The icon I'm using? It's a photo of our pink dogwood when it's in bloom -- which isn't quite yet. But it's close to blooming -- and that would be around a month early, by the way ( Read more... )

Well, it's NEVER a good sign when someone phones me first thing in the morning at home to tell me they have a dead computer -- which Ashley did today. So even though I'd told Donn I wouldn't need him today, I had to call him and ask him to come in as soon as he possibly could manage ( Read more... )

It's so COLD here right now! If you go out into our garage (which is attached to our house), it's like a deep freeze out there! (And you can feel that cold air coming into the house, too...) Getting canned pop or bottled water from the garage is just like getting it out of the fridge, I kid you not ( Read more... )

Well, the WIND woke me up in the middle of the night. I could hear things rattling. But no trees were down this morning. Hahaha. And I phoned Jim next door to check up on him (he's still got the flu). And he said they get tons of branches down in their back yard when the winds are bad, and there was very little out there. So I guess it didn't hit ( Read more... )

An early day, as Marilyn needed to go to her clinic BEFORE work to provide labs (blood and urine). We actually made good time heading out ( Read more... )

We woke up to the news that Alan Rickman -- an actor we've always loved -- passed away at age 69. Way too young! Lost to cancer. David Bowie -- who also died recently of cancer -- was also only 69. And Rene Angelil -- the husband of Celine Dion -- died of cancer at age 73. Three cancer-related deaths! And all of these men were too young, too young ( Read more... )

Well, even though I really needed to go to work today (I need to finish the Profiles on both Katrina's and Katie's computers!!!), I ended up staying home ( Read more... )

I really got a LOT done at work today! For example, I did some AMAZING things with my email (tons of organization, aside from just cleaning it out ( Read more... )

I just read a batch of my previous blog entries for January 6. Each year I say pretty much the same thing: This was my Grandma Elsie's birthday. This was the day our Mom died (in 2000). This is traditionally the day Grandma took down 'Christmas' -- and so did Mom. And so do I ( Read more... )