good by to Pat Zink 10/13/09

I have been friends with Pat & Joy for 31 years. I met Joy at a young adult activity and she introduce me to her fiance Pat. Pat and I had a friendship like a typical brother and sister. He would always say, "you never know what you are going to get out of Karen" and i always enjoyed going up to visit with them. Our children were close in age and with my going up there 4-6 times a year when my kids were growing up, we are were like a big happy family. Pat loved to cook very fancy meals and he really liked food. I used to tell him that food was his God. He didn't dispute that. Sadly, Joy and Pat divorced and I know this was hard on Pat. About 15 years ago, he got a flu bug that attacked his heart and enlarge it and he had suffered from the affects of that. He was overweight and a lot of our disputes was my trying to get him to eat more healthy. I took the skin off the chicken and he had a cow. "hey, that's the best part" I told him, "hey, you don't need it you are heavy enough". Our meal times up in Safford with Joy and Pat were very humerous since it didn't take much for me to start laughing and get the ball ping ponging around with the kids and all. He will be missed, even though he drove people with his extreme political views and his sarcastic ways.. I guess that was one thing we both have in common, we both were very sarcastic and it would be a contest who could get to the other one the worst. He passed away on Oct 13th, 2009. He will be missed however I know he is in a better place and I know when we meet again, it will be a quite a reunion.

To busy for any mischief

I can honestly say, "I do not have idle hands, so I will never get into mischief". My friend Brigette and I went to San Diego last weekend to visit with a dear friend who lives all by himself . He is my friend Pat Zink's father Earl. We got out there around 2 pm and he took us around to all the pretty homes, we had dinner and went home for a calm peaceful evening. We took him to Sea World on Saturday since he stated he hadn't been there for quite some time. Earl totally enjoyed watching the children as they watched Shamo and the other sea animals. I started school on Oct 7th, taking 2 classes and the term ending on Dec 7th. It is on line and i totally enjoy it but with the 2nd grandchild coming in 3 weeks now, I'm I totally out of my mind. During the week, it is up at 4am to make my 35 mile trek by 6:30pm. I get home and hit the homework and William fixes a light dinner as i am still trying to get the 45 extra lbs off this body. then attempt to get to bed early, by 8;30pm, which has not happened yet.. 11pm is more like it. So like I said, I will never get into any real trouble, however by some weird reason, I have always loved being busy even though i get tired and swear i will never put myself in this position again, low and behold i am here again. The good new is I will have my AS in about 15 months. Then I can work on my BA and have that done by age 54 hopefully.