MEET ANNIE

Hubby bought me a "Happy Place".
I named her "Annie". She's wonderful.

I HOPE I KEEP MY SANITY

Our children like sports. O.K. maybe "sports" is a lite explanation.
Extreme sports is more like it.
Our son is not the skier in the photo but he did finish this race and

at one point, he was in this very spot.
Please, just give me strength.
The same time he is doing this I am sitting in a class to

get a concealed weapons permit so I can hike in the mountains of

Colorado in the summer alone. The bears don't bother me but

we're beginning to have a mountain lion problem.

Anyway, the instructor was a Glenn Beck/Bill O'Reilly wana-be ex-police officer/military
and after 4 hours of this, I had only been home 10 minutes when

I made a dash for the bathroom and threw-up.
We do extreme sports a little differently.

http://www.powdermag.com/features/news/skiers-in-tights/

WEIRD DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT

Had yearly appointment to get prescriptions renewed today. I got to Dr's office, checked in and sat down to wait. A few minutes later the nurse came out and called my name. I started to get up but an older lady across the room from me also got up and said “that’s me”. She had barely arrived and hadn't even got her coat off. I tried to get the attention of the nurse and tell her that she had the wrong person but she didn't see me and closed the door. I sat back down and thought “ I’ll just wait and see how long it takes them to discover their mistake”. I waited a few minutes and then got up and walked over and picked up the lone remaining chart on the top of the counter waiting for the Dr. The 6 year old receptionist looked up and said “You can’t look at that, it’s confidential”. I was looking at the chart name by now, to point out that the previous patient and I had the same first name but not last and they might want to rethink using both names when they usher patients in to see the Dr. The first thing I noticed on the chart was that they had misspelled my name and started to tell them that the spelling was wrong but pronounced the same when the 6 year old receptionist whispered to me “we know, we took the wrong patient back and we’re trying to correct it now. “ It was about this time that I began to process that my chart was back in the room with the lady with the “same” name as me and I was holding her chart------except her middle name and last name were the same as mine. Her middle name was spelled exactly the same as mine which is an unusual spelling for a short middle name. I’ve known for many years that there was someone in this small town with the same first and last name as me but had no idea about the middle name. That we would turn up at the same Dr’s office, on the same day, with the same appointment time is weird.

WHAT AM I MISSING HERE???

O.K.-- story starts out that Fran(middle-red outfit) is having a party for herself.

Not a birthday party but to celebrate the fact that she has

lost 100 pounds during the last year. Hey, I'm all for that.
I've been on every diet known to mankind and then some.
At the end of the article it mentions that she has had "body

contouring prodecures and subscribed to a serious exercise regimen" and

mentions both of the Dr.'s names that supervised such.

I wouldn't have thought anything about this pat on the back that

Fran was giving herself if it hadn't been for the middle part of the

article where it tells us what Fran's occupation is.

Fran is a Clinical Nutritionist and a Naturopathic Physician.

She has also written several health, diet and recipe books.

I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

OUR SON TOOK THESE PHOTO'S YESTERDAY
WHICH MUST MEAN HE WAS THERE.

They walked the length of Mt. Superior, Utah