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Hey all,

Sorry, this is a composite being sent to all my groups. It's just

easier to do one update ya know? I just want to say thanks for all the

well wishes and concern about my latest teeth ordeal. I think I'm on

the down hill side of it finally! Yeah!!! I had the one tooth worked on

last Thurs and was getting a bit worried because over the weekend they

were both hurting worse then ever. But On Monday I woke up and had

hardly a thought about them!!! I had the root canal on Tues and

mentioned to the doc about how bad they hurt over the weekend and he

wasn't surprised. He said teeth get " angry " after being worked on but I

should be ok now. The root canal went surprisingly well! He is very

gentle. I really like him! I had one several years ago and can say

this one was nothing compared to that one! I'm still sore but nothing

like it had been. I go in for the rest of it next Thurs, then it's

payments for the next several months, oh joy. :-)

I am really enjoying the new Jeep!!! It has everything I wanted and

it's such a relief not having to worry that something is going to break

down and cost a ton of money! Yesterday on my way in to bowling it was

snowing a bit and it has this cool feature that I can go from 2 whl,

part time 4 whl or full time 4 whl drive while driving. Well when I saw

the snow I slipped into part time and it was great! The old Jeep was

basically in 4 whl drive all the time. The on demand thing. So that was

cool.

Bowling went good yesterday. We bowled the ghost team, in other words

against ourselves and had to be with in 30 pins of our averages or we

would lose. It is very embarrassing to lose to the ghost team. We have

done it before! LOL But yesterday we all did pretty good and took all

the points, yeah! I had 139,147 and 136, my ave is 133 so I was happy.

Just one more week for each league then we do a bowl off an banquet and

then off for the summer.

Mike is in the process of interviewing diff banks for the loan to buy

the company. In this process we had to have a credit check and 3 unpaid

med bills popped up to the tune of over $600! Ouch! Thank goodness we

still have some of the tax refund left and covered them no prob, whew!

One banker guy was a total idiot! He actually said he would only loan

half the worth of the company but would loan the whole amount for Mike

to start a new company. Oh yeah, that makes sense, give up a 12 yr old

well established company with a wonderful reputation to start

new???!!!! Geez! Another bank was actually surprised Mike was only

(using this word is a contradiction lol) asking for $300,000 because he

felt that the company is worth $400,000! Guess which one we will

probably go with? LOL It sounds like we will be refinancing our house

at the same time. We got our mortgage 11 years ago and the interest

rates are much much less now so we could save a lot of money doing that

and use the equity in the house for a line of credit for the biz. I

can't wait til everything is done. Even though it is all going well, it

is very stressful and busy right now. I worry about Mike's crohn's

flaring which it has been a lot. But all in all it is going well. We

have been getting tremendous support from everybody and they are all

happy for us. So I think it is going to get done fairly smoothly. It's

just getting through all the paperwork and then the company will be

ours!!!!! It's exciting and scary at the same time!

Niki is doing well. She is in the midst of a very intense 6 week

training to become a registered nurse in the Army so we don't hear from

her very much. When that is done she has a 40 week thing, working in a

hospital and has decided to go to Walter Reid in Washington, D.C.,.

That is I guess one of the best military hospitals and also where a lot

of the injured from the war are right now. Hopefully she will be able

to come home for 2 weeks before going there.

My weight....... ugh! Well this latest teeth ordeal really threw me

off track and I have gained. Not sure how much because I'm to afraid to

get on the scale. I just know it is bad. So I'm just getting refocused

and recommitted and working on getting back in routine and when I'm

feeling better I will get on the scale. So Shan, you might just want to

take me off the spreadsheet for now. I don't want to bring our results

down.

Well it looks like a nice sunny day here so I'm going to go for a long

walk and enjoy the sun and not being in horrible pain anymore, yeah!

Sorry, this got kind of long. Thanks to any who read it all! You all

have a good day!

Take care,

Gena