December is in like a lion

The raging wind is making the windows rattle this morning, but it's sunny and bright.  It will get up to 50 today.

Our unintended staycation has been okay. 

We've eaten well!  I've gained three pounds!

We've also done some reading, played lots of back gammon and dominoes, and watched Chicago themed movies for my sake.

It was gray and dreary every day except yesterday.   We really wanted the thunderstorms that they kept forecasting, but they never came.  It just drizzled.

Yesterday, Eric and Linda invited us out for lunch, and Dave accepted.  We met them at a favorite little restaurant, and then they came back here for a while.

Eric asked about Christmas Eve.

Dave had already promised me that he will have a chat with Eric about never apologizing for the Christmas from Hell, so now, he really has to follow through on that!

I was basically forced into a corner, and had to invite them while they were sitting there looking at me!  Eric knows my plans are the same every year, and basically invited himself and Linda.

So, some time in the next few weeks, I expect an awkward conversation with my step son. Yay.

We like Linda.  She's been very good for Eric.

She's a bank branch manager, and has grown sons (15 and 18, I think) who live with their dad.  We don't know the story on that.... but will eventually.

She's a few years older than Eric, and has a good head on her shoulders.

This morning, I am up and showered so we can get out and go grocery shopping while most OKC residents are at church.

Dave is probably going to go see Pop, and see if he has taken apart his new radio yet.

I haven't decided if I am going along this time.

I had planned to have some spiritual reflection time yesterday, but that didn't happen, so maybe today while Dave is out.

I hate that our five days off is almost over, but we get another five days at Christmas.  I was finally approved to take the Monday off that week.  (I requested it in January, but didn't find out if I could have it until a couple of weeks ago, due to the ABSURD policies at my office.)

Christmas week is my "off" week from the first round of chemo, so that will be nice.

I have been assured that I should not experience the same "roller coaster dip" that I did previously when in chemotherapy.

This is due to the fact that we are doing this "low and slow" method of several hours of treatment once a week for three weeks, instead of one big treatment every three weeks.

I should actually feel pretty good during the off weeks between rounds.

I sure hope my team is right, and that I will tolerate this as well as they have said.

I am off to make breakfast.  We actually bought a loaf of rustic bread to enjoy during these feast days, and I am going to slice some off, toast it, and fry up some eggs.

(we don't keep bread in the house because eating breads and pasta makes us fat, and increases our aches and pains, etc)

Have a good December Sunday!