Warm weather at last!

Rumor has it today the temperature may be as high as 71 degrees! Tom is going golfing (of course!) and very happy.

Yesterday was warmer than it's been too. I went out with Chris on one of her smoke breaks just so I could enjoy the outside air! (well, there was some smoke, too, but the experience was worth the drawback!)

I have been so so busy with hours at HR Block, my online time for the computer has been severely diminished....it's like withdrawal...painful when I think about it.

I get to go in an hour later than usual today, and neither office scheduled me for Saturday so hooray! A day off!

I threw a Contact overnight into the mix. Bad idea. I mean, I'm glad I had a chance to help out, but it really wiped me out for the next two days (as usual, but this time I had to work those days, not just recover!) Oh, well, I'm pretty caught up now.

I'm looking forward to March :-)

No shadow for Phil this year

Early spring in sight? Hard to tell right now, but at least this week's weather incident wasn't snow accumulative...or even that much ice...not while I was out and driving around afterward, anyway....

Not much new is happening....I am working in my two HR Block offices a lot of hours and then I come home really tired (especially if I meet Tom for dancing at Prospectors on the way home first!) I've met some really nice people.

I still am getting a lot of family news via Facebook and enjoy the regular updates, indirect though they may be! (e.g. Sarah home from China and heading to AR with Mary Grace to visit Hannah and Isaac and Gina and Cait heading to NYC).

If I get some sleep first, we may be able to hit the gym before I head out to work this afternoon.

Time flies when you're having fun!

My faithful reader, Margie, reminds me that I haven't been very blog faithful. Has it really been a month? Wow.
Okay so currently it is snowing out (millionth time this winter....ok...more like once a week since mid December....)and my adventure will be driving to Sears to work at the HR Block office there today.

One reason I have been so off my blog routine is tax season. It's been a big adjustment for retired old me to be back in a work scenario. I like it, but it tires me out (not tired enough to skip dancing though....especially since we were picked for Prospectors King and Queen and are lucky to get in for free all year! Whoo hoo!)

I also try and make time to play online Scrabble with the aforementioned Margie (hi, Margie! How are you feeling?) who is currently home (and NOT working...omg we have switched lives!)recuperating from two of three total surgeries this season....
and also my sister Jennifer in CA. I love playing with these oh so worthy opponents!

Remember my friend from fifth grade...Gee Gee Otto...that I've been meeting for lunch and stuff monthly since we re-connected the end of last year? She fell in the snow and broke her wrist right after Christmas while walking the dog in the poorly plowed Westfield neighborhood. :-( She is not having a lucky year so far, for sure. And we weren't able to get together this month between that, the snow, and my job. But I have high hopes for next month!

In the watch your bank dept, I'd like to mention that some place in CA cashed a birthday check I'd sent my nephew over a year ago (which had been misplaced and replaced since) and TD bank here approved it. (What ever happened to the 6 months or void rule???) Just sayin'.....

I'm thinking the Dessert Show this year that the Bridgeplayers are performing...Gypsy....will be another winner and I am looking forward to attending this February.

The monthly brunch group met for dinner recently (Saturday night)at Maggianos in Cherry Hill. We ordered (way too much food!) family style (remember Buca's?)and it was delicious! We had a great time! (reality check...and don't be shocked...I told Tom I would have had to work at HR Block 11 hours to pay for our dinner...isn't that kinda sad?)

And on that note...I'm heading downstairs to evaluate the getting ready for work scenario....

Have a great day, Margie, and I'll Scrabble with you later...is it a date?

Christmas with the Kayes in Pelham

It only took us an hour and a half to get to Jeff's. (Apparently it sometimes takes that long just to get across the George Washington Bridge, but this must have been the lowest traffic time of the week-end!)

We found their house with no trouble and it was a great house!

We had snacks and games and music and then Millie and her crowd came and we had more fun and dinner and called Jennifer to touch base with the other half of the family on the West coast of America.

A good time was had by all!

We had a bit more traffic on the way home, but no snow.

Today, on the other hand, it started snowing at 11 a.m. and never stopped. NJ is a disaster area and there was no football game and no Sugarfootin' Sunday dancing. Boo hoo. We were cozy and comfy indoors, though, and had a lovely Boxing Day!
(I even got to play Scrabble with Jennifer....online!)

It's beginning to look..........

We will be heading out to the Prospectors Christmas party soon. I'd love to stop in and say hi (and take photos!) of the DIS crew at Lisa's too, if that works out.

Tom and I saw Tangled in 3-D today. It was cute.

I was happy to see Gee Gee the other day. I'm pretty sure I liked the movie (Burlesque) a bit better than she did, but it was great to see her, as always.

The Goffs are all heading for PA; I hope we will have a chance to visit them. We are also looking forward to being with Jeff and family!

The less than one inch of ice fall the other night created such a traffic nightmare. Poor Tom was heading to bowling and he called to give me a minute by minute accounting...for hours! Then, right he before he got there, it was canceled! So I met him at Prospectors instead and danced the night away!

We danced there last night, too, and it was a lot more populated! :-)

Fun at the Burlington County Library

Today I went to the Burlington County library for a refresher on Power Point presentation creation. It was fun and Joan Divor did a great job.
After the class Joan and I discussed some other things and in the process I made this really neat wordle from my delicious tag

Year's end approacheth

So yesterday I spent all day working on the family assortment book on shutterfly. (Major project thrust upon me suddenly.) It was fun sorting through all my old photos, though.

I missed Sugarfootin and I missed my window of opportunity to stop by Vicki's show :-(  but I did get to the BCEA Officers dinner in Burlington City and had a great time.

I have been eating a lot! and it's time to meet Vicki and Sky at the gym to try and work some of the delicious holiday meal producing calories off!