Don't pay the ransom, I got away!

That's what hubby says if he comes home late from wherever he was (which is almost never!). He is a very on-time person! Wonder what that's like?!
Anyway, I haven't been kidnapped, just unable to post any new news because I've been busy with out of town company. Had the parents here for a week, which was nice. Got to visit a lot. They got to come see my office for the first time (yippee, I'm sure that was exciting!). I did get to show off my pretty, new Louise Dunavant picture that now hangs on my office wall, courtesy of a friend and his wife. It's a nice big one, about 28" x 32" or something like that, nicely matted and framed. It's called "A Greater Memphis" and when people come in and admire it, I get to tell them it's my hometown and that I used to work in "that" building right there (the UP building). The folks headed home this morning and took G'dad with them. He's been here with us for the whole month of February and January, with a 4 day break, when he went back home then came right back so we could go to his sister's funeral. He will probably be glad to be back home for awhile, then will be ready to come back here for awhile. Great that he can do that kind of traveling at 90+ years of age!
Well, it's been a hairy Monday, as they all are and I am about ready to call it a day. Plan to get to bed early tonight for a change! It's catching up with me. And I must get some rest tonight and tomorrow night, as Wed. and Thur. will be late nights - our missions conference starts Wed. and we'll probably not get home until about 9 p.m. both nights. But I'm excited about it - it is always a joy to attend. It is so encouraging and moving to hear and see what the missionaries are doing in different parts of the world. Makes me feel pretty inadequate to see how they turn their whole lives upside down to spread the gospel and I do so little in comparison! God bless 'em!
Ya'll take care and keep in touch. (I think this will be my shortest post, besides the first one anyway.)

Sweet Valentine's Day

And thank goodness, it's about over! It was a very busy day for me, with a lot of work and preparation involved! And since hubby is working til the evening hours, we won't be doing much celebrating for the day. We'll have to do something special another day. Back to the work part - the women's group here at work, of which I am the "leader" - we put on a big, special event for the whole office (which is about 80 people). We decorated the break room with big red cut-out hearts and little red cupids and brought tons of food for them to munch on all day. Our purpose, other than celebrating Valentine's Day, was to use the "heart" theme to promote the annual Heart Walk which will be in April. Our company is big into doing community and charitable things so are pushing for us to have a good number turn out to walk and others to raise money also. It's for the American Heart Association and the funds go to research and development to find cures for heart disease plus on education regarding same. So, Sunday, on the way to church and back (a 30 minute drive each way), I used that hour and my trusty laptop and made several "posters" using my good ol' faithful Print Shop program and we hung them around the room. Last night, after work (and yes, working late) I had to go to the grocery store and get stuff to make my share of "the goods" to bring - I made a huge platter of 7 Layer Dip (w/ equally huge bag of tortilla chips), two cheeseballs (w/ Ritz crackers) and a big pan of butter pecan cheesecake bars (which are quite tasty, I might add). I also brought a meat & cheese platter, but must confess, that I did not make it "from scratch" - I actually bought it "premade!" Gasp, gasp! I know..... that's not like me! :( But I could only do so much in the hours before midnight so I had to cut a corner SOMEWHERE! I also had to come to work on Sunday after church (before going back to church Sun. night) to get started on the workload, since one of my assistants was not going to be here Monday and there's no way I could've even kept my head above water Monday without doing that. Mondays are like getting hit with 3 days work instead of one, since the work keeps coming in steadily throughout the weekend. So, considering that last week consisted of regular work, 2 funerals, one trip to Texas and back, and the weekend consisted of work, church, housework, not to mention last night's marathon in the kitchen, today's "putting on the dog" for the office (67 trips to the break room and back throughout the day to keep things clean and orderly - you know how it is when some slobs come in and drop cake crumbs everywhere and leave them laying! can't have that!)..... well, I am really tired and actually very glad that there are no big fireworks planned for this Valentine evening. I think the extent of my plans will be to stop at the store and get G'dad and cute little decorated Valentine cake (personal size) and take it home to him - he will be very happy with that, then I will call it a day. I can't wait to go get in my pjs and houseshoes and kick back on the couch for some Wheel of Fortune (if I can make it home in time)! Whoopee!!!! What a thing to look forward to! But, man, I do, just because I can RELAX! (You KNOW we have to watch WOF every evening, it's G'dads favorite show! That, and the weather channel, that is!) OK, I realize my posts are extremely long when I read other people's posts and they are .... well, not nearly this long. Am I being verbose?

Have a good one!

One of those weeks!

Well, it's been "one of those." Monday we were slammed at work, which is not unusual for a Monday. Hubby & G'dad were driving back from T County and I knew they wouldn't be here any too early so I decided to go with all of the office compadres to a nearby bar & grill where the office "big cheese" was treating us all to drinks and hors d'oeuvres in appreciation of our hard work which resulted in a record "high" month business-wise. It was nice to sit around and relax and chat (and EAT) with the coworkers. They serve my favorite crab dip so I enjoyed some of that, but unfortunately, we had had a late lunch so I wasn't very hungry! :(
I got home about 2 minutes after H & GD drove into the driveway, they were still unloading the car. As you might know, H (hubby) had taken G'dad home just 5 days before but ended up bringing him back out here because G'ds 95 year old sister passed away on Sunday. So I am taking him down to the funeral in TX. It was originally going to be on Wed. so I called and cancelled Wed morning dr. appt. Also on Monday, an old friend called and HIS dad had passed away on Sunday also and his funeral was going to be here Wed. so I told him I wouldn't be able to attend as I would be in TX. Then I found out AV's funeral was changed to Friday, so without thinking of other funeral I called and got dr. appt. put back to Wed. then found out the funeral that was here was at exact same time as my appt. so had to call and cancel it again. I'm sure they think I am a moron. Took Tuesday off work as a personal day, had anticipated hubby's return home and would've been first time in over a month we'd had any time alone so thought it would be fun to just hang out together, relax, and do whatever we wanted. Also, it was one year anniversary of my hairy appendix ordeal so I wanted to bake some goodies and take up to the hospital to the nursing staff, to show my appreciation for their care. So, I made a crockpot full of Penny's good sweet-n-sour meatballs (with the pineapple tidbits in them) and some German chocolate bars and took that up to them Tuesday afternoon. But since we weren't actually alone, we didn't just go out running around so stayed at the house most of the day, which I did enjoy. I miss my time at home, now that I am working full time + some. Had to put my car in the shop that day for transmission problem so yesterday had to get up at 5 AM (an ungodly hour for humans to be up and about) and take H to work then stop by hosp and p/u my crockpot (and leave some Butter Pecan Cheesecake bars for the day shift people) then got to work by 7:30, left at 8:45 and went to that funeral. By the time it was over and I was back to work at 10:30 I felt like I'd already put in a hard days' work!!! (Car is still in shop and should be finished today - I hope so, or I won't be making it to TX for funeral!) Then found out that AC & UJ were also going to attend the funeral in TX so asked them to stop by and get G'd so he could be there in time for the visitation tonight, as I wouldn't possibly be able to be there before about 11 p.m. tonight. So they are. But I am now thinking I will not even head down there tonight but would rather get up at 4 a.m. tomorrow and leave here by 5 to get to the 10 a.m. funeral. BECAUSE, if I get down there at 11 p.m. tonight, (we are staying at cousin J's house) and she would keep us up talking until at LEAST 1 a.m. then since I would be sleeping on pull-out sofa in living room (not the most comfortable thing I can think of) then when the first person wakes up in the morning for coffee, probably about 6 a.m., then it would be "get up" time for me. So, I figure I can stay here, sleep in my own comfortable bed and get 7-8 hours of sleep and still make it. So, that's the plan for now. Still have to call and get that dr. appt. rescheduled if they'll even take me again! Plus had projects at work that I MUST get rolling on so that's another pressure on my time! I just feel a little ...... out of sorts? .... no, ... flustered? I don't know what the word is but just suffice it to say I don't feel like things are rolling along smoothly like I'd like them to be. People dying really puts a crimp in your schedule sometimes, doesn't it? :) It was not a good week for all that! But seriously, I know AV is much better off now and was very ready to go. I don't know about other person, just pray the same goes for him as well.
Well, guess I should get busy on some of those pressing projects I was speaking of. Sorry such a boring post but I don't have time to be creative or witty at the moment.
Maybe next time it will be more interesting.

Where am I? What am I doing?

I have no clue. I went onto my sister's blogsite to see some new pics and boom! a click here and a click there and now I am apparently "blogging" myself! Kinda like falling in a hole and waking up in the Land of Oz. Spooky! I have no idea what I am doing or why I am doing something that will apparently take more of what precious little time I already have! I must be outta my ever-lovin' mind! But I like reading the blogs of my family members (sister, niece and nephews) and seeing the pics they post and keeping up with what's going on in their lives, even the mundane little details and thoughts and ideas and comments on everything and nothing. So here I am. Don't know if I will ever be back to write anything else but we shall see. Adios!