Thanksgiving

     We had an awesome Thanksgiving.  We went to Brian and Tatiana's and planned out the stores we wanted to go to after dinner.  Then we went to Tampa Bay Brewing Company.  They had a turkey dinner, complete with mashed potato and stuffing (I don't like stuffing).  We had pumpkin pie...it was delicious!  It was a great idea too because I did not stuff myself to uncomfortableness but we don't have any leftovers today.  After dinner we swapped cars and headed to our first store...Walmart.  I have never been in and out of Walmart so fast and we got what we wanted.  We hit Best Buy and Target.  Best Buy had a line to get in the store that moved quickly.  Waiting in line is lame but it was a great idea.  It felt like it was just a busy day at the store...nothing crazy.  Target was insane.  We were able to get what we wanted quickly enough but the line for check out...nuts!  The store had only been open for 30 minutes and they had the checkout line serpentining up and down the lanes like an amusement park ride.  Starbucks was ridiculous too.  We drove around the corner and were like "oh good the drive thru is open".  Then we saw the line of cars...we decided to go inside.  There was still a line but it moved faster.  We still waited pretty long for the drinks but we knew that was going to happen either way.  Overall, we had such a good time hanging out that night.  We need to do it more often but such is life.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh, I also put some mascara on last night.  That's right...I have a couple of eyelashes growing in.

     Went to see catching fire today with my friend Sarah.  I loved it!  They did a good job turning the book into a movie.  It didn't have every thing but no movie from a book ever does.  The theater was awesome too. The seats (about 70 per screen) reclined...electronically.  Big old leather seats.  My feet didn't touch the floor and I could not get both arms on the armrests comfortably.  I had a delicious salad.  It was also the same price as a regular theater too.

   

So no treatment (those darn platelets again...20 points shy) but my scan shows my insides are unremarkable.  That's a good thing.  My white blood cells are in the 2s, so I can have a salad at a restaurant and ice in my glass.  The best thing would have been to get treatment and stay on schedule.  The next best thing is having a week off with normal cell counts.  Once I left the hospital, I called up BG and went for a visit.  Amber took me in to see Kenya (serval).  I got some rubs but no head bonks.  I scratched some Zeny pits too.  I enjoy being there so much.  I can't wait to get back to work.  Later, I met up with J and one of his co-workers for dinner/drinks.  It was good to see her and catch up.  She's good people.  Now we are home.

     I had another incident at publix.  You know how you tend to keep running into the same people when you go up and down every aisle in a grocery store?  Well there was this lady...We politely acknowledged that we were in each other's way and moved on.  Two aisles down, I'm about to move on to the next one when this lady is heading right for me with her cart.  There is plenty of space for her to be on the other side of the aisle.  She gets her cart so close to mine that I am pinned between the shelf, her and the carts.  She gets so close to me and asks if I have breast cancer.  I must have given her a look because then she asked what type of cancer I had.  Why do people assume that it must be breast cancer? I know the answer to that.  Anyways, I tell her Ewings sarcoma and give no further explanation to which she gives me a look.  I'm slightly annoyed at her initial assumption and realize I'm not being the best person I can be in this situation.  So I tell her it's a bone cancer.  She tells me she had breast cancer (part of the reason she assumed that's what I had).  We compare port sites.  She tells me she will pray for me and I thank her for that.  We bump into each other at check out and she tells me she is serious about praying for me and she does not take that lightly.  I thank her again, sincerely.  I'm not about to try and explain my beliefs to her...That would take far too long.  I do appreciate anyone taking their own time to say a prayer for my health and well being, no matter what their beliefs.  I welcome everyone to put in a good word for me.  I am learning cancer survivors are a strange bunch.  I wonder what I'm going to be like.

     Well it's almost been a week since my last blog.  I don't even know what I've done since last Wednesday.  I've played a lot of video games.  Actually, I've played one video game.  Some of you may recall a Facebook post about Fire Emblem.  I have restarted that game for a few reasons...I would like to beat the black knight and have strong characters for the sequel game.  This game is on the game cube.  You can save your completed game and upload it into the wii somehow.  This would make some of the characters that show up in the sequel extra awesome.  I couldn't take the last game I finished because I played it on easy mode.  You have to beat the game on normal mode for the transfer to work.

     Speaking of video games, I'd like to voice my displeasure with the Nintendo industry.  Last year they came out with wiiU as the latest console.  That's fine, however, they have stopped making the cool games for regular wii.  You can buy a wiiU $300 and play regular wii games on it but what about game cube games (like the game I'm currently playing)?  They have 3 new Mario bros games and they are going to come out with a fire emblem game soon.  I'm sure a zelda game is on it's way too.  lt's a vicious, expensive cycle.  If you have kids that haven't started playing video games yet...don't start.  Of course, when I go back to work I will have a lot less time to play.  That will either annoy me or be just fine.  Only time will tell.

     Looking forward to Thanksgiving.  Brian, Tatiana, Jeremy and I are going to TBBC.  They have a really nice turkey day dinner and of course good beer and we don't have to do the dishes or the cooking.  Sounds good to me!  We might even do some shopping.  Jeremy has a 4 day weekend.  I feel like we should be going somewhere or doing something special but we have nothing planned other than dinner.  Maybe we will hit St Pete or Dunedin this weekend.  I guess it all hinders on the results of this appointment I'm waiting on.  If my counts are good, I'll get my 12th treatment today.  I don't think they will be but we will see.  I also get the results of my latest scan.  I fully expect it to be clear.

:(

So I was all excited because it is beautiful outside.  J and I were going to have dinner outside somewhere and it was going to be wonderful! Enter the moth...

On our way to a new restaurant, I notice a moth in the car.  J puts the Windows down to suck him to freedom. Once he is out and the Windows are on their way up, I hear glass shatter! At least that's what it sounded like. The passenger side window will no longer roll up.  Long story short, I'm sitting in the restaurant (not outside because they don't have a patio) while J is in the parking lot taking the door apart.  There goes what could have been a nice evening.

I'm free!

Got out yesterday. Early too. As soon as my mesna was done, they deaccessed me and I was out.  12:30.  I hung out with some friends last night...played scattegories for a bit.  Feeling good. Looking forward to meandering through a toy store to find some cool things for my nieces and nephews.  Maybe hit the gym. My skins are sore to the touch so I think a hot pool is in order.  I've got scans on Friday.  I'm fully expecting that they will be clean. 

3 more treatments to go!

a good day

     I had 3 visitors today and got all kinds of yummy treats!  I was also 1 carb over on my lunch but they did not withhold any items.  I had kindle issues where I couldn't get it to turn on or charge.  So I had to use my tiny phone for all internet related activities.  Of course, when Jeremy comes it turns right on for him.  We watched Wrong Turn 5...waste of time but I was committed.  Spoiler alert...no one made it out alive.