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Pat, A tough way to get time off! Best wishes and healing thoughts coming your way.

Aloha Pat....I sure hope your surgery goes smoothly and you come home feeling well and getting better day by day. I am so proud of those of us who take care of our bodies and get the treatments that we need to keep us living happy and healthy lives.

Good luck!!

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

pat; you are going to have to go into the hospital to rest!!!! you won't even need the anesthesia --you are wearing me out!!!!!

sending you special prayers and hugs....and best of wishes for a speedy return to your newly made bed!!!! will someone check on fluffy?

Yeah, the "boss" will be checked on by the guy neighbor across
the street -- they are cat lovers and he always volunteers to
take care of her......

Pat, I hope you take this in the fun way that it is intended. Everytime I look at your hometown I picture you on a gleaming Harley in your full leather with a "fun, fit, and over fifty" silver haired knight on the front of the bike! Or. . . is that the other Sturgis?

hA HA, kAREN......Yeah that's the other Sturgis - South Dakota!
However.........one of my items on my bucket list is to ride on a Harley.
My brother has one and once this hip is healed, I just may talk him
into a ride......pictures will be taken that's for sure!!!

Good morning!

Isn't it the pits when you have your mouth/mind set for something and then it turns out to not be what you expected??  I bought some SF FF vanilla ice cream for father's day dessert, the first that's been in the house in a very long time. It used to be my drug of choice, and man, it just wasn't the same. Thank goodness!!!  Whew!

Gary's off to work and I have some errands to run today, but I hope it is a quiet day off. I'll be working almost every evening this week, so I'm planning on doing a lot of cooking this afternoon to put some things into the fridge so I won't need to rush or worry at dinner time.  Other than that, I'm just planning on staying in and trying to keep cool.

Hope everyone has a great week ahead of them, for most it should be a short one, too!

You all take care and know you're in my thoughts often

Hi Margo and my OFF family:

I had a relaxing day yesterday. Talked with my friend Mary Kay, mom, Brenda and my brother Gary. It was funny, I kept trying to call Gary and I wasn't getting an answer. Finally, while I was on the phone with Brenda, he called me. So I tried to call him back with the number I had inputted into my new phone directory. Still no answer and no voicemail. Hmmmm ... so I tried calling from my phone book instead and got his voicemail. I must have put an extra number or something into the directory. So I put the number back into my phone directory. I hope it works this time. Who knows who I was calling! I did the same thing with Carla's number, but with that one I knew I had the wrong number because it said "The number you have dialed can't be reached." So then I checked it, and I had transposed two numbers. It's hard putting all these numbers back in a new phone.

So I didn't do a whole lot yesterday ... watched baseball, read, changed the litter boxes (dumped one completely), was going to have spaghetti, I thought. Took out a container of what I thought was spaghetti sauce, started boiling the water for the whole wheat spaghetti, dumped the sauce in a pan, came back to check on the water and looked in the pan ... and it was chili. Oh well, I guess I'll have chili. So I turned off the boiling water and kept heating the chili. Not what I had in mind for dinner, however. But the chili was good. This is chili from February or March. I make big pots and they last a long time.

I have an appointment this morning with my psychologist, and I really need a good session ... I expect there will be a lot of crying. Maybe that's what a need, a good cry. My emotions have been a jumble lately. I cry at the drop of a hat. I try to be cheerful and really, I'm not overly sad, but at the thought of Margie, I start to cry. I miss her so. Sundays were the time I would call her, and I so wanted to do that yesterday. But she wasn't there. I almost picked up the phone by habit last night to dial her number, then remembered she was gone. See, I'm crying again.

This afternoon, I have to make a chocolate zucchini cake for a work picnic tomorrow to say goodbye to all the folks taking the buyout. Nine people are leaving tomorrow, two more in August. One of the guys leaving is a columnist who won a national award over the weekend. Nice guy, writes pretty good columns about average, everyday folks. The best one I remember is about a little girl who needed a prostetic arm, and the community pitched in the money to help her out. The series of columns was just heart-warming. Also, two of my copy desk coworkers are leaving, and we're having a goodbye party on Wednesday at the local brewpub for them. Very appropriate for Dixon, who brews his own beer. We're losing so many good people. Some of them, like our columnist, our religion editor, are going to freelance for us, but it's not quite the same.

Well, I need to get myself showered and dressed. Have a good day.

Eileen,

I wish I could give you a real hug ... here is a big warm cyber hug. It's a squish your head off hug.

Kisses
Annette

Thanks, I needed that. I had a good cry with my therapist. I feel there's many more tears to come. She doesn't think I'm depressed, just need time to grieve. Still, I feel so out of sorts. I'm not one to hold back my feelings (if you hadn't noticed). My mom tells me to take a pill (she's one to stifle her emotions ... not me!). I want to feel everything and sometimes I feel too much and can't hold it back, even in places (like work) when I should be stoic.

I'm glad I have this place to come to ... thanks to y'all for putting up with me. If I didn't have this place, I know I'd go mad.