CHRISTMAS IS COMIN`!

Hello everyone,

I`ve posted this graphic for no other reason than I like it, I hope you do too.

Today I started...wait for it....Christmas shopping....there I`ve admitted it.  I`ve bought several presents and some christmas cards, and the sooner I buy the rest the better.  Mind you, I`ll run out of money before long so a job is needed very soon.  I looked in the situations vacant pages of the local paper and all I can find are jobs that I`m too old for, not qualified for, or so badly paid it`s not worth the trouble of working in the first place.  There is a vacancy for a receptionist at Battersea Dogs Home, Windsor, but the hours cover the weekends and that is a no go for me.  Next week I`m going to ring around the employment agencies to see if I can get some temporary work for the time being.

This morning I helped Kerry with Roman`s bathtime.  She hurt her back lifting him and couldn`t carry the baby bath.  She was sorting through some of his clothes and has found that some that he hasn`t even worn yet are too small for him.  He certainly is growing well.

This afternoon I had a hospital appointment for 3.30.  I arrived a bit early to find that the clinic was running over an hour behind schedule.  I didn`t wait around, the clinic was so busy that most of the people there were standing so I decided that I wasn`t going to join them.  I changed my appointment and left.  The next earliest appointment is 4th November but I don`t mind, I can wait.  It was for my arm and I have had the appointment changed twice already.  When I was last at the clinic in July, the doctor wanted to see me in three months to see if my arm and hand had more feeling by then, so I came away with an appointment for late October.  Several weeks later I got a letter from the hosp. saying that they had brought my appointment forward to August....why?.....  Then I got another letter saying it had been changed to today, early yet again.  So my cancelling the app. isn`t a problem at all.  It simply gives me the time I needed before the doctor sees me again

Danny has decided he isn`t coming tonight after all.  He called me a little while ago to say that he will make his own way here tomorrow.  I asked him why and he said he`s tired, but I can tell there is something wrong because he was very quiet.  Usually he is very chatty, one way or another.  He does worry me.

Tomorrow I think I will have not just Danny and my brother-in-law staying, but two of my nephews as well.  I just hope we don`t have to play host to any other relations, never mind though, it`s only for one night.

I haven`t looked properly at any journals today so I had better make a start.  I`ve got loads of alerts and they are mounting up as I type away. So for now, dear friends, I hope you all have a lovely weekend and take it easy.

 

Can You Believe It?????

One day a ranger for the Yellowstone National Park Service joined a crowd of people, cars, trucks, and motor homes that had congregated to watch a bear.  One woman and her little boy stood out in the crowd.  She was smearing something unidentifiable all over the boy`s face.

The ranger asked the woman what she was doing.

She answered, "Putting honey on him, of course!"

Stunned, he asked the obvious question: "Why?"

She answered matter-of-factly, "I want to take a picture of the bear licking it off his face!"

Fortunately the ranger prevented the child from approaching the bear but the ranger still has nightmares about it.

  Thank you Sara for my bouncy tag!