Here's a link to the information discussed on today's Oprah show. "The Secret" is available on DVD. It was a great show....a new beginning... if I can take at least half of the advice I heard today.
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200702/tows_past_20070208.jhtml
If you have the opportunity watch the repeat of this afternoon's (Thursday) show tonight. She and her guests are talking about "The Secret." Some of it is a little hard to admit...but it makes sense. It's only 16 minutes into the show and I'm fascinated. The commercial is over...I'm going back to the show. Later........Linda
I've been going thru the piles of printed material I've received from the various insurance companies the last few months. I'm covered by the insurance provided by the health system thru the end of February but after that the Medicare will kick in and I have to have a Medicare supplement and a drug plan in place by March 1st. It's all so confusing and so very expensive. It really ticks me off, I don't know how our senior citizens have dealt with all this confusing paperwork. I am looking at anywhere from $250 to $500 a month for premiums and co-pays. How do people pay for this ? Especially when their retirement pay is low. I can see that I may have to find a part time job just to pay for the insurance and co-pays. Plus they tax your retirement pay...so there goes some more money.
What a nightmare !!!!!
I feel so bad for the people in the mid west and on the east coast. Temperatures down in the single digits. Here in western Washington we've been running in the middle to high 40's with a little sun and a little rain. With foggy conditions in the morning.
Last Saturday Barbara and I went to see a movie (Notes on a Scandal). I love Judi Dench but I thought the movie was very bizarre.
Monday I met a former co-worker at the Olive garden for lunch. Carolyn and I shared an office for a couple years at the clinic where I worked before transferring into the call center in May of 2000. She is the sweetest lady and is not going to be able to come to the retirement party on Feb 23rd, so took me to lunch instead and gave me a Regal theater gift card. She's off work now after having a medical procedure done last week...so I brought her a big bunch of beautiful pink tulips. She was so surprised.
Today I went to a couple used book stores. I have book 1 of a series of 3, so am looking for books 2 & 3 before I start reading book 1. No luck....the books are out of print and so I may never find them at a reasonable price. I found them on line for anywhere between $25 and $100 a piece but I'm not paying those kind of prices for a book of any kind.
Well...that's all for now. I hope everyone is well and keeping warm. Only 16 more days until Robin's birthday !! YA HOO !
Did your team win the Super Bowl last night? If you didn't watch the game, what so important that you were doing instead?
No, "my" team did not win. I'm not really a sports fanatic but had the Seattle Seahawks made it to the Superbowl, I would have rooted for them. I did have the game on, I did not sit glued to the TV, it was mostly for the commercials. And some of them I missed because I was busy doing other things around the house while the players rolled around in the Florida rain.
I've had the Superbowl game on today while I went about my tasks. The Colts just won 29-17 playing the Chicago Bears. The game was played in Florida and it rained like crazy during th entire game. Although, I think they said the temperature was 70 degrees. The commercials were great, that's my favorite part.
I went out in the car earlier and did a little grocery shopping. Came home, paid some bills and finished getting the necessary stuff together to have my income taxes done next Friday. Now I have to get out the box of Medicare supplement and drug plan information I've been collecting for months. I will be covered by my medical insurance from the health system thru the end of February but then I revert to Medicare and whatever supplement I can afford.
It was a fairly nice day here today...a little rain, a little sun...and I noticed this afternoon the temperature was up to 50 degrees. Is spring really just around the corner ?
That's all for now...have a good Monday....I think I'll call in sick. LOL Linda
Well, Thursday was my last day on the job and my last day with the health system where I've worked for 25 years (this time around). I may have mentioned that I worked there two other times back in the 1970's. My mom worked there as a Registered Nurse back in the 1940's and I was born at the main hospital. Today doesn't feel any different because I normally have Friday's off. And people have told me it will take a couple weeks for this all to sink in. The first couple weeks will just feel like I'm on vacation, after that...then I'll realize that I don't have to get up at 4:45 every morning and drive 10 miles across town to the job. No more worries about snow, ice, fog, rain, etc. I've noticed the last couple months on these dark mornings that my night vision is getting worse...and that has concerned me. Anyway, no more worries about any of that stuff.
I went in at my usual time Thursday, then I had to have my yearly evaluation at 11am. Weird I know but it was due and the boss said we have to do it. So we sat in her office, I looked over the paper work, she signed it and then I signed it...then she said something about there going to be a surprise and she really wasn't supposed to tell me but my co-workers were planning a surprise buffet luncheon. The boss said when we go out of my office, don't look in the conference room...so after I stole a quick glance (into the conference room) I went back to my desk, put my headset on, ready to work. Just a little before 12 noon, one of them came and logged me off my phone and said you need to come with me. So away I went into the conference room, acting surprised and thrilled...actually I was thrilled. You should have seen the food....they really went all out. Everything was so good and there was even Costco cheese cake for dessert....yummy ! The rest of the afternoon, I tied up a couple loose ends that I'd been working on and then finished packing up my stuff. It's amazing, how much stuff you can collect when you sit in the same spot everyday for years. Now I have to figure out what do with all the "stuff" here at home. It was suggested that I should have had a "cubicle sale." There's still the retirement party on February 23rd at a local restuarant. Already a host of co-workers and former co-workers have called in their RSVP for the evening. By then reality will have sunk in. LOL
Today I'm off to Costco and then this afternoon friend Bob is taking me out to eat (along with his brother and sister in law) to the Red Wing Casino (http://journals.aol.com/lsfp1960/LindasWorld/entries/2006/07/05/july-5th/1038) for their seafood buffet this afternoon.
Well, I'm off to Costco so until next time..............Linda
P.S. I must add that I had mentioned being hungry and that I was going over to the hospital and buy some lunch, so that's why the boss mentioned the surprise.
