July 20, 2009

• Restful Weekend

  I sure slept a lot this weekend.  Each and every day I took a nap - and I mean I slept HARD!!!

  Saturday, I rearranged the kitchen table area's shelving unit.  It's the one that had all the rooster "junk" and candles that had gotten out of control - like ALL collections eventually become! 

                                            

  Also, much to the dismay of my family, I climbed on a Rubbermaid step chair and put things on the tops of the cupboards just because . . .

  The shelves had a multitude of debris from which to choose.  I chose a tray and a bowl for the top of the cabinets.

    
  (don't look at the dirty ceiling fan blade in the second picture!!!!)

  And, I brought a silk greenery plant in from the formal living room.  It never DID look right in the living room!

                            
  (Warning AGAIN:  don't look at the dirty ceiling fan blades!)

  I used to have plates and cobalt blue glassware up on top of the cupboards.  It was hard to keep them shiny because of all the cooking I do AND the fact I have gas cook top.  It tends to put a greasy oil on everything in the kitchen. 

  I like the new uncluttered look of the cupboards.

                              
  Looks like I need to do something with the ice cream toppings and cooking oil bottle on top of the refrigerator.  Isn't it funny how you don't "see stuff" in a room until you look at a photo - then you see everything WRONG or out of place?!

  Now my shelves are less cluttered, too. 

                                                      

  Sunday I took two naps.  I was really sleepy - like I'd taken an antihistamine or something.  I woke up in time to pull my turkey dinner together.  I had put the turkey in the oven in the morning.  All I did at dinner time was make some peas, corn, instant gravy, instant mashed potatoes (I wasn't up to to making the real thing), made a caramel sauce to put over (canned) sweet potatoes, and I opened a couple of cans of cranberry sauce.  I didn't even make rolls.  The fact that many things were instant or canned didn't stop anyone from stuffing themselves.  I had made 3 pies the day before, so we had our choice of peach, pumpkin, and chocolate pie.

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  I slept until 8-something this morning, went back to bed at 9am and got up around noon.  JoAnn thinks I'm doing too much around the house - maybe so, but it's a good feeling to accomplish things and then sleep so soundly.

  JoAnn asked me to make my "famous meatballs" for dinner tonight.  She had told Aolani how much she liked them and I agreed to do the cooking.  You just brown them and then bake them the rest of the way in the oven.  Easy to do, since you get to sit down and rest while you wait for them to finish cooking!

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  Rissy goes to the orthopedic specialist on Wednesday.  I'm going to try to go to that appointment, as I have LOTS of questions. 

  Thursday is my last chemo treatment.  To say I'm looking forward to it may sound odd - but I'm SO READY for the chemo to be behind me.  And, I'm ready to start tasting my food again.  Despite all the cooking I have done lately, I have had the worst time with my taste buds (this time) than every before.  Usually I can't taste.  This time, everything has a really strong taste of metal - not such a good thing.  I eat because I have to  -  not because anything tastes good to me.  I can only taste chocolate - which is nice, but you KNOW you can't eat just chocolate and not blimp out like a Macy's day balloon!

  Looking forward to August . . . and feeling stronger . . . and TASTING things . . . AND growing hair!  The outside corners of my eyes are finally losing their eye lashes and my eyebrows began to thin over the past 2 weeks.  Rissy noticed my eyebrows.  They've always been so thin, that thinner than thin wasn't really anything that had caught my attention!

      
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  Be Blessed  ~

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