Still Having the debate

This morning I got an email from Sis about blind date that went horribly wrong.  Of course a few days ago I went online searching for articles about personal experiences people may have had with meetup.com and they were positive ones.  I also talked with a neighbor who uses meetup.com and she has positive experiences. I sense this will be a continuing battle.  I am trying hard to respect her views and to follow the assertiveness steps I found the other day.  OF course if you heard me this morning you would think I wasn’t doing it very well.

To make it worse my ankle and heel were acting up and if I moved in any direction it would hurt even more.  My reaction to it may have inflamed the feelings I already was having.  So the ankle and heel have been a challenge to walk around today. I don’t think a doctor can do anything about it. 

I am very happy that I found my latest coffee/tea order waiting for me when I arrived home last night.  I think I am pretty well stocked for a few weeks or until the next promotional gig comes up.  I also had gotten my grocery delivery just about 7 last night.  The roasts I just put in the freezer as they are.  As well as the fish. 

I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner and about an hour later I finished off the chicken.  I had some coffee with it too.  I think for tonight I will cook one of the roasts and make sandwiches out of them for the rest of the week or so.

I watched Independence Day last night it was good but I think huge chunks of it were taken out but pieces I may have missed before were included this time.  By the time it was over I was on my way to bed.

Tonight I meet with Debra and we will catch up on everything .

Tonight is finish laundry for now.. 

Didn't have to wear a coat

It is now just before 5 and LOTR Return of the King has started its second hour.  There is just about three hours left before The Battle of the 5 Armies (did I mention that already?).  Bro was glad to know these were on today.

I was quite glad I didn’t have to wear a coat this afternoon.  I wasn’t out in it long but it felt nice.  I can’t say that now it is 40 F and the sun is setting in the west and the gray clouds look cool.

I couldn’t withdraw money from the Credit Union today.  I don’t know why.  I am going to call them tomorrow and find out.  There is no problem with the balances that I could see.  For a minute I thought maybe someone hacked into any of my accounts but it didn’t happen.  It could have been the ATM itself.  I just have to be sure to have cash tomorrow night.

I did get the gift card for the “kids” gift tomorrow.  Now all I have to get is the card to put it in.  I didn’t go to the card shop yet.  I will do it tomorrow while at work.  My reason for not going today is fairly lame I admit.  It was because I stopped for lunch and had the chicken in my car and I was getting hungry.

I did stop at the post office but all I had was Shop Rite coupons the same exact one I got at home in the mail Thursday or Friday.  So I tossed it.  I was expecting the Box fee statement because it will come due again soon. 

After I ate I took a rest and played solitaire.  The bedroom became blindingly bright. So I just closed my eyes for a bit and l watched the movie some more.

I got up after a while and found the kitties together on the spare bedroom cuddled up.  They were there for most of the day today.  There were a few times each of them spent some quality time with me.  I have let them down the cellar a couple of times.  Now they have been running around the house.

I have received a few more Meetup alerts one or two of them are something I would do (20 something bowling yeah I know I am twice the age and then some).  It is during the week and on a night I have the ladies guild.  Then there were some party meet-ups as well.

Well I managed to fold or hang most of the clothes that have been washed I am waiting on one small load and then that’s it for the night.  The dishwasher is empty and almost filled again.  I just didn’t want to rush around tomorrow cleaning some things when Livia is supposed to come tomorrow.

I moved the box that held the new TV downstairs after having it in the living room for so long.  I was getting tired of leaving it there and of course I thought it was going to be heavy it wasn’t and it really wasn’t that awkward to get down to the cellar for the next bulk pick up.

Finally all of you Original People’s Court from the 80’s or 90’s Judge Joseph Wapner died this morning he was 96.  I remember watching it over the course of 10 years on and off.  I guess I wasn’t ever a big “reality tv” fan back then either.

I was feeling a little bold today

After releasing the second of two raccoons this week from the trap and having enough coffee to make LJ Gibbs proud I was bold enough to take on a fellow passenger who was being less then gentlemanly. H got on at Cedar Street near the Psychiatric Hospital and was trying to scam the bus driver by getting out of paying the fare. She wasn’t having any of it. She told him to get out of her personal space and sit down.




He did but started swearing and talking and I finally told him to watch his mouth. He got mouthy with me but not too loudly. The guy sitting next to him got up and sat across from him (he wasn’t interested in hearing him either) and all the while the bus driver was listening and told him to stop or she would call the police. He was dropping a lot of F bombs and saying his father worked on the buses for the 37 years etc. When he told me he was having a bad day I looked at him and said I am sorry you are having a bad day but I don’t want to hear it.



In one of the moments I looked around I looked at the guy who moved and thought he was looking at me and thinking “shut up woman’. However, I didn’t pay attention but remembered a story this driver told me the other day when a similar incident occurred and someone stood up and told the other passenger off. Anyway I was grateful to be getting off and I blessed the bus driver. I told a few people that story and some of them looked at me and shook their heads while others applauded me for saying something.



I got started working shortly after 8. There were two large boxes with EOB’s from United Healthcare that were not opened by finance or even the bank that handles our lockbox for us. So I left it on G’s desk for her to look at when she got in. Unfortunately it will have to wait until next week as she never came in today. She hasn’t been feeling well all week. She also reiterated that she will be leaving on Disability as soon as she can manage it. This really saddens me as I really love her as a friend and as a boss.



I managed to get all the work done early despite the second mail run (the campus/interoffice part) came really late and that had some mail in it. There wasn’t a lot but I really didn’t like the fact it was so late. I also was able to get some of the mail for the other floors delivered. I still have a few piles but it’s done quite considerably. I have to remember there is some on the floor next to the second desk and the wall.



I also tried to stay out from the aisles on the main floor. Unfortunately it worked until ST walked in from the ladies room. I had been talking to DB about the morning bus ride. When I had a moment and DB was near by I explained to her what was going. Everyone knows that ST has been on the warpath this past week. I also let EV (a co worker and union rep) what G had said to me the day before about ST unconvinced that I need help.



I have some car news. I got it back today. I called at lunch time and he said it’s almost done and that he had a few things he needed to do before giving it back. I called back at 4 as Mom was picking me up and it was ready. The bill was being written out. So by 4:30 I had brought it home. I rather not tell you I left my credit card there. I had to go back and get it.



They also straighten out the car for me (by that I mean put a few things in a box and picked up the garbage that I had on the floor. I am going to put those in the trunk and get throw the papers and stuff out tomorrow.



After I left the garage for the last time this week I headed over to Sis’s house. She had gone out for a few hours and N1 was watching TV. I went there to drop off the books for J-man that Mom wanted him to have and I had her thank you/birthday gift too. N1 and I had talked about the car and the ex-DIL he has absolutely no use for. He said the same thing that Mom said to me that the girl is selfish and self-centered. When I left I let him know I would come over after church for Father’s Day. Sis called and was tickled pink and pleased at the gift.



I don’t remember what time it was when I got home. Mom was finishing up frosting the cake she was taking for the literary club party tonight (it was an extra meeting). I was getting my dinner of left over spaghetti.



After a week of no show Woodchuck #3 finally showed its face. It appeared right after the lawn guys finished working. It kept popping its head up out of the hole. The first few times Mom missed it then she saw him. After she left he finally came out and sniffed and explored things. He even went into the trap but not far enough to spring it. After he went back in I cut up some more melon and put in the trap and the path from his hole to the door. He hasn’t been out since. I have been checking the trap regularly tonight but no luck. I expect to find one of two things early tomorrow morning. Either it is a different critter or he/she in the trap. I will take it to the park when I get up if it is WC#3.



I managed to answer a few Journal Writing check in prompts such as the summary Saturday, and a few other responses. JAustin from the Journal writing list shared a funny forward that I sent to a few friends and family. I had a few responses tonight.



Okay well I think I am going to say good night as one of my favorite radio programs is about to start on Public Radio. It’s a local show called Profiles in Folk. It is on every Friday night from 10 to midnight and it focuses on folk music nationally and groups that have performed in and around the area.

Think this is going to be a long Day

I woke up around 1:30 this morning and didn’t go back to sleep for quite sometime. This doesn’t bode well for me. Although I did get a chance to surf the internet for a while I sent messages to some of my classmates I haven’t seen in years. I updated the blog entries that were getting hinky. I discovered my KateP's musings has a new follower. I acknowledged her in that entry.

I got an email from Liz with the updated info about the hotel for the wedding. I am so excited because as I mentioned in the email this is the first wedding we have attended for family out of state together on Mom’s side.

I worked until 6 tonight. My intention to try and stay off the internet while at work was semi successful. I can’t help but feel that management is tracking what I am doing on there. The various sites I do visit are slow to load up at different times. The way things have been going between SR and me I would like not to feed into any more problems with her. I really don’t care how stressed she is. As Lee Ann says you don’t bring it to work. There isn’t going to be any OT tomorrow. Building Maintenance will be turning the power off and you can’t do much of anything.

Mom says she will be around the house today while the guys are finishing up the floor. I am sure as soon as they are done she will be diving into paper work and bills. She really couldn’t do it last night.

I got a thank you note from Ted today. I haven’t opened it yet but I am sure it was a nice one. I got one from Steven Washington last week and haven’t been able to find it. I will soon I hope.

I did find out that one of my LJ friends Amorettea is going through a rough time. Her Mom is real sick and it doesn’t look good so if you could say a few extra prayers for her and her family I would appreciate it. I really should been more of a friend to her and checked in with her more.

I think I am going to call it a night I can barely keep my eyes open. Have a great night.

I was cleaning out some of the mailboxes

Since it was too hot to do much of anything and there wasn’t much on TV. I wasn’t really interested in seeing Juno, or Da Vinci Code. I decided to clean out some of my mailboxes of old emails.

Some that I came across were from two years ago and most of them were from the pen pal groups. They basically were chatting about board games they play. Most of the games they mentioned were ones I had either played myself or knew of. I don’t remember having monopoly but I had the game of Life. It is funny as each of those games has evolved to reflect the times we live in. It has been a while since I actually saw the board games but if I am not mistaken there are several different versions of Monopoly and the game pieces are different then I remember. The same can be said for Life.

Some of the other emails were members replying to my message about Mom going to have her back surgery. They were sending good thoughts and prayers. I didn’t keep them because they were through the list and my resolve to only save emails either directly to me or jokes or thoughts of the day or something that was interesting.

While I was clearing out the emails I realized I haven’t worked on the minutes from Thursday’s meeting. I have also to write a message to the group about the lack of attendance to the district meetings. I am not really sure how to approach attendance and the important elections coming up. I may ask Mom for some help with that.

I hope the AC is working at the nursing home today. I may have some help with a young man named Bryan and Paloma has a birthday party to go to I think. I think Natalie is supposed to be working today I will know for sure when I get there.

Well the thunderstorm came through last night. I could hear it around 1 or 1:30. Mom had just gone to bed and so I went through the house and closed all the windows. The thunder made me jump a few times. As soon as I got back to the room I shut down the computer and pulled all the pillows to the center of the bed. The bed is literally at the back window of my room. I remembered all the warnings and reports that people get struck by lightening in all odd ways. I didn’t want to take any chances.

Its time for me to get ready for bingo….cya later.

A Real Scorcher

It is another scorcher of a day. It was 80 degrees when I elft for work this morning. By the time I left the office it was nearly 90. It was over 90 when I got to Milford. I have the AC on right now. Thunderstorms are predicted for later on tonight. At least I am hoping because I do see the clouds rolling in even though the sun is out.

Today went very well. I got up fairly early got the desk “sort of cleared” so the electrician could work his magic. I put up the blinds in the side window. I would find out later the electrician would not be coming because it would be too hot in the attic. I guess he has to do the electrical work through the attic. Now I have to go to various spots in this room and get the things out.

I got to work a little after 8 and started on the scanning. I also got online a lot. I did a lot of tweeting. I got on facebook a few times and checked out some of the NCIS Forums.

This afternoon when I got home I called Bob to see if John was home but alas he wasn’t. He was in NY. Bob says he should be home sometime today. I told him I wanted to stop by and visit he said he would probably stop by sometime before going back to Fort Benning.

Mom came home an hour later from shopping. She was discouraged she didn’t get much in the way of food but personally I ithnk we have enough. She did some other type of shopping too. She went to the 4 o’clock mass and got home around 5:30

I am not doing very much except laundry, watching TV, and surfing the net. I am going to have the rest of Mom’s Chinese food for dinner tonight. I might get rid of some old papers and emails and documents that I don’t need.

Facebook

Consumer Reports came out with this report for their June edition. When I spoke to a few of my fellow facebook mates they agreed some of it is common sense. For years people have said “don’t put your full birth date anywhere online”. However, I am not sure I agree with some of the other suggestions like the one where it says to have friends only. What if you want someone you haven’t seen in years and wanted to restart with them again maybe have them contact you through the facebook.

There was another article regarding facebook “etiquette” if you will. For example don’t post private messages to people via their walls. If you have their emails then email them. That makes sense.

I may have to go through all the sites I frequent and update my contact info. It is amazing and sometimes scary to think how all this could come back and bite you in the ass. The article that I mentioned first was to prevent identity theft. Okay updated my profile for that. Although there are others who probably have seen it already and what they do with it is curious.

I worked today. I was a bit late but I stayed until after 2. I wasn’t feeling well when I left. Mid morning I got the runs. It was really embarrassing. I cleaned up as well as I could but was anxious to go home.

I have been doing laundry and watching TV and getting rid of emails and keeping others that are going into the various journal files. I am trying to stay away from any foods right now and maybe later I will have something but I just don’t want to right now.

Oh Mr. V down the street brought home an 8 week old German shepherd pup. Name hasn’t been decided yet but he does come from Eastern Europe. Little pup is cute and soft and loveable. He was pretty exhausted yesterday. I am not sure what’s happening today but I bet it is interesting.

Roberta called from LV tonight. We talked for about 10 minutes and I told her how things were going…She and Mike is coming back later today from the trip. I went over and fed the cat and brought in the mail.

It is going to get Colder

The weather is supposed to be dangerously cold in the next few days. Tonight it is cloudy and below freezing. If you look out to the sky and you can see the street lights and parking lot lights reflect off the clouds. Tomorrow will be sunny but very freezing tomorrow night is supposed to be bad as well. The weekend will have plenty of clouds and we are supposed to be getting some snow showers

This weather will present problems for the local shelters as they will be filled to capacity. There are eight overflow shelters in and around the state. Budget cuts have been affecting the Columbus House shelter and may not be able to house all those who are homeless. There is one on Goffe Street but it is quite possible there will be other alternatives. It makes me thankful for this house.

Work went well. I finished the work from yesterday and still need to do today’s lockbox. I was not able to work on it at all. I just hope this doesn’t bite me in the ass. Lee Ann spoke to me again and reminded me to make sure I do my work because I made a lot of people crazy from Friday. When I was tell Jennifer T about he she just rolled her eyes and told me (as far as home was concerned to do what I want and go to the dating websites and check out there. Well that’s all nice to suggest but I just don’t see myself doing it.

I did find myself asking people if I upset them last week and they understood and said it didn’t bother them. I shouldn’t be doing that. I know in my heart I was wrong and I will always be internalizing stuff.

I have another example. Lucinda came to me late in the day and asked me was Liz in a car accident because they were given two different stories. I said I spoke with her late yesterday and she explained what was happening. Apparently Gayle had told them but they were also told she would be going to Howard’s team. I explained to Lucinda (and I asked Terry) that I felt it wasn’t for me to say one thing or another (I had told a couple of people) and I just didn’t want to be in any violation.

The ride home was uneventful. I was happy to see that all the ice had melted from my car including the side view mirrors. I suspect I will not be able to say that tomorrow. I was home by 4:30 and found a note from Mom.

The note was instructions for dinner. I followed them. While they were preheating I opened the mail. It was junk mail mostly but I also got the reimbursement check from the insurance company and that’s going into the bank.

Mom came home sometime after 5. She checked it and then got into her pajamas. I followed suit. When I came back down I set the table and then Mom finished setting up. There wasn’t much to be done except cook vegetables.






After dinner we cleaned up and I went back to watching NCIS and sending emails. I don’t know what season the episodes are from. Well actually the one on CBS was from this season and this week I think.

I answered emails from the LLGSM list in regards to the PO Box and leaving home. I explained to them that I am supposed to get the house when the time comes and I just don’t want to jeopardize it.

I also answered some emails from Telka. She emailed me to remind me about asking Natalie about the Valentines Delivery in February. She also said the meeting might be on a Sunday. Probably this Sunday.

Well it s getting late and my eyes are getting heavy. I need to get some sleep. See you tomorrow!

Feeling Normal

Well I feel much better then I did yesterday. My stomach was feeling a little heavy this morning so I drank mostly coffee and a few pieces of candy and then by 12:30 I had a grilled cheese sandwich. By the end of the day I was feeling normal again.

The day went pretty well despite receiving some bad news. My co-worker Donna Ciaburri lost her Mom on Friday. Joanne Onofrio came around with a flyer and collected money. I put in $2. I told her if others were contributing more to let me know. She said that the $2 would be enough.

After work I drove to Debra’s. It was getting cold and I didn’t feel like walking back to the car after the session. I was a couple of minutes late but we had a good session. We talked about the holiday, the weekend, and my goals for 2009. I also talked about bad habits like I mentioned yesterday. I included some that I didn’t have in yesterday’s as well. I am paid up to last week with Debra. Next week will be two weeks and probably get backed up again.

It was nearly 5:30 when I got home. Mom was cooking dinner and it would be sometime before we ate. I took the time to get into my pajamas and watch TV. I even checked my mail. I got a wonderful Christmas card from my cousin Judy and her family in Virginia. It is a picture of their daughter Chloe on Santa’s lap.

Mom heard me yelling at the computer earlier. It’s the first time in a long time I have done that. It was the whole answering an email and it turned to text message. It is very frustrating. I told her about it and she rolled her eyes. I told her I don’t do it often.

In between typing and answering really stupid emails from certain groups and the computer getting sluggish I have been watching the NCIS Marathon ION TV. Earlier I saw the prequels to the Star Wars Franchise. I suspect the ones with Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will be on tomorrow.

The mudslinging viciousness is still rampant on the IMDB for John Travolta over the death of his son. It is really bad. I reposted the link to Mr. Travolta’s site to send condolences. I wonder if they responded. Its funny but I told posters on the NCIS board that I wouldn’t go back but I have. I guess it is like watching a train wreck.

Well I have a long day tomorrow. I see Dr. Martin tomorrow. I need to get to bed. I hope the caffeine doesn’t keep me awake.

I was thinking

I was thinking yesterday that I have noticed in the last couple of days I was slipping back into some old habits. For example I haven’t made my bed since Saturday. The whole point of me waking up at five is not to turn over and go to sleep for an hour more. It is to get up and make the bed, have breakfast perhaps, get online for a bit and most importantly get ready for work without rushing around.

I have caught myself leaving my desk a little cluttered. I didn’t like it. It was a small mount of papers and not neatly either. I have since rectified it by throwing out the papers I have gotten the information from it. I have organized the piles to a neater way. Now I make sure that if I take something out or have dropped it on the floor to pick it up and put it away.

In the Blue room where most of my work clothes and special occasion clothes are in the wardrobe or even the back of the door found themselves on the bed after being in the laundry. I made myself take the time and hang them.

Yesterday I was online for quite a long time. I had it on and in between the opening of the mail I would reply to emails. I can’t do that because it causes me to get behind in the mail. The lockbox was delivered late anyway and I started to open it when I finished with the regular post office mail.

Today I was a little late because of me dragging my feet and stuff. When I got to work the charts and stuff were already there so I started on that right away. After it was done (within the hour) I finished up on yesterdays. I left the readdress mail for really later and worked on todays. I did the bad addresses for about the last two hours of the day. I made the effort to stay off the net and just got on at breaks ands looking up things.

Mom had her meeting in Middletown and once again she was caught up in traffic again. She was really aggravated. She has to look forward to it for two more days. IF that’s the case then tomorrow night I will get the downstairs cleaned.
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I am wondering if I need to start doing my “to do list” again.

What Would You Do?

What would you do if you were in parking garage and was holding the elevator for someone who was disabled to walk from her car to the elevator and the person inside side there is another elevator in a minute?

I apologized and then said “excuse me? “ I then said to her “You know what? Forget it I will take the next one. I stepped off and told the other woman not to get on. I explained to her the interaction and I could hear the woman inside the elevator saying something. I told her to have a nice day. We took the next one and the other woman thanked me.

What would you do if you had received another useless invitation to the networking site called Tagged? I emailed the person who sent me the invitation which can be found under this file. I then emailed all the pen pal groups and I received varied responses from “just delete” to drop the person if they can’t respect your wishes. The person in question apologized and couldn’t understand why the site was continuing to send invites. I do get tired of the “oh they don’t know it happens. Hello at what point does that get old?

What would you do if you sent out a credit card Payment for nearly $300 at the beginning of the month and it never arrives? I mentioned it in this entry as being an aggravation. Well today I looked at both sites and didn’t see the payment anywhere. I sent an email informing them I would be stopping payment on the check. I finally found an 800 number and called them. I called Webster and put a stop payment on the check for additional $25. Oh Joy and Rapture.

What would you do if you got on your computer and it was moving slowly? I yelled at it. That’s right I yelled at an inanimate object because I felt it wasn’t doing its job. Never mind that at the time it had been on ALL DAY!!! The fact that a full virus scan was also starting didn’t connect.

What would you do if you watched a couple of TV shows you have been watching showed one of the characters supposedly dying? I started to cry when I found “Agent Dinozzo” of NCIS was supposedly blown up. It must have been a two part episode because by the halfway point he was alive.

What would you do if every other email you saw in your inbox was an “I am leaving the group” or ’I am giving up pen paling altogether because...’ and you know that one of the posters had mentioned the fact that you hadn’t written them in so long and they persisted on reminding you they didn’t hear from you within a certain time yet they want to answer their letters? Well on the first one I sent an email to the owner and told her I wouldn’t be missing the girl who left abruptly every single one of her groups for some reason and was rather obnoxious about it. On the second one I am in the process of telling the OP not to let those people do that to them. I ignored the fact that she was the one who said something to me months ago.

What would you do if you were tired and exhausted and had another full day of work that you didn't finish today? As soon as I post this I am going to bed. Good Night all.

It's Monday Again

Well yesterday afternoon late I received an email from the moderator/owner via one of the groups I am in (snail_mail_pen_pals) letting me know that my response to a person’s question about Grouply was rude and I didn’t have to reply the way I did You can find them here and here. I told her I wasn’t apologizing. People need to work at getting answers when the discussion has been on the lists for weeks now. I checked a few times and she hadn’t posted the reply.

I chatted online with Emily for a second time last night. She had told me she went to see Madagascar 2 the new animated movie. She said it was awesome. She and her friend where supposed to go and see High School Musical 3 but it was sold out. I told her we would see either of them if the weekend they will be here depending on what is going on.

Gayle was right the weekends seem to be going by fast. Here it is Monday Night again. Gayle had off today so we either had to go to Howard or Patti. Work went okay. I was preoccupied by the stupid crap on line and we got news that Uncle Ray passed away last night. I wasn’t able to finish all of the lockbox but I will finish it tomorrow. I wasn’t able to contribute to Susan’s birthday collection.

After work I had my meeting with Debra. I had missed our last meeting because I wasn’t feeling well last Monday. I told her how the last two weeks have been. We discussed how I felt about Uncle Ray’s passing and what I felt about my own mortality. I admitted I have regrets at certain points in my life. If I did more dating, or went to school more, and what I have to look forward to as I get older.

After our session it was dark and I walked to the car. I noticed the lights were placed on the Tree in the center of the green. They weren’t on and won’t be until I believe I read after thanksgiving.

I got home by 5:30 and Mom was cooking up the left over Lamb Shank and making it into stew. I asked if she heard from Rosalie and she said she had talked to her before she talked with me. I had to remind her that at the point I called (it was 9) she hadn’t heard from Rosalie only Warren.

I printed up the minutes for the MYWC meeting. I wanted them to be ready for the meeting. I haven’t printed up the ones for the 4th District though. I haven’t heard from Claire C where the meeting is to be held and of course no one responded to my reminder about the DTC meeting.

I also got a very interesting introduction from a potential pen pal. It was from a girl in PA. It her intro was literally a paragraph and in a little 1 in x 5 in note. I have never seen it like this ever. I am not sure if I should be upset or flattered. This prompted me to print up some of the other letters I have waiting to be printed and mailed.

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.

Time Change

Did you Change your clocks yet? I had to do change the VCR in the living room (again) and the microwave and the oven. I had to change my alarm clock and my watch. Everything else did it on its own. Well not everything. The two kitchen clocks will have to be done later. In the past I would sometimes get up at the 2 am time and change it then go back to sleep. I don’t know why but I did. I don’t even know why 2 am was the appointed time but I guess there is a reason. Yahoo had an article on the time change I probably should have read it.

Today will be the last Sunday that Mom goes to the Mercy Center for a while. Starting next week the Center will be starting renovations for an indefinite period of time. Mom is so not looking forward to that. She loves going there and listening to Father Whitson. She will most likely go to St. Agnes. She really doesn’t like that church but it is our parish. I would imagine she will go to St John Vianney’s if she has a choice and that would be the 4:30 one.

Well this week history will be made one way or another! I can’t believe Election time is here again! I hope all of you will let your voices be heard no matter what your political viewpoint is. All of you who read this blog know where I stand. I am wondering if some of you did the early voting system. Connecticut has the absentee ballots (for those who actually can’t leave their residence or will be out of state/country at the time of election). I don’t know if I could do the early voting. It would be too confusing and now that we have the semi-new voting booths (we don’t have the lever pulling type) It seems a little better but could cause people to have issues with privacy and whatever else they can think of.

Well I forgot to do my weekly newsletter for the lists last night. I just got tired and went to bed. I started the newsletter before going off to bingo but finished when I got back. It was two pages long but I hope interesting.

Bingo was wonderful today. I had my helpers from the woman’s club and girls club and we will be welcoming two new members very soon. I am so pleased with the girls and their participation. We had 20 resident participating and it was just so fun.

I went to the 11:30 mass at ST Mary’s and then chatted with the girls who came to the bingo and it looks like we will have some new members. I called Telka for the third time in an hour to talk to her about it.

Mom was home from Madison when I got home. I told her about the morning events and asked her how Father Whitson was and she said fine despite some arguments that transpired between them. One of the arguments was about the ballot question that Connecticut will be dealing with on Tuesday and that’s about having a Constitutional convention. But if I understand her she and Robley agreed that this constitutional convention is wrong because (and as I see it) that we have those who in power (the politicians and legislators) that we voted to make the decisions and laws that need to be done.

Mom had me call Jim today and ask him who should we get to sponsor Emily for her Confirmation and he said he didn’t have anyone else in mind (apparently he got into an argument with Claudia over it-he wanted Liz but she and Nelson were not married in the Catholic Church) and he was either pleased or satisfied that I offered to do that. So Mom and I will fill out the papers this week and send them in.

Mom spent the latter half of the afternoon doing some cooking. Some of it was for our dinner for tonight and the coming week but the oven was being uncooperative and it was making her late for the sign making activity at the Democratic Headquarters. I helped where I could.

I spent some time emptying out my out my Outlook Express Mailbox. I moved some emails to the hard drive and updated document lists. I had answered some emails as well.

Mom came back from headquarters an hour later. There was some miscommunication because no one else was there. She came back and checked her email and then got into her pajamas. I fixed some tea for her.

I had my dinner while she was gone and I enjoyed it. I also called Liz for a brief call she had been dozing and I wanted catch up with her from Friday. She says she got a cute picture of Jason some where from the Halloween parade and she will send it to me.

I got the minutes to Telka for the meeting and she had already sent me the phone squad messages. I will be sending those out later on in the week. I am thinking Friday.

Well I am going to update files and stuff. I may even try and write some letters. I will see you tomorrow.

Had a scary moment online last night

I had a scary situation last night. Some guy name Robert’s Gallery sent me an email and says he wanted to send me nice photos. He didn’t ask me but he told me. I told him no thanks I don’t chat online with guys. He wrote back and said he didn’t want to talk just share the photography. (Nothing pornographic that I saw) I told him not to send it and than he didn’t even bother to tell me where he got my name. He got rude with me. I have saved the emails to word but you can bet I am blocking him.

He hasn’t sent anything more this morning but it really pisses me off when you tell someone nicely that you don’t chat with guys and you don’t want the pictures they send them anyway and then you are told to get a life.

I had a lovely comment to my last entry by Mrs. Rogers and she was very supportive of my lupus battle. I thought that was incredibly sweet of her. J

My weekly newsletter sparked an interesting conversation. One of the members told us her landlord would turn off the heat in October. A number of people suggested he get reported.

This morning is cloudy and I think some showers through out the day. I will be heading out to bingo in about five minutes and then to church. I think Dave and I are supposed to get together for some activities this afternoon after he finishes some work at his sister’s house. He had been painting the house all weekend.

Well I have been home an hour or so from my morning activities. I got to bingo early and discovered that two of the residents had passed away this past week. One of them was George T. I may have spoken of him a few times. He and his wife play bingo regularly.

I went to St Mary’s church in Milford. As usual I was late. The 10 am mass was being taped for sometime this week or next. The priest in charge was one I have seen on TV I believe he moderates the “crossroads” religious public affairs program on WTXX on Sundays.

I did some channel surfing this afternoon. I ended up watching Monday’s episode of General Hospital. I had to turn it off. I told Mom I have watched the show most of my life and it has NOT changed. Not one iota. The characters may have but the story lines haven’t.

I have some paper work to go through. I really should do it but I am tired and not concentrating very hard.

July 21, 2008

Good Morning, it is after 9 am and I am working on the lockbox from Friday. I got up around 6 saw an IM from Emily from last night and I replied. I hope she got it. I showered, ironed my clothes, answered some emails, and got dressed.

The emails were involved with the pen pal groups. Joanne H from Canada after rightly being told off (by a few of us) because she was venting and being just down right mean about her family and phone calls in general. She is obviously depressed and needs help but she takes it out on us. There are some who are defending her and some who are not.

One of my new pals and the owner of one of the groups I am a member in was removed from another pen pal group because she sent out advertisements for stationary to use. She had missed the email with the warning but we discussed just how rule hungry some of the groups can be.

I called Telka to thank her for the wonderful time I had. She looked like she was having fun this weekend. There were a lot of people I thought.

I am having a hard time sleeping to night

It is after 1 am and I am still awake. Thanks to mostly the caffeine I had at work. I had some chocolate too. I tried to have warm milk and honey but it is not helping at all. I did have some graham crackers with jelly but no help there.

I do have to say I am getting aggravated by a few things that I have noticed. Joanne H has posted to most if not all of her lists another self pity email on how she was thrown off three lists because of her disability. There were a few of us who told her straight out that it is her self serving “pity party” emails that she has been sending out. I emailed one moderator and she tried to show me what was behind. I know what is behind it. I don’t have to accept it. I got another email from Sharon H (whom I think I have had spoken to before) applauding me for staying what I did. I basically said I am sorry that people chose to use the “disability card” instead of being honest but that her emails recently were of “whoa is me”. I also told her that the emails she sent about listing her groups on this site were unnecessarily rude. Of course there are others who are feeling sorry for her. Watch when she bites their heads off for stupid stuff. I am going to start deleting all of Joanne’s emails.

The other thing that is annoying me is the Norton Security scan is still going and I clicked on the alert that needs to be resolved and yet again it is not doing it. This happened last week too.

I have a headache now and it won’t go away.

It is after 3 and I am trying to finish up on the mail from yesterday. It shouldn’t take much longer. I have already worked a little bit on today’s. I finally picked up the mail from downstairs. It was filled to the brim with mail. I think I may have pissed off the mailman because he had asked me not to do that.

Things around here are pretty quiet. Tamika came back from her week in Florida and she looks great. She thinks she is coming down with a cold because she says she isn’t feeling well.

I called Mom this morning and she is doing fine. She had some blood work done today. Keep those fingers crossed that they come back positive results. I am not sure what else she is doing but she did tell me I didn’t get any mail L

Well It took me longer than I had planned to get yesterday’s mail done and today’will have to been done tomorrow. I have been so exhausted.

People are pissing me off

Hey all! It is afternoon and the house is quiet. Everyone started leaving by 10:30 this morning and I have been trying to figure out what to do next. I am doing the towels and Mom’s mattress cover and my own laundry. I had emptied the garbage and threw out Joe and Ria’s Chinese food from Tuesday. I knew Mom didn’t want me to eat so I figured I would throw it out. Other than that not much is going on.

Even though sun is out the sky is overcast and by the time I get to bed again it will be raining. I am a little warm but I do have my heavy pajamas on.

Joe and Ria came home last night by 11. We talked about family news and (clearing up) misinformation. After that some of us went to bed. I had the dubious task of waking Joe and Ria up by 7:30. I was five minutes late. They showered, ate, got packed up and did odds and ends.

Well I got a nice surprise. I just got my car tax bill and I just have to pay once this year. In the past it’s usually twice a year. The first is usually n July and then again in January of the following year. That’s cool. I don’t mind that at all.

It is now quarter of four and I haven’t done much. I have been visiting the IMDB and seeing more shit going on. I sent a private PM to a particular actor who apparently can get down and dirty with the rest of the members of a board that is to his brother. IF that sounded vague I am sorry. He just got out and out rude and acted like I was siding with the so called trolls. I told him that he needed to stop getting into arguments and to ignore the stuff. He says he has been encouraging people to use the ignore feature. In the same sentence or paragraph he admits to taunting them. He accused me of talking with one of them. No I wasn’t asshole! In one of my final dispatches I called him an ungrateful sob and that it’s about time that celebrities start to realize that their actions and behaviors have consequences to them.

In a response to me he said that one of them accused him of raping his sister and saying awful things. I agree that it is awful but he is playing into their hands. I was back at the particular board and there is one attacking him and degrading and I responded. I sent the exchange of PM’s to my friend Rhonda in GA. To see what she thought of it. I suspect she will feel that the person in question had a right to do it.

Well I finally heard from Rhonda. I guess she thought I was asking if she got my emails about another situation but I let her know it was about the IMDB.

Mom is home and continuing to be a bitch. You are probably asking why she is saying that. Well when she came home from the birthday party and we were putting things away she asked me if I had anything to eat and I told her I had the corn and the bread. She rudely asked “what?” I told her she heard me. She got really snotty. She told me to forget it. What is it with the fucktoids in the world who think they can say anything they want and not have consequences? Another example was earlier today when I was telling her that I watched Joe put away a knife he was using without cleaning it. I told Ria about it. Mom couldn’t believe I said something and that I should have kept my mouth shut!

Well guess what? You can keep your mouths shut to me. I will start doing what I want and how I want and to hell with the mutherfuckers.

Friday the 13th

Yesterday was a pretty good day. I worked and then went to the pharmacy to pick up some “stuff” that I needed. It was well after 4:30 when I got home. Mom was cooking dinner. Joe and Ria were over Bob’s house. Now this is what pissed me off a little. He asked if we all could eat around 7. Not a problem considering I had a huge lunch. He called back three more times and said that Bob wanted them to stay longer. So they did and we went ahead and ate. They didn’t get back to the house until maybe 9.

Mom had the leftovers from dinner still cooling on the counter. My whole problem with this is that we had two things we could have done if we had known earlier that they were going to stay for dinner at Bob’s. We could have gone to the wake for a third district member. We could have gone to the reception for Gayle Slosberg. I was under the impression that Joe and Ria were going to want to spend time with us last night. Mom had said if I really wanted to I could have gone. Of course I didn’t let on when they arrived. One good thing I got out of Joe gave me a picture he took of a marina in California and matted it for me.

Today I am not sure what they are going to do. I know they are going to my other cousin’s home (Joe’s Brother Bob) for dinner. At least I think its dinner. Tomorrow they are leaving to drop Joe at the airport and Ria is going back to her sister’s I believe.

I talked with Mom at lunch time. Her meetings went very well. I am not sure what she did the rest of the day. I will find out when I get home.

I wasn’t able to finish much of anything today. I was distracted and tired. I will have to finish it Monday for sure.

I am also not usually superstititious of the day but I left my ID holder at home. I am not sure where but I am concerned Mom will find it and open it and look in it. I have had this feeling I am going to have problems with things today in general.

Well it is a quiet Friday night. Sunset started at 8:26 and the sky is beautiful. Mom and I did our own thing for dinner. Joe and Ria are having dinner with Joe’s brother Bob and his wife Donna.

I have to say I have been chilled since I got home. I have also had a minor headache and finally did something for it. I took a bath and got into some warmer pajamas then the shorts and T. I also took some Tylenol (or Kirkland version of it).

I have reconciled successfully my check book yeah me. I don’t have a lot in it so I have to wait until next week to pay the rest of the bills. I do have some cash on hand but it won’t last long.

On a sad note Journalist Tim Russert died this afternoon while he was at the news bureau in DC. For the last 11 years he was the moderator of Meet the Press every Sunday. Tom Brokaw announced it this afternoon and tonight has been doing a retrospect of his career and his life. All the different news programs (CNN, MSNBC, and Fox) have been honoring this man who has made a contribution to the news. He was 58 years old.

Well it is now quarter of 11. Mom is falling asleep in front of the TV and Joe and Ria are not here yet. I suspect they won’t be until after midnight. J I can’t wait up for them. I will see you all tomorrow.

A Rainy Start to the weekend

Good morning everyone. It is raining now and it is expected to do so for most of the day into tomorrow. It is supposed to be chilly too. I will probably wear my heavier coat today.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad. I had a pretty good day at work. The only thing is there was a package the day before for Ann but it was gone yesterday. Ann is upset but I am not sure if it is with me or with whom ever took it.

Mom is still annoying me now and then. I was trying to tell her a funny story about a tech from one of the other companies getting on the elevator with a cart and it had something covered up. It turned out to be mice. I was telling her I was a little nervous and she told me not to do that because it causes real problems and gets things It was annoying at best.

I didn’t get online much lst night. I think I went to bed by 9:30 or so. I had a great sleep. Now I am getting dressed for work.