Hurray for days off of work.

Monday was spent catching up at home and trying to clean up the multiple piles everywhere. The biggest goal was to clean out the office a.k.a. Jonathan’s old room so that Laura has a place to sleep when she comes home. We actually found the floor and uncovered the futon so Laura we are ready for you now. We also sorted through stacked up mail and renewed our yearly health and life insurance benefits through Kaiser. After multiple loads of both dishes and laundry we are getting more presentable.
About 8:00 pm we decided to head out to Winco to pick up a few things. Teresa has decided this is a cool store. She was disappointed I didn’t let her make her own peanut butter but I told her someday I would and she would just have to look forward to it. She says that is now one of her many goals. Lol We were only buying a “few things” so I didn’t think I would spend enough to get the turkey for $.18 a pound but at the check out counter I realized I qualified so went running back to get yet another turkey for my freezer. (I now have three so far.) We then headed over to Ross to check out a few items I had previously scoped out. That is another of my favorite stores in town. Of course you all know how I love a bargain. Lest you think I have totally switched loyalties I did also support Safeway earlier this week and also got some good deals.
Longview Surgical Group had a staff meeting at 5:30. We had pizza and had a pretty good meeting. Two doctors came this time for the first part. Usually it has just been the staff so it was good to have them there. Longview Surgical is in the midst of starting a satellite station in Vancouver. It has been going on for about 6-8 months. It is a complicated process but seems to be going well. We hope to recruit two new surgeons just to work in Vancouver at the new Legacy hospital by summer of next year. So there is lots of room for growth. So far our doctors are going down there on a rotating basis. We will also be getting a new Physician’s Assistant in January. They do a lot of assisting in the OR and are a big help to the group as a whole. We currently have one PA.
Today our home group is serving a meal for about 35 people that are taking a parenting class through the city of Longview. We are providing cakes that Teresa made and some pop. The group is serving a baked potato bar and salad and fruit and cake. There will also be about 10-15 of us that will eat. There is no kitchen so it was more of a challenge to decide what could be transported easily. We have two new couples that have joined our group in the past two weeks so that is exciting. One couple is older but plays in a Christian band out of Gresham in a similar style that Chris’s old band did. He is going to spend some time with them this Thursday. They also collect antique cars so he shares a few interests with them.