Saturday, May 9

Last night about 6 p.m., my friend Janene called to say she was just entering the valley. She was in Logan for the Family History Expo (FHE) seminar held on campus at Utah State University. She was just going to grab something to eat & then go set up. Evidently they had 3 separate hotel rooms, one each for Holly, Kimberly Savage & Janene. She asked me if I wanted to come spend the night with her. Don encouraged me, so I left about 9 p.m. & got there about 10. She had finished setting up & was coming back to the hotel when I got there.

We sat up until midnight bagging t-shirts for the FHE booth. But it was fun visiting. We both have trouble remembering words & finishing sentences, LOL

By the time I walked back & forth between the University Inn & the Eccles Conference Center 3 times today, I'm counting 15 minutes. I have no idea how many minutes it actually was, but I'm only trying for 15 minutes a day.

Yesterday I walked from the Citizen down to Lewiston State Bank & back to the Citizen. Again, I don't know how many minutes I actually walked, but I was gone half an hour. The good news about yesterday's walk is I did not drive a block & a half one way or 3 blocks round trip, I walked it. Sorry the picture is so big. The bank is at the south end of Stokes MarketPlace (Preston's only grocery store).

To get the picture with no one around, I had to wait for cars to drive by & a lady had just walked in & I waited til the door closed, LOL

TGIF

I logged in to our bank account last night & found out that the government had saved our butts to the tune of $88!! Woo hoo! Utah State income tax refund had shown up on Tuesday & the federal refund had shown up on Wednesday! Then our car insurance will come out on Monday & we would have been in serious doo doo! We get paid NEXT Thursday. As it was, four transactions had cleared. Besides the amounts of the transactions, a $22 service charge would have been deducted. Mother's bank is $35 for an overdraft.

I'm so glad it's Friday. I went in to work today & announced I could only stay an hour. When asked why, I said that I had worked 14 hours on Monday & Tuesday & that only gave me one hour I could work today. Instead, I worked 4 hours, sigh.

No news on my MRI yet. I guess I'll wait til Monday & forget to call.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When I posted this quote, I think I was going to explain it later, but never have. This was given during one of the workshops in the Hospice Conference (it is a conference for both home health & hospice) I attended in February. It looks like I didn't write a lot about the conference. It was spread out over 2 weeks with 5 days of workshops. This is the third year I have attended & love it. It helps a lot & I've learned a lot.

The quote was given by a professor from Utah State University during a workshop on spirituality. I decided perhaps this is the reason I've survived so many things. I definitely have lots of whys to live. I don't know if I could survive a holocaust or prisoner of war camp though. Even the trek across the plains, but then would I have been brave enough to listen to the missionaries & join the (LDS) Church to EVEN make the trek? I've always been grateful that I live in this period of time in the earth's history with all of the medical breakthroughs. I probably wouldn't have made it out of the Preston Hospital when I was born & neither would Mother.