It really warmed up yesterday which melted about half the snow. This morning it’s all frozen into a hard crust as the overnight temps dipped below freezing. It was along day yesterday capped off by the boys wanting to stay up to watch Mick Jagger on the Grammy’s. At least they’re more interested in Mick than Lady Gaga. We had fun doing the usual and going out to lunch. For years my wife has been telling me not to stack papers on the basement steps, well yesterday I found out why. As I was carrying some stuff to the basement, my left foot (or right, not sure) slipped out from under me and I fell down the basement steps. I only slipped down 3 or 4 steps (lucky I had tennis shoes on to stop my slide) and bruised up my left side. I really didn’t notice much when I fell except a bruised ankle and forearm but as the day went on, my left side (hip in particular) became sore. I was pretty lucky I guess that I didn’t go all the way down and that I’m in pretty good shape and didn’t break anything. No more stacking papers on the steps for sure!
Mom had a long day and arrived home about 8pm. Today she has a full day of Valentine Day parties at school (she’s a room Mom for the boys), after she goes in to help grade some papers. With it also being the first non snowy sunny day in weeks, we need to get our 2001 Audi TT out of the garage and jump the battery. We’re selling this as we need the cash and don’t need 3 cars. I think we have about 50 miles on this pretty little speedster in 6 months. (if anyone needs a great car, email) Tomorrow night we go to dinner with our friends who have been out of town since before the holiday’s. We were going to go to their house but the Misses called and said she hadn’t cooked in 4 months and we probably wouldn’t want to eat her cooking so we decided on a fun new restaurant downtown. They travel quite a bit and have a few homes around the country. I think they were just in Dubai for vacation and had spent Christmas in Hawaii. Anyhow, really fun good people. Tonight we’ll be staying home with the boys having a quiet V Day dinner. My mother and younger brother are on the road to Phoenix and should arrive around dinner time, hope they have a safe drive.
Lots to do at work this week with only 2 weeks left in the month. We have a long conference call scheduled this morning to review some new initiatives and programs were implementing for 2011. In today’s world, it seems you have to adapt and change tactics more often than in previous years due to the ever changing economy. Personally I think the media and the perception it creates is a lot of the problem. When pundits get on TV each morning and tell us all that today this is going to happen, everyone reacts as if it’s the word of God. People need to realize that these folks are just “people” too. You need to think for yourself and stop taking the word of someone you don’t know just because they’re on the idiot box. The majority of folks out there are kind of like lemmings, they question little and just seem to follow whatever someone tells them. I’m beginning to go into a political rant (can you tell?) so I’d better sign off now so you’ll all be spared. In closing though, think for yourselves and do what you think is right as it usually is.
God Bless,
Side note: The lovely, little old lady and her dog gave me a yummy box of Godivas and a thoughtful card when I stopped last night to administer the insulin shot. Â Very sweet!!
Also, once again my husband had the house clean, laundry done, and dinner ready when I arrived home from work. Yea!!
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