At the barn with my daughter who is beginning to school in western reigning, finally putting the peas, carrots and beans in the dirt hoping for an August harvest and reading. Ahhh.

so sorry to Kryssi K who clearly does not want to f*cking work…rats. 

I’ll be at a BBQ with my family.  Hope it doesn’t rain.

Kryssi - be glad you have a job - millions don’t!  Instead of saying, "Oh God, I have to go to work!"  Say, "Thank God, I get to go to work!" Count your blessings before you lose them.  And let’s remember why we have Memorial Day - it’s not a holiday, it’s a day of rememberance.  Here is a prayer I found that is very appropriate:

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace, strengthen them in their trials and temptations, give them courage to face the perils which beset them, and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Home thinking as there is so much going on for all of us within our family and friends.  Asking myself what can I do to make things a little better for those I love and care about and preparing to go to work tomorrow wondering how so much life (good and bad) has gotten by me with me as I’ll be 63 in July and my heart soul and mind feel no different then when I was in my 20’s how does that happen so quickly and what’s my bucket list as time continues to get away from me and everyday I become one day older less agile and able to fulfil my dreams or change them to coincide with an old body. Therefore guys get out there and live any dream you can before it’s too late.

 Dorothy from grammology

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Home, learning as much as possible, on a day free of nursing, about WOWOWOW, the free internship program, social networking, re-inventing oneself in preparation for what needs to be very soon…and that is a transition out of acute care nursing, into work I can do for perhaps another 10-20 years, given the present state of economy.

Enough of what I’m doing for the self!  In addition, I’ve already written an email "Thank You" to a family friend’s son who is a graduate of West Point and has done two trips to Iraq and come home to try to re-adjust to civilian life, only to lose his young marriage to what I think is a casualtly of war.  We MUST help support, emotionally as well as every other way, those who fought for our country, no matter why the war…and we MUST take special care to vote intelligently about who we put into office, for it is those leaders who will be deciding where and for what reason we are sending our youth into "harm’s way."