Hello

Hi everyone. Thanksgiving dinner was at Susan's and I definately had enough to eat. Kathy, I called you on my way home and also this morning. Thought maybe you and or the kids could come and play a game or two of cards. Sounds like you had a nice quiet personal day. That's usually a good thing too. What are you doing tomorrow? I have to go ring a bell for a couple hours in Sauk Rapids at noon but I'll be home before three.

Yes, Tammy I will be at bingo, and thanks. I plan to match your 5 boxes! I haven't even started yet but after 3 years of stuff being in storage it's time to let it go, give it a good home, and help someone see! We only do the garage sale every other year and we end up sending a check to the MN Lions Eyebank to the tune of about $7500. It's a wonderful feeling. I don't know what a cornea transplant costs but I know every penny of this money helps!

Hey Kath, my answer ... is dance-able music. Polka music can pull me out of the blues, as well as get me off the couch. I want to be down about 30 lbs. by, whenever, and I'm not waiting til Jan. to start. My goal wt. would be about 139 but right now I'd be happy to see 159! (That's 13 lbs!)
That means it's time to crank up some tunes and dust off the tread mill and get busy.

I love my wireless internet and my dvr cable! It's so cool. Love to all. Call Ron in the next day or two-while you're at it call Skip too. :)

grad pics

Just wanted to let ya know that pictures are done. You can see them at bjp.photoreflect.com. Just type in name and you're good to go. Some good ones. Some of the twin ones are cute. Anyway, I'm going to bed. Working 10-10:30 tomoro and sun. Have a good day. Nighty Night. Yap at ya all later. Bingo on Tuesday. Lu you're going right? I have boxes for ya. I won't drag them along if you aren't going to be there.

Happy Thanksgiving

Just droppin in to say Happy Thanksgiving. Hope everyone is having a nice holiday. Mac, Brea, Blake and I went out for Mexican food last night for our Thanksgiving dinner. Not doing anything today. I am going to make a few calls to wish kids and Mom well, but otherwise.... Hope everyone is having a Happy Turkey Day. Love ya all. Kiash

Oh yeah.....What am I thankful for? Well, besides the obvious, I'm thankful for laughter (except when it makes milk come out of my nose :). Have a good laugh today. It's the best medicine, you know.

Happy Turkey Day

Nothing much new. Just wanted to wish everyone Happy Thanksgiving. I have to work but that's ok. Alot of the people there don't go home or get company so I don't mind being there with them. Kinda saying it's not so bad. I got my computer working faster again. I went to system restore and went back to the date I had it fixed and it worked. Awsome. I was thinking I should just go buy a new one instead of taking this one in again being that I just had it worked on a month or so ago. But I played around with it and got lucky. So I am pretty impressed with myself. I got my new files downloaded and ready to go. Hey, ya know that research assignment that I have to do (and still haven't started )? Well part of the reason I haven't started it is because I am supposed to interview a Dr. Well who is gonna take the time to answer interview questions right? I was thinking about it on the way to work today, thinking it sure would be nice if we had a Dr in the family. Ding, ding, ding...the bells were sounding and I thought of... Nikki. She is pretty darn close and I think they would accept that so I'm gonna give it a shot. The questions are pretty basic. Things like what made you decide to go in this field, specialized schooling, benefits, and stuff like that. So, when I decide to get started, at least I know who to send interview questions to. Not that that will make me get at it any quicker, but at least I have a plan. I HATE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS!!! Oh well, yap at ya all later. Oh yeah, Lu, I have 5 boxes of stuff to donate to the Lions. I can finally get them out of the living room. I refuse to put them back in the closet. Thanks for the suggestion. I will bring them to bingo on Tuesday. I have a box of clothes too but I'll drop that one off at Savers. Thanks again for finding a home for this stuff. I hate to just throw it away, but I was seriously thinking about it. Nighty Night.

Greetings, Earthlings

Hi everyone! Lu here. Happy Thanksgiving! I have a new laptop, yeah! I also updated our Charter bundle, so now I have a dvr and wireless internet.

I have Psychology this class and just for this week I have about a dozen assignments to do. Most of which involves writing a 200-300 word response to the text and then defending my standing from at least two of my classmates as well as challenging at least two of theirs. But I new it would be hard for me going in so all I can do is give it my best shot. I have access to help plus Kathy already volenteered to help me with English Comp.

You're sure right, Kathy and Tammy, about typing faster. I'm by no means fast but I see improvement. (now I'm up to warp turtle speed!) :)

Jen, if you're reading, I hope you all enjoy the movie and have a good time, I'll see you Thurs, Tam I'll see you next Tues. Everyone else-I'll catch ya later. Take Care, Love ya , Lu

Nothing new, just checking to see if anyone has been on here. My weekend off. We were gonna go out to eat but Glen's working late and has to get up at about 2 so it's a no go for tonight. Maybe tomoro night. I ran to St Cloud to get a real pair of shoes. It was buy one get one half off so I got a second pair. I got my assignment back so I sent in my last one for that class. Now I should get started on transcription 2. My computer sucks again and I have to download all the new files so that could take a while. I'm gonna give it a try. I'll yap at ya later.

SHOES

Good Morning People, Lu here.
Tammy,Susan worked in the shoe dept. at Wal-Mart and customers were always leaving them on the floor or worse, putting them back in the wrong boxes. Apparently they'd pull out several pairs at once (or half pairs),and not pay attention if and when they put them back.

I had fun Tues. night as well. Bingo was even more fun. I got down to one or two away quite a few times. Oct 1st starts a new quarter so my Lions nights are not the same as Bingo nights. (Bingo is every other week, Lions is 2nd and 4th Tues) Every quarter has one month with 5 Tuesdays- five every days, actually-so this qtr is Bingo. I don't have to go either but I'm guessing Mom will want to go the week after Thanksgiving.

The Mom Report is they are having a good time. Mom's donating and Ed is "holding his own". They did the mini tour of the dam -only 2 hours, and Ed could hardly walk the next day. Mom says she's ok. She says hello to all.

Thanks Kathy!! Kathy came over after school yesterday and helped me get my files transfered from old computer to new. I don't think I have wireless here tho, so I'm going to check that out today.

Sorry this got so long. Have a great day! Love ya, bye.

Thanks for the fun night. Just want to give you all a hint when buying shoes. Make sure they match and you have a right and left shoe. When I got home, I went to lace up my shoes only to find that they are two different styles and they are both for the left foot. Guess I'll be going back to Shopko. How in the heck did that happen? I thought maybe I put them in the wrong box but I didn't even try the one style on. Crazy huh? Oh well. Yap at ya later.

Thank you Thank you

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Is Mom already on her trip? Lu of course you can crash the party. The info was for you and Mom. I didn't really expect you Kathy to come. I know you stay up late to get your stuff done for the next day and get up early. But it will be great for you to come. I can't handle too many margaritas. Any color dobber will do. Something cool. If Mom isn't home, we wouldn't neccessarily have to go to bingo. I don't care if we go or not. It would be fun I spose. Jessi left me a message to meet her early for a private piano recital. Anyone up for that? I'm sure she won't mind if you come. She was planning on Mom and me but I'm sure she won't mind a few extra people. It's actually a practice recital. The main one is Saturday I think. She is gonna take us to the school I think. Let me know if you are interested. She's thinking about 5:30. I got my $50 check from Penn Foster for my referal of myself today. That's cool. Maybe I'll buy myself a new pair of work shoes. I was just saying today at work that I need a new pair of shoes. I get my mail and there's a check for my new shoes. How wonderful is that? See ya both tomoro at 6 for sure. Yap at ya later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEEJ :)

Hey hey hey, can I crash your party too? Maybe we'll all buy you a margarita!

Mom called and they didn't get to their room til about 8:30 our time so they were going to eat and go to bed early.

She liked Katie's play, said it was pretty funny an cute but also she also said she missed alot because she couldn't hear some parts.

Today is the last day of my first class. Guess what, I passed!!! :)

Well, it's bedtime! Have a great day Tam and we'll see you tomorrow night. You really should win on your birthday, don't you think? What color dauber can you not live without? Toodles.

Happy Birthday, TJ

I'll be there with bells on, Birthday Girl!! I'll even buy ya a marguarita!! Yee ha. Now we're only a year apart, right? Happy dreams. I love you, Kiash

You are correct o wise one. Bingo is on tuesday. Mexican Village at 6. Can ya make it? I hope so. Gotta go to bed. Nighty night.

Bingo is Tuesday, right?

Sorry I didn't post the play earlier. As far as taxes go, I already did the 8 for two checks when they took all my back pay so I dont think I should do it again. Thanks for the heads up though. Logan texted me this morning to wish me happy birthday. He doesn't have his phone during basic but he has a weekend pass so he got it back. It was awsome to yap with him. We texted for an hour and a half. He will be home Dec 17 and doesn't have to go back. They are fast tracking his training so he will start weekend drills when he gets home instead of going back. Cool huh? I was so happy to hear from him. I gotta go to work, just wanted to update on Logan. See ya at bingo, me and Jess are going to Mexican Village before bingo if you wanna come. We are meeting there at 6 and skipping early birds. Hope to see ya there. The one by the Emporium. That includes you too Kathy. I know you have to get up early but it would be nice to see ya. Gotta go. Yap at ya later.

Hey Kate- How did the play go? Wish I would have checked the blog a day earlier so I could have come to see it.
Tammy- definately change your dependants to 8 or more for this one check, or it will be much smaller than it should be. You can do that twice a year without it affecting your taxes.
I have been watching Grey's Anatomy. I never watched the series on tv and am now watching the whole season dvd's. I love this show. I'm on Season 2, first disc only. Now I will have to wait a few days to get the next ones. I am lovin Netflix though.
Not much is new. I am running Mom and Ed to the airport tomorrow cuz Lu has to work. they don't know that yet, but I will call them in the morning. I have school work to get to tomorrow night.
Hope all is well with everyone. Love ya, Kiash

WOW!

Hey Tam, If I were you, I'd change my w-4 for this pay period. (To about 8) Then change it back for next time. You'll get to keep an extra $500 or so, and doing that once or twice a year won't change much on your taxes. This time of year I'm sure you could use it. I sure know what y0u mean about the ot cut off. What should have been (by far) my biggest check ever was not even close! I was so mad!

I work Sat, Mon & Tues. then I think I'm going to find something up here. I've done the math enough times to know I am not making more money by working. I was until I got the pay cut but not any more.

I've got a couple more days left of my first class. So far so good. (19 more 5 week classes to go.)
My new books have not arrived yet, I hope they're here by Tues nite when I get back home. My school week starts on Tuesday, ends on Monday. There's no break between classes either. I can see already the new course is going to be very hard.

I'm bringing Mom and Ed to the airport on Sunday. They are headed for Vegas and they will also go see the dam. What time is the play Sat. nite? 7 ish? I'll tell Mom in the a.m.

Time for bed. Catch ya later.

Lu, the night crew is really down in staff. The night I picked up, there was only 3 staff for the whole place. They usally are staffed at 6. So I picked it up. I was babysitting for a girl from work who had her tonsils out and was on pain meds. She didn't want to chance it with a little one and her husband had to work so I watched the little one til Andy got home. Then I went to check the schedule because I said I would pick up the 10-2 shift, only to find out one of the nurses called in so one of the aids, who is a tma, got pulled to the cart, which left 1 aid for the whole building, which is now back up to 86 residents. I was hoping for a call in the morning to say I didn't have to work my regular shift, but it didn't come. Neither did my golden oportunity come to think of it. This is my first day off since I got back from Breezy. I have 20 hours of ot already this week. I worked overnight on sun, regular shift on mon, picked up the 10-2(working 2-10 first)tues, wed, and thurs. I'll probably do it again tomoro then I'm done for this paycheck. I refuse to work over 25 hours of ot. I'm not sure where the cutoff is before the jump to the next tax bracket, but I think 25 is enough. So I got all my ot in in one week.

Kate is in a play tonight at 7 at the high school. It goes again tomoro night at 7 but I gotta work so me, Glen and Jess are going tonight.

I finally got my last assignment graded. This one took forever to get graded. I don't have it back yet. I sent it in on the 17th, it got returned from Pittsburg for extra postage on the 27, I added a stamp and sent it back in, they recieved it last week sometime and finally graded it so I should get it back sometime next week. They suggest not to send in additional assignments until you recieve the previous one back so you can see where you made mistakes. I have the next one done, I've had it done for quite awhile, I think I typed it up as soon as I got the other one done. Being that I got a 90 on the last one, I should just send it. But, I'll probably follow the rules and wait to get the other one back. I got my new books for the next and final class. It's transcription 2 but I'm guessing it will be more advanced. So, I spose I should wait to see my mistakes so I can keep up with the expectations.

I spose I should get to work around here. I am getting buried in hair, dirt, and dust in this place. Time to vacuum, sweep, scrub and dust. I didn't get up until just about noon and leaving at 6, so I best get busy. Yap at ya later.

Hi Tammy,
I plan to write on here too. I got busy but I sure missed it. I was just finishing my homework (so far so good), then I was gonna blog.

Who were you babysitting and why are you doing overniters and getting up at 8?

As for Breezy I wanna sign up for next year already. Hopefully I'll have a job by then and I'll let them know I need 4-5 days off. Fri-Tues at least. It was sooo nice.

I have a couple job possibilities, now that Kelber is winding down for the season, I'll check them out. I'll keep y'all posted. Lu

I am gonna plan on posting on here once in a while whether anyone else does or not. Kinda like talking to myself but I do that all the time. I should really go to bed cause I'm doing an overnight tonight. I am tired cause I have been up at 8 for three days in a row. Not that that's early for most people but it is for me. I babysat this morning and was thinking about taking a nap but I said yes to an overnight at work so I should really try to get that nap in. I work til 6:30 a.m. and go back in a 2 tomoro. Nighty night. Yap at ya all later.

Party's over

Just because Breezy's over doesn't mean we should stop using the blog. Let's keep it going. I had a great time. Just got home an hour or so ago. Doing laundry. Yap at ya all later.