Another hour lost........

Talk about time flying!
Hard to believe I haven't posted anything since January and now here it is the day of Daylight Savings Time switchover 2017.
I feel hardly retired during tax season, although it is starting to taper off now....
Looking forward to birthday brunch with the Commans at Robins Nest today.

They are calling for a big winter snowstorm for Tuesday.
I read the last big storm around my birthday was in 1993. Could that have been the year Dave Hummell came over in his snow plow to visit a stranded at home me on my birthday? Maybe. (Thanks, Dave!)

After tax season is over and I am back to regular retired life, I want to get together with friends I haven't seen in awhile. I am so overdue for lunch with teaching colleagues and high school alumni!

Last year this time we were in Arizona. That was so much fun! Good memories.

I hope my 9 a.m. clients today have changed their clocks up an hour! :-)

Happy 2017!

Early January had a couple of firsts.....
First day of work at HR Block for the new tax season
First big snow

Actually those two were related in that I had to manage with the snow to and from work yesterday.

Also, we were so disappointed to have to miss this year's Lofland Open House because of the road conditions between Eastampton and Clementon. :-(

We had a good-bye breakfast this morning with our friends, the Iannones, who will be leaving for Florida. Hmm....Janet and Frank are leaving for Florida, too. And Ron is in FL for the winter...Diane and Ed actually live there, along with so many other friends....Seems to be a trend we are missing out on! #whynotus #warmisbetter #Floridaisbetter

Still here....

I didn't realize I hadn't posted anything in so long!

Since Thanksgiving a few things have happened...

We drove to Florida and enjoyed a week in Orlando which included a mini reunion lunch with some Piscataway friends, a fun day in Disney (but without poor Tom, who couldn't have taken all the walking...I ended up with a count of over 23,000 steps!), a great Boston Lobster dinner, but no visit with either Wilma or Linda due to full schedules on their part.  :-(

The next week was in Pompano Beach, the highlights of which were seeing Yee (our Pogo online friend) and taking a little night dinner cruise.

The warm weather was a treat for sure!

On the drive home we stopped and visited with Joanne in Carolina Beach. It was great to see her, as always.

Chanukah/Christmas has been low key and we are looking forward to New Years Eve at Prospectors.

There was a library incident I had to take care of, but all is well. (What do you mean I can't renew anything?!!)

Tax season with HR Block is starting Jan.2. I am on from 9 to 7. (IRS opens Jan. 23rd....)

Sick for Thanksgiving

Being sick on Thanksgiving isn't that much fun, let me tell you. I'm just glad I got to the doctor the day before so I had drugs going. It was sleep/CONTACT phone room for 2 hours/sleep and then up to eat the delicious bountiful Thanksgiving dinner made by my wonderful (sadly, looks like on his way to being sick, too) Tom. So delicious! (food and Tom, both).

I admire that no one in our family posted anything on Facebook. I'm thinking that means they were having a really good time in real life and too busy to take or share pictures (or....they don't use facebook anymore....!)

Not in the mood for Black Friday outings...back to bed....

#Comeygate

I am outraged and can't help thinking someone said "It's time for a traffic jam in the Federal election system".
Just horrible.

Good times

So we're back in NJ.
Tom's reunion was fun. I took lots of photos and a good time was had by all.
We got to see Miriam, Amy, and the Goffs and met a few new friends, too.

We were in Nashville a couple of times on the trip.

and all was well until my camera accidentally smashed to the floor :-(

We got into PHL around midnight and were surprised it was warm, but by the time we got home it was cold!
The next morning Tom was back to physical therapy and I joined my BCREA friends for the Fall luncheon at Marcos.

Then last night (instead of dancing :-(   I helped out at the Eastampton night at the movies.

(I also spent five and half hours Friday morning working with SHIP clients with my Volunteer SHIP counselor hat on....).

Reunion Time

We'll be heading out for Tom's 50th high school reunion soon. I found his yearbook online: Tom's Yearbook and here is his senior photo

I had the pleasure of rendezvous-ing with my own classmates recently in separate encounters:

Gee Gee for lunch at Charlie Browns, Diane and Ed Febinger at the Americana Diner, and Brenda and Anna at Applebees.

In other news, Tom is continuing his therapy and a recent doctor visit revealed he has some bulging discs that are causing his back pain. No word on surgery or anything at this point; just suffering. :-(

I went to a Mystery Theater at the library that was so much fun!

Theresa honored me with the Executive Director award at the Volunteer Recognition breakfast. I posted it on Facebook and was a big hit. I hope it inspires people to sign up as a volunteer!

We have a lot to do to get ready for the trip, but, meanwhile, we are going up for dinner and debriefing with our old Reunion committee tonight.