Well, I talked to Mom today and she wanted me to email her more often. I’m terrible at sending chatty emails so I decided to chatty blog instead. Not sure if this will be better than emailing but let’s try.

I got the Wyndham Commons board meeting minutes finished today. It took about 3 hours! There’s so much to do. I think I’ll take my laptop to the next board meeting and just do the minutes as the meeting progresses. I’m a 2 fingered typist so I’m not sure if this will work well or not but its worth a try.

Then Ed and I went to the grocery store, bought a couple of plants for the patio (finally) and came home for hamburger dinner. Now we’re watching Nurse Jackie - I like the show but her values are really screwed up.

Ed and I started counting steps as part of an effort to lose weight. I made it to 7,332 so far today. This week’s goal will be 7000+ steps a day, working towards at least 10,000 steps a day.

Saturday we went to two parties: the first was Michael’s high school and 18th birthday party; the second was Morgan’s 2nd birthday party. They had a beautiful day for both parties.

Recently I’m on this kick about figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I guess I’m at that age where you do that! So here’s my list of what’s important and what I’m working on.

1) Ed’s important. We just got married in March. I want to spend the rest of my life making him happy.

2) My family is important. Its always been that way and sure isn’t going to change now, hopefully even get better.

3) Our health is important. We’re working on becoming more active, losing weight and eating more carefully.

4) I enjoy working on genealogy. I’ve been plugging away at it but now it needs to have a little more focus. And maybe take it just a little more seriously. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get to the point where I can do geneaology as a business in my retirement. So, to “kick it up a notch” as Emeril says, Ed and I are taking a trip to Boston to attend the FGS Genealogy Conference at the end of August. http://www.fgs.org/2006conf/FGS-2006.htm . We’ll also explore Boston which we’re both looking forward to.

5) I still have 8-10 years left before I retire, if then! So I decided I’d see if I want to make some changes in the work I do. I love managing a help desk but maybe there’s something more interesting waiting for me. So.. I decided to take the plunge and go to graduate school. I’ll try it for a semester and see if I want to continue. I’m also taking some programming classes through work. That should give me some alternatives too.