Retirement Life at the Lakehouse

I retired June 2009 and I have spent much more time at The Lakehouse. I have enjoyed each and every day and have not had a bored moment. I stay so busy doing things I want to do that I rarely find myself idle. I guess with the major remodeling complete there has not been as much to post. This is a new phase of life at The Lakehouse and maybe I can post retirement memories.















Sunday, January 13, 2008

2ND Week of January 08

This week has been a GOOD week. The kids all got back in school. Kyle and Blake started the week off good and started going to the gym to workout after the school workout. Monday and Tuesday nights I heard a lot of moaning and groaning with any movement out of them, lol. Chris and I have both been able to stay on out diet all week. He started his plant shutdown on Saturday and the Ops manager bought 12 Pizza's for thier lunch.....but he did GREAT and stayed on his diet. I had told him we would have steak for supper Saturday night so maybe that helped, lol. I even did workouts at home this week .... well 3 days anyway. I discovered that I need to learn the moves to my dvd workout to be able to keep up with the dvd. But I just made up my pown moves and worked away and tried to start learning thier routine. I did order a couype more workpout video's that I am hoping will be easier to follow. I realize that I have to do a lifetime change and if I am gonna have the perfect body for my perfect retirement I better get busy.
Its that time of year where I do not take pictures very much so I may post some old photo's just for fun.


On Thursday I went to the Dr. for my yearly checkup and then to the peridontist for a checkup. I even was able to get a few errands run and my hair trimmed in between, so I felt the afternoon off work was successful. Pat went to his Dr. for a checkup as well, I guess we are both doing good.
How you like Pats fro? lol


The boys came in on Thursday afternoon and1st thing out of thier mouth was Tyler is fixed. I knew Tyler had started his medication today but FIXED so quick? Yes the boys said he is back to him old self. As I continued to pry into what made them know all this I fould out that while Kyle went to workout at the gym that he had dropped Tyler and Blake off at McDonalds for a workout, lol. I heard from Tracy later and confirmed what the boys said... seems the meds has helped a lot so we will just have to see how that goes for a bit... we are all excited for Tyler. I am sure many (even me) have no clue as to how hard it has been for him. The Dr's seem to think they will have him all fixed up and regulated soon. I sure hope so as its getting closer to time to think about summer fun. Speaking of summer fun... WE are thinking of going to 6Flags on June 11th and would like all to mark calendar and think about meeting us there. We will be going to see Brooke Graduate from her elementary school on the 10th and drive back to Atlanta area and get up the next day and spend that at 6 Flags. Also while we are on summer fun This is what I know so far. Chris will be on vacation June 3rd thr the 23rd and we should be in Bama then.
Yes its me back in the "Good Ole Days"?


Friday the boys got thier report cards and even thou I have not seen them yet, because they are at thier Mom's the weekend... seems they were good. Blake texted me his was A's and B's but then he also texted me the grades and there was an 84 which here in Mississippi is a C. I had give him a lil carrot hanging out there if he made A/B honor roll... so I guess we have to see how that works out. I hope that next 9 weeks Tyler is texting me with his grades good. I have been letting him slide from my speeches and stuff, lol but thats over with now and I really look for him to get it going on.
This is Papaw Grace for those who did not ever get a chance to meet him. I think Tracy and Chris were the youngest members of the family when he died.


Saturday all the guys were gone and I had the house to myself for the 1st time all year and for months too. However it was noon before Pat got gone, lol. I still enjoyed my afternoon and got lots of stuff done. It seemed that I dusted for hours and thats just in my room and the den, lol. I also started the pink baby blanket for Eric's baby girl, I think her name will be Nylah, I need to verify the spelling. Saturday night about 830 I got one of those dreaded phone calls from WORK where they had shutdown and needed me to come in at midnight to make protective tags for them to be able to work on the equipement. So I went straight to bed with 2.5 hrs to sleep and then shower and drive to work..... at 10 pm the phone rang and they had change of plans and wanted me to come in on days instead cause I am suppose to be in training on Monday. So here I sit writing my blog during my lunch time as I yawn because my body tells me its Sunday and I usually play sleep catchup then and sleep in til 10 or 11. I just heard my training for this week has been cancelled... I guess thats good news for me, lol. I still hate training week. We are on 12 hrs until we get the plant back online. I just might give up my Sunday sleep in every week if I never had to go to training again, lol.