winter picnic

we did this about a month ago...i just didn’t get around to posting it till now. leave it to carol, our neighbor and best friend to get us out of our comfort zone. literally. but we had a warm day, the park was beautiful, lots of good bread and cheese, free wood and a crackling fire in that cool lean-to behind carol and i in the pictures. we are planning on an overnight there in may. our luck with camping...especially with c&c...isn’t that great. lots of big green blobs on the radar. but this park is in huntsburg so how bad can it be.

shaun white

sam wants to be him, and olivia wants to marry him.
(donations happily accepted. ;) )

vacuum

so, it would appear that my luck with cancer is about as good as my luck in vacuums. which is to say...it sucks. (see what i did there?) having gone through 3 vacuums in about 2 months...i could hardly believe it was happening. but with those vacuums...it was so crazy that all i could do was laugh. the cancer...not so much. right at my five year mark...my routine mri showed a shadow that wasn’t there last year. when they say shadow, it kind of makes it not sound so ominous. but when they say invasive lobular cancer...not so good. anyway, i am having a double mastectomy with reconstruction on march 2nd. i am really ok with it. i didn’t start this blog to really reveal all sorts or personal stuff, but right now it seems like a good way to keep everyone in the loop. we won’t know till the day of the surgery if it has spread to my lymph nodes, but my thinking is that if they only saw a “shadow”...it’s small. so all my positive energy is going in that bucket.

(my next appointment is for pre-op next monday. nothing scary. just blood work...which i was due for anyway.)

fug

i LOVE when the fug girls do jennifer lopez.
an excuse to post. i’ll try and do it more often.