Afternoon all. Cooler today but still lovely out. Glitch all fixed in our tax program so we trudge on today. Glad I did all that cooking yesterday as the week promises to be busy. At least I can work at home all week and tomorrow Howie will be home too to celebrate his birthday. I&#39;m sure there will be some work but maybe not all day&#33; <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wink2:" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />  Finished wrapping the gifts and have Chicken soup in the crock pot for my dinner tonight. <br /><br />I am also starting research on a kitchen redo. Since the market has dropped I decided that we&#39;ll be here for a while still and I really want a new kitchen. I have dark 1970&#39;s cabinets and counters.....YUCK&#33;&#33;&#33; It can only help with the resale later and I get to enjoy it for some time first&#33;  I&#39;ll be asking for lots of help while I work my way through the process from all of you who have done this before. I know it&#39;s a huge undertaking and I&#39;m trying to decide if I want to start from scratch or reface the cabinets. Almost everthing else will be new.<br /><br />Jackie I know you love this cooler weather and I hope you get to enjoy some of it today. You know at this time of the year if your not organized life can become chaos. I try to avoid that and cook 1 day a week for the entire week. Just makes it easier for me. <br /><br />Steve glad that storm didn&#39;t leave you lots of white stuff. Your cruise is right around the corner&#33;<br /><br />Ed and Roe enjoy visiting with Hugh and Jenn. <br /><br />Carmen I would love to go in a hot air balloon, just once of course. DD &amp; I loved the peacefulness of parasailing last time. We are doing it on Coco Cay if we get there. Last time we did it in Labadee. <br /><br />Cheryl what a long day. Sorry about the garage door opener. I hate when mine goes on the fritz. I had it put in by a company that will service it for a lifetime so no more repairs on that for me. Our gets a lot of use like yours so they tend to have issues more. Hope it gets fixed without too much trouble.<br /><br />Marylou so glad to hear your visit with the girls was wonderful. How nice that you didin&#39;t have to make that long drive and got to spend more time with them. So sorry for Deb&#39;s loss of a dear friend. Of course we&#39;ll say a prayer for her and her family, how sad. <br /><br />Sue enjoy your evening out with friends.<br /><br />Carmen great to see you on the dock. Glad you finally have your surgery set.<br /><br />Joey with our numbers 99.5% would be great&#33; <br /><br />Well better get a move on......work to do. Hope you all have a great day&#33;<br />