Speaking of Janice and Dean...

Janice and Dean came to visit a while back. Okay it was a long while back. But I found these pictures and wanted to show them off. Janice is in the middle and Dean is on the right. Limo Man is on the left in the white shirt. We were on our way to the Magic Castle and decided to stop at Yamashiro's for a cold one.

Gabi Getter

Gabi Getter is our first grand niece. She is a delight and I miss seeing her. Her mom Kari sends me the greatest pictures.

Baby Gabi likes to hide her chips. She is so clever! This picture to the left is from last July.

The picture at the top right is at Gabi's first birthday party at the Folsom zoo in October. That's great grandpa Jack in the background, grandma Betty is in the coat, and Kari has Gabi in her arms. What a shot and what a crew!

Here's Me Not Being So Wonderful.....

No one said that a blog had to be funny, interesting, or upbeat. After all it's my blog and I can write what I want.

I was once asked "How do you stay with Limo Man when he works so much?"
My response was "We have a goal, and him working his second job has helped us get a lot of things that we wouldn't otherwise have, so I have to be patient and also because I love him."

Sometimes I don't feel patient and today is one of those days and here's why.....
Limo Man has been driving every night since last Saturday (oh yeah it's Saturday again) with the exception of one night when he needed to shop for a new suit. That took some time and it put him home late that night as well and he wasn't in the best of moods.

I usually consider myself a pretty patient person but today my patience has run out. And excuse me but here's me NOT being so wonderful.

In fact I am downright miserable, unhappy, mad, and sad. I miss my man and I miss spending time with him. Quality time, not just a pat when he gets home and a kiss when he leaves to go to either job. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have both but when that's the only communication other than the phone it starts to work my last nerve and at times I feel like I am being taken for granted.

After all, holidays, weekends, some weeknights (more lately) have had to be put on hold because Limo Man needs to drive his clients or make money for whatever new goal is in mind. I can't even plan a meal for the two of us to share because I never know when or if he'll be home. I understand the goal but it doesn't mean that I have to like the means to get to it all the time.

I don't want to feel like I am being driven away (see what I did there?)and that I don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Yes, I may be feeling sorry for myself but sometimes I get pushed to that point and yes I guess I can suck it up which I will have to do eventually but for now I'd rather have my own little pity party.

Perhaps I will be back tomorrow but until then Forgive Me.
L.W.

St. Judes & Memphis

Limo Man and I went to Memphis Tennessee for the first annual brick ceremony at St. Jude's Children's Hospital. That's our brick at the top. We got to choose what we wanted the brick to say. If you are ever there our brick is just to the left of the front doors of the hospital. We got a tour of the hospital, had a fabulous dinner the night before the ceremony and got to see some of the kids who had been treated there and hear their success stories at St. Jude's. The day of the ceremony we all got to see our bricks outside of the hospital so of course we had to take pictures! Later that afternoon the hospital provided us with a killer Memphis barbeque lunch.

While we were there in Memphis we got to see a lot of the city and we visited Graceland, Staxx Records, and Sun Studios. We did a lot of walking in Memphis (now I can see why Marc Cohn wrote that song) because there was just so much history to see! We saw the Peabody Ducks, the Lorraine motel where Martin Luther King was assasinated, the Orpheum theater, the Fender guitar factory, and who could forget Hueys with all the frills! We also walked down to the Mississippi River and took a walk along the Riverwalk. Several of our walks were over to Beale street to get a cold one or to try one of the fabulous restaurants. What a town!

We even caught a Memphis Redbirds game. The park was right across the street from our hotel. We had such a great time in Memphis!

L.W.