Thank you all.
I am feeling better. Things haven’t changed, but I am feeling better.
(This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to share good news!)
I’m going on an overnight business trip tomorrow and managed to pack such that I don’t have to check a bag - yay me! And I didn’t even pack a giganto wheeled bag to do it - decent-sized purse and a smallish backpack that will both fit (more or less) under the seat in front of me. Aw yeah.
It doesn’t hurt that it’s in Florida and it’s not formal enough to require a suit or dress.
A week from today I will be enjoying world-class music, amazing food, many cold libations and the fine company of great friends from all over the world at the 41st annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (this will be my 15th consecutive year attending)
I was serious about the “all over the world” part—I have friends coming over from Singapore, Australia, Netherlands, UK, New Zealand, Canada and all different parts of the USA.
It is the week I look most forward to every year!!!
A week from today will be the first day of a week on Kauai! We’ve been to Maui and the Big Island, but never Kauai. We’ll take a helicopter ride, do some hiking, snorkeling and golf, look for good restaurants and generally do the aloha thing. All the sweeter since we’ve gotten about 4 feet of snow in the last 5 days. I can’t wait to get out of winter for a bit!
Hee! Give it back and I’ll tell you were I got them! They had them for $15. Just $15 to stomp in puddles like a little kid, so awesome!
Charlotte was born on April 21st after 11 hours of labor. She was a natural birth with an epidural. She weighed 8 lbs 6oz at birth. I am deliriously happy and full of milk.
Really? Wow!
Guinea worm eradication is on track, as well. Mankind is winning.
Congrats on that! (The baby part, not the milk.)
Wishing you a lifetime of joy with your new family!
We go on holiday tomorrow! Mooooooooo!!!
First a four day walking holiday in the far NW of Scotland, with Ben Loyal in our sightshttp://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/tongue/tongue/index.html
Then on the ferry for three nights in the Orkney Islands poking around stone age villages and stone circles and eating the best cold water sea food in the world!
And the weather thru to Monday is scorchio, scorchio, scorchio (well for Scotland anyway)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4193?&search=durness&itemsPerPage=10®ion=world
Four hours of dull work to go and counting… big smiles on our faces.
Today is my birthday!
My eldest son just got straight A’s.
My next-eldest son is well on his way to earning his Webelos Arrow of Light award in early June.
My niece was just featured in a website profile of wonderful people under age 30 in the city where she lives.
Hope you’re feeling better!
Happy Birthday!!! 
That noise under the car was just some rust build up in the brake region and the garage only charged us the diagnostic fee to find it and clean it off. Was afraid it was much worse, and my new to me super cheap iPad was going to end up on Ebay to pay for repairs. Now I get to keep my new toy.
Also, I stopped at the Starbucks drive-through today before school.
When I got to the window, the guy told me to not worry about paying because the woman in front of me had paid for my coffee. I asked if I could pay for the person behind me and he said yeah- it had been going on like that for a while and he hoped it would for a while more.
It made me smile and I hope it did keep going a while longer. It’s a little thing, but people can be great sometimes.
Seconded - have a great day!
I’m totally caught up on my work at the moment.
Our cat, although 21 years old, is in excellent health and still runs up stairs.
My nephew graduates from high school in a few weeks and we’ll be able to go to his party.
Barack Obama is President of the United States, and has a pretty good chance of being reelected next year.
Oh, if I had seen this thread I wouldn’t have started a separate thread about my good news.
I’m going to graduate with my Master’s degree and I’m receiving the John Hope Franklin Combating American Racism award. Pretty awesome.
Congrats LavenderBlue!
I wanna know where you got them, too, esp. at such a good price. I’ve wanted pretty rain boots for years but I live in a drought area and haven’t been able to justify the expense…
Mr. Horseshoe needs a new crown + a root canal. Sure, that’s not good news. Expensive and painful. But you know what is good news? He went to the dentist, for the first time in at least five years. Clearly, he needed to. And he wouldn’t have if I hadn’t a) got a job with benefits, and b) gone myself, so I got mailed a $100 card for future services as incentive to come back, and c) [del]nagged[/del] gently and consistently reminded him to make an appointment.
Bonus good news: no new cavities (after all that time without a prof. cleaning!) AND his blood pressure was a perfectly healthy, normal reading. He’d been worried, since heart problems run in his family. But he lost over 30 pounds since being laid off from his high-stress desk job (hey! more good news! well, not the layoff directly) and apparently the weight loss has helped keep him healthy. Frankly, I think the fear of being told “you have eight new cavities, and your blood pressure is through the friggin’ roof!” was keeping him from the dentist at least as much as knowing that he’d need a new crown.
There’s a robin laying eggs in one of my hanging porch plants 
Two teal eggs so far!
I’ve had customers in my shop every day this week. A mix of repeats and new folks. Hooray.
Rain boots are better, though.