Catching Up

The last few months have found me at my workaholic worst. Weeks have been long and included travel most evenings. Week-ends have been fun filled and busy and the most I could make myself do was turn in my expense reports (always the priority) and write my facility reports (usually late). In addition to the work schedule, I also volunteered to teach my Sunday School class and preparing for that has comsumed any down time I have had. While my work statistics are great and my quarterly bonus top notch, the blog has suffered

June: Spent a great week-end in New York with Molly, Hillary and Susan McClure. We saw the Book of Mormon, which I had been looking forward to for quite a while. Molly, as usually, found us wonderful, unique places to eat and we walked and walked and walked. My great toenail on my right foot is still bruised and I'm not sure but that I may loose it in the end. For pictures and details see Molly and Hillary's blogs.

July: Hillary and Brooks took the big kids to the Lake of the Ozarks for July 4 and I got to have Sullivan all to myself for three days. Unfortunately, he became sick on Thursday and vomited through the night resulting in my first work 'call-in' in years. By Friday morning he was better and we had a good day Friday, then Mom and Dad came home and took him back. Also in July I was wrecked by an errant pick-up on I-80 outside of Sacramento. If you have to have a wreck it's the best kind. I wasn't hurt, it wasn't my car and it wasn't my insurance. Pictures are available on my Facebook page. The week after that I went to Branson with the Sunday School class for out annual bonding trip. It is always fun. This year was the hottest yet and we saw an 'outside' show, which, while entertaining, was not fun. The next week-end in July was the Smithville tri-athalon and I went with Hillary. It was a great morning, but I never could find her once the race started. Fortunately I did see her cross the finish line.

August: After five years of trying to find someone who could cut my hair the way I wanted, I gave up and returned to Frank Chambers in August. I guess I will just have to drive a little to be happy with the cut.
Hillary, Mira, Griffin and I met up with Trish Butler and family for a picnic and the community production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat. I was a fun evening and the weather had cooled so we were not sweating to death the whole time. The next week I was in Arizona and scheduled the visits so I could drive into Sherman Oaks and spend the week-end with Marian. We crocheted and watched movies and I made Scotcheroos. We went to see 'Hope Springs' which I liked and Marian didn't. On Sunday, after a burrito at the corner Mexican restaurant I headed back to Arizona. It was 113 degrees in Needles when I stopped to go to the bathroom. An hour later, when I got out of the care in Kingman, AZ it was 93 and felt like I needed a coat. The next week I worked in Bishop, California. It is a small town on the East side of Yosemite and is a four hour drive from everywhere and is the home of the Annual Mule Day celebration.

That brings me to September and I'm out of time.