Patiently Waiting

We are waiting for Lou's baby to arrive. On Saturday we went to Manchester to the Office Depot to get a computer desk and a chair. It was like being with an expectant mother in Babies R Us. He was so funny! We came home with the desk and chair and he immediately started rearranging our bedroom and then to assemble his new desk. It came together really well and I got him to fix the keyboard tray on the existing desk. BONUS! The printer and some small accessories should arrive today and the computer by Friday. I still have to get a wireless thingy so he can hook up to our network and a new surge protector. Because you know he will want to get his computer up and running as soon as it is on the doorstep.

Sunday was a lazy day. Monday, the weather was yucky, and we had to go to the VA in Newington. Going to the VA is always stressful so we figured we would start out early and go to Aldi for groceries before our 2:00 pm appointment. It worked out well and we even got taken in earlier at the VA. It wasn't fun but it was Ok and now we have to wait again till someone is assigned to Lou to manage his meds. Can't wait to see how long this takes.

Well its Tuesday and its still snowing, yuck, Just waiting on the delivery of Lou's printer. Of course tonite is my favorite show, NCIS, with hunky Mark Harmon. It, along with Bones, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, and Las Vegas are my favorites. I used to watch Close to Home but Las Vegas is on same day same time slot so I opt for Vegas. I can't remember the name of the actor who plays Ed De Long (he is famous and it will come to me) but the woman who plays his wife was one of the original Charlies Angels. It is a good show.

Well got to get moving...dishes to do...cat boxes to clean...I lead such an exciting life!

Ta Ta For Now!

WW . . WW

SNOW ! YUCK !

I am sitting here listening to the snowplows digging up the street! There is a couple inches on the ground, just enough to make it messy. At 3:30am, when Lou went to work, they had not scraped or sanded our streets and Rte 289 was snow covered. I was wide awake this morning and decided to stay up. I played some Stackem on Pogo and got our badge and I still have to enter Lou's diabetes log and sooner rather than later I am going to have some breakfast.

TGIF ! Three beautiful days when I don't have to get up at 3am! YEAH! Well I did it last night !...No I didn't mean THAT. I ordered Lou's computer from Dell. Now he should be able to play his games to his hearts content and it should not freeze. He will have 160Gig hard drive and 1Gig of ram and a good video card. Plus he will have Windows Vista Premium...that should be interesting. Then I can clean out my computer andwhip it into shape. I will save all my info on a flash drive before I try my upgrade to XP and then I will consider upgrading to Vista. I'm in no hurry.

Well I am off to the kitchen in search of FOOD and COFFEE !

Have a sparkling day!

WW . . WW

Its Monday!

I know, I know, its Tuesday. But its Monday for Lou and me because this is his Monday which is really Tuesday. Our weekends are three days long now with his new hours. The only down side is the 3am wakeup time. I am hoping he will be retiring soon and then we will get him his own computer so we aren't competeing for PC time. Lou loves to play games and has a subscription to Pogo...I must admit I enjoy playing some of those games myself. He also loves to check his email and visit different military sites for info on different subjects. So it will be good for him to have his own computer with a super duper graphics card so some of the games he has won't freeze. Our Gateway PC is now 7 years old and a true dinosaur. I just recently added more memory because we only had 128 MB now we have 640 MB and it has helped. I think maybe we will try Dell this time but I will call for prices to see what I can get for the money.

Yesterday I had company, my friend Sophie, came over for a visit. I met Sophie thru my best friend Jane. They used to work together and Sophie and I got close when Jane got sick. We have both been busy and she still works so it has taken some time for us to get together. She works for the state of CT and she had yesterday off so it worked out well. We gabbed for about 3 hours and had a really good time.

Well its time to start getting stuff done. Have to take Heather to renew her license and then go to the bank and drop off some donations for the Salvation Army. By the time we finish it will be time for Lou to come home so I also have to figure out what is for lunch. I already have supper planned which is unusual that I am that together at this time of the morning.

So until next time I will sign off.

Hope everyone has a sparkling day!

Love you all!

WW . . WW

T.G.I.F.

I am going to hibernate all weekend!

OK! I'm up on my (environmentally friendly) soapbox again and my subject this time is the Homeless.

First of all I know that being homeless is not just a problem in my town. It is everywhere, men, women, whole famlies are homeless. This is a national shame! I have to say up front, I don't have a solution to the problem but I do have an opinion. No one should have to sleep in the park, under a bridge, or in the 24hr laundromat. This does happen in my town and I am ashamed that it does.

There are organizations that help and we have emergency shelters but I really want to know why we have turned into this throw away nation. It was always a problem with animals, people move and leave them behind or the novelty wears off and they just turn them loose to fend for themselves. But come on folks...these are human beings we are now discarding. Whole famlies in some cases.

Times are hard and the last tax evaluation I did call my town hall and tell them that if my taxes go up again I will be residing in the last cardboard box on the right under the frog bridge. The response to my statement was silence...everything goes up...but not our fixed income and even the working man is lucky to get a 3% raise a year.

When you can't pay the rent you become one of the homeless. A pretty frightening spectre. During the day you can see them walking the streets (this breaks my heart) alot of our homeless also have psychiatric issues. The shelter hours are from 8pm to 8am and those are better hours than most shelters. We all know the cold weather doesn't let up at 8am or hold off till 8pm. Some shelters are only open 9pm to 6am. Where are you going to go to keep warm at that hour?

Our NO FREEZE shelter here just down the street has a couple of bathrooms and even a shower. Can you imagine being denied the necessity of something as basic as a shower...to feel clean is a spirit lifting experience. The shelter asks for donations of paper towels, toilet paper, socks, and underwear.

How sad is this?

What few possessions they have are in plastic garbage bags and luckily, if they are a guest at "No Freeze", they can store their belongings there but again the shelter is only operating from October to April.

What happens May 1st?

Until I can come up with an answer to the problem I will keep donating what I can and saying a prayer for those that are homeless and hope and pray that I am never in that position.

Happy

Valentines

Day!

Just you wait!

My next blog will be a little more serious...I have been thinking about it for a while and I think I should climb up onto my soap box once again. So till tommorow I wish you all a shiny day!

Tree of the Month Club

Well here it is the day before Valentines Day and the big snow storm the weathermen are promising. If we never saw a flake it would be allright with me. The snow is supposed to start tonight so that means at 3:30am, when I take Lou to work, it will probably be snowing. Oh Goody! Oh well "say lavy"!

Anyway I have been meaning to blog for a long time but with Lou's new hours I don't get the time on the computer that I use to. Now he is home 3 days a week and the other four he is home by noon. I can not blog with someone peeking over my shoulder and asking "whats that?". No matter how much I love him!

I have decided not to take down my Christmas tree! Yes! its artificial! But I love the light and the reflection of the light on the 2 walls of mirrors in the living room and also there is no convenient place to store it! So it will become a year round tree! In January I called it my Ice tree and now it is my Valentine tree. March should be covered in Shamrocks and April an Easter tree and so on. So hence I start my Tree of the Month Club!