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Good morning, Y?all.

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I hope everybody had a great Mother?s Day!

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I had a pretty good weekend.  Saturday morning Micheal got up and announced that it was completely my day and that we?d do anything I wanted.  So we got dressed and took a drive up into Maine.

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We took our time going up and got as far as Kennebunkport before heading back home.  It took us 4 ? hours to get there and only 2 hours to get home, but we stopped a lot going up and took the back roads!  We took the freeway home.

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And I was able to add another keychain to my collection!  I now have key chains from 40 states plus Canada and Mexico.  And I have key chains from Egypt and Ireland, thanks to a couple of special Buddies!

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Yesterday we just relaxed around the apartment.  Micheal did laundry and his expense report, and I cooked dinner, but that was about it.  We watched old movies and just enjoyed each other?s company.

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Micheal?s daughter and mother called me in the early afternoon to wish me a happy Mother?s Day.  My son finally called around 9:30 last night, but I never heard a thing from my daughter.

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And I?m just not gonna let her get to me anymore.  She calls her stepmother ?mom? and calls me ?Mary?, so I already know how she feels.  And if that?s the way she wants it? Maybe one of these days she?ll learn what a big mistake she has made.  But I doubt it.  Either way, it?s all on her now.  I?m through stressing over her.  I can?t let her selfishness and immaturity ruin my health and happiness.  That may sound selfish of me, but so be it.  You can only try so hard and so long before it?s time to give up.

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And, I?ve been dragging my son into it, which isn?t fair to him, and that?s gonna stop, too.  He says not, but I know he resents being put in the middle of things.  So that?s not gonna happen any more.

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Ok, enough of that.  Today I?m gonna relax.  The housekeepers will be here shortly to clean.  This afternoon is supposed to be sunny and warm so I?ll spend some time sitting out on the balcony soaking up some sun!  I?ve already spent several hours out there over the past couple of weeks, and you can tell it!  No sunburn?I don?t burn.  But I have some tan lines from the straps on the tops I wear out there. 

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The pool will be opening Memorial Day weekend.  So you know where I?m gonna be spending a lot of time after we get back from California!  I?ll be able to get some exercise without causing myself too much pain.  And since the fitness center is right there close to the pool, I may just be able to work myself up to going in there and using some of the machines before getting in the pool.  I?ll just have to see how things progress.  But I?m not gonna push it.  I don?t wanna do anything that makes the pain worse than it already is.

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Well, that?s about it for me.  I?m gonna go read some blogs.

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Y?all have a fantabulous day!!