Cell phones. So she will email Nicole and let her know. The original time was for 4:30 to 5 but it will take me that long just to get to Jennie’s and then back to Nicole’s house. I asked her if it could be a little later than that. I will find out when I check the emails if that time will be okay.

I also got an email from Dave we are going to have the bowling and dinner in the afternoon. I did offer to pick up Rose and Dave I am just waiting on an answer from him as well.

I received an email from J Vitola today. She and her husband will be attending. She also suggested other members of the Bible study (apparently THEY hadn’t gotten one). I forwarded the email to Liz and when I talked with Liz later on in the day she said she was contacting them. Two said they couldn’t come and the other two she is working on the invitations.

Terry J told me when I asked if she got the invitation that was her birthday weekend. She usually goes to the casino or her daughter Sherry comes down and they have a get together of their own. I need to tell her if she can’t come that day that she can send a card to Liz and we will give it to Mom the day of the party.







I brought the pictures over to Liz and Nelson’s this afternoon after work. She said she would go through them after she came home from the Dr’s appointment. She said Lee Harris’s invitation came back with bad address. She emailed Robbie and Judy to call her and see what the addresses are or something. The guest/attendance list is now up to 57 people.

I made an “attempt” to go upstairs and find any more boxes and my first search I didn’t see anything and I told that to Liz but she insisted I go up again. I told I didn’t want to go up there and make a mess of everything. Quite frankly she did tell me she would go up as well. Has she been up here at all? No.

I am so ready for this to be over with. Then we can get on with paying for it and get on with the lives.

Mom came home around 9 and she was exhausted and getting a little snippy. I told her she didn’t flush the toilet when she left she was offended I would even say anything about it. Next time flush the fucking toilet and don’t get annoyed. Actually I said to her I thought we were telling each other out of consideration. IF you don’t want it then don’t you fucking dare point out that I left something undone. Take care of it your fucking self. Oh and btw? You have not been flushing the toilet infrequently…its been a few times.

We got it over with and things are fine…

Now I am going to bed.

Zoomed By

As I was clearing out my mailbox last night I found 11 emails. That’s the most I have had in a few days at one time. Most of them were from Jenny Jones (no not THAT JJ). She was inviting me to join Hi5 and I had to ask her not to send me invites to that site. I know it was one of those sites that people linked to me with rather risqué pictures.

I also got a note from some site from a pen pal and I didn’t recognize the name it was a very nice note from Sentimental.com (or some site). I am not sure who sent it. I am sure I will find out soon.

It is now after 6 pm Tuesday night. I have been home since 4:30. The day didn’t go exactly the way I had planned but it turned out okay. I wanted to get up early and be out of the house before 7. That didn’t happen. I woke up around 4 and stayed awake until 5:30 and then fell asleep. Needless to say I was very tired for a while this morning.

I got to work late so that threw my planned schedule off a quite a lot. I wanted to be able to get to the letters but didn’t do that until late in the day. I stopped opening the mail and worked on the letters. I had a headache for part of the day and it went away by the time I went home.

Its Girl Scout cookie selling time and a number of people are selling them. They are Carol E., Shirley Chatman, Toni D, and Elia V. I have already filled out one for Carol I have to do the others tomorrow. I am getting one box each from them. There is a new addition to the cookies and it is low fat brownies. Snicker.

Something tells me the plans to move my office to the other side of the building is back on again. John H was in my office today with someone discussing plans. I made that observation known to Andrea and Ann.

There was a Labor Communication sent out by the Administration in response to an Editorial letter from Bob Proto. She was basically denying all the charges that Bob had made against the University in regards to the hospital and their activities. Apparently everyone got through out the campus.

Marcus the security guard has returned to 300 George last week. I believe he says he is here to stay. Whoohoo.

I mailed my class letters today. I dropped them off at the mailbox in front of Temple Medical Building and went to the post office over at Baybrook and mailed a letter to Debra and the one class letter that needed international. I also bought some more stamps.

It was after 4:30 by the time I got home. I checked the mail. I got a thank you note from Emily and another statement from Macy’s. Oh Brother. I watched TV and then had dinner. Mom came home around 6.




I called Liz tonight. She said that a few people didn’t get invitations and she said she would send them out. A number of the ones she sent out were returned. One of them was Cousin Celia. She isn’t coming (B*itch). The invitations for the Henry’s came back because it was empty. She also invited Rosemary Mullins and that came back.

She said she hasn’t heard from any of the other cousins. I had the terrible thought that perhaps they did email me and I deleted them. Liz said she will send out more if she needs to.

I will be getting these pictures in the car tomorrow before going off to work. Well I found a whole box of pictures. The first pack I came across is when Kristina first came to the house. She is so adorable. If I look some more there will be pictures for Emily too.

We got a newsletter from Marian Brockway’s daughter. She talked about the stroke that Marian had and how she has been dealing with it. She also says that she enrolled Marian and Adult day care and has a therapist twice a week. I was going to try to write a little note tonight but now its getting late and I am getting tired.

Well I will see you tomorrow.

Accomplished

It is after 9 and I have been up an hour. It felt really good to sleep in on a Monday. I have been just checking emails and forums. There haven’t been any responses to the viewer alerts I made on the IMDB for Sam or Kevin and the one I did on the Kevin forum was removed (they are such assholes). They do the “Happy Christmas Kevin” and Sam” or “cute pictures of the kids” but anything else is taken away.

I also read and answered some emails on the pen pal lists. The only discussion on one list is about Britney Spears. Who the hell wants to talk about her? I replied I don’t really care about the woman. I also told them she needs parenting classes and human relation classes.

Of course I got rid of some of the Wish emails. I really hate those. I know I don’t have to actually fulfill them but they are bound to get out of hand.

I did my usual blog search for Kevin Sorbo related blogs today and found this article about multi-talented Andrew Duncan’s close celebrity encounter with Kevin for the film “Black Dog” that Kevin had to pull out of for health reasons. It was a really cool article and so I share it with them here. I will be curious to see if this gets any reaction at all. I am sure Themis will say something.

I got an email from Dave today. It was an invitation to go bowling and dinner with them. He also responded to the party invitation. He also said my answering machine isn’t working and I have tested it and he is right. DAMN.

Well it is after 8 pm now. I have spent the afternoon finally writing out the class letters to be mailed tomorrow. It took a few times to get it right but this looks nice.

Liz called tonight at dinner and wanted to invite Mom to “Cheryl’s surprise party”. I had to really try hard not to smile about it. Liz told her about the caterer and what the tentative plans were. As soon as I could I came upstairs and called her back. We believe she believes this “fib”. Shortly after that we decide I would bring the pictures that I have so far and look them over. Well I didn’t because it would be hard to explain to Mom what I was doing with the box of pictures. There has got to be more and that’s what Mom said to me. She also believes that Liz lost them. Liz says she didn’t but that’s for another entry.

Anyway, I went over to Liz’s and we looked over the list. There is close to 40 people coming to the party so far. She is mailing out the invite to Fellenbaum tomorrow. We also managed to spill water on some of the pictures she had already there. Hopefully they were dried. I told her I would swing by to drop off the other pictures. I will start looking tomorrow and when Mom is out for the entire day or something I will call Liz.

Liz is hoping that Ray Jr will be able to get a video greeting from Uncle Ray for Mom’s birthday as well as getting one from Rita and if they can’t they will call them and they can talk to Mom that way. I personally think she will not be able to hear them there but that’s just me.
There really isn’t much on TV. For some reason they had extra Gunsmoke episodes and no Little House on TV Land. The Golden Globe Awards just started about 38 minutes ago. The other half of 24 is on tonight but I don’t normally watch that anyway.


The poster known as jennyjake at IMDB is now making attacks again those of us who are attacking her for making really wild accusations (and opinions) on the actor Ryan Gosling (The Notebook). She was accusing him of cheating on his girlfriend by attending some premieres with someone else. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

I am really getting tired. I told Mom I might go to bed early (this was a little after 8) but then I realized it was still early. I did say I want to get to work early to work on the mail. Of course there are those letters that need to be folded and mailed out.

Not a quiet Day

I can’t believe I left the computer on all night. It was 11 and I was doing a virus scan because there was a message on one of the pen pal groups warning people that there was a virus sent to the group. Luckily I didn’t get it (or so it flashed on my screen this morning). I had everything just the way I did before going to bed.

I also can’t believe I am still seeing dark skies. It is now getting lighter. I just checked the weather channel.com site and for the next couple of days it will be rain or showers. There will be some sun midweek but it will be cold. The temperatures will be in the 30’s and 40’s. I see there is snow in the forecast for the start of next week.

Today I am going to do bingo and Church and then pick Jennie to go grocery shopping. After that I am dropping off some of the pictures to Liz for the collage. Mom will be out for the afternoon.

I will probably do some letter writing. I found a reminder email from Missy Anderson last night it was a few days old just to let us know the updates. I also found a new email newsletter from Linden Hall in the mailbox too. It was pretty good.

Well I think I am going to lie down for a bit more and then get ready for the day…

It is now several hours later. I went to bingo with a heighten sense of anxiety and had it through out the session. The reason for it is I couldn’t find my ID (again…yeah it happened). I looked all over the place including the bag. Well I couldn’t very well be late so I went to bingo. I had the bingo session, chatted with Nancy whom I hadn’t seen since before the Christmas holiday. I came home and had some yogurt and watched TV. After that I came upstairs and searched some more. I found it right where I had put it. It was in the bag where I had put it Friday night. In a compartment that fit perfectly. I put it back there again.

Liz called to “invite” Mom and me to “Cheryl’s surprise party”. Unfortunately, Mom was still with the Mercy Center crowd. We had a few minutes to chat about the party. Liz asked me why I am annoyed or disappointed that Ray and Rosalie are not coming. I explained to her that they came up to see Serena and had no problems getting here. She asked me what time of year was it. I surmised and or guessed it was summer. She went on to say that some people don’t make a big deal about birthdays. I told her I would get over it. I had the impression or feeling that she didn’t like the fact I was annoyed. Well guess what? That’s too bad. I am entitled to feel the way I do. Mom drove down to GA with a God blessed broken finger to go see them. She was risking not only her life but mine as well. They could certainly get their ass up here and celebrate her birthday with her. This coming from someone who didn’t go to Michael’s wedding in Texas.







Liz did tell me that the eldest of the Hebert clan would be attending but Joe and Frank C would not be coming from California. When I told her I was getting excited she told me that I can’t be in front of Mom. Liz is sending out emails asking for pictures of Mom with them so we can do this collage video. I was going to bring the pictures that I have found but I just got tired.

When Mom came home I told Mom that Liz called to invite us to Cheryl’s surprise birthday party. I almost blanked out on the information. Mom didn’t question it but that’s okay.

After we chatted I did some calendar updating and almost was late to pick up Jennie. We started off at IGA Adams. I discovered that IGA means Independent Grocers Association. Jennie says that Expect Discount is supposed to buy out the Adams. Now I am not sure if that meant the entire Adams franchise or just the one in West Haven. Only time will tell. After we went shopping there we went to Shop Rite by UNH and Notre Dame. As we were leaving Jennie put the carriage closer to the store and walked to a car and got in it. She thought it was mine but a guy was in the driver’s seat and when she told me this we laughed so hard.

It was after 3 when we left so we headed to KFC. I was hankering for some fried chicken. We placed the order and then went to pay for it and found out they didn’t except regular credit cards. I felt so foolish. Jennie offered to pay but I just thanked her and said no. We went to the Wendy’s on Route 1 in West Haven. We had late lunch and then headed home.

It was after 4:30 by then so I hung out. Mom came home around 5. We both were tired. She told me about her poetry reading and she thought it was interesting. The part she could hear. She got there late because of an accident on the highway. It was standing room only and she was too far back to really hear Una (she is the woman I mentioned last previous entries).

Mom got dinner started around 5 and we ate around 6. It was Roast Beef with Au Juice and potatoes. Mom and I talked about the phone conversation she had with Aunt Betty. Every one is fine even though the holiday was a bit stressful. Lisa Schuster was sick and the Doctor thought it was MS it turned out to be a very bad sinus infection that affect her back and up to her eyes.

Mom also says that Ken Burns has another documentary on WW2 starting this week and she wants to have it taped. I have to check the times and schedule it and set up the VCR. I wish the VCR on the main TV worked. I think tomorrow I have to call the cable company.

The rest of the night I split between watching Spider-Man 2 and Gunsmoke, and Nature and going on line to read the various forums and emails. I also tried to work on the class letters. I didn’t do very well on that one.

I was trying to do the mail merge and it just didn’t work. I will have to just write it out and make several copies. Right now though I am tired and don’t feel like doing much of anything else.

Tomorrow will be letter writing and house cleaning I think. I will try and drop off the pictures to Liz sometime during the day.

Jan 13, 2007

It has been several hours now since I posted and in that time I managed to get some sleep. I did wake up around 6:30 to rain and clouds. I stayed in bed until maybe 8. I got online and checked emails. I am clearing out the msn mailbox. I did manage to get some of Jennie’s emails so I can print out the pictures.

I finished the letter to Marian South. I got an email from her this morning or yesterday in response to an email hug I sent her. I hope to get it out to her today. If not tomorrow I will get it out tomorrow.

Okay didn’t get it out but that’s okay. I did get my insurance bill for this month it is due on the 28th.

It has been several hours and I am tired. I really didn’t do very much today which is okay. Mom and I went to Costco and got some stuff and then to Trader Joe’s for some bread. It rained for a while but was warm. Low 50’s.

We got back to the house by 5 or 6 and had dinner. Mom grilled steak on the grill outside and we had sandwiches and watched the News. One of the reports was about the New Haven Cop, Robert Fumiatti who died this past week of a heart attack. He was considered a real hero after being shot in the face 4 years ago in New Haven. Today he was laid to rest with full honors. The whole newscast seemed rather depressing. Except for the Walter Camp dinner and event this weekend was the one upbeat story.

Here is the latest on the party. I told Mom that I am doing a project with the club. A family tree with pictures and I need pictures. I asked her where they were. She said they are all over I found one box but I imagine she has more else where. She bought it.

I called Liz tonight to tell her about the pictures and the ones I have (of her that are way too cute but I digress). She says Peschells is going to provide us with a menu for a lot less than the other caterer did. I forgot what she said we would be having but I will ask her again tomorrow while Mom is out.

She says that the ruse we will be using to get Mom to Convention center will be for a surprise party for Cheryl. We will be getting a invitation in the mail the next day or two and I am to tell Mom that Liz and Adam have been working on this for a while. I don’t think I will say anything until the invitations come to the house.

Well it is getting to be 10 pm. I am getting tired and I need to go to bed. Have a great night.

Glad its Saturday

Yesterday was a some what frustrating day. It started off by not being able to find my ID folder. That is until I got to work. It was in the bag just where I had put it the night before. I was very frustrated.

Ouida had brought in breakfast for her staff and invited me to have some breakfast. I got on line and got my plate. As I was walking past Marquita she made a comment to me. She had said I shouldn’t be eating the food because I eat over “there” referring to the Customer Service. Well Elia and Marta were standing right with her. I looked at her and said “Excuse Me?” I walked away and vented in my office and told Daphne. She said not to worry about it. Marquita wasn’t paying for it. I even told Ann who suggested I tell Ouida about it. Daphne suggested I talk to Marquita about it. Marquita played it off as talking junk. She says she knew Ouida invited me. She also said I am too sensitive. The arrogance of this woman was appalling.

By the time I left for Debra’s I got a lot done but still have stuff to do. The bulk mail never got done and neither did some of the readdress mail. I will have to do that Tuesday.

I was late for Debra’s and the entire time I was agitated. I was blowing off steam saying inappropriate things about Marquita. I had told Debra what had happened. I also told her how the plans for the party were going.

After the session I headed to the car and drove to Jennie’s. I got to Jennie’s just before 4:15 and we headed to the post office(s) and to the stores. We were finished by quarter of 6 and at her by 6. I got back to the house by 6:10.

I put the fish in to cook for half hour while I tried to reconcile the bank statement. I really screwed up on it. I had to reinstall it and now I think I am really messed up on it. It is so frustrating with this. I have Quicken and it is supposed to be easy to use.

I left the dishes in the sink while I went to the meeting. The meeting lasted until 9. I still have to write up the minutes and have them revised by Mike and Tessa. Tessa even said people talk too fast.

When I got home Mom was home. I was quite surprised by that. It turns out not enough people could make it for the meeting but she went out to dinner and had a great time. She is going out on Sunday with a woman she ran into there. Her name was Una. She is an old friend of Carla H and came to her house for parties. Anyway, they have an afternoon planned for Sunday. That will give me a chance to look for pictures.








I talked with Liz tonight before eating dinner. She was a little frustrated because the caterer she liked came back with a different price then what was originally quoted and it is $300 then the original price. She looked at another caterer and didn’t like anything about it. We talked about the Rev Fellenbaum and I told her I left a message but I did send her the address.

She told me which our family members would be coming up from GA. Billy emailed her and said that he and his wife Susan and the daughters would come up with Ray JR. Ray Jr’s wife is in Morocco. His parents (Uncle Ray and Aunt Rosalie) won't be coming up. I asked Liz what the reasons or excuses were. Well the first and foremost is their age. That's just too fucking bad!!! They drove up to see Serena. That’s just absolute bullshit on their part. Uncle Ray doesn’t like to fly. Well get over it. I don’t even know why Mike and Serena can’t make it. They piss me off.

Rita can’t or won’t make it because she needs to hold Carol’s hand right now. She also doesn’t like to fly. I say again GET OVER IT! Do what Mr. T does he gets himself knocked out.

I have no idea what Joey or Frank (they are Billy’s brothers) are going to do. I suspect that their older brother Bob and Donna will be there. I have no idea if Stella and her family responded. I know some of the Hebert families are attending and I know for sure Danny and Sheila will be there but not sure about the others.

A Better Day

Today was pretty good. I got most of the work done but still have stuff to do. The bulk mail and the readdress mail seem to be building up again. Dean Alpern sent a message about the death of a doctor. He was an Urologist and has offices through out the southern Connecticut.

I got some more emails from Liz today in regards to the count and still trying to get the address for Ken Fellumbaum. I told her I would look online and I would get back to her. She says that there were 160 people invited and she looked at caterers. I wish I was with her I would have enjoyed that. She did get a menu. It included porketta and potatoes and some other side dishes. She said that 15 people have said yes. Whoohoo! There were a few names that she couldn’t get a hold of from the literary club.

Now all that has to be done is getting pictures of her. I have to see where she is going to be at all next week or this weekend. Liz said she would help but that I have to keep my excitement down or Mom will catch on. Love the insults.

I got home a little before 4:30. Mom was in the kitchen cleaning up and had dinner in the oven. I just relaxed and Mom got on the computer. I spent some time on it myself. I watched Charmed. It was the ones for the special episodes. We ate dinner around 5:30.

Mom told me there was an incident in the garage where I park. She had asked me if there were any discussions about the attack. I said no and asked her about it. It happened on the fifth floor. A nurse was attacked and forced into her car but got away. Actually it was the garage at York Street known as the Air Rights Garage.

The Veterans Memorial Coliseum is getting ready to completely come down this weekend. The news discussed where residents and business owners can be for safety purposes this weekend. The final stages of the demolition are slated for January 20, 2007. It is supposed to happen at 7:30 in the morning. Apparently there will be farewell breakfast parties all around the vicinity to watch it come down. I can tell you there will be other places for me to be.

I do have some nice memories of that place. I saw the Ringling Brother's and Barnum and Bailey Circus there with Dad and the boys. I saw David Cassidy there when I was younger. I went to a couple of ice shows with John and Robert. I went to an automobile show there with Dave about 10 or 15 years ago. The WWF would set up shop there for a many shows. Of course there were the hockey games and the basketball games.

Well now I am going to bed.

A Short entry

This is going to be a short entry. I really am not feeling that well. It’s a headache returning from earlier this afternoon.

When I left here this morning I couldn’t find my ID stuff I thought maybe in the car. It wasn’t. I thought perhaps I left it in the office. It wasn’t. I looked all over the room but didn’t check the one place it was. It was in the pocket of the pants I had on last night. I found it this afternoon when I came home.

Donny from next door approached me this morning before I left and gave me his and Pam’s acceptance for the party. I emailed Liz later on in the day to let her know. She emailed me asking for A Jagoe’s address and so I found it and emailed it back to her. All the invitations have been sent out.

The rest of the day was fine. That is until I started getting a headache. I got some news both good and bad. Evelyn F and her husband adopted a baby girl in December. All are doing fine. Dottie/Mom got an emergency phone call about her aunt. She fell today and is now at Hospice.

I came home and the headache was full on. I tried to watch TV and took some Aleve® and just as I was leaving I had to come back inside and head straight for the bathroom. This was a repeat for about 45 minutes and after that I was lying down on the coach and felt better. I had already called the Dentist and cancelled and called Telka to tell her I wouldn’t be coming to the meeting.

I decided to lie down some more and then got up when the phone rang. I managed to hang some clothes I left on the floor. I managed to do some laundry as well. I did have some English muffin. I have to say that was a mistake. I have a feeling it’s going to come back up sometime tonight. I have taken ibuprofen and that will be a mistake too.

The garbage is out and the rest will be put out when I leave for work tomorrow. There shouldn’t be a lot. I emptied my garbage this morning.


Oh guess what we had snow flurries today. I missed them but they did come for a bit. It is very cold tonight.

Wow I can’t believe it took me two days to write. I was just so tired last night and not making much sense that it would have been torture for anyone to read it.

I dropped the car off at the Garage to get checked out. I headed to work in the rain. I met up with some of my old bus buddies including Chris V who was really an arrogant idiot. He hasn’t changed much. I didn’t see Cousin Danny on the bus so I suspect he got a ride from his co worker or went in earlier.

I mailed the Publishers Clearing house entry form, the Lord and Taylor payment and the letter to Debra. They should all get it with in a few days. I hope. I have no illusions that I will even win the sweepstakes but it would be fun trying. It would help in so many ways. I will keep you posted on that.

When I got to work I started working on my stuff. We got socked with the mail yesterday. So much so I was still working on it today. It’s been all opened and waiting for me to sort it and deliver it. Shirley wasn’t in yesterday. I allowed myself to go on line a little more than I should have and worked on the birthday list too. Several of my coworkers came back from the holidays/sick leave/ and honeymoon. It was great to see them.

I got a call from Tim’s Auto letting me know the car was done but that I needed 4 new tires. So that’s what I did after work. I went over to Costco and got them done. It took no time at all and cost about $288. It was fast too. In the short time I was waiting I got some groceries. Not a lot just feminine stuff and oatmeal for work. I was home by 6 or so.

We had dinner and then I had to make some calls for the club meeting tomorrow night. I had an opportunity to call Jolyn and we chatted about the events of the last few days (and the meeting). I also called Telka and she had sent me an email complimenting me on how well I did at the board meeting which I made me feel good.

Oh and I got the email from Rich Smith with the names of the guests to invite to Mom. I forwarded it to Liz and she emailed me asking for the addresses. I called her later on in the day as well. She emailed again to say she emailed Tessa.

I went online for a bit and put all the Google News Alerts and the Yahoo Alerts on hold for the next few days. I want to limit the emails so that I don’t miss any of the RSVP’s. Tonight I just put all the ones I do use that email address for on special notices (the groups at least).


Today was incredibly busy. I still haven’t finished everything. I went on line minimal amount of time. I will haave to do it tomorrow. I didn’t get home until after 5.

I am a little apprehensive about one thing. Yesterday JBondloveslucy responded to a thread at IMDB that I started. It was about the pictures that were recently posted and he completely monopolized the thread with his stupid obsessive signature about “doing it” with Lucy. I replied to him to chill and that not everything is about Lucy. Gemini responded with an “agreed” which I loved. I am half expecting him to get back at me by accessing the credit card numbers he claims to know from hacking my account from one of the forums. I mentioned this here not sure if I mentioned it at blogger.

Anyway, I seem to be coughing right now and I am getting tired so I am going to say good night for now.

Yesterday

Yesterday was another busy day. I went to church first then to bingo. After that I went to Dave’s party for a few hours. Last night I had the board meeting.

The party was a lot of fun and of course lots of food. Mom didn’t get to the party until after 2. It really pisses me off when she does this but I can’t say anything. (The party started at 1). She did have a great time and everyone enjoyed the entire party. At one point I started not feeling good. By the time I was ready to leave (which was around 5) I was feeling better.

Dave was his normal self and trying to be the good host. To the point of annoying me but what can I say?

When I got home Mom was in the back room watching TV and told me Telka called on her phone. Mom couldn’t understand why Telka called there instead of mine. I did find a message form her. Anyway, Telka wanted me to bring the phone squad list. The only I had was the one for Roberta and me. I chatted with Telka for a bit and then got ready to go out.

I did manage to do a little laundry. I had to the blouse I wore to Dave’s party had a stain and I wanted to get it out. I thought I had sent it through but didn’t.

I called Liz a little after 6 because I had received a message that was cut off. It wasn’t Liz though. She did have some questions for me and wanted me to go over some things for the party. I told her I would be over soon. I told Mom nothing. She didn’t find it weird I was leaving at 6:30. I stopped there for about 20 minutes. That caused me to be a little late but I didn’t have to go very far.

When I got there we revised addresses. I also suggested that we tell Mom that Bob’s kids are giving him a surprise birthday party. She is considering it. We checked some addresses. She left out a few which we keep telling her “invite the entire 4th district”. She refuses. The guest list is up to 143. That doesn’t include the list from Rich. I still didn’t get that list but Tessa did. She insisted earlier that I did. Anyway, Liz will be mailing out the invites tomorrow. I have to clear out my mailbox so that I can be aware of the incoming emails for this party.

The board meeting went pretty well. The discussion regards to Dottie’s outburst was the last thing. Dottie did get a little snippy but so did Telka. Unfortunately, Dottie was clearly wrong and her requests were a little off kilter. She feels we should have policies for giving out certificates of appreciate VS thank you notes for Donations to all of fundraisers. We continued to discuss the situation and the way it went tonight after she left as well.

It was nine thirty by the time I got home and raining I finished sending the laundry through since I didn’t do it before leaving. It came out shortly before midnight.

I have to go to sleep now because I am getting the car serviced tomorrow.

Today was summer

It feels like more summer than it does winter. It is so warm out that Mom has the back door open (or the screen it at least). I checked Weather.com for Milford and it has 58 degrees listed for the town. Well to me it seems more like sixty. The sun is shining and there are some clouds but not too many.

I have been up since 9. Mom was up earlier. I have been doing some laundry, paying bills and surfing the net all morning. I hope to get the class letters written and mailed out today.

John and Mom’s picture are in the newspaper today. It was on the local section of the Register. Page B1. Mom was embarrassed that her picture was taken and not that of his parents. They were in the Mayors office and a woman was thanking and saying goodbye to John. Mom says it was a really nice event.

Well I am not sure but I think I am getting a cold. I have been sneezing and blowing my nose for a good part of the day. I did take the Costco Version of Dayquil and it seems to be okay. I haven’t really gotten very far with the cleaning but I will be persistent.

I haven’t finished paying the bills but I will the next one I have to pay is Debra. I also need to check DOS. I hope the next statement Debra is submitting the insurance company will be generous and pay. I really need the money. I better get the letter written to her and then the final of the bills for now. I did manage to update the “monthly bills and managed to make one for February.

I decided to look back in my journals wondering what I was doing this time last year or the previous years. I went and looked at 2005 and there was nothing. I think I will try the other journals. Well this is what was happening to me three years ago.

Mom went out for a while she was going to do a little shopping despite the fact the list was short. I am not sure what else she was planning on doing but that’s okay. I haven’t done much etiher.

I am still waiting on Rich to provide me with the names. I am just checking again to see if he has and so far not yet.

I did start a letter to Marian South. I have been trying to find emails that would tell me what she is up to so that I don’t insult by not knowing what’s going on. I can’t really find any.

I Watched the end of Without a Trace. It was good. Now I am going to bed.

I know

I know when I am over tired. Every little thing gets to me. Whether it be the slowness of people in the cars in front of me when driving home from Liz’s house or the traffic lights seem to be slow. When the outlook express is loading up and takes what seems forever to get to the messages I am looking for. That’s when I need to go to bed.

Today went pretty well. I got most everything done (need to sort the rejection piles on Monday). I have to finish the readdress mail. Again that can be done next week. Everything was in order when I left.

It was raining pretty steadily today. Luckily there was a brief respite from it while I walked to Debra’s today. The session went well. I had to sign a couple of the HFCA Forms for September and October so she could submit them. I read the letter I sent to her. She had just gotten it and I wanted her to read it and hear it. We went into further detail about it. The session was over and I headed back to the car.

My right ankle was starting to get swollen on the way to the car. It hurt so much I didn’t know what to do. I knew it would be a while before I got home so I could not do very much about it.

The reason it would be a while before going home is because I went to Liz’s after my session. We agreed to come together to wrok on the party. Things are moving a long quite nicely. Tessa called me back today (after playing telephone tag). She is going to be helping with the party. She has some really excellent ideas and suggestions and she got Rich smith to provide addresses. Well at least a promise (they haven’t come yet). I had her call Liz and they did some brainstorming. Sheila helped fill out the invitations and I folded the directions. As of right now it doesn’t look as though Rita is coming to the party. It doesn’t surprise me. What did surprise me was some news I got.




We talked about a lot of stuff including about Carol in Texas. It seems that Carol and her husband are getting divorced. This is the reason Rita is not coming up to the party. She wants to be there for support to Carol. Mom didn’t mention this to me once. However, she must have known and I suspect Donna told her at Bob and Ethel’s party for John.

Anyway, I stayed until after five. When I got home Mom was on the computer and dinner was just getting started. Her cay got a little behind which is okay.

We ate around 6 tonight. We had pork chops and vegetables. It was delicious. After dinner I got online and I also watched TV and paid some more bills. Now I am going to bed.

A Hum Dinger of A Day

Oh I had another hum dinger of a day. Actually it did start off really cool. There is a tree at the edge of our yard. It looked like a cat frozen in mid air. It was like that picture you see with a small kitten hanging on to some limb for dear life.

Now here is the story how my day got a little hairy. As I was getting to the office Irma R was holding the door. I asked her about her birthday “Don’t you have a birthday coming up?” Well she looked at me like I had broken some freaking law. She asked how I knew about it. I told her I remembered from last year. She informed me she had them remove it from “the birthday list”. Well I certainly didn’t want to tell her I have my own private list. I just looked at her and told her I would never mention it again and as I walked away I said out lout “that was rude”. She is a god dammed bitch. I told Ann and Shirley and a few others about it. Both Ann and Shirley gave me good advice. Let it go.

Later on in the Day Diane G gave me a few chocolate truffles. I trying very hard to be good about the food I ate today and brought it over to the microwave by Shirley’s office and told Shirley that I was giving it to them. Well it turns out the Lisa I who sits right across from Shirley’s office gave the truffles to Diane G. I was mortified. I looked at Shirley and told her what happened. I even met Shirley half way down the aisle and leaned against her shoulder they way I do when I feel agitated. She laughed… but said it wasn’t my fault. I nearly begged Lisa I not to say anything and she didn’t.

On some more positive notes. I got a hold of Stella C in regards to names to invite to Mom’s party and she was really good about it. I did email Rich Smith but haven’t heard from him yet. I don’t know why this is happening I even emailed him from my work email. She did give some pretty good advice too and I shared it with Liz tonight on the phone.

I called West River to find out about the club giving out Valentines cards to the residents. Bunny was there and we talked briefly about that and our holiday. She thanked me for helping out on Sunday.

I was able to get pretty much a lot done. Still not finished with the readdress mail but it is as always a work in progress. Ann did give some agency checks to copy and I can do that first thing in the morning.

I called Liz before I left but she was sleeping. I talked with Nelson for a few minutes and then got ready to leave. I got to the car with no problem and headed home.

I got home literally at 4:30. Mom was getting ready for CPAC. She also had my dinner ready to be reheated. I did some stuff (watched Charmed) opened my mail. I also had a phone call from Dave.

He was reminding me about the party on Sunday as well as inviting Mom to come. I told her that when I finished listening to it. She asked me to call back and ask if Patrick heard anything while at the Shriners hall about the coat. Of course I called.

When Mom left and I started to get ready to eat I called Liz (I think it was around 5:30 or 6). She was sort of still sleeping (I feel like a schmuck). She said that Sheila would be making labels for the invitations and Liz worked on more of the invitations. I think we will be getting together tomorrow for other stuff. I told her what I learned from Stella and that I didn’t hear from Rich Smith yet. I was very close to finding Sophie’K’s address because I had told Liz last night it had changed. I think I may have messed up the stuff. By the end of the conversation Liz and I decided tonight we would relax. She really wasn’t feeling that well anyway. I probably will go over there tomorrow after my appointment with Debra.

After I got off the phone with Liz I decided to call my office line to see if perhaps Rich had called there (he works for Yale in the Alumni Affairs office). He didn’t but I did have a message from Shirley about the compliance. She wanted to know if I had finished it. Sigh I have a feeling I will have to retake it. Damn.

The rest of the time I was up here writing and checking emails. Oh I joined another group today. I had gotten the invite yesterday from Chris McCann (and Martina actually) and I left it on my iwon.com address. MSN/Hotmail was getting really full again. I also watched TV.

Bob called a little after 9. I hadn’t seen him since Christmas Day and night. So we exchanged pleasantries (Happy New Year). He wanted Mom to know the Meeting with the Mayor tomorrow is at 9:30 not 10. Why is there a meeting tomorrow? He wants to thank John for his effort in Iraq. J I asked Bob if I could come along and she said sure. But there is the little thing called work. I told him I could be there in spirit. Go John!


Mom came home around 8i and started to get her dinner ready. That’s when she got phone calls and was trying to get into her pajamas. I haven’t been downstairs since she went back down but I suspect she is asleep in the chair already. When I found out she was on the phone with Rich smith I phoned his home and left a message. The reason he had called Mom is to shoot the breeze.

I have been watching tonight’s episode of “The OC” and it is awesome. Kevin’s Character will be dying. He is awesome in this role. I can’t watch all of it. It will be too much emotion. That’s why I taped it.

Gemini (Rhonda G) responded to two of my Yahoo 360 Blog. She replied to my comment about my resentment about being made the "bad guy" in the situation. Then she responded to the idiot who was starting the thread about rehab. Omigod Andi posted that there is a site on my space for him. He isn’t a part of it…I bet you I know who started it. Although I just looked at it and sounds like he or someone from his camp did it. I did add it to my favorites and friends.

Oh you are not going to believe what I did tonight. I filled out the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes and will mail it tomorrow. You know the one where they will announce the $10 Million Winner. Well I figured I would try it. What could possibly go wrong?

Well it is now after 10. The show is over and I am going to go to bed. I will watch it some other time. Right now though I am going to bed.

Wow What a Day

Wow what a day. I finally got to sleep around 1:30 or so after watching part of the M*A*S*H Finale on TVLand last night. I also had some warm milk. I had some really wild dreams to but I can’t remember them clearly. I got up around 6 and got ready for work.

I was on time for work but left the house late. There was a pretty good coating of frost on the car and Mom said she would look to see if we have the de-icing cans around. She forgot to look since then but will when she goes out tomorrow or soon.

Work went well got things done. The readdress mail is a work in progress. The mail really wasn’t heavy as was expected. I even told Shirley this and she said it will probably come when we least expect it. She reminded me that Insurance companies may not have been open during Christmas either.

I called Tim’s Auto to schedule a service check and that will be next Monday. I told them about the light and stuff and they will look at it. I called the UPS store and told them I would be there after work to pick up my ID wallet. It’s a good thing because on the way to work and on the way home I was really low on gas.

I called Mom to see what she was up to and she was just looking up information on narcolepsy and apparently she found out some distressing info. She told me this later on when I got home. She also did some other stuff that I can’t remember. Oh she made dinner too.

I did check the forums. Starchild responded to that thread I mentioned the other day about a guy starting and asking if Kevin was in rehab. I replied to her response as well. There was a post about Stripe yesterday. Apparently she isn’t feeling well.

I can’t remember any of the other things that went on. I tried to stay away from the personal forums and concentrated on work. I will check them out before I go to bed.

Oh the W2 forms were made available today. I forwarded the email to my home email and just printed out a little while ago. I will install the H&R Block Tax Cut this weekend or something. I had heard that the tax booklets would be coming out soon on the radio this morning.

When I got home Mom was making dinner and I was looking through my mail and checking emails. I got an email from Liz about getting together tonight and I also got an email from Telka.

Telka is scheduling a Board meeting for Sunday Jan 7, 2007 7 pm. That means I will have to leave Dave’s party by 6 or so. I hope he will understand. If he doesn’t then screw him!

I called Liz when I got the email from her. She wanted me to come over very soon. I told her we were just about to have dinner and we agreed that I would call her as soon as I was done eating. She was saying perhaps that she should do this (invitations seeking) by herself. She was saying that we really had to move on this party for Mom.

I told Mom I would be going to see Liz after dinner to see how she was feeling. When I called Liz back I told her the “excuse” I used. When I left it was after 6 and I got to Liz and Nelson’s by 7 (at least I think-its getting foggy now). I talked with Nelly really fast and then we left.

Our first stop was Party City and we bought $25 worth of invitations. When we finished there we stopped at KFC for Nelly and then to Mickey ‘D’s for ice coffee. During this whole time we talked about what needed to be done for the party. She made comments about the boys helping out again. She says Jim would have good intentions but she knows he couldn’t and she said that Bob and Ethel should contribute considering that they lavished a party on John. We went over the list again and she hand wrote out one of the invites and we went over a list of what I need to do...

1) Call Stella Cretella
2) Call Rich Smith and if he can’t help
3) Call Tessa

I did say I wish I could do more. She reassured me that I am doing enough and probably will be doing more. We agreed to get together tomorrow night to write more invitations out. I just have to call her tomorrow before leaving for work. I probably will go right from work and won’t have to worry about Mom wondering. She actually wasn’t wondering tonight when I came home. She was concerned when I told her both Nelson and Liz were sick.

She is now downstairs watching TV and I did some too. I also spent some time looking over my mail. My card to Steve and Marika came back. They moved to Northwest of Boston so I updated my address books and will resend the card out. Mom gave me the address today. She talked with Aunt Rosemary today. I also got a wonderful card from Judy and Scott T (Rosemary’s Daughter and SIL) they now live in Asheville NC. They sent me a card of their family which includes their daughter Chloe and their three dogs. It is so cool

I went online to check out Stephen’s house and to learn a little about the town they live in. I have to check it out again (the info) but from the satellite picture their hosue seems nice. Oh the major income is $80,000. I am going to check out Judy and Scotts address online too. Well it didn’t have a clear view of the hosue but the surrounding area.

Well it is now 10 pm and I need to go to bed. I will see you tomorrow….

Back to Work

It is almost 9:30 and I am just about to sack out. I had a pretty good day. I got up showered and managed to get online for a short time. Mom was up when I left she got my lunch ready for me and reminded me to get my coat to the cleaners.

I was on the road by quarter of 8 and some guy was leaning on his horn to get me to turn on red to the highway entrance. In my loving and caring way I told him to shove it up his royal ass. I got to the office by 8.

I made my rounds for greetings and checked the trays for outgoing mail. Even though we wouldn’t be getting a lot of mail because of President Fords Funeral (I was silly enough to think it was because of the New Years Holiday). I got started on various things. I did some collection letters and then had to re-stamp the correspondence for Joan. I took care of the lockbox and managed to get a lot of stuff done.

The day went pretty fast though. I made sure I stayed busy with a few moments on line but sticking to my resolve that I would only go online at break time unless it was for work related stuff.

After work I went to the UPS store and mailed the damaged gloves back to LL Bean. I would get a call later on informing me my ID stuff was on the counter. I will call them tomorrow.

It was five when I got home and Mom had dinner cooking. J It was Lamb shanks and left over vegetables from Christmas. It’s safe to say if we didn’t finish all of it tonight it would be going into the garbage afterwards.

Mom is now watching TV but she is tired. She did odds and ends and got her hair cut. I couldn’t help feel as though she was pissed at me so I asked her if she was okay. She said she was tired.

I went for a walk tonight. Not a long one just to Doolittle Park and back. I was wondering how many steps it was and in total it was 96 steps. I looked online what the pedometer is and one thing it said was the 10,000 steps were equivalent to 5 miles or 8 km. I have a feeling I walked a total of 3 miles today. I had the pedometer on all day today,

I finally got a letter written to Debra tonight. It was 3 ½ pages long. I told her of the events for the past two weeks. I will mail it out tomorrow and she should get it by Friday afternoon.

Well I better get going…see ya tomorrow.

New Years Day 2007

Happy New Year! I have been up since 9 and awake since oh say 5 or 6. I just felt like staying in bed and dozed. It has been raining and will continue all day. I watched CSI Miami in its entirety on A&E it was pretty good.

Mom woke up around 10 and had her meds and coffee and read her paper. She did ask me when Jim was short with me. I told her it was with the crumbs on the table and just his whole demeanor. I really didn’t want to talk about it with her because I felt she would think I was out of line. I told her I thought he seemed tense and stuff. We agreed it was because Claudia criticized him for not planning better. The restaurant he wanted was no longer there.

Anyway, I spent some time online and reading some of my journals. I went on to IMDB forum for Kevin and someone asked if Kevin Sorbo was in rehab because he had seen a preview of VH1’s show (can’t remember the name) and he surmised it was at a rehab. I posted “no” as a reply. I thought I would share the info with Stripe and Misferral. They probably will tell me not to worry about it. I guess I thought it would start rumors flying.

In about two hours Mom and I will go over to Mike and Tessa’s house for their party. I would prefer not to be there all day. I will be around a lot of food and snacking. If I am going to start changing my eating and dietary habits I have got to start today. I am probably going to drink lots of water before I leave.

It wouldn’t kill me to make my bed and pick up stuff either….

Well I made the bed and got showered around 12. Mom didn’t want to go to the party at one but after awhile. I am really sorry but I just find it very bad form to show up later then 1 pm. Yes the email said “1 or so…” but to me the only reason you should be late is if there is traffic or you have a prior commitment. I would also prefer not to spend the entire 7 hours there either.

Well we have been home for about 15 minutes or so from the party. It was a great deal of fun. I ate a lot but I made sure I drank a lot of water but had too many sweets. I also ate a lot of mozzarella balls. Patrick was there which I felt great and so were Kerri Rowland and her kids. Many different discussions and some of them I enjoyed and some I felt a little out of place.

Mike wants me to send out an email to everyone about the date change for the meeting next week. I told him now would be a little early but he wants it done. I am going to do that and then go to bed…