Carol’s Blog

I love days like today.

I woke up early enough to actually sit out on my back porch for awhile before I headed in to work. I slept good (which never happens) AND when I got on the scales this morning, much to my surprise, I had lost a pound!!! For the past week or so I’ve been wallowing in whatever it is I was wallowing in and when that happens I tend to console myself by overdoing it in the food department. So losing a pound was a nice surprise.

The day was slow and easy and, for the most part, I was able to get caught up on some of my work that had been left undone while Iva was out on vacation for two weeks. I even have our paper website updates almost completed so I’ll be able to upload them in the morning (ON TIME!) for a change. That hasn’t happened in about three weeks.

So, I feel pretty good today. Of course, family stuff is always on my mind. I’m just looking forward to June when I can go see them.

I talked to Tom on Messenger last night. We got all caught up on “the news” back home and all the fun they had at our 30th class reunion. He told me they might be tearing down our old high school and building a new one. I can not IMAGINE that!!! How sad. All those many people who walked those halls over the years. All the memories of Mr. Brown and his paddle, having to write 1,000 word themes because I can’t keep my mouth shut, all the pep rallies, the streakers running across the front of the auditorium butt naked, socializing with my girlfriends, basketball games (basketball was my true love at the time) … the list goes on. It was like an enclosed little social globe where nobody could touch us and all the woes of our lives that were yet to happen just didn’t exist.

I’ll be keeping a close eye on what develops. They actually need a new school. Our old high school is just about falling apart and that’s sad, too. It was in pretty good shape when Cleve and I attended there but that’s been over thirty years ago. WHOA!!

I didn’t make it to our reunion this past year but I’ll try to go to the next one. According to Tom, they had a great time!

I’m sitting out on my porch now and the rain comes and goes. It smells good. Supper’s in the oven and I don’t have to work (much) tonight.

Other than a few worries that I have … life is grand.