Yesterday I took the newspaper a couple of blocks down the street, to the place I get work done on my car. They provided the coffee. I had finished the paper and did some of the crossword puzzle before they were done ( Read more... )

Today Cyn wrote a funny little entry about the "things her calendar told her were to be celebrated today". Two were Ellis Island Family Day and Ford Mustang Day.Then Kevin said he guess he would drive (in his Ford Mustang, of course) to Ellis Island to look up family members ( Read more... )

Major errand was a final check-in with the Ass't to the Dr that Treated the infection in my foot (after surgery). No problem. That office had advised, before, that I wear a long stocking tube on my leg. This person told me it should also cover my foot. (Keeps me from getting swelling there ( Read more... )

Today I needed to take the car out to get it back in use. The battery died while I was gone so long, but Cyn got that taken care of yesterday. It felt good to be driving again. It got ME "back in use" again,too. I drove in the north and west suburbs as well as making an appointment for an oil change next week ( Read more... )

I'm slowly getting back to my routines--including Live Journal. I can't believe how disconnected from my previous life I feel after 5 months.

My daughters have been a great help to me. I'm so glad I have them.
M

Scanning thru entries on my e-mail I found a reference to the yearbook published when I was a High School Senior. What makes that amazing to me is that our Senior Class had 20 people in it. The entire school (not yet consolidated) had 65 students. (We were the largest class they had had for years.) How many Yearbooks are on line ( Read more... )

So, I'm stuck and haven't the patience to wait for tomorrow's answers. Do you know:

What is a "large Asian rodent" whose name begins with (who knows what??) but has 'and' and 'oot' in it? Nine letters.

A word whose letters (scrambled) are "d-i-r-a-l-a"? I think L and A and R are the last three, but I don't know in what order.

First of all, I had a really nice birthday on the 12th--and I thank everyone who remembered me and wished me well. I liked the fact that I got to talk to all my children, and had warm wishes from grandchildren (including Heather's husband ( Read more... )

As Rosanne Rosannadanna used to say on Saturday Night Live (long ago) "It's always something ( Read more... )

One thing is to contact Dev and make plans for her to take down the Christmas tree and my other Christmas decorations. They definitely HAVE to come down before Easter. I hadn't looked at my tree much before I went to the hospital, tho, so I'm enjoying it ( Read more... )