Hey gang.  Jackie, it is good to see you back here where you belong.  Hope you get over the jet lag soon.  Are you planning on staying home for a while?  Mary Lou, this month did just zoom by, didn&#39;t it.  I can&#39;t believe it has already been a whole month since we left for our cruise. Thanks for asking, Chris is doing fine.  He was a little stiff the first night and took one of my muscle relaxers.   Tonia, at least it wasn&#39;t something that would really make the dogs sick, like chocolate.  I know what you mean about your other half being gone.  Greg is going to NYC in 2 weeks for business, and now that Chris is living here, I won&#39;t be alone at night, I am going to enjoy laying in the middle of that king sized bed and watching TV.  I can&#39;t watch it in bed when Greg is home because he says it keeps him awake.  Funny how he can lay here in the den in his recliner with the television blaring and him snoring like a bandsaw.  I do miss him when he is gone, but it will only be for 2 days.  Sheryl, I hope your family has a wonderful cruise.  St. Thomas is one of my favorite ports for shopping.  Steve, I had no idea that birds lived that long.  I had a canary once when I was much, much younger but he was out of his cage when one of my brothers came into the house and he flew out.  Hi Jenn - forgot to post, hmmm.  Well, seeing as I am over 50 myself now, I won&#39;t make any of those old people jokes.  Has anyone heard from Carmen?  Just wondering how she was doing after her injection.  Darn, Maria, don&#39;t you just hate it when that happens?  I do it all the time and I get so aggrevated, that I never go back and retype it.  Hi ya&#39; Joey.  It is always good to see you here on the dock.  Are you sure you are in your 2nd childhood or is it that you never left your 1st???  Sue, hope you can keep Pappy&#39;s leg down when he is around the tree.  My male is neutered but he has a big problem with marking everything in sight.  I have been offline for the past 2 days.  I was syncing my iPod the other day and somehow checked the wrong box and erased everything and I did not have the songs stored on my hard drive.  I lost over 500 songs and I have spent the past few days trying to redownload them and transfer them into my iTunes.  I still have almost 200 songs to go.  When I get done this time, I am going to burn them on CD&#39;s and keep that as a back up.  Well, the tree is finished - it is not as &quot;decorated&quot; as I would normally do, but after a week of it, I decided I was done.  As soon as I get all the boxes and stuff cleared away, I will take a pic and post it.  I got my nutcracker collection up but decided that I was not going to put up the western themed tree in the family room.  I made this decision after Greg had already gone down to the basement and brought up the tree and all the decorations.  I hope all of you Crazies have a wonderful weekend.