Friendly Friday

Well, today was a little different as I had my radiation appointment at 1100 instead of at 1300. So I got up a little earlier and eat breakfast before getting on my computer to have my devotions and read my e-mail.

While my appointment was at 1100, I did not get into the radiation room until about 1145. They had to take new x-rays of my "target" zone, and then they started the new treatments. In doing a more narrowed down zone, they also use six positions where before there were only four.

We had thought that we would stop by the grocery store after the treatments, so after we left the hospital Kathleen stopped by fabric depot to pick up some thread. I stayed in the car and waited for her, but by the time she got back I was starting to feel not so good, so I asked if we could just go home.

After changing clothes I wound up having to sit on the toilet three times in the next half hour, so it was a good thing we did not try to do the grocery shopping after all. Kathleen heated up the left over soup from the other night and I made a couple pieces of bread pizza for my lunch.

Andrea came over for a little while this afternoon and left around 1630 to try to avoid some of the freeway traffic. I have felt pretty good since about 1500, so hopefully this will last through most of the weekend.

Tonight Kathleen cooked a couple salmon steaks, heated up the left over rice and squash for dinner tonight. I think that I could eat salmon every day of the week.

Well, I cannot think of anything else to write about tonight, so I will just say good night.

Thankful Thursday

Well, today is about a week since I started to feel better. I still do not feel great, but soooo much better than I had been feeling.

This morning was pretty typical, I got a pretty decent night sleep, and it makes a lot of difference when one does not have to get up a half dozen times a night. I had oatmeal for breakfast, only now I am not adding raisins. I never would have thought that a few raisins would cause so many bowel problems.

I guess that for now I just have to eat an unhealthy diet. It seems like just about everything I really enjoy, I can not eat. I am limited to white bread, no or as little fiber as possible, no raw fruit, limited milk products and no spicy foods.

I have been reading and updating some of my computer files this afternoon, I went outside a couple times, but the weather has been rather unstable. On minute the sun is shining and the next it is raining.

Kathleen made some Mandarin orange chicken and rice for dinner tonight. It was pretty good and there was a little left over for a lunch or snack. Well, I can not think of anything else to write about, as my life is not all that exciting at this point. So I will just say my good nights!

A Wow of a Wednesday

This morning started off where yesterday ended. By that I mean, I felt so much better than I had in over three weeks, it was hard to believe. Kathleen made "Granny Smith" pancakes this morning, only this time she peeled the skins on the apples and that seemed to make some difference as I did not have any problem with my bowels this morning.

When I went in for my radiation treatment today, the nurse that talked to me last week was there, she only works on Wednesdays and she asked me how I was doing. I was happy to report to her that I have felt better over the last week than I have since this whole radiation procedure started.

Kathleen and I stopped by the library after my radiation appointment today, we each had some things to drop off and we both wound up checking out a couple more books. I finished one, over 400, pages this afternoon and have started on the other one.

This afternoon has been really good as well; I have been feeling a little tired, but that kind of goes with the radiation. I have not had any problem with the cramping for going on three days and my stomach is feeling much better.

Tonight we had some of the leftover hamburger and rice soup that Kathleen made last night. It was very thick when I put it into the refrigerator containers last night so we just added some water to thin it down just a little.

Today the weather has gone from very sunny early this morning to overcast this afternoon. They are predicting rain off and on for the next few days, so this is just the precursor to the change in the weather.

I enjoyed getting outside for a little bit each day for the last couple days, but they are saying that the rain will not be all day affairs, but rather scattered showers with the possibility of some thunder and lightning a couple times.

Well, I am feeling much better, but I still am not getting much done around the house. Well, that was my day; I hope you all had a good day as well. I guess I will just say good night for now. If anything else exciting happens later tonight, I will either write an other blog tonight or write about it tomorrow.

Tempting Tuesday

This morning was normal by my radiation standards. Radiation went normally, but this afternoon has been quite pleasant. That is I have spent very little time in the bathroom, very different from my normal afternoons.

Monday was much better than my typical afternoons, but today was much better than yesterday. I would like to hope that this is a new trend, but by the same token, I do not want to get my hopes up too much.

I wish that the day had been a little nicer, it would have liked to have tried to gotten some yard work done. I did go out a couple of times, but the weather was just to changeable. Maybe it was a good thing as I probably did not need to get too worn out.

Besides not needing to use the bathroom a often, I have not had the cramps that I normal have in the afternoons and evenings, so that has been another very good thing. So what this means to me right now is that I am not as tired as I have been for the last month or so.

If the next month or so goes as well as the last couple days have, I think I can handle it. The way it had been going, I was not sure if I made the correct decision as far as the radiation goes. Next to the time I ate some bad oysters, I think that this is the worst I have felt for an extended period of time.

Well, I cannot think of anything else to write about so I think that I will just say good night.

Monday Madness

This morning seemed like a normal morning, at least since the radiation treatments started. I did my normal 8 - 10 trips to the bathroom and other than a sore bottom I felt pretty good.

Alyssa stopped by for a few minutes and brought over a couple tee shirts for me, she knows how I wear tee shirts all the time. Then a few minutes after she left, my little brother called, and we talked for about forty-five minutes.

We talked about how much things had changed since we were younger and how even then people did not believe how much our family was like Ozzie and Harriet, the Donna Reed Show, or father knows best. I guess we were a pretty unique family even back then, although more families were like that then, then there are now.

Anyway, after talking to Brad, I took my shower and got ready for my radiation appointment. Kathleen came home about 1230 and we left a few minutes after that.

After my appointment, as we were walking down the hallway to leave, we ran into Tami and the two girls. Alexis had been throwing up and Tami was taking her to see the doctor. Both girls had been sick off and on for several weeks. In fact the whole family has been not feeling well for at least a month.

After leaving the hospital, we stopped by the library to drop of some of the books Kathleen and I had checked out. The library was closed, due to it being president's day, so I just dropped the books off at the outside book drop.

We had just gotten home and I changed my clothes when I had to make a mad dash to the bathroom. I had two runny bowel movements in the period of about a half hour and since then I have not had to go.

For me that is pretty good, normally I go about a dozen time between 1500 and midnight, but here it is almost 2230 and I still have only gone those two times. I could live with this.

Anyway that has been my day. Friday I have to go in at 1100 so that they can line me up for my new procedure. This is where they give me the same dose but they do it in a smaller area. I am hoping that when they narrow down the field of radiation that I may not have some of the effects that I have been experiencing for the last several weeks.

Well, that is about it for today, so good night, sleep tight.

Sunny Sunday Continued

Well, I went outside to take the recycling out to the garage and while it was not quite as nice a day as yesterday was, it was still an okay day for Portland in the winter. So I decided to do a little more weeding.

I had been noticing some weeds growing right around the back door, so I got out my mat and started to pick the weeds that I found. There were more than I thought there were, but I got them all done.

Then as I was getting ready to put the mat back into the garage, I decided that I would get the weeds growing by the tree rose that is by one of the back gates. There were not too many weeds there so it only took a few minutes.

Once back in the house I decided to make myself some lunch, so I heated up the left-over spaghetti from last night. Having satisfied my hunger, I thought that I would vacuum the downstairs since I had not done that in a couple days.

I am still amazed at the amount of fur that Reggie deposits every day. Oh well, it gives me something to do a couple times a week.

Kathleen made something out of bacon, rice and Velveeta, it was not too bad. Kathleen did not care for it, but I did not think that it tasted too badly.

Well, I think that is all for tonight, so I will close and say good night.

Sunny Sunday

Well, I thought that I would try to do a quick blog, as I am feeling almost normal right now. I know that if I wait until later today, I will be too tired to think or write anything.

Yesterday was a pretty normal morning for me, normal that is since I started the radiation treatments. I did sleep in until almost 0900 and felt pretty good when I got up. Now if you consider that I went to bed a little less then 12 hours before that you could understand. I do not remember the last time I had that much rest.

Anyway, after reading the paper and the mail, I was noticing how really nice it was outside, so I decided to go out and sit in the sun for a little while and get some vitamin D. So I went into the garage and got one of our canvas deck chairs and set it up in a sunny spot in the back yard.

Well, it was not long before I started looking around and though that I really should take advantage of the nice weather and do something. So I got out my edger and started to edge the big rose garden in the back of the property and then followed the garden around past the back side of the berry patch.

After I had everything edged, I got out my little garden fork and started to loosen up the soil in the area that I just edged, pulling weeds out as I went. While doing that I also dug up a couple butterfly bushes that had started to grow near the stomp of one of our old apple trees. So I dug them up and put them into a couple pots. Did anyone want them, I know that I gave some to Alyssa and Tami last summer, but I do not think that I will be using them and they will just be tossed if no one wants them.

I finally could feel myself getting tired and thirsty, so I gathered up the tools and the chair and put them away in the garage and then went into the house to clean up. Once cleaned up, I realized that I was also getting hungry, so I made myself some English muffin bread pizza.

I am not suppose to be having cheese, so I used Velveeta instead and tomato products are suppose to be good for me, so I have been having that quite frequently lately.

After eating, I filled my weekly vitamin pill tray downstairs and then went upstairs to fill my morning and evening medicine pill tray, when I came back downstairs, Kathleen had called my Mom. She whispered that she was talking to her and so I got on one of the other phones. It was good to talk to her and she sounded like she was feeling good as well.

Kathleen had been watching a cam of Syracuse and saw that it was sunny out so she though that it would be a good time to call. Syracuse and most of the upstate New York near the lakes is been having quite a spell this last week and a half or so.

I made it past 1500, which is the time during the week that I start to feel not so hot. It is two hours after my radiation, and about the time that they tell me is when the radiation starts to do its thing.

In fact it was almost 1700 before I started to feel kind of yucky. The good thing, one of many, about weekends is that, I do not feel quite as bad as during the week, and I go longer in between the cramping.

The children and grandchildren all went bowling and than on to Alyssa and Dan's for a barbecue and cake to celebrate Chucky's birthday. I would have liked to have gone, at least to Alyssa and Dan's, but I am not very good company at the moment. From Alyssa's blog, it sounds like they all had a good time, especially Hayden. By the way, Alyssa, I liked his shirt!

Well, I think that I will close for now; I wrote more than I thought that I would, and probably more than I would have if I had tried to do this last night. I hope that you all have a good day, we missed church again today. It has been a month since I have been there, just a little while after I started my therapy.

Tuesday's Trials

Today really started last night about 2330 when I started to get chilled and shivering uncontrollably. To make matters worse, I still had to use the toilet three or four times during the process. Not much of anything came out, but I needed to go just to be safe.

Somewhere around 0100, I started to warm up and the shivering stopped. By this time I was really exhausted and flat out did not feel good at all. I was finally able to get to sleep and with the exception of getting up about three or four times I slept until about 0700.

When I got up, I was still pretty tired, but I needed to get my day started. Kathleen got up shortly after I did and made eggs and hash browns for breakfast. She had the yokes and I had the whites, with cheese.

Reggie has not been doing too well for a couple months, and Kathleen was finally able to take him to the vet, so now we have a couple different pills to give him each day and some drops to put in his ears. Unfortunately, Reggie does not fall under the classification of dependent so he is not covered under my medical plan.

Kathleen dropped off the valentine goodies to Becca and Alexis; they were both taking a nap when she got there. I did not go as I really was still not feeling really very good.

I finally started to feel better around noon and then it was off for my radiation appointment. We had talked about going out again later in the day, but I started feeling poorly again around 1500, so I sat around most of the afternoon, I even dozed off for a while.

I guess that we will have to take the goodies to Natalie, Zander and Hayden some other time.

Well, that is about all for today, not much here, but then again I am not doing too much either. Well, good night

Feeling better Friday

Well, since it has been almost a week since I blogged and since I am feeling better today I thought that I would do a quick blog.

I had my final radiation treatment for the week today; next week I will be half way through my treatments. I have really been feeling poorly for the last week or so, and just have not had any energy.

For the last couple of days I have spent about an hour out in the yard working, but I have gotten so tired that I just sat around for the rest of the day. Most of the time it was a struggle to just stay awake.

Today, I was feeling bad because it has been relatively nice out the whole week, nice for Oregon in the winter, it has not been raining and the temperature has been in the fifties and low sixties. So I went out side and did some weeding, in the blueberry patch, I also dug up some irises and set them aside.

These are a different variety than the ones that I dug up last fall, so I want to find a place to place them in another area. They were getting too close to the blueberries and making it difficult to keep the area weeded.

We had some left over chicken soup tonight, Kathleen made some for dinner last night and put the bones into the oven to roast them with the intention to make some more soup, but when she took it out of the oven and placed the pan on the stove, it was not on enough and wound up on the floor. So I helped her clean it up and then washed the area rugs and a couple towels that we used to mop the floor with.

Well, I am tired again, so I will say good night and hope to have this much energy again tomorrow.

Sitting Saturday

Well, I think that I am over the hump as I have not had to sit on the toilet for at least four hours now. I just about wore it out yesterday, I think I went almost two dozen times, today was only about half that amount.

I was so worn out yesterday evening that I did not get to do my blog. I almost did not do it tonight, but I feel a little better and almost awake.

Kathleen made some Granny Smith pancakes for breakfast and I think that helped plug things up a little. Then I made myself some peanut butter toast for lunch. Kathleen went to the grocery store and picked up a loaf of English muffin bread, so I made myself a couple pieces of pizza toast mid afternoon.

Tonight Kathleen heated up the roast that she made last night, I did not have any because nothing appealed to me. So far I have been able to keep the dinner down and it has been two and a half hours since I ate.

I have been sitting or laying down most of yesterday and today, except for a little time when I was installing some of the programs back on my computer. We, that is mostly Kathleen, finally got the new hard drive installed, so now it is just the tedious task of installing the programs again.

Well, I do not have a lot of energy, so I think that I will say good night.

Thursday Timings

Pretty normal morning, up through my radiation appointment. After I finished Kathleen wanted to stop off at the Dollar Tree store so we did and then after that we stopped by Office Max as Kathleen wanted to try to find some origami paper. I think that she found a couple pads of it.

Shortly after we got home Alyssa called and wanted to stop by with the grandchildren. So they got her a little after 1600 and we had a good time playing with them. Kathleen feed them some graham cracker "bugs" and Bugles and when they were done with that Natalie came over to me and whispered in my ear asking if they could have some licorice . I did not have any licorice left so I gave them the rest of my "Swedish" fish.

They left around 1730 and were still hungry, Alyssa says that they are always hungry. I remember when we had little one's, it seems that they were always wanting to eat. Those were the days when we could go the grocery store two or three times a week and still never have any food in the house.

Luckily we had picked up a Papa Murphy's pizza on the way home from the store this afternoon, so I put it into the oven and cooked it up. It was done just in time for Kathleen and I to eat a couple pieces and then Kathleen went off to a shower and I took off for the accountability group.

I got home a little after 2200 and here I am writing this. Well, I am tired and it is late, so good night.

Wandering around on Wednesday

Normal morning, after breakfast, paper and mail, I went outside and raked up the rows of raspberries to get rid of the small pieces of raspberry canes that were left over from yesterdays trimming and also moss that seems to grow around the plants.

I did not make the same mistake I made yesterday by not coming in early enough and came inside by noon time. I made myself a protein drink to tide me over until I got home to make some lunch.

My appointment was pretty normal, and afterwards Kathleen stopped by the library to return some books and videos. While we were there I picked up a couple videos that I had on hold and found a couple books I wanted to look at. Kathleen found another bag of books and videos to check out, so we have our reading lined up for the next couple weeks.

After the library, Kathleen had a prescription that she needed to pick up at Fred Meyer's, so we swung by there afterwards. She wanted to walk around after she picked up her prescription, so we did that for another half hour. Then home by 1500.

Tonight I think Kathleen is going to cook the rest of that turkey sausage and some noodles for dinner, we will have to leave for an annual church business meeting tonight so I am doing this a little early. I think that this will be a long meeting, and I am sure that I will not feel like doing it after we get back. So I will just say my good nights now.

Tuesday's Timimg

Well, I thought that I would have a quiet night last night after I did my blog, but after I did the load of towels, I also did the rest of the laundry. As I was folding the towels, I realized that I was feeling better than I had since early in the day, so I decided to go upstairs and bring down the dark clothes and put them into the washer. Then when I was putting them into the dryer, I thought that I could do the light clothes as well.

So even though I felt tired earlier, I must have gotten a second wind, because I seemed to get almost as much done after dinner as I had done the rest of the day. I took the dried light clothes upstairs around 2130 and decided that I would just go to bed after I folded and put the clothes away.

Anyway so much for yesterday! This morning was pretty much the same as yesterday, except this morning around 1130 I decided to go outside and work on cutting the dead wood from the raspberries and tying them up.

When I finished doing two rows, I was going to rake the broken stalks that did not get into the bin. But I thought that I would go inside to see what time it was, I was surprised to find out that it was 1240 already.

I have been leaving for my radiation appointment around 1230, so I rushed upstairs and changed my clothes. Luckily it was cool enough that I had not worked up a sweat and my deodorant was still holding up. I got changed and still beat Kathleen downstairs.

I was only in for my radiation treatment for ten minutes, but we did not get out of the office for about another twenty minutes. Kathleen had been talking to an other couple when I got back to the waiting room and we continued talking to the husband while the wife went in for her treatment.

Well, she finished her treatment and then we talked a while longer and then left together. We wanted to stop by BiMart on the way home because they had a couple toaster ovens on sale. The one was really big, it was actually a counter top convection oven, it was about twice the size of our old one.

The other one is the one we bought it was a little bigger than our old one and had a warming tray on the top of it for keeping some things warm, like buns or rolls. We also picked up a web cam that they had on sale for &15.00.

Kathleen said that we needed to stop by Winco as we needed to pick up some oranges. I also knew that we needed some bread and molasses, so we stopped there and got those things plus some other items that we thought that we would need. We have only been going to the grocery store every other week or so.

When we got home Kathleen opened up the toaster oven and plugged it in. Of course we needed to try it out so we made some toast, of course. That did not really fill me up so I heated up some of the left over jambalaya from last night.

Then I crashed about 1630 again, it was just like yesterday. I dozed a little and I started to feel a little better after dinner. Kathleen had made some shrimp stir fried and I cut up a tomato and had the left over avocado from the other day.

Well that was my day, now it is time to say good night.

Monday Minutes

I got up about the same time today as I did yesterday, so I must be a little tired. I made oatmeal for myself for breakfast, I added some Go-Lean-Crunch wheat germ, raisins, a banana and some Grandmas black strap molasses. Good and healthy as well.

After breakfast I put the dishes into the dishwasher, watered the plants in the kitchen, and changed the water in the betas vase. After that I picked up the throw rugs from the kitchen, shook them out, swept the floor and then mopped it. While the floor was drying I washed down the sink in the downstairs bathroom.

The mail came while I was reading the paper, not much there, either in the paper or the mail, it is a good thing that I recycle, otherwise I would feel really guilty about the waste of all that paper.

By this time it was getting close to the time that I needed to start getting ready for my radiation appointment. so I got cleaned up and changed my clothes. The appointment was a little longer today as they had to take more x-rays to make sure that everything was still in the position that it needed to be in.

They told me that they have to do that once a week just to be safe and sure. I was there about an hour, which is about an half hour longer than I am there most of the time.

When we got home I made myself a sardine sandwich on New York rye bread. The sardines came packed in hot sauce, so I had to sop it up with a little rye bread, just to be sure that I got it all.

This afternoon I was feeling a little tired and even took a couple cat-naps. I am not sure why I was tired this afternoon, I felt good this morning, but this afternoon has been a different story.

I got a little more energy late this afternoon, so I gathered up the towels and washed and dried them. I think I might even start the rest of the laundry, as I sorted them out already, now it is only a matter of bringing them downstairs and loading them into the washer and dryer.

Kathleen made some Zatarain's New Orleans style Jambalaya for dinner tonight, she added half of a turkey sausage to it. We also had a glass of wine with it, strictly for medicinal purposes of course.

Well, I think that is the jest of my day, so I think that I will say good night.

Sleepy Sunday

I got up later than I normally do on a Sunday, I was tired and my throat was bothering me. I knew that before I got up that I would not be going to church or Sunday School, so I was in no rush to get up. Kathleen came downstairs about fifteen minutes after I got there and when I told her that I did not think I would be going to church this morning, she went back upstairs and went to bed.

The spring on our toaster oven door is broken, so I made my toast in the frying pan. It really turned out pretty much like regular toast and only took a littler bit longer to make. I also made a fresh pot of coffee, and shortly after that Kathleen must have smelled the coffee and came downstairs.

I unloaded the dishwasher, took out the kitchen compost and the trash and vacuumed the downstairs carpet. Then I turned off my computer and started to prepare for the new hard drive.

Toni and Chucky came over about 1500 with some lunch that they had made for us, we were going to go over there, but their landlord was doing something there, so they came over here with the food that they had made.

They had barbecued chicken and pork and some fried rice. It was really good, unfortunately it had gotten cool on the trip over here, so I heated it up in the micro wave. Toni was really tired, so they left around 1700.

We are in the process of cloning my new hard drive to my old one. It will probably take most of the night, so I am using our new laptop/notebook. It is really nice, it has a full size keyboard and even a ten key pad. It feels as close to a regular keyboard as any laptop/notebook that I have ever used.

Well, I think that it will be a relatively quiet night tonight, it had been really windy yesterday and this morning, but it seems to have quieted down now. So I will enjoy the rest of tonight and then tomorrow I get to go back on my weekday radiation routine.

I is so nice on the weekends not to have to go there everyday, but it is something that I have to do for now. It does beat the other alternative though. Well, I guess that I will just say good night.

Slow Saturday

Slept in a little longer than usual this morning, probably because I stayed up a little later. Once I did get up I put the hash browns in the frying pan and then put the egg whites that Kathleen had left over from her eggs yesterday, into the pan and added a whole egg and fried it all up.

Then I micro waved a couple sausage links and added some hot salsa to the hash browns. Needless to say I had a plate full, not too much, but enough to satisfy me. After finishing breakfast I loaded up the dishwasher and started it up.

The mail had come so I went out and got it, a couple of bills, but mostly the usual junk. I finally got around to reading the paper after a while, not much there either.

We got a new hard drive and a USB 2.0 card for my old computer so I decided to open up my computer and get everything ready for Kathleen to help me add the hard drive. Once I had it opened and saw how dusty it was, I decided that I had better vacuum it out.

Once I did that I decided to change out the old USB 1.0 port with the new USB 2.0 card. Then I got Kathleen involved, as she has had some experience with changing or adding hard drives. Kathleen did some reading up on it and right now it has gotten too late to start it, so maybe tomorrow.

So right now my computer is blue screening every time I try to boot it up. I think that I will take out the USB 2.0 card and see it that is it or if my hard drive has finally crashed.

That is about all for me tonight, I did not get a lot done today, but I have been a little more tired today. I guess that I will have to get to bed a little earlier tonight. With that said, I think that I will just say good night.

Friday is Five days of Fair Weather

Today is the fifth day of rather nice weather, it has been dry for about a week now and the weather has been in the fifties just about all week. Today was my breakfast day with the accountability group, so this morning I headed to the place where we were going to have breakfast.

I got there a little before 0830, so I went in and took a seat in one of the empty booths, the next guy got there about ten minutes later. We talked for a while and about ten minutes later the other two showed up. We had a good time of fellowship and the breakfast was good as well.

About 1000 the place was full and someone else came, so I suggested that we get up and let someone else sit down. So we went behind my Wrangler, prayed for a bit, and then went our separate ways.

I got home, read the paper and mail, and then waited for Kathleen to get dressed so that we could go to my radiation appointment. WE got there a little later than we normally do, but still before my appointment. I was in and out, and then back in the waiting room we spent about a half hour talking with another couple where the wife was undergoing radiation.

After leaving the doctor's office, we went to CompUSA to pick up our laptop. Kathleen also needed to pick up a couple more items, so we did that first. The computer was not quite ready yet, so we looked around for a little more time.

Kathleen was not feeling too well, so she reheated the steak, microwaved a potato and toasted a slice of Texas toast apiece. Kathleen has gone upstairs now, maybe to work on some of her new printer stuff. I was playing with the new laptop before dinner and probably will play some more on it after I publish this.

I cannot think of anything else to write home about so I will just say good night.

Is it still Thursday?

This morning started out pretty normal. This morning Kathleen decided to make granny Smith pancakes for breakfast. They were good, she also fried up a couple strips of bacon, so we were both full after them.

Then I went into the living room and read the paper and then the mail when it got here. By this time, it was time to start getting ready for my radiation treatment. We got to the office about 1250 and were leaving by 1310, so it does not take too long; it is just going there every day.

I wanted to stop by Circuit City to check on some computer stuff, did not find anything there, so we went to CompUSA and looked. We got there about 1430 and left about 2000. Kathleen found a new printer that she has been wanting to get for a while and the person who had helped us when we were there the last time is a business sales person, so he helped us set up a business account.

Before he came over, we had spent about an hour and a half talking to the Cannon representative about the different printers. Then the sales person came over and was able to get us a discount price and a matching price so that helped us decide to buy it at this time.

Well, he also was able to get us a good price on a 17" HP laptop that I had been looking at. I did not get to bring us home as I was getting a memory upgrade put in and also the techs are going to update all the software for me. I do get to pick it up tomorrow though. It is just as well as I am really too tired to do much with it tonight.

We were able to put it on a six months same as cash account, so that will enable us to spread the payments out over a few months. I also get two years of service, where they will replace the screen or battery if there is a problem in the next couple of years. I can also upgrade the software and hardware for just the price of the product, at a discounted price.

Anyway, we got home about 2045, we made a stop at Burger King, as Kathleen was too tired to do anything at home and I was too hungry to not stop. Anyway, we both had Jr. Whoppers, which more than filled me up and Kathleen could not finish the last bit or two.

Like I said it has been a long day, I am tired and Kathleen has gone upstairs to play with her new printer. Now seems like a good time to say good night!

Wet less Wednesday!

Aside from the fact that it was a little foggy this morning, this has been another really nice day, exceptionally nice when one realizes that this is January in Oregon!

Anyway, this morning after finishing the paper and the mail, I decided that I needed to take myself for a walk. I have not walked by myself in several weeks. When I walk with Reggie, he tends to stop often and I do not really get a good walk in. When I walk with Kathleen, I have to keep catching myself and slow down so that she can keep up.

I enjoy walking with Kathleen and even Reggie for that matter, but I do not do myself as much good as I need to. If I could do both, that would be great, but most of the time that just does not happen.

I got home from my walk in time to clean up, change into dressier shorts, and drink a glass of orange juice. I think that we spend more time in the waiting room than I actually do getting my radiation treatments. Part of that is because I am the first appointment after lunch, which is one reason that I chose that time. The wait probably would be even longer if it were at any other time.

Another motivation for choosing that time was that finding a place to park is a lot easier, because it is the lunch hour, there are not a lot of other patients there ahead of me. That plus the fact that they are doing some construction at the hospital and half the parking lot that use to be for patients is being used by the doctors.

Kathleen did not have any place to go after my appointment, so we just headed home. After changing my clothes again, I made myself a meatloaf sandwich on New York rye bread and had an orange for desert.

Well, we both have a meeting to go to at church tonight so I am doing this early, I just do not think that I will be much in the mood to do this after the meeting. Even if the meeting goes well, it is liable to be getting over late and my mind probably will not be as clear as it is now.

Well, so far this week I have not been feeling as fatigued as I had been, whether it has to do with the weather being nicer than it has been or whatever, I do not know. I am just glad to feel more like my normal self and not being so tired all the time.

I think I will check with Kathleen to see what she is planning for dinner, maybe the steak we bought yesterday. So I will sign off now with a good night!

Terrific Tuesday

Since we got another dozen eggs yesterday, I decided to make myself a couple of them along with some hash brown potatoes and sausages. I try to limit myself to eggs maybe once or twice a week, the rest of the time I usually have oatmeal and once a week or so I have raisin toast.

After finishing eating I did the hand washing, loaded up the dishwasher, and started it up. It is somewhat funny, as I had to wash the frying pan before I cooked my eggs and hash browns, then I washed it after I was done with it, and then since Kathleen made herself some eggs, hash browns and ham, I had to wash it again when she was finished with it.

Anyway, after finishing in the kitchen I went into the living room and read the paper. The mail came just after I finished the paper, so I brought it in and opened it up. I think that I had four catalogs and all but my interest statement from the bank the rest was junk. Luckily today was the recycling day so I took it out and put it with the rest of the recycling.

After looking at a couple magazines, I went outside and cut some wood to size for my son, Aaron, so that they will have some real firewood to burn. After finishing what I had on the side of the house, I dug up a laurel bush that Kathleen had pointed out as being too close to the climbing roses that are along the west fence. While I was doing that I also noticed a holy bush that was about three feet tall that was growing in with another rose bush.

Since I had worked up a bit of a sweat, I decided that I had better go inside and get cleaned up for my radiation appointment. It makes it hard when the weather is so nice, to stop and clean up and change clothes in the middle of the day.

My appointment went well; I was only there about fifteen minutes today, which will probably be the norm. I even got to see the doctor. She asked if I was experiencing any problem with diarrhea and if I had to get up more in the middle of the night. Luckily I was able to say no to both of these.

She also asked how I was feeling in general, and I was glad to say that the last two days I have had more energy than I have had in the last couple of weeks. We left the doctor's office by 1311 and on our way home.

Once home, I stayed in my clothes as Kathleen has a doctor's appointment at 1545, so thought that I would just do some inside the house stuff. First I emptied the dishwasher and put things away, and then I made myself some lunch. I made some open-faced melted cheese and ham sandwiches. I used sharp cheddar on one and medium cheddar on the other.

I also had a couple oranges, to round the meal off. I did not want to do what I did yesterday and go too long before I had something to eat.

After Kathleen's doctor's appointment, we stopped by Fred Meyer's to pick up her prescriptions and picked up some grocery items. Kathleen bought a couple steaks; both together weighed less than a pound, which is more than we need for a meal. However, by the time we got home it was 1745, just in time for the "State of the Union" address.

Since Kathleen did not feel cooking like the steaks tonight, she put a couple Mexican frozen dinners, not quite steak, but okay occasionally. Kathleen headed upstairs right after dinner, so here I am listening to the president's speech and blogging.

Well, I know that I will not be doing anything too terribly exciting for the rest of the evening so I will just say good night.