KateP's musings

  The last couple of weeks I haven’t been feeling up to snuff.  My head felt like a balloon, sneezing, coughing.  A few times I was dizzy. Last week my friend Troy who is admin/manager of another dept had made plans to have a holiday Breakfast Extravaganza.  When we handed out the flyers this week we had seven responses.5 or 6 said yes and a few said they were bringing something.  People had been critical at first; they wanted more.  So a few of them brought stuff. Work officially is over on Thursday.  We will have until Jan 2 off.  Some years we have two weeks, some years like this year we don’t.  So I know it will go fast. I have not done much in the line of gifts but as usual Liz suggested not doing anything for the Nelson/Rivera/Morgan family because they would not be gracious.  I still make contributions to a couple of charities.  I realize this is lame.   I just never know what to get anyone as the kids (under the ag...

  The Thanksgiving Holiday has come and gone.  I had a great time.  I arrived in Allentown around 8:30 and we got to visit before going to sleep.  The next few days are almost a blur now but we did walk 1 mile a day in the park across the street.  We had dinner just the three of us because her kids were previously engaged but Lauren did come on Friday for Dinner. We mostly hung out that weekend.  Saturday afternoon my sister in-law and I went to Bethlehem for the Christkindlmarkt festival while Jim stayed home.  When we got home we had dinner and Jim had a meeting to go to.  I bonded some more with their cats until it was time to go to bed.  I also packed that night. That Sunday I came home.  The weather wasn’t the greatest.  Traffic wasn’t too bad until I got to NY and further into Connecticut when it started backing up.  I did call my sister who was coming home from family activities themselves.  ON the way home I stoppe...