An Update in 10 Points

I just realized I haven't posted here in ages.  It's been a busy couple of weeks...

1. I didn't get to the Life is Beautiful Festival but I did walk around the area the day after the event was finished when everything was being cleaned up and hauled away.  Fortunately the murals that are painted on the side of the buildings stay until someone decides to paint over them (some murals have been there for years).  The above is one of the many murals you can see in downtown Las Vegas.
2. Hubby has been in and out of the hospital a few times over the past couple of weeks (no I still don't have a long-term plan except to get the car and house paid off as soon as possible).  After lots and lots of tests and lots and lots of doctors checking on him, they decided his heart is fine (yeah!!) but his gall bladder is not (bummer...and extremely painful according to hubby).  So that sucker is going to be yanked out in a couple weeks and he should feel much better afterwards.
3. I watched the entire Ken Burns Country Music movie on PBS (all eight episodes for a total of 16 hours...a great way to kill time in the hospital!).  It was a wonderful movie, full of history and music I hadn't heard in years.  It must have been a work of epic proportions just to gather the information and edit so many hours of video...pretty amazing overall!
4. I've decided to delete Facebook.  I'm not a fan of the platform for several reasons (privacy, marketing, not getting to see all of your friend's posts unless they are boosted, tracking you even when the app is shut off) so until I can find a better platform (harder than it sounds), I will just keep in touch with people via email, text, and their blogs.
5. The weather in Las Vegas is becoming perfect--a nice 80ish degrees everyday!  While summers here may be ridiculously hot, fall through spring is great!
6. I am doing the AVA Centurion Challenge where walking club members walk 100 10k's throughout the year.  I have 90(!) more to do!  Yikes
7. It's tough getting old.  We have palm trees that have grown so much that it isn't safe for hubby or I to climb a ladder that high to trim them, a treadmill upstairs that needs to be brought downstairs (and which weighs a ton), a toilet that needs to be replaced, an HVAC system that either needs major maintenance or replacement, and some electrical work that needs to be done.  Years ago, hubby and I would have easily done these things ourselves but now we pay people to do these things for us :/
8. We checked out Sam's Club and it was just OK, kind of like what Costco would be like if Walmart was running it.  
9. Sunday is National Coffee Day!  Here are some places you can get some great deals--even freebies--on coffee.
10. And a last minute thing...the grandkids just called and want to go to Disney World for their birthdays (their birthdays are all in the same month).  I figured maybe we would gift them ticket until I checked the price...$172 PER PERSON for a two-day ticket!  Holy crap that's expensive and significantly more than the cost when the kids were little.  Needless to say their birthday gifts aren't going to be quite that extravagant!