I haven't wrote in this journal in 14 years, and I'm always surprised when someone likes one of my posts.  So, I thought perhaps I should give an update.   So, long time, no talk!   I remain cancer-free and have long bid adieu to my oncologist.  I think we were both a little emotional!  I'm healthy though, damn, getting old is a bitch.  There are ( Read more... )

I had a PET scan on Friday, the 23rd--not nearly as eventful as the last time when Aimee went into labor and I couldn't go to the hospital until after dinner-time. But maybe because I didn't have the new baby for distraction, I was much more anxious this time waiting for the results--an absolute wreck ( Read more... )

What a week, and it's only Tuesday. God I wish it was over ( Read more... )

Well, I'm just the little traveler this week. I went on my first ever business trip to Nashville on Monday, coming home last night. I loved it. Absolutely, every minute, even the ones where I was actually working. I went with a guy from work and we delivered some training to the Nashville office of our company. I'm 53 years old and have never ( Read more... )

So, the reason I went to Mr. Kyle's to be cheered up last week is, I'm almost undoubtedly going to have thyroid surgery in the near future. I talked about it a bit way back in the first couple of posts on this blog. Basically, whenever they look inside your body via scans and tests, they find stuff. One thing they found with all the CT and PET ( Read more... )

My daughter has always been the epitome of cool. You'd never catch her being goofy--it just wasn't in her nature. She had a lot of fun in high school and in her first couple of years of college, but around the time when she started choosing a major and dating seriously, she became very tense and driven. She's very focused on doing the right ( Read more... )

Every year on Epiphany, our church passes out chalk that has been blessed and little prayer cards so we can bless our houses. We say the prayer and then draw the "chi rho" (letter P on top of the letter X) surrounded by the year--2007. The first time I did that was 1997--the mark is still on my door. When I saw that today, I realized that it was ( Read more... )

The halls are now undecked, the doors de-wreathed and the house looks so....blah ( Read more... )

Why does the end of the year have to be soooo much work. It's not just the shopping and the baking and the wrapping and the decorating, but I've been at work until 7 pm more nights that I can name lately. Now, I refuse to stay just for "face time" but there are so many end of year projects, and since we're in the billing area, there is no wiggle ( Read more... )

Damn, I ache all over. Spent all day yesterday decorating the house and putting up the Christmas tree, but it was actually a lot of fun. I put on music--Shari will be happy to hear that I listened to her boyfriend's swell Christmas CD. My friend Susan (a major Claymate) gave it to me a couple of years ago. I had so much energy, but now I'm ( Read more... )