Booty Time is drawing near!!!

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24 hours of Booty!

Readers! Some of you have been so generous to be and my fund-raising for 24 Hours of Booty. I have around 42 days to get ready for the ride and am already thinking of the fun stuff like shopping!!

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This weekend we will be going to REI to look at tents. They are having a Labor Day sale starting on Friday I and I plan on checking it out. I am looking for a tent that can fit two adults and one child. I am not sure if My Man will spend the night but I know The Boy is all ready for it. I will also need to bring in my bike for tune up. I don’t think I have brought it in since I bought it, so it is due for one. Luckily there will be food set up, part of the fee goes for meals, so I won’t have to by too much camping gear…unless I just feel like it!

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My dad and I are getting a white tent to be out home base from my brother. Yo! Brother! Come join the ride with us! That goes for all of you out there. I would love to more to join my team. The more the merrier! Check us out at Team Hotel Yorba!. There is a registration fee and you have to raise at least $200.00 to ride. What a wonderful tax write off for your personal taxes or small business.

If you live far away and still want to participate you can always donate to my personal page. My goal is to raise $1,500.00 and I am getting close! Please help if you can. Why? Because it is a dam good cause that is why! Plus I really want to get the jersey. :)

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I want to send a bog shout out to my sister-in-law Robin. She did the ALS ice bucket challenge and asked that the people she challenged donate to my cause instead. How cool is that? She has nothing against ALS but is just a kick ass woman trying to help me out (she knows I want that jersey). She ROCKS!

Late and Breaking!!

Guess what Readers! I have been asked to be interviewed by the 24 Hours of Boody  public and media relations! What? Me? I got an e-mail form Jackie T. asking me if I would be interested in giving an interview about My Hotel Yorba Team and my experience as a cancer survivor, current ass kicker. My interview will be today around 10:30am. I will let you all know how it goes and post the interview (if I give a good one) once it is done. How cool huh?

Round 1 Part 2

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New scarf

New scarf

Readers! For yesterday’s chemo treatment I thought I would wear one of my new scarfs and wear some make up. So fancy. What do you think? So pretty! I love the soft pink of the lace. My Man came to the hospital with me today. I took little cat naps. Due to the study they have to check my vitals every 15 minutes for 2 hours! So you really don’t get to get a good nap while you have to open you math for a thermometer and hear monitor.

Cold!

Cold!

The infusion center go pretty full while we were there. It is crazy how cold they make it in there. I had a sweatshirt on and two warm blankets. I think next time I will have to wear a warmer jacket. I brought my iPad to read my new book.

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I finished The Silkworm and am now reading Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. So far it is pretty good. I have read many of her is the past and have enjoyed them all. They all take place in Australia so there is a lot of tea drinking going one just like in The Silkworm. makes me want some hot tea!

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I thought about down loading a movie or tv show to watch but could find anything that I was interested in. There are TV shows but I know I will get hooked and end up buying the whole season.Am I ready for that commitment? Maybe I should just bite the bullet. Any movie suggestions? Any TV suggestions?

This morning I went in bright and early and got what I am calling my “booster” shot. My immune system will be going crazy  after this second dose and the shot should help me level out and not get too sick. I was super tired driving there (along with having serious stomach cramps) but luckily it didn’t take to long at all (so speedy). The shot was given to me in my stomach and then I was free to go. I came home and proceeded to take an hour nap. I had hoped the shot would have given me some extra energy but not so. Pus the stomach cramps are back. I took some pills for that which will hopefully kick in soon.

New Scarf #3

New Scarf #3

I am going in to my office to look at some paperwork and then I am treating myself and getting my nails done. Hope the nap was long enough to keep me awake! Have a Happy Wednesday Readers!

 

The Fur was flying!!

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Good Morning!

Good Morning!

Readers! How was your weekend? Ours was pretty low-key. I decided to take it easy by not doing too much. There was some yard work done. Sometimes I sit outside drinking coffee or a glass of my green juice while Timber runs around doing his thing. I stare at the bushes and finally had enough and trimmed them. As I written before, I made The Boy help me clean up. He did a pretty good job all weekend. He is under punishment and has taken in very well. He did a lot of playing in the yard and reading. If this punishments gets him reading more than one good thing will come from it.

His buddy aka The Friend, challenged him to the ice water bucket challenge for ALS. He was super excited to do it. I would love to post the video but I am able to do so but if you check on my Facebook page you can see it. He did challenge his Papa, his Uncle and his God Father. Y’all know who you are!! Suck it up and do it or donate to a wonderful cause.

Sleeping Panny

Sleeping Panny

Someone got a spa treatment on Sunday. We can’t have her getting dreadlocks again. My Man likes her patch and wants to keep it! Not sure she would be up for that.

I think she likes it!

I think she likes it!

So much fur!

So much fur!

Spa Time

Spa Time

Monday Morning

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Over the weekend Candy called to see how I was doing. The woman never stops working. She asked if I could come in and get some blood taken and pick up a prescription for a drug that will help some of the side effects I am and will be feeling due to tomorrows chemo treatment.

I hope you are having a good monday so far. Looks like it may rain here in the Atl. Be Good, Be Safe.

How am I feeling????

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Hi! I am Shay!

Hi! I am Shay!

Readers! Want to know I am doing? I think the picture above pretty much says it all. I feel like shit but I try to keep smiling. “Well what the hell is wrong with you?” You ask. I feel like I have been run over a truck. Over and Over. Manly when I wake up.

When I wake up I have to lay there for a few minutes trying to read my body and how it is feeling. I don’t think things are in the right place when I get up. It is like when I sleep they get up and move around. I start to move and then the organs freak out and start moving back in place and that hurts. I yell in pain and fall back to the bed. I lay there for a bit giving my organs time to calm the f down. Then I slowly but not too slowly move my what up to the siting position. My then my breathing is more like gasping. I have to sit for about 5 minutes trying to settle myself down. All the while, I have to pee like a race horse so that too is kinda pain full. Finally I move to my side table and grab my first pills of the day. Ahh….Drugs…

I thought he was a cute one too.

I thought he was a cute one too.

Yes, Readers, drugs are my friend. I take my pain pills the first thing. I then try to move my neck, shoulder, back and arms around to try to loosen them up. I am so tense and tight when I wake up. Once again. something is going on while I am, sleeping. I finally make it to the restroom about 10 minutes after I first wake up. And I am kind of loud waking up which sucks for the My Man. I am sure it is not the alarm clock he is really wanting to hear bright and early in the morning.

Friday was actually a good day for me. I had a lot of errands to run and was really afraid that I would not be able to do them all without falling asleep or getting really tired while driving. So Rebecca to the rescue. She had some things she needed to do to so it ended up working out perfect for both of us. I drove all the way till the end. She drove home from lunch. I had a 1pm conf. call to get ready for. I did take a little nap before I picked up The Boy from the bus stop. We then had a break before we went to the First Friday at the park. This is a celebration of the first week of school that the school puts on. I rested a little before we went and was able to make it through the party and had a good time. It was hot though!

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Dinner

Dinner

Us and a family of turtles

Me, some boys and a large turtle.

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My Man and Me

My Man and Me

The Boy ended up spending the night at his buddies house which probably was a good thing. We later found out something he has been doing and well, Mama was pissed. Very upset. He is back home and his life had ended as he knows it. He is very quite and has been hauling branches while I trim the bushes. It will be a long week for us all. Still so mad. Grr.

It is bright and sunny here in the ATL and like I mentioned, I have been working in the yard. The girls are working on eggs and Timber is just so dam happy to be here. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Whatcha Reading?

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Readers!

Whatcha Reading?

The Cuckoos Calling

The Cuckoos Calling

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling

From Booklist

London PI Cormoran Strike’s final feud with his arguably insane fiancée leaves him camping in his office, wondering how his last two clients will keep him afloat and pay for his new secretary, Robin. When a childhood acquaintance asks him to investigate his supermodel sister’s apparent suicide, Strike finds a distraction from his problems that’s happily attached to a check. Lula Landry was surrounded by rabid paparazzi, a drug-addled social circle, a dysfunctional adopted family, and a shifty, newly found birth mother, making suicidal despair hard to dismiss. But with Robin’s surprisingly adept assistance, Strike dismantles witness statements, applying masterful deductive skills to find evidence of murder. This debut is instantly absorbing, featuring a detective facing crumbling circumstances with resolve instead of clichéd self-destruction and a lovable sidekick with contagious enthusiasm for detection. Galbraith nimbly sidesteps celebrity superficiality, instead exploring the ugly truths in Lula’s six degrees of separation. Strike bears little resemblance to Jackson Brodie, but Kate Atkinson’s fans will appreciate his reliance on deduction and observation along with Galbraith’s skilled storytelling. –Christine Tran –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
As with books written by English authors set in England, I have at times no idea what they are saying. I will admit that I am not up on my English slang. Other then the occasional “what? What?”. I really enjoyed the book. The two main characters are both relatable and likable. Cormoran, is, like me, and amputee which I thought was pretty cool. However from the sound of his prostheses and dealing with it, I am much better off! There are no wizards in this book it is a murder mystery. I think J.K. writing as a man works for her.
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling
From Amazone

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days-as he has done before-and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.

But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives-meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. 

When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before… A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.

This is book two in the London PI Cormoran Strikes series. It takes place about six months after the first one ends and learn early on it is right before William and Kate get in engaged. Nice to but a time with the setting (although to be honest it could have been taking place   day, you can’t tell). I am about one-third through this book so far and am liking it just as much as the first. In the first book we learn a lot about the world of models and in this book we learn about the publishing wold. One I think our author probably knows a bit about. Once again, no wizards or muggles, just a mystery and so far a pretty good one at that.

Big News!

I looks like all four of The Girls laid an egg today! How cool is that Readers?!

 

 

Round 1, Part 1

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I'm ready!

I’m ready!

Round 1 Part 1

Hey Readers! Well, I survived round 1 part 1. Have I told you how on-time the people at the Georgia Cancer Institute are? Even ahead of time? Well, they are. Rebecca and I got there about 20 minutes before my appointment time and by my 9:30am appointment time, I had already had my blood drawn and port accessed. In what world does the happened? I met with a doctor (none was obj vacation) and he reviewed everything I would be going through. Of course Candy, who I think is really in charge of the whole thing, was there too. After my meeting with the doctor I had a quick EKG done. I wasn’t sure why I had this done since I had one done a week before but they are so fast and painless it wasn’t a big deal.

It was then time to go to the infusion center. On things cool about the GCI, is that everything is on one floor right next to each other. At Winship I was going from one floor to another to a different building, up down and all around. Here it is all at one place. The Infusion center was cold and really quite. There weren’t that many people there so we got to pick out where we sat.

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Getting comfy.

Getting comfy.

I was offered a pillow and warm blanket. In all, we were there for an hour. They had to take my vitals every half hour. There are a few things that they have to do that are different since it is a clinical trail. Everything had to be done a certain way according to the sponsor of the trial. There were no individual TV’s just a big one for every few chairs and they were set to close captioning. Law and Order SVU.

It go busier the longer we were there. My nurse was super nice, as is everyone there is. They have a section where you can get water, coffee and tea and there was a volunteer on the floor helping people out if they needed it. When I finally get over all this shit, maybe I will sign up to be a volunteer. I think I would like that. A lot of people were all wrapped up tight and sleeping. You could tell that they were going to be there awhile. I was the youngest one in the place. Not to sure how I feel about that.

After I was done and my port was closed up, I went and made my appointments for the next month. I will be going back once a week to have either my blood drawn, get a shot or have treatment for the next month. It is a good thing that GCI is close by (takes about 15 min to get there) and that they seem to be on time. It shouldn’t be too big of a pain in my pasty white buttocks. Now if I could only stay awake….