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Posted on 02/28/2016 5:01:08 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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VERY good, thinking ahead and having the cheat sheets ready and numbering your boxes. At least you know where everything is instead of having to play “treasure hunt”. Maybe you won’t have to change spaces, which would take up time. Every little bit is going to help.
h !!Thanks, unique, for the woohoo!
radu.....#50!!
Let’s don’t even think about that. She wants so badly to get to feeling better so she can make a trip up to Missouri to see relatives. She used to go 2-3 times a year...driving by herself...till she injured herself last year at age 93. She’s a pistol! LOL!
She HATES being “grounded”! :) I would too, so I can sympathize with her!
NOBODY likes to be grounded. I think we can all sympathize with her on that one.
Does she plan to drive herself when she’s able to make the trip to MO or will y’all take her?
Thanks, unique.
Pro.....#51!!
73s Kath
Good evening, Luv...you are so, so right...Thank God for these heroes.
Hope you had a great day, along with a nap. ((HUGS))
We would be taking her. The weakness in her legs keeps her from having the control she needs to drive now.
The last time she drove was right before her knee gave way, causing her to fall and break her left leg right above the knee. Earlier in the year she had fallen at the dollar store and broke her right leg in the upper femur. Last year sucked for her...big time!
It was a lovely day and a really nice nap! LOL!
Sunday naps are the best! :)
Hope you and your mom had a good weekend together and no more bad spills!
One of my monitors has the payroll programs and outlook open. The other my cheat sheets, time entry program. Saves time not having to open and close stuff.
I was afraid she might try to insist on driving herself since she wants to be as independent as possible. Independence is hard to give up. We went through a lot with Hubby’s aunt when she was around that age.
At least your MIL sounds more reasonable than Aunt Clara. Be grateful for that.
Sounds very convenient since you have so many things going on at once. Anything that saves time is a plus. You have your hands full as it is.
My MIL a genuine realist. She knows her limitations and doesn’t whine about anything. Just smiles. And we’ll take her to MO when the time comes, if and when she decides to go. I like going up there anyway. They are nice people, my hubby’s cousins.
I want to be her when I grow up. :)
Evening, Kathy. Again enjoyed the bio — funny how you don’t hear these Asian-Americans playing victim?
You’re so lucky she understands her limitations and isn’t mule-headed like Hubby’s aunt. LOL! We’ve had some go-arounds with her. Not any more since she had mini-strokes or whatever it was that landed her in the nursing home. They never did figure out what happened.
Maybe she’ll feel up to travelling later in the spring. A nice time to travel through that part of the country with trees and flowers blooming.
In the next room over the 4 person stations look like this.
With the other 3 the same size, and same set-up. Who knows...maybe it won't be too bad. None of our 3 are set-up the same.
Of the 3, I kinda like where I’m at now. It’s the smallest, but it has a little bit of wall to hang my calendar.
Good thing y’all like each other. LOL!
Y’all have a window and that would be a big plus in my book. Makes it seem a little less small.
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Hajiro was born in Hawaii, the eldest of nine children born to Japanese immigrant parents who had moved from Hiroshima to Maui during World War I. Two of his siblings died in infancy. The family was poor, and Hajiro left school to work, first in the sugarcane fields of Maui and later as a stevedore in Honolulu. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and performed menial labor as part of an engineering battalion. 
next ten days, Hajiro, a private in Company I, repeatedly distinguished himself in battle. He exposed himself to enemy fire while assisting an allied attack on October 19, and three days later he and a comrade ambushed an 18-man enemy patrol. On October 29, during the rescue of the so-called "Lost Battalion", which had been surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains, he single-handedly destroyed two German machine gun emplacements before being wounded. Shot in the shoulder and wrist, Hajiro's left arm was partially paralyzed. He was able to rejoin the 442nd in Monte Carlo, but was barred from further combat duty. He was then sent back to the United States to recover. 
For his actions during October 1944, Hajiro received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross and the World War II Victory Medal (United States), before being discharged. In 1948, he was awarded the Military Medal by the British government for his part in rescuing the Lost Battalion. A 1990s review of service records for Asian Americans who had received the Distinguished Service Cross during World War II led to Hajiro's award being upgraded to the Medal of Honor. In a ceremony at the White House on June 21, 2000, he was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one other Asian Americans also received the medal during the ceremony, all but six of them posthumously. Four years later, in 2004, the French awarded Hajiro the Légion d'honneur.
Private Barney F. Hajiro distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 19, 22, and October 29, 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres and Biffontaine, eastern France. Private Hajiro, while acting as a sentry on top of an embankment on October 19, 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres, France, rendered assistance to allied troops attacking a house 200 yards away by exposing himself to enemy fire and directing fire at an enemy strong point. He assisted the unit on his right by firing his automatic rifle and killing or wounding two enemy snipers. On October 22, 1944, he and one comrade took up an outpost security position about 50 yards to the right front of their platoon, concealed themselves, and ambushed an 18-man, heavily armed, enemy patrol, killing two, wounding one, and taking the remainder as prisoners. On October 29, 1944, in a wooded area in the vicinity of Biffontaine, France, Private Hajiro initiated an attack up the slope of a hill referred to as "Suicide Hill" by running forward approximately 100 yards under fire. He then advanced ahead of his comrades about 10 yards, drawing fire and spotting camouflaged machine gun nests. He fearlessly met fire with fire and single-handedly destroyed two machine gun nests and killed two enemy snipers. As a result of Private Hajiro's heroic actions, the attack was successful. Private Hajiro's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit, and the United States Army.