Nice weekend.

MY SISTER IS THE QUEEN OF CARE PACKAGES!

For my birthday, she sent me a box that held a couple of packages of Pasta Barilla Plus, Trader Joe's chocolate covered pretzels, and their steel cut oatmeal, bars of luscious chocolate, and 2 pounds of YELLOW split peas!!! All things I can't GET around here!! I am so excited!

At Christmas, she sent me a bunch of stuff like that, too.... MWAH, sister!!!

Maybe some day, they will open a Trader Joe's here, but so far, there isn't one in the state of Oklahoma.

And I have NO idea why the grocery stores don't carry Pasta Barilla Plus pasta....they carry other Barilla products, but not my favorite pasta.

Unfortunately, the package delivery failed 3 times, so we had to go pick it up today. Better late than never!

Tomorrow, we are going to go check out a place called Red Rock Canyon. I need to get out in nature, and this place is about an hour west of here, and should be perfect to get out and do a little hiking. I need this to deal with the current state I am in.

I spent a good part of Thursday trying to get the facility back in Illinois, where I had my last mammogram, and the facility here, to communicate with one another and allow my records to be sent from old to new.

Ultimately, I found out that my records had already BEEN sent from old to new. Signed for a week BEFORE the new place called to tell my that my old records were unavailable.

WTF?

Anyway.....my appointment is still set for Monday at 3:30. Dave is going to meet me at work and drive me there. Having him be there means the world to me. I'd be even more freaked out if I had to go through this process alone.

I am trying to have a nice weekend, though. We went and visited Dave's parents, like most weekends, and I got to tell them the news. They are praying for me.

Then we went and did our errands, and now, a new recipe is cooking on the stove....a veggie soup. There's tequila and lime juice in the glass by my side.

Tomorrow, there is the hiking trip....so I am doing my best to just go alone like everything's normal, and not be terrified that I might have cancer.

Trying not to think about losing my hair, or my breast, or my life.

Yeah. Trying.