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This is just so hard ...you are right...too many senseless deaths.

Thanks for caring!!

Hugs and love....connie d

Hi Jacki and my OFF family:

Lots of troubles going on on the board this morning. My mind is troubled too, after the loss of my former coworker. I was reading some of the post on the Aberdeen American News' Web site about Russ Keen last night, remembering him. All so true! He was like a pillar in the newsroom ... quiet, solid, but someone you could depend on for a good solid story, someone who knew the sources, who knew the folks in the community, who would get the story right. Not the world's greatest investigative reporter, but a good community journalist. We need more of those folks. Aberdeen isn't a big city ... it's a small city of about 20,000 in the prairies of South Dakota. Russ spent most of his adult life there. He knew the schoolchildren, the teachers, the city officials, just about anything that happened in the communities that dotted the prairie towns around Aberdeen. He grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, so he knew what small-town folks wanted from a newspaper, yet he could deliver for a larger newspaper. The world is a bit dimmer without him.

You know, I've been waiting all year to hear word that my 91-year-old Aunt Bernice is dead, and I'll be sad when she goes, but I'm expecting her to die ... she's old, she's been sick, she has cancer. She's lived her life. Instead, I kept hearing about these other folks, younger people ... and it tears at my heart. I'm not ready for them to leave, it's too sudden ... Margie and now Russ. Three years ago, Gloria ... a year before, Patanna, from the same newspaper, very suddenly ... these were people my own age. I guess I'm feeling my own mortality.

I have a procedure this afternoon at my gyne's office, a hysteroscopy ... no anesthesia, just some pills that are supposed to relax my uterus. She did something similar last year with the same meds, although this procedure is deeper and more invasive. We'll see if these meds work as well. I had to take them when I got home last night. I'll take a vicodin when I get to her office, too ... that'll do the trick! (The nurse suggest a motrin, but I can't take those.)

It's bright and sunny here today ... something I haven't seen for awhile, but it's cold ...44 degrees. I can tell it's cold because the cats are in bed with me in the morning ... they're not stupid, they stay where it's warmest, conserving body heat.

Jacki, my thoughts are with you and your family. My mom is 85 and still healthy, but driving us crazy sometimes. Pretty soon, she'll be the last of her generation around after Aunt Bernice goes.

Take care and hang in there.

Eileen....so sorry for all your losses....life isn't always easy is it? My thoughts and prayers are with you!

Good luck with your doctor appointment.

Hugs....connie d

Thanks ... good luck with your doctor appointment ... hope all goes well.

I'm back from mine and the gyne said it all looks OK. But boy, does it hurt. I have a feeling I'm taking a sick day. I'm feeling so queasy and crampy ... lightheaded. I don't know how in the world I drove home.

morning jacki and OFF...opps i should say afternoon....LOL

wow seems so many are having sadness in their lives....my prayers and thoughts go out to you all!!!

its a windy and cold day here today...BRRRRR took bandit out for his potty walk and omg he took 25 minutes to find the right spot to drop it!!!! wish he would just hurry up and go so we could go back inside where its warmer!!!! but then he probably figures he wouldn't go for a walk later if he went right away!! he is so right...its to cold for me to be out there when its like this and i fear this winter when its really cold!!!!! yikes!!!!

my hips are still killing me today....even taking the tylenol arthritis isn't helping me anymore....i hate this cold weather!!!

went shopping for birthday gift for rick this morning. found him the engraver he was drooling over awhile back...only cost me $7.99!!! good deal!! then i went to the dollar general and bought him some hot pickled sausage/dogs or whatever they are...all i know is he loves them....LOL so not much spent but the love is there to go with it!!! can't wait til saturday to celebrate his big day and also sweetest day!!!!

having a heck of a time finding secret pal cards!!!! oh well guess i need to just find a cute card and figure out how to send it so my secret pal doesn't figure out it is me...lol

well i am going to get out of here and make more flowers for the afghan. can't wait til it starts getting put together...gonna look sooo pretty!!!! rick doesn't understand how its supposed to look...lol he will be happy to see the results tho i am sure of that.

have a great day and remember to smile...and keep on keeping on....hugs to all my OFF family and prayers to those that need them!!!! :-)

Good afternoon
I went back to work today.  Did well - I think  - nobody got hurt!  Got up at 4 am - so I should be good and tired tonight.  It felt good to put dress cloths and makeup on. 

Spending the time at home was nice but I can see that my hubby really needs to work.  I have seen this before. 

Has anybody experienced this - after your surgery eating less of course but spouse is eating more!  I swear he had 2 dinners last night.  Could be he is depressed but it's difficult to watch from here.

Praying he gets a job soooooooooooon

Mary