Hello Everyone,<br /><br />Well, I&#39;m off to work this morning...my entire weekend of call, I didn&#39;t have to go in...especially glad last night as the winds were high and rain fell in huge sheets.  I will take the back way to the hospital, that is more devoid of blowing trees...cannot afford to have the NEWER van crunched&#33;<br /><br />Ummm, Jackie, when I am in Tampa, you&#39;ll have to join Charlene and I at Cilantro.  I would love that.  My son, Shawn, discovered an Afghani restaurant called Kabul that he and his friend are taking the two mothers to try...Takura is a 72-year-old nurse practitioner that I just dined with for the first time a couple of weeks ago - our children have worked together coordinating the pro tennis tournaments ( aka the likes of Robert Federer and Serena, etc ) in the Bay area for ten years now and we moms had not met each other.  We hit it off famously.  What a waste of the past ten years of great dining and friendship&#33;  Ah, but we&#39;ll try to make up for lost time now...and I love Marla, Shawn&#39;s friend....alas, it is NOT a romance.<br /><br />Well, the Costco shopping spree wasn&#39;t all household purchasing...about &#036;300 was for Monarch crew gifts and a a few things to go to the Philllipines and India with staff who are headed home on vacation.<br /><br />Well, time to head to work...let me get the rain gear on....yuck.<br /><br />Love to all....dress warmly...or, if you&#39;re in that part of the world, for shorts, etc, be cool.<br /><br />Carmen aka RNSANE