Yesterday would of been my sisters 49th birthday, and she is in my thoughts today. Well she is always in the back of my mind but today she is in the front, and I miss her a lot. We could always talk and I miss that a lot. She was the rock who made my life much easier to take. Being the oldest is a tough job and my two little sisters made that a whole lot easier for me to deal with. Happy birthday Robin I know that you atre still watching over me.
Wet summer
As summer comes to a close we here in Nashville have had the wettest summer I remember in the eleven years I have been here. It is going to rain again today and I see no end to the daily rains. I for one am very tired of being wet everyday at work and I am ready for the rain to end, for a while anyway. I hate when it is dry but you get very tired of the rain too. Let us hope we have a nice mild winter and can get more rain in the spring when we need it the very most.
The plan
My best friend Beth has decided to have the Breast Augmentation surgery and I support her decision 100%. She did a lot of soul searching and got a lot of input from me, I do not know if that was much help or not. One web site that she has used to help herself with this important decision was the web site Looking Your Best. They have a great web site with so much useful information.
After a lot of talking and checking information Beth has decided to go forward and I think she made her decision from the web site at Looking Your Best and I know she will be alright from what I have learned from their very helpful web site too. I will be thinking about this life changing procedure myself and when I start to make that decision I too will be checking out the web site at Looking Your Best.
Where did it go
Where has the summer gone? Now that September is here we will be getting very busy, getting ready for the holidays again. I can not believe that summer is gone. Fall is a great time of year and it is very pretty here when the leaves start to turn and it gets cool at night. It is also the start of football season and that is always a good thing to me. The moles have started digging in the yard and the other critters are getting ready for winter. I need some fire wood stacked up for winter but I am not going to mess with it today it is to nice outside.
Fire season
As summer comes to a close, every year they have a very bad fire season in the western part of the United States. Now they have fires starting in California and Arizona. When I lived in Arizona every year we would have fires on Mount Graham, most were caused by lightning strikes but a few by discarded cigarettes or badly managed camp fires. I could never see having a fire so big that it was in danger of getting away from us when we went camping. Lets hope they get the fires under control very quickly and no more fires are started this year.
New music
Let me say right up front that I really hate most of the new music that is on the market right now. Give me the old stuff any day and I am a happy girl. I love when the great old groups go on a concert tour and one will be here in Nashville in September. Bruce Springsteen is an act that I have never seen before and I can not wait for his concert here it is close enough to my birthday that I have given myself tickets for my birthday and I can not wait to hear Bruce and the E Street band in concert.
School zone
I forgot that school was starting and like an idiot I got a speeding ticket. I was on the phone and just plain forgot that they had school for a half day today. It has been a long time since I got any tickets so i will just pay the fine and go about my business, of course I lost about an hour dealing with the cop and getting the ticket so I will have to make that time up this weekend at work. It was a silly mistake and I will slow up now, at least in the school zones I will.
School
I can not believe that next week school starts again. When I was a child we did not start school until just before Labor Day, and that was way to early for me, most of the time any way.
I can honestly say that I did not like school at all and would rather be outside working or playing instead of learning. I was a bit ahead of my classmates in most subjects, I in fact had read the text book in most subjects by the third week of school. I was bored most of the time and it is a wonder I learned anything at all.
When
When is summer going to get here? We have had a very cool and very wet July, after a wet spring we are way over the amount of rain we get at this point in the season. I believe that I heard almost 4 inches above the normal rainfall for the year so far. I know that we will pay for this bounty this fall and I am not looking forward to that at all. I fear we will have a very wet and cold fall and winter and that is not to my liking at all. I hope that it is a warm and wet fall and winter. That would be more to my taste.
Rebound
It has taken a while but the stock market looks like it might be headed in the right direction finally. My 401K is still a 301K but that is better than the 201K I had a couple of months ago. I was told several years ago not to watch your 401K everyday because it will drive you crazy and I have taken that advise, kind of. When it was dropping like a condor holding a rock I checked more than I should of and it did make me a little nuts. Now that it is going back up I still try not to check it every day and I think that helps me keep calm.