Retirement must be hard on memory systems.
Well we are back home after taking a short weekend run back to see family and friends. Of course the primary reason was to attend the funeral. After that was over we went to a “Siblings” to see their home remodeling and to visit away from the noise. Large groups and a large church basement do not make for a good time for me. Once everyone starts chatting, everything starts to meld together for me, thus I stop listen altogether.
We had a nice visit out to the farm house with Jeff, Marjean, Duane, and Jamie. The house remodeling stands up to their Xmas card picture and that porch sure changed the look of the house. Chatted about a lot from topics like new babies to sleep apnea (sp) Think about those two topics and you can see where I go with this tone
When you are born what is the one thing you do the most? Sleep of course
When you get to midlife and its about 4pm or so, what do you want to do? Sleep of course
When you get to later in life and its about 10am? Sleep of course.
Well then-- Why do they call it SLEEP APNEA when it should just be called BABY NAPEA as we never really grow out of it.
After that we headed back to Mike's and spent the rest of a long weekend there. Had lots of fun as both the girls where there. Grandma enjoys being with all of them. She and Cassidy must share a lot of secrets when they retire for the night as it seems they are always together. Ruth attempted to fix an air-mattress but that failed. They claim they had it fixed, but later that night, they claimed they bottomed out.
My last comment for today is this and is something that Mike showed us.
Retirement must be hard on memory systems.
I know a sister who is very diligent about remembering birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and special holidays. This sister worked at a post office for many many years and I have to believe that she had to use a special rubber stamp more then once as she worked out of that post office. Because of the many years of service, she must have attended classes on how a profitable business is run. It takes cash in and it takes cash out. For it to stay in business, it has to do it consistently or it would shut it doors. Now the post-office business "itself" is willing to go the extra step and still deliver the mail, because it has a motto about the weather. Something to do with sleet, rain and trusting mail-men/mail-women. But it doesn't have a motto about the cost of doing business. Instead it has a red rubber stamp and when used, it stamps across the face of any envelope that needs it. POSTAGE DUE in red letters.
Do you think that is what she got when she retired instead of a gold watch. She got the RUBBER STAMPER.
We had a nice visit out to the farm house with Jeff, Marjean, Duane, and Jamie. The house remodeling stands up to their Xmas card picture and that porch sure changed the look of the house. Chatted about a lot from topics like new babies to sleep apnea (sp) Think about those two topics and you can see where I go with this tone
When you are born what is the one thing you do the most? Sleep of course
When you get to midlife and its about 4pm or so, what do you want to do? Sleep of course
When you get to later in life and its about 10am? Sleep of course.
Well then-- Why do they call it SLEEP APNEA when it should just be called BABY NAPEA as we never really grow out of it.
After that we headed back to Mike's and spent the rest of a long weekend there. Had lots of fun as both the girls where there. Grandma enjoys being with all of them. She and Cassidy must share a lot of secrets when they retire for the night as it seems they are always together. Ruth attempted to fix an air-mattress but that failed. They claim they had it fixed, but later that night, they claimed they bottomed out.
My last comment for today is this and is something that Mike showed us.
Retirement must be hard on memory systems.
I know a sister who is very diligent about remembering birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and special holidays. This sister worked at a post office for many many years and I have to believe that she had to use a special rubber stamp more then once as she worked out of that post office. Because of the many years of service, she must have attended classes on how a profitable business is run. It takes cash in and it takes cash out. For it to stay in business, it has to do it consistently or it would shut it doors. Now the post-office business "itself" is willing to go the extra step and still deliver the mail, because it has a motto about the weather. Something to do with sleet, rain and trusting mail-men/mail-women. But it doesn't have a motto about the cost of doing business. Instead it has a red rubber stamp and when used, it stamps across the face of any envelope that needs it. POSTAGE DUE in red letters.
Do you think that is what she got when she retired instead of a gold watch. She got the RUBBER STAMPER.
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