Yes, after many months of waiting out the system and driving to Vanderbilt Medical Center, I have been told when my surgery is and what it will be. Next Tuesday, I will be getting my entire thyroid gland removed. It means I’ll be on medication for the rest of my life, but that is not a big hinderance when faced with cancer.
We had a tornado touch down in my town yesterday at the exact moment I was leaving for Nashville. The sirens were screaming, and rain was so dense I had to pull over on the side of the road. I was so worried that I would miss this appointment! I didn’t want anything to stop this surgery, so my friend ‘Rissa and I braved the rain, and only found out about the damage upon our return. Our houses are safe. Our pets are safe. The thing uprooted a bunch of trees about 1.5 miles south of my home. That’s way too close. It continued on for about 2 miles, damaging some apartment homes, a school, and some people’s fences and windows.
Two weeks ago, the husband and I built a playfort/swingset for our kids. The instructions said it would take between 6 and 12 hours to complete, and while my sweet husband was thinking 6, I knew it would be more like 12. It ended up taking close to 9 hours, if naps, lunches, and picture-taking are not included. Roo and Bunny were very helpful, and got to use tools. I suppose that’s why it took longer.
Sewing projects are underway. This time, I’m using one of my own designs. I hope it looks as good when finished as it does in my head!
I’ve been twittering longer than Oprah! I just had to say that somewhere. For such a simplistic thing, it sure has become popular. The let-down, for me, was getting on there and finding that most people really didn’t have much to say. There are people that tweet what their pets are doing (I’m guilty of trying that one), people who are trying to advertise their websites, famous people who are promoting movies, famous people who don’t know what to tweet, so they just tweet everything that happens to them. I guess we all are doing that, though. Some people are more witty than others. I have taken to trying to tweet in Haiku when possible. Weird, but entertaining for me.
I’ve been reading old science fiction lately- books from the 60’s and 70’s that tried to guess where we’d be in the 21st century. Whoa, were they wrong. In some ways, we’re soaring ahead of their expectations. In others, like space travel, we are sadly lacking. The hadron collider and the threat of possible singularity creation was discussed in one of my recent reads. The main plot was about sending messages backwards through time, though. So in our reality, since we don’t have that backwards-time warning system, if minute singularities ARE spit out from the supercollider, we’re in trouble. I need to find that book and tell you the author. I’ll post that next time.
