For those starting chemo in June

Hi Ladies--Want to wish you all a Happy Easter before I take off to see my mom. I'm driving up there tonight. It's only a 4 hour drive so I've been goofing around and washing clothes and packing and paying bills. I didn't go to work today. I stuffed 283 plastic eggs with candy before I left work last night for the egg hunt today and then I called in this morning and told them to deal with me being absent. I figured the worst of the task was completed. I got up this morning and took a long walk across the pasture with my dog. We stopped and visited with my 3 horses who pestered us part of the way home. The dog and I climbed a butte and sat on the top and looked at the view. My crocus hill was covered in purple flowers and also had buttercups and little white may flowers all over it. I think that Spring is finally here. Well, better get on the road. Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

Hey you Playboy Bunnies.... I mean Easter Bunnies. You all have a grerat Easter. I have eggs to color and baskets to make for grandkids. I of course had to buy a couple creme filled eggs for me. I went with sister for sonagrams, one of abdomen and she has a large fibroid tumor in uterus but Dr. has never done anything about it. They couldn't find her lump in her breast but sono-ed the area anyway and it appeared clear but she has to go to the Surg. Wed to get a reading. We ate and shopped a little(we go our own ways and call when we are done except when she is on the other side of the freeking mall and needs to know if a golf skirt looks O.K.) Yea; she golfs or tries to. I walk a lot of miles thanks to her. She made me buy a purse and wallet I loved but just couldn't bring myself to buy for some time and I got a surprise because it was on sale but!!!!the wallet wasn't so I paid as much for both as just the purse so that wasn't bad and I haven't gotten a new wallet for like 8 years but the old one was still good. She has to have everything match, oh, la-te-freeking-da. She has always been like that and I just have to love her anyway. Her towels and wash rags and hand towels color cordinate!!!!! Yea, shes a Martha Stewert wanna be. I call her Martha all the time. Heck, when you open my towel closet, what falls out you use and it's not pima cotton. If I had Pima cotton, I would put it up so as not to wear it out. Oh well, I better get. Don't ya hate picking up that plastic grass for months after Easter? Hugs, Mary

Glad everyone had a good Easter. Janie let me guess what you were up to???? Tickling the tail on the Easter Bunny or eating leftovers and candy....Thank God we buy way too much candy and Wally had it on sale today so hey, love those Russell Stover cream and marshmellow eggs. Hubby called and his truck blew up just inside of WI. so they took him up to Blenker where he sat in a wooden chair from like 9 this a.m. until 8 P.M. and they would not take him 22 miles to the nearest town to eat or get a room so he began to walk. I am so upset!!!! I called the dispatch girl to get a cab number so he could call(he was about 5 miles down the road) and she said the cabs would not go out that far and he should of stayed until 10 p.m. to get a ride from one of the 500 employees when they went home. He had been up since 1a.m. and had not eaten or slept. I was poed!!!!I said I hope nothing happens to him (he has a bad heart) or someone will pay and she said "So what, I have neumonia and I am at work". I said thats your problem. I could of choked her which is what my hubby had just told me when I talked to him. I told him to come home not take that crap. His truck is broke down 2 days out of 5. I don't like this co. and the only reason he is taking it is so I will have the med. insurance and this de-Boer trucking co. is taking advantage of him. I told him to get out of there. I only have 4 treatments left and I have ins. until the end of the month so 2 less treatments wont hurt. He said no it is o.k. but I will not let him do this. Oh we will talk...He could make better money flipping hambergers, at least its steady work.O.K. I feel better well I will when he calls from a motel. He is sitting alongside a country road right now with a dead cell phone. They told him to leave his stuff in the disabled truck and he don't know where it is. What an outfit!!!! Well another day in our disfunctional lives. Well better go wait for hubby to call. I am a wreck, stress free????whats that???? Hugs, Mary

Hi Girls, P.J. I heard on the news about the heat down there. It is a bit cool here after 89 degrees. Hubby was in 35 degrees with a t-shirt on. I called the Moore Co. sheriff dept. and hubby called and thanked me for the ride. He went back to truck co. and stayed in a truck parked in the lot. He didn't sleep because he was so cold. Thank The Lord for the Moore Co. Sheriff dept. for their kindness. Hubby got to the truck to stay around 1:30 in the morning and he called at 7 a.m. and said he got to town and was in a motel and going to sleep. I said wake up and come home!!!! He hadn't eaten since the night before. I am soooo upset. I guess the owner likes his money no matter what happens to his employees. Hubby is such a good worker too and he is too nice for his own good, it is just sad. If we loose our insurance for 1 day I am pre-existing and can't get insurance again but I don't care. We will survive. Hope the day is good for all you little after Easter bunnies. Thanks for listening to my ranting. I will be moving starting this wk. end(here in town for now). Man is coming to appraise the house in like 10 mins. oops, Mary

Hey Janie, whats new? Hubby got a newer truck and an apology. He is on the road again. I told him quit but he said no because of the med. ins. and because he has to prove he can drive a truck and better than anyone else like being the best carpenter there ever was and we know how that turned out. He is going to stay on the road all wk. end and come home next wk. end since he didn't make any money all wk. I will need the help next wk. end anyway moving. We got the mobile home here temporarily because I just can't stay with anyone. I need my own space. My dad lives 28 miles away and I would stay there but my ex sister-in-law lives with him. She is finally moving when schools out but..... she is taking my dad with her to help pay the bills!!!! Whatever. I plan to go to Phoenix in May or June and get a place but stay here until Sept. or I may go down there sooner. I will play it by ear. I know I will want to be there sooner. I went to our town suppport group lastnight. It is once a month and it was nice. I will go back. In a small town you sometimes; no always get gossip and it usually is not true so I tend to shy away from things like that but this was o.k. Hi to all you girls. Well better get. Kids to get to school. Hugs, Mary

Okay--remember when I said that Spring was here??? NOT--Here's my saga of the last week--I got back from my Easter visit to see my brother and Mom on Easter Monday. It was starting to rain a bit that day and I made this huge meatloaf that night and popped it in the oven and made these 3 big bowls of jello and put them in the fridge to harden up before I put some mixed fruit in them. This was all for the daycare on Tuesday because I thought I'd do it ahead of time and then I could come back home and pump water out of my basement which had about 6 inches and the pumps had to be on pretty much continuously to keep up. Anyway--I sat down to watch a little TV while the meal progressed and the power went off!!! So I sat for awhile thinking that it would come back on--NOT. At 10 PM I put the fruit in the jello holding a penlight flashlight in my mouth. I put tinfoil over the meatloaf and put it in the fridge. At 1:30 am the power came back on. I got up at 6 and turned my pumps back on for now 12 inches of water and went into town. It was snowing lightly, but pretty warm so it was melting as soon as it hit the ground. I left the food at the daycare, got the mail and headed back home. Got a call from the daycare at 10 and 2 of the people had to leave on emergencies so I drove back to town. I left the pumps running. The power went back off at NOON on Tuesday. It REALLY started to snow. By 4 the sheriff and the road department started closing the roads around town to emergency travel only. I left the 3 workers I had and got some supplies and headed back home. I drove around the road closed sign and a trip that usually takes me 15 minutes took almost an hour. I couldn't see right in front of my vehicle. I made it and put my jeep in the garage--where it is now trapped by the way!! So the walk from the garage to the house was interesting--I kept almost falling over because the wind was so strong. Dash, the goofy dog, ran over me getting into the house where there was NO power. And I have Electric heat. So I put on multiple layers of clothing and found my flashlights and candles and prepared for the evening. Wednesday morning--The town of Baker was isolated--all roads in and out were closed, the schools were closed, streets were blocked. I heard all this on my portable radio. It was a howling blizzard. I couldn't get my front door open and couldn't see the end of the sidewalk where my front gate is. I could however see my breath in the house!!!! I put on thermal underwear, 3 pairs of socks, carhart bibs, a sweatshirt, 2 fleece hoodies, a carhart jacket, hat, scarf, mittens and sat in in chair with 3 blankets over me. Oh, and my brother's big pacs cuz my feet were freezing. The power remained off all day. Thursday--It was 50 degrees outside--I got the front door open by pushing and walked out into the sparkly day. Those snowdrifts are SO HARD that you can drive a vehicle over them and not sink in. I can walk over every fence and right over the top of my clothesline!! Anyway, I went down and threw bales of hay to the sheep and let them out so they could get water from the ground because the troughs weren't working because of the no electicity thing. I scooped buckets of corn out of the feeder and corned the sheep by hand and fed the bum lambs some powdered milk that I mixed up with water that dripped off the top of the house from the melting snow. The best part of this was that I didn't have to dress up to go outside because I had all the stuff already on!! The highway south of town that I take was still closed all day Thursday. Friday--yesterday actually--Tom came out from town and brought me a thermos of coffee--which I don't drink--but it's the thought that counts. He fed all his stock and I let the ewes and lambs into my yard to do some mowing. That way I don't need to. When he left, the road across my dam collapsed behind him. He called on his cell phone and warned me in case I got a notion to leave--AS IF--anyway Dash and I walked up there and the guy from the county appeared with a backhoe to dig it up. I took my camera and took some pictures of it this time. It did this back in December and they told me they'd fixed it good that time--RIGHT?? So on the way back Dash and I did some snowbank tromping and that's when I found out how hard they are. I guess it's from the rain that came first and how hard that wind blew because these are seriously HARD snowbanks. I spent the day reading and playing frisbee with the dog and just goofing around. Today--I got up at 6 am and tried to get the garage door open--No way--The snow is too deep so I went and started my pickup and actually drove it up over the snow in front of it. That's how I know you can drive a pickup over these drifts!! So I crawled thru the window of the garage and got the keys out of my jeep for my house in there and the daycare and went to town and took a hot shower and went to the restaurant and had a HOT breakfast. I picked up my mail and the papers and came home and the power came back on at NOON today. So I went 4 days without power and heat and running water and it's 70 degrees out there and the snow is all melting and there's 4 feet of water in my basement and the pumps are working their little motors off and I heated water on the stove to pour in the sink so I could wash dishes because my hot water heater is under that water in the basement so I have no hot water yet. I guess I'll see if it's ruined or not hopefully by sometime tomorrow. I had to throw three big black garbage bags of food away from my fridges and from my freezer. Even though I didn't open them so that they'd stay cold--4 days of no electricity just didn't work. SIGH!! Well--that's my SAGA. Maybe Spring isn't quite here yet!! Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

Nancy, GEEZE, I don't know how you stand it. I have put up with it as long as I can. I just can't take the cold and snow anymore. Good Luck girlfriend. Hope all is melted and dried. Hi all. hugs, Mary

Hey Girls, I had my hair cut here a couple wks. ago and the gal chopped it shorter than I asked. I went to my regular guy and he fixed it and dyed and highlighted it and its better but pretty short. My hair was all helter skelter too and it still is; just in a short version. I look like I have bed head all the time!!!!! It is really dry. Hubby was an hour in a half away Sun. A.M. until Mon. a.m. so I drove to spend Sun. with him. I pulled up and he had the hood on the truck up. I about sh#t. I though great he is gonna "fix" the truck. He was cleaning it and checking it over because a light was on that said check engine. I said please don't touch anything, they have people that do that and actually know what they are doing. He left it alone, while I was there anyway. We had a good time with just the 2 of us. I am putting everything in storage until we leave for Phx. Mom-in-law asked me about having a place here today and I said we were not going to get one here now. She was a little upset because of her stage 4 lung cancer. She could live a while or not and I just need to go. I feel bad but she and her daughter are now closer (they were not before) so it is time for her daughter to take care of things and not me. Rick is gone in the truck all but 4 days a month so I am not really taking him away because he doesn't see her much. She is uhhh kinda demanding and hard to satisfy. I wouldn't even try. I was hauling things to the storage all day. I can't believe there is still so much left. Better go I am wore out. I just get tired easy. 3 treatments left. Hugs, Mary