follow up to learning to scan

my apologies in advance for when we retire and start visiting everyone...it seems we will be spending extra time with mark's cousin :Mary and her clan, probably a month or so (compared to the average week i anticipate with everyone else)...our payment for staying there is to look at pictures, and anyone who knows me, knows i HATE (she said facetiously) to look at pictures! the reason i have so many is that i get caught up in looking at them i never get around to doing anything with them...people hide their photos when i am around because i ignore everyone while i tiptoe through the memories...gonna be a great time in corpus christi is all i am sayin'...can't wait to see pictures of uncle jack's crew from back in the day! i am sure that Mary won't mind my ignoring her...but wait, she has kids, and i love kids even more than looking at pictures...in fact, i will be taking so many more pictures i won't have time to look at pictures...well, you get the point...

learning to scan (to the tune of learning to fly)

apologies to tom petty and the heartbreakers...

we got a whole shitload of pictures so i will be lucky to finish this project by the time we retire and hit the road, which is the whole point of the exercise...get rid of the hard copies so the load will be lightened for the fifth wheeler...i don't think mark will let me cart five totes of these around the country, although i could let everyone we visit take their pick...
 
what a concept...all your pictures on a flash drive or disc...i am old school and think they should be in an album or loose so you can sort through them every time you want to see them, not in a folder where you can look up exactly what you want...where is the fun in that, not dredging up memories as you search?

oh well, i will move into the 20th century, kicking and screaming, but you can bet i will save some in a secret stash to dig out and look at when we are somewhere i don't have the computer...

too many projects/too much hair

i titled this blog randomness for a reason: i will talk about anything at any given time...

i am starting to crochet again...

i checked out books from the library...

i am cleaning out the file cabinet by sorting and shredding old documents...

i need to start scanning pictures onto the computer for transfer to discs for storage...

who has time for laundry, much less finding a job?

oh, did i mention the hair on my head is growing back? but not as fast as the hair on my chin...

at least i don't have to shave my legs yet...

Go Chuck!

Chuck is my ex-husband and the biological father of my daughter, Heather.

Today is Chuck's first birthday.  His sobriety birthday.  I am so proud of him.  He deserves to have his life in control.  He is one of the best, smartest, musically eclectic people I know.  Being able to enjoy his intelligence and wit has been a joy my whole life, but this last year, knowing he has been working on his own self has really made me appreciate him as more than the man who I grew into adulthood with.

He is strong and I know he will continue to fight his battle because he wants it this time.

I love you, Chucko, and thank you for being you!

New Year's resolutions

Nope, don't have any.

Except to have the most uneventful year ever.

For those of you who have been following my blog, or see me on facebook, or get emails from me, you know that I had a full year in 2010.

Lost my mother-in-law, Adele Zimmerman, in January.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in April.

Mastectomy and Reconstruction Surgery in May.

Recuperation for the next few months.

Lost my brother-in-law, Neill Sorensen in July.

Chemotherapy in September and October.

Hospitalized with an E Coli infection in October.

Luckily, through all this I have had Mark. And Heather. And Terry. And Leah. And Dana. Those are just the people that were there physically.  I have had, literally, hundreds of other people rooting for me, pulling for me, praying for me, sending me cards and letters and flowers, and thinking of me as I travel the road to recovery.

So I am only hoping that 2011 allows everyone else to take a break from my problems.

Happy New Year!