Hello everyone!

I cannot believe it, Spaces finally let me in! I hope that this will not be a fluke and I will be able to blog walk as often as I used to.

I’m going to start this entry with something great that just happened to me this morning. I had my annual review at work and I received a bigger raise than last year! My boss told me that I was as perfect job coach as she has ever seen and she wouldn’t be able to do her job without the things that I do every week. That made me the happiest I’ve ever been “work-wise” but I was also glad that I was recognized for all of my hard work. For example since we are the ones that are in the community, we were asked to get “our adults” schedules. We have thirty adults working in the community and half of them have schedules that change weekly. I am the only one who gets the schedules and I go out of my way to be sure that our boss has the schedules. What I still don’t understand after nearly three years (has it really been that long?) is that is one of the simplest things that we can do and it’s for our schedules. I don’t mind that the others don’t bother; it just doesn’t make any sense. In fact, after my boss told me all of the wonderful things that she recognizes that I do, she gave me a 5% raise which is the biggest one that I could have gotten. Pretty cool huh?

Justin just had a birthday and is doing really well considering. He completed a computer training course and is hoping to find a way to use his new knowledge to help other war vets like himself. He’s still struggling and probably always will but isn’t giving up. His mom is amazing and Justin’s younger brother, N. returned from Iraq in one piece and will be stateside for seven months unless our new president gets any new ideas before he may have to return.

Beloved and I are in the process of remodeling our master bathroom after 23 years. We have received two quotes that were pretty close and are doing our homework to be sure that we pick the right tile, granite and of course, the contractor. When I have some picture to share, I will post them although I’m not the photographer like Cindy is!

Pound Puppy is having fun with her boyfriend. They play at least once a week and since he got his “summer hair cut” she looks bigger than he does but they really are the best of friends. I’m not sure if I have shared this with my Spaces friends, but when our precious cat died a year and a half ago I found a little kitten from the pound. I was finally able to get her spayed about three weeks ago since both the pound and my work schedule took a while to come together. Our little one has become more loving and when we let her go outside to explore our backyard with her big sister, she didn’t stray too far and kept checking to be sure she could come back in the house. Glad we were finally able to take care of that so she can go outside and play while I’m at work.

Well, it’s been a long day so I will close this for now. Please don’t lurk, leave a message. I miss my Spaces friends!