Excercise is a kick!

Well, this is kind of narcissistic, but I didn't go to the kick box aerobic exercise class Tuesday night because I wanted my newly cut and styled hair to stay looking good! Plus Tom didn't want to go before he went to his bowling league. But the class on Monday was great! I had so much fun! I am definitely going to take the class on Thursday before we go dancing.

Today I returned to the BCEA office for more election phone calls before I went to Ida's for my hair cut. I stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way to Hip Styles and I think they were happy to get the doughnut treats.

It's fun calling the retired folk with the endorsement information. It's nice, yet surprisingly difficult to actually get a real person on the phone...they are all out. I am getting really good at leaving those short yet poignant answering machine messages.

Jassy and I were on the phone shopping online yesterday. So cute!
Today, they had an earthquake! How scary is that??? But all is well, so they say. They were just a little shaken up (literally).

We finally had the need to turn on the heater yesterday ...and it didn't work! Now (some $$$ later it does thank goodness). Hopefully this will be the last change of season with start up problems..........

Tomorrow is Halloween!!! (How sweet!)

Rain Rain Go Away Dept

Hello again. The rain isn't really that awful...certainly not compared to the horrid fires in Southern CA this week. We just got home from Prospectors and it was pouring, so rain is on my mind.

Dancing is still big big fun....with the best part being able to show other people how. Our King and Queen-hood year is drawing to a close. How sad! We sure have loved getting in for free all the time! We'll miss it!

Kick This!

Today Tom and I played golf. What a gorgeous day!

We went over to the gym we belong to (and hope to go to more!) and ended up participating in an aerobics Kick Boxing class. It was fun! (Bad guys, watch out!)

I saw Sabrina a Cheetah girl on Dancing with the Stars, so of course I had to call Jassy and Jenn. We miss them!

Look what's coming

So now that I have your attention....
The week-end is ebbing to a close. The highlight of today is Tom's replacement new lamp (the old one blew up!) and I will be so excited to be able to see again. He went golfing today and I got to sleep later for a change.
There was no dancing today and since we blew off last night, sadly, and there is not even a Moose lesson on for tomorrow, we are bereft of dance-like activity until Wednesday. Maybe...maybe ....we can go to the gym. Wouldn't that be a change of pace???

You're in Good Hands with.....TP&AF....

Today I got up at the crack of dawn and met friends outside the BCEA Office. We headed up to East Windsor for the annual meeting.

It was great fun seeing so many old friends after all this time. Herb just retired (but will still be Union County President until his term expires). They didn't have a financial report for us and there were a lot of questions about the new Educators State Health Benefit Plan.

Yesterday we had big big fun dancing with Ganine and Jamie, Lisa, and Robin. Now we are heading there again.

I found an animated gif site
for Doreen.http://www.animated-gifs.eu/leisure-games/001.htm

Get your vacation from Margie!

I had to change my eye doctor appointment yesterday morning, and then I went to the BCEA Office for the small meetings Roger King put together for BCREA.

Oh, my goodness! The BCEA Office is so different!!! They have a gorgeous new kitchen, everything is really bright (they painted the dark panels), and....there has been a big officer shift.

Gary resigned, Mary left the Second Vice President position and went to First Vice President, and Donna O'Malley has now taken up the gauntlet in my old position as Second VP. Congratulations and best of luck to both!

The meetings were very interesting. My best information to share is that Burlington County residents over 60 years old can apply for a safety visit from County and they offer free supplies as needed. These include dead bolt locks, charlie bars, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, visible house number plates, door peep holes, a blinking light, and more. (I put the info in my file for future reference!)

Sandy and Conni went for lunch at Prospectors. Delicious!

I went to Margie Ferrare's new business celebration. A lot of the description of her business opportunity sounded like our Market America unfranchise business (See our website (http://www.tomrosallee.unfranchise.com ) and we sure wish her luck!
(We already booked the San Francisco car rental with her YTB company and it was great!).

After the party, I met Tom at Prospectors and we danced up a storm. We are looking forward to seeing Lisa and Ganine there tonight!

Dancing Tonight!

Okay, I'm back. Don't expect stuff every day! That's too much like a job! But...I don't want you to think I'm not loving my retirement every single day, because I am. Even if I get lazy and don't do much......well, I CAN! That's the good part!

It was so much fun going out to visit our family in California. We hadn't been there in so long! I'm just sorry we didn't get to be with Caitlin and Vivien in person, too, but it was nice to be in contact anyway. And Jenn and Jassy and Samantha, Sue, Cody, Zoe [no Patrick :-( , Jodie, Chris, Gina and little Cait are now "with" us in closer memory.

I put all the photos I had on a small slide show on the http://www.rosallee.com website. But you can click that to get to the regular size ....and a lot of my other photos too.

I have photos all over the internet...from google to flickr, shutterfly, snapfish, photobucket....it was bad enough before, but when yahoo closed down it got really crazy. That's another good reason that I made the rosallee website - to consolidate (or have a location finder/index for the scattered websites, blogs, and photos anyway!) It's a bold plan...but it could happen!
(and in conjunction with that bold plan is the project to salvage all the old class photos from years gone by and get them digital too). (This could take a really long time!)

Okay so the big story for today is dancing tonight. Tomorrow is loaded with appointments, meetings, and travel party, and more dancing. Whoohoo!

Saturday is the TP&AF meeting. Maybe I can pick up some investment tips, eh? (and more dancing!)

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html

Sometime when you have about five minutes, take the time to view the embedded youtube video on the blogspot site linked above.

The story behind it is just as amazing as the information in it.

Wow.

Back in the saddle (aka New Jersey) again

Our last night in California was filled with relatives and Chinese take-out. It was fun! Gina and little Caity, Jenn and Jassy, Sue, Jodie, Chris, Tom, and I enjoyed the delicious repast and good company.

Jennifer and Jassy left for school the next morning and we got up shortly thereafter and packed. We followed a convoluted plan for getting the bags checked in and car returned with a minimum of bag carting trevails.

Our flights were uneventful except for the great postcards in the Phoenix airport that made me want to come back and visit there!

We watched two movies on the laptop on the way from Phoenix to Philadelphia ("The Wedding Wars" and "The Peaceful Warrier") and pretty much crashed when we got home.

Today we played golf and ended up not going to see Van Zant at Prospectors...(don't ask!)

Tom has apparently been inspired by Jenn's acquisition of her IPOD to explore all the possibilities on his. Can it possibly be true that you can only use Adobe to get photos on an ipod? Seems pretty monopolistic to me! (But then, what is itunes but entrapment???)

Bring back October 4th

It has been brought to my attention that this blog has a glaring omission! My apologies to all concerned!

On Jennifer's birthday, Oct. 3rd, Tom and I flew in from NJ, picked up our car and drove to Jennifer's school. There was a very happy reunion with Jenn, Jassy, and us with lots of hugging and exclamations of delight and Happy Birthday to Jennifer. We hung out for awhile and met lots of school friends, and even got to watch some great dance acts at the Recording Studio at the after school care room.

Unbeknownst to Jennifer, Jassy had a huge surprise on tap for her mom. The plan was a cake by friend and neighbor Sheila to be brought over while I took Jennifer away on a flimsy excuse (we ended up at Acapulco for the neighborhood happy hour) and Sue, Tom, and Jassy decorated. After they texted and called for us to return, we did.

Jennifer was sooo surprised and pleased! She couldn't believe how Jass had managed to pull it all off so well!

We took Jennifer to Tao Tao's for dinner and gave her the IPOD all sibs had chipped in to buy her (Jeff's great idea).

I think she had a great birthday...even better than just getting to see us! (LOL)

Another Day in Sunny CA

Yesterday we got to visit with our cousin, Samantha. It was so great seeing her!!! (She came in on the train from San Francisco because of all the extra cars in the city for the air show).

We had lunch at Macaroni Grille and Sue met us there too. The lunch was delicious and so was our reunion of sorts.

Late last night Tom and I headed out to country dancing venue two: The Saddle Rack. It is now in Fremont and a big deal place. It was more like New Year's Eve than we liked, but we were still glad we went.

Beach today, we're thinking...

San Francisco and The Rodeo

Yesterday Tom and I got up bright and early (relatively) and headed to San Francisco from Sue's. We couldn't get tickets to Alcatraz, but we followed our phone's directions to the Golden Gate Bridge and had fun at the Presidio learning about it and viewing that monumental structure (and Alcatraz from afar). (Did you know the Bank of America funded it when no one else would take a chance during the Depression?)

We had sundaes at Ghiradelli and walked around the pier and ships on Fisherman's Wharf.

A big "extra" of the day was watching the Blue Angels rehearsing for this week-end's airshow. I never saw (or heard!) anything like it!

Sad report: no more Blue Chip cookie store just off Fisherman's Wharf. :-(

It was sunny in the city (yay!) but cold (as expected!)

We got home to Jenn's (again praising our Verizon GPS all the way!), went to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes, and then went dancing at The Rodeo in San Jose. It was great! We had a chance to dance a lot and had big big fun.

Today we are looking forward to seeing Samantha and going to the Beach House.

(If I didn't write anything about Sue's yet, suffice it to say she and the kids look great, her house is gorgeous, her cooking is unsurpassed and Chabot College is sooooo lucky to have her! Scrabble with the neighbors was fun. We missed Patrick and Caitlin, loved Cody's school project on cells, and hope his team won at Homecoming).

Greetings from Chicago

Hi! I am sitting on the floor across from Gate 12 at Midway Airport, Chicago. Tom and I are waiting for our next plane, set to depart at 9:35, carrying us to San Jose, CA.

It's Jennifer's birthday and we are so excited to visit her, Jassy, Sue and all the Mays in town, Jodie and the available Arnolds, and Samantha, the betrothed!!!

My pre-vacation activities included the NJREA Fall luncheon/meeting and helping the Eastampton PTA with their school Book Fair set up and class visits. (Fun!) Of course, we spent a lot of time dancing at Prospectors, too. Ganine, Lisa, Christie and her cronies, are so much fun to dance with. Their enthusiasm is contagious! Tom has been bowling up a storm, too. (He has to be ready to dazzle the May clan as his reputation precedes him. I, on the other hand, have been touted as a great Scrabble player. Uh oh!)

We heard from Miriam and Tom's mom in Arkansas. :-) They are doing well, having fun with Kaelin, the adorable baby, and bursting with pride over Jessica, the 23 year old (?!!) teacher!

I have been pleased to hear from a respectable amount of DIS staff and friends regarding my call for contact re the DIS myfamily.com website. I hope it takes off!