Today I am thankful for:
G
Grace
grandson
God
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
26 days of Thankfulness - Day 6 - F
Today I am thankful for:
F
Family
Friends
Faith
Fall - my favorite season
Fall - my favorite season
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Warby Parker Winter Collection
Winter’s best diversions—doubling up on thermals, watching your breath steam up the window,
scribbling through a Sunday crossword puzzle—deserve a proper pair of glasses to bring them
Our new Winter Collection is rustic meets modern: six new shapes in five new colors, including
two custom two-toned acetates, in addition to some of our most dependably stylish frames in
cold-weather hues.
All frames are $95, including prescription lenses.
They make good companions for rooting around a bookcase, dashing through the snow, getting
up to indoor mischief. The possibilities stretch on as shorter days give way to longer nights.
Find the collection online at warbyparker.com and at Warby Parker stores and showrooms.
My personal favorite are the whiskey tortoise (above)! I need a new pair of glasses and I am considering ordering these. I used my VSP benefit this year. I am not due for new frames for 2 years. I think Warby Parker frames are very reasonable.
***The above is Warby Parker comments on their glasses and also my opinion at the bottom.***
Monday, November 4, 2013
OOTD ~ Graphic Tee
Graphic tees with pencils skirts, boyfriend jeans, glitter skirts, cardigans you name it people are wearing graphic tees with everything. In the past I haven't worn shirts with writing to work. Well the new handbook came out and nothing was mentioned about tshirts with writing. Everyone else is doing it, so I am going to join in on the fun.
I have had the tshirt below for a couple years from Old Navy. I think I bought it for less than $5 during one of their sales. I wore it with my boyfriend jeans (Old Navy), pleather jacket (Burlington Coat Factory) and leopard flats.
The mornings have been freezing between high 40's and mid 50's each day. The days then warm up to the mid to high 70's. I have to wear layers in order to avoid freezing in the morning and sweating after work. San Francisco I can dress pretty warm all year round. The problem is when I get back to my side of the Bay I am sweating to death walking from the Bart station to my car.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
A Sunday with Kaleb.
Arrive at 5:30am
Snuggle up to Mimi and go back to sleep until 8 or 9am
This is one of my favorite time of the day. The snuggles and extra sleep!
Get up to eat breakfast
Get dressed for church
How adorable is the little preacher boy?
Mimi & Kaleb get ready to head to church
church time
Come home, eat lunch, play with Sammy
Play with new toys
Take his car out for a drive
Even Superman needs a nap!
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
26 days of Thankfulness - Day 1 - A
Each day in November I am going to post something I am thankful by using the alphabet!
Art
April08ers
A
Art
April08ers
One out of 1,400 people!
Here are some random statistics I found on the world wide web recently. Each year there are around 1 billion cases of the common cold and 19-21 million cases of the stomach flu. An estimated 230,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2013 alone. One of out every 10,000 people will be diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer and 1,400 people per year are diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis.
::::knockonwood:::: I rarely ever get a cold or the stomach flu. I run from a cold like it is the black plague. If people at work come to work sick I send them home. I really try to eat healthy, get plenty of rest, take my vitamins and keep myself exposed to enough germs to keep those nasty bugs away. I ride on Bart on a daily basis, so I am exposed to TONS of germs.
I seem to be attracting the "rare" things. January I was diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer. I thought there was just one type of thyroid cancer and it was the cancer to get. If you follow my blog I have wrote a lot on MTC and there is NO type of cancer to get period. I haven't been feeling right for a little while. I have been feeling off. Very tired, sluggish, no energy and the list continues on. I haven't felt right since surgery. I chalk it up to my thyroid being gone and I am just a hot mess. It has been very frustrating me because I am 32 not 92. I shouldn't be so run down all the time.
I had taken Monday, October 21 off work. I had done a lot of cooking in the afternoon, so I was on my feet for hours. When I went to bed Monday night my feet really hurt. I just figured it was from being on the tile floor for hours. Tuesday I woke up to my feet still hurting and a little tingly. As the day went on my feet were freezing, tingly, getting a little numb. By Wednesday my feet were completely numb, legs were tingly and I was loosing feeling around my waist. It was the strangest feeling. I had worn some slipper socks on Monday with little rubber grippers. I figured those gripper things pushed into my feet, cut some nerve off or my back had a pinched nerve.
Thursday I called the chiropractor for an appointment, but I couldn't make it before they closed. By the time I got home Thursday night I told Art I couldn't feel my legs. I planned to work from home on Friday to see a doctor. Art was cooking in the kitchen and he smacked me with a spatula. He asked can you feel that? I couldn't feel it at all, but I had a big red welt on my leg. My legs almost felt like they had fallen asleep or they were frost bit. A little later that evening I started to wonder if my calcium was low which was causing the problems in my feet. I called Kaiser to set up an appointment for Friday. The person answering the phone put me right through to a nurse when she heard I was feeling numb, the nurse talked to the doctor and told me to come to the ER right away. I told them it was necessary that I just needed to see a doctor the next day. Oh boy was I wrong.
Off we went to the ER where I was admitted. The doctor was very concerned I had Transverse Myelitis. I had a lot of the symptoms and they would be doing an MRI the next day. They started me on steroids immediately and monitored me very closely. They were concerned it could spread to my lungs which would cause me to stop breathing. I barely got any sleep Thursday night. I had told Art to go home around midnight because someone should sleep, so one of us had a clear head the next day. I was so tired I remember barely waking up in the middle of the night to a nurse taking my blood pressure, asking me to open my mouth to take my temperature and rolling back over to sleep. The next morning the neurologist came in to meet with me just as I was waking up. He was pretty convinced that I had TM. He had ordered a MRI of my spine and brain.
Steroids are NOT my friend. Those things got me sooooo hyped up I became a lunatic. I was so hyper, anxious, mean that I barely made it through the MRI. I actually pressed the button to see when they would be done because I thought I was going to hyperventilate. Luckily there was only 5 minutes left, so I sucked it up. The MRI showed I have TM. I have had 3 steroid treatments. The neurologist will be monitoring my progresses closely to make sure the feeling comes back into my body. Currently I am still numb. I still can't feel anything from the waist down. I am thinking I might stop trying to avoid the common cold. I know my family could handle it a whole lot better if I started to get colds instead of these random other issues.
Thankfully my mom was able to come take care of me for the next few weeks. I am so grateful she is here. I don't think there will ever be a time when I will be too old for my mom not to take care of me when I am sick. No one can replace a mom!
I have declared myself a rare gem! In 20 years I am going to look back on this time remembering how much stronger it has made me. I also want to remember all the funny stories. While I was in the ER I kept asking for coffee. They refused to give me coffee. I asked Art to smuggle some in to me and he refused. He insisted on following the rules. That just made me even madder! Roid Rage! Finally I convinced one nurse to give me one small cup of coffee. I told him he was my very favorite. I will not disclose his name because I don't want him to get in trouble. lol Later Friday afternoon a new nurse came on and asked where did you get coffee? I said listen I finally talked someone down after 12 hours of begging for coffee. He just cracked up laughing. He said I can see why they gave you coffee finally.
I am off to continue recovering. I am happy to be home with a FULL pot of coffee. =)
::::knockonwood:::: I rarely ever get a cold or the stomach flu. I run from a cold like it is the black plague. If people at work come to work sick I send them home. I really try to eat healthy, get plenty of rest, take my vitamins and keep myself exposed to enough germs to keep those nasty bugs away. I ride on Bart on a daily basis, so I am exposed to TONS of germs.
I seem to be attracting the "rare" things. January I was diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer. I thought there was just one type of thyroid cancer and it was the cancer to get. If you follow my blog I have wrote a lot on MTC and there is NO type of cancer to get period. I haven't been feeling right for a little while. I have been feeling off. Very tired, sluggish, no energy and the list continues on. I haven't felt right since surgery. I chalk it up to my thyroid being gone and I am just a hot mess. It has been very frustrating me because I am 32 not 92. I shouldn't be so run down all the time.
I had taken Monday, October 21 off work. I had done a lot of cooking in the afternoon, so I was on my feet for hours. When I went to bed Monday night my feet really hurt. I just figured it was from being on the tile floor for hours. Tuesday I woke up to my feet still hurting and a little tingly. As the day went on my feet were freezing, tingly, getting a little numb. By Wednesday my feet were completely numb, legs were tingly and I was loosing feeling around my waist. It was the strangest feeling. I had worn some slipper socks on Monday with little rubber grippers. I figured those gripper things pushed into my feet, cut some nerve off or my back had a pinched nerve.
Thursday I called the chiropractor for an appointment, but I couldn't make it before they closed. By the time I got home Thursday night I told Art I couldn't feel my legs. I planned to work from home on Friday to see a doctor. Art was cooking in the kitchen and he smacked me with a spatula. He asked can you feel that? I couldn't feel it at all, but I had a big red welt on my leg. My legs almost felt like they had fallen asleep or they were frost bit. A little later that evening I started to wonder if my calcium was low which was causing the problems in my feet. I called Kaiser to set up an appointment for Friday. The person answering the phone put me right through to a nurse when she heard I was feeling numb, the nurse talked to the doctor and told me to come to the ER right away. I told them it was necessary that I just needed to see a doctor the next day. Oh boy was I wrong.
Off we went to the ER where I was admitted. The doctor was very concerned I had Transverse Myelitis. I had a lot of the symptoms and they would be doing an MRI the next day. They started me on steroids immediately and monitored me very closely. They were concerned it could spread to my lungs which would cause me to stop breathing. I barely got any sleep Thursday night. I had told Art to go home around midnight because someone should sleep, so one of us had a clear head the next day. I was so tired I remember barely waking up in the middle of the night to a nurse taking my blood pressure, asking me to open my mouth to take my temperature and rolling back over to sleep. The next morning the neurologist came in to meet with me just as I was waking up. He was pretty convinced that I had TM. He had ordered a MRI of my spine and brain.
Steroids are NOT my friend. Those things got me sooooo hyped up I became a lunatic. I was so hyper, anxious, mean that I barely made it through the MRI. I actually pressed the button to see when they would be done because I thought I was going to hyperventilate. Luckily there was only 5 minutes left, so I sucked it up. The MRI showed I have TM. I have had 3 steroid treatments. The neurologist will be monitoring my progresses closely to make sure the feeling comes back into my body. Currently I am still numb. I still can't feel anything from the waist down. I am thinking I might stop trying to avoid the common cold. I know my family could handle it a whole lot better if I started to get colds instead of these random other issues.
Thankfully my mom was able to come take care of me for the next few weeks. I am so grateful she is here. I don't think there will ever be a time when I will be too old for my mom not to take care of me when I am sick. No one can replace a mom!
I have declared myself a rare gem! In 20 years I am going to look back on this time remembering how much stronger it has made me. I also want to remember all the funny stories. While I was in the ER I kept asking for coffee. They refused to give me coffee. I asked Art to smuggle some in to me and he refused. He insisted on following the rules. That just made me even madder! Roid Rage! Finally I convinced one nurse to give me one small cup of coffee. I told him he was my very favorite. I will not disclose his name because I don't want him to get in trouble. lol Later Friday afternoon a new nurse came on and asked where did you get coffee? I said listen I finally talked someone down after 12 hours of begging for coffee. He just cracked up laughing. He said I can see why they gave you coffee finally.
I am off to continue recovering. I am happy to be home with a FULL pot of coffee. =)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
OOTD ~ Pinterest Inspiration
Here is another Pinterest outfit I put together. Mint skinnies, black polka dots and a gray sweater. I had to throw some leopard in there. I love the picture with the navy. Again trying to use what I already own and recreating an outfit.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Greek Dinner
Art and I both have bought chicken on super clearance at Fresh & Easy. Currently our freezer is packed with chicken thighs, legs, drummies, breasts & ground chicken. Our freezer looks like we own a chicken ranch. lol What does one make with all this chicken? I am scouring the internet looking for different recipes all the time. I love to throw it in the crockpot with some type of sauce, but that can get a little old.
Art really likes Greek pitas. I found a recipe online for Grilled Greek chicken pitas. Chicken pitas would go perfectly with my friend Krystal's Layered Mediterranean Dip! I can't even remember how I found the chicken pita recipe. Possibly looking on Pinterest and found the link. However I found it the pitas were a hit. I threw everything into the bag of chicken while I ran some errands. A couple hours later while the chicken was cooking I made the layered dip. Threw the dip in the fridge while I finished the chicken, made the tzatziki sauce and wa-la dinner was ready.
I bought pitas from Fresh & Easy, spread the tzatziki sauce over them, shredded the chicken, and placed some sliced tomatoes over the top. I served the dip with pita chips on the side. It was really delicious and easy.
Art really likes Greek pitas. I found a recipe online for Grilled Greek chicken pitas. Chicken pitas would go perfectly with my friend Krystal's Layered Mediterranean Dip! I can't even remember how I found the chicken pita recipe. Possibly looking on Pinterest and found the link. However I found it the pitas were a hit. I threw everything into the bag of chicken while I ran some errands. A couple hours later while the chicken was cooking I made the layered dip. Threw the dip in the fridge while I finished the chicken, made the tzatziki sauce and wa-la dinner was ready.
I bought pitas from Fresh & Easy, spread the tzatziki sauce over them, shredded the chicken, and placed some sliced tomatoes over the top. I served the dip with pita chips on the side. It was really delicious and easy.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Overnight Cold Oats
I found a fabulous overnight cold oatmeal on Lauren Conrad website. I have liked Lauren from back in the Laguna Beach Days. The oatmeal was super easy and tasty. I love fast things that are easy to grab for work. I like to mix fresh fruit with my oatmeal - banana, strawberries, blueberries.
Ingredients
Instructions
The above recipe made 2 servings.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup coconut milk (or milk of your choice)
- 1/2 cup organic quick rolled oats
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
Instructions
- The night before you plan to eat your oats, mix together all of the ingredients listed above and seal in an airtight container.
- Refrigerate the mixture overnight (they will be ready in about 3 hours, but overnight is best).
- Wake up and enjoy the next day!
The above recipe made 2 servings.
Friday, October 25, 2013
I didn't see Russia!
But I did visit the Sarah Palin store in Skagway! I bought 2 tshirts, 2 shot glasses, magnets and Sarah Palin coins all for $8 or $9 bucks. BARGAIN of the year!!!
This was my favorite shop! There were so many people taking pictures to torture their friends. Little did they know I was there because I like Sarah! It was a highlight. Now if only I could meet her!
/\ best comment ever!!!! Get to work people! There are too many people working the system in this country!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
We need more responsive bloggers!
I love when bloggers actually read comments on their Facebook pages and blogs. Recently I comment on J's Everyday Fashion Facebook page about an outfit. She actually answered me. I felt like a celebrity was talking to me. lol
Eeekkk!!! =)
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Humor is Essential!
One of my friends had the most fitting phrase when it comes to cancerland - humor is essential and modest is nonexistent! Oh how true that is!
When I woke up from surgery last January the next day I looked down & realized I had a different gown on. I said to Art who changed me & who all saw me NAKED??? He laughed, shook his head & said I came out of surgery in that gown. It was NOT the one I went into surgery wearing. Hopefully the lucky person who changed me recovered lol
Last week I had another ct scan. They ran me through the large donut a few times. Take a deep breath, hold your breath, breath - these are the phrases I hear about 5 times. Then the tech comes over with "breast shield". He lays it across my chest. He told me it was to protect my breasts. I was then told to hold my breath as I'm scanned again. How am I going to hold my breath when I'm trying not to crack up laughing?
The "breast shield" is super small. If a baby needed a burp cloth we would need three!! I picked it up afterward & said to the nurse REALLY this is the shield? I said this is a joke look at this small piece of cloth. The nurse was cracking up. She said the tech is so shy he would have died of embarrassment if you had said anything to him.
I told the nurse the tech asked if I had taken off my bra. I wanted to say buddy do you normally see 2 boobs flopped over someone's ribs? Is this a normal view you see every day walking around? You hand me a pasty to cover my breasts and then ask if I took my bra off? The nurse was crying she was laughing so hard.
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