Sceretary work is not my cup of tea

Friday, March 24, 2006

Well I just finished a project that I least like.   That is to type up minutes for and organization I belong to.  Then I pasted it in an e-mail and hoping it will travel all right.

My term as secretary is up at the end of this year and will I ever be glad.   When I originally consented to be secretary we only met two times a year and now we are meeting four times a year.

With each typing project I am learning more about using the computer and I have much to learn.

One main learning experience is writing for my blog.  I always wanted to write but it is hard pulling words from my shuddered brain.

I’ll try very hard to write at least once a week to get started.

The snow Tuesday morning was very pretty.  Years ago when we would have a snow day in December I would have time to write and address my Chritmas Cards.

signing off.

Smoking

Some of my random thoughts on smoking and second- hand smoke

When I go visit a patient in the nursing home I see some who are there because of their smoking.  People who have had strokes, asthma or other related illnes from smoking still smoke.  It is very addictive and I think women have a much harder time stopping smoking.
I am very sad to say that a some one close to me iscc in the nursing home and still smokes after a couple of strokes which left her left side paralyzed.

The building is smoke free which is very good.  The smokers have areas outside where they can smoke.  Those areas get very messy.

Of course second hand smoke is hardful to people just as the person who is smoking.

Then I see the help who are mostly young women smoke and I want to say; look around you see what can happen to you. When I go visit a patient in the nursing home I see some who are there because of their smoking.  People who have had strokes, asthma or other related illnes from smoking still smoke.  It is very addictive and I think women have a much harder time stopping smoking.
I am very sad to say that  some one close to me is in the nursing home and still smokes after a couple of strokes which left her left side paralyzed.

The building is smoke free which is very good.  The smokers have areas outside where they can smoke.  Those areas get very messy.

Of course second hand smoke is hardful to people just as the person who is smoking.

Then I see the help who are mostly young women smoke and I want to say; look around you see what can happen to you.

Exercise

This morning I went to the health club or gym which I do three times a week, Mon/Wed/Fri.   I usually swim, walk and work on the weight machines.

On Tuesday and Friday afternoon, I attend an exercise class which is mainly stretching.  When the leader isn’t there I usually lead the class.

On Monday I had written something about smoking to put on my blog but somewhere on the transfer I lost it.   I had good luck before to tranfer writings to the blog.

I have been very busy typing names into my Family Tree Maker software.
At this time I have 6300 names.   That includes my father’s side, my mother’s side and my husband’s families.

There are a number of twins and one set of triples born on my father’s side.   The triples did not live this was in the mid 1800’s.  One of my neices had twins but they died.    Her son, my great nephew has quaduplets, two boys and two girls.

Genealogy

The past few days I have been typing names and more names and dates into my genealogy program.   I have typed almost 6000 names and dates and other information since I started several years ago.

The biggest problem is to keep the people in the correct family group.
It is very interesting when I reconize names that I had known growing up and as a child was told he or she was related but wasn’t told how we were related.

I am using Family Tree Maker program.  With this software I can find how I am related to a person.

One of the interesting inforation is that a number of twins are in the family history also a set of triples but none of the three lived. Some time I want to know how maney twins.    I am especially interested because I  am a  twin, we are not identical.