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My pronunciations get made fun of a lot…including the words and phrases I learned from my mother…you all remember the whole “davenport” thing…and then the pit group name which I had to continue to explain…I have no idea why my Iowa people say Missouruh rather than Missouree…or…am I wrong??  I try to refrain from saying Oh… Read more

So…there is a commercial on the radio for something going on at the Iowa Event Center…. E vent center…not uhvent center…it is drives me nuts every time I hear it…where did UH vent center come from?I’m curious if it is just rural Iowa, …do people drive down the two lane roads in your area and… Read more

My official promotion day today…now Dispatch Supervisor.  Not sure how it feels yet.  will be a working supervisor meaning I will have a regular shift on the console as well as supervisor duties.  I haven’t lifted up my bangs yet to see what is written on my forhead.  Read more

Doctor Clevenger called yesterday to tell me that the xray showed degenerative arthritis in my right knee.  I’m going to stay on track taking the anti-inflammatory and then get back to him next week on how I feel.  He didn’t mention weight loss…bless his heart…or hahahaha maybe he didn’t notice….Speaking of weight loss.  We met… Read more

I was sitting around this morning watching Housewives of Orange County (I know…lame) that I had recorded the last two weeks and thought of something I felt strongly about so thought I should probably go blog..but didn’t…can’t remember now.  Watched Tim Hasselb-whatever on the View today…he and his arrogant wife traded shows…I’m sure she wasn’t… Read more

It has been nice visiting Rochester over the last year, but get me outta here…Like going home is going to be any better….at least I’ll have my critters and more than 1 room to move around in…  After a pain pill in the middle of the night, he says he is feeling pretty well this… Read more

ref my asian male…what a workout!!!  My upper body feels like I’ve worked out…He says the guy looked like Jacky Chan…he was a grinner and a laugher, very pleasant and very thankful for the opportunity to work on my back…and he doesn’t speak english….a couple of times he broke into humming while he was working on… Read more

His first test wasn’t at 0700 this morning as he first told me….0645…we went to bed last night early from pure exhaustion and were both awake by 0500.  Other than a fasting blood test, he had an EKG this morning and an MRI late morning.  I wanted to take my Land’s End coat back to… Read more

Holy crap….It seems this year went sooo fast.  As years go, it was not a particularly good year…but it could have been much worse, I guess.  What I mainly remember of the first few months was the ups and downs with mom and Aunt Frances..almost constant chaos and indecision..I felt  like I was on the… Read more