Busy day

Got up early this morning and filled a service assignment at the temple.  Hard work but it was fun.  Got home and did my treatment, cooked dinner for Steve to eat when he gets home, cleaned up the kitchen, mopped the floor and am now going to bed.

A Friend Departed

When I first started my dialysis treatments, I got back to working on my genealogy.  Donna Freeman contacted me and invited me to join the Stewart family site.  We emailed back and forth, prayed for each other, and just kept in touch.  I grew very fond of her.  I had written her a couple of emails and didn't hear back and was concerned.  I knew she had heart problems.  I got back onto the family site today and discovered she had died last October.  It tugged at my heart strings, because I really felt like I'd gotten to know her.  As I read her obituary I became even more impressed.  She didn't hesitate when faced with challenges, she just kept working on them.  She grew a beautiful garden and was very involved in local politics in her area.  She will be missed by many.  She just wanted to get together in Sallisaw Oklahoma for a reunion, hopefully that reunion will still happen sometime in the future.

Another girl pays the price and McDonalds

So it appears Joran van der Sloot was arrested for allegedly killing another girl.  He was arrested in Chile and is being extradited to Peru.  He was the key suspect in the murder of a US girl, Natalee Holloway.  It would seem he may finally pay for what he's done.  Its just too bad they couldn't convict him for the death of Natalee before he had the chance to kill another girl.  I can't help but wonder how many others there are out there we know nothing about.

Another interesting thing in the news today - McDonald's has ran an ad in France, clearly pro-homosexual.  "In the past, the American Family Association conducted a lengthy and effective boycott of McDonald's over its previous pro-homosexual policies. That ended when McDonald's officials conceded they would be neutral in the future. Johnson contends the ad is a clear violation of that, and he says he is already in a boycott mode. AFA reports it is trying to reach McDonald's officials for a response."  One News Now -   Boycott time again?

Been trying to get a loan modification on our mortgage "this time" since early April.  This is my third try on this rodeo.  It looks like its progressing though.  45 days to go.

Now I've settled down

Going through camera pics taken over the past couple of weeks and ran across these.  My sister had flown in town a few years ago and I had been down to her hotel to visit her.  On the way back, dark had settled in and I was driving down the freeway and saw this opposite me on the freeway -

Somehow I found humor in this.  Casket store . boxes to go.  So when i was driving back form Austin last week with my daughter I made her stop, went onto the service road no cars were coming and I jumped out of the car and took the picture.  Bad example for my daughter I know, but I wanted to preserve this for history.  It had been just an awful time when we were in the final stages with Helen.  So, when I saw this I laughed so hard.

Speaking of my daughter - she's coming home.  Well close enough, she'll have her own place and only be a couple of hours away instead of 24.  These are her new digs.

Finally - here are my kids.  It was my son's birthday the night after we returned and so we met at IHOP and ate for his birthday.  

 

DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)

Can I say I'm angry with DART
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Yes I can!

Bureaucracy . . don't you love it!  I had an appointment with my dr. at the dialysis center this afternoon at 1:30.  Since we're down to one car and Steve had to be at work at that time, and I am trying to be self-sufficient and not a burden on anyone else, I called DART to check on using the transportation system to get me home.  I see the little yellow flex-line bus pass my house several times a day so I figured no problem.  Wrong!  Anyway, I called them and they said yes, the flex-line bus could pick me up at my dialysis center and bring me close to the nearest stop to my home.  I called today as soon as my appointment was over and he said he could pick me up at 2:07.  I asked if they would come to the door or should I stand out front.  He said if I could be at the curb it would be helpful.  So at 2:10 I called as I hadn't been picked up and was told they were caught in traffic but on the way there.  At about 2:20 I see the van on Shiloh turning and going north - not south to where I was. I called ... reply "can't cross Plano Parkway".  I'd have to walk up to Plano parkway to be picked up.  Started walking up there and he picks me up nearly there.  At that point, he said I'd have to be at 14th and Shiloh to be picked up in the future and then after I gave him my fare, I was told he'd have to drop me at Shiloh and Park.  Didn't have time to stop at my stop.  By this time I was frustrated.  Oh yes, I was carrying a box of dialysis supplies in my arms all this time as well.  So I got off in front of Albertson's and started walking home.  He passed me walking not once, but twice.  Didn't have time though to drop me at Peachtree though.  I'm ticked!  Did I mention its 90 plus degrees here today?


Yesterday was interesting.  I woke up at 6:45 a.m. to hear the missionaries vacuuming their room.  When I approached them about it, didn't get a real friendly reply.

On an up note, I got my laundry done and got my ironing done yesterday.  Big accomplishment though.  I felt like my insides were going to fall out before I had finished the ironing, but I got it done!