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Oh dear...
Posted Apr 3, 2003
My mom and I went to a scrapbooking convention in St. Joseph, Missouri (about an hour away from home) this weekend (Friday and Saturday). 
We had a great time, but as we were getting ready to leave Saturday evening, mom started feeling really ill.
So we stayed at the hotel another evening and I ended up having to call an ambulance for her at 1:00am Sunday morning. Salmonella poisoning! 
Seems that 6 out of the 11 women who ate the chicken that evening for dinner got ill.
I stayed at the hospital with her until 4:30am then drove back to the hotel, got two hours sleep and headed back to the hospital. 
I left St. Joe at 4:30pm to drive back to KC and spend the night at home, then head back to St. Joe on Monday morning to pick her up when/if the hospital released her.
However... I woke up at 3:30 Monday morning with severe symptoms and by 10:00am I couldn't even lift the telephone. My daughter had to call 911. So I have been at the hospital with Salmonella poisoning Monday through today. 
I may never eat food again...
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Valentines...
Posted Feb 11, 2003
I'm making and decorating paper boxes for my family and some of my friends on Valentines day. The boxes are shaped like chineese take-out boxes. Some have windows, lace, stickers, flowers, etc. on them. Then I'll fill them with some nice chocolates and give them away!
YAY!!! I 
Valentine's Day!
And the best part is - if the chocolates don't divide evenly between the boxes - I get to eat all of the leftover chocolates!
YAY!!! (big-sticky-
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for all of you!)
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Cabin fever...
Posted Jan 6, 2003
I'm in a frumpy mood and I have been for a few weeks now. I don't know if it's cabin fever or just plain old depression. But it's bumming me out!
!HEY!!! ENTHUSIASM FAIRY!!! A LITLE HELP HERE!!!
Do you think she heard me? 
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The cruise...
Posted Nov 28, 2002
Picture five women with lots of luggage...
Okay, so I woke up when the alarm went off at 4:00am, which was good, cause I didn't actually get to sleep until 1:00am! My sister picked me up at 5:00am and we picked the others up on the way to the airport. Plane left at 7:00am for Orlando, Florida. From there we caught the tram to the luggage building (yes, in Orlando they have a building just for luggage retrieval!) And then on to catch our plane to San Juan, Puerto Rico. We boarded the Sea Princess in San Juan. The duty free shop there at the port told us we could buy bottles of liquor and take them on the ship. Boy were we gullible. We purchased several bottles of flavored rums, some Baileys and headed up the ramp to the ship, where the liquer was promptly confiscated and we were told we could get it back at the end of the cruise . We had two rooms, both the size of shoeboxes. Three women in one room, and two in the other. But heck, we were only in our rooms to sleep, so it didn't really matter. Until you tried to get three bodies in the bathroom at the same time, curling hair, putting on makeup, brushing teeth, etc.
The ship was gorgeous, and the crew was very friendly and exceptionally helpful. The food was very good, and the shops were cool. We saw musicals on board, played bingo (cash prizes), gambled at the onboard casino, went to art shows on board, visited the spa, and met lots of other passengers and crew from all around the world.
First stop was Barbados, where 30 of us rode in jeeps to another dock and boarded a catamaran. A half hour sail on the catamaran and we were snorkelling with sea turtles! They were so awesome! The crew of the catamaran served us lunch, mixed drinks and they even sang! The catamaran then sailed to a lovely secluded beach were we swam and tanned, and just soaked up the island scenery. The next two days we stopped at Tortolla and St. Lucias. We went on a hike in the forest, crossed streams, saw boa's, climbed rocks and arrived at a lovely waterfall. Then we visited a banana plantation, and saw an active volcano (really it was just a large smokey sulfur pit - but they're proud of it, so I'll go along with them 
) Lots of careening around hairpin turns in jeeps and vans trying to get back to the ship on time (I have twice as many grey hairs now as I did before the cruise!) And of course we shopped, drank, swam, drank, tanned, drank and then we drank some more 
. Then over the next three days we went to St. Maarten, St. Thomas and St. John islands and did our power shopping! These islands are absolutley gorgeous! We snorkelled along a coral reef, and I saw schools of blue fish, red fish, aqua fish with silver stripes, yellow fish, and brain, fan, and other types of coral. The sand was white, the sky and ocean were both such glorius shades of blue I didn't even think were possible! The temperature was 80-85 degrees everyday. Then it was back to San Juan where we spent the day looking around old San Juan and had lunch at the San Juan Hard Rock Cafe. (yes - predictable I know, but we are Americans after all!)
So there you have it! 
Oh yeah, and I got seasick and had to wear the motion-sickness patch the whole trip, which made my feet and ankles swell . And I had motion sickness for two weeks after I got off of the ship - but that's another story...
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Leaving on a cruise...
Posted Oct 19, 2002
YAY!!! I'm leaving at 5:00am tomorrow morning to fly from KC to Orlando, Fl, then from Florida down to San Juan to board the Sea Princess...
And then it's 7 days of heaven in the Southern Carribean!!!
YAY!!!
Of course - I'll miss you all terribly and will think of you often while I'm gone... 
Okay I'm done missing you now!
I'm going on a cruise... YAY!!!
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