Wednesday Roll Call

Hi Y'all,

Yesterday turned out to be gorgeous. It was 75 degrees and partly sunny when I left the gym yesterday.

I realized something yesterday that I hope I never forget…….when I go to the gym and work out I have zero joint pain. I also have boundless energy and sleep like a dead person. Why in the world would I not go? I am going to remind myself of this on the days my mojo is hiding from me. While I was doing my laps yesterday I was thinking about how blessed I am to have this time to go to the gym in the middle of the day when it is essentially empty. I had the pool to myself, a treat.

Paul, I am the polar opposite of you; I have NO desire to go back to work. My husband gently asks me about every 6 weeks if I am going back and I say, ‘not yet”. He just says “ok.” What a blessing he is. Next month, it will be 1 year of unemployed bliss. My last job was 12 years as a manager of a community cancer center. I had a big staff and I worked for a monster, who verbally and mentally abused me. Every doctor I hired to work with him quit mid-contract and risked being sued because he was so awful. I just plugged away for 12 years.  I look back now and wonder why I put up with it?

Crystal, I adore your desire to be self-sufficient. I raised my daughter alone and she was like you. She was the one who put our stuff together and who could do anything. She and her husband just bought a fixer-upper and she was telling me last night all the projects she is going to do. She intends to tear a wall down by herself……..I love you ladies who are Rosie Riveters. I am going to buy her a tool box and her own tool belt for Mother’s Day.

Today is the gym and then I am off from all house-groups so it is my free day.

I am hoping the rain goes away and the sun peaks out like yesterday.

Be safe dear ones.

Hugs,

Sharon

Good Morning Everyone!

It is rainy here today!  We just had a fierce thunderstorm move through.  I hope it is not like this all day!  It is cool outside as well.  Oh well, that is spring!

Today I am free all day.  At least after work. 

Sharon, I would love to be able to stay at home.  Unfortunately, I need the $$$$$.  The cats dont earn enough to support themselves.  I keep telling them to go get jobs but do they listen?   No .... 

I forgot to mention it was my surgeriversary on Monday.  It went right by me.  If OH had not sent me a letter, I would not have even remembered.  The date just did not click.  I still love my RNY. 

Not much else happening here in my corner of the world.  Trying to keep my nose clean. 

Everyone have a great day!

Good morning everyone!

According to our weather guy many of you south of here had beautiful weather yesterday, while north of I-80 it was much colder. When I was spinning at Panera's a storm came through that was like midnight and there was a half mile swatch of hail that looked like it had just snowed. Spring in northern IL is such an adventure! I spent many years trying to "control" the weather, worrying about too much or too hot or too cold. What a waste of energy! Now I just take it as it comes and wait five minutes and it changes!

We have our calendars synced now and when we were looking at April and May we are almost totally full. How did I have time to work? I wanted to see if we could do a quick trip to Little Rock again but it's not looking real likely. I wanted to go before it got too hot and humid. Then I thought Thanksgiving might be better. Who knows?

Dr. Garren wants me to have this hernia repaired but I told him I was too busy until maybe February. He told his med student that we were "characters"! I like that!

Have a dry day!

Connie

I am fond of calling myself a direlect as in I am direlict in doing what others think I should do.

I would like to be able to knit but do not think I have that particular kind of patience.  I have found a group though that has a brother and is planning on buying a more up to date machine and also does other Arduino and Flora projects.

Good Morning,

One thing I love about this group is the openess of  our past lives. It does bring everyone closer together. It also reminds us that no one leads an ideal life.

I awoke  to thunder also. This is going to be one of those spring days that we wished would go away.

I for one is not planning to leave the house. There are a few things that I need to get done before I go for surgery. So, today will be a good day to start.

Hugs,

LISA

Good morning all!

Yesterday's interview went very well!  I hope I get the job.  It has been frustrating this year with so many good interviews and no offers.  I think the age discrimination is finally catching up to me.  But this opportunity seems well suited to my abilities and they seem interested.

I had a powerful workout last night at Tae Kwon Do and I feel good and sore today.  Friday is test day and I feel ready.

I've started grinding my own wheat and making bread as a small side business.  I got up at 6:00am and after making Liz and I our morning juice and fruit protein drinks, I milled some flour and have 4 loaves rising and about to go into the oven.  3 are cinnamon raisin wheat bread and the 4th is a whole wheat Hawaiian bread that is for a customer.  Even my children beg for that one!

Have a wonderful day and do your best to stay dry!

Paul

Paul, are you still doing massages?

LISA

Finished my taxes except for writing a check to the state.

State Taxes are always forgotten by me.  I did not remember them until I pulledout my return from last year.

Went to a 45th ward Alderminic menu science fair type presentation of proposals for funding last night.  Several of the projects I thought should fall under federal, state, private and Spark Park funding.  Voting ends up May 5th.  I hope I am healed up to go vote by then.

Today I need to get eggs and maybe sausage or bacon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPZza_vZ3w and https://class.coursera.org/programming2-001/lecture/index for today.

Good afternoon Sharon and the rest of Illinois!

I work for a monster too!  AND it has been just about 12.5 years for me.  Bad thing for me is that he is also my father-in-law.  Funny how many things we find that we have in common with each other.  This place is toxic!  Verbal, mental, chauvanistic, racist, you name it.  The good news is that he now smokes outside after someone turned him in to OSHA.

As you can all tell, I am at work (hehehehehe!)  We are short-handed today and I am swamped.  I stopped in for a little break and I need one.

So.........my news is that I finally bit the bullet and went to an AA meeting at lunch.  SO not what I was afraid of.  Everyone was very nice and I will be going back.  I have some reading to do and a lot of thinking.  I was trying to do this alone, and I learned that I don't HAVE to be alone anymore.

The weather is dreary here.

Everyone have a wonderful day!  Gotta go!