CoCo's Corner

The last few days I've been noticing an anxious feeling.  An exhausted feeling.  It's such a habit and such a addiction that I feel that I need to break it.  I'm talking about Facebook.  It's becoming such a divisive and horrible place to linger.  It's becoming a spiral of negative.  It's been coming on for the last few years and I've truly come to the end of my rope and I'm trying to break the habit.  It truly is a habit.  It's on my phone - I pick it up and I look at it just for no reason.  No reason other than to be dragged down by it.  It used to be fun to look at people's pictures.  It used to be fun to see the funny videos.  It used to be fun to see the animal pictures.  It used to be fun to see what people share.  Now, people share stuff that most of us don't want to deal with.  It's political, it's negative.  I don't understand why we have to post all this garbage - which most of it is false an...

Yeah - pretty powerful for someone who tries to go with the flow.  But, it has to be said.  We truly are screwed if something happens to our individual health care. I have had my own insurance since I was 18 years old.  Which was good - because I got pregnant prior to being married and I had insurance - back then, once you were married, you were kicked off your parents insurance.  Luckily, I was covered by my own when I got pregnant. I worked for 32 years for the same governmental entity.  I had full insurance for myself and my family.  It was pretty damned good insurance.  I raised my family on it.  I had a daughter that had cancer, twice and was covered on it.  I had a husband with multiple health issues and surgeries on it, until he passed away.  Ted was covered by it when he spent two weeks in the ICU and the hospital.  It covered him.  I appreciated my insurance. When I decided to retire - or when I felt that I had...

This was the hardest trip to plan - ever!!!!  We changed plans so many times, it wasn't even funny.  All along, since last year, we had planned on going to London.  Well, then someone decided to have some wedding in the same week that we planned - so I didn't even want to try.  But, weren't they pretty???  Then we thought about going to Paris and go to the beaches of Normandy.  It's one of the things on Ted's bucket list and I think it sounds amazing.  But, the rail workers and the airline workers were having planned strikes all during the month of May.  So that wasn't going to work. We had a few more ideas - then decided to do the trip we planned on doing last fall, but Ted was busy at work, so he couldn't really get away.  We were going to do a New England road trip - it was all about food and hotels.  Had it all planned.  Then we started worrying about the weather, so we started waffling. A few days before, Ted was workin...

Chelsea is the second grandkid to get her one-on-one CoCo adventure.   I told her when I took her brother to start thinking about where she wanted to go.  When I brought Zach home, her mom told me she already knew.  When I was able to ask her, she said "Hawaii".  So, I took her hands into my hands and said, "Hawaii is really, really tricky.  I am going to do everything I can to get you there.  You need to have a backup plan in case it doesn't work.  And if we get there, hopefully we can make it home".   I never did hear where her backup plan was. Lei!! I asked on Facebook to one of the non-rev groups when the best time would be to get a buddy pass into and out of Honolulu.  The response I got was Super Bowl.  Well, it really was a pretty awesome time to go.  We probably could have made it on the direct flight Sunday morning, but it was a bit tight and I saw that the Seattle flight first thing in the morning had abo...

At the airport - early in the morning  - awaiting our fate.  Will we get seats?? Introduction:  When I got my job three years ago, I was so excited by the prospect of travelling.  After my first trip on my benefits - which I took all by myself just to say I used my benefits - I knew this was going to be an amazing benefit.  I was so excited about taking my family on journeys.  Well, then I found out how badly buddy passes completely suck.  So - I haven't tried travelling with my  grandkids until now. Sleeping with Nuns Zach called her the Ninja Baby. She snuck her hand through the cracks.  I think she was sleeping too. But, suddenly her hand was on his knee and kind of freaked him out. I decided I was going to make Zach my first victim.  I knew I wanted to take my grandkids on a special trip with just them.  One-on-one or even two-on-one with Papa.  With Zach, I knew I wanted it to be just him and me.  He is...