March (part II)

3/14/18  -- pi day -- or in my world file corporate and partnership extensions day .. one left to go and that chore is done.  lots to do otherwise.

3/18/18 -- finishing up the homework projects -- well I quit and am packing up ... a few tweeks and it is time for bed --- but I have short hair.

3/25/18 -- so much chaos -- but today I will tame that beast.  Freedom#70 has become Freedom#24 a lot of freeking work to go ... one return at a time, one return at a time.  software server (in lovely Eagan was down last night) ... argh.

3/27/18 -- i'm losing it quickly -- really quickly.  overwhelming chaos on a Monday does not set the tone for a good week.  damn weather -- i need 75' and sunny -- soon.

03/30/18 -- one day and twenty years after the tornado from hell ... I looked back and I posted this on the blog in 2009  -- sums up a lot of memories , so many memories ... miss the people more than the stuff, Grandma, Joyce, Boyd & Ceil, Uncle George & Aunty Lou, Bill -- so.many.memories ... just need to remember life is about people and experiences not the stuff.

It brings back the good and the bad memories. I should look up my old office neighbors today -- I still remember the hug from Boyd -- telling me it was good to see me alive --- and please move my truck -- he needed to get out of the driveway, even though his car had half a building on it. All the windows blown out of the office and my fish flopping on the floor (and then relocating them to the toilet -- it had water!). I can still hear the sounds of the snow plows clearing debris on 3rd street --- trees, cars and tornado poop.

Breaking Silence -- again

So, breaking silence ... again -- this silence gig really isn't going all that well.  At any rate, last night was the St Peter Women Celebrating Women Event -- it's dinner with speakers, fellowship and each year an honoree ... unbeknownst to me -- I was selected as 2018's honoree ...

The introvert in me -- does not like the spotlight.  Seriously -- speechless in front of 400 women.  I'm still speechless -- so many people to thank ... 

it is humbling, very humbling.

Margie, Jim and I

The fab 6 -- we've attended almost every year of the dinner -- and every year we get our "portrait" taken -- Bex, Me, Jan, Jean, Mom and Deb ... we are normally the noisy table in the back of the room .... the quip of the night from Jean "so, maybe we'll get to sit up front next year" ... oh boy.

I almost didn't attend.  We had an issue with a client on Monday night and he was scheduled to return Tuesday afternoon and I did not expect it to go well -- Tuesday morning he called -- found what he was looking for and cancelled our meeting.  My conversations with him Monday night were not pleasant and I'm very concerned about him and his welfare.  

 Life in small town, rural Minnesota is pretty cool on St. Patrick's Day .. nothing better than a parade of kids, characters, old cars and firetrucks .... especially on the first warm day in months.

sunrise is pretty cool too.

March

3/3/18  -- three days into Operation Silence and I feel the need to share my discombobulated thoughts.  Big word for tired and jumbled .. so it rolls on 3rd Street

3/4/18 -- even though I was discombobulated I got shit done.  Lots done.  and now the Fancy Ford is groaning/growling ... elder #1 diagnosed a brake issue -- and told me to "drive it"

3/6/18 -- 8.5 inches of snow... really Mother Nature, I'm not sure that was necessary ... up by 4:00 ... here by 5:00  -- bed can not come fast enough.

3/7/18 -- received the news a client was diagnosed with ALS ... perspective peeps -- it's all about perspective -- it (this news) is kind of rattling all of us ...  .. we just keep plugging along doing the best that we can in the time we have.

3/8/18 -- today MaryAnn and I enrolled Ruthie in hospice.  it was kind of a surreal experience -- she's ready and she's failing -- my only hope -- she is pain free and comfortable on her journey.

3/10/18 -- and the software went down for 3 hours yesterday -- I mean down, like really down ... at the Eagan server -- wth -- they could have at least sent out an email blast. 



so, evidently I posted this rather than save it ... let's just say life is full of technology challenges -- or I can blame it on daylight savings ... or .... or .... or....