Ok, I guess I should finally post huh??? Well I actually signed up for this forum hmmmmmmmm way back at the very beginning. No one had even posted except for Artist. And I just haven't posted until now either. Didn't really have anything to say that I had not already said *LOL* I was DebbyV so not a whole of difference than before in my name.

I have been mostly not on the computer this summer or fall. Sometimes just keeping up with email is more than I want to do. I don't know way but all the jokes & stuff lately well it clutters up my in-box & I just delete it without even reading it.

Can't say as I have been really depressed or anything, I just have enjoyed the last 2 seasons (Spring & Summer) by being outside as much as possible. I was out side so much during the 13 days of over 100dgs I got sick. Stupid huh??? But in one weekend we had a grandson's BD, a picnic the same day with family & the next day a picnic at my daughter-in-laws. All during the 100dg temp days. Talk about miserable. WHEW!!! But once that weather was over it was wonderful. I also have spent ALOT of time reading books. For fun not to improve myself, just for pure enjoyment. I think that is what has taken me away from the computer. I hadn't been able to read for so long due to an injury to my neck & head from a car wreck in 1991. Then I went back to work fulltime 7 yrs later, when I finally healed from that & I didn't have time to read, then from RSD I HURT too much to read. Well now that my pain is better controlled I can read & so totally enjoy it. Reading for the pure pleasure of reading has always been important to me. I grew up in Iowa on a family farm & there just wasn't a whole lot we got to do for entertainment. When young I played army, & cowboys & Indieans etc with my brother. Then when I got older, my older brother only wanted to hang with his friends so that left me with time on my hands. I bet I read the early Bobbsey Twins & Trixie Belden books over & over more than anyone else here. I Knew of no library to go to until I was in about the 5th grade, then I discovered the Woodbury County Library over in Moville, a town about 7 miles from our farm, which back then might as well have been 50 miles away for as often as I got to it. My Mom didn't drive so had to wait until my Dad was able to take time to take me or catch a ride with someone. Which alot of the time was with one of my Grandma's. Anyway during the school year the school library & county book mobile sufficed but once school was out I couldn't use it anymore until the fall. Anyway books were my way of escaping the boring life of growing up on a farm & from reading so much I probably had one of the largest vocabularies around. Anyway I was able to go back to reading this year & I fell in love with it all over again. So that is where I have been most of the time. I have also been able to keep my house a bit cleaner than before. I still have one room to get thru though. I bet the shelves in there haven't been dusted in well, forever *LOL*

Anyway typing this much has set my hands off into burning. Which they haven't felt like this since, well maybe a year ago or less by a few months. But had heard a few people had been asking about what had happened to DebbyV, well I am here, just not very often anymore.

Take care & wishing all as pain free days as is possible.

Love ya's
DebbyV