Moving my blog, mostly..

I'm trying to move over to word press. The address is http://christina1952.wordpress.comhttp://christina1952.wordpress.com/
I'll try and do both blogs for a while.
It has been an incredibly stressful day. First I had to go get a blood draw , she left a nice mark:(
Then it was off to the dentist for a cleaning. Always a bit of a stress since I hate sitting in that chair.
Then the worst was dealing with the student loan people for , 45 minutes the first time. My disability
 is finally in the system but not quite figured out by all departments. Then another call to the disability
People again, they had me on hold for 30. Minutes. The transferred me twice to someone. So I was
 getting pretty upset.  
The next guy said he'd look into it, so I came unglued, then around 45 min later he called back and said just yesterday it was 
Updated in the system, but they still didn't know my husbands amount or what the payment will be.
So I'm still stressed over it but at ,east there's some progress.
What a pain....
So I'll update when I hear.
I'm pretty sure I hear a glass of wine calling and I need to figure out dinner. It's really a good thing I'm not on chemo and steroids or I hate to think what I would have done today....

Sunday night chit chat

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• Reading? The new Jack Reacher"A Wanted Man" , very good.
• Listening to? We were listening to the wind.
• Watching?later, Castle.
• Cooking/Baking? Made the stuffed shells ,from the freezer cookbook, a big salad with blue cheese dressing.
• Happy you accomplished this week?alot with my new freezer cookbook.
• Looking forward to next week? I have next Saturday off, so I'll go to the farmers market!
• Thankful for today? My 2 great kids, my cancer is stable, and my husband.
• *Bonus Question* Do you like your name? Would you change it if you could?
• I've always liked Anne or Annie.

Head in the sand!

I remember that first six months vividly ,as when I didn't really go out, talk a lot to people,or do much. I think just had my head in the sand and that was how I coped. Of course, I read a lot as I stll do, but mostly I just laid around and tried not to obsess. Of course, if you are trying not to obsess then you really start to obsess. I didn't want to know much about multiple myeloma, I just wanted it to all go away.

So I have come along ways, after my first relapse, June 2010, is honestly when I started asking lots of questions, joined the myeloma list serve, the beacon and anything else. I no longer worry obsessively, okay maybe a little. I handle my cancer better now and am very informed about treatments and what is new in the myeloma research area. I ask questions and I even answer questions because now 7 years from diagnosis I do know something about this and am glad to share.

Just finished Gideons corpse by Preston and child , pretty good read. The main character hasan incurable illness called AVM.
Then finished Bonnie in the Eve Duncan series. Frankly, I thought she came up with a lame conclusion.
Also, just got from the library the new Pioneer woman cooks cookbook, so lookout here come some great recipes.