What a week. I am so glad it is finally over.

Last week my friend Donna had a migrane for two days, Thursday & Friday. Sunday she was at her friends house getting ready to watch the season finale of Grease. Meanwhile, I was sitting in front of the TV at home, watching. Donna, didn't get to see the show because she collasped on the floor before it started. Her best friend performed CPR while the paramedics were on the way, but she was already gone. She had an anurysm.

I got the call Monday morning before work that she was gone. It was a tough to hold it together and go to work, with her desk sitting there empty. Many of the girls went home after coming to work to hear about this. I took an Ativan and sat at my desk trying to get through what is normally my busiest time of the month. Everyone was shocked. She was the nicest person I ever knew...and I am not just exagerating. At her funeral on Thursday, one week after her headache began, her family members spoke to a full church about how she was the nicest person. She was always joking and had a brain full of one liners, a witty comeback for everything. She was nice to everyone, and saw the good in everyone, even if that was difficult at times. You could always count on Donna to be cheerful and helpful. She never spoke bad about anyone, ever. That is just who she was. That was Donna Hudson.


I tried to find photos of her to post. We spent weeks together in Houston. Donna was either taking the picture or ducking out of it...lol. I have about 10 pics of her back, or a leg, as she was escaping the shot. I have a couple from work, but I wish I had taken more.

I wish I had talked more to her last week. I wish I had gone to lunch with her, instead of being so busy with work. I still remember her saying "Bye Gurl" when she left the office the last time I saw her. You never know when your time will be up. One day you are here and the next day you are gone.

We will all miss you so much gurl. I only hope you are in a better place now.




Hard to think that when I took the below doggie pics last Sunday, it was the last hours on Donna's life. I wish I had called her. You just never know.

We doggie sat for awhile today. Lots of commotion.

Hey everyone. Happy Birthday shout outs to all the b-days in the family!!

Nothing much new here. We watched the new Rocky movie tonight and I was surprised because I am not much of a boxing fan, but I really liked it. It had one of the guys from Heros in it, which was nice. You don't think of Rocky as a kleeex box kinda movie, but some of it had me tearing up....much to the amusement of Paul. It was the first fight scene I ever enjoyed watching. I was screaming at the TV and everything...lol.

The weather has been so bad we have been hibernating lately. We watched that movie about the dragon rider and it was really awesome. The movie The Holiday was good, but it started out kinda slow. It had a great message about life and a real feel good happy ending, so I give it a thumbs up.

We watched the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, and it was good. Paul loved it. It was your typical James Bond movie, but was shot in some wonderful locations. Pretty women, fast cars, things blowing up...you get the idea.

We took Daisy to the ball field to play yesterday and it was all mud. She was dripping mud in the car. I had to wash her, then the tub, then the floors, the walls, our coats, our shoes, it was just a complete mess all over. I just wish I would have taken a pic to post for a good laugh. I wasn't laughing at the time though.

Here is a shot of the Bantam Bookstore in Second Life. Center stage with black hair & dressed in shades of purple, is DeanKoontz Lane, Dean Kootz' avitar. He was doing the first live pod cast of an author in Second Life (a virtual world). It was for an hour tonight. I sat for most of it until the end when everyone walked up to take a snapshot....hehe. That's the back of my head with the long black hair, dressed in black & green.

It was great. He read some of his new novel The Good Guy coming out May 29th. We could IM questions and he answered most of them live. He is quite a funny guy. I asked 8 or 9 questions and got them all answered except two, which was really cool.

Fun ways to waste time! I know I'm a geek.

Nothing new and exciting in our neck of the woods. I have been working a lot since my counterpart at work was away on vacation in Mexico for over a week and then she came back for a day and was so sick she was off for another week. I just finally started to get my own work caught up today but I had a migrane and had to come home early sick and go to bed. But I am feeling a bit better now. I am forcing myself to stay up for at least a couple of hours so I will sleep some sleep tonight.

It is terribly cold out today and from what I hear it is going to be like this all week. I am so sorry to hear about Chow. It is so hard to lose a pet.

Lots of changes going on at work. Seats are getting moved, new work is coming and people are getting new positions. Who knows what the future holds, I guess I just have to wait to find out. Funny how change can be both exciting and scarey at the same time...lol.

I've been trying something new called FaceBook. It is kind of like a blogger/e-mail/photo album all in one. Most people I know use it to post pics.

We went to a friends big 30 birthday party on the weekend and had lots of fun. Here are some pics. Plus here are some pics from a friends house a couple of weeks ago.