APRIL 9TH - TONI'S BIRTHDAY!!

Warm Birthday Wishes!

Remembering you with caring thoughts and warm wishes for a wonderful day.

Happy Birthday

Love,
Dee

Okay, enough with the Hallmark bullshit!

I know this post is a day early but I was sitting at the comuter and thought "what the heck".

What can I say about Toni? Did you ever have one of those friend that you just can't live without? Well if you haven't, Toni would be the perfect fit and here she is with me!



Toni is the one who can always make you laugh no matter what she says or does. There are so many things that come to mind when you say Toni's name.

Funny, loving, caring, thoughtful, warmhearted, makes me laugh so hard I could pee my pants.

If we were ever stranded on an Island together, we would be fine. She would bring the hooch and I would would bring the booze. You can't ask for more than that know can you?

I remember when we were younger and we would have fun no matter what we were doing... walking the neighborhood, hanging with Smitty on the roof, shooting pool with Crazy Mary, working at Pizza Sub on Western, sitting at Lil' Rich's. Loitering in the Lincoln Square Plaza with all the Rich's (big, little, cookie), Hoddie, Kay the big dork! and so many more. And there was this one guy who lived by St. Mathias school, older man, Bonj was his name, he was cool. He has since died but was a cool guy who loved Jazz and loved to smoke. He had yellow fingers and all. We had some weird friends but they sure were fun times had by all.

Toni,

I am glad we have shared the last 35 or so years together and look forward to the next 35 or more.

I Love You,
Dee

The hunt is on.

Today I realized that a new job is exactly what I need right now. Don't get me wrong I like my job, the freedom my boss gives me is great. The surroundings have something to be desired.

I work in a "home office". There is too much home in this office. When I started there a year ago it was cool. I was able to take my kids to school in the morning and pick them up on my lunch break (2:00 p.m.) and bring them back to work to finish off the day.

In the summer my boss' kids were at the "Lake House" all summer so my kids got to come and hang out with me when needed, so it was all good.

Then it happened...family (marital) problems, everyone has them but since this is a "home office", I got them first hand. I have been dealing with this for over 9 months now & have decided that's enough for me.

So as of today, I am officially looking for a job. I am giving myself 2 weeks to find something. Let's see what happens.

WRITER'S CRAMP OR JUST LAZY?

My my, December 9th. I can not believe I have not written two words since then and Jessica has novels. How does she do it? Well as Jessica(and Michael Jordan)would say... Just Do It!

We are gonna cover a lot of ground here.

So much has happened since I last wrote. I left off on Basketball. The season is now over and we took 1st place. This was the kids 1st year so they were not so good when we started but as the year went on they got better. So next year they are gonna rock!



Christmas was good this year. As always, all that preparation and it is over in a matter of minutes. I don't remember being selfish when it came to gifts. I think we were happy to get anything. Kids nowadays... I want an Xbox 360, I want an Ipod, I want, I want, I want. Oh my God, my dad would have knocked me on my ass if I was like that. My kids were told long ago that Santa brings 1 gift for each of them and mom and dad get the rest so do not be asking for crazy stuff. They were good. Mary Jo's list said "Dear Santa, Please bring a Nintendo WII for me and my brothers."
Michael's list asked for a Nerf football and Marty asked for a Nerf basketball. I was so glad I had that conversation with them. Santa got what they asked for and yes dad and mom did buy more that I originally set out to buy because they understood what I told them.

January, February and March have just flown by. Spring break the week before Easter? what's that?

Marty took the week off so we could do something with the kids. Last year we went to Florida for the week. Was not what we had expected, my Father in Law had and a AAA (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm)the day we got there so we thought we were going to have to fly home. We did not get to do all the things we had planned because we wanted to stay close to the airport just in case. He is fine now. He will get his own blog soon. This year we did nothing big. Marty and the kids went camper shopping, took me out to lunch one day, and just hung out together. The kids really loved the time they spent with there dad. I worked everyday. When you don't get paid time off, that's what you do.

How about Good Friday. It snowed like crazy - like 12 inches in March. Gotta love Chicago. For those of you who have forgotten what it looked like, I have pictures.







Then before the snow could melt(which it did my Monday), Marty and the kids built a snowman....




Now here we are pretty much up to current. I have to go feed my kids but I promise myself, I will be back.