Procrastinate Much?

Why, even as I type this, there are things I am putting off....:-(

 Anyway, we saw the movie "About Time" late last night after I got home from the Contact suicide in-service. (Statistics are rising...over half the world's deaths are suicides! Very sad)(In Burlington County in 2012 we had 5 suicides and 28 suicides!)

 I had high expectations for the movie, but it wasn't really that good. It was sort of slow and not that much fun. Maybe everything just went too smoothly for their lives, I don't know.

The really big disappointment, though, was that Regal tampered with the AARP popcorn/drink deal and it's not such a benefit for seniors anymore. (We bought it anyway, of course!)

 I am looking forward to dancing tonight, lunch with Gee Gee tomorrow, and lunch with my DEAR friends Friday. :-)

Disappointed, but okay

So here I thought I would be supporting the Friends of the Library and having a good time tonight, but when I looked up the flyer for the After Hours Wine and Cheese to share on Facebook, it wasn't there. It turns out it was cancelled. Boo hoo. I guess I should have gotten a ticket ahead of time. I wonder how many other people were planning on trying to pay at the door like me? It's beginning to look less and less like we are going away in the near future...that's sad, but kind of a good thing because my calendar has been filling up with "stuff" while the decision making was going on.... I will probably be sad when it's cold (wait...it is already cold!) and I am thinking of warm sandy beaches.... I tried to help a friend sign up on the marketplace for health insurance and we bumped into a temporarily not working, try again in 30 minutes stumbling block...twice so far. Now I see what they are talking about....

Subsidy calculator for the marketplace health plans

I found this in a great ACA/Obamacare plan cost calculator on facebook posted by Upworthy. It's produced by Kaiser. I'm posting it here so I can find it easily to share as a starting point for people who need health insurance and will be using the Marketplace.

The Conventional Thing to Do

After years of minimal costuming and parties for Halloween, we ended up with three sets of costumes, two parties, and the usual Prospectors gala. It was fun!

Michelle and Chris's party

Randy and Greg's party

Prospectors

Thursday I took the train down to Atlantic City for the NJEA Convention. (Remember last year we got hurricane-d out?)

Without a BCEA reception it was not easy to find my BCEA colleagues, but I bumped into some and saw lots of people I knew, too.

Me with Joanne and Martha

Toni Guerra, BCEA First VP

Financial advisors

Randi and I are apparently psychically linked. I stood outside the classroom she was in, wishing I could contact her, and she came out to make a phone call. It was uncanny!

Wanda, my friend the NJEA Classroom Close-up producer asked me to do a promotional bit for the show's 20th anniversary. I asked if I could hold one of her many Emmy's. Of course, I hammed it up later, thanking all the little people for my success!

I left on the 4:42 train, making it back just in time for the Eastampton Rec Committee meeting. I was totally too tired to dance :-(

The good news is, the next day, I got to see Joanne on her way up to PA. We had lunch at the Hibachi Grill in Cinnaminson....yum yum! and then went over to Marcia's and played cards. Fun!

Today I need to do some catching up on SHIP work. It's open enrollment time through Dec. 7th and lots of people are calling us and making appointments.

Tonight we dance! (again :-)