Sent: Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 8:57 PM

Recipients: Daughter-in-Law

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Hey! NE won at IU!

I didn’t go to IU, so we will root for NE from now on.

And you can root for the Colts.

There are too many acronyms that assume everyone knows the meaning.

Once again, it was 11 minutes into 1st quarter of the football game and theyve referred to ‘SNF’ and its on the crawl on the bottom of the TV.  I think San Francisco, but the Colts are playing the Texans in Houston,.

Head slap…’Sunday Night Football’.

Do we really need that?  I’m thinking most of us know its Sunday night and we are watching the game.  At no time did I think this was a hockey game.

Ruh ro…Dwayne Allen is on the sideline with all sorts of ice packs on his ankles….the situation is fluid…stay tuned!

Touchdown Colts!!!!!!

On a side note…I got re-elected to Treasurer of the Church tonight for another 2 year term that starts in January,  Go Mom!

Sent: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:18 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Daughter-in-Law

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B, you were looking for new cosmetics.  We should all get the lipstick that Rose wore on her last night on the Titanic…it stayed put through her trek through the water to find Jack, through the sinking of the ship, through braving the ice water of the Atlantic, to getting saved by another lifeboat (only her plus 5 others were saved from the water).  It did seem to fade by the time she landed on the Carpathia.

but…wow…long lasting stuff

Sent: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:45 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law

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So, I’m watching ‘Titanic’.  They have hit an ice burg and I don’t think it will end well.  I’m trying to imagine this for real and its too horrific to imagine,

Rose just jumped out of the life boat.  I must confess, if I was in a life boat and saw Terry on the deck, I would have gotten out of the life boat, too.

Earlier, I had to make some dark chocolate toffee to make it through.

This has been a stressful week – I’m having a beer now that I stole from the office…the last Summer Ale…from LAST summer.

However, it tastes just fine.

You really learn the character of people in a crisis.

Love,

Mom

OK.  So, I was watching one more episode before bed…..Bruce just fired Alfred after Alfred took a sledge hammer to the computer they found in the lower level!!!!4

what?

Now I have to know what happens!!!!

Sent: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:49 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law

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Hey…my phone “weather” button is stuck on Colorado Springs.  While I love Colorado Springs….I’d prefer to see my local weather.

I need help from my techno-intelligent children on this.

I have tried settings.  I have tried hitting the random buttons on the weather page.

Just remember…I have some other fine qualities.  They aren’t always obvious, but they do exist.

Love,

Tech-challenged Mom

I just had to share our adventure back home.

You were right – your airport is much smaller, so it the security checkpoint was a short line.

After we printed the boarding passes, I kept looking at them all the way to the checkpoint…NO TSA precheck.  What?  I couldn’t figure it out.  However, the regular line was shorter than the precheck line.

K breezed through.  I couldn’t locate my drivers license.  Finally, someone bumped into me from behind and the agent said “she can’t find her ID”, so they went around me.

I finally located my ID, went to the agent and asked – I just got my TSA precheck – what happened?  He said…” you didn’t read the fine print – they can pull you out at any time”.  I asked “so, if you caused a ruckus on a previous flight…would that be a reason?”.  I was scrambling to think if any of the flight crew knew is was me talking about shooting and mentioning ‘bomb’ as I boarded the flight to you.  We got a chuckle and then moved along.

Of course, the agent at the conveyor asked “who belongs to this green suitcase?”  You guessed it!  K could have boarded the plane by now, but she’s watching with her arms raised —what’s going on?

I had to wait for my tennis shoes to come through – the agent spent a long time looking at my tennis shoes on the scanner for some reason.

So….finally get to the special area for them to examine my luggage.  She asked “is there a bear in your luggage?”.

Oh – YES!  That crystal bear came all the way from England!

K corrected me and said Ireland.

She was buy pilfering through the rest of the suitcase.  She said the bear would have to be scanned separate from the luggage.  Fine.  To her credit…she did not comment on the fact there were no jammies in my luggage.

The bear survived the scanning.  On to our connection….

Turns out, K and I are the only 2 passengers continuing on.  After everybody else left and we moved to row 2, they told us it would be an hour before takeoff, so if we wanted something to eat…it was fine for us to deplane.

When we got to the gate agent, he pulled up our names and I told him we didn’t have boarding passes.  He said, and I’m not kidding…”The Unicorn Theory”.  OMG!  K hung her head and my face lit up like a Christmas tree.  K said “DON’T encourage her!!!”  I explained that I believe in unicorns.

He said…you know what…I know I’ll remember you 2 now….go and do what you want and them come back here – you’ll be the first ones back on the plane.

HAH!  After we got a few things, he let us back on even before everyone else was lined up for boarding!  Aren’t we special.

Back in Indy, driving to K’s house, she said I ran a red light.  I turned right and honestly, I didn’t see a red light.

The whole Unicorn comment was just the icing a great weekend!

Thanks to all of you for spending my birthday weekend with me!!!!

Love,

Mom