Finally received the ANA newsletter!

[Kaybo]

Jan~
I got my newsletter yesterday...FINALLY!!     

Now I can read the rest of it!

K

[leapyrtwins]

Wow, K.  I didn't realize you were still waiting also

Where did they mail these things from China 

It's a great issue - enjoy 

Jan

[lori67]

Oh, thanks, Jan.  Rub it in.  I STILL didn't get mine. 

I better get busy writing my own version.

Lori

[leapyrtwins]

Make sure you include an article called "Ice cream can cure just about anything" 

Jan

[LADavid]

Lori
As a writer I'll get you started on your own version of a newsletter.

Once upon a time, I received the ANA Newsletter.  I was happy.  I was connected.  I felt one with the family.  Then suddenly something sinister happened.  My mailbox was empty.  I made jokes about it at first.  People laughed.  But in my heart I knew there was something wrong.  Could it be that my secret CIA life was revealed and THEY were out to get me?  Or could it be that somehow that unpaid parking ticket had reached the offices of the ANA?  Or could it be the mailman who seeks to alieanate me from the world I know?  He does look at me in a funny sort of way.  Come to think of it, everyone looks at me in a funny sort of way.  Like they know something.  They couldn't possibly know.  I lie awake at night listening to the sounds.  The breeze is deafening.  I reach beneath my pillow and feel the safety of the cold metal Magnum.  I hope I will never have to use it.  But I am ready.  They don't know the Lori they are dealing with.  Heck, after reading what I just wrote, I don't know the Lori I'm dealing with.

So, Lori, I hope this gives you a start on your own ANA Newletter.  I think it will give some real insight into the stuff we deal with.
David (writing safely from the ANA Forum basement)

[Kaybo]

David~
And I always thought that people looked at me funny because my face just didn't quite look like theirs...

K   

[lori67]

David -

I LOVE IT!  I can't wait to see what I do next!!

Lori
p.s.  I wonder how they found out about that parking ticket?  They can't expect an AN patient to parallel park!!!!

[leapyrtwins]

Very intriguing newsletter, David, do go on - I'm curious to see where this all ends.

And let me just say, I always knew Lori had a hidden past 

Jan

[Kaybo]

Lori~
I just want y'all to know that I am the QUEEN OF PARALLEL PARKING and with my mini-van too.  It's the little things that make me so happy - I am sure there is a huge grin on my face everytime I whip it in perfectly!!   

K   

[leapyrtwins]

That is amazing, Queen K 

Seriously.  I find that at times I'm still having issues backing out of my driveway without running over the neighbor's grass down by the street 
 
I also still routinely park my car in a parking lot and notice when I exit it that I'm not between the lines   

I've definitely improved since my surgery 16 months ago, but I still need even more improvement.

Jan

[LADavid]

Lori
This is your newsletter.  I just gave you a headstart.  Although there is that guy in the Hawaiian shirt that somehow finds his way into the shadows and seems disinterested in your life, but he is always there.  You even saw him in Nashville but it didn't register that he is the same one that you saw talking to the mailman at home.  Yep, I'd say there is something very suspicious about not receiving that newsletter.  But you'll fool everybody with your own newsletter.  I'll be glad to write a column for you.  I think you should call it The Real ANA Newsletter That Gets Delivered (just kidding Judy).
*David whispers something to Lori*.  What?  Now don't smack me, Phyl.  I am very sensitive.  I don't sleep well after a smack.  *David whispers something else to Lori.  They titter.  David wanders off to his next post.*

[leapyrtwins]

David -

I hope you remembered to whisper in Lori's "good" ear - or you'll leave her wondering what you just said 

Personally I think Lori's puppy ate her newsletter before she even got a chance to see it.

Jan

[lori67]

Wait a minute.. it's all coming together now.... the man in the Hawaiian shirt is James!  We are Parrot Heads, after all... we have a lotta Hawaiian shirts.... He does always seem to be hanging around here, and I'm pretty sure I saw him talking to the mail man one afternoon.  And now I know the reason he nevers listens to me is because he's disinterested in my life.   I should have seen it.

He probably took the newsletter from the mailman and fed it to my dog.  She has a hard time getting the mailbox open, what with her lack of thumbs... 

Lori

[Kaybo]

Lori~
I just ordered Dave a new JB "Camp Shirt" for his birthday - can't wait to get it - hope it gets here in time!!

K

[LADavid]

Don't give up hope, Lori!  I got my newsletter today.  Of course, in your case the dog may have eaten it.