Gerri’s Blog

Here it is Friday and my first week “in charge” is coming to an end and just imagine, I haven’t blown up the gutter! Dang, I’m good! I’m sure the BM and WM will be impressed.

When Gerri asked me a few weeks ago to watch over things while she and Diane were away, I automatically said yes and then started to wonder what I had gotten myself into! You see I had this vision of dabbling in Gerri’s email … replying with my HPish charm! Bet I could have done wonders for her popularity as an email pal!!! Then of course came the telephone call to give me a lesson in approving comments and posting blogs and dang it NO access to the emails. She must have been reading my mind. She does that from time to time.

I did take notes and listened carefully to her instructions. And then promptly misplaced the notes. Fortunately, Gerri had Diane give me a no brainer user name and password so I could at least get into the blog when I tried! Anyway, I searched high and low for my notes and tried to remember what I had been working on when I took them. Couldn’t do it. Then last night I was sitting in a meeting and opened a notebook to jot down a few things and low and behold there were my blogging notes! So when I post this, it should go a lot smoother. Don’t you think? I’ll be sure to let you know.

I’m pretty sure that you are all aware that I’m quite fond of the BM. Gerri has brought a lot of things into my life. At the top of the list is friendship and not just hers. Although I do feel very fortunate to count her among my friends, she is also responsible for some remarkable firsts … my first time to blog … my first time to build friendships with folks across the big pond … my first time to take a chance and meet some wonderful women. Watching my Wks and her Sp ride down the escalator at the airport was something I’ll never forget. And of course three days later I fought tears as I dropped them back off.  I had a wonderful time with them, showing them a few of my favorite places. Our time together ended much too quickly. Having Mo and Paula join us on Friday night was just the icing on the cake. Wks was so cute as she prepared to open the door of my hotel room to them! Meeting all of them simply confirmed what I knew already, I had happened upon a group of intelligent, caring, compassionate and lovely women. And if not for Gerri’s friendship and request that I drop in and check out her blog that would not have been possible.

As time goes on, I hope I get to meet more and more of you. And so on this Friday as we get ready for tonight’s hoe-down, let’s raise our glasses to the woman who brought us all together and gave up control of her blog so that we could forge bonds of friendship.

Here’s to Gerri …