Not much to report this week.
It was just work, eat sleep, repeat.
I had a little bit of an emotional crash on Wednesday, after the high from last weekend, but I got over it.
I've been taking advantage of the on line shopping program offered by our conventional grocery store.
I had some issues with it at first (missing items, wrong items picked, etc), but I made a point of complaining about them, and, ever since, they have gotten everything right.
It shaves an hour off of our Friday night errands, when all we have to do is pull up to the door and collect our groceries!!
At first, they were charging $10 per time, but when I complained, they refunded the fee for two. Then, they stopped adding the fee to my orders all together!
I wonder if they decided to eliminate the fee, because Wal-Mart doesn't charge one, and they're in competition with Wal-Mart.
Now, I wish the other stores we shop at would do this, too, like Trader Joe's and Sprouts!!
We hit the farmers market yesterday again. I love that I finally discovered this! I am thrilled to have a source for pastured meats that isn't INSANELY expensive!
Well, have a good Sunday, gentle reader. Happy National Cat Day! I have a big black cat on my lap, WITH this laptop, at the moment. He makes it difficult to type, but I don't care!
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
What a weekend!
Everything else is gone.
Gone.
SO....my chemo dose has been reduced, and I have another scan in 6 months! Let's hope the mouth sores stop.
Please.
I picked my dance sisters up at the air port late on Friday morning. We had some lunch, and then we rehearsed for 2 hours.
We took them to their hotel, and had Friday dinner by ourselves. Then, the girls Ubered back over here, and Dave took us over to the Plaza district for the Friday night show of the dance weekend.
One of the girls danced in the show. SO good to see her perform!
They went to the Saturday morning work shop, while I rested and got my costuming packed up, mostly. Then, I met them at the afternoon workshop.
We performed our trio in the show Saturday night, and we were SOOO well received!!!
Then, I danced with my class, and that went well too.
Then, another work shop this morning.
I am pretty much exhausted, but it was SO GREAT!!!
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Dance, dance dance
The dance weekend I have been anticipating for 6 months is finally next week.
My dance sisters from Illinois have their plane tickets, hotel reservations, and class registrations.
I registered for two of the classes, wanting to conserve energy and money (there are three....two of them on the same day as the show).
My scans are next Thursday, and I will get the results the same day. I have been told to hold off refilling my chemo pills in anticipation of the results.
If we get good news, I will get another reduction in dosage!
Then, the girls arrive Friday, which I have taken off from work as a vacation day. We will rehearse all afternoon.
My class is Saturday afternoon, and the show, in which I will dance both with my class and with my friends from Illinois, is Saturday evening.
The other class I am taking is on Sunday, so my blog post may be late. The girls leave after that class.
Yesterday was a productive day, with a trip to the farmer's market, house work, and dance practice in the living room.
Today, we are going to see a movie Dave has been anticipating for a long time, and then this afternoon, I will work on my costume for my class dance.
It's supposed to be a gorgeous day! I am off to enjoy it!
(Oh, and GO CUBS----please get your act together.)
My dance sisters from Illinois have their plane tickets, hotel reservations, and class registrations.
I registered for two of the classes, wanting to conserve energy and money (there are three....two of them on the same day as the show).
My scans are next Thursday, and I will get the results the same day. I have been told to hold off refilling my chemo pills in anticipation of the results.
If we get good news, I will get another reduction in dosage!
Then, the girls arrive Friday, which I have taken off from work as a vacation day. We will rehearse all afternoon.
My class is Saturday afternoon, and the show, in which I will dance both with my class and with my friends from Illinois, is Saturday evening.
The other class I am taking is on Sunday, so my blog post may be late. The girls leave after that class.
Yesterday was a productive day, with a trip to the farmer's market, house work, and dance practice in the living room.
Today, we are going to see a movie Dave has been anticipating for a long time, and then this afternoon, I will work on my costume for my class dance.
It's supposed to be a gorgeous day! I am off to enjoy it!
(Oh, and GO CUBS----please get your act together.)
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Loom
I have not unpacked my loom since we took it apart and put it in a box in 2009. Before that, I had not woven anything since somewhere around 2004, when my kitty Riley died.
Lately, I have been hearing song references to weaving, and have been thinking about it more.
Yesterday, Dave dug around in the shed and found the loom box (it's a small 4 harness table loom for making narrow strips of fabric, like place mats and table runners). He re-assembled the loom, and I got the whisk broom out and cleaned it off under the beautiful blue sky.
I took the whisk broom to the warping frame, which was hanging on a peg in the shed.
Then, Dave dug some more in the shed and found my bin full of yarn and string.
He went out and bought me a folding table.
Loom, tools, sticks, and yarn are all in the house now, waiting for me.
This is progress.
After more rain this past week, the weather got oppressively hot again, like July. That only lasted a few days, though, and this weekend has been spectacular.
We have decided to get the bikes out today and hose them down. Everything in that shed is encased in webs.
While they dry off in the sun, I will get a little more laundry done, and then later, we will RIDE!!
We had a scare this past week.
Star, one of the feral cats who lives in our yard, got trapped in the shed for 48 hours. She peed on stuff while she was stuck in there, so now the shed REEKS of cat pee.
She must have been too afraid to run past Dave when he went to close the door on Sunday night last weekend. It's SUCH a good thing that we didn't wait until yesterday to open the shed again!!
We had noticed her absence at mealtime for a couple of days, so on Tuesday, when she didn't show up, Dave had gone into the shed on to get his work gloves, so that he could go search through the brush in the yard for her body.
Star is the senior member of the tribe, and she has always had respiratory problems.
When he opened the shed door, he noticed that the gloves were on the floor BEHIND the door. One of them was also wet. He asked me "does this smell like cat pee?"..... smelled weird, but not distinctly like cat piss. In retrospect, maybe it was a combination of leather and pee from a female cat (which smells different from a male's.)
He searched the yard, while I thought about the gloves. How did they get onto the floor from their usual spot? Why were they wet? That shed is solid, no rain gets in, and the gloves' usual spot is up high, on the top of a shelving unit.
Duh.
So, we went into the shed quietly and looked around.
There was no sign of her, but that didn't mean she wasn't hiding! Dave went into the house and got a flashlight, and he found her, hiding back among the storage bins.
We left the door open and went inside, and she came out!
If she would have been trapped in there all week, she would have died. We were out of the food that we keep in there for the ferals, so there was nothing to eat or drink, and as I wrote above, it was hot.
As it is, she is fine and happily reunited with her son, Luke.
In other news, we think our Annabel probably has a urinary tract infection. She was exhibiting signs yesterday morning, so Dave put a call in to our new vet who does house calls.
Annabel is pathologically TERRIFIED of going to the vet, so we waited for a call back that never came.
In the meantime, she continued to use the box obsessively, but has been exhibiting no other signs of distress. Her ears are cool, and she is bright eyed, active, eating, and drinking.
Hopefully, the mobile vet will call Monday, and Dave can come home to meet her.
If things seem to be getting worse today, though, we will have to put ourselves through the abject trauma of getting Anna to the emergency vet.
She will freak out when she sees the carrier, we will have to struggle to put her IN the carrier, at which time she may very well shit all over herself and the carrier. Then, we get to drive WAY up north like that.
Once there, they will have to sedate her to get her out of the carrier and treat her. It's AWFUL.
Right now, she's lying on her back between us on the couch in purring bliss like she often does on weekend mornings when we are at our leisure to enjoy our home and pets.
Must get on with breakfast. It's too beautiful of a day to waste any more of it sitting here!!
Lately, I have been hearing song references to weaving, and have been thinking about it more.
Yesterday, Dave dug around in the shed and found the loom box (it's a small 4 harness table loom for making narrow strips of fabric, like place mats and table runners). He re-assembled the loom, and I got the whisk broom out and cleaned it off under the beautiful blue sky.
I took the whisk broom to the warping frame, which was hanging on a peg in the shed.
Then, Dave dug some more in the shed and found my bin full of yarn and string.
He went out and bought me a folding table.
Loom, tools, sticks, and yarn are all in the house now, waiting for me.
This is progress.
After more rain this past week, the weather got oppressively hot again, like July. That only lasted a few days, though, and this weekend has been spectacular.
We have decided to get the bikes out today and hose them down. Everything in that shed is encased in webs.
While they dry off in the sun, I will get a little more laundry done, and then later, we will RIDE!!
We had a scare this past week.
Star, one of the feral cats who lives in our yard, got trapped in the shed for 48 hours. She peed on stuff while she was stuck in there, so now the shed REEKS of cat pee.
She must have been too afraid to run past Dave when he went to close the door on Sunday night last weekend. It's SUCH a good thing that we didn't wait until yesterday to open the shed again!!
We had noticed her absence at mealtime for a couple of days, so on Tuesday, when she didn't show up, Dave had gone into the shed on to get his work gloves, so that he could go search through the brush in the yard for her body.
Star is the senior member of the tribe, and she has always had respiratory problems.
When he opened the shed door, he noticed that the gloves were on the floor BEHIND the door. One of them was also wet. He asked me "does this smell like cat pee?"..... smelled weird, but not distinctly like cat piss. In retrospect, maybe it was a combination of leather and pee from a female cat (which smells different from a male's.)
He searched the yard, while I thought about the gloves. How did they get onto the floor from their usual spot? Why were they wet? That shed is solid, no rain gets in, and the gloves' usual spot is up high, on the top of a shelving unit.
Duh.
So, we went into the shed quietly and looked around.
There was no sign of her, but that didn't mean she wasn't hiding! Dave went into the house and got a flashlight, and he found her, hiding back among the storage bins.
We left the door open and went inside, and she came out!
If she would have been trapped in there all week, she would have died. We were out of the food that we keep in there for the ferals, so there was nothing to eat or drink, and as I wrote above, it was hot.
As it is, she is fine and happily reunited with her son, Luke.
In other news, we think our Annabel probably has a urinary tract infection. She was exhibiting signs yesterday morning, so Dave put a call in to our new vet who does house calls.
Annabel is pathologically TERRIFIED of going to the vet, so we waited for a call back that never came.
In the meantime, she continued to use the box obsessively, but has been exhibiting no other signs of distress. Her ears are cool, and she is bright eyed, active, eating, and drinking.
Hopefully, the mobile vet will call Monday, and Dave can come home to meet her.
If things seem to be getting worse today, though, we will have to put ourselves through the abject trauma of getting Anna to the emergency vet.
She will freak out when she sees the carrier, we will have to struggle to put her IN the carrier, at which time she may very well shit all over herself and the carrier. Then, we get to drive WAY up north like that.
Once there, they will have to sedate her to get her out of the carrier and treat her. It's AWFUL.
Right now, she's lying on her back between us on the couch in purring bliss like she often does on weekend mornings when we are at our leisure to enjoy our home and pets.
Must get on with breakfast. It's too beautiful of a day to waste any more of it sitting here!!
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Fall into autumn
It rained much of this past week, again. We certainly are not in a drought this year!
Yesterday was Oklahoma City's Pagan Pride day. It was lovely, as usual, to be able to go shop the vendors and see the good turn out, and to know that I am not alone in central Oklahoma!
I was invited to be one of the performers again, but turned it down again. I don't really do the style of dance people at PPD are interested in.
A friend of ours went with us this year, because she had friends there who were vending. I think she had fun, too.
Then, we went to one of the local breweries that was doing a fund raiser for prostate cancer awareness and treatment.
Came home, watched the Cubs game, made dinner, watched Svengoolie, used the hot tub.... It was a great day/night!
Today, I will finish laundry, mow the back while Dave goes to check on his dad, and then, hopefully, I will have some time to dance while Dave mows the front.
I got the vacuuming and bathroom done yesterday morning before our friend arrived, so that's already taken care of.
The weather, when it hasn't been raining, has been spectacular. Today should be picture perfect. MAYBE we'll get on our bikes some time today, too.
Happy Sunday!
Yesterday was Oklahoma City's Pagan Pride day. It was lovely, as usual, to be able to go shop the vendors and see the good turn out, and to know that I am not alone in central Oklahoma!
I was invited to be one of the performers again, but turned it down again. I don't really do the style of dance people at PPD are interested in.
A friend of ours went with us this year, because she had friends there who were vending. I think she had fun, too.
Then, we went to one of the local breweries that was doing a fund raiser for prostate cancer awareness and treatment.
Came home, watched the Cubs game, made dinner, watched Svengoolie, used the hot tub.... It was a great day/night!
Today, I will finish laundry, mow the back while Dave goes to check on his dad, and then, hopefully, I will have some time to dance while Dave mows the front.
I got the vacuuming and bathroom done yesterday morning before our friend arrived, so that's already taken care of.
The weather, when it hasn't been raining, has been spectacular. Today should be picture perfect. MAYBE we'll get on our bikes some time today, too.
Happy Sunday!
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