Wed. Nov 19

Today:

First thing - took Paxton to the groomer

Home to exercise - made it through "regular" workout again

Picked up Paxton - he looked so handsome and smelled SO Good

Went to Lunch with bff Kathy- PF Changs ALWAYS delicious-brought home lunch for tomorrow

A bit of shopping - most exciting purchase - Smart wool socks

Home to take dog for a walk and begin to clean kitchen cabinets - more of that tomorrow

Worked a bit on current sweater (knitting) project

No complaints about today: Feeling pretty normal. Will enjoy the next few days and take advantage of feeling good prior to treatment #3 next week.

Nov. 17th-JR's 1st Birthday

What a great day today. I can hardly believe that JR is a year old today. My does time fly. Ross, Valerie and JR came over this evening for a little dinner, "opening" of birthday presents and of course the traditional cake and ice cream. Papaw made a birthday cake that JR was hesitant about eating until Mom put some cake on the tray. Once he started eating there was no stopping him. The ice cream was also a big hit. The evening was SO entertaining. He is such a happy child. An observation: JR either "talks" or makes noises the ENTIRE time he is eating. Once he starts to really talk, we are all going to be in big trouble.

The day for me was very good. Day 2 of exercising. Upper abs a bit sore today but still managed the sit ups. No trouble with the elliptical. Really enjoying getting back to moving this ole bod.

This morning I went shopping for balloons and birthday decorations and then came home and jazzed up JR's high chair. Steve took 1/2 day off today so that he could bake the cake. It was a good thing he took off because it took most of the afternoon. I tried out a couple of new recipes. They were okay. The salad tasted unusually good. It's been quite awhile since I've had salad. YUM. The cake was also pretty yummy. I did eat too much though.

Figured out today that if I stay on schedule for all of my treatments, I will be finished at the end of January. Hope everything stays on schedule.

Another good day!!!

Monday again

Feeling really great. I FINALLY decided to tackle the exercise this morning. I spent 3o minutes on the elliptical and did 150 sit ups. I could tell that it's been awhile since I've done anything aerobic. I was surprised that the sit ups weren't more difficult. My abdominal muscles seem to have weathered the surgery pretty well. When Steve got home, after dinner we both did weight training on the bowflex. Granted I didn't use much weight but added reps. We'll see how all of the feels tomorrow or more likely the day after tomorrow.

I ran a couple of errands this morning. It was another beautiful day(70 degrees) so I wanted to go out, enjoy the sunshine and get a couple of things done while I'm feeling good.

Over the weekend Steve and I picked out tile for the kitchen backsplash so I took it down to Kathy today to get her opinion. Looks like it is a go. Steve will have a project to keep him busy over the holidays.

Looking forward to tomorrow. :)

The Weekend

Had a really good weekend. Steve took 1/2 off on Friday so that he could go visit his Dad. We decided to go out to dinner on Friday evening since it has been, it seems like, forever since we've been out.

Saturday we spent about 1/2 of the day running errands; grocery shopping, jean shopping for Steve (he is currently swimming in all of them), lunch, etc. etc. I came home and made a beefy vegetable soup for dinner. BUT-Steve decided he wanted leftover pizza so I ate leftover Thai food. The soup had to wait until Sunday.

Sunday I got up and fixed bacon and eggs for breakfast. I then decided to rearrange the family room. With all of the cleaning that had to be done (one thing led to another) it took me most of the morning. Steve was kind enough to do the laundry and the ironing. After lunch we took off to Wally World to pick up a few things that we discovered we needed after we rearranged. All of us took an afternoon nap and then walked the dog. Was a pretty restful rest of the day.

Beefy vegetable soup was pretty good.

I've been feeling really great of late. I just keep telling everyone that I'm on the upswing again. I'm debating on whether to start exercising this week. Funny, I keep thinking about it, but it hasn't happened yet. Need to get busy because heavy breathing going upstairs is getting a bit old.

Since this Wednesday will be day 14 after treatment #2, I'm waiting to see if more of my hair will fall out. So far still have eyebrows and eyelashes. YEAH!! Getting used to wearing scarves and had lots of positive comments about how well "I pull it off".. Someone last week told me "You look like Karen". Don't think a better comment could have been made.