You Will Be Missed....

A wonderful, vibrant, fun-loving lady passed away today.

In 2002 at the St Jude Benefit in New York City, I had the honor of meeting her (along with some other friends I met on the internet thru our love of the show As The World Turns.

Here she is with one of my favorite actors on the show, who sadly is also no longer with us. Ben Hendrickson aka Hal Munson.


And, our dear sweet Laraine with her daughter Melissa, and the young man who played Paul Stenbeck at the time, Scott Holroyd.



Rest in peace, Laraine.

I missed a whole month!

January was such a busy month that I didn't blog even once! I went to Michigan for a weekend with some SS friends and had an awesome time. Last year there were 12 of us and this year there were 24 of us. Tiffany surprised all of us and had a mystery guest.... Cowtown Stacy all the way from Fort Worth Texas! Thank you Tiffany! It was a joy to meet Stacy. She is as sweet in real life as she seems on the board. The other new girls at the retreat this year.... awesome ladies! Now I've got even more terrific SS friends.

And, I finally got to thank SuiteSioux for leading me to S&S (the previous incarnation of SS). All because she posted some info about S&S on the AOL CM Consultants board. Thanks again SuiteSioux :)

Work was busy trying to catch up with my work and training the new payroll clerk. She is doing an awesome job and I can now spend the time doing my job.... which I do love!

I've also started working out again. Easing back into it because not exercising for almost 5 months is not a good thing. I didn't gain much weight back during that time probably because of all the stress but I have noticed that my cardio stamina is not quite where it was in August. It will come back and I hope to get rid of those last few pounds.

I will have to blog again tomorrow. My small town is under a flood warning. We've got flooding like I've never seen before. I did get a few pics tonight before it got dark and I hope to get more tomorrow. The river hasn't crested yet so I'm sure it will still be there.... There were evacuations and I even read that sandbags were being brought into town. I've never seen that before! I'll update tomorrow