Feeling Fine Friday

I took another early morning walk for an hour again this morning and felt pretty good afterwards. So this has been five days that I have felt pretty good, I think that this is the longest that I have feel decently since January. I am hoping to continue this trend for a while. I was getting pretty frustrated with the way I had been feeling.

I ran out of shredded wheat earlier in the week and have not gone grocery shopping since, so this morning when I got back from my walk I used a sample box of chocolate Chex that I got in the mail the other day and filled the rest of the bowl up with puffed rice. Of course I added my usual banana, raisins and soy milk.

After I finished eating I put my dishes into the dishwasher and then took the towels out of the dryer, folded and put them away. Then I started the first of three loads of laundry that I washed, dried, folded and put away. I think it was almost five o'clock before I finished with the last load.

Then I read the paper and vacuumed the upstairs; I cannot remember the last time I actually vacuumed the upstairs carpeting, but I have wanted to do it for a long time. I was not surprised at the amount of "stuff" that I picked up either.

I was going to vacuum the downstairs, but Kathleen was on the phone and I did not want to make the noise.
So I went outside and clipped the dead headed Shasta daisies and then the climbing roses. For some reason I hardly ever spend much time on the climbing roses, and while they do not need a lot of attention, these had been neglected for quite a while.

When I finished, I went into the house, cleaned up and made myself some lunch; I used the last of the Kaiser rolls and put some guacamole and hot salsa on the roll and then added some lettuce and left over spam for a SLT (spam, lettuce and tomato) sandwich.

After resting for a few minutes, I went back outside with the intention of digging up a spot to plant the last clematis and also put up the arch trellis for it to grow on. The ground was so hard that I was going to get my pick ax and break up the soil, but just as I was going into the garage to get my pick ax I noticed Andrea's Land Rover, so I went around front.

Andrea was already in the house, so I went back outside and put the rest of my tools away and sat down and visited with her and Brandon for a while. Somewhere along the way, Kathleen mentioned that Toni and Chucky were going to take us out to dinner tonight. Andrea decided that she would go along as well.

We finally we decided to go to Giuseppe's for some Italian cuisine. The place was packed and we had to drive around the parking lot for twenty minutes before we could find a place to park. Then we waited outside for about forty-five minutes before they had a table for us. It was worth the wait, and Kathleen and I brought home enough food for at least one more dinner and even then we will probably have some left overs.

We finally got home about 2030 and here I am. I as feeling pretty good and I think that this is the best that I have felt for five days since I started my radiation. This is about five and a half months since I finished my treatments and they told me that the side effects usually last from three to six months.

My hope now is that maybe the problems that I have been going through for the last nine months are coming to an end. Well, I still get tired easily and I have reached the point where my brain is slow and I think I will call it a day before I fall asleep on the key board. So good night for now!