It's Finally Here...

November 17th is finally here. It's Allie's last day of radiation. Yippee! She's handled this like a little trooper I tell ya. A lot better than most of us. :-) I hope they take the PIC line out for her also. That's the line in her arm that they put medicine into her with or draw blood with. It's been great to have, but we all can't wait for it to be gone... Allie most of all I suspect.

I guess when this is all done, we wait 3 months for all the swelling to go down and go from back for testing then. This will tell if anything has come back or whatever. I don't know how often Allie will be monitored but I supect it will be closely.

November 17th is also the day the new Star Trek movie comes out. Yippeee! lol I loved it and can't wait to buy it and watch it again in the luxury of my own home. It's the best ST move ever!

I got the swine flu last week, after getting home from the Ronald McDonald house. lol It seems I had it before... 1976 to be exact. It came around the first time back then and I must have caught it. Why? Because even though it wasn't fun, it wasn't as awful as some have had it for me. It seems once you've had it, you build up a slight immunity to it and don't get it so badly the second time. Whew. But I'm feeling much better. And quite honestly, this is the FIRST week I've actually felt retired! lol

I have had my older grandson Tony for a couple of nights now. It's nice to visit with him. I see him so rarely now that he's a busy teenager. One thing that surprised me was when I went to pick him up from his indoor track practice, he told me to tune my radio into 93.1 WEST. It seems he's involved with the West High radio station. It was really neat to hear his voice on the airwaves!!! lol

I've been working on the Baltimore's Country Cousins blocks. They're a LOT of work just to get them prepped and not even sewn! First of all, she doesn't give you an entire template, nor one the correct size. So, from there you're enlarging, and printing out mirror images to get an entire layout of the block. Then the overlay, then templates. It's taken two days to do another block. I'm almost certain I won't be doing the whole quilt. I don't want to get wore out from it. lol

I haven't heard from my friend Kirsten in the UK for quite some time. I hope and pray she is all right. Life sometimes has a way of getting us overwhelmed. I hope that's all it is...

Take care!

Where has the time gone?

I'm currently living in the Ronald McDonald house in Rochester, NY with my DIL and DGD who is almost thru her 5th week of radiation. It has started to finally kick her little butt so that now in the afternoon she's napping, and by nighttime, she's ready for bed. She's all but off the effects of the steroids and back to her sweet little self. :-) I'm honored to be here to help them get thru it.

I managed to finish my "Waiting Room Quilt" and am thrilled with the results of my first totally hand appliqued project. It is a Piece O'Cake design that I did thru the Applique Cafe yahoo group and their bom beginner's class. Loved it, and all I learned from it. I've enjoyed hand applique so much I've even started a second project from Susan McKelvey's Baltimore's Country Cousins book. It's like a Baltimore Album quilt, but a bit more countrified. lol

Yes, it's finally official. I am retired. I wasn't sure my "boss" was ever going to get convinced. She in her infinite wisdom, refused to believe me when I told her and proceeded to put me on November's schedule. When I called the HR department to tell them what she had done, the laughed and suggested I #1 NOT report to work, and #2 NOT worry about it. I told them I had NO problem doing either of those suggestions. lol

My Mom is doing quite well from her hernia surgery. My husband is also doing well from his knee surgery. AND, quite unexpectedly, my MIL is doing well from her emergency surgery on a cyst that ruptured inside of her. Oh yes, I'm ready for all of the stuff to stop and some sort of quiet normalcy to replace all this. lol Quiet? ME?

If I can figure out how to do it, I hope to include some photos in this post. I think I've forgotten everything in the time I've been away! lol

Take care, and enjoy the sunshine. We see so little of it this time of the year. lol sylvia