For Crying Out Loud

I know I have been writing about my cancer and it has been depressing. Sorry about that. Today, instead, we are going to focus on what my life is actually like.

This morning I woke up just about the time my husband got home from work. I made myself a cup of tea and we sat together in the back yard, having our breakfast in the dappled sunlight. The morning was a bit cool and I was grateful for my bathrobe. When he had finished his breakfast and we had talked our fill, we went inside, he to the bed and me to eat my breakfast and read the paper.

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I have been most remiss about posting on my blog. Please accept my apologies. I have a new hobby. It's Liam. I would rather hold him than write about him. We (I keep handing the camera to anyone who passes by) have taken a bunch of photos and I haven't posted them. Daddy and I took our trip down to Pa for Celeste's wedding and on to DC for the town meeting portion of the Discovery Special, Living With Cancer. That was almost 2 weeks ago! I can't believe how fast the time has flown. I will try to post a litte more regularly, but, truth be told, I just might be busy.

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Thursday was the big day for me, but it started on Wednesday. I flew to DC in the afternoon,

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and all the news that isn't:

Not a whole lot going on here, but a few changes. I want to keep everyone updated to the changes in the house and neighborhood so when you come to visit you won't feel disoriented.

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Heidi and I try to spend about one day together per month. It is our sanity insurance. Usually what happens is that in nice weather I drive to Lakewood and in yuckier weather, she comes this way. Not fair, but very accomadating of her. Since the weather is still pretty good, though going downhill, I went yesterday to Lakewood. The food is better out there and so is the shopping. There are at least 3 or 4 yarn shops we visit, and they are pretty good ones. We even discovered a new one on our last crawl. I bought some yarn to make something for Mara, but we both decided that it wasn't quite the right color, so Heidi and I were returning it.

Continue reading "I'd Like You to Meet My Sister" »

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I got a call from Skylor last night. He has Big News!

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Well, this was a week. Last Saturday, I read in the News-Herald that President Bush would be visiting Lakeland the following week. When we got to work on Monday, there were loads of rumors flying around about the visit but nothing confirmed. I sort of got the feeling that our Prez, Morris Beverage (Yes, Chastity's dad) first heard about it when he read the same article that I did on Saturday.

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Merry, Daddy and I went to Sumo Boy on Monday night after Stretch. What a nice way to break the fast.

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I was listening to NPR the day after the State of the Union speech.

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I thought you guys might be interested in these stories. You leave, life goes on.

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I know everyone (except maybe Mark and Mara) would love to hear about our trip to Israel, but I have more pressing things on my mind.

This is really risky to talk about because it will cause those webwalkers, those reaper of random words, to be drawn to this website and to infiltrate and cling to the insides of our computers, but I am going to take the risk anyway. Forgive me.

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He isn't even a former Marine . . .

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