Rant: my asthma has been terrible for the last 5 days, I can't breathe :'(

Rave: husbandy's vacation schedule has finally come through, we are cleard for Europe =D>

Rant: our first round of Priceline bidding has been rejected, the hotel prices are going to be more than $50 more than we paid last time, I suspect

Rave: weather is getting warmer

Rave: I like Jor ;;) especially his little funny comments now & then

Rave: everyone here is pretty great!

Rant: typo... I think our Priceline hotels will be at least $50/nt higher than what we paid last year....:s :)

Rave: Saw two great movies last weekend, "Are We There Yet?" and The Wedding Date, both very good! :D

Rave: Enjoying gorgeous spring weather, riding my bike with my Vizsla trailing along behind!

Rave: Brunch this weekend at a beautiful country club to meet my son's fiance's parents. Should be very nice, having their engagement announced at church, also. :)

Rave: Snowboarding! DD and DH had a great day boarding together, half of our family and friends are headed up this weekend again, while some of us stay behind for swim meetings. :)

Rave: A very nice Japanese dinner last night with my daughter. She comes home from two hours of swim practice so hungry! :)

Rave: We may be going to Long Beach, CA for a week in April for swim competitoins. I'll find out more tomorrow, should be fun!

Rave: It's been fun watching my oldest son and his fiance register for all of their wedding things. They also found a townhouse that they absolutely love! :)

Rave: Helping others plan trips to Cambria and Carmel has me longing to go there! I think the La Playa Hotel in Carmel looks very nice. Maybe in May for my birthday!

Rave: Beautiful daffodils blooming everywhere. I found them at Trader Joe's for 10 for a dollar, they look beautiful in the vases around the house. Happy weekend, happy travels and planning! ***kim*** ((#))

Ryan, praying you and your doctors find a good solution for your problem.

Rant: dh and I are in charge of publicity for our state home school convention

Rave: the job is almost done! Whooo hooo!! :-D

Rave: oldest dd is working, doing well overall, and is almost done with her incomplete college classes from last semester

Rave: thinking of planning a surprise overnight in Santa Fe for dh and me next month - oldest dd can babysit overnight once classes are finished! ;)

Lee Ann

RAVE: My oldest son just called to say that he was notified today that he will be graduating Summa Cum Laude! I am beaming right now :D

Final Rant: Just received the statement for updating my powers of attorney to conform to the Fed's HIPPA requirements. $375. so my docs could share my med info with my three children who have the powers and will have to make decisions.
M

Lee Ann, I'm guessing that you home-school your children. I recently came across a terrific resource called "Homeschooling Companion"
www.homeschoolingcompanion.com

Thanks for the link, Seetheworld, and congratulations to your son - that's certainly rave-worthy!

Lee Ann

Rave:
Thanks everyone for the best wishes. Still facing some uncertainty but having the worst case scenario, and several of the probable causes ruled out is a positive, for me.

Political ideology aside, it is too bad we can't figure out a way to make our healthcare system more inclusive in a way that makes economic sense. If I didn't have the ability to see a physician every year for a complete physical, my problem may not have surfaced until the permanent damage was already done.

Rant: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE leave your company loyalty at the door when it comes to your retirement plans. I've spent all week looking at a situation where it seems that most of what people thought was "their" pension plan - really isn't. They put loyalty ahead of their own best interest - a bad spot to be in when your company files bankruptcy. If you have a 401k loaded mostly with your company's stock or are in a non-qualified plan - you really ought to think about the downside.

Rant: We will be flying, over the next 10 months, roughly 90,000 "butt-in-seat" miles. I am looking for two pair of decent, not break-the-bank, noise-canceling headphones.

These are only sold, evidently, (a) on-line, where you never get to hear them before shelling out your dough, or (b) in impregnable plastic molded packages, hung on racks at "big box" electronics or office stores, staffed by goobers who know, er, bupkis about nada. "Oh, you can return them if you don't like them." Okay, then what, repeat the process indefinitely?

So far I've decided the 21st Century needs work.

Rant: Michael Jackson Anything!

Rave: My three year old son picked flowers for me today and brought them in the door when he came home from preschool!

Rant: The News Media!

MIkemo: A simple advance directive to your physician and the medical records department of your hospital should take care of HIPAA regulations in that situation, wouldn't it?

Kimamom: La Playa is one of my favorites! Enjoy!

Gardyloo, "the 21st century needs work"---I agree!

Rave: tomorrow I am going to the "Chocolate and Wine Trail" event in Herrman Mo. Seven wineries will have tastings of chocolate desserts paired with wines. Looking forward to tasting Eiswein (ice wine).

RANT:
Three (3) more of our brave troops killed in Iraq today. That brings the total death toll to one thousand four hundred and ninety (1490)!! I would have capitalized the total, but I would have been told I'm shouting. Maybe shouting is what we need for people to wake up.

I wish we were in Oregon this weekend for their wine festival in Newport!

RAVE: Had a great trip to Thailand.

Rave: Great weather in SoCal and, we missed the rain storms.

Rant: Still jet lagged. :-B

Ryan, I agree with you 100%. I worked for a Fortune 500 company and looking back I would not trust them with a dime. I got out before they "outsourced" most everyone who wasn't on the board.

lcuy, just one word: ATA.
You know how I know? I've been shopping because

Rave: I finished my first full week at my new job this week and

Rave: My boss is sending me to Arizona for a week! ATA has the best fares so far. Southwest <i>could</i> be better if they could do multiple cities on their website. Try check um, lcuy!

Anyone going to be in Honolulu this weekend? Come to Aloha Tower Marketplace! There's a historic ship visiting on its journey around the world. check out www.naovictoria.com.

Well Scarlett, that is a perfect opportunity to plan a trip for next year:)

Rant: Ward Churchill- anything he says!

Rave: having fun planning my trip in April and I have this weekend off. I normally work 7 days a week! :-)

rapunzll, I heard about some things he said but don't remember exactly what it was. There is a man who is a professor at the U of Colorado who was recently exposed for selling art work which he claimed was his own work but were really copies of art from another artist from about ten years earlier. What a creep.