Aloha!

It's Sunday morning and we are going to hook up with Teri later for some touring and possible surfing for Tom.

We are so lucky to have such a good friend here in Honolulu.

We've been dancing twice at her fave place to dance ...on the Pearl Harbor base, and we had dinner at their great new house last night. Dan is a very handy man to have around!

Hawaii is as beautiful as ever and we are so happy to be here.

And they're off!

Hawaii tripping 2009 is underway!
We had a 3:30 a.m. pick-up for our 6 a.m. flight and are currently in Chicago Airport.




Tom is sleeping and I am sipping coffee and on the internet. Pictures are going up on my google picasa site.
I loved the airport dinosaur!

Happy birthday to me!

I had a great birthday this year!
Friday lunch with Sandy and Joanne at Robin's Nest, dinner and dancing and cake with Tom and Ganine and Jim at Prospectors (where three other people who share my birthdate were celebrating too!), the receipt of an AWESOME photo/poem poster all about me created, prepared, and express mailed to me from Sue, Jeff, and Jennifer, so many good wish greetings from my facebookand other online friends, and the annual birthday dinner with the brunch group Saturday night. Plus, we are continuing the celebration with a trip to Hawaii coming up! Whoo hoo!

Tax time

Tax season is always an unsettling time for most people, I guess...I know it is for me. This year is no exception, but I do have somewhat of a different perspective now that I am actually working at H&R Block. Would it be prejudicial to say they are the very best company to count on for helping taxpayers in this trying time? Maybe. But I would mean it.

So besides learning all there is to know about tax preparation (see me in 35 years!) I am keeping busy with Contact and dancing and vacation planning and stock market watching (that comes complete with lots of hand wringing...)

The big story is my brother Jeff, who, after living in London for 19 years (and establishing dual citizenship and a lovely family of four) is moving back to America...New York, to be exact, in August! How wonderful! What a change for the family way of life. I haven't heard all the repercussions in person yet, but I am looking forward to all the details!

Caitlin is back from Hawaii and Cody is a great golfer....that's from Sue....no word from the J branch of the family lately....

Ok..off to the chiropracter....(Straight is great!)

Snow???

It's March 1st (in like a lion) and they are calling for a major snowfall tonight and into tomorrow.
When I got home from the DHS production of "Joseph and the Amazing....Dreamcoat"(which was WONDERFUL!) Tom gave me that weather news and I panicked because I was supposed to do some volunteer work tomorrow and I do NOT drive in snow. But it worked out and I can stay home and do cookies or whatever one does on a snowbound day. (Good luck and happy snow day, my old colleagues!!!)

Facebook is working out really nicely for getting in touch with/staying in touch with friends and relatives near and far, old and new. The most recent best example was me making the comment on Saturday that I was up too early and I got an almost instant response from a casual friend in Texas we met in Hawaii two years ago (that I haven't talked to for just about that long ) saying he was up early too, keeping his lawn up to his neighbors' expectations. Cool or what?

Our blue tooth player went on the fritz and we sent it back to the company to get fixed (Tom actually had tears in his eyes.........just kidding!) and now he is struggling with re-wiring the system for just regular old DVR's he got from Blockbuster when he turned in the blue tooth ones we couldn't watch....

Yay, 24 is back!!!!

One of these days I'll sort and post the best of the FL/Cruise photos....really.

Time MARCHes on

Hard to believe it will be March this week-end already. Wow.
We are recuperated from the Florida fun and are getting back into the swing of NJ (but oh...we miss the warm!!!)

This was me....never far from a computer....using my time wisely before we had to leave for the airport to fly home.......
Tom's back to bowling and even golf if the temp goes above a certain level, and I am back to HR Block and Contact and dancing and computer-ing.

The big story is the seemingly doomed economy and its ramifications on all of us. Our President has a lot of hard work ahead of him, that's for sure. I wish I had a functioning crystal ball (I wish I'd had one two years ago!)

What a difference ten days makes!

I see that last time I wrote was over a week ago. We've been home for 10 days already. Hard to believe.
Hey, it's cold here! What's up with that???
I've been trying to get back in the swing of things with HR Block. The people that work there are so nice and I've met some great clients too! It's tiring, though! I remember work now...! Yep, this is what is what it was like!
Scary news....robberies in Mt. Laurel....as in...the Prospectors parking lot car break-ins. :-(
And of course the stock market which took one look at the President signing the stimulus plan and took a nose dive. This is the worst it's been. Anyone see light at the end of this tunnel?
I bumped into some Panama cruising friends of Margie's today in Sears. What's up with that kitchen, Margie? Making you crazy or what???
I have so many pictures and so many options of places to put them....But some available soon, I promise!