| Hi, All is well with me. My mom did not have cancer after all--it was some strange fibroid disease. My boss, Bluto, retired and I have a new boss. But he says that Bluto overspent and we are in a hole! But we all got a 2% raise so I'm happy. I'm not sure what else to day. What do you think of the tea party and the upcoming elections and the money being spent on them, esp from overseas?
One thing that happened when my mom was sick is that my sister moved back to the house next to mine. She had a bad boyfriend to escape from. He was in a local band in Kansas City. That is his job. He is 50 and in a very local band. It was a blues band and I thought that it sucked. So as you can imagine, he mooched off her. In the move she shed him. |
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| Hi, I hope you have all been well. I have had a lot on my plate lately so forgive me for dropping out of touch. I am soon going to be a grandmother again and it is another boy. My first grandson is now over one year old and talking and calling me "annie" aka granny. That's been fun. The sad news is that my mom has had cancer and it has been up and down. We keep getting good preliminary news from doctors and then it isn't so good. Today we had a good cry. We have always been close and it would be hard to lose someone who has always been so supportive. But we are off to see another doctor next week so we shall see. We are going to a doctor closer to home. We have been driving an hour and a half to university city and sometimes this winter it's been white knuckle. Now we will be going to capital city instead. That's my non-poetic update. |
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| The ads about not wanting a bureaucrat running your health care plan are silly. A bureaucracy known as an insurance company already runs my health care. |
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| My last child is off to college this fall. He got into the school he wanted and got good financial aid too. Here is the problem--it's 1000 miles away. We decided that we needed to get ride of our clunker that got 9-13 mpg and had 114,000 miles on it. Really the only good thing about it these days was that it was paid for. It was not going to reliably drive 1000 miles and with the cash for clunkers program it was at least worth something. Plus I write articles about tree-hugging and then I had that car. What a farce. We traded it in for a Toyota RAV4. We got a low payment plan and a pretty car with good room, decent milage (a little better than twice what the clunker was getting) and 4wd. I test drove a hybrid Camry and oh I liked it. Such a smooth ride. it was used and a good price. But no trunk space at all. Maybe someday. I have to ease into my new downsized life gradually. I wished for a hybrid escape but they were so expensive. A dealer said that they were being made scarce in the Midwest to drive prices up.
Now we have college payments and car payments. I think I can make it though. Where I work business is fine but they are not giving raises and are laying people off anyway. They got rid of custodians and told us now we had to clean our own offices. You should see some of the men--they don't even keep their labs clean. I can't imagine them cleaning their offices. I might not do mine just because it seems un-American to fire people at a time like this. The bosses should be taking pay cuts to show their leadership.
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| This is a busy time for my family. My brother from Texas came to visit and we celebrated 4th of July and 2 birthdays and an anniversary. My brother is a bit straight laced. He didn't used to be but moving to Texas did it perhaps or maybe having three daughters pushed him over the edge. I have a little tradition of inadvertently taking his kids to movies he would not let them watch. One time it was War of the Worlds and then this horrible Adam Sandler thing called Click that they wanted to see. This time we went to see Public Enemies--rated R. Hmm. it was kind of good and kind of monochromatic and slow. It made the 30s seem very dreary. The men all looked the same. I sort of recall my grandpa looking like that--a black overcoat and a hat. There was far too much shooting with Tommy guns for my taste. And yet, shooting with Tommy guns seems rather bland compared to all of the explosions and such that you get in a modern action movie. It is kind good and fascinating too but I'd rate it H for historical. |
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