All Checked in…Finally.

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Good Afternoon Reader’s!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day. I am finally settled into my room here at Emory Midtown Hospital. The day started out well. Once I signed in at the doctor’s office this morning at 9am, they called me back to access my port and take blood samples. Then I was called back to meet with Dr. Reed ahead of my 10am appointment. Woot! Woot! The appointment went well and he was very happy with how I am doing and feeling.

Then we went to admissions and our train slammed to a halt. Turns out the seventh floor was booked. There was no available room for me. Pickles. They sent me to a temporary bed on the first floor. The woman in the next bed was not having a good day. There was loud moaning and groaning and she threw up once. Doctors kept coming in and asking me if I was Miss Smith. No, thank goodness. Miss Smith was not having a good day.

They were able to start my fluids around 1:30pm. This made me happy. I really did not want my chemo to start late and push everything back. God knows I don’t want to stay here any longer then I need too.

I finally got into my room around 3pm. Guess who was there? Theo! He had my white board all ready written out with my chemo orders. My room has a flat screen TV!!! Theo said that they are slowly replacing the TV’s and that I got one of the two rooms that have them. Sweet! My first round of chemo should start around 6pm. Like before, I won’t be able to take any pictures and post them while here in the hospital. However I will when I get back home.

Tomorrow is Friday, my favorite day of the week. Make sure you enjoy it!

Happy Wednesday Readers!

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Happy Wednesday Readers!

I am feeling a little panicky today. Tomorrow I will be admitted into the hospital for round 3 of chemo and I feel like I have a ton to do. While I did do some laundry yesterday, there is still more. Isn’t there always more? What’s up with that? I vacuumed but of course there is fur all over the floor this morning. Timber is shedding and I can’t seem to keep up. Then there is the packing! Ugh. I hate to pack. I feel like I do when I have to pack to go on a vacation. I am trying not to bring a bunch of stuff that I won’t use (like I do on vacation).

My mom and dad are on their way over here from Alabama. They will be hanging out with The Boy and all the fur children for the next five days.

I met with Molly from WDesign Landscape, Inc., earlier today. We reviewed the plans for the Hotel Yorba Landscape project. She is really excited about the coop/run project. We discussed how we could reuse the wood from the swing set and cedar fence. The fence people will start next Tuesday or Wednesday and the rest of the project will start later next week. I will try to take some pictures. Can’t wait till it is all done!

Not sure how much posting I will do while in the hospital. I will try to take more pictures this time. Take care Readers!!

Waking Up is so Hard to Do….

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Reader’s!

Is it me or is it almost impossible to wake up on a Tuesday after a long weekend? I love long weekends but waking up is so tough and now for the rest of the week I will be thinking it is one day behind. I have a lot to do in the next two days. I have three conf. calls for work, trades to make, follow-up letters to write, house to vacuum, laundry to wash, bathrooms to clean, grocery shopping and packing for my trip to the hospital. Pickles. Life suddenly got very busy after being lazy for three days. Does this happen to you too?

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Now that Labor Day is over, I am ready for Fall. I am. Like right now. Let’s close up the pool, pack away the shorts and pull out the jackets and jeans. Fall is my favorite season and I am ready for it to begin now. However, living here in the ATL, I think I have to wait a bit longer. Other than rain, the temperature for the rest of the week will be in the high 80’s. I will have to wait for my mid 60’s.

Whatcha Reading?

I have not been in the mood to read anything since I started chemo. I think the chemo makes it hard for me to focus on one thing for too long and I found it impossible to concentrate on reading. My friend Jennifer C. had suggested the book The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. I started reading my last time in the hospital but couldn’t get into it. This weekend I tried again and had a very hard time putting it down. The story is about a groups of friends growing up in the 70’s and follows their lives, through marriages, break-ups, politics, AIDS etc., to present day. I really enjoyed it even though I did not really like a few of the characters. I finished the book yesterday and decided to give another one of hers a try. I am now reading The Wife and am liking what I have read so far.

Question

What is your favorite season? Why?

Happy Memorial Day!

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Happy Memorial Day Readers!

It is very rainy here in the ATL. We were lucky that the rain held off till dinner time on Saturday. It poured down for a awhile and when it stopped My Man turned on the jacuzzi and the boys hung out there for a bit. It rained off and on all day Sunday but it did not stop The Boy or everyone else (but me) from getting in the pool throughout the day. I felt worn out all day and ended up going to bed around 9:30pm. I read a little and then fell asleep around 10pm. Feeling more awake today, which is good. I have some work to do plus I want to start packing for my stay in the hospital later this week.

On Saturday I received an e-mail from one of my readers, Alison. She is a friend of my sister-in-law, Robin, who reads the blog. She was driving into through Detroit the other day and snapped a picture of the Hotel Yorba for me. So Cool! Thank you Alison!

Picture taken by Alison Al-Bawab. Thank You!

Picture taken by Alison Al-Bawab. Thank You!

Here are some pictures from the weekend. Even with the rain, the weekend was a success! Looking forward to when we all get back together.

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Andy

Andy

Me and My Man

Me and My Man

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Dee & The Boy w/crazy eyes

Dee & The Boy w/crazy eyes

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Dee Dee

Dee Dee

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Timber and The Boy

Timber and The Boy

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Panny

Panny

Home Invaders

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It’s Friday! Woot! Woot! It is my favorite day of the week. I am feeling much better this morning. All day yesterday I felt like I had been run over by a truck. I guess I had, the chemo truck. All I wanted to do was go to sleep, so when it was lights out for The Boy at 8pm it was lights out fe me too. I bet I was asleep by 8:30pm. Getting up was still a pain but once up, I felt good. I am going to the gym later to workout with SK and still have some cleaning to do to get ready for our friends, so I hope the feeling sticks.

Last week Hotel Yorba was invaded by gnats! Damn little things were everywhere! In the kitchen, in the pantry, in the laundry room! They have been driving us crazy by flying into our faces or landing in our drinks, including my glass of wine! We searched, cleaned and couldn’t get rid of them. So yesterday I went on-line and searched on how to get rid of them. People stated that putting a little dish soap and apple cider vinegar into a bowl and putting it out wherever you saw the gnats would work. So I mixed up the solution and put bowls of it in the pantry, laundry room and by our kitchen sink and waited. I went to check on them about an hour later and sure enough all three bowls had at least two gnats in them! When I woke up there were at least 10 in each bowl. I have refreshed each bowl this morning and hope to catch-all the little buggers before our friends get here.

My Mess

My desk is a mess 90% of the time. It is. I admit it. I only have two drawers and too much crap. So I brought up of drawers that use to be in my “work office”. It had been in storage and full of all kinds of stuff. I was cleaning it out and found of our old Palm Pilots! I remember when these first came out. My Man just had to have one and even bought me one. I wasn’t as excited as him but if he was buying I wasn’t going to say no.

Retro Technology

Retro Technology

I don’t remember using it all that much but I did go all out with my Coach carrying case! It is crazy how far we have come in such a short time. No color screen and I had to use a little stylus pen and not my finger!

Hotel Yorba Landscape Project

We have picked our landscaper for the Hotel Yorba project. It is Molly from WDesign. She came in with a good bid and I really like her. She is also excited about doing the coop/run project. I look forward to see what she comes up with. We are going to meet on Wednesday to go over a few things and then they should start. I am going to assign my dad the task of watching over things while I am in the hospital. I hope all goes well. I have been in charge of this whole project and I want My Man to be happy with the end result!

Reader’s! Have a wonderful day and long weekend! I am heading out to pick up the foot stool cushion we ordered for the screened in porch and then the gym. Be good to yourself and each other!!

The Boy hard at work @school

The Boy hard at work @school

One more week…

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Good Morning!

Love is in the air!

Love is in the air!

I hope everyone is doing well on this Thursday morning . Things are good here but I am little tired. Yesterday I went into the office to do some work. I have been working from home and it has been working out pretty well. Except for one thing. My printer at home will not talk to my laptop, so I can’t print anything. I had applications I needed to print out and send to clients, so Timber and I headed off to work. Have I every mentioned how much Timber likes to ride in the car? He loves it! We were at the office for about 3 hours. We took one break for a walk around the office complex. I think that was his favorite part. A little after noon we headed back home. I needed to eat something and I could tell I was getting tired.

The tired feeling lasted for a few hours. Luckily I got a boost of energy and got a few chores done but I was asleep by 9:30pm. Waking up this morning was hard and when the boys left at 7am, I crawled back in bed for 30 min. Don’t know what’s up with me. I haven’t felt this way in the past 2 weeks.

Sick Mac

We heard that the Mac we brought in to get looked at, is pretty much dead. Poor thing was struck by lighting and it fried the logic board. Thankfully the hard drive is ok and all my pictures and music is safe! Timber and I are going to head over there today and pick it up.

Labor Day

Reader’s! What are your Labor Day plans? Day at the beach? Lake? A cookout? Our friends, Andy and Dee, who are also The Boy’s Godparents, are coming down from Kentucky for the long weekend. We will be hanging out by the pool (I hope), eating food, listening to music (Andy has already requested a playlist), laughing and having a great time. It will be a nice end to a crazy summer. That being said, there is a lot of cleaning to be done. My Man took care of some of it yesterday but we have a lot more to do. Going to have to get out my vacuum!

One More Week

I have one more week before I head back into the hospital for round 3 of chemo. Each time I think of what I can do to make my visit better. Last time we found out about a refrigerator that they have on the floor that I can use to store food. Also, there is a microwave in the waiting area I can use.  So, this time I have going to have food brought in for me to eat. I can’t take much more hospital food and this will healthier.

Shout Outs!

Sandy F.- Thank you for the yummy preserves!

Tara E.- Thank you for the gift card! My Man and I can’t wait to use it!

Tell me your plans for the long weekend. Making anything special?