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Valentine's Weekend '09: After the San Diego fires around Halloween '07, we put our stuff in storage there & came back to our house in Melbourne, FL (my Sept '07 entry follows this one). That was a very difficult time for us but are doing really good now. In '08, I did 3 marathons: New Orleans, LA...Carrollton, MI...Moline (Quad Cities), IL. Fernando's new work as a mgmt. consultant (based in Newport Beach, CA)had him commuting from D.C. to FL for several months. Then he got assigned to do LiveTV based here in Melbourne (it is so weird having him home during the week!). They do the tvs in the Jetblue airplanes so we've had a lot of "fun" trying out standby flying which is one of the perks. If I hadn't been ill this week & if the NBA playoffs hadn't sold out all the flights--we'd have been in AZ for my #13 marathon. Oh well... I did #12 in Mobile, AL in January. If any of you are coming Orlando way to do the theme parks, let me know. I continue at Universal Orlando. We are doing Mardi Gras on Saturdays. Two weekends ago, was KC & the Sunshine Band. Remember when they were at Grad Nite at Disneyland? KC can still strut! Have any of you done this or had one of your children do this? Last spring we went up to Tallahassee to pick up our oldest (Nathan, 20)for summer break. With 15 credits to go in Criminology (honor student), he tells his poor folks, "I don't want to do Criminology any more." We got the deer-in-the-headlights-fish-out-of-water look. Fernando gave him the $$$ side of the story, I gave him the "I gave birth to you & I will see you walk across that stage" story. Guess he got "tired of looking at the dark side of people" (his knack is figuring out whodunnit profiles before capture). Well, we compromised. He finished in December & will "walk the stage" in April because right now he's taking Economics courses to get a minor in that & bridge into an MBA. Our 18-yr. old is in his 4th semester...Expand for more