Good Morning, everyone&#33;<br />
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It&#39;s nice to be up so early for a change.  I had to get up at 8 AM yesterday for some doctor&#39;s appointments so I&#39;m trying to go to bed earlier and keep it up.  I need to get on my earlier schedule for the cruise, and Tuesday Marc and I will take mom into the hospital for her hip surgery.  We have to have her there by 6:15 which means I will have to get up around 4:30 in the morning which is the time I usually go to bed.  LOL  I&#39;m kind of walking around like a zombie until my body clock gets used to being up so early.  LOL<br />
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I went to bed at 1AM last night and got up after 8 this morning.  We had a thunderstorm with lightning and some good boomers and I though...I should get up and go turn on the TV and see if it&#39;s severe, and I just said...naw, I&#39;m too tired...LOL  Very unlike me...I always keep up on the severe weather.  LOL<br />
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Had my ultrasound on Friday, and also some physical therapy for the vertigo.  The vertigo is a flare-up of the benign positional vertigo I had two years ago.  We all have little crystals in our inner ear gel, and when they get loose they can float around and make us violently dizzy.  I had a manouver called the &quot;Eply manouver&quot; that helps to put those little buggers back in place.  lol  Am doing better, but still a bit off balance.  I go back in a week for more PT.  No news yet on whether the clot is gone, but I think it will be good news.  Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.  Mom is getting very nervous but sooo wants to get it over with and be well again.<br />
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Rose...Happy Birthday to your dad&#33;  Glad you had a nice lunch with mom and dad.<br />
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Jackie...so glad you and Tony are safe&#33;  What a horrible experience.  I hope you are both feeling better and not sore.  I&#39;m sure down the road a bit it will be something to laugh at...but not now.  The vertigo...I do remember when you had it...I&#39;m so glad it went away for you in time for your cruise.<br />
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Mary Lou...Congratulations to Caitlin for her awards&#33;  Happy Birthday to Paige&#33;  Good news for T.J.&#33;  Wow...you do really have a full schedule for June...this is the first year for us in a long time that we haven&#39;t had a lot of graduations and weddings, etc.  Next year we will have some more graduations,  Have a nice trip to N.J. and drive safe&#33;  So glad your vertigo didn&#39;t come back.<br />
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Charlie...congratulations on the cruise...Tahiti...wow&#33;  That is sooo wonderful.  Hope your allergies are better&#33;<br />
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Mercedes...so glad you are safe and your truck is OK.  Driving in those storms are so scary since you don&#39;t know if it&#39;s safer to keep going or to pull over.  My DH always says to keep going because someone will hit me if I pull over, but it&#39;s scary when you can&#39;t see where you&#39;re driving.  Glad your fire drill went well.<br />
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Tonia...congrats on getting the home equity loan.  It will be so wonderful for you having AC.and heat.  I can&#39;t imagine not having heat or AC here in Mn.. We only need the AC for a few months in the summer, but, it does get really humid sometimes.  Your cherry jam and shrimp salad sound sooo good.  Think I had better go have lunch.  lol<br />
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Cheryl...Happy 50th&#33;  So glad you had a nice birthday&#33;  I will be reaching the big 60 this December...kind of scary.  lol  Everyone says I don&#39;t look that old, though, so that helps.  lol<br />
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Jen...would love to see &quot;Bear&quot; all prettied up&#33;  Bet he looks sooo cute&#33;  It&#39;s so nice that your &quot;little&quot; will still be in the program next Sept.  We help to support some children in different countries in a Christian program and it was sad when our girl in India had left the program.  We had gotten to know her pretty well by her letters.  She left because her parents married her to someone at age 17.   We feel good, though, that we helped to give her an education and religious upbringing.<br />
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Chuck...thank you for all the beautiful flowers&#33;&#33;  <br />
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Melanie...nice to talk to you again&#33;  So glad the garden and all is going well.  Good luck with the costumes to the R Fair.  I have a friend who worked at our Rennaisance Fair a few years back and she had a really pretty costume made up.  She had so much fun.<br />
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Smoo...I hope things will go better for you at work.  I will keep you in my prayers.  I&#39;m retired now, but I remember those days at the office.<br />
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Have a great weekend, everyone...and Happy Father&#39;s Day to all the Dads&#33;&#33;&#33;