Saturday Roll Call

Good Saturday morning Illinois! For all of those going away this week-end...have a great trip! Paul...We are thinking about you this morning. Wishing you a quick recovery. Not much going on here this morning. Boy I'm sure boring at this time. What's on your agenda for this weekend? Let me live thru you. Have a great day everyone!

Today is graduation for 50 of my medical students! In a few hours they will be doctors! Families come from all over, even other countries and many of those come in the dress of their country. It is really cool! We, the faculty, get to wear graduation robes with ribbons of various colors for our departments. It is a festive day held at the Coronado, an old theater which has been rehabbed, so it is also beautiful. There is a catered reception afterwards, I'll have to be careful there! For all of us who have sat through long and boring graduations, this is not one. It is pretty fun and I look forward to it.

Also today a friend is putting in a new kitchen sink for us. Then he and his wife and baby are coming over to dinner later. We are looking forward to that too. The baby is so cute! So that is my Saturday and somewhere in between I will be back to check in on the board again.

Stay dry folks!

Connie 

Connie, the graduation sounds like it would be great. I love to people watch and this would be a good time to do that. Hope you  and Kay enjoy the evening with your friends. 

The graduation was beautiful. It was also very touching with the awards to the students and their families being there. There was a woman in African dress and several in Asian dress. A student from Mexico had her family bring a Mariachi band which played afterwards and people danced! This student came to the US not knowing English and started college, followed by med school. Of course now she speaks perfect English. She had a child her second year of school. Both of her parents are physicians and they were both there to pur her "hood" on which indicates that she graduated from medical school. Other students who had family members who are physicians also were there to "hood" the graduates. Kay said it was a three Kleenex event and she only had one! Afterwards there was a champagne and hors d'oeuvres reception. Way cool! I got to meet some of the parents of my favorite students too. It's a great day. I'm pumped and tired at the same time. A quick nap is probably in order!

Connie 

Sounds like both you and Kay had an enjoyable day!

Good Morning Carol and Connie and the rest of my IL family.

Carol, sometimes boring days are good.
Connie, congrats on the students graduating today and it sounds like a lot of fun, enjoy yourself!!
Paul, thinking about you this morning and wishing you a speedy recovery!!

As for me, the most exciting thing I am doing is taking a shower!  woohoo...lol   Jacob stayed home from his dad's house this weekend because he's stil not feeling well.  He slept really bad last night which of course meant I did too.  His stomach is bugging him, he's coughing and runs a low fever on and off. 

Mike is going to the grocery store today so I made a list for him. 

Other than that, nothing going on here...

Have a happy and dry day friends!

Monica, your right sometimes it is okay to have a boring day, but since I'm unemployed at this time I have had too many boring days. I really need to  bust my butt and get a part time job. Oh well, one day.........

Oh Carol, I guess I either didn't know or forgot that you were unemployed at this time.  Yes you are right then.  What kind of job are you looking for?  I will be doing that soon enough as well.  I am not looking forward to it at all.  I am still debating if I will go back part time or full time.  I guess it all depends on how much money I will be making.  lol
Good luck sweetie and I'll be praying that something comes along for you soon.

Monica, you may not have known I was unemployed. Most of my jobs have been in the accounting department. But I don't know if that is what I want to do now.  My husband would prefer me to have a job that has no nights, no week-ends and no holidays. Me too of course. My last job was as a temporary  receptionist. I did it to help out a friend and when it ended I was fine about being home for awhile, but now I'm tired of being home. It actually worked out well being home because it gave me time to take care of me. So now I hope I can find something interesting...not sure what....I'm not going to worry about it because when the time and job are right it will happen.

I have been in and out of the board this morning and not had a chance to post. I am in the beginning stages of writing a training manual for my division at work. I was supposed to been working on this all year long as it was a goal that was given to me last year at my review. WELL - talk about procrastination I am getting my review next week and I have been loosing sleep over this issue so I stayed home from going with Dave to Willow today and I have the quiet house to myself. My sister made it in last night about 10pm and turned right around and locked her truck keys inside the PU. I had to call my work to have an officer come over with a Slim Jim/Lock Jock. He wasn't able to trip the locking mechanism due to it possibly being "Jimmied proof" but was able to slip the Lock Jock in and eventually pull up the pop up button. It kept slipping off of it because if is a smooth flat thingy. He was able to get it after about 5 trys. Mary is off with her youngest daughter (Katie) today and 3 of her six grandkids. Katie is the one we are going out to tea with tomorrow because she is going into the Navy on Tuesday. And oh by the way I am just going casual to the tea, in khaki jeans, red blouse, cream tee top under that and a navy blue shortie jean jacket. I think Paul was asking what one wears to tea.  Need to get back to the training manual. Hope everyone is resting well that is a recent PO. For those that are just about to have surgery - WOOHOO! how exciting I remember well where you are at right now when I was just about ready to have surgery almost 5 years ago. Have a great day all. Christine