Okay, I know that I have not posted anything in almost a month. No excuse just busy and not enough hours in the day to get it all done. Sorry everyone!

First off, work has been really overwhelming this past month. What with working on budgets, financials and member reports, it has taken more time to get things done. I know I should be grateful for the work and wages but in fact, it is more hours than I really want and I am at the point in my life where this is not a career but only a part-time job! I have made a suggestion to management that I hope will reduce not only my total hours each week but also much of the extra work load! This is pretty much what has been going on at work. We have had a couple of people out with the flu too.

Now home has been just as busy what with cleaning the flower beds, raking the leaves and burning them. Cleaning the basement and trying to get dried out again. It seems the floor drain is not functioning properly and guess we need to have a plumber look at it. We are not even sure where it drains out to! 

Now onto family news and updates-my mom is having hip replacement surgery just before Thanksgiving. This is her first major surgery, ever! She seems to be doing okay and am sure she will do fine after the surgery too.

My son called the other night and he and his wife will be coming home for Christmas this year! I am so excited and can't wait to see him. This will be our last Christmas or visit for probably 3 years. He leaves for Italy in March and will be stationed there for 3 years at least. I think this will be his last tour cause this puts him at 25 years in the Navy.

I've started my Christmas shopping and have got the gals pretty much done. Still have the guys to do and that is always one that is tough for me. What do you get for men who have all the tools they need and what they do want or need yet is really expensive? Just not sure what to get them, any ideas??????

I am almost done with my genealogy project. I have found a pretty good deal of information and feel sure my client will be pleased. However, I have not been able to find what she really wanted to know and I know she will be disappointed with that.

This pretty much explains what has been going on in my life lately. Oh and one last thing, I am now sick with a bug too. Didn't work today but will go in tomorrow and at least get caught up. Don't feel that sick just a sore throat and really tired and drained. Suspect that I am having a milder cause due to getting my seasonal flu shot. My boss was pretty sick for several days and was close to walking pneumonia when she went to the doctor.

Guess that's all my news and updates. I hope everyone else is doing fine and feeling well. Take care my friends and thanks to everyone who sent notes of concern. I really appreciated your friendship, thoughts and prayers!

This has been a really cruddy week so far and it doesn't look like it is going to let up either.

We had Bear to the vet on Sunday cause he had vomiting and bloody diarrhea on Saturday and Sunday. The vet gave him some antibiotics and some ear drops for his ears. She put him on a mild diet of boiled hamburger and rice for a couple of days too. He his doing better and acts like his old self which his good. Got the bill in the mail today, two prescriptions and emergency call was $82.00.  

Worked Monday. The boiler needs a new pump (which is ordered) so there is no heat in the building. Our highs so far this week have been in the mid 40's. We have smaill floor heaters which helped some but still not the same. Came home Monday chilled to the bones and a sore throat. Here it is Wednesday and I still have a bit of a sore throat and as of yesterday, diarrhea set in and stomach cramps. Don't feel too bad just can't keep food in my stomach. I am hoping that it is just a 24 hour thing cause I work Thursday and Friday this week. 

One of the girls at work was out 3 days last week with the flu. I have had my regular flu shot so mayber the reason for the lighter version. Another girl is out the past couple of days with her daugher who is sick. Gosh it is only early October.

Don't know if I told everyone but got a new genealogy research job last week. First one in a really long time. I'm looking for the census records for a client's gr-gr-grandfather. So far have had pretty good luck and have located most of those available.

Other than this not much else to tell everyone. It has been damp, chilly and cloudy for several days and it feels good just to lay around and stay covered up with a comforter.

Stay warm and healthy everyone. More later----

Just wanted to post a quick note and then I'm off to get dinner going.

Not much is going on this week. Busy at work getting the financials done for September.  Our weather has gotten much cooler and pretty rainy and the forecast is showing a possibility of snow showers for Sunday, uck!!!. Had to turn the furnace on Friday cause it was just too damp which caused my old arthritis to start hurting too.

Finally figuring out the new computer and all the new programs. Vista is not too bad. Still am not sure what antivirus software to use. I have used Norton for a really long time but am wondering if there is something just as good and not as expensive to maintain. Right now McAfee is free for 30 days and seems to be doing pretty good.

Engrossed in a new book by James Rollins called "The Last Oracle". Pretty good so far but only about a third of the way into it.

One piece of news that hit the paper today was, our little town of 6,000 had its first case of the H1N1 flu in the school system. Students name and age was not given and which school was involvd was not released either. Really scary, this one is!!!

It's almost 6 and past time to get dinner going. Tonight is fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and salad! Love gravy when I fry chicken or pork chops.

More later-I'm gettin real hungry

Hey y'all, hope everyone has been doing better than me!

First off, my computer has really been running super slow the past few weeks. A friend gave me some free software and boy did it open my eyes up. The software was "Super AntiSpyware" and " RegSeeker". I have been using Norton 360 which includes malware, spyware, firewall and anti-virus. Well I thought it did a good job! When I ran these two programs, I was shocked at the results. The spyware alone picked up over 1500 items and the other program picked up over 2000! That's a lot of "junk" just sitting on my computer taking up space and resources. I have been watching my programs resource usage and have to say that Internet Explorer takes up a bunch when it loads. It really bogs down the speed!

Mind you my system is 6 years old and the ram is not very high but up until the past month or so it has not been a problem. The only other thing I figure was a contributing factor is I recently put MS Office 2007 on the system. I honestly think that had a lot to do with things. I really need it for work and other projects so it has to stay.

I did some research about increasing the ram and figured it would cost about $60.00 for parts plus my time or someone else's to install etc and that's no promise that it will fix things. Last Saturday, I was out shopping at my friendly local Wal-Mart, checked the aisle for computers and low and behold on the bottom shelf was one lone Dell Inspiron 2.20 GHz, 2.0 GB ram and 280GB hard drive all for the reduced price of less than $300.00! I have to admit that my heart really started to race cause I knew there was NO way, I could upgrade my current system to equal or even get close to this. I finished my shopping and hurried home to discuss things with my better half. It wasn't long before we got in the truck and went and brought home the new "puter". What a joy and difference it has made!

Since then, I have been transferring files and programs to the new one and removing stuff from the old one. Not sure what we will do with the old one. It does run much better without all the programs I had on it. I guess it would make a great backup system for Internet and games.

Work went well this week. However, Wednesday I didn't go in due to some kind of stomach bug. Still felt cruddy on Friday but better today. Everything else has gone pretty good for the past few weeks. Just a big mess setting up the new system and changing all my email addresses to Gmail from Yahoo.

One last comment in passing, today is Pancake Day in our little community. Story we were told is that every year the residents here and the ancestors over in Croatia celebrate on the same day with pancakes. The town has a parade, food, crafts, walks and runs, basketball etc. A really fun day!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. More later------ (tea & crackers!)

Just wanted to say "thanks" for all the well wishes. They really meant alot.

I hope everyone had a great holdiay weekend. My back is feeling much better, thank goodness. I have been busy so far this week at work closing out the month and getting the financial statements done so today was my first day off this week. I am also working on a pretty big project and hope to have it set up and ready to print billings next week. That would be really great!

Not much has been going on. Just doing what I have to do and taking it pretty easy. I pull a few weeds here and there but nothing tooo difficult.  Had errands and laundry to do today, so didn't get as much done as I really wanted. Maybe this weekend.

I have hardly touched the genealogy research in some time and really should get going on that again especially since I have paid online subscriptions. However, for some unknown reason, I just can't seem to get focused and engrossed in it yet. Will have to try and get focused on that again.

Time to get dinner finished up. Roast beef, noodles, gravy and salad with dinner rolls. Been cooking in the crockpot all afternoon and boy does it smell good!!

Oh well, tomorrow is another day. Have a good one!