It's THURSDAY....What's New????????

Good morning Lora and Friends!  Eye doctor appt after work yesterday gave me a headache last night that came back this morning.   George's cardiology appt yesterday was OK.  He has to go back in August to have his leaky valve checked.  Kinda makes him sound like an old jalopy!  Well, he's my old jalopy, I love him and have to take care of him!  Also, his BP was elevated, but the EKG was fine! Annette, your story about your client made me smile at her child-like truth and wisdom! Cheryl, I'm sure you'll find the perfect way to say good bye to your dear friend in your own time. It seems some of the doctors DID complain to the Dept Head about my boss and his tirade.  Knowing the Dept. Head, nothing will be done.  He prefers to ignore problems and take off on extended vacations.  However, don't know if it's a project my boss is working on or if he finally GETS IT that people are tired of his cranky ways, but he was very subdued yesterday and barely spoke to anyone.  Hey, I can live with that! Yesterday we had a fire emergency in our bldg. about 15 minutes before lunch.  Hoofed it down five flights of stairs and waited outside in the beautiful sun until we got the "all clear" to return.  Not a false alarm this time.  Seems there really was a fire involving a piece of equipment.  Our in-house safety people got it under control without involving the NOFD.  Good thing, 'cause it costs the institution nearly $15,000.00 every time the fire dept shows up here. We're shorthanded at work today.  The 90 y/o dad of one of my coworkers was hospitalized last night.  He's been in and out of the hospital and nursing home for the last year or so.  Pat is a wonderful friend and coworker, and I hate to see her going through this.  She has one sister who has a severely handicapped 20 y/o daughter.  Their entire family lost everything to Katrina - four houses in the family (Pat's, her dad's, her son's, and her sister's), all were destroyed.  Please keep Pat and her dad in your prayers. Better get back to work! Debbie

Debbie, Think in terms of "classic model". Some days 'old jalopy' may fit better but as you mentioned, he is YOURS . What would we do with a new model anyway?  Annette

Good morning to my OFF family. I hope that today is treating everyone just great. I am sitting here in the church office. I have had one visitor who had to make copies for her financial stuff. Other than that everything is quiet. I had one phone call  but it ended up being a wrong number. lol I can tell today is going to be a slow day! I would rather have it busy but I guess I can finish up the Pastor's rolodex this morning. He won't know what happened. I think in all reality he hasn't even missed it!! Today is Bill's 52nd birthday. Nothing much going on with that. I went and got him a few little things yesterday but he knows that the grill was most of it and he is happy with that. His brother called him this morning at 7. It sounded like he just got up. We were already up and he sounded a bit surprised. I am glad that he called him. I hope I can say the same about his son but something seems to tell me that he won't. That would mean that he would have to get his head out of his a$$ for a couple of minutes and that would be to hard. I am so pi$$ed at him for a number of things. I told Bill that and he knows just what I am talking about. He has hurt me for the last time and I have walked away and don't miss it either. I really don't think that Bill beleives that I mean what I say but he will find out if the time comes. If Bill is smart he won't let that time come. There is no reason for Shawn to treat either one of us the way he does and especially his own father. I wash my hands of him and the whole situation but I still get so angry with Shwan that I want to slap the crap right out of him.  We had some really bad storms last night. We had tornado warnings until 1 this morning. They were expectiong winds of 60-70 m.p.h. Don't ask me if they came since I fell asleep. It was thundering and lightning and that puts me to sleep really fast. I find thunderstorms to be very relaxing. I always have. It must have rained a lot since there is big ginormous puddles all over. Now it is just getting hot and muggy. I just put the air on here in the office since it was starting to get close in here. Different from yesterday. It is suppose to be in the high 80's the rest of the week and the week end too. Rain with most of the days of course. Is there anything but rain??? I better get going. I am going to do some work around here~I guess the church expects it from me for some reason. lol I am sending love and hugs to all and prayers are going up for everyone. Special ones are being said for those in need of them.

Hi Lora and everyone: I feel like I have a sign on my back that says "Kick me!" Everyone is out to get me today. It has not been good since I got home late last night. I just want to crawl under the covers and cry.  Let's start at the beginning. I haven't told many people about this stupid thing I did. Last year, when I talked to the bankruptcy lawyer about my condo fees, he asked me, "Do you want us to take care of these condo fees?" I thought he meant the continuing condo fees as they do the mortgage. I said OK. Then, when I didn't get a statement from the condo association for more than a year (plus I don't get a statement from the bankruptcy trustee for a year ... she sends them yearly), I figured that's what happened. Well, when I got my yearly statement from the bankruptcy trustee, I saw that hadn't happened. When I went to refigure my budget with the paralegal, I mentioned that, and she said, "Well, you'll have some extra money now, maybe you can make some arrangements." Yeah, right.  So a few weeks ago, I get a letter from the property management folks saying I owe something in the amount of $2,896 for the condo fees and if I don't pay within 10 days, they're going to take me to court. I called and said I sure don't have that, I'm still in Chap. 13 bankruptcy and the best I can do is pay the monthly fee starting in June and $100 extra every month. She seemed OK with that. So yesterday I come home from work, and there's two letters from the condo association ... one a bill for $17 for filing a lien on my condo, another for $65 for filing a small claims case. Great, more bills I can't afford to pay. I considered refinancing to see if I could get the money to pay them ... now I can't even do that. I tried to get ahold of her today, but the phone was busy and finally I decided to go to my psychologist's appointment at 3 p.m. and cry to her. So ... I go over there to her office downtown at 3 p.m. ... barely get there in time, park across the street where I'm going to have to pay because it's been raining buckets on and off all day. Get upstairs and check in and I'm told she no longer works there. I knew she was moving on, but I thought it was strange that they scheduled me for that day. They claim they never scheduled me; I remember clearly they scheduled me because they called and canceled one appointment and rescheduled for this day. So now I'm stuck downtown having to pay for parking and nowhere to burn two hours other than at work. I was so pissed ... and the office staff could tell, so they paid my parking ($2, but at this point, I need every penny). To top it off, it was pouring rain when I went to the grocery store this morning and I got drenched. The only good thing this morning was when I mailed my mom's birthday package, it didn't cost me anything ... I had a punch card from the shipping place, and that was my last punch ... so it was free. I thought the day had turned ... until this happened. And now we have a review, so I'll be stuck here late, too. I really could use a beer but I'm at work drinking water. When will something good happen to me?

Hi eileen, I know it isn;t much help but here are hugs from me to you ...Paulette

Thanks, I can use them; can't tell this stuff to my mother since I've used up all my good will in the money dept. from her, so she doesn't know about this problem. When I talked to her today and wished her a happy birthday, I didn't tell her about my crappy day, just said it was raining her. So I really needed a shoulder to cry on ... and then my psychologist's appointment was canceled on me. Oh crap!

Hi Lora.....I can't believe how long it has taken me to get a post to finally work on this site!! I have tried several times today. Nothing much happening here. Just worked all day and now I am heading to my support group meeting in a few minutes.  It is thundering and lightening. We are supposed to get severe weather. Why I am going out in this I don't know. I just love group I guess that is reason enough!! Debbie I will keep your friend Pat and her family in my prayers. Hope everyone is having a good day. Prayers to those in need.  Love and hugs to all....connie d