Happy happy Joy joy

Is anyone as excited about the new fall season starting on tv as I am?? Hello Grey's Anatomy, CSI, the Unit, Criminal Minds and so many others...I have missed you all. Seems like it took FOREVER for this week to come. Okay, that may seem lame to you but I have actually been counting the days.
(I have no life) So, even though I hate that the days are getting shorter....I love the new shows ;-)

Goodbye Ike!

Nobody knows how much fun hurricane season can be! I feel like a mother hen who can't get her chicks in line to protect them for the big bad storm. Fortunately they are quite able to protect themselves. As Jason said the day before IKE made landfall in Texas....we will be fine mom, this isn't our FIRST hurricane. Keri and Angie and their families have also experienced the forces of nature. No serious damage this season so far. Just annoying power outages and tree limbs down. I don't know how long Jason and Mandy will be without power in Katy, TX (near Houston). They just had a tree down in their front yard but the city of Houston is really messed up.

Congratulations to both son-in-laws.....Chad and Ryan have both had promotions in the last few weeks!! Ryan has also decided to make a career change that has finally come through (finalizing the application/offer/acceptance process with the federal government seems to move at the speed of a herd of turtles running through peanut butter)

I just returned to Arkansas after a week back in Alabama with friends. God I miss those gals so much and the area. It was so much fun seeing them. I am always so sad to have to leave them. . I also spent quality time in my climate controlled storage building. Mostly I stared at the stuff thinking "and I kept this crap why????" Of course the winter clothes and stuff I needed were on the bottom of the piles. I realize now that I hired some bang up movers....The fragile stuff (or the things I needed) was on the bottom under the other heavy stuff. I actually found a wardrobe box at the back, on top of the bookcase, laying down sideways, with the top shoved up next to the wall. I had to be a contortionist to get into that one. My Envoy looked like a scene from the Beverly Hillbillys..full to the brim (minus the rocking chair and granny on top). Can't wait to unload that sucker.
Okay, I'm going to bed now. If you get a chance, check out the beautiful full moon.
Peace Out

Another One Bites the Dust

The following is a passage from a new book of mine:

Let me not destroy the beauty of today by grieving over yesterday...or worrying about tomorrow.

Yesterday was my birthday! Woo Hoo...I am another year older. or actually one day older than yesterday and one day younger than tomorrow. It was a great day filled with wonderful Happy Birthday Songs,Cards,food,cakes and a visit to see mom (who birthed me)... topped off with winning a prize at Bunco at Anne's house! I think I will celebrate my Birthday all Month.

Down Comes the Rain

Thanks to Gustav it is a steady rain..The forecast for the next three days is Heavy rain, heavy rain with wind, and isolated and scattered showers. I am seriously thinking of pulling out the floaties and putting them on the cats. I'm pretty sure that Callie and Izzy can't swim. For those of you who know I have children in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas in Louisiana and Houston, Texas..as far as I know their homes have been spared much damage with this hurricane. The kids are all doing okay. Angie and her family evacuated to Ruston, LA. I'm not sure when they will return to their home in Slidell and don't really know how hard their neighborhood got hit. You really hate to see the beautiful trees blown down by the high winds so maybe theirs will still be standing. Keri and her family chose to stay in their home in Baker and and only suffered some downed trees. Of course those trees fell on the electrical lines so, like so many others, they have had no electricity since the storm came through their area on Monday. I don't have a report as to when they might get power to their area. They will just have to live like pioneers I guess...hopefully it won't be too hot! Jason and Mandy were in San Francisco for the holiday weekend and were flying back home tonight. I don't know if Houston got much wind or rain with this storm. Thank God the kids are all fine. It is always scary and the weather can turn critical in just an instant. Now we will have the rains and tornadoes associated with this kind of weather event. It looks like it is going to be a very active hurricane season. Hello Hannah, Ike and Josephine... (Still wish I had a cruise booked!!)

I have Zumba tonight at the fitness center. I am SO excited that they are starting this class. It is a high energy dance/latin/hip hop type stuff that really gets me going. I took this class in Alabama and also at Angie's house in Louisiana. Zumba means "Party" and I am all for it and it makes me sweat...... hopefully Zumba is also not slang for "Throw a Hip or Knee out Old lady" ha ha

2 days until my birthday! ;-) Love to you all