Wednesday, June 04, 2008

If summer won't come to me......

As mentioned in my previous post, summer is finally here. Well, maybe. This week we have a chill in the air, the weather man keeps calling for rain so it's been cloudy all week. Hmmm, it almost feels like fall...please say it isn't so! I need some sun and some warmth. The thought has been lingering that I need to go somewhere, anywhere to have some real summer weather but with the price of airline tickets I'd need to get a second job just to pay for the darned thing which means I wouldn't have the time or the energy to travel. So I'm doing the next best thing, or maybe it's the best thing....get someone else to pay for the crazy airline ticket. Hey even better, don't take vacation time, get paid for traveling. Yep, go to a conference or 2 somewhere warm and sunny. So I leave on the 7th for South Carolina. I'll only be staying until Tuesday evening, but I'm not complaining....it will be warm, maybe even hot, I don't have to pay in fact I'll get paid to go to the conference...SCORE! But heck who wants just a little taste, huh? I'll come back to Alaska on the 12th, spend a week here (hopefully with nice weather) and then head to Texas on the 18th. Now that's going to be hot, I'm going to love it. Double SCORE!

I want to welcome a good friend, ok so it's my daughter's good friend, but I've gotten to know her and think of her as a friend of mine too. We try not to use full names and because we already have several 'J' floating around our family blogs we'll have to refer to her as JD.....welcome JD! Hope you enjoy blogging. I would put a link to your blog here but I don't know how to do that yet. Guess I'll have to get some more 'blog training' from S. She's knows I'm challenged with this stuff and is a great resource. That is, if I can get her on the phone. Is she talking to you again...I've called and she's not calling back...frustrating!

Well, I better head toward the bedroom. I have to be at work at 7 in the morning and this G-ma needs her sleep!