I’m Back
So I think you all know about my mom, that she lost her balance while vesting me, broke her hip, and has been in the hospital since December. The good news is that she may be released sometime late next week. It’s been a long and painful road for her but I’m so happy that she is getting better every day. My folks will be staying with me for awhile until she is strong, and well enough to travel back home. I’m no longer a couch potato running errands here and there, going to the hospital, and of course working my fanny off. I also got sick myself during that time and I’m still recovering ever so slowly. On the work side we still don’t know what the status is of our employees in Haiti which has me worried. The good news is that the airport wasn’t damaged as badly as first reported, but the estimated fatalities are jaw dropping, between 40K-50K. My heart goes out those people. In other news Libby had a little infection in her bottom and had to where the cone of knowledge for a few days. Poor thing. But she was a trooper and seems to be on the mend. Sherlock didn’t like the cone of knowledge either since he likes to bite and like her ears (I don’t know why he has that fetish and yup, even the vet can’t figure that one out). So having been cut off from ear access, I came home one day to find the cone of shame severally pock-marked and chewed up! This weekend is going to be filled with errands, going to the bank, grocery shopping, and a little work-work. But on Saturday all of us are going to our fave Italian restaurant to celebrate Lore and Cherie’s birthday. Jackie, Cherie’s sister is going in for knee surgery the following week so we are celebrating early. I have a big meeting today that I prepared most of yesterday for that cropped up at the last minute so that threw a small kink in my goal of getting somewhat caught up. Oh well. That’s the way it goes right? I’m seriously thinking about writing again. Might as well do something productive right? Well happy Friday y’all! Let me know what’s going on with you.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Glad you’re back to blogging!! I always like your updates, and now I feel back in the loop again! I sent you a few replies to some emails that you sent several weeks (or even a month ago) but didn’t hear back from you so maybe they got lost or buried in your email box…? Anyway, I was SO GLAD to hear that your mother is on the mend!!! Moms and Dads are irreplaceable… love them to death while you have them.
Let’s see… what’s going on here…? My memory is short so probably anything I write about will be fairly recently. Maybe as recently as even today! Today I am going to pick up the Tootie Pie that I won by adding a shameless bid for a free pie on their FaceBook site! I guess they liked the direct approach… HAHA!! Tootie Pies are high-end pies (especially the apple pie with 6 lbs of apples in it!) and are sold to Neiman-Marcus, Central Market, and a few other places. It’a a local business right here in Boerne so I don’t have to go too far to pick it up! There are 12 flavors… I picked the BLACKBERRY! They want to take a picture of me and publish it on their website so I promised them I’d leave my t-shirt with the Tiger Woods joke in the closet… hehe. That might be the BIG news lately…
Sherry (across the street) is having one of those birthdays that end in a 0 in April so there are 3 of us going to throw her a surprise party. 2 of the 3 have a big-budget shindig in mind. One of us (un-named) is basically on a 0-budget. Ok, what the hell… I am the 0-budget anchor in the cog. The way it’s going, we’ll probably have a live band, sit-down dinner, and paper plates!!
Paul started back to work again for the new semester. Seems to really like his new group of kids, actually I guess at the university-level, they would be “young adults.” One of the student’s father is a missionary and is one of the missing in Haiti. He was in one of the large, well-known hotels at the time & no word at this point of his status so keep him in your prayers.
Can’t think of any other news. HELLO to Jackie and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lore and Cherie!!!
XOXOXOXOXOX
DL