Happy New Job, Jules! :)

Well, I guess that everyone knows by now about Miss Julie's new job, but I thought I would make it "official" and put it print here! LOL

Also, Blingdaddy had his appointment yesterday with the orthopedic guy yesterday. He needs to have an MRI on his Achilles and go from there.....doc says it's torn, but doesn't know the extent of the damage yet. Hopefully there will be no surgery involved here, just therapy.....also, his cough is getting a bit better, but the ribs are still hurting......pain, pain, and more pain. Yikes.

Grandma M takes off for her European cruise TOMORROW! Uh oh, forgot to call her to wish her bon voyage......thought she left Thursday! Oh, well, what's one more black mark against me in her little black book? Tom is reading this over my shoulder and told me that last time he was there Grandmama showed him her Euros....how cool is that? I"VE never seen a Euro.....

And while we're on the Grandmas, Grandma Lois is staying with a lady from her church who called her last Friday. This is an 88 year old woman who, of course, is all alone (her daughters live in Virginia and California, and she's a widow). She was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and now has been feeling scared at night and is afraid she's going to kill herself. Isn't that lovely? So Grandma has been staying with her, but she's hoping that by Thursday or Friday someone from the church will be able to relieve her! I got to hear the whole BM thing again - I don't mean to make light of this but I guess that Grandma can't take a dump unless it's on her own toilet or something.........sheesh! Okay, maybe some day in about 20 years I will be in the same situation, but I sure hope not......I promise not to tell any of you if I am, though, okay? :) Gross topic.

Tonight on my walk I was wondering about the impatiens that are planted around the driveway to the golf club - they grow in a mound so that the edges are lower than the center, but the ground underneath them doesn't appear to be higher. I cannot for the life of me figure out how the gardener guys get them to grow that way! Pretty soon those impatiens are going to be yanked out of the ground for the winter....boo hoo It was really, really cold tonight - Miss Jules, my birthday hoodie was just not quite enough to keep me from feeling the cold, but I believe it was in the lower forties, so that's pretty nippy.

I just knew that Kelly was going to call me when I was on my walk, so I brought my phone with, and sure enough, it rang when I was at the halfway point......it was nice to chat, and plan what she's going to do this weekend when she comes home (shop (are you surprised?), get a haircut, ravage her room for more stuff to take back to school with her - after all, we got everything into the car on the way DOWN there.....LOL

I don't believe I mentioned Aimee's birthday here.......Blingdaddy, Tommy, and I went to Red Robin with Aimee, Paytie, and Matt for lunch on Saturday. Very fun! Paytie was soooo well behaved, even Blingdaddy commented on how great he was. We all stuffed our faces with burgers and fries......Tommy discovered that he can eat a Boca burger there on a plain sesame bun! He couldn't believe how full he was from that and the fries. In any event, it was a very nice birthday lunch, but we are still going to have a little something for her on Friday when Kelly comes home. Kate, I don't believe I remembered to mention this to you....hopefully someone else has!

Aimee, Matt, Kate, and Brent went out on the town Saturday night in St. Charles, and Paytie came to the BlingMansion for a sleepover. He was an angel, and not one cross word passed between him and Tommy. Yay!

Sunday morning I left for my trip to Urbana for Kelly's orchestra concert - very fun drive listening to music in the car - Jon McLaughlin is always entertaining for me....throw in a little James Morrison, Leona Lewis, and Miley Cyrus and I was in musical ecstasy...LOL

Okay, so I know that you are all waiting to hear my report on "Kelly's Matt", aren't you? I went to lunch with Kelly and Matt before the concert. It was really nice gettng to know him a little bit (and I do mean VERY little since we didn't have all that much time). I can see why Kelly likes him. :) One word: dimples. Okay, that's not the only reason.....LOL I hope that you all get to meet him one of these days. Seems like a "keeper" to me. :)

I guess I have spewed on enough tonight and will now sign off to go do a little reading before bedtime. See you all soon! :)