new printer

I finally hooked up my printer to the computer, after only being in the box for 6 months. I get alittle edgy when it comes to doing things with machines. I take my time and hem and haw about doing it, but, when I want to use it is when I usually put everything else aside and read the instructions and do it! Of, course, all that crap is out the window when you realize it was actually very easy to do!! I had it up and running inside of an hour. And of course, it worked perfectly! I printed a great picture I have of Kevin Sorbo on my pictures and it is gorgeous! What was I so worried about! Now, I can print my kitty pictures and now my Mom can see him...

Fall has come

Fall has come, at last. It is 53 degrees right now. The trees look fantastic! I live in a valley and the hills look great right now. We are in the early part of the change of leaf color. Within the next 3-4 weeks I think the leaves will be all gone. Then it gets the dreary look, the no color look. I didn't have my camera with me today, but maybe some day this week I'll go and take some pictures.

Camello Anthony came home last night as the Denver Nuggets played in the dome and won! It was a homecoming of sorts, since 'Melo hasn't been here for awhile, I guess. He helped SU to win it's 1st and only NCAA basketball championship in 2003. Oh, God, it's been 51/2 yrs. since we won! Hard to believe it's been that long. My sister, Veronica and her son, Robbie, went with some friends of Robbie's to the game and said it was fun.

Well, that's it for now.

Virginia

Surprise visit

My sister, Ann, and her husband, Tom came up for a visit to see his family in Bridgeport and stopped to see our mother on Monday(10-6). It was great seeing them as we haven't seem them for at least a year. I really can't remember the last time they were up from N. Carolina. They usually get up here at least once a year if they decide to do it on Tom's vacations. Ann doesn't have a job, I don't think?

They have been married for 39 years! They have been in NC for at 12 years and moved there because Tom's job moved there in 1994. He took a job here in NY for 2 years traveling 45 minutes both ways, and then got tired of doing it, so he found out his old job was hiring and they sold their house and moved out.. My brother, Paul moved his family the same time the company left. He has since gotten divorced and remarried this past year.

My sister, Ann, is into crafts and does a mean macrame. She also knits and crochets. She's also into gardening. Me, I like to do counted cross-stitch, and embroidery. My sister, Betsy does crafting also. Likes to work with her hands in her spare time. We all learned how to sew from our mother and learned different ways to do it in school, in Home Ec.

The other picture is of us 4 girls and looks somewhat like a mugshot, one of my sisters said! Oh, well, we took it on my camera and left it the way it was. They are as follows, me, Jeanne, Ann, and Betsy. Youngest to oldest, cool. Hadn't thought of that until just now!!!

Well, that's it for now. See ya soon.

Virginia

Lunch

I had lunch today with my 3 sisters and my mother, like we do every month. We have been doing lunch once a month for a year now. My mother moved out of her house 3 years ago and I was talking to my sister Veronica and said you know Mom isn't getting any younger and that we should try to see her more often. So, I suggested to the other 2 and my mom if we couldn't get together at least once a month for lunch in a different restruant. So, they all thought it was a great idea, and we have been doing it for a year now.

Today we went to Applebee's and it was very delicious and the waitress was great .. I announced a couple of things. One being that I lost 12 lbs. in the last 2 months. Yay!! It's a big deal to me, because I have a hard time losing weight. I think the blood pressure meds has something to do with it. My 2nd announcement was that my dept. at work won a contest for the BEST Health Information Management dept. (HIM) either in the state or the country. Don't remember which. Will update when I find out... We are going to get some pretty neat stuff to commerate the event. An article in a medical magazine with pictures. We are getting a shirt made with the HIM logo and a night on the town. So, it's pretty cool and can't wait to see the magazine.

Here is a picture of my kitty, Blackie. I think he is going to be a very big cat. He is only 5-6 months old... As you can see, he is all black except on his tummy, he has a little fluff of white there.. I put the heat on and you never saw a cat move so fast! He was gone in a flash. He still doesn't like the sound of my heater, which is pretty loud. It is right in my dining room of my apartment...

Well, that's all for now.

See ya, Gina

p.s. It was nationwide contest! How cool is that!!