Take That Mother Nature

When I got home from work/bringing the girls to Karate on Friday, I put the air conditioners in the windows. It was not deathly hot in the house when I did it, so I was actually being "proactive." Hot weather was forecast for today. When I was installing them, I only swore a couple of times and I wasn't completely drenched in sweat when I finished. (See this previous post: http://doyoureallythinkthisisinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/06/feelin-hot-hot-hot.html) Not to be outdone in the thrust and parry that is my battle with her, Mother Nature cooled it off today from the forecast mid 90's to upper 80's, but threw in a strong south wind to torment me on my bike ride home. Curses! So I may not need the air conditioning today like I expected, but I'm sure that day will come this summer, and I'll be ready. I'll call this round a draw.

It's always a crappy weekend when TOYH has to work her 3 shifts at the hospital, and this weekend was no exception. Once again we were kinda spread out. 'Nika spent the last 2 days and nights in Waconia at a friends birthday bash. The older two girls and I went up to visit the EG and DM on Saturday morning. I stayed for a bit and then took off to run some errands. DM brought them back in the afternoon so KyKy could go to a party of a different sort. It sounded like a Latino version of a debutante ball, she'll have to explain it. Sunday morning TOHY and the girls went to visit EG and DM. I took off on a 59 mile bike ride to make up for the lack of riding the past couple of days. We are happy to report that the EG is feeling good, a bit tired though. The big worry was nausea, and so far she hasn't really experienced it. This apparently is a problem early on in chemo, so if she can get the drugs without feeling sick, it's a big, big plus.

The weekend was capped off by a visit from a friend from church, Carol. Some of the women in our little church clique got together last weekend to do one of those mass food prep things where everyone brings a lot of one kind of meal. The meals are then divvied up between participants and each family gets a bunch of ready to eat meals to sock away in the freezer. Well this group made enough for themselves, plus enough for us and a bunch for the EG and DM. We got a ton of food. We hardly had room in the freezer for all of it. Thanks y'all. You're the best. You made what could have been a perfectly craptastic weekend without TOYH a great one, and one that will take a bunch of pressure off of her. We'll have you over for dinner.