How could it have been two weeks already?

OK, maybe it could have, cause we are busier than ever these days! And I promised to be a better blogger...

We get up every morning at 6 and leave the house by 6:45. OK, not every morning, on the weekends we let ourselves sleep til 7, and leave the house by 8. Radiation every day at 7:30, and it is going really well. Only 5 treatments left, and they have finished with the full field, as they call it where they zap your lymph nodes as well, and now they only zap the area right where the tumor was, which literally takes 90 seconds. Undressing and dressing takes more time than treatment. My skin is standing up OK, slightly blistered buy nothing horrible. I have certainly given myself sunburns that are as bad as this.

I have fuzz on my head, almost long enough to grab in your fingers, if you try really really hard! And I have eye lashes, which is incredibly pleasing to me. I don't look quite so much like a cancer patient now. Rachel is trying to convince me to be proud of my fuzz, and show it off by going wig-less. Its not quite that long, but as the days get hotter, my pride diminishes on the subject!

At work we had a staff retreat, committee meetings and a board meeting, we had a reception in our new office and we moved to the new office!

And while I am not doing that, we do really fun things
<---- like dig this.






And then we bang on the walls -->

Don't you love what we have done with the place??? Hopefully we are almost done with the destroy mode, once the bathtub is out, and we will begin to move forward. I am fairly certain that the hot water heater and the furnace in the front yard are big hits with the neighbors. Wait til the tub and toilet join the group for the full effect!

Still accepting volunteers if anyone is interested. ;)

Kelly says...

That I don't blog often enough, so I will try to do better!

Figured I had better take some time to write today, as it is going to be a busy weekend.

Bert got his building permit approved yesterday, so we should be starting in ernest to get some stuff done this weekend. Rachel had today off (government jobs, ya gotta love them) so she is the lucky one to help Bert rent a jack hammer and start busting up the concrete steps and walkway out in back of the house. Next is a backhoe to dig foundation footings. Ain't we got fun! Will try to get some pictures this weekend to post.

Another week of radiation down, and still feeling good. 3 down, 3 to go. My skin on my upper chest just starts to get a little red and sensitive as we reach the end of the week, but then by Monday it is ok to start back in again. I am going twice one day each week so that I will finish on time to travel the first week of May. Rachel and I have arranged to go see Michal for the girls birthday celebration,so we fly to Phoenix on May 4th, just in time to go to school with Michal on Friday for a Cinco de Mayo celebration with the kids. We are very excited. Then I will go on to LA for a meeting, and will be able to see my parents there, so it will be a great trip. Oh, except that I have to work while in LA. Dang.

Hope everyone has a nice Easter holiday. Always wish we could pop out West on holidays, and spend the time with everyone!

April Showers

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After the driest March in a hundred years, the last couple of days have been really wet. We have been enjoying nice weather, and the first week of the cherry blossoms was beautiful. I was downtown this week, and took the scenic route home around the tidal basin and across the bridge to Arlington. It was beautiful. Unfortunately, today was the parade and street fair, and it poured!

We haven't minded, because we were working inside on our new house!! We closed on the afternoon of the 31st, and got in Saturday morning and started cleaning and scrubing and de-junking the place. found some good surprises (hardwood floors under the crappy linoleum) and some not so good surprises. We will be busy busy for the next 3 months before we can move in.

Meanwhile, I started radiation treatments on the 3rd, so I have two weeks of treatments done already. So far, no side effects at all: no fatigue, no sensitive skin. So, so far so good. It is a pain to be up and out the door every morning at 6:45, and not being able to travel is a challenge, but if thats all I have to complain about, then Iguess I can't!

Rachel snapped this picture of us when we went to the Colonial Farm last week. The farm is in a park across the Potomac from Mt. Vernon, near our new house. It is part of a park set aside so that when you visit Mt. Vernon, you see the same view that George and Martha saw.