What Would I Do

I like the idea of having a group of mentors in your own personal What Would _____ Do group. Kind of like phone-a-friends. Now, next time I find myself in the potato chip aisle, I will try to ask myself, What Would Kathy Do?

My trip to Niagara Falls was wonderful. This group I travel with are all a little older and slower (I might still be the slowest one getting off the bus though), but we do know how to have fun.

Jan shared Gene's grade-school knickname with us and that preoccupied the whole ride back. His knickname in grade school (because he was always so helpful to the nuns) was Suchy Sister Super Suck. Well the fact that Jan was an x nun got that twisted every way but loose.

The gambling was fun and my losses didn't exceed the Van Houten Recommended Daily Allowance. Lots of new kinds of machines (I can't think of any now except the Garfield ones) at the Seneca casino. It also turned out that the Seneca one was on the New York side of the Falls. I think that was my first time over the Rainbow Bridge. My first two times actually.

After stopping at the duty free Monday morning and loading up the overheads with bottles of liquor (that rolled around a lot by the way), when we returned to the hotel Monday night the hostess said "Oh, yeah - you will have to put your liquor in your suitcases because we have to go through customs a couple more times today. I guess it was ok to bring it back into the states but then we were coming back through Canada to drive home and we weren't supposed to bring it back into Canada again.

The Fallsview Casino in Niagara (Canada) was also the new one. I don't know why people always think bigger is better. Both casinos were huge, with hallways full of shopping and restaurants to walk through before you get to the gaming area.On Monday I ran out of energy before I reached my RDA and found a nice comfy seat in the food court and before long half of our group was congregated there to wait for the bus.

On Tuesday I reached my RDA by noon and the bus didn't leave till 2:30, but they had some very comfy wooden benches along the shopping corridor and I had a great people watching seat.I think Jeannette came out ahead and Jan and Gene hit $150.00 on the Texas Tea machine and he quit while he was ahead.Now, I'm looking forward to Kewadin on the 23rd.

California Visit

From Adrienne's and Marisa's comments on my last post it looks like they would like me to come out to visit during the time that Ris' baby is due. Don't you people understand that I am not a person that can come out to help? I am another person that gets in the way and needs to be taken care of. I was laughing about it with some friends at dominos today and one of them said "Tell them to call you when he's big enough to push your wheelchair."

I won't wait that long, but I don't want to be underfoot when all the excitement is happening either.

I just saw a cool Judge Mathis. I guy was suing for his engagement ring back because his fiance had a baby by somebody else. Judge said "Was your engagement already off when she got pregnant?" and he said "No, I never called the engagement off, I just wanted a break, but I never called it off." Judge said, you never called it off, and he said no. Good, says Judge, so you're still engaged and don't need the ring back. Case dismissed.

Longboat

Its official. Rita and I are flying to Tampa on Tuesday May 31st. We will be staying at Monica's at both ends of our week at Longboat Key which is June 4 thru 11 this year. We return to Detroit on Tuesday June 14th. Other planned trips are April 25th, an overnight to Niagara Falls and May 23rd, an overnight to Kewadin. So don't say you never know where I am.

The baby finger of my left hand is swollen like a sausage with what I suppose in arthritis. Its been about 4 days now tho and if it doesn't go away soon I may see a doctor. I went to Windsor yesterday and (apart from the pain which won't be mentioned here) the doggone finger made it very difficult to collect the coins when cashing out a slot machine. Aarrgh It never ends with old people.

Baptism

I know there are way more important things going on right now, but I think its interesting to note that while he was here last weekend, Jackson baptised my living room carpet. He is very fond of naked-baby play time and although Sandra kept thinking of more and more clever games to get him to come to her for diapering, he kept thinking of more and more clever ways to get away.

Full Mouth

I just picked up my new store-bought tooth. They connected it to all my other store-bought teeth. I still have some pain from the extraction that has settled into a quasi sinus headache behind my right eye and since my gums were still a bit swollen from the extraction I'm not sure if the pretend teeth are adjusted properly and may have to go back next week. Aarrgh

Congratulations to you Marisa as you enter this new and exciting chapter of your life.

And to end with a prayer May God grant the citizens of Glendale the wisdom to vote for Kathy.