Grey’s Season Premier Sept 25th!

Mark your calendars for the 2 hour season premier of Grey’s Anatomy on September 25th!  Not yet certain if it is 7 or 8pm but will update this post when I figure it out!!!

Courtesy of this Grey’s Anatomy Insider Blog post.

Grey’s 2008 Finale

Mer/Der to be continued?  Methinks something’s gotta happen to McDreamy!  BTW … did you hear he is a new voice on State Farm insurance commercials!?!  Not bad for the guy who started out in “Can’t Buy Me Love” … one of Missy’s early fave movies!!!

Hubbie’s First Day of Retirement

As I am in CT helping my sister recuperate from brain surgery, hubbie has much to do by himself back in TX!!!  He sent the following summary of his first day of retirement …

Well, the first day of retirement was great!  I slept in late and other than a few little things, there was nothing but lounging around and relaxing. I did find time to work on the following items:

1)  SA Condo - talked with Cheri three times; worked on the employment vs. retirement situation; sent faxes of all Feb 08 bank statements and EM retirement benefits; sent EM Savings statements by email. Determined that your signature is not needed until you return to AR.

2) Spoke with Greg Kroenke for an hour about pulling out the EM Savings next week. Set up a phone conference for Tuesday midmorning to actually do it.

3) Confirmed that all is well with EM Benefits regarding the payment of the Med/Dent insurance for April

4) Burned the 1.5 qt. saucepan by boiling water for coffee in it while talking with Kroenke.

5) Washed the dishes from Missy’s visit

6) Visited State Farm and determined there is no need to pay the Apt insurance, since we will be paying for the Condo insurance by the time the grace period for the Apt payment expires.  Overlap is okay because same “goods” are theoretically being insured.  Also determined that SA auto rates will be $180 more in SA than Spring for every six months for 3 cars.  And arranged for Nicky at State Farm to call Diamondhead HOA and get the necessary info to quote us an insurance rate for the Condo.

7) Attempted to replace burned saucepan, but Macys doesn’t carry Farberware and Penneys didn’t have the 1.5 qt size available.

Purchased new tennies at Foot Locker.

9) Spoke with several jewelers about the Rolex question.  Donoho’s said they know a resaler, but require a purchase to use his services. Then the Rolex resale thing constitutes a “trade-in”.  Their comparable new Relices sell for $7000, so she very roughly estimated something like $4000 for trade-in.

10) Visited Kinko’s twice to fax mortgage documents.

11) Called Doc Stephens and left message about SA tomoro.  No reply yet.

12) Observed on the online credit card statement that Budget had charged for gas replacement and had to call XNA Budget location to begin the process to get it credited back to our account.

Yes sir, just a routine relaxing day around here.  Tomoro will be another easy day — drive to SA, tour the Condo, stop by the DHOA and see what needs to be done with them, visit with Missy, stop by and say hi to Mickey and drive home.

WHAT A GUY!!!

Newzie, Your feature-rich news aggregator

Newzie, Your feature-rich desktop news (RSS) aggregator … spotted on CyberNetNews … going to be trying to get hubby hooked on one of these programs in retirement.  It is amazing how many headlines one can scan in such a short period of time. 

Currently, I myself use Bloglines and have never found another reader which I liked better.  Thunderbird, an open source email client and news aggregator, has been tempting but I really don’t like to combine email and RSS feeds in the same program.  It is just TOO overwhelming!  The one feature which would convince me to use another reader would be a program’s ability to download feeds and then read them offline … say like on 10 hour car rides to visit one’s children and grandchildren!  I really haven’t taken the time as of yet to research my various options.  Perhaps this news aggregator is the answer?!?

A recession won’t wreck your retirement

From CNN/Money Magazine … A recession won’t wreck your retirement - Feb. 13, 2008 … several other good articles available as well.

W Fam Updates … A is Walking!

How you doin’, Grandpa?, originally uploaded by hljscj.

From Missy …

Well today I can officially say he is walking. This morning he walked all around our front room playing with the montessori materials that I would let him use (he also walked one of the item labels over to the trash for me). I think he is also getting taller - he can now easily reach the flip switch on the sliding door to get outside. He hasn’t totally figured out how it works - but he is getting close. He is still trying to talk a lot. I think he’s sort of learned how to sign please (although it does look similar to bath and we all know how much he loves a bath). He has been taking LONG naps - in part because of all this exercise and he might be teething. Our video camera is out of batteries - so once I fix that I will get a tape of him walking. Anyway, just thought you’d like to know!

We were visiting Missy’s fam just last week and A was making great progress with his walking.  Happy to hear that he is really working at it nowadays!  Can’t wait for the videos!!!

Rabbit-Ear Users … The End Is Near - NY Times

Rabbit-Ear Users Don’t Know The End (of Analog TV) Is Near - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog … MUST post to fam blog!!!

Top Eight Mistakes Pregnant Mothers Make at the Hospital

Thingamababy: Top Eight Mistakes Pregnant Mothers Make at the Hospital … GREAT READ for pregnant moms … especially first time moms!

TWO BILLIONTH

TWO BILLIONTH, originally uploaded by yukesmooks.

Just had to share the 2.000.000.000th photo to be posted to Flickr! Congrats!!!

And, BTW, it was taken in Sydney, Australia.

Scarlet with her new book!

sweet Scarlet, originally uploaded by billykaren519.

Check it out!  Scarlet is studying to be a BIG SISTER!!!