news

This is just some odds-n-ends news.

My hearing aids are working wonderfully! I can't believe I was actually missing so much. I wear them at work and it makes a big difference. I have noticed that I turn the tv down when I think it's too loud. Never happened before...

The SU basketball team is still undefeated. Yay, it's 6-0 right now and we won the last 2 games coming from behind.. The football team, after that come from behind win at ND, lost today to Cincinnati, so we ended the season 3-9, 1-5 in the Big East. Oh, well, there's always next year...

It's starting to warm up alittle, from the 20s and 30s we have been having. It usually averages about 42 at this time. No snow in the last couple of days. We have plenty of time to get it for Christmas. My mother and I went to my sister Betsy's and her husband's Bob for Thanksgiving. It was a very nice visit and the food was great. We had all the usual-turkey and dressing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, rolls. And for desert, Apple and Pumpkin pies. They were really good from the freezer, she said.. Who cares they were pies...

Well, I'm hoping the Giants can keep on the winning track, they go to Washington to play the Redskins tomorrow. They are 10-1.

My Kevin news is that he is making some really interesting movies and I hope to get to see them when they come out. I'm not sure if they are being released in the theater or on dvd. There might be an actor's strike and if that happens he can always go back to modeling like in this picture. He did some before he was given the role of Hercules back in 1994. Oh, my goodness, it's been that long. My how times flies!!!

Well, by for now.

SU WINS AT ND

SU WINS!! SU won at Notre Dame on Saturday, and it was one of the most stunning upsets in a while. We were 20 pt. underdogs, and we won 24-23 on a last minute TD... I hid behind my hands for most of the 4th quarter or I was watching a forensics show on TruTv. I couldn't believe we actually won. It was very gratifying to go there and play the way we did. It was a great game, and I'm happy for the team.

We also got our first big snowfall yesterday and today. In all I think we got about 7-8 inches, and it's been really cold, too. Not any higher than 25-30 out today...

new hearing aids

I got new hearing aids today and they are wonderful! When the audiologist put them in it was like, OMG! I asked her if this was it and she said yes, this is what you've been missing! I have an appointmen in 2 weeks for a fitting test. They are digital and she adjusted them so they are not too loud. I am in the lower quadrant of the hearing test and I needed these, because I was having trouble at work hearing certain sounds. I also wasn't hearing people call my name from a distance and someone else had to tell me they were calling me. I should have been wearing them all along, because, I have been hearing impaired since I was 8-9 years old. I stopped wearing them about 15 years ago because they were giving me headaches from my work environment(ie,machines being too loud). It cost me $3900 for these which I paid for with 43 of my savings bonds and 90 hrs. of vacation I had accumulated from work. I paid $2500 today and will pay the rest in 2 weeks when I go back for my appt. Well, it was something I HAD to do and now that I have, it will be great to be able to hear at work and in general conversations.

When I went to have the hearing test done, the audiologist said to me, you don't speak like you are this hearing impaired, and I told her I had speach lessons when I was in school and had lip reading lessons done. It really helped to be able to lip read when I was speaking directly to someone. She was so surprised that I could lip read that she said I was lucky to have had those lessons all those years ago.

On to other things, it snowed last night! Just a sprinkling but it is the first snow of the season. Also, SU men's basketball started the season on Sunday and they play again tonight. YIPEE! On a rather sad note, SU fired the football coach, Greg Robinson. He will stay til the end of the year, which has 2 games left.

See ya later...

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I got cut off! The dvd had some really old pictures on it and it showed alot of the offices the way they were before renovations were done. It was such a suprise to get this. I even ask if we would be able to get ahold of a copy of it and lo and behold we got one in our gift package. We also got a framed certificate of our winning the award.

Now, I'll say goodbye.

See ya..

Happy Veteran's day to all of our veterans...

getting colder

Hello, I just thought I would do some chatting and start with the weather. It is getting colder and feeling like it should. High today was in the low 40's and going down to the 20's tonight. It is supposed to warm up by Friday to be about 55.

My favorite actor Kevin Sorbo is quite the busy fello. He just signed to do a movie called The Illumanati, which is going to be based on a comic that is coming out sometime in the spring. He has several movie going to video and coming out in Dec and Jan. Can't wait to see the one called"Fire From Below" it's supposed be a thriller. He is looking so good lately that it is hard to believe he is 50 yo!! I haven't watched any of his shows lately, with baseball being over I should be able to.

My local college basketball team starts the regular season this weekend. I can't wait to watch it! Maybe the bball team will do better than the fball team did this year. I think that this is Jim Boeheim's 30th year as coach. I might have to go check that out.

Now, for some interesting news. My department at work-HIM- Health Information Management- won a national award last month and we celebrated by having a luncheon and then a "Night on the town" sponsored by the magazine, Advance, which sponsored the contest. It was so cool to be able to have a fun night out with everyone you work with. There are 73 of us, in 4 depts spread over 2 floors in 5 offices. I work in the file room off the main floor where the other 4 offices are. At the dinner we got a copy of the magazine and a dvd of the from beginning to now

Election day

Well, I went and voted. Did You? I won't tell who I voted for, but, I really don't think it matters who wins, because it will be all the same old problems facing whoever wins...

My brother Len, came up from Boston, to visit. He came here alone, even though his wife Mary and my nephew, Steven came up for ?parent's weekend? at Colgate where my nephew Max is going to school. Max is in the band and plays the saxophone. Since Max is a freshman, the university mandates that all freshman HAVE to live on campus, and have to sign-up for trips home. The university pays for the trips and he can sign-up for so many of them. He had his 1st trip home the weekend before last. I think Len said they signed him up for at 3-4 more weekend's and around the spring break.

The weather is really weird this week. It was 67 degrees today, and it's supposed to be in the 60's all week!!

Well, that 's it for now.

Get out there and VOTE!!!!