Monday What's New?
We drove to the Renaissance Festival under threatening skies but decided to attend despite the prospect of rain. Mud, rain, puddles and wet people didn't stop us from having a great time. When the skies spewed rain, we just got cosy under our umbrella. It was a good day.
I am just hanging out until it is time to go to work. A nap is in order for later today.
Annette
Annette 
My church service went well yesterday. I got a lot of compliments on the sermon and many compliments on the hymns I picked to sing. We sang 4 of them since I love to sing. There was a lot of people there and things went well. I felt comfortable and wasn't nervous like I usually am. This time it seemed good. All of the worrying for nothing. Isn't that the way it usually goes? Oh well! We are only human after all. haha
The weather here is kind of overcast. It is still hot and humid and icky. I stuck my head out the door and said to Bill that it is still hot and icky. I can take the heat but just can't take the humidity. I never could and I don't think I ever will. Now it looks like it is going to rain. Of course it is, that is all it does here this summer! What is wrong with me thinking that we just might have a summer day complete with the sunshine? I must have lost my senses!
I talked to Pastor last night. They are going to get the results of the biopsy today. They are 97% sure that it is a gleoblastoma mass. The prognosis for that is 1 year with treatment. Pastor is looking for a extended care facility for him now. His dad is going to have radiation treatment for 6-7 weeks 5 days a week and oral chemo for the same time. As it stands now Pastor is going to be gone until next week because of finding the extended care place and getting his dad settled. Then when his dad gets settled and treatment is going on Pastor is going to go to Ohio every week and then spend the night and come home. He not only Pastors our church but he is writting his dissertation for his PhD. He is one busy man for sure. He has many irons in the fire now. I would appreciate any and all prayers that you can say for that family. Pastor is an only child and his mom is gone now so he is it. It is hard taking care of a ailing parent and harder when they are a state away.
I am going to go to the library today after Bill goes to work. I have to take back my 4 books back that is overdue. I keep the library going not only with my tax dollars but also with the fines that I pay them when I forget to take the books back! I belong to the summer reading club too. We fill out a little slip of paper for each book that we read. It just has the title of the book and the author and if we would suggest it to read. One year I won a gift certificate at a book store. I loved that one and hope that I get another one this year. I do so love to read. One of my favorite authors is Kate Collins. She lives one town over, Valparaiso, and so many of the things in her books are so familiar to me. She talks of the courthouse and the shops around the square and I see the familar things. She talks of the dunes and Lake Michigan and it is just fun to read that. Besides she is good author too. That just doubles the fun of reading her books. I think she is having a new book out next month. I just can't wait. I like Joanne Fluke too. They are both good light mystery writers.
My house is getting messy again since Bill is in his drop and leave mode right now. I have been working on changing that but he seems to be getting worse about it than he use to be. I am just going to give up on changing that bad habit. I will just continue to walk behind him and pick up his crap. After 20 years of working on it I am conceding on this one. haha
I guess I had better get going. I am sending love and hugs to all and prayers are going up for everyone. I am saying special ones for those in need of them. Have a wonderful day and don't forget to smile. Smiles are contagious.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
on 7/20/08 10:40 pm, edited 7/20/08 10:41 pm - Park Forest, IL
PS I need to change my ticker I was 250 this am, another 2 lb. loss!!! yipee!!!!
morning margo and off family!!!!
got my cuppa and am enjoying having the door open so i can see outside again!!! its still muggy with the humidity and dew point so hi but the temp is only gonna go to 81 today!!!
yesterday the heavy downpour gave is a leak inside the window frame and rick had to go on the roof to clean the gutter out so the leak would stop...wow what a mess this rain made!!! the huge backyard was underwater and going no where!!! after the rain stopped i took bandit out for his "walk" and lo and behold there was the doe with her twin fawns playing in the flooded yard!!! came back in for my camera and ofcourse they went back in the woods so no upclose phots!!! GRRRRRR also while out walking bandit i saw the turkey again...she stops and looks at us and jus****ches...lol loads of bunnies around too..guess the coyotes are gone from the area...thats good because i am scared i will run into them when out with bandit!!!
talked to my mom last night and she was telling me that the biotch with the killer dog hasn't been out walking him like she was before...i told her well i am no longer there to intimadate so why would she walk him...(actually maybe my prayers have been answered and the dog is gone). also told mom that soon as i get a job and a place ofour own i will come back to get here and bring her here for a visit. she was happy about that!!! she misses me alot she said...well i miss her also but not michigan!!!
rick had the parrot (goose) out yesterday and he was flying all over the place and i prayed goose wouldn't land on me lol bandit couldn't figure it out that bird was out of the cage lol and then cocoa (****atiel) was jealous she couldn't get out too and fly...well can't have them both out or they fight!!! bandit taught goose how to bark...LOL goose sits in the corner of his cage and barks...its so funny and rick is pissed that he has a barking bird now...LMAO bad bandit LOL
today we are going to go over to the storage unit and check to see if anything got wet from the rain yesterday and also try and find my clogs...i sure miss those!!! thought i had them in one of the suitcases but i was wrong...saw an ad at kmart for some jeans and i want to go check them out see if they fit me good or not...i need some new jeans soon!!! my favorite ones are getting worn out...well heck i had them since 1986!!! lol saved them just incase i could wear them again and woohooo i sure can wear them but now they are pitiful looking...sighs...
well thats about it for now on my end....still waiting to hear back on a job...hope i hear soon!!! have a great day....i know i am!!!
HUGS
Hugs, Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
margo...i talked to phyllis last night and she said she doesn't have internet right now thats why you haven't heard back from her...they are deciding which company to go with when they get it again so hang in there unless she gave you her cell number to call her?? i will be talking to her again in a few days if you have anything you want me to tell/ask her let me know ok???
hugs
ps hopefully i can make the frankenmuth get together in october that would be cool!!!!
