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End of September A friend of mine sent me a cartoon of the old "Lucy suckers Charlie Brown with the football" cartoon with the caption "Never give up." She wondered if Charlie were a perennial optimist or stupid. My opinion is that Charlie Brown needed to get himself a new friend that's all :) Some friends are toxic and sometimes walking away is the better part of valor. (I never liked Lucy--thought she epitomized the worst in people and why should I want to read about her.) I don't think it's giving up to find someone new to hold the football [laughing]. Weigh-in this morning: 128.2. I'm happy with that although I was not happy with how I ate last week. Far too much junk food. I'm still working on "real" nutrition. We bank with Washington Mutual so things are a'changin' for us bankwise. People say that this is like the Great Depression but we need to focus on the fact that savings in a bank are protected up to $100,000 per acco...

Back from Las Vegas Just got back from a whirlwind two-day trip to LV to collect our "personal belongings" from the LV house. Yay, it's rented for the next 7 months! With all our furniture in it! So our life has been reduced to one 4x8 storage unit, the bits and bobs we have in our rented casa here in New Mexico. Will we ever see our furniture again, to hold and sleep in? Who knows? What we are hoping is that the tenants will fall so in love with the place that they buy it lock stock and barrel (well, maybe if we could keep the bedroom set). On the plane to LV I very much enjoyed reading New Mexico magazine and am looking forward to doing a whole lot of things in October. As dh doesn't like crowds, the first event on my list--the balloon festival--will have to be done solo. That's okay, I don't mind.