Heading to Arkansas

The good news is we had a great time at CMA Music Fest 2015. 
If you care to see a gazillion photos click here
  If you want to wait until I sort through them for a more reasonably sized collection and post on Facebook, that's fine, too. :-)

The really bad news is we just realized (outside of Memphis en route to Little Rock) that Tom is no longer in possession of his car keys. *(We have a spare set that he gave me to hold on to). They could be anywhere between our hotel and here...and we stopped several times. :-(   I blame it on push button starting and keeping the car running for me to have air while Tom was out of the car doing things. They were attached to his belt and he never noticed when they weren't anymore because he didn't need them. :-(

I don't know if all the tags attached to them will be helpful if someone tries to be noble and find the owner for returning purposes, or identity theft fodder on the negative side.

Meanwhile we'll have to spend the hundred (s?) of dollars to replace it. 

It's okay. We have the other set and that's actually good news bottom line.

*Better news: they weren't really lost; we have the keys. Whoo hoo!

CMA Music Fest 2015

We made it!
The drive time was 15 hours and Tom did the whole thing. We had some intermittent torrential downpours, which was pretty scary. We got in after one our time, after midnight theirs.

I woke up at 9 and diddled around with reunion "stuff" until we finally left for downtown Nashville around 1.

We were entertained by a number of talented bands at the Global Live stage area. It was 90 degrees but there were occasional breezes.

After a brief stop for food, we headed to Broadway with our chairs and enjoyed the free concerts by Maddie and Tae, Tyler Farr, Rodney Atkins, and Kip Moore. There was a huge crowd by the time we left at around 10: 30. (Apparently we missed some filming at the other end of the street...one song by Kenny Chesney and also appearing, Florida Georgia Line. Oh, well.

We stopped at the Waffle House near our place on the way home.

I wonder how many people we know from NJ are here and we don't know it.

Tomorrow....the Riverfront stage.

Happy graduation, Nathan!

We drove down to Maryland yesterday. Nathan's graduation was today. We are so proud of him and so happy to see Alex and Jackson and Nathan and Sue and Patrick and all their friends.

This was at lunch afterward. Here are more photos of the ceremony and our fun times:

https://tomro.shutterfly.com/pictures/1414

Enjoying retirement again

Just to have this handy: http://www.visitmusiccity.com/cmafest
  It's a listing of the groups at the various venues.

So we got our seats for the 2016 CMA Music Fest already. It was a scary process. We had an assigned time and did the best we could with ticketmaster as a ton of fans tried to access it at the same time.

I am looking forward to this year's event!

Where does the time go?

I actually started writing a post last week, but I guess I got distracted (maybe looking for a photo of Tom's new car?) and it never got up.

So, yes, Tom got a new car....the day before his birthday, April 18, so what a great present, right? :-)

Talking about birthdays, Patrick's was yesterday and Sue hosted a "When I'm 64" Beatles-related party for him. [Just an aside; he is not "old and losing my hair"....] I wish we could have been there, but we'll be seeing them in May at Nathan's graduation (!! Nathan is graduating from High School??!!)

We've been doing a lot of dancing and movie going and other fun things now that tax season is over. Yay!

I was lucky enough to win reserve seat tickets for the XTU show May 30th, so I don't have to do any more tramping around to ticket runs....fun as they may be.....

In the bad news department, the governor is still doing all he can to destroy the teachers pension system as we know it (worst case scenario: end of pension in 2027). This is very scary stuff. I still don't understand why breaking the law is being allowed (and he's the one who made the law!!!)

Today is Emmy's party at Jill's and Sugarfootin' at Prospectors. Monday is the BCEA Legislative Dinner (and missing book club....too bad...I really wanted to talk about how much I enjoyed reading The Orphan Train).

Interesting day.....

I headed to the office to hook up with my fellow market-ers to drive in the HR Block illustrated car to participate in the belated Burlington County St. Patrick's Day parade in Mt. Holly.

It was pretty cold for the end of March, but it was sunny and they had a big crowd.

Oddly, my cell phone, which was really low battery, was appearing to lose instead of gain power as I tried to charge it...even when I plugged it into the car.

We got back to the office and....well after our driver of the day had left with the car......I realized my phone was still plugged into said vehicle. :-(

I got her number from Donika and then drove to Eagle Plaza in Voorhees to meet her and get my phone back.

I decided for a treat I would go to PF Chang's and have a lettuce wrap. It was soo crowded! I sat at the bar and read my book while waiting.

The lettuce wrap was delicious (albeit messy to eat!) and after I finished the bartender told me they weren't charging me anything because it took so extra long to get me the food.

When I walked outside the restaurant I bumped into my friend Ida and her family who had just finished eating there for Mike's birthday! How coincidental, eh?

First Day of Spring Snow Day Surprise

Friday was the first day of spring and it snowed and snowed and snowed all day. When I left my H&R Block office that night I had to shove off 8 inches of snow from the roof of my car!

It was in the fifties on Saturday, but still....! What a weather joke that was!

I just peeked onto this site to see how it might be used for MailChimp responses and had another shock. I haven't written anything on it in months! ?!!?

Now I am getting ready to head to the high school to see "Hairspray", which looks wonderful from the photos DMS posted on facebook, but I will try and do some life catching up on here soon.

Hello to my friend, Margie Ferrare and hope to see you soon!

One recent tidbit: Tom had cataract eye surgery........