I can't believe it's been a week!

OK, don't hassle me...it's been a tough week. Last Sunday and the Bears was fantastic, but that evening things started slowly going downhill. I'm not going to rehash everything, but things have worked out nicely and everything is good.

The workweek was a bear to say the least. Through Thursday there was at least two meetings everyday. Of course, nothing got accomplished because of preparing for and then working on assignments for or from the meetings. On TV you always see businessmen go from meeting to meeting to meeting and everything is hunky-dorey...nope, it doesn't work like that! What they don't show is how the work gets done!

No home Predator games this week. It was All-Star week with the All-Star game being held in Dallas on Wednesday night. Western Conference won and it should because it IS the stronger conference! It was a great game.

I got my grades online from the Paleography class I took from BYU. I got a 91 on the final and a 90 (A-) for the class! WOO-HOO!!

Tuesday was doctor visit morning. My three-month regular visit came 'round. And it was a good one. In three months, I have lost 16.5 lbs, dropped my blood pressure to 134/80, got the eerie looking mole off my back and been given a good report on my spot in my lung. Actually, according to the report, there are three spots and they are calcified lymph nodes. Doc said that they should be no problems in the future and to keep doing what I am doing to lose weight and keep my BP down. I go back in six months and if the weight loss trend continues and my pressure is low, then he will think about taking me off the pressure meds. He does want to change me to a new med that doesn't cause fluid retention...my ankles swell. I have a lot of this current medicine and he told me to call when I run out and he'll prescribe the new one. So I am completely happy with all that!

The annual Birmingham Philatelic Society stamp expo is coming up in two weeks, and I usually go down and check out what kind of goodies I can find. B'ham is about 3 1/2 hrs from here...Not a bad drive. So I have been taking some time this weekend to go through my stamps and see what I have and what I need. I rarely find any Lithuanian or Slovenian stamps at the B'ham show, but a lot of UK, Bavaria, Vatican and Ireland , and of course US. Knoxville show is the first weekend of March and Nashville's is the middle of March. I think I am going to go to the Knoxville one. I haven't attended it in more than 10 years. Maybe they'll have some different dealers from the East Coast??

It's cold here in Nashville...winter finally arrived. I went to eat tonight at Golden Coast Chinese on West End. The bank thermometer is across the street and at 7:23 pm it was 22 degrees. Brrrrr..... It has been sunny all day, but very windy and cold. I don't think it got above 32 degrees. Some of my daffodils were blooming outside, so I picked them and brought them in so they wouldn't freeze up...why waste a good flower?

Well, it is 8:30 pm right now and I need to finish this up. Not that I don't like spending time with my friends...but I want to finish at least my stamps from the Vatican tonight.

Thanks for reading my pitiful musings. A big shout out to Dave. We haven't had much time to chat recently and it is good to hear from him. And Jon, my new friend in East Tennessee...he might help me out with some artwork for a project I am doing. Thanks Jon for your friendship the past few weeks. It is refreshing to see things from a youthful perspective!

To all my UK family, hope you are doing well. I really am trying to plan a trip to see all of you soon! And to my Lithuanian friends--Labas! Well, back to looking at the popes and the Vatican stamps...