TGIF!! It sure feels to me like Fridays arrive faster and faster each week! Okay, let’s get right into sharing five random things about our week:

1. My website, or rather, the hosting site had some maintenance this week which made trying to post and answer on Wednesday a bit challenging. I’m impressed anyone was able to comment!
2. Lots of rain this week, which we need. The sunny times between the rains with piercing blue sky and cloudscapes has been truly stunning. Maggie and I enjoyed a few walks when we got the chance. I try so hard to appreciate those small moments of joy these days.
3. Speaking of joy — we babysat Baby Girl yesterday and she was fun! It poured rain and high winds all night before that, and some rain on the way there, so we left early. Turned out to be not too bad a drive. And our drive home was decent too — we got lucky! But the best part of all, is Baby Girl and her smiles — she played with us for three hours. I tried to put her down for a nap once when she was rubbing her eyes from fatigue and fell asleep, but her eyes popped open, she grinned and started chatting away. So we got her back up, played for another hour, gave her a bottle and she was out. She’s gonna be mad when she wakes up and we’re not there to keep playing. This is another moment in time we’re trying to cherish! We love her as much as Turbo, and it’s fun to see how similar and yet very different they are!
4. By the way, Baby Girl is six months old now, here’s her six month photo that her mom took.
5. The plan this weekend is to go to Turbo’s game on Saturday. He’s turning seven on Monday! He’s having a kid party, but we’re holding off a family celebration until after tax season. We’ll figure it out — lots of moving parts going on in our family these days, LOL. All good, just busy people trying to coordinate schedules. It’s Baby Girl’s mom’s birthday on Sunday, but they have a their fundraising camping trip (for childhood brain cancer) over the next week and that requires a lot of work so we’re going to celebrate after that.

That’s my five, now I’d love to hear yours. I hope everyone has a fun, safe and if desired, productive weekend!

I finished the book “Love Mom” by Ilana Xander and really liked it. It had a lot of twists in the second half that kept me riveted. Right now I’m listening to “The Teacher” by Frieda McFadden. It’s a mystery and typically getting more interesting as I read. And I’m starting a political book on my Kindle that I was excited to read and now rethinking. It’s not the writing, it’s just that I follow politics in real life and may need to read other things for a mental break. I’m considering reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams but need to take a closer look before I decide. I’m so picky, lol!

It’s raining here. It’s fine, but it also makes me realize I’m not cut out to live in locations like Seattle where it rains and is generally gloomy (I think, I’ve never actually lived there!) so much of the time On the other hand, the heat here lasts so long, so…there’s always weather to gripe about!

What are you all reading?

It was a good weekend. Friday, I had an excellent discussion with my surgeon. My blood work and scans indicate I’m doing well with no signs of any more bad cells, and we’ll rescan again in six months. I’m very happy and grateful for that.  I wish all of us with evil rogue cells had the same outcome. I can’t even describe how much I wish that.

Saturday we made it to Turbo’s baseball game! He got two hits, and made a good play at third that ultimately didn’t get the other player out but it was a good attempt. It’s fun seeing the separate skills he’s been working on starting to come together in complex plays! Turbo’s dad was the umpire and had the nerve to call my grandson out. I complained to the umpire who promptly laughed in my face Truthfully he made the right call, and I was of course just teasing him.

And Maggie wants you all to know that she went to Turbo’s game too. She was a very good girl, and mostly just laid on the grass between our chairs. After the game, Turbo walked Maggie back to our car and was amazed at Maggie’s “bed” in the back. I explained the back seats fold down and we put a quilt over them, but he had never seen it done that way before. It just blew his mind, LOL! It was also really cute the way Maggie will just walk away from me with Turbo, where if anyone else takes her, I usually have to tell her to go. Turbo wants her to be their team dog, which is pretty cute.

I also wanted to just point out that Oldest, aka CPA boy, is deep in tax season and barely has time to breathe or eat, but he makes time to be at, and help out at, his son’s baseball game. I love that! I also that love that his wife makes that possibly by handling everything else in there lives, so they definitely work together as a team. It hasn’t always been easy for them to find a way to make it all work, but they kept adapting and adjusting to find a way, and I’m proud of them for it.

Sunday Wizard and I went out to breakfast and did normal stuff. Rain is forecasted for three or four days this week, and I’m sure it’ll rain on Thursday when we are going to Baby Girl’s but that’s okay — she’s worth the hassle, and so is my daughter in law. She deserves a break to take care of herself.

How was your weekend?

TGIF! For me, I’m glad to get to the end of this week All right, let’s share five random things about our week. Here’s mine:

1. I made breadsticks this week and this time I was happy with them. That’s a win. They were pretty easy if a little time consuming. And they went well with two of our meals — stew and spaghetti.
2. Tuesday we finally saw a specialist for Wizard. It was really touch and go if I’d be well enough to go, but I made it! And I really needed to be there (Wizard agreed with me on that). This doctor’s office was pretty far to travel, but turned out to be a good decision. We both really liked her, and she has a good plan to determine exactly what’s going on. Then fun related story — we were driving home and Wizard accidently took a ramp on the wrong freeway that ended up being a toll road we were stuck on for miles. This is funny because Wizard is basically a traveling Google map in his head, and he doesn’t make these mistakes. This was more of a distracted mistake, but it still counts! Fortunately there was no traffic and it just cost us a few dollars and a bit of extra time.
3. Wednesday — it started pouring rain. Good. What wasn’t good is that I had a 4pm ultrasound of my neck at UCI. Wizard wouldn’t let me tackle that drive myself, so he went with me. The ultrasound was late and traffic was horribly snarled when we were done. We went to dinner out there, then made the drive home that took two very long hours. It was a battle but it’s done, and the report on my ultrasound is good so it was worth the pain of it.
4. Thursday I took Maggie for her vet tech visit. She was a very good girl and made me proud. When the tech told me that, I confessed that Maggie is just an easy dog and I’m lucky. And then I did a marathon of laundry and bathrooms, and set a up a plan with my daughter in law to baby sit my grand daughter next Thursday. I love that she asks me (and of course, Wizard. He’ll go if he doesn’t have other things he has to do). I truly don’t take for granted that our daughters in law trust their kids with us, and know we’ll do our best to do things their way. And later today (still Thursday as I’m writing this), I’m going to start making sourdough bread because this weeks is a lot of catching up after being sick. I’ll bake the bread tomorrow.
5. Today I have a phone visit with my surgeon and expect that to go very well since the ultrasound results were good. Then our week of appointments is done. Saturday we’re going to Turbo’s baseball game unless something unexpected happens. I might even take Maggie, we’ll see. She would love it, but it depends if we’re going to make any other stops while we’re out.

That’s my week, and it’s nice to be 90% over the stupid cold. Now I’d love to hear your five! I hope everyone has a happy and healthy weekend!

I’m definitely feeling better! Yay. But it’s a busy week…more on that Friday.

So while I was in prison, um, I mean willingly resting as Wizard suggested after he decided that cleaning the floors somehow made me sicker…because that’s a thing, right? Anyhow, I needed a book. And I found one, LOVE MOM by Ilana Xander. It’s a psychological thriller and very easy reading (perfect for being on cold meds!) and I’m enjoying it. But I realized something — the heroine’s mom she was a bestselling author who either died in an accident or was murdered.

I’ll confess, the author part got my attention and helped me hit that buy now button. I guess we like what we know. Or probably more accurately, I wanted to see how something I know pretty well is portrayed and how accurate I think it is? I’m not sure, but I am liking the book so far.

So what are you reading?

I hope everyone else is staying healthy!

Well we had plans, then I ruined them by getting sick. Or sicker. Or something Either my cold turned worse, or I picked up a second virus at jury duty where we were packed into a room like sardines. Anyway, we skipped Turbo’s baseball game, which was a bummer. Then we had planned to have Middle, his wife and Baby Girl out Sunday, and cancelled that. Instead, Wizard went out there, which I was happy about since he hasn’t seen them in a while.

On the upside, I bought a book that I really enjoying to help pass the time!

How was your weekend?

TGIF!! Time to share five random things about our week. Here’s mine:

1. It’s been weirdly hot here this week, but it’s supposed to drop in temp over the weekend and possible rain on Sunday.
2. I went for Jury Duty on Wednesday. It was the third day of my cold, but I powered through to get it done. It was packed with 290 jurors called in for at least two very big cases. I was called up for a murder trial that was going to be at least a month long. I was excused because Wizard has some limitations and I have followup screenings this month to make sure I’m still doing fine after last year’s skirmish with cancer (yeah, yeah, I said the word, LOL). But anyhow…that and Wizard’s issues excused me from being a juror on the trial. I bet it would have been 70% tedious and 30% very interesting. And now my jury duty is done for at least a year.
3. It’s been a crazy flurry of medical stuff this week. So as I mentioned, I have a follow up with my surgeon at the beginning of the month and one with my endocrinologist at the end month. In prep, I did a blood test last week. The two doctors must have woke up yesterday and said, “We must think about Jen and do stuff!” And in about 24 hours time, I have an ultrasound scheduled for this Wednesday afternoon, my thyroid hormone has been lowered again and I have new sodium pills to deal with my chronically low sodium levels. Even my pharmacy filled those new scripts in record time. I mean it was stunning how fast everything got done and seemingly organized. In all seriousness, this is what good healthcare looks like. I really don’t like thinking about have had cancer,  but it’s reassuring to feel like my medical team is closely monitoring for anything signs of trouble.
4. While my cold is mild, the fatigue, fuzzy head and nagging Wizard had me “resting.” I nearly lost my mind from boredom! I couldn’t concentrate on reading, didn’t want to watch anything…I didn’t want to be around me Yesterday, I ignored the cold symptoms and did stuff. Later in the afternoon I rested a bit, but it was a much better day and I was no longer irritated by my own breathing.
5. We are planning to to to Turbo’s baseball game tomorrow and looking forward to it. Otherwise, we’ll see what the weekend brings.

That’s my five, now I’d love to hear yours! I hope everyone has a great weekend!