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So it’s been a while since I’ve written anything on here. It looks like my last post was in July (almost 2 months ago) deep in the heat of summer. This past week it felt like fall with the temperatures cool at night and not too hot in the daytime. The fields of soybeans are starting to turn yellow, and some of the leaves are starting to fall off the trees, and it won’t be long before that 4 letter word starts to fall from the sky…ick.

Anyway, the most important change since July is that (joining the Bug who’s over a year old now) I now have 2 new grandsons! They were both born within a week of each other. The first one born on August 29, and the second born on September 4. My nicknames for them are Peanut and Rocky. Peanut’s mom had a relatively short and easy labor, and is feeling well enough to go back to work next week. Rocky’s mom on the other hand, had a very long and difficult labor, and I’m sure won’t be going back to work for quite a while as she will be recouperating from a C-section. I was honored to be there at the hospitals for all of their births. Christmas will be fun this year, and even more fun as the grandkids get bigger.

I’ve been out of work now for over 2 months. I get unemployment, but I’d much rather be working. I’ve been applying for jobs all over, but haven’t had any interviews. I can’t do any job anymore where I’ll have to spend any amount of time on my feet…I need something where I can sit because the problems I’ve been having with my legs just aren’t going away. I used to be able to work on my feet for 9 or 10 hours at a time with a couple of breaks in there. Lately it’s hard for me to be on my feet for more than an hour. It takes a day for me to recover from getting groceries. I’ve got a couple more MRI’s scheduled for tomorrow. The neurologist thinks it might have something to do with the nerves in my back being compressed somehow, either by bad discs or something else, but he won’t know for sure until he sees the results from those MRI’s. Well one good thing about all this is that at least it’s not MS…

Does anybody know of a good “work at home on the computer” job I could get? I’ve looked online at a lot of different ones…they say you should never pay for one of these kinds of jobs, and I can agree with that. There are a lot of scams out there for this type of job, so I’m reluctant to even try for one of these, although it would be the perfect job for me…I could sit while I work and not have to drive for a half-hour or more to get to work. I always did hate driving on bad roads in the winter.

Well I guess whatever happens…happens…right? No use stressing over stuff if you don’t have to…I should just start looking forward to the future and try to make the best of things. I do have something in the near future to look forward to though…my road trip with my friend Sue in a couple weeks. We’re just going to take our time and see and do whatever we want to along the way. Once we’re in Montana, we’ll have ourselves a spa day on the 30th for sure, and I’ll fly back to Nebraska on October 2nd. This little road trip was all Bill’s idea (wasn’t that nice?)…he will hold down the fort at home for that time, just him and the cat.

Something else to look forward to is our 35th wedding anniversary coming up in October. Bill wants us to do something for that, like take some kind of road trip ourselves, but we haven’t settled on what to do yet…plenty of time to decide. I remember that 10 years ago today terrorists were crashing planes into the twin towers, and we were wondering if we would still be taking our cruise for our 25th anniversary. In the weeks after that, we were told to not change our travel plans because of terrorists…so we went on our trip and were glad we did. I’m remembering all those people who lost their lives that day, and hope that their families are comforted by the memorial that is now in place where the twin towers stood…

I suppose I’ve said enough for today…hope you didn’t get bored. OK, take care. See ya, love ya, bye.

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