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.

Tahoe, on a Wednesday!

We're going up to Tahoe for a night , B to work, me just have fun. We were going to bring the bikes but its suppose to rain tomorrow. So, well walk as much as I can. That's about 2 miles. Wish it was more, but I am always grateful I can at least do that. 

Finished reading "the Last Runaway" by Tracy chevalier . It was absolutely great. She is a very good writer and this story of a young Quaker woman was very moving. We have our roots in Quakerism as B and I were married in a Quaker meeting and were Quakers for many years. 

I'm feeling pretty good. Maybe a little tired, I don't see my hem/ onc till mid June , which makes me a little nervous if my m protein is going up. I've had some rib discomfort on both sides so I get scared its lesions. But I must stay strong and positive. And we'll see
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I've loved my new little freezer and filling it. Well, that's a long way off, but I have prepared 2 lasagnas, 1 stuffed shells, and 8 small double stuffed potatoes. There's so many ideas in the Not your Mothers freezer cookbook.http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_21?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=not+your+mothers+freezer+cookbook&sprefix=Not+your+mothers+free%2Caps%2C411
I'll try and post some pictures of Tahoe. I'm still trying to figure out blogging and would like to switch to another forum but not sure how? Any ideas?

Saturday ,this and that!

Well, it's not good news for our cat,Tucker. He has feline diabetes .They wanted us to start right away with day long testing etc. for over $500. So, my daughter said we'd think about it . She didn't like the office personnel , although he doctor was nice she said. I think we'll go back to the vet we usually use, it's just it's 25 min away. But they are great. There are some natural remedies, but I think we'll get him stabilized and go form there. I know we can't afford 118 a month for cat treatment.

Also, something is happening with the studen t loan mess. The cancer legal aid hasn't been too helpful yet. Well see when I get the referrals. I'm assuming Nel net is going to do what ever they feel like doing and that will be separating the loans. I'm really ok with that, just not with having to start a payment plan when we have just started to think about retirement and savings. It totally sucks. And this whole mess has gone on for years.

On a cool note, my husband, B , and DD, are walking in race for the cure. I think it's great even though I don't have breast cancer, it's still as if we're all in the cancer family. My husbands mother did die of breast cancer so it's in his family. Thankfully , those genes are passed maternally, so DD should not have to worry about the genetic side.

I'm off to work,at the best job ever, even if I'm not branch manager, ha ,ha.
Tomorrow is Mother's Day, I think over my life, and I haven't really accomplished a lot , never had a career . But, I had two wonderful children who are smart, not into any drugs or alcohol and are really amazing people.
I am grateful for that.

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• Reading?  I've been reading a lot of retirement books, the Wealthy Barber, the average Family's guide to Financial freedom , and Get a life, you don't need a million to retire well.all something to think about. Ok I just read Gone girl, I waited 6 months on the library list to get this. I was so excited. I was so disappointed . If you like psychotic behavior and a story that ends too weird, then this is the book for you. I really really didn't like it. I guess I like a story with an ending I can live with this, but this was not my kinda thing .
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• Listening to?right now it's rain on the roof.
• Watching?last night we finished "the hunger games" , ok I guess the books was better, of course.
• Cooking/Baking? I made cheese enchilada casserole, pintos  and brown rice. Tonight is leftovers.
• Happy you accomplished this week?Worked my 3 library shifts of 4 hours each, so my hem/ onc, walked 4 days. Am making progress on getting rid of the Life magazines. If you don't know, I had an eBay store that sold Life. I did pretty well, except now, none of the ones I have really sell. So I'm getting rid of most. I'm keeping 9 bins of history, Kennedy , Martin Luther king, civil rights, moon walk etc. if anyone wants any of my give always let me know. You can have them for the postage price. A lot of people do birthdays, anniversaries etc.
• Looking forward to next week? Walking more, working, decluttering more. The Flylady zone is the kitchen, usually a big job.
• Thankful for today?As usual, my continuing very good partial remission. Waiting for my SPEP  test and immuinopherisis test
• *Bonus Question* What are the "top 3" things on your to do list for next week? One thing on my mini goals with B, walk more, work on freezer meals. Yeah, I finally got my little chest freezer, thanks to the leukemia  and Lymphoma society, which has given me a grant and I get my share of my husbands insurance bill refunded. They are such a great organization. If anyone  is a runner, check out the LLS, team continuum which raises money for people like me with blood cancers...!!!

May goals

My goals for may will be
* put $500 back in sinking funds ,that were used for birthday, car tags, and spring household stuff.
*go away with B on a work trip to Tahoe!
*my daughters 28 birthday is may 29! Wow it seems like yesterday!
*with my new freezer , work on stockpiling concept, so I spend less on food.
* walk 5x per week
*get my life magazines down to 6 bins of keepers, even that is too much , but it's a place to work toward. Unfortunately, the ones left, that I don't want really don't sell, so I've been giving them to goodwill.
* emotionally , handle what my blood work comes back as. Right now, my blood work is all normal except for the serum protein  which , is at .34. Still very low but it is dectable. I'll know next week what it is. Then I don t see my doctor till middle of June since he's on vacation, so I will enjoy that time .
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I'm sure there more,but I'll leave it at that.

A new week, a new month!

Today is the last day of April. It's been a good month. We're almost done with the chicken coop, the chickies are really growing. Went on our mini trip to Monterey. Lots of other stuff too.
Budget wise I'd say we did ok. Starting tomorrow, may 1 , I'm going to track food, non food, pet food all separately . I do this now but not on single designated sheets. So I think that's how I'll do it. Especially since cat food costs a lot. We have 4 cats who eat a lot. Birds, and now chicken food.

We still need to finish the chicken coop, buy birthday presents for my daughter, and who knows what else.
I see the doctor tomorrow , never fun but necessary. I don't get nervous till I know my blood results are due, then very nervous.
Well, I'm off to my little job at the library.
Still dealing with SOB 's at the student loan division. If this isn't resolved a payment plan will start in June. We barely make it now, how is that going to be. It'll suck, because we just started to see the light at the end of the tunnel with bills, and had hoped to really start building an emergency fund.
It's very frustrating, and I'm getting nowhere wit them. I did contact a cancer legal aid group, maybe they will be able to help.

Very nice weather this week.

Goodwill

Dropped off a load at goodwill . I'll do more this weekend. I've given my friend Beth , about 10 loads of stuff. Very good it's going to someone with a big house and it fits in...
Not so much in my 1000 sq ft house.
Dropped off library discards too.
Overall it always feels so good to let go of stuff. And at this point I really don't have a lot to let go of.