Rant: I'll keep it to myself?

Rave: Its Friday!

Wow, I can't believe there is only one posting so far, jor. I'll get mine in early!
Rant: Cold weather is hanging on too long!
Rave: We will maybe miss the big snow today as we are just a tad south of its big dumping spots! Yeah!
Rave: I don't have to get up early and go to work in the snow. (I just retired 7 months ago)
Rant: Haven't traveled since early December.
Rave: Going to Vegas on Tuesday for a week, and then Thailand for two weeks in early February!

Everyone have a safe and snug weekend, where ever you are.

Carol

Oops!! Didn't see this was started already!! Everyone ignore the other one I started!! I'll repost my rants and raves here....

Rant: I have to have surgery. My gallbladder is scheduled to be removed on Wednesday. Did I mention I'm only 30?!

Rave: I'll be home the same day and will only need to rest for 2 days. I'll have 4 days though to rest before I start my new job.

Rave: One more week and I start working at Harley Davidson!

Rave: My BF has been great through everything, even when I had a gallbladder attack on Monday that put me in the hospital at 3am.

Rave: One of our clients opened a salon and gave me a great discount on getting my hair done last night. This brunette is now a blond.

Rant: 40 million spent on Inaugural parties.

Rant: The casualties of the tsunami growing every day.

Rave: The outpouring of help for these people and those affected in California.

Rant: We're expected to get over a foot of snow this weekend! Why can't these things happen during the week?!

Everyone have a great weekend!!

Rave: FRIDAY at last!

Rave: There's an active thread about Birmingham AL on Fodors. That's a rare one!

Rave: Going back to NYC this month; husband and I going to Miami in March.

Rant: Husband has not had a single day off, including holidays and weekends, in an entire year. Starting to wear on all of us. (We really need that week in March!)

Happy Weekend, y'all!

Rave: Finally last night my Mom got moved to a rehab/long term care facility. After being in the hospital for two weeks, the whole last week waiting to be dismissed whenever a bed in another facility could be found, she is semi-happy. She's stayed at this place twice before for physical therapy and likes it as much as is possible. Sunday is her 85th birthday.

Rants: Don't get me started on the entire state of the US health care system and housing and care for the aged.

rave: 7 more weeks to Japan

rave: Inauguration wk almost over. Not talking politics, just logistics in DC area. My clients all left town so i had no work this week, kids were off for MLK, late school Tues. due to cold, out of school for inauguration. Will be glad to get back to normal next wk.

missjanna: I had a cholestystecomy while I was pregnant w/my daughter, 2nd trimester. Now that was fun.

Rant: I've got to get over to my beachhouse to do some work, paint a door, fix a porch. Our tenant doesn't have a work contract signed yet for next month and might be out by the first week in February. Rats!

Rave: Hmmmm. Maybe I'll spend a week at the beach house between tenants

Rant: I've got to find a new tenant first -- doh!

New Rant: We had a cold front go through FL and this week the high was right at 70. Our heating is electric here, as it is most everywhere in Florida, and it's pathetic.

Rave: Wait a week and it will change Come on through, sunshine!!!

Rant: jor restraining himself

Rave:No school for a couple of inches of snow! (This means mom can sleep in!)
Rave: The south does not own any plows!LOL
Rant: We will be snowed till the temps go up sometime next week.(By then, I will be praying for school!)
Rave: Because of the snow, no 8pm basketball practice for the kiddies
Rave: Thank God it's Friday!
Rant: I wish I was planning a trip for the summer already!
Rave: Am going to San Fran in spring.
Hope MissJanna has a safe gall bladder Operation!
Have a good weekend travelers!

Rave: I am in Williamsburg, VA and the snow is absolutely beautiful. We do not have snow very often, so when we do, I try to appreciate every minute of it! Should be more this weekend - with ice. As long as we still have electricity, I will be happy!

Rant: I have to testify in Circuit Court on Monday morning. I witnessed an assault this summer and the guy was convicted. He has appealed...and I am the only witness who agreed to testify. I am worried that I willl contradict my previous testimony and end up in jail!

rave- Yesterday I rode a bike from Torrance Beach to the pier at Santa Monica and back. Along the way I saw a five legged dog and a street sign that said "Hang Glider Crossing" as well as seals, dolphins, and huge pelicans.

rant- nope, not today!

Rave: How funny my 3 year old son can be with lines like "Do you not understand the words coming out of my mouth." After he told me no for third time that he didn't need to go to the bathroom.

Rant: My first experience with the NJ Transit trains in January.

Rave/Rant: My first business trip of the year next week. Toronto in Janaury. But, I have a close friend in Toronto that I'm meeting for breakfast so it won't be all bad.

Next time you need cash after 3:00 p.m., thank Walter Wriston who passed away this week. A giant of American industry who is right up there with the icons of American business in the 20th century in terms of their influence on our everyday lives.

Rave: 75 and sunshine today in Dallas!
Rant: I have to work!

Patrick: I hope your Mom does ok there... I hear ya on the state of health and housing for the elderly in the US. It's not even a partisan thing, I blame all politicians for this mess that took decades of neglect! I worry about my own parents and myself!

MissJanna: Good luck with that... I had major surgery on 12/21 with an 8 week recovery and I went shopping on the 23rd and to my Mom's for Christmas on the 25th. I hope you are a scrapper, it helps. But then again, you are going to work at HARLEY!!!! You'll do great!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
~Laura

RANT: Missjanna must have surgery! I wish you well, missjanna . (Both my sisters had GB surgeries; went just fine.)

RANT: Somehow strained my back badly during Monday water aerobics. Will have to ease off on my exercising for a couple of weeks........ but I can walk and water-walk in the meantime. No more weight-loss to report (little comfort eating this week... still 35 pounds off.)

RAVE: Bamakelly's DH is going to get a week off. (That's been a rough schedule, girl!) Enjoy your vacation when it comes.

RAVE: ACC basketball! It's really rocking....... go Tar Heels, Demon Deacons, Wolf Pack, Yellow Jackets!!!!!

RAVE: We leave for a ten-day Florida vacation tomorrow. Ocala, St. Augustine, St. Pete........ looking forward to it, stiff back and all!

RANT: The weather is supposed to be so "cool-ish" for the next ten days that I probably won't be able to swim in the pools in Florida!

Have a great weekend, all!

ONE MORE RAVE: Seeing the Del McCoury Band at N.C. State tonight (the best bluegrass!) Can't wait......

Bonnie, find a hot tub. The skies are still gorgeous. Especially at night! I hope you have a terrific Florida trip.

Aww thanks everyone. I know it's one the more common procedures to be done, but anytime I have to under anesthesia and have someone poking around my intestines makes me nervous...

Oh, and another rant: The rising cost of healthcare. Since I will need insurance between jobs, I will have to pay for Cobra, which will run me over $300 a month!!

Rave: Lovely day in Central NJ (okay, its cold as sin but at least the sun is shining).

Rant: My DH had to rush to India to his Fathers side. He is 84yo and critically ill. He arrived to find his Dad a bit better. But the prognosis is poor.

Rant: It always snows a lot when my DH goes away in the winter. Tomorrows forecast for Central NJ... a nor'easter. Oh happy days.

Rave: Two weeks until my long weekend in Florida.

Have a good weekend and best wishes to those of you facing trials this weekend.

MissJanna: Goodness... Good luck!

Rant: It's cold in NJ. Upcoming snow storm...
Rant: 2 more longggg weeks till the warm, sunny Caribbean.
Rave: Only 2 weeks till warm, sunny Caribbean!
Rant: People who feel the need to denigrate and insult a country they don't like. Just state the reasons you don't like it (we all have places we don't like), but why be mean and nasty about it??
Rant: Why do some people refuse to use their turn signals??
Rave: My 3-year-old.

Have a good weekend everyone.

RANT: It is cold!

RAVE: Spring is not that far away.

Good luck on your surgery missjanna.
Good news about your Mom Patrick.

To Miss Jana,
I had to undergo anesthesia for the first time in my loooong life to have a 6 hour surgery on my neck. I now have naturally CURLY HAIR because of it!! Yikes!!

I was also on a plane to Thailand about 5 weeks after the surgery. Was off work for four weeks. I agree, be scrappy and tell yourself you are going to do things!!!

Carol