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LOL...The child is more than likely thinking this lady is crazy...LOL But at least she was paying attention to me...hahahaha

Going through my pictures and transferring them to discs. It has been wonderful so far watching the twins grow up through their pictures. I am fortunate that my daughter Beth thinks enough to take them for me all the time. Won't be going home for Christmas as I have to work the holiday, but my thoughts will be with my family. Hopefully will be going home after the first of the year weather permitting.

Tony and I did a lot of cleaning and catching up on some repairs around here this past weekend. I have worked the past two days and I am just wore out. Mostly from working along with this cold I have.

I hope everyone is having a good week and just in case I don't get back on here the rest of this week... I hope Everyone has a Very Merry Christmas...

Sharon

Windy !!

My day off and so far this morning it has been spent laughing my backside off at Baxter. We had a burst of huge snow flakes and we went outside and he was running crazy all over the yard, jumping up all over the place trying to catch them... The wind is howling and he is howling everytime it does and he thinks every leaf blowing is a squirrel...hahahaha Poor dog... Going to have to put him in therapy as well.

Tony got a MP3 player from Elantis's 90 year anniversary celebration at work, which has become mine :-) So I am busy downloading all my Christmas music on it today and at the same time catching up on laundry and cleaning.

We have decided to not put up the Christmas tree as it would be too much of a temptation for Baxter to destroy while we are at work. He still has days where he gets upset and chews things up. Have always heard that Boxer's require alot of attention. Is so true. You can't watch T.V. here without Baxter standing in front of it staring back at you...hahahaha

I hope everyone is having a Wonderful Week !!!!

Sharon

Woo Hoo !!!!

First snow of the season might be here tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. Not quite sure I am ready for it but they say we should get at least an inch of the white stuff...

Looks like I will be using my snow route much erlier than last year...hahahaha

Sammy is pulling up to things...Beth is surely going to have her hands full running after two of them at the same time...LOL

I hope everyone is having a good week...

Sharon

Just Grammy Bragging...LOL

Sam is on the left and Stac is on the right... My they are growing.. Beth says they are going to do everything at one time..

I have the day off after working 8 in a row. Even though I woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep for nothing. We are not doing anything special for Thanksgiving. Going to Tony's son's house for a few hours tomorrow. I have to work Friday and the weekend then.

I hope all my friends and family have a wonderful day tomorrow...

Sharon

Nice Cold Drizzily lazy day here !!!

Took this picture earlier as Baxter and I were returning from grocery shopping. I don't mind the grocery shopping part but trying to decide on what we are having for dinners cause major anxiety attacks still, I guess it always will. Tony has to sit down with me and make out a meal list for the week. Good thing he is so understanding about this among other things...LOL

As you can tell from the trees they have just about shed all of their leaves. Today is my day off buy they are too soggy for me to be doing any raking with....Yeah !!!! And I work the rest of this week, so hopefully by the weekend the rest will be off and Tony and I will only have to rake one more time this year. Well leaves that is, the gum balls won't fall off until next month.

I went ahead and got my H1N1 shot this past week at the hospital. Was quite undecided about it but found out that is was going to become mandatory as a condition of employment with BJC just like the yearly flu shot is so I got it. At least now I don't have to run around in a mask all day long.

Well I hope everyone has a great week, I am off to make some meatloaf for dinner.

Sharon

I'm back.....

Well after months of trying different meds., the doctor has put me back on Celexa. I hadn't realized just how long I have been off of Blogger. I have an account on face book and have connected up with alot of my high school friends on there, plus playing a few games as well. I got hooked on Castle Age and Country Life..LOL

Had a few days vacation and went home and we took this 5 generation pic while I was there. I am so thankful to still have my Mom and Grandma with me.

I went to a new psychiatrist but he is used to dealing with drug heads and alcholic's and as I am neither he really wasn't doing me any good so I am now in search for one who deals with PTSD. The hospital that I work has a employee help program so they are doing the searching for that one for me. The theraist there says I should just accept the fact that I have had PTSD for over 7 years now and will have to live the rest of my life with it. Guess there is alot worse things I could be dealing with than that.

Fall has finally arrived here in Saint Louis and I am enjoying it, we have raked the yard several times and it still could use another raking after the windy day we had yesterday. One thing that is good those trees didn't make near as many gunballs as they did last year. Am anxiously awaiting some snow now...LOL

What a Month...

I started seeing a new psychiatrist who suggests it might be time I stop taking the Citalopram (Celexa) and maybe switching to another anti-depressant.
Let me tell ya, if I had known one of the withdrawal symptoms was your own body giving you electrical shocks through your whole system, I would have never gone on this anti-depressant.
I stopped taking the pills and within 5 days I was walking around just trying to maintain a smidgen of sanity. I don't EVER want to go through that again.
So now I am back on my dosage of 40 mg. a day and in a few weeks that will be cut down to 20 and so on. The process will be slow going and will more than likely take months and there is a possibility that it won't work.
The psychiatrist says 90 % of people get that withdrawal symptom. Of course it wasn't until after I started getting the shocks through my body that I was told this..
Now I feel trapped by a drug that has done me a lot of good for the past year.
Now I know why my first psychiatrist who put me on it said there might be a possibility that I would have to take it for the rest of my life.
I am hoping the weaning process works.
Only time will tell.

Where have I gone...

Have been sick for several weeks now..Am slowing getting over a bout of bronchitis. Hope to be well enough soon to blog again...
Sharon

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Some things just make no sense at all.....

Some things just make no sense at all..



Woman stabbed to death in St. Louis

By Kim Bell

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHST. LOUIS --



A woman who had a restraining order against her husband was stabbed to death by him as they rode in a car together Sunday in St. Louis, police say.



The victim has been identified as Paula Jo Jones, 33, of St. Louis.



Police arrested her husband, 48, and recovered a knife.



Jones, of the 6000 block of Garfield Avenue, was stabbed several times in the abdomen and neck.Police found her in her car at the intersection of Page and Skinker boulevards about 5:35 p.m. Sunday. She died at the scene.



Police say her husband, whose name was not released, has been taken into custody.



Investigators found that the couple had been riding together in a car when the husband began stabbing Jones.On March 19, Jones had obtained a temporary restraining order of protection against the man in St. Charles County.



Now I ask you if you had a restraining order out for a certain person, why would you go and ride in the same car with them ????



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Snow

March 29th and we woke up to snow this morning... Will Spring ever get here ??

Ice Cream Truck...Already ??

Yes the Ice Cream Truck is making it's rounds already. Actually it has been making it's rounds for a few weeks now, just the first opportunity that I have had to get a pic of it...
Not only does the stores jump the gun on the holidays, the Ice Cream Truck jumps the gun on Summer months...
*Note*...The yard is full again of Gum Balls that are going to have to be raked up....AGAIN !!
Ah... the ups and downs of Springtime...LOL

Can't help myself......LOL

I saw this and just cracked up laughing...I work in a Hospital here in Saint Louis and a paramedic was telling me just last week about the only time he almost dropped his end of the stretcher.. He strained his back but saved the patient from falling... Just my warped sense of humor....hahahahahaha

Lighting the fires of hope

Lighting the fires of hope

If you get a chance please visit "Erasing the Board" by Suzen

She has a wonderful blog on Lighting the fires of Hope.

Mail Pouch Tobacco Barns

The six original Mail Pouch barn painters all lined up for a picture in 1925. If you were to travel some of the U,S, routes throughout the Northeastern part of these United States, such as New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, or West Virginia, you will probably see some remains of a now forgotten art of outdoor advertising by way of the Mail Pouch Tobacco barn signs.
This all started back in 1925 in Syracuse, New York, when six men, 2 per truck, started their "barnstorming" painting: of Mail Pouch signs on barns. The trucks were Ford model T's with side curtains.
The original six man crew included: Bill Hart, Bill Bucks, Kenneth Walkerman, Carl Wunelle, and Maurice Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman, affectionately called "Zim" by family and friends, is the only living member of the original crew. He is the one who tells this story of barn advertising signs.
Zim was 18 when he graduated from high school near Washington Ct. House, Ohio, in 1924. His brother, Walter, was an executive with the YMCA, then living in Youngstown, Ohio. He urged him to come to Youngstown to find a job. He became interested in sign painting and went to night school at the YMCA and worked during the day as an apprentice in a sign studio.
In August of 1925, Maurice traveled to Syracuse where he met the contractor for the sign work which was hired by the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Co. in Wheeling, W,Va., where they manufactured Mail Pouch chewing tobacco. The money paid to the contractor to do barn signs was from funds the Company allotted for Advertising. From Syracuse they traveled west on main highways, the U,S. and state highways. They looked for barns to paint their signs on.

Harley Warrick.....(The last Mail Pouch barn painter)

Log Barns

These two barns may be among the only log barns left in Iowa. It is believed the large barn was built in 1868. Orville Nelson owned these primitive barns for years.

Saint Louis Archway

Eero Saarinen United States Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri, under construction, 1965 From the Collections of Arteaga Photos Ltd. (Image courtesy of the Walker Art Center)

Today

Quilt Barns

Apparently this grass roots art movement began in 2001 and has spread to 16 states and 900 barns, adopted by rural communities as a way to honor the craft of quilt making and farming expressed through public art. Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky have over 250 in each state. Many barns are part of “quilt trails” that map dozens of barns per trail that sightseers can follow and enjoy.

The barns are painted in a variety of manners. Some communities hire local artists, and others are painted by clubs or high school art classes that seize the opportunity to volunteer to help create public art. Frequently a business with a truck with a hoist donates the crew and equipment needed to place the square, which is usually painted on two 4 x 8 sheets of outdoor plywood attached to a frame.
How to explain the rapid growth of the quilt-barn movement? The squares not only honor the wife of every farmer where they appear, they also recognize the rural heritage that has been a part of the fabric of America since Colonial times.

Round Barns

Round barns in Indiana are a rarity in the 21st century. While Indiana, more specifically, Fulton County, is the round barn captial of the world, few round barns remain standing. These barns are a piece of the historical landscape of the Hoosier state. Round barns are indicative of an agragarian society at the turn of the century. The round barn is a long forgotten ingenuity of a farming society that searched for innovative ways to improve their farming techniques. Bob Hamibaugh stated, "The era of round barns was a time in our agricultural history that was brief, but important. It was the birth of modern farming," ("The Round Barns of Fulton County," By: Lisa Hurt Kozarovich). Frank Retter of Randolph County would agree. As the grandson of a round barn builder, he takes great pride in his family's contribution to this aspect of farming. The round barn that his grandfather built 100 years ago is still in the family and still in use today.

An eyefull of beauty...

Sometimes the full beauty of the night sky is best experienced without any visual aid, as illustrated by this image of the Northern Lights and the constellation Orion seen from outside the city of Ester, Alaska. The Northern Lights form when charged particles from the sun flow through twisted bundles of magnetic fields that connect Earth's upper atmosphere to the sun.

Freaky....

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Traveling

Stacey and Samantha

Just got back from a weekend trip to Arkansas. Tony and I got down there in time to get right in the middle of the Winter Storm that hit the South.

We had a slow drive coming back out of Arkansas in all that mess, but once we reached the Missouri line the roads improved.

Am glad to be back home where there is no snow...

Another funny from Auntie M... Abbott and Costello

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and not too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this.

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT


ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.

ABBOTT: What about Windows?

COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?

ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT: I just did.

COSTELLO: You just did what?

ABBOTT: Recommend something.

COSTELLO: You recommended something?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: For my office?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just> say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I> need?

ABBOTT: Word.

COSTELLO: What word?

ABBOTT: Word in Office.

COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".

COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't > > start with some straight answers. What about20financial> bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?

ABBOT T: Money.

COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer. > > COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

(A few days later)

ABBOTT: Super > > Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on "START"............. ?

Attention...

In today’s post I’m going to examine the causes, effects and magnitude of the shocking rise in the prevalence of adult Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD or ADHD).
You wouldn’t believe how sunny it is now. I’m going out for a jog. Or learn to skydive. Oops. It’s clouding over. Maybe I’ll just stay in and surf the Web.

Just one of those nights...

Just one of those nights where sleep just isn't gonna happen when I lay down. First I laid there and remembered I forgot to take my medications. The one thing one doesn't want to forget to take is one's antidepressants. More than likely this is why I am not asleep as both of them have relaxants in them. When I got out of bed to take them, Baxter stretched out on all of my side of the bed, so I decided to come catch up on some of my blogs I read daily.

Browsing News Headlines, I came across one I won't soon forget...." Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack". I am just not going to comment on that one !!

A few life lessons.....

1- Even if it's only a Christmas card - never lose contact with old friends.
2-Things are seldom as bad as one imagines, give it time.
3-Take lots of pictures.
4-Keep a journal of memories.
5-Never pass up a hug.
6-There's no excuse for being unkind.
7-People who tell you a secret will tell your secrets.
8-Before your children leave home make them teach you the secrets to the tv remote, the answering machine, the computer, and your own cell phone.
9-Treat your children's spouses as your own children.
10-Do your very best at any job you're given to do - no matter how menial.
11-Laugh at yourself.
12-Your heart holds more love than you can ever give away.
13-It's ok if he doesn't change poopy diapers as long as he cleans up "dead critters.'
14-A smile goes along way.
15-There is no magic face cream.

Baxter and Bread......

Don't let this laid back attitude fool anyone...Last night I accidentally left a whole loaf of bread out on the dining room table...It was gone this morning. Nothing left but the plastic bag...How he gets a whole loaf of bread out of that bag without tearing or ripping it is beyond me....LOL We call him Houdini Baxter...LOL

Dog Training..

Obviously you need to get it from the door mat to the DVD player for it to be effective...

Hundreds attend global warming protest....

My Auntie M sent this too me and I wanted to share it with ya'll...LOL

Kissed by a Wild Alaskan Moose !!!!

You folks who live in the “boonies” should be able to relate to this. The fellow in the picture is standing on his back deck which is about two feet off of the ground. He is about six one and 250 lbs; so she is a fair sized critter.

World's Smallest Car....

The world's smallest car, the Peel 50, nestled between vans in central London on Thursday. The vehicle, built in the 1960s, is going on display at Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum in the capital.

PETA...Superbowl...Whoopi...

TMI Wireless

I have spent the day browsing blogs here on blogger...

Today In Idabel Oklahoma is fast becoming my favorite...

Four women..one town..one blog..lots of sarcasm. Breaking News: Soon there may only be two women. But which two..stay tuned!

Was a day for staying indoors and keeping warm and dry...

Although Baxter thought different...I had to take the Trash Container out to the curb for today's Trash Pickup. Now it is quite a chore dragging that can through 9 inches of unshoveled snow and even harder with an 80 lb. Boxer jumping up on me and knocking me down in the snow... By the time I got back into the house I had been knocked down 4 times and was covered from head to foot with snow... He was still jumping around and wanting to play in the snow more...Geeeez !! Crazy Dog.....hahahahaha

Power Outages

I woke up at 3 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep from worrying over my family in Arkansas. All of them without power.

My daughter and twins go home from the hospital today. Once she leaves the hospital I will loose contact with her as the phone service in Trumann is down.

Today is just a really stressful day for me...

Isn't That Interesting...

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula"
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @ home!)
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tub and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Came across these as I was browing, guess to me the most interesting fact was about the $5 bill. Wouldn't ya know I don't have one to check it out :-)

I stand corrected on one of these...
The speaker in the House of Commons is the chairman. His/her role is to keep the debate flowing and to make sure that people get the chance to have a say in a debate and that the rules of debate and behaviour are adhered to. In other words no name calling etc. The speaker is supposed to be impartial, even though he/she is a member of one of the political parties, and so they do not get to give their own opinions on the debate. However the speaker does speak. They will call out the names of the MP's (or at least their constituency) when he (or she) is telling them that it is their turn to speak and the speaker will tell off MPs for bad behaviour. The speaker can have MP's ejected from the house if they persistently break the rules

Some Things Just Make No Sense To Me....

Abortion opponents participate in the annual "March for Life" event on Thursday in Washington, D.C. The event was to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court abortion ruling.

I believe we all have the right to make our own decisions. And more than likely I will open up a can of worms on this one, but I believe those people participating in the "March for Life" could use their time more wisely Marching for the Children that are already here, starving and homeless in this Country. Our own Country is in all this mess because we (Our Government) doesn't take care of our own first. I could get up on my Soap Box big time over this but I won't, just saw this picture and the caption and it kinda riled me up a little.

Amazing !!!!

http://www.maniacworld.com/Record-New-Years-Eve-Jump.html

We got a light dusting of snow last night and another dusting is expected tonight. I have discovered I am not graceful on ice or snow. I went out for the morning paper and decided to walk through the grass but my feet slipped out from under me and I decided to take the express route on my back side to the paper instead. LOL Never fails I always have an audience for any fall I take. Next time I will wait for the neighbors to already be gone for work before I attempt another paper run. Baxter (my Boxer) thought this meant play time and plowed into me while I was sitting on the ground.

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Big Cat Attitude's

Sunday Fun ????

"The cure for boredom is Curiosity. There is no cure for Curiosity." Dorothy Parker

Well there might be a cure for curiosity...I was in the basement earlier trying to straighten up some more and the curiosity got the best of me about an Cabinet that I have not been into since I moved here. It is way back in a dark corner of the room with various boxes in front of it. I am hoping it is empty so I can store things in there. I work my way through the boxes and move them so I can peek into this cabinet and just as I open up the door, something makes a rattling sound and springs off of the top shelf and bounces off of me. You have never seen someone skedaddle over boxes and rush to the other side of the room like I did. Eyes bugging out and heavy breathing I stand still listening for a scurrying sound. Nothing. I strain looking over the boxes to see if I can see anything and all there is for me to see is a furry baby rattle laying on the floor. Color me Red at this point. I almost had heart failure from a baby's rattle.

Whew !!!!

Enough fun for one day...hahaha

Random Thought of a Saturday Morning

Game Day !!!! Tony has out his Game Cube and is busy playing football. I have been busy this morning answering emails and browsing the internet.

I am such a worry wart when it comes to family and their problems. I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning thinking to myself "Why is my Mom having to wear a boot on her foot"? I never did go back to sleep. I did email her and found out the Doctor suspects she has a fractured bone in her foot. This is what I get for reading an email before bedtime and going to sleep worrying...hahahaha

We have a couple of Pit Bulldogs hanging out around the yard today. Baxter is keeping an eye on them from the front room window. This means if he goes out it has to be in the fenced in back yard. If they continue to stay this will mean we will have to call Animal Control. Not something we like to do but they will be better off.

Frigid weather startles South, blankets East
Subzero temps in multiple states; Alabama colder than Alaska for a day.
We are slowly warming up here in Saint Louis. The Sun keeps trying to peep out from behind the clouds.
We had plenty of snow flurries flying around last night but no accumulation. Just a light dusting.

Hard to believe that January is half way over with. Which is a good thing... Hopefully we will have an early Spring this year.

HaHaHa... Thought this picture was quite amusing.

I am off work the next 5 days although I will more than likely go in a few days and sit with patients.

The wind is howling out of the Northwest here and bringing the temperatures down with it. We have wind chill advisories posted for tonight and tomorrow.

I have been downstairs most of the morning straightening up and Baxter has sat at the top of the stairs the whole time whining at me. He absolutely refuses to come down those stairs. We have tried to coax him down several times and everytime he just lays at the top and whines.

The Electric Company is still digging up the yard and making a lot of noise in the process. They have dug huge holes in the yard. We worried about Baxter falling into them but they put up barriers around all of them. All the flags they put up marking where the water and gas lines are and they go and hit the water line twice so far. Guess that is better than them hitting the gas line. We have had a ice skating rink on our part of the road for the past week now.

I never went back to work after coming home this morning. They had enough people come in to cover all the floors so I will try this once again tomorrow. Baxter and I have had a relaxing, quiet afternoon.

I have surfed the internet most of the day now. Wasn't anything else to do around here, I caught up on all of the housework over the weekend.

Baxter has been bored, as he keeps coming up to me wanting me to play...LOL He has a big green rubber bone that he loves playing fetch with.

Icy roads this morning. I almost got in a deep Gully. Luckily my car stopped in the grass right off the road and I have front wheel drive on my car or I wouldn't have gotten back on the road without a tow. Once they had the other side of the road salted one by one all of us made it back onto the road and turned around. I came home and am waiting on the roads to de-ice a little bit before I venture out again...

Blueberry Hill is a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Legendary performer Chuck Berry performs there for one hour on a single Wednesday each month, downstairs in the Duck Room.



I have the day off today, as I sat with a few patients yesterday evening. One of the patients was under Seizure precautions and wouldn't ya know it she had one of them on my shift. I might have looked calm on the outside but inside I was panicking big time. When all the excitement calmed down, one of the nurse went to check her vitals and I was mumbling but I guess a little too loud as all the nurses started laughing when I said " I think she is checking the wrong persons blood pressure !" I know mine was up.....hahahahahaha

I hope everyone has a Great Week.....








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Anheuser Bush Stadium downtown Saint Louis.

Beth was released from the Hospital last night and after she called me to let me know she was home, I finally got a good nights rest.

Just a lazy day here. Going to watch T.V. most of the day..LOL

I hope everyone is having a Good Weekend !!!

Sharon

Not a good time for Beth starting the New Year off in the UAMS hospital... Although I have been researching this facility and she is definitely in the right hospital for high risk pregnancy. I have been on the phone with her several times over the past few days and I am very proud of how she is handling this stressful situation. She would much rather be at home but is dealing with this for the safety of the twins.



The hospital that I work for is having some layoffs. Seems everyone is effected one way or another by this economy.

I just got some of my hours cut back instead of having to be laid off.



I hope everyone has a Great Weekend.

Sharon