Vacation Day 3 and it's only 10:41

1. I woke up often during the night. The neighbor's dogs were barking, the bed squeaked, and I kept thinking about Mark and Molly's dear friend whose 38-year old husband died yesterday of a heart attack.
2. At 7:25 Jeffrey came in to tell me he was ready for big pancakes.
3. While eating one of Grandma's Good Rolls I felt something crunchy. The top half of my tooth came off. I called the dentist's office and she called back about 20 minutes later. She said this time it is the crown which is actually good because it's still under warranty. The problem is I will have to wait until Thursday afternoon to have anything done about it. It's a shooting pain occasionally, but I think as long as I'm careful about food and drink touching it, I should be ok. I think I'll go take some Alleve.
4. The boys are off for baseball's opening day parade and games, and I'm off to Costco and watch the game later.

Vacation Day 2

1. Slept until 8:00 CDT!!!
2. Did some shopping for the weekend.
3. Drove to ATL with Dad and Mom.
4. It was great to see the ATL family.
5. Molly and I put together 8 gifts for each decade of Mom's life with things that she likes. Ex. Snickers, Dollar Tree (to take the grandkids when they are in AL), plastic spatula for all her cooking, book about AL unique things since I couldn't find a book about the Civil War in Decatur, calendar of their family, Fresca, a book mark, and one other thing.
6. Lauren drove me to Target for a couple of things and a Starbucks.
7. Funny comment of the night comes from Jeffrey when asked if he wanted big pancakes in the morning, "Yes. And I get up early."

Guess I better get to bed so that I can get up to make those pancakes.

Vacation Day 1

Went to work early to leave early.
At lunch I chipped a filling but I thought it was my crown.
Thankfully the dentist's office fit me in since I was going out of town.
The dentist fixed the filling. It was pretty minor so she didn't deaden anything.
To smooth things so my bite was right she decided to smooth off a point on the upper tooth.
They had to peel me off the ceiling it hurt so badly. That lasted about .1 second.
Flight out of GR was 20 minutes late.
Cincinnati's concourse C is closed except for a few flights. The gates are all in A.
In the 25 minutes I had between flights I literally got off the plane, boarded a bus, waited for it to fill, rode to concourse A, got off the bus, went up an escalator to where the gate was for my flight at the top of the escalator, did a U turn, checked in for the flight, boarded the bus to go back to Concourse C, got on the plane. Stupid. I'm pretty sure the drunk engineer who thought up Michigan lefts is involved in this remodel at Cincinnati airport.
Got into Huntsville on time, and Dad was waiting for me with Mother in the car.
I don't have to wear a coat here. I like it.
Time for bed.

AIG

I don't know the name but I heard on the radio a senator saying the AIG stands for arrogant, incompetent, and greedy.

This wasn't even an original comment, but does a senator who voted for TARP really have the right to call AIG arrogant, incompetent, and greedy.

The AIG fiasco show the gross incompetence of the government who quickly passed TARP without due diligence to know about the bonuses in the contact.

And now the talk is taxing the bonuses at 98% so the government gets the money back. So, do we really want the government to quickly pass a tax at 98%? I mean as nice as it may be in this case, I don't want them doing that to any money I get. And a retroactive tax is unconstitutional.

Haircut

I got a haircut recently? Why? Here are some of the comments I've had about my hair that made me get my current style:

1. You need more layers.
2. You need more of a bang.
3. I like your hair out of your face.
4. You need something that takes less time.
5. You need a hairstyle and not just a hairstyle.

OK, a couple of those comments came from me, but I needed something new.

Spring

Who can complain about a high of 69 with lots of sunshine? I suppose the only complaining is having to be inside working. Good thing we have a Captain Sundae run planned for this afternoon!

Eye Issue

The eye issue was contact related. I opened a new pair of contacts yesterday and apparently the right one is bad. I went ahead and opened another new right one this morning, and it is feeling fine. Now my contact inventory is uneven between left and right.

If that’s the worst thing that happens to me today, this week, or this month, I’m ok.