I think the trees blooming have gotten to me.  I woke up with a head ache today.  Hope your day is fine.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

And even slept in this morning, until the neighbor dog started barking.  Last night when I arrived in the neither regions parking lot to come home... a woman drove up and asked me if I knew how to get to Abacorn.  She was looking for T* Max and was basically...  from here and heck and gone... lost.  Not in a good neighborhood.  I gave her instructions to get to Abacorn downtown and she could wend her way through not so good parts of town to get to the mall.  But she mentioned that she was worried about her car breaking down.  I wasn't going to send her the simple way with a undependable car.  So I got in my car and had her follow me through the better parts of town to get to the mall.  She was very thankful and I was relieved she didn't break down.  So I have done my good deed for the week. 

I am woking on my paper persentation, ordering fabric for my client, applying for a college presidential grant, and trying to get my taxes done today...  and playing some scrabble inbetween.  Matt and I are going for a walk and having dinner here together.  Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn 

I really do try to not count down days in my life... but here I am again counting days until school gets out.  I will be very very happy to get back to a normal schedule in three weeks.  Two weeks of classes one week of vacation.

I went to bed at 8:30 last night... dozed until my normal 11:00 o'clock bedtime.  Slept until five was awake for an hour or so and slept in until 8:00... I think I was (am) tried... Love and kisses, Marilyn

I got to bed late last night because of playing scrabble on line with a friend... off to the chiropractor before school... have a great day.  Love and kisses, Marlyn

I slept well last night.  Took some *lka s*ltzer plus to breath better and get rid of minor aches and pains... I only got up once. 

Long day today.  I am excited about the literature reviews my students have done.  I have read two out of five and they are good so far.  Need refinement but the thinking is there.  Hope your day is great.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I am trying to place an order for fabric for my client in Florida.  Can't get the company to call in back in the quick time frame I have before I have to be at school.  Hmmmm  Hope your day is great.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

Got home at six.  It was a good trip back.  Hope your day was grand.  I really enjoyed my visit.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

Then meeting Ellen at the pool.  Coming back here to the hotel to work then going to dinner with Nancy.  Full day.  Had a great dinner with Luke and Ellen last night.   We laughed so much last night my ribs hurt.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I dropped my sister off at the airport at 4:45 am and left for Virginia after that... by 7:00 am I needed a nap... I was up late playing scrabble on line... it was really fun.  So I stoped at a rest stop, got in the back seat, put a blankie over me and took an hour nap.  I was then able to make it they rest of the way. 

Sky is blue... air is crisp.  It is good to be here... Love and kisses, Marilyn  

So I couldn't blog at home.  She is leaving for four months for Yakima, Washington to help start a residential adolescent care facility.  She wanted to tell me how important our connection has become to her... and I said the same for me.  It was a pouring out of love... I fear I will fiercely miss her... She has become such an important part of my life in the last six months... The conflicts within our family kept us apart until our parents died and we could trust enough to reach out to eachother. 

I slept well last night and feel some better today... I don't know why, but this week seems harder than last week... even after a long weekend of rest and recuperation.  Once today is over, I only have three more weeks of this crazy schedule of five classes.  I am heading for Virginia after dropping Connie off at the airport at 5:00 AM

Hope your day is wonderful.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I am off to school for another day of innovative teaching.  I hope that my students are working away on their project.   I think they are.  Last night I was locked out of my office and had to get my chair to come and let me in so I could drive home... no office keys no car keys... Some of my students were still there working at 8:45 at night. Hope your day is great.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I think we had frost again... hmmmm too many to count this year, but I am enjoying the sun and coolness during the day.  Hope your day is grand, I am just doing another long day at school.  Love and kisses, Mairlyn

Have to do with anti aging... like someone older only wants to do something to look younger... hmmmm

I had one set of students do really well on their annotated bibliography.  Three groups did okay.  One person in a group I don't think has any idea about what a paper in Emerging Materials should be on.  She is research lead based paints... not solutions, but that it is bad for people.  This is information at is almost 100 years old... hmmmm not emerging in my mind.  Her partner is working on nanotechnology... wow... now that is emerging.   I need to help her move her topic to something emerging.  Hmmm

I was able to relax sometime during the day.  I took a nap between grading and had a lovely soaking bath in the evening.  Now I feel better prepared to go back to school and teach.  I was pretty exhausted from the last six weeks of teaching an overload and no weekends off because of the accreditation process.  Hope your day is wonderful.  Love and kisses, Marilyn 

Hmmmm I am grading my graduate students annotated bibliographies... it will be interesting to see what they did.  Hope your day is grand.  Love and Kisses, Marilyn

Hope your day is great.  It is raining here.  I am going to have breakfast with Matt and Connie and then they are heading off to do different things... I am going to cocoon for the day... nap on the sofa sounds really yummy as does reading a good book.  or just watching movies. Hmmmm 

My students handed in their papers last night.  Brought them to my house.  I glanced over one and it was really good.  I am excited about taking a look at them tomorrow. 

Hope your day is wonderful... Still wondering about the chocolates...  Love and kisses, Marilyn

We ate breakfast together and sat on the deck and talked...

Matt came over and went went for a walk at Fort McCalester and then had dinner.  I made broccoli and chicken with garlic and ginger chicken.... it was yummy with rice, and bread with strawberry jam... 

I got a box of chocolates for valentines day... and I don't know who they are from... It was sent from Florida and has Gordon on the front... with a strange phone number... my ex husbands first name is Gordon...  so the phone number would not be strange... hmmmm Has me scratching my head... I someone else gave them to me I would appreciate knowing... Anyway... love to all for Valentines Day. 

Hope your day was good.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I swam hard again last night... It felt so good to get the endorphins flowing... My head was so much clearer. 

I introduced myself to a lifeguard Steve... and he said don't die in the pool while I swim.  I think I worried him last week too.  I told him about the 40 year old who was concerned because I was puffing so hard...  I said yeah, but within a minute my breathing was back to normal and he said yes my recovery time was really good... and that I was amazing... hmmmmm  I guess I have to let these whippersnappers (young ones) know that old fogies can get their heart rate up and not pass a way from a heart attack.  I will try to warn them when I am going to do a fast set.  It makes me smile... I still feel 30, but I think they see me as late fifties and close to death.  That makes me laugh.  

This has been a hard week because of the continued little down time on the weekends.  This is next weekend will be the first weekend I will only have grading to do on the weekend since school got back in early January.  With teaching an overload this old foggie is feeling her age when shes not in the pool that is.  I need some good sofa time to recover somewhat.  My sister, Connie and I are going to hang out together most of the weekend.

My friend Maiss facebooked me about coming to Jordan to see her.  Made me seriously think about going to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey to see my colleagues from VT this summer or next winter break.  I need to get a budget together about air fairs etc and see what it would cost. 

I hope that your day is terrific! Love and kisses, Marilyn

For homemade strawberry jam.  I will see what I can do.  Last night I was putting the bubbles away in the fridge.... when the jam cooks it forms foam and you have to spoon it off before you put it in jars.  So last night I took the spoon out to put it in the sink and it was covered with jelly that had settled under the foam... I put it in my mouth and it was to die for... it tasted so yummy. 

I am off to school.  Already we are half way through the week.  I have lots of grading to do this weekend.  Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I spent my writing time catching up on Carole, Jenn and Fabiolia so have no time to write.  Made home made strawberry jam last night.  Yum, yum.  Love and Kisses,  Marilyn

But my alarm that I set to go off once... three days ago, woke me up at 7:30.  Well it really didn't wake me up because  I was already awake... but I had my other bedside alarm set for 8:00.  hmmmm

It was really nice to be home in my house, in my tub and in my bed.  all snuggly and warm... hmmmmm 

When I think about my clients house.  It is truly amazing.  The house was designed to be totally sustainable as possible while still be attractive.  As you can see from the photos, it is beautiful.  You would never know that the house is not like every other house in the neighborhood.  But it will feed power back to the grid.  Use gray water to flush toilet and stored rain water to water the drought reisitent natural plantings.  In addition it will be hurricane resistent. 

In twenty five years of being an interior designer, I have never seen the trim installed so precisely.  Of thousands of connection with steel, wood, plaster each joint is percise and beautiful.  There are only two that might be off a little where most houses could have two or three imperfect joints in each room.  It was a joy to behold.  The marriage of stained concrete, bamboo flooring and native woods is wonderful.  The LED lights are going to be great. 

Hope your day is great.  Love and kisses, Marilyn