Saturday, April 22, 2006
Headin' Down South
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the big day -- VACATION!! Chris and I have been looking forward to this trip for weeks. It is desperately needed. Alone time -- could go either way for us - good or bad. I'm sure by the end of the week, we'll be done with each other for awhile.
Kick Me

We're flying out of Philly into Miami then driving from Miami to Key West. It'll be a long day, but I love flying and can't wait to experience the drive down the highway through the Keys. I think I covered this in an earlier post. Anyway, we're flying home on Friday, so we will at least have the weekend to recover and ease back into back-to-work mode. ::sigh::

I'm going to miss my cats, but my dad will be stopping by every day to check on them, so they shouldn't be too lonely. The Little Princess (Lucy the kitten) will be in for a bit of a shock. This will be our first extended trip where we left her alone. She sleeps with us every night. She's not going to be a happy camper!

Anyway, better get back to packing and setting up all my VCR's for this week's tv shows. Of course, they are all new this week.

Later -- I'm outta here!
Wakka Wakka
 
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Friday, April 14, 2006
People Envy Your Compassion

You have a kind heart and an unusual empathy for all living creatures. You tend to absorb others' happiness and pain.
People envy your compassion, and more importantly, the connections it helps you build. And compassionate as you are, you feel for them.
 
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Catching Up
It seems that I am finally coming out of my funk. I have figured out that I must have that seasonal depression thing that alot of people get during the winter months. I never really took much notice of it until this year. Then, when I thought back to previous years, it appears that the time between early to mid-February until early April is when I go under -- fatigued, snippy, down-trodden, etc. I also eat my way through it. This would also explain why I am always compelled to begin a diet in mid to late April. Anyhoo, I'm coming up and out of it.
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We made our vacation plans. Every year, we like to take a real vacation (meaning "leaving on a jet plane") in April since it is our anniversary and Chris' birthday. This year was our 8th anniversary (4/4) and Chris will be 43 (4/19). I guess the whole "need to get away in April" thing started with our honeymoon (San Diego & Los Angeles). Then it kind of died out for a few years until 2003 when Chris turned 40 and it was our 5th anniversary. We went to New Orleans that year. Awesome time. 2004 was London. 2005 was Las Vegas. And, 2006 will be KEY WEST, baaaabbbbyyyy!! We will be spending 6 days and 5 nights in sunny Key West -- leaving on Sunday, 4/23 and returning on Friday, 4/28. We will fly into Miami, pick up the rental car and drive to our historic bed & breakfast, The Curry House. I wanted to experience the drive through the islands. We won't be driving back though -- we'll be flying out of Key West with a brief stop in Miami. We soooooo need this break. It can't come fast enough.
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Food has been my enemy these past 2 months. My lowest weight of 214.5 was on 2/26. As of 4/8, I am back up to 224.8 lbs. I got a new scale. I wanted to see more than 1/2 lb increments. Exercise has been non-existent except for an occasional - maybe 1x per week - stint on the elliptical. I am getting some of my motivation back though. I did my free weights today. I use an elastic band for some leg exercises and the bitch broke right in the middle of my workout -- snapped right onto the left side of my face. I determined that I was lucky it didn't take my eye out and just moved on. I also started using the stairs again at work. Next, I will start my lunchtime walks.
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On another note, I had a bit of a health issue arise a few weeks back. I was toweling off after a shower when I see a lump through the skin on my right breast. Needless to say, my stomach dropped and my heart started racing. I waited a few days to see what it did -- which, incidentally, was nothing. So, I scheduled a look-see with the doctor's office who, in turn, scheduled me for an immediate mammogram with an ultrasound on the side for good measure. Now, breast cancer does not run in my family so I wasn't too worried, but you know, it is a freakin' lump in my breast!! So, the big day is 4/4 -- yes, on my 8th anniversary, my boobs were manipulated in unnatural ways and then subsequently squished between 2 plates. The radiologist says, "wow, you have really dense breasts!" WTF does that mean? It means, the doctor in the clinic can't read them too clearly, so let's squish the lumpy one just a little bit more, only this time, let's do it at a 45 degree angle and press harder. YAY! This was still not enough, so off I go to the ultrasound room. That was less dramatic -- no squishing there. The doc says -- looks like a cluster of benign cysts and "that's a good thing". No worries, thanks for stopping by, see you next year - same time, same place. Then, my doctor calls me 2 days later with her analysis. They are cysts, but I have 2 rather large ones - 2.5 cm is the larger one with the 2nd one just a little bit smaller. She is concerned that they might mask something in future mamms, so she wants me to go to a surgeon and have the fluid removed -- this will make them shrink and disappear. Translation: go have a stranger stick a long needle in your breast and extract fluid. Fun. I still have to schedule that for sometime next month. Doc says to get it done within the next 2 months. I'm waiting until after vacation.
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That's all I can think of for now. There were a few other things I wanted to write about, but I can't seem to remember what they are right now.

I'd like to give a special Philly "Yo!" to Sheryl, Bob, Scarlett, Danica, Bear, Jen, Emily and Heaven for leaving me comments and/or emails just to "check" on me. Even though we have never met, I think of you all as my "buds".

I also dedicate the current Bon Jovi tune on here ("Thank You for Loving Me") to Chris -- thanks for being my best friend for the past 8+ years. I love ya lots no matter what I say to the contrary! Tongue Out

I leave you with this -- the happy couple -- April 4, 1998:





 
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