New car!

I am the proud owner of a new (2011, 27,000 miles) Toyota Camry as of yesterday. Whoo hoo!

We bought it at Carsense and it was the easiest car-buying experience I ever had. :-)
I hope we drive in good health and for a long long time!

Speaking of good health, Tom is doing fine on all counts of recent health issues (cancer, knee-replacement) and will be dealing with the neck thing one of these days....

Oh, guess what? My doctors I've been going to for a million years won't give me the initial Welcome to Medicare visit. What's up with that? Do I have to switch doctor groups? :-(

I had lunch with Sandy and Conni last week and Gee Gee and Cathy Otto (!!) yesterday. I haven't seen Cathy since early high school. It was a great treat to hook up with them both while Cathy was in town (from CA) visiting.

Speaking about CA and visiting, today Tom and I are driving to Chevy Chase, MD (in our new car!) for a big family reunion of sorts as everyone (except Zoe, who is in FL...poor thing!) gathers for the event of Jackson's graduation (tomorrow). We are so looking forward to seeing the Kayes and Mays! (And congratulations to Cody, who just graduated from college!)

Here are some recent event photos:

Me, GeeGee, Cathy at Charlie Brown's

Caitlin, Cody  

Rainbow during the test drive...a good sign, for sure!

Rosina and Jimmy Anthony stopped by at the Senior Expo

Hannah and Seth got married

Went to the Fund Raiser for Roger

Me at the DKG meeting

Next up on the agenda (after today's trip to Alex's): XTU concert and CMA Music Fest. Yee Haw!

Decisions, decisions....

A lot has been going on....I have like three things a day...between Tom's physical therapy and events for BCREA, CONTACT, DKG, RSVP, the Eastampton Rec Committee, XTU ticket runs, book club meetings, movies, lunches with Gee Gee and my DEAR friends...and, of course, dancing at Prospectors :-)

DKG Meeting-Installation of Officers

with Conni at the BCREA Spring luncheon

WXTU ticket run attempt (unsuccessful)

DIS quick stop for boxtop dropoff

Theresa hosting the Contact Wine Event

Marion and Jacquie leading the Healthy Life workshop

Informative workshop on Gamer Predators

Lunch with Gee Gee at Charlie Browns

BCEA Teacher Day at Carlucci's

Standardized testing movie with DEA

DEAR friends lunch at Prospectors

Ah, retirement!

We are looking forward to the CMA Music Fest, but are sad to be missing Hannah's wedding this week-end. Tom just isn't ready for the trip. Jackson is graduating from college and Mary Grace is graduating from high school. Samantha had another baby, too....lots of happy family events.

Next on the agenda is a new car for me. What to get, what to get? (And oh...do I hate spending money on it :-(    Well, we shall see what happens....

It's May!

Tom danced at Prospectors (2 weeks after knee replacement surgery! Not bad, eh?)

We saw Spiderman 2 at the really comfy seat-filled Marlton theater.

I am posting a link to the Jeff Memorial video I just found. I wrote to Bradley asking if I could have a copy and he referred my back to Nathan and Jackson and it turns out they had already posted one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1YXhWbbnw

I am off to HRB for a bit.

Hope Zoe had a very happy birthday!

Busy week-end

Friday night was the Eastampton Ladies Night Out fund-raiser. (I didn't win ANYTHING. :-(

After I got home, I grabbed Tom who hobbled with me to Prospectors to hook up with Teri, up visiting from Virginia.

Saturday I volunteered at the Burlington County Earth Day Celebration in Smithville Park.

Saturday night it was back to Prospectors to dance with Teri (sans Tom this time).

Today is Sugarfootin' Sunday and I am back to Prospectors one more time. At least, that's the plan for now.

I had a couple of days of post tax season work, but don't seem to be on the schedule for any more. Hmmm....

Tom is getting better, but still taking the pain pills, Zoe's birthday is coming up, so is Isaac's, and Jackson is graduating!

In other news, I heard through the facebookvine that Kim is  moving (moved?) to Florida (and Margie's house may be sold soon.)

Tom has a new knee!

Tax season is over and Tom had a birthday and got a new knee.

Very hot news indeed. I was able to stay with him in the hospital for the whole 2 and a half days he was in there. Everyone was so very nice!

 We are home now and I am with him constantly helping him and making sure he doesn't fall or get infected. So far a nurse and a physical therapist have been to the house to check him out. He will be having home visits for the next two weeks, then out-patient stuff.

 On a totally new topic , here is a video I love (and it reminds me that I want to get a copy of the Jeff tape singing Bye Bye Blackbird to Hannah from Bradley now that the vimeo he made for the memorial celebration is no longer available). (I saw this first on Facebook and pulled the embed code from youtube....this dad was calming his daughter who was being kept up by fireworks, it explained.)

Free...well not quite...

It's beginning to look like the end of March...where does time go? I mean really.

 So, we went to Dr.Dwosh the other day and now that adds surgery/procedure number three to Tom's list of medical things to plan out, timewise. We already lost the Myrtle Beach vacation time due to knee replacement surgery mid April and probably won't be able to make it to Hannah's wedding either :-( But if Tom is relieved of all this pain he has been suffering through, it's worth it. We have to call the throat surgeon Monday to see about that one and the timing thereof.

 So I spent all morning working on a "free" photo book from Shutterfly and when I was finally finished, it was more than I eexpected (of course!) so I tried to back out to a different version and it looked like I lost all the accompanying verbiage (and format). I was starting to be very unhappy....but then I figured out how to get it back and paid the extra part, begrudgingly (It's still a good deal, really..) Here is my finished project (with, I'm sure advertising for others to do it too!)(Sorry about that).

Click here to view this photo book larger

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Working on it brought back a lot of good memories....and also brought to my attention how hard it would be to find any one specific photo from ALL the gazillions I have all over my computer and the internet. Hmmm.........

Love Story Comeback! Whoo hoo!

Meg and Robin are coming back to Prospectors tonight for a re-teach of the dance they choreographed for Taylor Swift's "Love Story".
Here is the video Ken had up on YouTube for it: