Lots has happened, and yet somethings never change CG1 is still a raving witch. MPH is still MPH.

MPD has found a PBF. I love him myself. He's a real sweetie. He's over in Iraq right now. He's in the AF and volunteered to go. She met him when she was staying at her dads last fall. He's perfect, everybody loves him. I knew I liked him when he 'got it' - he knew the BS that MPD's dad's family pulls - he saw thru it.

MPH is in Chicago for a union convention this week. He's hot and miserable. It's sunny and 70 here today.

I'm sick for the 2nd day in a row. Anybody who really knows me, knows that I never call in sick. This is a bad virus. If I drink a lot of water tho - everytime I cough, I leak. I'm not drinking enough water - oh well.

Jim T passed away last Friday. Crazy guy, but I really admired him - he cut thru crap and he was very real, but very funny. Why him and why not one of the real pains in our life? Suz says it's so that we don't feel guilty about somebody we don't care for to pass away. Him and Bernadette, two of the greatest people I've ever known.

My friend Bernadette passed away in August 2005. Early one morning a guy busted in thru their bedroom patio doors and shot her and her husband. Almost a year later it was found out that it was their mortgage refinance guy. All kinds of things were published in the newspaper in NM about them. Even the argument that they had where she threw a shoe at him, and was court ordered to go to anger management.

I hope Bernadette is keeping Jim T company now. Odd way to think.

I really like my house. Can't think of a better way to spend my days when I'm sick. I just dink around here and sort thru stuff. Snooze, sit out on the deck, water plants, watch tv, look out the windows.

MPHs dad passed away last November. I guess an aortic aneurysm is a fast way to go. MPH is still not handling this well. I guess he's not really had anybody close to him pass away before. It is a shock - but something that you adapt to.

My sister and her husband were married October 2005. A couple of months later he was diagnosed with Multi Myeloma - and went thru a stem cell transplant in Seattle May thru Aug of 2006. Him and Jim were there at the same time.

MPH and I have been striving to pay off all our debts and build a savings. What a novel idea! We've got a little ways to go. What I'm wondering is if I should keep continuing to put 15% into my retirement savings account - when I'm going to be getting a pretty decent pension anyhow. Maybe I could still put 10% into it and use the other 5% to work on my debts? Once my debts are cleared then go back to 15%. I just read an article that calculates that I should be putting away 15% hmm. bummer, but then it might not take into account my retirement benefits.

What I really should be focusing on is dieting.

Maybe I'll mow the lawn. MPH would like that. Not something that I should do when I'm home sick with a cold - but . . . I still like to get to get things done.