Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Card of the Day
Susan's Page of Pentacles
Daniel's King of Pentacles

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Card of the Day
Susan's Six of Swords
Daniel's Seven of Wands

Monday April 9th, 2012

Card of the Day
Susan's XIV Temperance
Daniel's VIII Strength
We had a great weekend together of course. The weather was in the mid-50s. We walked both Saturday and Sunday. Started seeing flowers and buds and green grass. Susan's cold in gone, and my "great matter" has cleared up. Susan had a great inspiration this morning: picking numbers for the Lotto from the number of the Card of the Day that we each pick. Brilliant.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

I have been absent for awhile, but some news in the wonderful world of Susan & Daniel. We heard in email that Bentley has a fiancee. She's Thai and her name is Aon. Bentley has kept this secret from everyone for over a year. Wow. The 2nd bit of news is that Susan has bronchitis. She was off work most of last week. I went to the doctor yesterday: I have an abscess.

Anniversary at the CSO

Mendell, Susan MendeSD@dshs.wa.gov	4:00 PM (12 minutes ago)		March 15, 2012

See what I got from Scott today!

From: Hubbell, Scott (DSHS)
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:39 PM
To: Mendell, Susan
Subject: Anniversary

Susan,

Feb 24^th was your 24^th anniversary with the State. Congrats and glad you are here!

Scott Hubbell

Social Services Supervisor

DSHS Spokane Access/Maple CSO

509-227-2460/fax-509-329-3726

scott.hubbell@dshs.wa.gov

Sunday

Susan announced to me after apparently much thought that she has decided not to return to Lakeland if the offer presented itself. She figured that I had assumed this was the case, but she wanted me to know that she has finally and formally come to a decision.

Tuesday

Susan informed me that we got 3 numbers last night on our lotto ticket. That's encouraging. It is foggy this morning about 31, but the road look OK, Susan is not too concerned. She lost 3 points when weighing herself this morning, and that is encouraging, too. Her revelation was that "the dark side, the dark queen, feeds off our despair," and Susan is refusing to let that happen. Good girl!

Friday

Yesterday, Thanksgiving, Susan and I walked downtown, returning books to the library. However, our main reason for going downtown was to watch the new Twilight movie Breaking Dawn, Part 1, and the AMC movie theater. It was rather loud, but the movie was fabulous. Then we had delicious vegetarian nachos in the food court at Taco Del Mar. We walked home to read in bed and sip white wine. (Mother called on Susan's cell. She was having thanksgiving dinner at her place with Kim, CJ and someone else. She admitted that she was disappointed that her strength was not returning like she'd thought.) We have salad at 3:00 and watched Eclipse. We had a lovely day. The weather, by the way, was in the 40s with moments of blue sky.

Thursday Thanksgiving

We are truly thankful for all that we have, and all that we will have: Increased wealth, restored health and greater happiness.

Tuesday

Yesterday morning we decided to take the #42 bus and when it picked up more passengers at 6th and Adams--mostly of ethnic and loser-types--Susan aptly named it the ghetto bus. We caught the #23 home and got downtown at 5:15. The outbound #42 wasn't scheduled until 5:35. Susan suggested that we walk home, figuring that we would get home earlier. In fact we did: 5:35 PM! Amazing. We jumped on the #2 which left at 5:20; took it up to Deaconess; took the short-cut through the Medical Building and it was brilliant. Anyway, this morning Susan declared to me that she felt great; had good sleep and it's raining and 38 degrees, so she can drive to work as she hoped, and that way go to the store on her lunch. I really feel that we will be winning tonight.

Monday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Four of Pentacles. (As if my magic....)
Daniel's Queen of Wands. Susan is a "a strong, sensual woman...she knows what she wants."
Susan is in--predictably--a sour mood. She didn't get enough sleep; her weight was up, the weather is "fucked," and she has to go back to work. It's 29 but there is a large light blue blob coming towards Spokane. But Tuesday and Wednesday look as if she could drive: the low will be above freezing.

Sunday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Page of Pentacles
Daniel's The Tower
Susan has gotten over her cold. 'Tis a good thing: doesn't want to be sick tomorrow. We have a little snow on the ground and the temperature is around 25. Yesterday Susan started off making cookies but the the dough when mixed looked more like cake batter, so she made a cake from it, and it was really good. She also made a loaf without recipes and it turned out fantastic, and most delicious. We juiced in the morning and will again this morning. We went for a walk to Rosauer's on 14th yesterday. Wore Yak-Traks and didn't fall down, thank goodness. We are seriously into fashion. Watched Sense and Sensibility last night. 'Twas a wonderful movie.

Thursday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Knight of Wands
Daniel's Ten of Cups
Susan's cold has set in. Yesterday afternoon she was feeling pretty good and considered that she might go to work, but this morning she sounds and feels like she definitely has a cold. She will be staying home again, and I am happy about that. It's my four hour day so I will be home sooner at about 1:30.

Wednesday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Ten of Wands
Daniel's The Hermit
Susan's has come down with a cold and is staying home. It's 17 degrees and it predicted to snow today and then rain in the afternoon.

Tuesday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Five of Cups
Daniel's Ten of Wands
Susan's told me this morning when waking me up at 5:00 AM that she felt as if she was coming down with a cold. I picked the same card as yesterday. Thought at that time that it had to do with Susan. I think that again, especially hearing that Scott and Kat are away in a meeting, Alex doesn't do shit, Lily hasn't been feeling good; and even though this is her paper day, she will probably do intakes. Susan is a wonderful person and pulls her load. Won't leave Joel hanging with all the intakes.

Monday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Ten of Cups again--that's great. Our three day weekend was wonderful. We've made a commitment to eating Vegan. We did lots of cooking. Susan roasted vegetables, and made a delicious lentil loaf. We made radicchio pizza, and Ezekiel bread. We went for walks and also: we stopped drinking. Daniel's card-of-the-day is the Ten of Wands.

Friday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Nine of Pentacles
Daniel's The Lovers
Today is Veteran's Day. 'Tis a holiday--Susan is off--I am usually off on Friday anyway; but we are home together and have a three day weekend together, and we are so happy and I'm feeling that winning the MegaMillion jackpot is in the cards so to speak.

Wednesday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Ten of Wands
Daniel's The Empress
Susan figures that her card is warning her not to get burned out, and I think that my card--The Empress, who is Susan, my Queen--reinforces the meaning she attributes to the Ten of Wands.

Tuesday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Five of Pentacles - Theme: Loss of wealth or faith.
Daniel's Queen of Pentacles - Theme: A wealthy, yet generous woman.
Susan asks, "Can I be your Queen of Pentacles, Danny?" "But, of course; you are the Queen of Pentacles, my dear!"

Sunday's Card-of-the-Day

Susan's Three of Cups, theme: Celebration
Daniel's Ace of Wands, theme: Outburst of creativity
Seems that these two cards portend winning the lotto tomorrow, Tuesday and/or Wednesday.
Turned our clocks back this morning: Pacific Standard Time.
Andy called yesterday afternoon. He sounded good; didn't ask for money (which is a good thing).
Susan lost a pound and a half yesterday. That's a very good thing. She also has decided that we will retire in Thailand, and she'll start a new blog once we visit there called: A Witch in Thailand. Sounds fun.