LOL, I'm awake, too.  We had a wonderful time yesterday with Dave's children 
and their friends.  The little grandbaby, Canaan is growing like a weed. 
He's a real climber and it was thrilling just to hold him and play with him. 
I was tired after the festivities and slept through most of the fireworks to 
be awakened by a prolonged rain storm.  Not much lightning this time.  The 
night before the weather people said there were 150 lightning strokes in 5 
minutes in Dublin.  Wow.  That works out to 1 every how many seconds?

They showed fireworks both Monday and Tuesday nights here and had plenty in 
this neighborhood.  It is hard on the puppydogs though.

Gee, Phil, I know what you mean about getting attached to your parrots 
especially when they live so long.  My friends had an African Gray brought 
from Africa with them when they went there several years ago.  He would say, 
"I can talk!  Can you fly?"  It was so cute.  And he would make jungle 
sounds from where he used to live.

Coffee club.  Well, my caffeine is dcold--found in that dreaded diet coke. 
Haha, it cleans better than regular coke becaue that stuff is sticky and the 
diet products are not.

Since I haven't commented on some things, lookout!  *Grin*

Jen, I've been thinking of you.  I saw your tagline in messenger and my 
heart reaches out to you.  Hey, just think!  If you move to the Cleveland 
area, maybe you can become acquainted with David's son Ben and his wife 
Sheila and the little Canaan Adam Isiah Stahl.  LOL, his name is longer than 
he is!  They are trying for a job transfer to the Youngstown area.

I will also be applying for another position soon hoping to get out of the 
stress of the call center mentality.  Please remember that as you pray for 
the job requests.

Dear Dear Kathy!  I am surely thinking of you and Greg this morning as you 
don't know where all of your little flock is and what they are up to.  May 
God interceed with Matt and Chris and fill your hearts with peace and 
certainty that He is in control.

Today I will have a doctor's appointment and probably be released for work. 
Afterwards, Chrissie is taking me to her place to get my state ID card.  I 
have been waiting for my birth certificate papers to come in the mail since 
I recently lost them.  Once that is all in place, we can file for our 
license and get married.  I surely do hope we can get married soon.

I believe I have spoken of a friend, Larry, who helped me a lot when I first 
moved to Columbus.  He died on Sunday morning from complications of 
diabetes.  I was in the same hospital Saturday night and didn't want to 
interrupt the visit I was on, so I thought, "Oh, I can come another time." 
Well, now I feel terrible.  That has been on my mind and I can't erase it. 
It'll be a lesson to me for sure.  Wow!  Larry's best friend, Bill, died 
about a month ago.  They had shared his home, but Bill died from 
complications during a heart transplant.

I, too, am considering the Prodigy Talking Glucometer as my Acucheck Voice 
Mate is over 2 years old and has been known to differ as much as 178 points 
from the Glucometer Elete that the nurses carry with them.  I never know 
which one is right.  Then mine will give me a reading of over 50 points 
difference when I take it immediately again.  Good grief!  I surely don't 
need that when I'm fighting infection!

Carol, I surely do wish I could package up some air conditioning and send it 
to you.  Do some folks have it and others not?  Maybe we could take a 
collection and send money to buy a window a/c for Carol, Mike, and poor 
Fabian.  *Smile*

Well, I have rambled enough.  Time to get serious and list with schedule 
with Project Mainstream so they can pick me up two hours early for work 
again this week.  Haha.

Love you all,

April



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April and Miss Flurrie