The theme for October has definitely been eat, eat, eat. Today was lunch at Gaetano's after making Buono phone calls at the BCEA office, for example. There have been lunches with the Delran retirees, the BCREA Fall Luncheon/meeting, the first DKG meeting with lunch following a great tour of Alice Paul's home, Roe's retirement party, great snacks and cupcakes at book club, Americana Diner with Gee Gee, and lots more. It would have been brunch with the Brunch Group last Sunday, but no one else could make it (but hopefully we'll all get together soon). Oh, and how could I forget Michelle and Chris's Halloween party? and Melissa's birthday celebration at Prospectors? and the upcoming Halloween party at Randi's Friday?
I'm not saying eating is bad. It would be better if I could report ancillary, accompanying visits to the gym (which I cannot, but hope to improve that record soon).
Sleep is a good thing to pursue also. In fact, how about now? Good night!
Enjoying retirement.....yes!
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Post CA vacation and all is well.....
So we got home from CA after midnight and recouped for a day or so....
I've had a lot of meetings/celebrations involving food...a LOT! and tomorrow I am so looking forward to seeing Gee Gee again at our latest meeting place of choice-the American Diner.
Let's see if I can get up a smorgasboard of photos to illustrate my adventures of the last week:
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| Alice Paul's house for the Fall DKG meeting program |
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| Kristen icing the cake at Olde World Bakery The Eastampton Seniors Field Trip with Officer Rogers |
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| Kristen takes the cake! |
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| I got to see Sandy and Margie at the Fall BCREA Luncheon/meeting |
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| That's me with my group of RSVP Volunteers at the Recognition Luncheon |
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| Teri and Kim came out to play at Prospectors |
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| Teri was leaving for Ireland the next day...Kim could come because it was a Wednesday |
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| Loving Tom at Prospectors |
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| Our last in CA we went to Berkeley. This is the marina. |
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| Jennifer loves her new pjs with footies |
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| These are the footies! |
In addition to all of those, I attended several HR Block classes and danced Wednesday and Friday. Today I went to a marketing session with HRB and I have a new class starting there again tonight. Oh, and did I mention the Saturday night Contact overnight???
(I just flew in from Miami....boy are my arms tired! :-)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Beach and Brunch and City....oh my
Now it is Sunday and we are back at Sue's.
Yesterday Tom and Jenn and I hung out, ending the day with a quick trip to Capitola Beach. What a beautiful day!
We ate at Pedro's Cabo while Jenn visited Jass. Yum yum...ole!
Cut. Scene opens in San Bruno at a breakfast place called Jack's where Jenn, Tom and I hooked up with Sue, Patrick, and....featuring Caitlin!!!
After a delicious breakfast, Tom and Jenn headed back to Santa Clara and I went on the returning Caitlin trip to San Francisco.
We saw her place and I met her lovely cat, Tashi.
After bidding the lovely Caitlin a fond adieu, we drove around San Francisco for my traditional tourist routine.
This was my first visit to the very crooked Lombard Street.
Interestingly, it turns out a good friend of Patrick's lives at the bottom of this road and constantly has bunches of tourists outside her home!
Yesterday Tom and Jenn and I hung out, ending the day with a quick trip to Capitola Beach. What a beautiful day!
We ate at Pedro's Cabo while Jenn visited Jass. Yum yum...ole!
Cut. Scene opens in San Bruno at a breakfast place called Jack's where Jenn, Tom and I hooked up with Sue, Patrick, and....featuring Caitlin!!!
After a delicious breakfast, Tom and Jenn headed back to Santa Clara and I went on the returning Caitlin trip to San Francisco.
We saw her place and I met her lovely cat, Tashi.
After bidding the lovely Caitlin a fond adieu, we drove around San Francisco for my traditional tourist routine.
This was my first visit to the very crooked Lombard Street.
Interestingly, it turns out a good friend of Patrick's lives at the bottom of this road and constantly has bunches of tourists outside her home!
Saturday, October 5, 2013
More California Fun
Tom and Jenn just headed out to breakfast while I catch up with my trip story.
Thursday was Jenn's birthday. We drove to her house in Santa Clara and then went to Palo Alto to see Jodie and Chris. Our timing was really good, because Corry landed there also (his first paid vacation from the new job.
We picked up Jass, went back to Jenn's for some serious Scrabble playing, and then headed to Macaroni Grill for the big birthday dinner. It was delicious and Jenn loved her present- a new GPS to replace the one that was stolen from her car in a recent robbery. :-(
Friday we went over to Sue's and we all went to see Gravity, the new Sandra Bullock movie, which was great!
We saw the 3D imax of it (and won't go into detail about how aggravated we were on the half hour of commercials (!) followed by a half hour of previews before it actually started, making us late for the Jass pick up)
Later, Tom and I went to a country dance place called Rodeo right here in Santa Clara and had big big fun with lots of dancing. This was a concert night and the group was really good. Blackjackbilly, I think they were. I thought it was interesting that I could hook up the look of each band member to another country star...we had a Jake Owens guy, a Jack Ingram guy (whatever happened to him?), a Luke Bryan guy, Keith Urban hair like guy on the drums and one that I could only compare to maybe a skinny Kramer (from Seinfeld)...
We're debating today's activities, but hoping Sue will join us. Ahhhh! California dreaming.....!
Thursday was Jenn's birthday. We drove to her house in Santa Clara and then went to Palo Alto to see Jodie and Chris. Our timing was really good, because Corry landed there also (his first paid vacation from the new job.
We picked up Jass, went back to Jenn's for some serious Scrabble playing, and then headed to Macaroni Grill for the big birthday dinner. It was delicious and Jenn loved her present- a new GPS to replace the one that was stolen from her car in a recent robbery. :-(
Friday we went over to Sue's and we all went to see Gravity, the new Sandra Bullock movie, which was great!
We saw the 3D imax of it (and won't go into detail about how aggravated we were on the half hour of commercials (!) followed by a half hour of previews before it actually started, making us late for the Jass pick up)
Later, Tom and I went to a country dance place called Rodeo right here in Santa Clara and had big big fun with lots of dancing. This was a concert night and the group was really good. Blackjackbilly, I think they were. I thought it was interesting that I could hook up the look of each band member to another country star...we had a Jake Owens guy, a Jack Ingram guy (whatever happened to him?), a Luke Bryan guy, Keith Urban hair like guy on the drums and one that I could only compare to maybe a skinny Kramer (from Seinfeld)...
We're debating today's activities, but hoping Sue will join us. Ahhhh! California dreaming.....!
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Happy birthday, Jennfier
Tom and I are on 680 heading down the road to Jennifer's.
Our journey to California Tuesday was relatively uneventful in terms of problems. The first leg of the flight was long and my legs were squished but walking around the Las Vegas airport helped straighten me out.
We had no problem with the car pick up and we got to Jennifer's school and had fun with her and the class.
Next we headed to Sue's after a stop to eat at a local restaurant.
We crashed until Sue got home and then had a delicious dinner with them and watched Homeland. They don't have Showtime, but we hooked it up to our laptop and we could watch it on their tv.
Wednesday we did a day trip to Mount Diablo, stopping for delicious sandwiches at Slow G's on the way.
That was our big excursion and we were tired again and went home to Sue's and slept. ( I think jet lag hit us really hard for some reason this trip).
Sue got home just in time for leaving for her book club, which I was invited to. I had read the book, Tinkers, on the plane. It was odd, but talkaboutable for sure. Sue's friends were all very nice and I had a good time.
Tom was asleep when we got home, so I watched Nashville with Sue. It was really funny because she kept falling asleep and when she woke up she's run back the tape to where she left off...that happened like 6 times between the first and second season episodes. I have memorized several segments having seen them so frequentlly. (I love that show, by the way...)
Today is Jenn's birthday and we are going over to her house now, will probably get to visit Jodie :-) and then are meeting Sue and Patrick for Jenn's birthday dinner at her favorite place.
Our journey to California Tuesday was relatively uneventful in terms of problems. The first leg of the flight was long and my legs were squished but walking around the Las Vegas airport helped straighten me out.
We had no problem with the car pick up and we got to Jennifer's school and had fun with her and the class.
Next we headed to Sue's after a stop to eat at a local restaurant.
We crashed until Sue got home and then had a delicious dinner with them and watched Homeland. They don't have Showtime, but we hooked it up to our laptop and we could watch it on their tv.
Wednesday we did a day trip to Mount Diablo, stopping for delicious sandwiches at Slow G's on the way.
That was our big excursion and we were tired again and went home to Sue's and slept. ( I think jet lag hit us really hard for some reason this trip).
Sue got home just in time for leaving for her book club, which I was invited to. I had read the book, Tinkers, on the plane. It was odd, but talkaboutable for sure. Sue's friends were all very nice and I had a good time.
Tom was asleep when we got home, so I watched Nashville with Sue. It was really funny because she kept falling asleep and when she woke up she's run back the tape to where she left off...that happened like 6 times between the first and second season episodes. I have memorized several segments having seen them so frequentlly. (I love that show, by the way...)
Today is Jenn's birthday and we are going over to her house now, will probably get to visit Jodie :-) and then are meeting Sue and Patrick for Jenn's birthday dinner at her favorite place.
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