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........

Happy New Year!

And now it's 2015.... Does anyone besides me feel like we're living in the future?

Were we dreaming of a wet Christmas?

It's Christmas Eve Day and all is well....

Yesterday Tom and I raced to an early morning showing of "A Night in the Museum III" (or something like that). It was enjoyable...."you'll laugh, you'll cry, but you'll never forget..." Really; it was worth the money. It was a little heartbreaking though seeing Robin Williams alive and knowing it was his last role..

It seems like warm sunny FL weather was a long time ago. I miss it!

(And to Margie Ferrare, who is my only blog follower, Hi! Merry Christmas! It was so much fun seeing you and Mike in Orlando! We look forward to seeing you here in NJ sometime soon!)

Google+ sent me some compilation of photos of mine of the year. I like it much better than the ones Facebook would have chosen for the year end gimmick people are posting.
Roberta's Photos ala google+    (Kind of cute, right?) :-)

It's hard to believe 2014 is so close to over. What will the new year bring? I hope good health and good times for all.