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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET MARA! I'm late for an important date, your birthday. Gee I hope you had a wonderful, peaceful and lots of good food in your belly kind of birthday. Good to hear SIL may be doing a bit better and DB remembered your birthday.

In pockets for everyone who has scans and MO visits coming up. And for life in general.

Well 4 days of antibiotics down, 3 to go for UTI. This has held me up from restarting Ibrance, which was due to bacterial pneumonia. I was suppose to restart Oct. 13. I saw, MO on Monday and he wasn't concerned about the delay. Did learn that Xgeva efficacy is very close whether dosing once a month or once every three months (which is what I have been doing). I believe I had read less risk of osteocronosis by not dosing monthly. Hmm..

The birds were very active in the yard today. That cold snap most have triggered them to feed heavily. And the squirrels. Bobette (the squirrel with the short tail) even hit the bird bath for a drink. We haven't had rain in many weeks. I covered most of the tropical plants and those I didn't cover, came out just fine. Only damage was to coleus (spelling?) , which I cut back until I found green in the stems. Sitting in my favorite chair watching the antics of the birds, squirrels and the crows delights me so. I am blessed my sweet DH brings up large bags of sunflower seeds, mixed seeds, peanuts and dry cat food. I put that out for a stray cat or two and the raccoons and opossums.

Hope all are as well and finding delight in the snow (if your enjoy it) and the Northern Lights. It was visible from Flagler Beach, which is not far from us. Imagine that, northern lights in FLA.

Happy belated birthday Mara.

Hope you had a nice day.

The weather cooled off quite a bit. I was able to take a nice walk.

Hope all is well with everyone

Tanya

@cookie54 @irishlove I am planning to phone DB this week. Sadness is not constant for me, I feel it for a bit then it passes. I am more interested to know what is ailing SIL then anything else. In some ways, I like the autonomy it gives me to do what I wish with the house, getting organized etc as well.

When it comes to getting some info on neurosurgeon referral, phoning RO office would be a place to start and go from there. I am not too worried at this point, feel like if brain was an emergency situation, stuff would happen quickly for me as it did last time. Still more info is needed. Still need to take picture of ambo ride and prove disability from sept. Did not get around to that yet.

Laundry has been started, need to spin and throw in regular dryer, other dryer cleaning up a towel used to pick up a mess on the floor. Need to consider some clothes to put in wash as well and use the hanging dryer in bedroom if regular washer not going. Bedroom and living room are on different connection than kitchen and bathroom. I still have the other heated drying rack that has a heater at the bottom. The cheap wee washers are dying one motor cuts off after 20 seconds but I will not replace it, can soak stuff before wash if really stained or soak silverware as needed for dishes. There are uses beyond traditional washing. Even though they were only 20 bucks and cannot feel bad about that. I will figure it out and again, no buying it again. Bras can be put into mesh bag and spun then hung up with the hanger, same with undies or other delicate items. I can also use the hanging dryer and tumble for less time. Not sure yet either.

I am going to have two meals with the delicious chicken I cooked up in some taco and cheesy old elpaso, fantastic stuff. Probably microwave an egg with some beans in microwave and some garlic and butter, once done in microwave, let cool, put in the chopper with some cheese and put some of the chicken in fridge with a spoonful or two of the pasta I mixed together, put all in a hot fry pan, stir around a bit and turn off heat with a lid, that would be good or save egg for dinner meal, I will have to see what I feel like.

EDIT, did add an egg to a hot frypan with butter melted at bottom, added some shredded cheese, rest of the combined queso pasta and penne pasta to the pan. Put some beans and the seasoned chicken in there too. Mashed everything together and am waiting for it to get cool. No chopping of anything, just wanted an easy meal and to finish beans in fridge, try to use them up in 4 days or so. Tonight's meal will also feature the chicken but may be combining with the veggie stir fry mix, heat that up and put in same pan, mash up more chicken as well. Also was thinking out chicken dogs, not seeing an issue with using those or beef dogs which are less expensive on to regular hotdogs. Put together a sample order for the future and I could save a bunch of money getting those instead. The seasoning would and could be the same too.

EDIT. the egg, pasta dishes, shredded cheese and ground chicken with beans were delicious, could not finish it all but really was so very good. Heating up, dumping in the frypan and letting it all cool was really good. The cheesy seasoning by old elpaso is a revelation to me. Next time I order stuff from walmart I will keep what I put together in a sample order. Also have added a crunchy cheddar fried onion seasoning to the list. Like I already said, not ordering now, going to wait 2 weeks I think because I still have a ton of food. Option two sees me take Paratransit over to Walmart myself once the snow melts.

I hope all are taking care and having a good day, I am in pockets for all as well.

@chicagoan and @eleanora Thank you for the birthday wishes. I have nothing on the agenda beyond getting some birthday treats for food. I spent 35 dollars for some chicken dogs that I will chop up and cook in the frypan, add some taco cheesy seasoning and cheese, got salad as well for my meal, many options available. I think the swiss chalet would have been decent but I can get more food with the Walmart order. I will post later what I come up with. Less than 20 mins and delivery from Walmart is on its way already .

As far as today, looking to continue the neverending floor sweeps, keep organizing my container, last spot that is crying out for it is in front of the front closet, put recycle stuff in the container with lid and it will all look really good.

Got some laundry underway and some pants to wash, will use the hang up drier as well since it gives me a lot of pleasure, need to wash up some yoga pants.

We got a lot of snow overnight BUT we go above freezing for a bit til end of November so it will not be sticking around. I am just so sad about that. 🤣

After I eat, I will continue on with chores, still calling RO to look into any progress with referral to neurosurgeon. I have social worker call on Thursday but no services I need at the moment but that is OK, if anything comes up, phone RO for another referral to social worker.

I will post with what I make for my meals today, not expecting DB or SIL at all and that is fine. Just called SIL but not available, left message I was hoping she feels better.

I do hope all have a really good day, in pockets for everyone as well. I already sang Happy Birthday to myself as well when I woke up.