Noisy Machine (D)

Gainesville

My main computer is making a horrible noise again (driving me nuts), and the laptop is being charged, so this will be short.

I did get up early (for me: 9:00) and out shopping. Back in time for ESPN meta-football, only to realize that the first game did not start until 4:30! This gave me some free time in the afternoon.

Saw in the paper that postage goes up tomorrow, so did a mad dash to finish up the last 14 Christmas cards so I wouldn't have to add stamps to them-- ended up with a canned letter of sorts, but it was the only thing I could do on short notice. Also wrote all the bills, then made a special trip to the P.O. to get them mailed. Glad to have that out of the way.

Both Florida teams lost today, but at least Tampa made it a good fight. The Jags were pretty awful. My plan is to take down the tree tomorrow while watching the games

Made a nice pan fried haddock with butter sauce for dinner-- baked acorn squash and blanched broccoli on the side. Bill is feeling worse again today; he stayed in this velour jammies all day and did a lot of sleeping. He shouldn't have gone to work yesterday, but it's impossible to stop him.

Enjoying your letters to Dan, Mom. More about that tomorrow.


Saturday, July 12, 1952
194th Days-- 172 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
Mom & Dad came home at 3:30 last night. They both had hangovers. Bren came down and we played with her all morning. We played with her this aft too. Later we played with Pat. We are leaving for Iowa on Friday (we hope) Today I found the funnies (Chron) from Oct '51 to May '52. There sure is a lot. Suzy

Sunday, July 13, 1952
195th Day--171 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
This morning we got up and worked. We cleaned up our room and then we did the front room. We polished the furnature and all! This afternoon Pa & Dan came over and stayed a while. We don't know when we're leaving yet. We forgot the show so tonite we went. We saw "When in Rome" with Van Jonson & Paul Douglas & "Skirts Ahoy" with Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blane & Guest s Billy Extine Debbie Rynolds & the Demarco sisters. Suzy