Author: Doris

Hope they are getting better. I don’t want to call to disturb them.

Poor Noel. You are the only one in the family has no nothing on Valentine’s Day.

At the end of every cold, Jeremy gets hives and as he gets older the hives are getting worse. So he is staying home today and going to the doctor later this afternoon. Vince and I went to the post office to pick up another present from Ruth! Thank you, Ruth! Pretty quiet around the house today.

Hrm. I applied to Specialized just now. I think I wrote a pretty good cover letter. Anyways, I wonder how much money really is enough. I’ve talked about this before with Doris. I think it’s really hard when you look at all your friends with all their BMW’s and fancy houses. Lately, whenever people talk about houses or cars or jobs or whatever, I get to thinking that I’ll never be able to do these things again. That in some ways I’m not really at their level anymore. Everyone’s living on such a higher monetary plane than I am. It’s depressing. No question. I lust after things. As much as I think it’s shallow, it’s true. Will I be happy making 40k 10 years from now? Do I want to continue to avoid the realities of getting a real job? Sometimes I feel like I’m selling out going back to computers. Something in my gut tells me that is the wrong thing for me now. Now the question is do I listen to it?

Thanks for the sweet treats! We will enjoy them!

Busy day, got up, Jeremy dropped Vince off at school this morning. I packed up Edda, Ruby, and a few bags full of groceries and headed up to Rhinebeck for Edda’s final check-up with the orthopedic doctor. He manipulated her legs, bent them back and forth and declared her healed! Yah. Then I went to the town clerk and got a copy of her birth certificate for $10 because I lost the original. Then I went to Bob and Katherine’s house and had lunch and waited for Jeremy. He’s took half a day off to cook a Valentine’s Day dinner with me and the rest of the Martins. Ben came up from NYC. Got the car inspected in the afternoon and picked up a prescription for Jeremy.

I just got it back from the professor. It’s made from Aluminum and it’s got a brushed finish if you can tell from the picture. I’m really happy with how it came out. My other 2 projects tho, aren’t so pretty…

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Happy v day. I got the flower from my “boyfriend” as stated on the card. It was funny that they gave 10 roses in the vase. I am sure that daddy would order a dosen. So I called daddy. And daddy called them. They said that it was honorest mistake and they re-dilivered 2 more rosed.

I got another cold and saw a doctor. You all have to be careful to avoid it.

Looks like I’m finally free of the flu. Woo Hoo! Apparently there’s a new flu strain called the Santa Clara Flu. That’s what they are going to make next year’s flu vaccine out of. Great.