Middle of July

Wow, hard to believe that July is already half over. So much has happened this month. We started it off at Captiva with Bonnie and Rob. Came home to enjoy a week with Sandra, Marc, Gianna, Elaina, Emily and Sarah. They did the whole theme park thing and we enjoyed their company each evening. Then last weekend we got to celebrate Erinn and Andrew's engagement weekend festivities with the Virginia folks, Chris, Ashley, James, Jesse and of course the great nephew, Jackson. We were also able to catch up with some Fairhope Alabama friends, Tom, Nancy, Elizabeth and Andrew. What a fun weekend. Can we say nonstop? Hats off to Cimi and Randy for hosting a great weekend with Randy burgers and Dago always knows how to pick out a great cake from Publix. Talk to all soon. Oh, and can I say this weekend Terri will be in town and then the following weekend Dago's parents will be here. As I always say it is summer and we live in Florida.

Not One, But Two

OK, another week in Florida and guess what? Not one, Gustav, but 2, Hannah, Hurricanes in the forecast, just surrounding us. We feel good that Gustav will not come this way, but as you all know we have family and friends in the path and will worry about them, as we are now 3 years from the anniversary of Katrina. Hannah has not figured out which way she will go. To top the whole mess of hurricanes being all around us, I am on vacation next week! Do I know how to plan it or what?

end of the work week and fay's life

So can you say rain? You know it's wet outside when the dogs don't even want to go out. Jack was visiting through today, while Cimi was in Austin visiting Brenna. This has been a really long work week. We get to work on Monday and start Hurricane Conference Calls. Decide on Tuesday that time to kill the calls as this TS Fay is really not a problem. Get to Thursday and she is now worse that when she started out the week and just will not go away! What is that all about. Moving at 5 mph? Get out of here, beaches are awaiting us sometime, somewhere. Back to work, could the days just drag by. I am always busy, but it seemed as if the days would just not end. I guess just thinking about having 15 days left of vacation time gives me the feeling to just be OFF! So I will leave everyone with a picture of what Fay looks like as of now. Stay dry if you can and talk to everyone soon.

Tropical Storm Fay from the front yard

So I was just getting ready to finish up syncing my new IPhone and Dago called and told me to come and look at the sky. As with all of us, a camera was within grabbing distance and here is the video. An interesting site.

Hurricane Fay, Macy's update and Manny and Emily

Another week has gone by and guess what? Another hurricane, tropical storm, whatever is making its way towards Florida. Above is the 5 day forecast of where Fay is going to travel. This Monday is an airport run for Manny, he is dropping me off for a 730a flight to Miami for the class that I have been in all year and for Emily to make her way back to Louisiana. I get on conference calls tomorrow to see if the travel for myself is still on and if it is off, I just go to work for the week. But unfortunately for Manny, Emily is going north west so she will not have any issues travelling. This week we have spent the time getting to know Emily. A delightful young lady. She is a good influence for Manny and supports the fact of him being in Orlando straightening out his life. They spent this past Sunday at the beach with us. If you have not checked out the Picasa album here is a pic of Emily and Manny skimming in the surf. The beach was awesome this past week. I can not remember the last time I spent so much time in the water. It was perfect.

Tomorrow Manny and Emily are off to Universal Studio to ride the rollercoasters. That should be fun for them. Jacki left Orlando this past Thursday to spend the week in New Orleans visiting her mom and sisters and any other family that she runs into. It seems as if drama loves to be in mine and Dago's life at this time. I think I should contact a cable show and have our lives produced at this time. Talk about crazy. And I thought that I had raised my children and would be able to enjoy my adult kids, but hey, not in the cards at this time. Work this past week has been interesting. It is all about the New Store Structure that we are converting to. No one knows exactly who does what and we are all enjoying confusing our boss, by pointing at each other saying, hmmm, that's under their umbrella, and where is the line we are not supposed to cross. Buisness continues to be good at our Macy's (thanks to tourists and the dollar to the pound) so as we all say we are having fun working at the mall. Enough updates, I need to go and do some homework for my, just in case I go, class on Monday. Will update next week. And Happy Birthday to Janet in Littleton Colorado.

1st 2008 Gulf Hurricane Dolly

i work all weekend and when i get to the news i find out that another hurricane is on its way somewhere. what ever happened to the "C" hurricane?