November 19, 2009

• Big Change of Plans

  After several calls yesterday and one (FINALLY) after 5pm, all of my doctor visits were canceled for today and tomorrow.  The girls will keep their appointments tomorrow afternoon, but no doctors for me this week.

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  We are taking Stormy to the vet this morning.  She's had diarrhea for a couple of months (comes and goes) but now is vomiting.  The vet closes at noon - has a morning walk in clinic.  We're trying to hustle around here.

           

  I'm trying to keep the girls moving.  I had a bath last night.  It's easy for me to dress, pencil some eyebrows on my face, and put my wig on.  I've never gotten ready so quickly in my whole life!  A head of hair that is always brushed, styled, and ready to go . . . what a deal!

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  The pork dinner was yummy yesterday evening, but I was so extremely tired after all I did yesterday. 

  Jesse was a doll and washed up the dinner dishes for me.  I had totally spaced after eating and went back to lie down on our bed.  Then I heard the "kitchen clatter" and remembered I hadn't cleaned the remainder of the food from the pans, etc.  He told me to go back to the bed and he would finish up.

                           
                                             Is that my sifter you see in the lower left corner?

  Yes, indeed!  Yesterday afternoon, I mixed up the dough for the chocolate crackle cookies and a double batch of dough for peanut butter cookies.

  That little activity almost drew my life to an end, yesterday!  LOL!!!!   I was almost in tears, I was so tired and I couldn't stop because the kitchen was a mess.  I HAD to clean up.  The girls took turns asking me questions (one after another) and I felt like my emotions were going to burst.

  I realized, even with the Kitchenaid Mixer, I'm not in any shape to do any holiday heroics, this year.  I'm glad I found this out BEFORE Thanksgiving day! 

   Seriously, I was almost in tears as I finished the second batch of dough and my temper was short fused.  Flour was everywhere.  I mean EVERYWHERE.  There was a dusting on the upper cupboard doors, a dusting all over things on the bar, and the lower cabinets and floor were like snow.  To speed things up, I added too much flour (at one time) to the mixer and it spewed flour everywhere.

                          
                                          This is as far as I got.  Dough in the refrigerator.

  I made the announcement to the girls that we would eat very little of these cookies and most of them would be put in the freezer.  If I don't start now and freeze things, there won't be holiday cookies and candy.  I'm just not that strong, yet.

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  I must go.  We are going to do our grocery shopping after we are finished with Stormy.  We have to bring her all the way back home before we do anything else. 

  Maybe we'll find some shoes for Annamarie today, too.  It's on our list, as well as, Rissy's shampoo and conditioner that comes from Sally's Beauty Supply.

  Tomorrow I will have my IV of bone stuff but no doctor visits.  They will have to call me later when they figure out what to do with me (I *do* have other appointments in my life!) and the two doctors who need to see me.  I doubt anything will happen until the first or second week in December - which is fine with me.  As you recall, I don't care for the radiology oncologist much at all.

  Okay . . . really going this time!

  Be Blessed  ~
  

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