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THE SPROUTLETS ARE COMING!

10/22/2018

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BE YOURSELF, BABE

Hi! I know it's been a while since I've posted, but things are really taking up my time lately.

Today I have my 11th day of radiation. Only 17 more days left. Radiation is not bad. The first day they make a form for your upper body and each time you go in, they have you lie on a hard table and fit yourself into the mold. Then they adjust the big round machine that goes over and around each side so that the Magic Marker markings and tattoos  (yup, I've got TATS!) line up and then the machine does the rest. It is not painful or loud. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. The only hard part is that you have to lay perfectly still. Let's say it all together . . .  you have to lay perfectly still.  That reminds me of my horrible experience with the M.R.I. a few years back. 

Hey! Good news! I'm starting to grow sproutlets on my head. You know, little sprouts of hair. It's been 7 or 8 weeks since my last chemo, so IT'S ABOUT TIME!  The new hair is not coming in curly like it did last time, and it is a pure white color. Take a look. I'll try and keep update pictures coming.

​It's so soft. And feels like baby chick fluff. Oh, and take note of the weird eyebrows. I haven't developed a talent for drawing on natural looking brows. Hopefully the real ones, along with the eyelashes, will appear soon!


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Things are going well with The Woodbridge Building. I have had some nice events at the hall, and have several more reservations . . . even for November and December holiday parties and dinners. There are even some people locking in for graduation parties in June.

I have been having a ball working on the fall decorations for the great room and the front porch. 

Yesterday, a local autism group held  a nice get-together there, and had bounce houses for the kids,  on the grounds behind the building. I went down  early for a few minutes, when the organizers were setting up the food, etc., and it looked like they did a very nice job. Thank goodness the sun was shining, the temperature was in the mid 50's, and the wind wasn't blowing hard. The day before, it was in the 40's and the wind gusts were up to 40 mph! brrrrr

​It's been a while since we've seen anything of Little J. Here's a recent picture of my alter-ego. She is showing you how she is imploding. When you lose a certain amount of weight, evidently excess skin seems to hang. And then wrinkles develop (or are just more noticeable now). NOTE: She and I both need to order a 55-gallon barrel of Crepe Erase, that they advertise on TV.

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On a very serious note, remember to vote in the Mid-term election which will be here before we know it. Your vote matters!!! 

                                       GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY

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5 1/2 WEEKS

10/4/2018

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SOMETIMES, YOU JUST NEED A BREAK.  IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.   ALONE.   TO FIGURE EVERYTHING OUT.

Went to the radiologist yesterday. And got sentenced to 5 1/2 weeks of radiation treatments. Starting Monday. Good news is that it is pretty painless, just tiring. The bad part about it is that treatments are Monday thru Friday each week. The first few weeks it will be at one o'clock which really chops up a person's day. The rest of the time I get the ten o'clock appointment which isn't as bad. I am worried about the progressive increasing tiredness. I am moving at half-speed now. It blows my mind that it takes me so long to do something that I would have knocked out much faster . . . just a year ago!


I spent most of the day at the building. I cleaned out the storage room (where I store stacks of extra chairs and seasonal decorations), and packed up a lot of gardening equipment from the utility room to take home. Then I put together some autumn-themed pots of silk flowers to put on the front porch. My pots of real  geraniums and impatiens are still going well. Usually, I have killed off those poor plants by this time of the season, but they still looking so good, I hate to toss them out but I need to replace them with more artificial sunflowers and fall blossoms. Soon.

I had to have my furnace guy come to the building. It was time to fire up the heat in there. The fan on my brand new furnace was blowing, but there was no heat. Furnace guy figured out the problem and is replacing a PVC pipe tomorrow. I am afraid that my HVAC system might be jinxed (or a factory lemon). This spring when I turned on the AC, the fan blew air, but there wasn't cold. The repairmen came out twice, before they finally were working on the outside unit, and it blew up. No one was hurt, but it sure scared the guy working on it. The unit was replaced the next day. The men that work at this company sure come quickly when I call and they are a good bunch.
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I am not used to furnaces or central air, 'cause we are all-electric at our home and the house is so old, it was never designed for all the ducts and such. I even had to have Nathan, one of our board members, show me how to replace the filter.  sigh 

Anyhoo, I'm going to bed now, and watch a rerun of "Golden Girls".  NOTE: The other day I was thinking about my favorite TV shows, and came to the conclusion that I have an odd "favorites" list. --- Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls, and Gossip Girl.

 Good night.

                                                        GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY

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