June 17, 2010
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Xanga I’ve not been intentionally avoiding you!
Oh where does time go! Right now I have that line from the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” ~ the “like the sands of time flowing through the hour glass, these are the DAYS OF OUR LIVES!”
Things have been hectic lately and when it wasn’t, I just didn’t have the energy to do much, of anything.
This coming weekend I amhaving the Monster party at Lake Sundance and what a BIG BASH it is looking to be! As the monsters birthdays are October, November, December, I have been thinking that it would be easier on my pocket book to have one big party instead of three smaller parties, back to back. And you know what?? I’m thinking I’m right. My biggest expense is going to be a bounce house, since January I have been collecting hotdogs and hamburgers to stick in the deep freeze, and now that summer is here a box or two of freezies. I already have face paints and will be having a friend come to paint faces and I made a pinata. Yes I made a pinata. While its not hard …. its not all that easy either! Or so I have discovered! After having about six balloons in various stages of being covered in paper mache blow up in my face, I FINALLY got the one that didn’t. But I still had to start over. Next year I think I will make one while consuming gross amounts of wine …
All the while getting this together, I have also started slinging coffee again working at Starbucks. The short version of the long story, as summer looms, many children are leaving my day home, some returning after the summer, some not. I have been looking for new ones, but all the calls I have been getting are looking for childcare to start in September. I need them to start right now. HOWEVER! Working at Starbucks gets me out of the house, meeting new people, and having adult conversations. AND I only have to work 20 hours a week to be eligible for medical and dental benefits adn I get a free pound of coffee every week! Although I only just started working there, I really enjoy it! I think I’ll have to make this one a longer time commitment … free coffee y’all!
Recently, my mother was diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma breast cancer and had a partial mastectomy with in weeks of the diagnosis. Sadly it turns out that the surgery was not successful in getting it all, it had already moved to the lymph nodes. Even as I sit and write this I am moved to tears just thinking about the pain my mother will now have to go through in her treatment options. Last year, my mother had a heart attack which lead to the discovery that she has heart disease caused by a virus she had caught earlier in the year. I really can’t help but think, why her? What has my mother done that would bring such horrible health issues one after the other upon her? The worst part is that there is no one, organization, or physical thing to get angry at because these things have happened. I am trying to deal with this, but sadly I think there is only one thing left to do, try to make the best of what are numbered days with my mother in my life.
