Dear Mom

Dear Mom,

    It is the end of the day and I am tired and will be heading to bed soon.  Despite my best efforts I tried to get up at 5:30 but I had been awake since 4 and decided to stay in bed longer.  So by 6 I was up showered, and dressed and managed to get a little Computer time and TV in before leaving after 7 for work.  ON the way to work I stopped at Dunkin for some coffee and not so healthy breakfast.  

    The drive in wasn’t bad.  The early morning clouds almost looked like mountain tops or hill tops but there aren’t any really mountain tops in the New Haven area if you don’t count East Rock, West Rock or Sleeping Giant.  You can’t see any of those from West Haven actually   Let’s just say at that time of the morning my imagination was running away abit.

    I got to the office at a decent time and walked in w/Janet until she had to get her coffee.  We talked about the weekend and how quickly it always seems to go by.  I managed to chat with Mama Joanie who spent most if not all weekend in bed because of her feet and legs.  She is continuing to get quite discouraged.  I told many of my attempt at cooking the pork roast last night they were very encouraged.  

    ONce I got to my office I started working.  I was quite surprised there were not a lot of eob sleeves to pick up (These are sleeves to put work in from the payment processing to the cash and insurance posters.  Of course the mail volume was pretty light despite a lot of the lobby mail didn’t even belong to us.  I will be returning that downstairs tomorrow.  SInce the mail volume was light I was able to put an even bigger dent in the re-address mail.  I also put in for a vacation day so I can drive down to Jim’s on Wednesday and it was approved within the hour.  

Oh and I got my flu shot today.  I am officially a flu”zee” .  Yes I got the same looks and groans from a number of people today.  What did you expect me to do?  I also posted it on facebook.  I am gonna see how many people like it or comment.

After work I went food shopping and managed to get it done within an hour.  Let’s hope I don’t waste the vegetables this time.  At least I know have all the ingredients for the pasta salad maybe now I can take the time and get it done.  

    For some reason the laptop is giving me grief again.  I am not sure what it is. I did change the battery but its not the problem...the pages are not moving and it so slow.  I am wondering if I did something to it.  For now I am just leaving it alone because it will be only a matter of time if I really get aggravated with it.

I put the pork back in for half hour when I got home from work.  It seemed much better so I had  a sandwich.  That will allow me to have a few more meals out of that now.  I did get more advice from Liz for the next time.  Maybe take it out two days in advance and put it on the counter.  

Well listen I am getting tired so I am going to call it a night.

I will see you later...

Family Night

Last night was family night.  I had been checking messages on facebook and found one from a cousin on  my Dad’s side.  She was sending me her address.  Then I got a message from an old friend of Bob’s that was sending condolences. I sent a message to my nephew Rob (and ironically no response yet).  Then just about dinner time Liz sent me a text to my email account informing me she was in the hospital with pneumonia.   Then Ethel comes over for impromptu dinner and then we get phone calls from two of the Coulombe cousins.  I also had gotten emails from Lisa R asking  if we are still attending the little guy's birthday.  She wanted to know about Chris and his kids I couldn't answer.  

Earlier this afternoon I had called Mom for a second time and got an update.  Liz has been put into isolation and can’t have visitors.  Mom’s annoyed as she feels Liz should have been to the doctor’s sooner than this.  It was a little unnerving because you don’t know what is going on and crazy things start popping in your head.

I left the office a little after 4 and headed home.  I stopped at the two Chris’s house to see Sawyer and Simon.  They immediately started to whine when they saw me.  So I spent some time talking with their “Dad”.  After a while I actually came to the house and by then it was 5.

MOm and I talked while she cleaned the pans she was  using to cook some eggplant.  She had about an hour to get ready for the Literary club.  We talked about getting the cake done and she said she would do it when she got up in the morning.

She left after six and after talking with Liz.  Liz sounded stronger and is feeling better but will be in the hospital until Monday.  I have been relaxing between phone calls and TV watching.  Nelson called about 30 minutes ago and this is what he said:

“Liz is feeling better but having a hard time breathing; the birthday party for Nelson 3 has been canceled because Jr and son are both sick.”

This outbreak (flu and everything else) has gotten everyone.  I am going to try and get to bed early tonight and do my chores before leaving tomorrow for Telka’s party.

A long Day

Well it is after 6:30 and I have been home since 5. I have had dinner and will be getting ready for tomorrow. I really should have been paying attention to the work today. I did the work but it is not completely done. I have to still open today’s lockbox and sort it. Through out the day I spent time on line and ate a lot of candy. By the end of the day my attention span was non existent and I had to push myself. Gayle caught me chatting with someone at least 8 times. I didn’t leave the office until 4:30 or so.

I made sure I called Debra around 3 because I wasn’t feeling that well. My knee was hurting and I had a headache. I will have to make it up to her very soon.

I really got annoyed with some ding bat who posted to the snail-mail-pals list yesterday in a very obnoxious threatening way about getting invites to groups. She threatened the entire group saying she would report anyone and make sure they won’t be able to create groups ever again. Well several people including myself responded that she should go to the individuals and not bring it to the group. She was more obnoxious this morning. I told her that she ever threatened me again her ass would be in jail. She whined later that we should give her some slack because she was pregnant. She left the group by early afternoon.

I did join another pen pal group it was based on one that closed unceremoniously in the last year. I also made a comment when people comment that it was wrong for the owner to not tell anyone and give it to others within the group. I told them an owner can do what ever they wanted.

So you can see that I was online far too much today. I can’t tomorrow. I can’t be late for the poll standing.

I am also feeling very stupid for two reasons. The letter that Claudia sent to Mom and my ID holder that holds my license, Work ID, and my Health insurance card are all still at work. I couldn’t put my hands on either of those and I am mostly likely going to need them tomorrow.

I am all set for the flu shot. I walked with Marlene S to Harkness Hall and got it done. It was free and to all employees.

It really didn’t take too long but it did throw my schedule off a touch. I just have to finish the lockbox from today.

Well I think I am going to try and get some letters written or at least printed. Then I can mail them tomorrow.