For my one true blue faithful reader, and my other visitors who pop in from time to time....I didn't drop off the face of the earth.

I sure feel like that sometimes.

I have been so damn busy that I can't always tell my glasses are on my face when I whine and look for them everywhere.

Work is moving along steadily, which is wonderful. Sam had one week of lay-off time and then they switched his schedule around to keep him working regularly. He's a big man on campus at the factory....been there 30 years and knows everything there is to know about how to keep the place operating. Thank God we have been okay in the job department; since the economy is in a hole. There is one thing that is highly pissing me off with my job though. There are three people with whom I must work on a committee which meets monthly, who seem to think I wear "stupid" on my forehead! These three fool hearted women are basically trying to micromanage the committee, and apparently one of them would now like to micromanage the work I am doing within our mental health system. It ain't gonna' happen folks....I will have their asses in a sling if they don't learn their place with me soon. Am I sounding all West Virginia kind of mean? I sure hope so. These women are assholes in every way.

The animals are fine...Bentley is hanging right on in there with us; heart disease and all. Carley is still full of herself and a simply craaaaaazzzy little dog. Pickle loves his Nana. (me) I wonder if he thinks about Victoria now and then. I'm sure he does from time to time :)

My cousin and her boyfriend are gone. I asked them to leave a couple months back when I realized I wasn't going to get much financial help from her grandparents to keep them here.....and 19-year olds do like to eat some food. Also, I was losing ground in the area of respect...been there and done that before. Sam and I wanted our life back; and our home. If I sound callous to you, well I'm not. Nobody loves the teenagers more than I do, but our lives are changing and Sam and I are following through with the changes...

The knees. Aahh the arthritic knees! Haven't talked about this for awhile, but the short of it is that I had one arthroscopic surgery on the right knee a year or so ago. I'm going to have an arthroscopy on the left knee at the end of June, and then a month or so later, my surgeon wants to do a partial replacement of the right knee. What fun I'll have going to physical therapy all summer. I really can't complain though because I am blessed to finally receive the help I need, which will in turn help my overall health management. I'm looking so forward to walking again for exercise someday.

It's cold and rainy here today. It's supposed to be hot and sunny tomorrow. Oh, and I really like turtles...