Sunday Funday...and Monday

Sunday we sent Butch off in his work trip to Chicago early in the morning. W celebrated Fathers Day with Butch Saturday night with Korean food brought home (yum!). Sunday was dinner with Dad, mom and the girls at Tapatio and a few gams of RummiKub after. I need to remember to take pictures when we go out! Dang it! Oh well, we had a nice dinner out!

Monday - today I had training all day at work. I got a call before lunch that I ditched out to answer from Mayo. It was for registration. Ok. Done and done! I asked the gal about the request fir the MRI to be done there and I was encouraged to get it done here as we have the order here...uhm, ok. I also overnighted all my hospital records to Mayo at lunch. I'll also pick up a copy of them fir myself to hand carry as well.

I also went to my primary care provider. He had zero results from the hospital OR the colonoscopy. Yep, none. He said they would catch up. So, he's aware and we went over the blood work he had done and nothing was out of sorts wit the known exceptions of cholesterol. Yeah, that's a known. So, nothing would have screamed to him that I needed to rush the colonoscopy. Or indicated cancer for that matter. Can I please be in denial now? Yeah, one can hope without a biopsy Dr H could be very, very wrong. One never knows, right?

In the meantime as I'm in the Drs and running here and there I missed a call from the hospital to schedule my MRI. The GREAT thing about dealing with the hospital is they were open until 7pm, so I called them and have an MRI scheduled for tomorrow at 8:30 in the Perry Hospital. I've heard good things about them even though they are small. Let's face it an MRI is an MRI and if is not good enough Mayo will do another. Yay! So I can carry a copy of that with me to Mayo :). Not ideal in they can't read it prior, but they'll have it. Could be worse!

I also missed a call from Ms L. She's also going through the wringer right now and has to wait a week and a half for a breast biopsy to see if that is where her bone cancer is originated from, then starting treatment for that. All without insurance. I can't even fathom that! I'm sooooo blessed with having two insurances in Blue Cross from my work and Tricare from Butch. Best of both worlds in that I pick my own doctors, but have the added coverage of a Tricare. So very lucky to have those. Right now my only thoughts are that I don't have enough leave to cover all of this. Small price to pay in the long run, I'm sure. Some lost pay for a bit, however blessed in that as well as I will be able to work from home on and off as needed to get through.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2014

This was my view from the top tub issuing in the new year this year... best decision I ever made... getting in there... I was nice and toasty watching all the fireworks going off all around - GREAT Show Liz and Butch!
Two finale boxes and a bunch of mortars - it was a great way to ring in the new year!

Christmas 2013

Merry Christmas 2013

 her expression was NOT caught on camera for this one, she really DID love it - a LOT of colors for the girl to expand on her painting :)

 Gotta love my IOU for a backscratcher - apparently a ROCKING one was ordered for me :)

 cashews and wine, what more could a woman want?

 Awkward pose when told to hold it in front of her chest instead of out towards me.  Silly girl - nope, she'll never be a model :)  We love her and will keep though!

 It's a supernatural thing :)

 It's a Dr. Who thing (weeping angel I found at Goodwill) I could NOT resist getting it for her... she said, "it really creeps me out"  hahaha - I have done my job this year :)

 What does the Fox say?  Oh, wait, that's a raccoon, disregard!

 It's a Dr. Who thing!

 Angela got the GREAT gift of a computer drawing tablet - it's been the hit of the day for sure!

 It's still a Dr. Who thing... yes, she's a whovian :)

 Note the weeping angel earrings as well as the bracelet :)  Gotta love these girls!

  Car emergency kit because she'll be taking her car back to college with her along with a new parking pass thanks to Mom and Dad.  No to mention a new tire and a gift card for Wal-Mart that can be used at the Murphy Oil there in her town as well.  Lucky girl!

 It's a thermos mug... somehow from the first look, it wasn't what he thought it was :)

 Hers was at the bottom of the pile and she was VERY unsure she was getting one :)  Happy girl!

 Checking out this years Calendar

 Lizzie checking out her book from our trip to Europe and all the photo matching that was done. 

 SCORE one for mom, I made her cry over her book from her trip to Italy!  She loved it!

 she is still teary looking at the NEXT present... awh, tender hearted girl!

 You'll shoot your eye out!!  ha!

 Ornaments with the girls pictures in them  - awh!!

 Thank you Uncle Donald and Aunt Robin!!

Everyone had a wonderful Christmas morning opening presents and eating on the variety of Muddy Buddies we got - yum!  peppermint and snicker doodle are surprisingly good :)  That and a cup of coffee and we were all happy.

 

 

The Turkey and ham and all the fixings for dinner with Mom and Dad!  We had a great long visit with them while they were here, we ate a HUGE meal and sent a lot of left overs home with them to enjoy later and still have a LOT left for us as well.  After a rest period after dinner we had a rousing game of Push the Dummy!

We hope our extended family also had a warm and wonderful holiday season wherever they were.

Butch is home from diving

His haul from the Baja California wreck. Hasn't seen the light of day since 1942. Pipette was found inside the green bottle so the dropper eroded over time. The stoppered bottle still has what appears to be rubber in it. Cool finds.

Garden project

 Angela and I pulled most of the weeds from the front bed - forgot a before picture of this side, but it looked something like this:

 baby birds in the green house - they look NAKED and HOT...

 The crew hard at work making a row...



finishing up the last little bit...

 the work crew!  (Ok, I look like a freaking GIANT in here - and no, I'm not standing on the row!)

we ended up with two rows but only one full one and one partial row filled with tomatoes - by June we'll be staking them to keep them upright!

Dad checked our progress and put together a final soaker hose out of the last partial one on the fence.  Life is good!