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Before I receive a nasty-gram from a friend who shall remain name-less, I thought I should post at least some thing.

We got our weekend plans organized last nite since Jenia knows her work schedule for the next couple of weeks. This weekend will be some house cleaning with a bit of errands - the first one being to get Stasia's hair cut. She has beautiful, long, gleaming, auburn tresses. However, that's a lot of hair for a 9-year old to take care of. Also it's been a while since she got it cut and the ends are all brittle and broken so a haircut is in order.

It's always tough finding new places when you move. We don't know too many people yet, a few neighbors, but that's about all. Since our next door neighbor's daughter got her hair cut, I figured we could ask her. But auntie cut her hair so that's not an option. I guess it's the phone book and we take our chances.

Sunday, which promises to be sunny and warm, will be our drive-around-and-find-things day... like parks, possible lakes and other places for expanded excursions.

The last weekend of the month, I'll be winging my way to So Cal for a few days of packing and getting more clothes. I didn't bring a whole lot of stuff cause I wasn't sure how long I would be gone. Now that I know it's permanent (at least for 2 years), I need my clothes and other stuff to keep my life going.

One of the following weekends will be spent in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Jenia has friends who live there so we have someplace to stay. I guess there are parades for the week prior to Ash Wednesday and we want to partake in a couple of them. I haven't been to Mardi Gras in years so it will be fun for me.

Learned from the neighbor on the other side that there is a lake not too far away that has some grand fishing. As a matter of fact he runs a guide service for fisher-people. Kirk and Stasia love to fish and Jenia enjoys it. Me... I would rather take a book and lay in the boat and read with the sun beating down (properly doused with all kinds of 50 proof suntan lotion for my tender skin) and enjoy the day that way. So there's another trip which I understand can be a day excursion.

I did something for me yesterday - I joined Curves. And the best part of it is that my insurance pays for it - Silver Sneakers I thank you. The only way I'm ever going to loose these extra pounds is to do something like that AND it should be a way to meet some people. I don't really like to do exercise in that fashion - I'm more a bike ride to the beach and walk along the sand for a while exercise person. However, even tho I did some of that in So Cal I still didn't loose any weight. So the Curves will be a way to see if that kind of exercise works.

Tonite, we are due to get some of the storms that have been hitting California for the past week. Parts of the Ark-LA-Tex got some of them the other nite with a couple of tornadoes hitting parts of Texas and Louisiana. We just got heavy rain with thunder and lightening. We are just due for rain tonite and possibly part of tomorrow morning. And to think, I don't even have an umbrella here... guess that will have to be a purchase fairly soon.

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  1. Judi HJanuary 22, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    Yes, I *was* about to leave a message on Facebook for you asking about a blogpost and then figured I'd just better check before opening my big mouth.

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