HISTORY IN THE MAKING!

 Morning in California comes WAY too early.  I just don't understand how you can go to bed at 11:30 and get up at 4:00 and NOT get 8 hours of sleep!  It didn't help that overcast skies followed us all day long.  Mother Nature spit at us in the morning ... like HAHAHA ... it's not Spring YET!!

Unfortunately I had another accounting meeting at 9:30.  UGH ... that is WAY too early for me to be out and about.  A short 2 hour meeting turned into a 5 hour office reorganization.  I'm pretty sure that's not included in the BOOKKEEPING job description.  We ran out of printer ink, which resulted in a trip to the attic to rip the guts out of another printer that no longer worked.  

We ran out of printer PAPER, which required a trip to the store, file labels, staples, paper clips ... I mean if we needed it, we did NOT have it.  Some headway was made however, before I yelled UNCLE and went home.  My sweet Cooper awaiteth!!!

My timing was perfect.  The FEDEX guy knocked loudly on the door.  He needed my I.D.  Really?  To receive a small package I have to show my drivers license?  Not only that, but he had to SCAN it!  Yikes ... who is this from??  Ahhh my accountant.  Ok ... but then he needed a signature!  Good grief ... don't ask for my first born because I don't have one!  We had a good laugh over that one!!

That's when I heard the television.  This is history in the making.  Did anyone watch the lunar landing in 1969?  THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.  I remember that like it was yesterday, watching the entire time as our astronauts landed on the moon.  

Well here we go again ... almost ... and I watched every single minute of it.  Artemis 2 won't be landing this time around, but it will be making a trip around the moon to practice so to speak, the next lunar landing.  Can you just IMAGINE?

This stuff scares the heck out of me ... feeling the liftoff in your chest like nothing EVER ... the adrenaline going crazy ... I just cannot imagine anyone wanting to do this on purpose.

Three brave men and one woman ... Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christine Koch and Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen are on the trip of their lives.  Honestly, 12 feet high on top of my ladder is as far as I want to go.  I did jump off a 60' tower ... ONCE ... and I'm guessing I won't do it again.  BRAVE is all I can say ... these guys are BRAVE!!

I prayed the entire time that nothing would happen as it lifted off into the sky.  I was also glued to my television when the spaceship Challenger was launched in 1983.  

They will be cruising up to the moon, not such an easy task since it includes several major negotiations to get going the right direction, before going AROUND the moon and heading back to land south of me in the ocean outside of San Diego California.  They will be up there 10 days.  It kind of makes you wonder where the bathroom is, YES??

I breathed a big sigh of relief when what they call the launch vehicle broke away and the earth is revealed out the windows.  I cannot imagine their excitement ... or MY panic!!  Just looking at this give me the willies!!!

And so I wish them good luck.  I'll be keeping track of them every day.  Maybe, just maybe, I will get to see another lunar landing on the moon in my lifetime.  Maybe even a colonization ... if they can find enough oxygen!!

I'd rather be right here on earth with NO fire breathing dragon under my butt and lots of air to breathe, cuddling with my "kids".  

This one ... she's always in SO much trouble, in spite of her innocent looks!!!  I got chewed out in spades yesterday because I accidentally closed the bedroom door ... her entry into the house from the doggy door.  I won't translate all those meows and yowls!!

Tonight is yet another Elks dinner.  Though I used to look forward to these, this twice a month dinner/meeting thing is becoming a pain.  The only thing that keeps me going now is that I found a pair of gray Levis to wear instead of the gray fancy pants.  Hey ... they are the required GRAY color, so they can't complain.  They never said what FABRIC they had to be!!!

Another day, another steak dinner!!