Happy Thanksgiving to all of you up north!! I hope you had a happy day.
Just thought I'd touch base quickly. Tlily, thanks for walking for the Cure! My mom's illness is technically her 3rd bout of Breast Cancer. We're stocking up on those breast cancer M&M's and also I've just ordered breast cancer mints through Oriental trading for when we have her rememberance event. I don't quite know what to call it....open house? My mom has her good days and her bad days...it's strange when her good days are about the same now as her bad days used to be! We have help coming to bathe her now and we have to physically dress her, etc. It certainly puts things into perspective for us....She isn't able to get out anymore, but that's probably good. I think she'd be really upset with all the hurricane destruction. My mom is probably the most orderly person I know. I didn't get that gene! ha ha Anyway, we're still hanging in there and keeping one foot in front of the other.
My family drama this week included a trip to the ER for my hubby...he really hurt is back trying to clear trees and they found his BP was 195 over 120. Five prescriptions later his back is better but his BP is only down to 165/110 so we're hoping to get him in to his doc tomorrow. The last 6 months or so there has just been something with my family constantly. I'm so ready for this roller coaster to smooth out! I'd like to be a little more like Goofy's Barnstormer than the Rock 'N Roller Coaster all the time!
And *drum roll* I AM going to walk tomorrow.

I think my path is clear enough this afternoon that I can try anyway. One day all this debris will be gone and I will have no excuse!! Anyway, I'm going to try and I'll report back and let you know if I follow through. I wonder if my body will remember walking?

AND here is a funny thought...my favorite park that I used to go walk at all the time...the one that I can't go to now because of the destruction. I never really thought about it until yesterday but the name of that is HURRICANE Park!! The high school in that town uses "hurricane" as it's team name so the park is named after them. They use the ball fields there. Anyway, isn't that appropriate?
Karen, 7 miles. You are awesome!! Remember when you weren't sure you could do two whole miles?
Tiger Lily- TWO races in ONE weekend!! WAY TO GO!!
Nancy- I used to travel for a living and was in Niagra USA once a month for a couple of days. I can't think of anywhere that would be a more beautiful walk this time of year! I have pictures from Columbus day 1993 with my mom that are truly breath taking.
ohmom- welcome home and glad you had a great time!! It's hard for me to get back in the swing like that when I've been away. Having a plan is smart!
Meme- Magic cruise...tough walking with that scenery, too! Glad you had a good time and kudos to you for walking the 3 times!
Susan, hope your Thanksgiving was a nice one. How is the foot now?
Grammy- glad to hear your endorsement of Williamsburg. I truly want to go there. We had lots of travelers this weekend, didn't we?
Debbie...just for you...I checked and I'll be walking at 18degrees C tomorrow AM with a mere 97% humidity. (But weather.com says it will only feel like 17 degrees C.) That's really 65 for the rest of us! It's not the heat here...it's the humidity. That 65 will be a sweaty walk none-the-less. BTW I laughed about you being in the country at ASMu. We've hit that one many times but since we have a van with us we drive to the front and get on the bus! Talk about lazy!! Actually, it's because we've always ended up carrying a sleeping toddler all the way from teh bus to the room after a long day in the park. WE had a fabulous trip in Feb on our all girls trip. I'm hoping to do that again sometime.
Ok...that's it from me. Gotta get some chores done! I'm gone 90% of the time now but I don't find that my chores have decreased in the slightest!!
Have a great training day everyone! I get online at my moms while I am there during the days and read the Dis a lot. It really uplifts me to read what all of you are doing!
~~Beth
