Another week over

Whew! So glad it's Friday....wish it were next Thursday already! LOL

I've got one day "off", tomorrow, before I hit the store again on Sunday. :p Good news is, that I'm only working through noon on Thursday, and taking the rest of the weekend off! Going to my sister's new 'retirement home', to check out the place and give our stamp of approval. ;) Will be nice to get away for a few days.

Although, M and I did go to Chicago last weekend. I love playing tourist, but it takes days to recover from all the walking! :o I think my hips and shin splints finally stopped aching by Wednesday. LOL My pocketbook is suffering greatly, though. :p Good thing we go only once a year--I can't afford anything more than that! LOL

For whatever reason, M loves it down there...he says he wants to live there someday. :o Umm...no thanks. I like being to take a walk by myself at night, and not have to be looking over my shoulder all the time. And, getting in my car and it taking only 15 minutes to drive a few miles, instead of 2 blocks. Free parking, or only a nominal fee (instead of a minimum of $10). Seeing trees wherever I turn, instead having to go to a park or a zoo (or a cemetery LOL).

Speaking of cemeteries, I truly wish we'd have enough time to visit the one where my ancestors are buried. We just ran out of time. :( So, next trip, I'm definitely having my friend take me there! It's not far from her apartment, and I hear the cemetery is beautiful--for a cemetery. LOL

Some people don't quite understand my desire to visit cemeteries. However, it's not just any cemetery I like to go to. They're cemeteries where I have an attachment of some sort to them--like my (or my DH's) ancestors. :) Even DH rolls his eyes when I want to go visit one. But, I made him take me to one this summer, and he didn't get it until I showed him the gravestones of his great-great grandfather and his children. He was pretty impressed. ;) The history behind them, is usually a mystery, unless you really delve into--and pay for--copies of the death certificates, etc.. Why did these children die so young--and, so many of them, too, from one family? :(

The mystery still remains, regarding my own ancestors. I don't think the cemetery, itself, will give me any concrete answers--it will just verify what we already have documented. But, it's still interesting to go and take pictures of the gravestones (if there are any left), and maybe get an inkling of a little more information by seeing who is buried next to, or near, them. What I really need to do, is find the church records. However, it's difficult, for that time period in Chicago is when there was a fire, or a flood--or some sort of disaster--that destroyed a lot of the paper records from that time. And, most everyone that knows anything at all is already deceased, or has forgotten such information. But, the mystery and the "detective work" is what makes it fun. :) I just wish I had more funds and time to really get involved in it. *sigh* someday. :)