Monday November 24 2008

The rose Bonnie gave me for my birthday

opened up today.

Here is the biggest news!! Andrea and Shane had their baby yesterday. It's a boy and they named him Samuel Ryan. He weighed 8 and 1/2 pounds. Joe hollered at me after I was in bed that Beverly called yesterday and that they had the baby and it was a boy. That makes me a great grandmother for the first time. Not so long ago I wasn't sure I'd be here to become a great grandmother. Anyway Beverly and I talked this evening, and she told me all about it. I know she is just going to want to be holding that baby all the time. She and Brent are grandparents of Brent's son Eric's little baby boy born early this year. Beverly has had all boys.There are pictures in my email that she sent, where I'll go next and try to see them - if the email will work. I might be able to put a picture on tonight.

This morning was awake about 7 something and asked Joe if he would unload the rest of the Walmart bags out of the car, which he did. I couldn't resist beginning to put some of it away. But needed to get busy, get a shower and get things ready for the small art group who were coming to paint here today. I called Sandy at the phone company and asked if someone could c ome and get my internet going, and set up my email into the laptop with my new email address. He got here about 9:30 or 10 and I pretty well stayed with him while he did everything so I'd perhaps know how all this new stuff will work. It didn't take him long. And one thing he did say was that I only needed one, ONE (1) of those little boxes that they other guys put one in every room. He might have been here about an hour and got most of it set up. I'm still having probably a small problem, in getting to my email. And I don't know where its going to download in to. It should be OfficeOutlook, but that won't open I recently found out. Remember I said that last spring I asked this same Mike to work on my computer to get Outlook set up, and now it seems like that was never done or done right. So there is still more to figure out.

Joe said he was going to the ranch, and I guess he got a few more things and fed and watered the cats. He ate at Boulder about 2:30 and didn't want any dinner tonight. He got home about 4 p.m. just after the gals left.

They arrived beginning about 9-ish. Charm came first and she had very kindly offered to make a salad and also made some delicious oatmeal white chocolate cookies. Boy were they good. I knew what the day would be like so bought Stouffer's family size lasagna, garlic toast and a Marie Callender coconut cream pie. Any way, we had Charm and I, Lois, Melita, Sandy, Nancy, and Kay. Just as people were arriving is when the phone co. guy came. I had some coffee made and the gals sat up their stuff to paint. I never got mine set up until after lunch. All of a sudden I remembered I had to get that lasagna into the oven. It hadn't unthawed although it had been out of the freezer at Walmart since about 5 p.m. yesterday. Would something you wanted to stay frozen ever keep that long? But soon we had a pretty good lunch without too much effort. Everyone helped get it on the table and off again.

So after everyone left I had to run down to the driver's license place, this was my last chance to get the eye exam taken care of this week. And lucky I got there. But they told me I had to go to the eye doctor for the exam and get him to fax my results to Cheyenne, that the eye exam they give is different than the eye doctor's. And if it doesn't get there before Dec. 10, they will cancel my driver's license. Yikes! I only got the letter the middle of last August. So.... somehow have to get the test. Our eye doctor is in Rock Springs, although sometimes he comes up here on a Friday.

After the driver's license office, I went past the second hand store and decided to go in looking for a small table or TV stand for the TV in my studio room. So far I haven't been able to come across something small that will hold the TV and receiver. But I did find a couple of dog toys, six matching wine glasses, and a turkey rack! I keep working at getting yesterday's shopping put away - still have some more to go.

Tomorrow I have to go to Jackson for my next chemo treatment. Charm is going to drive me. We're also going to see an art show that Greg and Jim W. are in while we're up there. Then we'll go to Smith's for groceries. I'll get our turkey there. I'll need a prescription renewed there too. So we'll pretty much be gone all day tomorrow doing that.