January 11

Wow, I didn't realize nearly a week has passed that I haven't recorded. 14 years ago today my dad passed away. I was 38 years old. Wow, seems so young to have lost both mom and dad, but then my sister had just turned 33. She lost mom when she was only 25 years old. I think it was harder on her than me since I was way down in Texas. It was hard, don't get me wrong....
I remember coming home from a meeting at church and listening to the answering machine and it was Sally all frantic for me to call her. When I called her back she gave me the bad news. Such a shock. They were down in Brownsville, TX for a few weeks and he was on the treadmill just walking. They'd been to church that morning. He apparently had a blood clot come lose and when it hit his heart he went into strokes and heart failure. He'd had that artificial valve since 1967, so he was a ticking time bomb since he didn't get it replaced. Anyway, enough sadness...

It's been very busy at work. This past weekend was pretty filled as well. Saturday morning I helped at the un-deck the halls at Hope and then Saturday night we went over to the Green's to play cards with the Faulkners, Boyts, McDonalds, and Cathy from the GG. We played Dutch Blitz and it was loads of fun. Similar to my childhood game Squeeze, so since I'm pretty fast I did pretty well. Then Sunday morning church, connections table help, lunch with the 3 boys at Chili's, and leader meeting rally thing in the evening.

Then I worked til 7:30 on Monday night, 6 last night, and hopefully leave normally today since I came in early and didn't take a lunch and have gotten quite a lot accomplished. Well, except for the break to write this.... hmmm

It's hard to believe it's the 11th already. I have a lot to do by the 31st. Yikes....