Sunday Travel

This has been longest since I started writing my blog to post.   It is also the first vacation.  So, it was hard to take time to stop and write posts (plus I am still working off my phone only).

We fly back to our city today from NYC.   I will write more about our wonderful long weekend soon.  I just have to say the concert last night was just amazing and we both really lived it all.  

Madison Square Garden,  the walk to and from the show from the Kn Marriott Marquis, the opening artists (Jimmie Vaughn and Gary Clark Jr.) Were so good.  If you have a chance, check out Gary Clark Jr. 

Then Eric Clapton came out in his true lack of fanfare style, played some great old bluesy numbers, then Layla and Tears in Heaven and couple others acoustic.  He had great sound, timing perfect, same voice...he had a great guitar player paying some of his riffs,  but understandable considering EC is in his 70s.  He even did White Room, which is one of my favorite Cream songs.  Then Wonderful Tonight, Crossroads, Cocaine...The audience loved it.

For encore, he came back out and they played a number that keyboard player sang (he had an amazing voice) and piano guy was literally top notch!  Vaughn and Clark,  Jr. played guitar with Clapton...made us all want more.

Best concert of my life...the end.

See you Monday!

What Day is it?

Feels like Sat or Mon, but not Sunday.  Have another day off tomorrow, then holiday desert till May!  Our lives could be very diff by May...IF we sell City House.

 

Got bookcases unloaded, all books stacked in hall closet and larger guest room.  But they are ALL MOVED! Woopie!  We measured and literally are an inch off from putting all 4 white bookcases along one wall of dining room.  So...we are gonna see if removing chair railing moulding will work.  So, in 2 weeks we come back with 2 last solid wood bookcases and I can put all the books away!

Beautiful weather this long weekend.  We are switching DH phone over today...we will save $87/month.  We have long talks with inlaws (retired many years) and SIL/husband who are on similar track and timeline as us.  When not discussing heavy topic, we played a fun board game last night.  God is good!  My SIL husband got a new job.  Was at his last employer 20 years.  He taking less pay, but home more.  We are so relieved for him. 

 

Oh, and I transformed smaller guest room closet to an office.  I will learn how to add photos one day.  The small guest room has sleeper sofa so i can watch tv or sew or do crafts.  The office/closet is for household business/bills/records, memory boxes/photos and gift wrap.  One must be creative when rightsizing!  Have a wonderful long weekend, enjoy last week of the Olympics!

Would Rather be at Work

I would rather be at work than spend my time as I did yesterday.  And as a temp, that is saying something. 

Sorry to repeat, but I am tired.  Was relaxing this last weekend with my husband watching some TV, looking forward to my long weekend/day off on Monday.  10pm Sunday I got a text from a relative indicating that another relative had serious symptoms and was in the hospital.  Texter was going to bed, that was all they knew (the relative texting me was in another state).  The next morning, I followed up and learned that my relative in the hospital had 2 masses, one in her lung and one in her brain.

So, I went and visited patient Monday afternoon when she was visited by 2 doctors.  One a Radiology Oncologist and one a Neurosurgeon.  There she was laying in her bed after hearing that she had these 2 masses that morning.  I tried to just be with her and help her process and then after the doctors came, I wrote down notes and prepared as best I could to pass this information along to her son who had gone to talk to the patient's 90+ year old mother.  Patient and her mother are close to my DGM and I.  Neither doctor would say it was cancer, but the oncologist said it was "cancer looking".  The neurosurgeon tells us the mass in her brain is so large, they want to remove it surgically Wednesday.  This information is relayed and we are all in shock and family from 4 states are mobilizing.  I am close to another family member that flew in to be there for surgery yesterday, so she is staying with us and driving one of our cars.  I told her it was my way of helping. 

We spent the evening Tues night seeing patient and then went back Wed morning.  I took Wed off, but plan to finish working Thurs and Friday.  I do not have benefits for days off.  No work, no pay.  After she went to surgery, we went to spend some time with her mother.  We came back in time to learn patient was through brain surgery (took about half the time they initially told son) and waiting for a bed in ICU.  Son was still home cleaning and doing daily chores/resting.  So, neurosurgeon talked to us.  It was surreal when neurosurgeon told us that the tumor did not have definite margins where it was next to the brain, so he had to essentially cut it out of the brain to be sure he got it all.  Then he indicated that she was conscious and was responding and showing signs of moving her eyes to the right ok, but not to the left as well.  He said the brain area where the tumor was involved eye movement.  He said this may or may not be permanent.  He apologized to us for that, and said he did the best he could do.  He did unofficially say that he thought it was metastatic carcinoma (i.e. tissue in brain was cancer that came from the lung). The next steps/treatment plan/prognosis would come from cancer team.  I have felt like crying, but it does not come.  What has come is literally an overwhelming sense of exhaustion and my cousin really hit the nail on the head when she explained this is really only the beginning...(of a difficult battle).

Is It Monday Already

Friday i worked all day since I was off thurs for bad weather, then i had sushi woth my friend and her daughter.  Sat too lazy for yoga, hrlped granny with her books, partially getting year end done.

Sunday we watched movies, went to Duluth for a wool cardigan they sold out of on line.  Ate pasta lunch.  Cooked wings, baked a pie and we watched movies.  I did manage a 4 mile walk because after we got some more snow, it warmed up nice. 

Monday, honestly i have cabin fever a little.  I have MLK day off.  Frigid cold.  More stuff selling, my front seat so full I will drop off post office, not use office mail room.  But i habe to print labels at work, i am having printer/pc issues.  Everytime windows 10 updates, my system crashes.  I am sick of it.  At least i am all backed up.  Taking to pc repair I guess soon...one more thing on my to do.

Stay warm. Enjoy winter for what it is, down time woth my love, cozy snuggles with my dogs, carbs, hot tea and coffee with friends, candle lit yoga...Namaste.

Very worried about my DGM, she is falling a lot and my cousin has vertigo for over 2 weeks and now brain swelling...more later...