Friday Five

TGIF! Another week flew by and Halloween is next week!

I tried to get organized this week and messaged the family about Thanksgiving and Christmas. We’re making progress on getting that sorted out. T-day is at my house this year. And it’s still hot here — someone needs to inform Mother Nature it’s time to let go of summer weather and embrace fall!So…I saved all my change for two years. Finally I rolled it all up, took it to the bank and planned to do something practical with it — like buy clothes or things I needed. What I did…ordered a handbag from the Coach Outlet (I’d never pay full price for those!). This is all one of my daughter in law’s fault — she had a really cute Coach bag and that got me trolling the Coach outlet site, and here we are with me waiting for them to ship that bag to me and hoping I love it. For the record, Wizard encouraged this wanton financial behavior.  And I still don’t have any “nice” clothes for events. Do I care? Snort. Maybe a little, but the new handbag is more fun. It’ll fit and it won’t make me look fat.  By the way, I didn’t have a plan to save change for something special — I just kept dumping change in a cup in my nightstand to keep my wallet more manageable until I got around to rolling it up. But let’s all pretend I had plan, okay?I’m having trouble with my pain in legs. This is so freaking annoying. I will mention it to my doctor someday — when I’m done trying to fix it with the power of my mind Next week will be…interesting. Monday I go get a shot. This shot may make me sick, or not. Who knows. But in case it doesn’t make me sick on Monday, we get to test it again on Tuesday morning and do a second shot. Because I’m like a science experiment now Oh wait, I’m a Traveling Science Experiment because this will involve 100’s of miles of driving over 3 days! Then four to five hours later on that same Tuesday afternoon, I go to the Nuclear Vault (okay, some people call it Nuclear Medicine, but whatever) and take a tracer pill so the government can track me. No wait, that was a movie. This pill will spend 24 hours lighting up any rogue cells, so that on Wednesday the government doctors can find them in a full body iodine scan.  And then Thursday I’m free!! After that, it’s just another blood test and a doctor visit in which I shall learn that I’m a boring specimen with no rogue cells, and therefore freed to go live my boring life. Yay! I can’t wait!And this weekend, we have an engagement party for my niece (for which I have no appropriate clothes as mentioned in #2). That’ll be great to see everyone.  My food restrictions for the iodine scan could be a bit awkward, mostly because I don’t want to suck the life out of the room by talking about my health. But most people know what’s been happening, and I really think the focus will be on my niece and her fiancé, so it should be fine. Then Sunday, Wizard is racing, and I may go help with my granddaughter in the afternoon. They aren’t sure yet if they’ll need me and I’m willing to be on call since I’ll otherwise just be doing chores and boring stuff.

That’s it for me. Now I’d love to hear your five! I hope everyone has a great weekend.

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