Thinking of Gail.

I am sitting here sewing on my quilt top, listening to Karley play on the computer. I realize she is listening to the song they play at weddings when the bride marches down the isle. Then I think to myself, why are you playing that song? You will not be getting married for a very long time. Then my mind does this back flash to when I was in High School. I had an assignment in my family preparedness (or something like that) to plan my wedding. Well. Gail came to visit while I was working on it. I was looking at wedding dresses, and brides maid dresses, and little girl dresses for her little girls. I asked her about them, and she went off on me. She told me I was too young to be getting married, what was I thinking etc. So, you know me, She opened a door that I just had to go through. Then she says what does your mother think of this. So she went and asked my mom if I was getting married? My mom responded with, she is planning her wedding. Go Mom!! Then Gail lays it on mom, saying the same stuff to me. I was surprized at her reaction, but it did us something to laugh at. We laughed at that for years. Love ya Gail

so far so good

Well, I made it a week and a half. I am learning alot about medicare. We are also learning how to be nice to old people on the phones. Another week and half in a class room setting and then we will be thrown onto the phones, suppose to know everything there is to know. I think I am getting most of it. I do have a good teacher.
Keelee loves 7th grade. She came home on Monday and had a lot of stories to tell. She is one of five 7th graders in her algabra class. She says there are 8th and 9th graders in there as well. She says the 9th grade boys are weird, loud and obnoxtious. She also has 8th and 9th graders in her spanish class. She says the 9th graders in that class are not as bad. She figures it is becouse they want to be there. She is a pretty smart kid. She loves it though. She loves flute and is frustrated becouse there are kids in her class who did not attend summer band and are behind so they are like starting over. She is not happy about that. I guess today, she was teaching one of the girls how to play the flute, the teacher asked the girl who her teacher was and when she told him it was Keelee, he told her she had a very good teacher. He thinks she has a natural omiture. She loves playing her flute.

first day of work

Well, today was my first day of work!!!!! Yeah. I will be training for 4 weeks then I will be turned loose to help old people. I work for ACS. ACS is a big company that contracts out stuff. Like part of the building is for Census workers, part is for verison, part is for welfare and the part that I work for is Humana. We take calls from Medicare patients who need perscriptions or who have questions about currant scripts etc. I think I will like it. The dress code is what ever fits you. As long as it is not to big or too small, I can wear it. Nice, I can wear levi's or shorts, etc.
The bad part is that I will be away from Keelee all day, and when I get home she thinks she has to talk to me until it is time for bed. Bed time is going to be 6pm I think. I get home at 5pm. She is NOT very happy about that.
Funny story. Mike and Marilyn stopped by tonight after work for a minute, Keelee thought she had to tell them her 6th grade history in about 30 min. It was non-stop talk the whole time. She did have to do a costume change about 4 times, man, I did not know she could change clothes so fast. I did however know she could talk so fast and so long. We finally had to ask her to go get something from down stairs so our ears could rest for a min. It was pretty funny. Marilyn kept looking at me like, is she always like this? And what do you do when you get both Keelee and Karley together? I had to laugh.

rumor has it

k, I just talked to John, who went to the kidney specialist with mom. He said that mom's kidney's are bad, but he thinks it is due to too much water loss. Her weight is 144 lbs. He will talk to her primary Dr. to see if he will cut back her water pills. Her kidneys are over working to take off the excess water. He thinks that with a little weight gain she will become stronger and less shaky as well. With that in mind, he thinks her kidneys will get better!

mom is doing good

I went to visit with mom today and she is doing really good. She stayed home alone while dad went to the temple for a few hours. She did good. She even felt good enough to go shoe shopping. It was fun.
Dad is like a teenager again with his car. The Hospice nurse said that last time she was there he was all excitted and had to tell her he got his car back. I laughed.

I have a JOB

It is official. I have a JOB (just over broke). I will be working for ACS. It's an outsource company. I will be working for Humana, doing mail order pharmacy. It should prove to be interesting, I have never worked a job on phones before. I will let you know how it goes.

vacation

We went on vacation and I am just getting to bloggin, sorry. Here is the crew that all went, (plus keelee, the photographer). We had a great time. We went to Gleneden beach, Or. It is beautiful, but cold. The temp didn't get any higher than 65 f. That part was great, however, the wind coming off the coast was a little chilly. We actually wore sweaters most of the time.
We arrive Sunday night and Monday morning I broke my camera so sorry, I do not have many pic's. We did go for a drive on Monday and stopped at Boiler Bay. While we were there we watched a whale for about an hour! It was great. We would see the spout and then he would some up out of the water. One time we saw most of him. Other times we just saw his back. It was really fun.
We also went to the sea lion caves and watched sea lions for a while. It is fun to sit and just watch the ocean break against the waves. We sat and watched that for hours at a time as well.
We also saw some tide pools. That was fun. We had to hike all over the lava rock to get to the pools, then se saw all kinds of cool stuff. I wish I had a pic of them. It is amaizing that some of the stuff that looks like rock is really a living thing.
We flew kites on the beach and played in the waves. We went and saw 4 light houses. It was cool to see them. We hiked to the top of one. It wass 90 feet straight up in a cirlce. and it got smaller as we got to the top. It was fun.
We went to the Tillomook Cheese factory and saw how they make cheese. It was a week packed with fun and adventure. If I could do it again, I might spend more time at the condo and on the beach. But I am glad we saw all that we did.