May 26, 2009

• Thumbs (er, "toes") Up!

  It's only 81° outside, but Marie and the girls just got back from a walk (a LONG walk) around the block with Sushi and their bicycles.  Everyone came back perspiring and I hear lemonade being poured in the kitchen.  Marie said that even Sushi was begging to stop and sit at the shade trees!  I guess we're beginning to get that summer time humidity!!!

                             
                               (My choice of shoes each day; they come in lavender, pink, or white!)

  Stephanie came by yesterday to visit.  We had a nice visit and she stayed here with me while Jesse took the girls to Wal-Mart with him - grocery shopping.  He has decided to forget the swing set idea for the backyard and go with a trampoline instead.  We are also still looking for a much smaller pool so the girls and their cousins will be safe.  The ones that are 12' in diameter and about 2 1/2 feet deep are all sold out.  I'm sure they will be restocked before the summer is gone. 

  While here, Stephanie revealed to me that she had decided to "cheer me up" and brought out a surprise make up bag.

                         
                                                       (Ta! Dah!  The "new" me!)

  Mind you . . . we NEVER wear polish on our nails.  Rissy was shocked. 

  I forgot about the "nail job" and was lying on top of the comforter on my bed watching TV when Rissy came in and gasped.  It took me a minute to follow her eyes and her open mouth of shock to see what her gasp was referring to!  I asked her if she thought my toe nails were pretty and she raised her eyebrows and asked, "You're not going to start wearing make up, too, are you?"  I assured her, the bright nails were as far as I'd go.  She wanted to know "WHY?" and I explained that not much of me feels very pretty right now.  I still have scars from the biopsies and then the first and second try incisions that hold my port under my collar bone.  The tape they used to hold the port and IV in place also bruised me in 4 crescent shaped areas.  My chest looks like a battle field and I haven't even had surgery yet!

  When you get used to seeing someone's toes "clothed" in slippers or shoes, I guess bare nails or raspberry pink ones are a shock!  Jesse kind of wondered but didn't say anything and I explained it was just to cheer me up through the summer.  I have next to no hair on my head, scars on my chest, etc.  He said nothing else.  Stephanie also brought a small amount of polish remover for me to keep.  Since I don't own a bottle of nail polish, I don't own remover, either! 

  
                          
                                                   (Comfy, soft, and fuzzy slippers.)
  
  Marie showed up today earlier than I had asked her to come.  I said 9:30am and there was a knock on the door at 8:15am.  I guess Jesse decided he wanted her to come earlier.  After my fall last Thursday night, he isn't taking any chances.  BUT, he had just forgotten to inform me!

  JoAnn was packed and ready to leave Sunday evening.  She called from the airport and said her flight was delayed (storms in Denver) and asked if I would check (online) her connecting flight to see if it would also be delayed.  There was no info online and then her second call came . . .

  They had canceled her flight due to Denver's bad weather.  She gave me a 1-800 phone number to call to rebook another flight and said she was headed back here.  When I finally got through, Frontier Airlines told me the change HAD TO BE done at the ticket counter.  What a mess!  I called and told them to go back to the airport.

  She got back to the airport ticket area and was 4th from the last in line.  Only two clerks were at the desk and all other airlines booths were closed down (typical for our small airport at 8:00pm).  Jesse (who is good at estimating crowd numbers) said he figured about 80 people were in front of her and each person (or family) took a minimum of 15 minutes to rebook.  Can you imagine?

  JoAnn was in line from about 8:00-ish to after midnight.  I felt so bad for her.  She was able to get a flight out early the next morning (Monday) and some larger families were having to wait until Tuesday or even Wednesday.  She and Jesse arrived back here a little before 1am and had to get up at 4:45am to be at the airport 5am check in time for a 6:30am flight.  Talk about exhausted.  I'm sure she was never so glad to see her home and bed, as she was Monday!

  
                             
                                        (My poor toes curl under and it was hard to flex them back. 
                                               I didn't do a very good job of showing them off!)
  

  I have a pot roast in the Crock Pot for tonight's dinner.  I made hamburgers last night and had enough seasoned ground beef left to have hamburgers again for lunch today.  I can't taste seasonings, so I'm tending to not put enough in food.  That way, people can season their own.   You can't take the over seasoning out, but I have a feeling I'm WAY under-seasoning things!

  I'm still not feeling especially peppy, but feeling better than I was a few days ago.  The black-outs come without warning.  Sometimes I sit and then stand slowly and figure I'm okay; but, as I begin to walk, the room goes dark and I have to grab onto furniture until "the moment" passes.  Stephanie teased me and said I was having "spells" - doesn't that just sound Southern of me???!!!!  I'm swooning and having spells!!! LOL

  No more "To Do LIsts" to post  - everything is being done for me, these days.  You'd think a person would love that, but I miss my routine and feel VERY guilty that others are having to do so much of "my job" instead of me doing it.

  I need to go rest a bit.  That bed and I are becoming good friends!  I usually lie down to watch "Jeopardy!" from 3:30 to 4:30p, and then I catch the evening news.

                        
                                          (This is the equivalent of a "thumbs up!")

  I'll write more tomorrow.

  Be Blessed  ~
  

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