January 14, 2008

Lots to be thankful for this week, first and foremost being the amazing response my brother-in-law Mike Pulver had to a stroke on Friday. He remained concious and talking throughout and appears set for an amazing recovery. That's a truly wonderful thing.

We had some badly needed rain today, which is great because the fire danger in the area has been inching up daily.

After spending an hour and a half on the phone with AT&T yesterday I got everything I wanted and more. They further bundled all of the services we have through them -- which is everything electronic except Dish which we don't have -- and they got us on a family plan for a very reasonable price. They just couldn't understand why I don't need unlimited text! How many ways can you say I don't need text! But now I'll have a nifty new pearl phone. The phones came in less than 18 hours! How crazy is that? We were absolutely stunned. The only down side is that I had to get a new phone number because my old phone number was locked by Verizon since it was David's old employee plan. Too bad...

Tonight we "studied" for Rosie's history final. Last night it was biology. I think I'm learning more from her high school biology than I learned from my own. It's really cool to open up her textbooks though and see people quoted that I know. It's kind of like going to the book store and reading the authors on the books in the Florida section and realizing how many I know or have met. I finally spent my $50 gift card for Barnes and Noble from LAST Christmas and still had to chip in $23 of my own money. I just love books and book stores. But I did manage to sort a bunch of books at the house and will donate them to the friends of the library sale or something. I think I'm even going to get rid of a few of the 200 or so cookbooks I own -- ones that I've never once used.

And yes, I SHOULD be packing instead of blogging but I'm just soooo tired. Today was a full day back at work and I wound up working 10.5 hours because I drove to Palatka for a water management district meeting. i seem to detect a definite change in the winds there. I'd like to think it had something to do with my stories but it's probably just the changes in the board and the different personality of this governor. Still they said they wanted to ramp up conservation at least a half-dozen times.

And besides packing is overwhelming because I'm not sure how I'm going to get enough warm clothes in the suitcases and I know Steve is going to gripe if I pack too much. I know they say 50 feels like 70 but I'm cold here all the time! Fortunately the bronchitis seems to be improving and I never had a fever all day long today as far as I know, a blessing for me. High temps are supposed to be in the low 40s! Shiver me timbers.

The sunset tonight was gorgeous. I should have stopped and grabbed the camera. All streaked orange and blue, making me think perhaps even the sky is a Gator fan!

Now if I can just get the Christmas decorations shoved aside to make room to lay out the suitcases ...