Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Zombie checking in! I left so many must-do chores until the last minute and today was the last minute. I'm exhausted to my core. And I still haven't packed or cleaned my house. I may just get up the dog hair, clean the sinks and toilets and call it done. It'll just get dirty over the winter as empty houses do. Have to be at the airport at 11:30 am tomorrow. The nice part is I leave at 12 and get back to AZ at 12:22. The magic of flying east to west!

Anyway more tomorrow or the day after. Take care!

I love flying west for this reason. I arrive in California, and suddenly I am a morning person!

Safe travels my friend!

Time to leave already? That is a sound cleaning plan. Have a safe flight!

Liz I remember years ago the challenge we faced trying to throw out a trash can. I think we did resort to a note eventually. Good luck!

My days during the work week are uneventful this month. I go to work, come home, putter around a bit, go to bed, get up and do it again. Blissfully uneventful for now. On the horizon, a birthday party for a longtime friend on Saturday, and more theater on Sunday. Next weekend we visit DS in Madison. I don't know if we will meet the new girlfriend yet. All in good time.

Love must be in the air! Liz's DD getting married in less than 2 weeks, my DSD getting married in May, Liz's DS has a new beau, your DS has a new girl and I just got a text from my DS in Madison that he is not seeing his new beau any longer because he is "a conservative". Lol! I'm sure he will find plenty of Liberals to date in Madison!

Greetings all

Busy day by my minimal standards. Scrabble this morning where I defeated The Shark but lost the other two. Then on to the studio to do a little intermediate work on some items in process. Had a good talk with another gallery member about our meeting tonight. After that I stopped at the gym and did some walking. No anorexics in sight and not many people. The amount I do is abysmally small but I can foresee upping what I do in very small increments.

So we had a nice dinner last night at the restaurant with the great view. Super good meal of steak bites on a skewer with a great sauce. Will get that again. But here is the best part of birthday: got a text from nephew asking if he could call with birthday wishes. Sure. So he calls and the real news is that they are expecting a baby! This is the nephew who, with his wife, had been going through infertility and IVF treatment and were able to proceed with this last round because of the money I gave them. So it's all good! Best birthday gift ever. Entire family does not know yet. Tee Hee and Yay,.

Liz wedding countdown! Hope your DD finger gets better fast. Ice Ice Ice. Lordy have you got a lot to do in the next few weeks!

Lizanne we are so glad you checked in. What a blessing to have DD available for so many days. Wishing you some peaceful days.

Yay peps shopping in your own closet! Keep it up. How fun to find stuff too big! We just dumped cable tv for youtube. I am still learning how to work it since we always had it with the TIVO. And agreed, plan retirement without using savings for support. Thats what I did. I am now being forced to take out 401k money and it feels like free money.

Gallery meeting tonight. We have a ton of stuff to get through and i hope our president can keep discussion on track to get through large agenda. Must restrain myself from homicidal impulses when discussion is hijacked by trivial concerns. I won't drink any wine during meeting.

Not much else. Mucho leftovers from last nights dinner out so saved from cooking.

Cheers. Diane S

Oh wow, what amazing news from your nephew!

Amen to your best-ever present to the nephew. YOU GAVE THEM A BABY!

Hooray for getting to see them spend money on a miracle rather than waiting to leave them money! Way more amazing to get to witness the part you played.