The Hermit Club
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Joan Lunden today with a surprise visit from her family. She has a good crew supporting her. Nice family going on there too!
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Jazzy, I'm not a morning person either til after me coffee!
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Mommy- next monday I am doing a personal training session at 7 a.m. May the coffee gods be with me!
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I'll make sure they are Jazzy!
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Well done Jazzy, and you are enjoying it too
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Hi hermits- contracts done and back to work Monday. But doing my personal training session first. My new commandment is "thou shall not interfere with my work outs!"
Monis- the place that diagnosed my bc here in 2012 had just gotten the 3D imaging. I had it done that year and since. They tell you your insurance may not pay but mine always does. It stinks though you have to wait for your results. When I go in for my follow ups, the radiologist reviews them right away and then comes in to tell me what she sees. We used to wait to hear if we might have bc, now we wait to hear if it may have returned. Wishing for clear films for you my friend.
Ducky- that is exactly right about the balloons. They take your money whether you go up or not. I think the only way around that is to get some sort of "trip insurance" for it. The biggest issue here during balloon fiesta is whether the winds will kick up and it can cancel the launches and/or the evening glows. There have been years here when 75% of the things have been cancelled due to rain or wind. People get so upset when that happens. But as we know, you cannot control the weather.
I might go to the balloon glow on Thursday evening this year. I tried to go last year but had a lot of company in and out of town during that time, so I was busy with other things. My client site is right next to the park, so no reason not to go unless the weather is crappy. We will see!
Mommy- I like your Halloween project. Are you big into that at your house? I think you have kiddos and know this is a fun time of the year planning for costumes, etc. Are you kids going trick or treating? Do they have their costumes planned?
Onco- I am sure it was airbrushed, but think she really was bald. But perhaps not that smooth though......
Blondie- girl decided she is tired of driving him around too.....
Lili, Mags, Bippy, Blondie, Cami, Teka and all my other friends here, wishing you a good evening.
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I do decorate and its only me, my hubby and the two furbabies here.
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jazzy, you are an inspiration with the exercise! Well done. I am unable to eat as healthy as i wish to during chemo, and too many starches, but it is all i can tolerate. But i will be able to eat better soon, after November. I walk each day as much as i feel good doing, and it is a start. I miss raw foods!
Am pondering my next career phase after treatment. either freelancing or temping, but i know it will be only 4 days a week max. I will not accept the same stressful, long hours that contributed to my illness. Also, never doing family law again!!!! Toxic. Also, i want to spend more time away in Maine where we have a small log cabin home. Nice to be able to plan anead, and see some light at the end. Also, thankful that we stayed in our small home here, as it will make it easy to work less. Priorities have really changed.....for the better.
Rainy here, but it precedes our first cold front, wwoooohoo! Ready for fall, i love winter. Heading out for breakfast with the gals, then coming home, opening the house up and letting the breeze in.
Have a wonderful weekend Hermies!
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Balloon fiesta begins. First balloon that went up to test the air this morning to determine if they could launch. Watching from the comfort of my bed with coffee in hand!
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Bippy- I did not worry about what I was eating during my treatment process, outside of being sure I got a lot of protein as all my docs said protein needed for healing from the surgeries as well as the rads. You need to focus on just eating things that work for you during chemo, and getting plenty of fluids and rest. It takes time to recover from all this and healing comes in phases. Exercise will be there for you down the line when you are ready. I started back slow and easy for a long time with my exercise and it was 1 1/2 years from my last rad treatment when I could even begin thinking about doing something like I am doing now just one short month ago. I have had to learn to be very patient with myself, and still feel like I am recovering......
I also think you would be happier doing freelance work and it allows you for a more balanced lifestyle. I am a freelance project manager, and I was self employed when I was diagnosed and worked 30 hours a week for awhile after diagnosis and during rad treatment, then was back to FT for awhile after. I am back to accepting only PT work. The good thing about freelance work is you can set the terms. I never told my clients or potential clients about my bc, because I did not want them to have a reason to not choose me for a project or contract.
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Live video stream of the balloon fiesta here this morning! Note this will probably go until around 9 a.m. mountain so you may not see anything later in the day but check in the morning too (they begin around 7 a.m. mountain each morning!)
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Raining here today, but we need it. Got my decorations up for Halloween1
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Hermits- getting into fall here. I had a slice of pizza at Whole Food today that had apple on it (yum) and bought some pumpkin beer too (for the Thanksgiving guests). Suddenly, fall is everywhere!
Mommy- I like that you have your decorations up early. There are people in my nearby neighborhood who do these incredible Halloween decorations at their house. One is already up, but the best house, not yet.
Teka- are the leaves falling yet?
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I just saw this on FB and bet some of you can relate to this!
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Yep. That is so my house when hubby gets sick. Even when I was on chemo except for maybe two or three days after treatment I still functioned.
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thank you Jazzy for the encouragement. It helps me because I am very committed to losing weight in order to discourage this chit from returning. I think research supports that being overweight is a risk factor. Also I feel so much better when I'm in shape! You'll be proud of me I just took my evening walk!
Bippy sent her husband off to the race track tonight with the boys. It is so peaceful here in the neighborhood tonight, and the weather is turning cooler.
Since I am still only interested in eating crap right now, tomorrow I am making what is known as a dump cake. It's quite easy and very delicious. I love to bake when it's cool out. I may post a picture tomorrow. Have a wonderful night Hermies!
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Hi hermits- lovely fall day here, but I was low energy today. I have not slept well in two nights, but took a nice walk late afternoon with a friend and her 4 year old (who is always excited to see me). I saw them a few weeks ago at his birthday party, and he remembered I was there too! Good exercise and nice visit. I hope the walk will help me to sleep better tonight (sometimes exercise does.....)
Came home to make some grilled salmon in in the oven and sauted bok choy to go with it. Going to go to bed early tonight and hopefully wake up refreshed tomorrow.
Bippy- yes, keep our weight down will reduce our risks going forward. Part of the reason I am doing it, but also for over all health. I am on a couple meds I think I can get off of if I get some weight off too. Congrats on doing a walk today too! How did that feel (good, hard, other?)
Curious to know what is in dump cake?
Teka- when do you get your first snow in north country? We can get snow in the mountains here in town by Halloween-ish. Couple years ago it snowed during balloon fiesta time (now) which was very unusual.
Blondie, Lili, Mags, Mommy, Cami, Monis, Maiden, and everyone else, hope you had a good day and sleep well everyone!
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Was a total hermit today. Stayed in my pjs all day and spent day in bed watching season 2 of Roseanne. Tomorrow I'll be driving to Reedsburg to visit my best friend from high school and her mom and dad. Looking forward to the visit but not the hour forty five minute drive there.
Hope all you wonderful ladies have a restful night.
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Ladies Hi I'm not caught up yet, but I'm trying.
I forgot who's furbaby that was so so cute. And believe it or not I know what a dump cake is, but I kinda forgot right now. I think u just throw everything that u need in the baking pan and mix and put it in the oven. Easy Peasy that's why I know.
Jazzy the balloon festival is so fun to watch, never in one and wouldn't either but they are up up and away.
Oh I went to the Drs. and of course my electrolytes are all goofed up and my thyroid is not working. And she wants a scan of my ribs and shoulder---one rib rubs her the wrong way every time. LOL Oh I was standing at the front desk checking in and my pants fell down to my ankles and I had depends on--so I turned around and said Welcome to my world u get to share it now. And picked up my pants and acted like nothing happened, what was I going to do? Anyway now I have a reason why I've been so lazy, of course 3 new meds are being added--Jeez I'm back up to 15 different kinds again And I wonder why I feel so floopy all the time.
Hey Teka
Muah to all of u, my puter is still a mess..
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Jazzy awesome pix and you aen't sleeping what is that about...me either...
cammie yyou are too funny...dump cake watch for the commercials,
Il ove that cartoon, how true is that.
HUG to all you ladies....happy sunday
bbl
went to sleep at 6 and up at 10, whatever, never made it to the first football game, did the other one, the twins did a wonderful job, but it was like 60 out and I was freezing not feeling well. taking stuff tho., got myself a milkshake after of course I took him to work, he is transferring up the street so another week.
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not sleeping at all, exhausted and stressed
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Good Morning Blah--I'm up too. I fell asleep to early. Damn
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Just relaxing with my cup of wake up before I tackle my day.
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Good morning!
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Teka- we don't usually get real winter here until late November, or Dec at the earliest, usually closer to Xmas. Just first snow tends to top the mountains here around end of October. I hope it does not snow in Nov, as traveling family won't make the trip if that happens, and Jazzy is already planning the meal and the table setting!
Lili-sorry you are not sleeping. That will wear you out pretty quickly. Can you take anything to help with sleep?
Blondie- I go through periods where I sleep fine and others where I do not. Might have a tad of anxiousness with going back to work and with some of my mixed feelings after my last contract with these folks. But I have thought through my strategy to go in, do my work, and go. I am going to practice the art of professional detachment like never before.
Cami-sorry you are up early and sorry about your pants falling down in the doctors office. You seem to handle it in stride, but know that must have felt uncomfortable for you.
Trying to post some pics for you of the fall gardens. More soon!
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Mums in bloom in the front yard and back.
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Seedums in front and back yard.
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Trees are starting to change here slowly.
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love the pics. I've accomplished nothing today. Have a bit of a migraine, my first since all this crap started.
So I've wasted a lot of time napping and sort of watching this movie called Rose Red by Stephen King. What a torturously long and tedious piece of trash! But do I stop watching it? Hell no, I'm in it for spite at this point. I wish this haunted house would just kill all these people already, and be done with it, they are getting on my nerves.
Ate some cheerios dark chocolate cereal, i highly recommend it. Off to take headache meds, so much for getting out today. Weather is gorgeous though, at least we have the house open!
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