Welcome to MarlaJean's Blog

Howdy! Here is me. MarlaJean. My favorite thing about me is that I'm a young Grandma. I work in the IT field and I travel around Eastern Washington to smallish counties, kindof like an IT Faerie. I hover in a middle-sized city and love the staff that I support locally, but really enjoy getting out to the hinter-lands for on-site visits. The people "outside" are really great to meet and work with and sometimes play with after-hours. These smaller towns have different after-hours stuff, and I will comment on them at times. I can tell you which hotel has good beds and government rates, and where NOT to eat. Eating alone is weird in restaurants, sometimes I grab a salad and read. Now I can grab a salad and BLOG.

Washington, the STATE, is a great place, and eastern Washington in particular. In the span of a 2 hours drive you can go from high mountains, lakes to deserts, and back! It's a great place to live and visit.

Family: From time to time I will give you updates on my family. Right now my Mom, Dad and Sister are very ill. It's pretty odd having 2 with cancer and one with varied diseases from smoking and drinking. We never had cancer before and this last 6 months has been quite the shocker. My twin sister has breast cancer and we will go through that together. Whoopee!

I also have 6 or so kids. All grown with young-adult stuff to chat about.

So, this is it, just to see how it launches. I'll try a link to the American Cancer Society for a test, but I may get rid of that.

Today, we went to www.fixitnow.com which was way cool with easy instructions to fix appliances and household stuffs. The fixit Samauri works for beer, so please donate if you use it.

Ta ta for now deery.
MarlaJean