Bittersweet Day

Yesterday was moving day for Cindy and yes, I kept puddling up! While I'm happy for her to be starting a new adventure and finally getting a shot at a job that she will hopefully like better, it is still hard to see her leave. Thankfully the world is a much smaller place now than it was all those years ago when she moved all the way across a continent from Maryland to San Francisco. We had no free telephone service and no internet and no web cams. Ok, so I still don't have a web cam, but that would make a great Christmas gift-hint, hint!. Anyway, back in the day, she was so far away and so out of touch and I missed her so and now, I probably will still talk to her just as often and e-mail just as much and airfare from Texas to Florida is so affordable now. But still, she won't be able to come down for the weekend and the dogs will miss their friend Maddie and it just isn't the same as knowing she is just a couple of hours away. But as she said, I'm not losing a daughter I'm gaining a vacation destination, and we certainly wasted no time buying our plane tickets for Thanksgiving in Fort Myers! We are hardly giving her time to unpack before descending on her, just so we can lounge in the sun and enjoy being with our whole family for a holiday which hasn't happened for years but may happen a little more often now that both kids are in the same state.

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Travels

Saw these maps on another blog, liked it, and decided to create them for me.

Countries I've visited

http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

States I've visited

http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

Jacksonville Weekend

I got so wrapped up in the budget woes that I never got around to elaborating about my wonderful weekend in Jacksonville. The last weekend in July we went to Florida to see our son graduate from the University of North Florida. He graduated with honors with a degree in Accounting. What a grand weekend we had. When we got there on Thursday, he still had one exam left to take. When he finished, he brought a bottle of Champagne home and the celebration officially started. On Friday morning we took a tour of the law school where he will start in January--Florida Coastal School of Law. Very impressive. Friday afternoon was commencement and Friday nite was a celebratory dinner. Saturday morning we went out on the Intercoastal on jet skis. Saturday nite we went to the dog track/poker room and Sunday we went boating around St.Augustine. It couldn't have been any better. One of the best things about the weekend was having both my children together at the same time. Having my whole family complete just happens so rarely that words can't express what a treat that is. Here are some pix of the happy event. The beautiful brunette is our daughter Cindy, the graduate is, of course, our son Jason, and the lovely blonde is his wife, Beth. Oh, yes, and the bearded hunk is my wonderful husband Brian!

Here is the image that I created for the Image Generator assignment. The only difficult part of the assignment was thinking of something to say. The tools aren't particularly difficult to use, or at least they don't seem to be, but my imagination is certainly getting creaky.

Here's my second try at a Mashup! Doesn't he look thrilled?

Ok, I've tried my first FLICKR mashup. I like knowing how to create a jigsaw puzzle, but I struggled just a little figuring out what to do with it once I created it. Had to read the directions (which I hate to do) several times. This was done on Big Huge Labs. I wanted to try the Spell with Flickr, but it seems to be a dead link--at least right now. Will try again later.