Another Day Another Dollar..

Good morning ... Another day another dollar? There is probably some truth in that. This morning we are waking up at a nice time, though up a couple times earlier in the morning. Right now we’re feeling pretty good all told. Tuesdays can sometimes be a bear though. This will be the last Tuesday before January to have the 10 am Annual meetings. I know, I know already thinking of work ... it’s a shame. I think I’m fairly prepared for this meeting. I’ve done my homework and talked to both the DSP and the job coach. This is the DSPs first Annual meeting with us, so I figured we should help her out with an outline. She is the nervous type, but there is not much we can do other than point her in the right direction. We got her to think through what her program is for the individual being served. We also showed her the material we would be presenting at the meeting. We always type it out ahead if time. The hard element is Sr. Tess. Most often you know ahead of time she is going to be rushing through the meeting. Need to pace yourself to her speed.

Other than that, we have a lot of reports to be writing ... Think after today there will be three annual meetings to catch up, then we need to go back to those Qnotes. Just tons that never get done in a day. *Sigh* Sure there are a lot of other details, but this is what we’ve got so far on our mind. After that nice three day weekend we’d forgotten what we were supposed to be doing. Fortunately, we knew we had to take care of today’s annual, so we got busy with that right away. There was a pretty good feeling as we were doing that. We had a collection of papers from our folder and from the DSP and we just kept processing until they were all in order and accounted for. Pretty amazing process. I like it when we are within the rhythm.

Other than going to bed nice and early ... the only other remarkable event was going to see Dr. M. We don’t have much of that meeting under recall. I think we had difficulty right away. Casey was out and I think she was still feeling guilty over the green slimy monster she’d left with KC last week, because she sort of apologized for that. Annemarie was out pretty soon after, I think. Time is messed up for us here. She was feeling pretty down as was Ann who came after Casey to talk about our medicines. Turns out that not having one of them has an affect on the slow thinking and depressed feelings we were having over the weekend. There was, of course, the good stuff, but we could barely drag ourselves out of bed by Sunday and throughout the weekend, we weren’t able to touch the work we were so excited to be doing on our nice three days off.

Eh, now is another week AND ... not so far off from a couple more days off. And soon after? Wow! Lotsa time for Christmas! Maybe like 10 or 11 days total :) It’s going to be like heaven!! Ok, ok ... best not to get too far ahead of ourselves. Still have a lot of catching up before the February deadlines when the State comes through to check records. Going to need putting out some serious effort in order to get all the reports done. *Double sigh*

Ok, ok ... enough about work ... Shoot do we have any other thoughts? Not so sure about that. Thinking of running to the little store real quick ... wondering whether or not we shouldn’t take a shower first. Hmm ... Kind of downplays the idea of quick! But, then there is the other side of needing to get dressed twice ... hmm I wonder where we put that credit card? It sure be nice to get out of the way the pharmacy trip as long as we’re out. Better check some pockets, hold on please. Yayyyyy, we found it! After going through all the pockets, it was found up on top of the shelve we sometimes where we empty our pockets. Thinking now we might as well take that shower early. The trip will wait. Best I get the medicine as soon as possible.

Does everyone think as slowly as we do in the morning? I’m telling you ... there’s just nothing profound coming from this end of the screen. Ok, ok ... get in the shower!

Pshwoo ... that’s all done! Yayyyy, ahead of schedule!! Get to rest up here for a few minutes. :)  Ahh, a new inductee to J-land!  Thanks for the heads-up Krissy!  Nothing better than a fresh new start.  Remember when J-land was new to you?  Just excited to pieces!  I know my commentors are few, but if you get a chance, pop over to say hi to "Hope4meeeee."

Hmm ... the thinking now is ... that we might hold off on going to the store for now and just leave 15 minutes early.  Gives us another clear half hour at the keyboard and then we don't have to do the stairs twice.  Always conserving on the amount of back strain.  Soooo, what do we talk about?  I guess we could skim the list. 

First is kids ... they're doing pretty great.  The oldest two will be heading off to the Bahamas in two days.  They have a really generous boss who is flying they're top people.  There might be as many as 50 of them, but I'm not sure.  It's going to be a pretty big party.  Spouses weren't included which is a shame, but it helps to keep the group tight!  The boys both trade in the S&P500.  Think its going to be pretty cool for them.  They are staying in this huge hotel for four days, so it will be a short one.  Think its nice to be going on holiday before the holidays.  Kind of gives a new sense of appreciation to the whole deal.  We just sent off an email to our third son.  We're still working with him to get the next portion of his tuition paid by the first of December.  I might have to be fronted the money, we've committed to him until the balance of the estate money comes through ... we'll see.

As far as my friend goes ... Nothing too much happening there.  He just got home from a trip to California to check on a graduate school for his son.  I guess they had a real good time, though missing Fisherman's Wharf and the trolley's.  I know ... we're such a tourish advocate!  He say's that while they were there they got pretty familiar with San Fransisco.  They put on 3,000 miles to the rental car.  He told me quite a few incidents that happened. I thought the funniest was that he got a picture taken of himself in a gay bar.  LOL I gotta give him credit for trying!  I saw him last Friday night.  We kind of worked out a deal.  He helped me through the huge stack of dishes and we agreed to make him a dinner.  That's very rare, like maybe twice a year kinda thing.  We're just a terrible cook, and in the end, he took over that process too.  But, we had no trouble getting ice into his glass all by ourselves!  Yayy!

Let's see you already know of work an Dr. What's left?  Hmm, there are the kitties?  Nothing much up there.  The only thing new is that we've left the high chair next to the computer where it is pulled on the days our granddaughter is over.  The kitties are thinking this is a pretty nifty deal.  It gets them up to petting distance, without Casey screaming, "I can't see, I can't see!!"  When the kitties patrol in front of our screen.  They are at that shedding time, where they're requiring a lot of super duper petting.  They also got treated out to ice cream this week.  NOOO, we're not soft!  Just social!

Well ... you about know our whole life now ... Nothing else.  Well, yes, we do have thoughts that go beyond our "setting," but we're not nearly there this morning.  Just need to know what we need to do before we gotta have it done!  Maybe tomorrow we'll come up with something new :)  Whoops Missy is telling us its time to be heading out ... take care of the day!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyy, two friends IM'd ... maybe its going to be OUR day!