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Atlantic City and the In-laws

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When you are visited by  out of town in-laws it can be either a pleasure, or a chore.

I am happy to report that my in-laws are always a pleasure to have even at Christmas time.

My husband’s brother John came to visit this year for the Christmas holidays.  This is not the first time he flew from California to spend the holidays with us.  No not the first.  But it is the first time he flew from California with his new wife, Carol.  See my brother-in-law has been divorced for over 15 years.  Yes, it took him that long to find the person that he would spend, hopefully,  the last and the best years of his life with.

 I met Carol last summer, when we went to California.  We had such a grand time together that it just seemed like we had known each other forever. After spending 9 days with John and Carol I knew that she would be the one that my brother-in- law would marry.  

Sure enough a month after returning they called us to announce their engagement.  OH!  We were so  happy  for them…they were married  August, 2012.  Unfortunately we were unable to fly to the west coast to help them celebrate their wonderful day.

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 Here they are in Venice.  Toasting the world and rubbing it in that they were in Italy.  

Now that they were coming to the east coast my husband and I decided to treat Carol and John with an overnight in Atlantic City…OK, I know that is not the greatest place to go, especially in December, but I could not come up with any better idea.  I am so not  a fan of  AC.   I am not a gambler. I like to spend my money and get something for it, like a blouse, shoes, bag, earring, I could keep on going, so dropping coins in a machine and watching it just disappear is not my idea of a good time.  However, my in-laws and my husband do love a good slot machine.  So off we went… a night in Atlantic City.

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So once we got there it was all good.  I found out that my sister-in-law was not a slot machine person.  Her gambling of choice was the roulette wheel.  Carol had me walking all over the casino searching for the best roulette table.   She observed the players at the tables real close, making sure that she would pick  the right roulette table ..get-attachment (36)

The two brothers took on the slot machines.  They did fairly well.  John and my husband won, not the really big jackpot, but in my book when you walk away with a little more than what you started with you are a big winner.

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We ended up having dinner at The Palm’s at the Tropicana.  We certainly did not go wrong dining at The Palm’s.  We had an incredible  steak dinner, and a martini that even James Bond would approve of.   Now Carol and John have been married 4 months …I wish them all the blessings and a very long marriage.  As Carol kept saying, I have been married 4 months, but you have been married 40 years.  Yes, Carol I have been married 39 years and 6 months longer than you…I cannot wait for you to catch.  🙂

 

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Where All Shoes Go

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ols2I love shoes. Maybe it’s a Cindrella thing, you know how one shoe can change your life.   Well, maybe, anyway I don’ know how many pairs of shoes I have, and I don’t want to know.  Does anyone really care how many shoes someone has?   All I know is that they  are in every closet of my house, some are in the hall, others in my car in the trunk.  I also leave slippers at my daughters house.    When I get a little tired of my shoes, I put them in my bag and carry them off to their  last stop, my job, right into my shoe bucket under my desk.

ols1Everyday I wear boots or sneakers to work and change into a pair of shoes from my bucket.  Sometime, changing shoes again after lunch.  Then when I really get tired of them they go into the trash. See Ya’.  We are 6 women at work and each of us has a bucket full of shoes under the desk.  The men we work with just don’t get it. 🙂

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Time of the Season

Winter Gloom

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Now that the holidays are tucked away in last year’s calendar I  begin to look forward to SPRING!

Don’t know about you, but January – March can be awfully cold and dreary. Every day I look for the evening light, little by little it hangs around longer and longer.   I was told that after December 21st it gets lighter each day by a full minute…Day by day…just love it.  Yes, it is starting to get brighter and brighter each day,  but  the cold is also getting colder and colder.  

Right now we are experiencing a cold wave…you know saying “cold wave” just sounds so burrry cold…who wants a wave along with the cold… how about when they say, “There is a cold front”.  I  can’t help but wonder what is happening in the back, a warm back?   Well, no matter what word you attach to cold it still a chilling word…

Now  love a summer chill.  Yes!

Of course, everyone is complaining about this COLD.

I don’t understand why. I mean we are living in the Northeast and the calendar indicates that we are smack into…. WINTER!

When did we become so soft?  Hey, in my book we are ahead of the game, no real big snow storms.

Now that is something to complain about.

Snow, snow, snow and more snow is more annoying than cold, cold, cold, and more cold.  At least we don’t have to shovel the cold.

All in all, as all things, this soon will end…as the days go by we’re getting closer to spring, and better yet summer…so for  now I will brace the Winter Gloom…and look forward to the summer winds….

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