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I finally got a moment to write a blog.  I’ve been pretty busy the last few days, just getting work and payroll done.  I did finally got our check books balanced, a never ending battle.  Everytime I thing I’m caught up, there is another pile of receipts to enter…icks  I didn’t even go for my walk today.  I just really wanted to get everything done, so I can spend most of tomorrow out of the office.  In fact, I’m in the living room now writing this…I had to get out of there.

I was bad Thursday and didn’t go to the gym.  But I had a bunch of little errands that I’ve been avoiding that needed to be done, including my beaten up nails.

I did go to the gym Friday and did the best I have ever done on the treadmill.  2.96 miles in 30 min….I’m getting closer to the 3mile mark…not bad, since when I started I use to only get 1.88 mile in 30min.

We still don’t have our new bedroom set.  =(  So I had to change the date for the delivery of the matteress to this coming Tuesday.  Hopefully, we’ll have it by then.  I’m getting better about waking up enough at night to make sure that I’m on my side/belly instead of back.  Because if I don’t, I really hurt in the morning and can’t really move.  =(  It is like it wants to seize up.

I’m thinking of getting my long dresser cleared off of all the pictures and knick-knacks that I have on it.  Just to get it ready when we finally do move it.
I did wake up the other morning, Drew was in front of my face on the pillow and Sakura was behind my head on my pillow.  Then I also had Reggie trapping my feet……..lol  It was cute and loving.

Unfortunately, Harold found a flea on Alexis today.  =(  So all 4 of them ended up with baths.  Alexis and Reggie did much better, they don’t like it at all, but they handled it better then they have in the past. The other two….well Sakura was curious and even on got on the counter to see what was going on with Alexis.  Normally she would be punished for going on the counter, but with us needing to give them baths we didn’t want to get them any more upset they will be.  Because of her noisiness, Sakura got the next bath.  =)  She is really a fighter and was all over the place…squirming all over.  Drew has some really long limbs and got Harold a few times….lol

We didn’t find but 1 other flea on Alexis and none on the others…of course that doesn’t mean anything, since they are so hard to find.  I’m really wondering if we should give them baths every 2 weeks (the most frequent recommended by the flea shampoo), just to make sure.

I have a few news articles that I’ve come across this week that I thought were interesting.  This one was more of “historical” look into how the US have had periods of change, I found it on one of my friends blog :  Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic

Now this one I got a kick out of, What Are Rich People Thinking?  Just by the polls, people who actually make more the$250k a year voted for Obama, voted to raises taxes on themselves.  It is the people just below that amount that had an issue.  What does that say about the fact that they realize that it is actually “duty” and, yes, patriotic to pay your taxes.

I normally do a post on Veterans Day, but I failed at that this year.   I guess the part that bothers me, is that yes we need to have a day for vets, but they need to be acknowledged everyday…not just once a year.  Then I read stories about how vets are not getting the treatment from the VA that they need, then I worry about my dad and the stuff he has to go through with them.  It pisses me off, that him and other vets go through that.  I just hope that Harold never needs the VA.

Here are a few stories that I found very interesting :

Oldest WWI survivor remembers forgotten ones

Group finds, buries remains of forgotten vets

WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: ‘Let it be known

And you can’t think of Veterans Day without thinking about our current wars :

On Veterans Day, Don’t Forget About the War

This is what we get to see on our street.  =)