December 2015

I have been contemplating a hair color streak for some time.  A few years ago I told my hair fixer, colorist extraordinaire, Mandy, that I wanted something totally different so she bleached out a white section of my hair.  It was dramatic.  But then I just went back to typical hair color with lowlights and Read more

This morning I have backed up to 2007….the year I started blogging.  I was rereading blogs for December 31st of  each of the years that got me to today…December 31st 2015.  It was a good thing…some years I sounded positive and articulate….other years I rambled about this and that.  The words “2016 has to be Read more

I drove 3 and a half hours each way for a 15 minute appointment with the kidney cancer specialist yesterday.  No news is good news.  He did urinalysis and blood draws.  Results show some elevations here and there as my body continues to recover from the loss of my left kidney.  We also had a Read more

     My first puzzle in many, many years and my first 1000 piece puzzle ever.  Make that 999 piece puzzle.  Just like a fine Amish quilt….it isn’t perfect…one piece is missing.   I took over the dining room table for several days and found myself totally relaxed with lots of time in deep thought.  It Read more

He and I are struggling with sleeping and I’ve heard from a lot of friends that this is a common problem…I know after a hospital stay, it is very difficult to get back on schedule.  Sleeping in the hospital is not intended to be good restful sleep so the body can heal.  Sleep for an Read more

Jane Repp shared with me on my first weepy Christmas without my dad that every year she has a good Christmas cry.  It felt right that she would be comforting me on this particular Christmas because she was having a hard time with it too.  Her mom had passed just a couple weeks after my Read more

Waiting for the other shoe to drop?  Unease about what is around the corner or in the dark?  Relief?  Wake up call?  Glad we have been thru the bad stuff? Diverticulitis and Kidney cancer to start the year and bottoming out with a heart attack and bypass surgery.  Yes.  I’m still stuck on it…For the Read more

Amazingly he came out of the bedroom this morning after his shower and said, “I want to go to town today”……seriously….before he read my blog…..and what put him on the top of any husband comparison list….his answer to where do you want to go?  Hobby Lobby!!!  He wanted to get a few things.    And Read more

I shouldn’t complain….in nearly 3 weeks, I’ve been able to get out of the house to go grocery shopping twice …. *scream and to the dentist….oh I did get to the doctors office with him for an hour and a couple of quick trips to the pharmacy… I’ve been noticing that we aren’t talking to Read more

I’m not sure how to start this blog…I have the ideas swirling but have spent too much energy trying to be politically correct.  While my blog is a categorized in my mind as a diary, I do share it publicly just because I do.  There are many thoughts I would like to share.  I don’t Read more