Happy Memorial Day..

Hope everyone had a Happy Memorial Day and took time out to thank our troops both present and past for all that they do!..

Will blog soon.. worked all weekend...

~ Phew! ~

Was just sweating out a tornado watch.  Luckily the storm passed through just to the north of us and I am very good at storm tracking right to our street since I have spotted exactly where we live on the Interactive weather map. We did hear non-stop thunder though for about a half hour earlier.  Then I was getting a little worried and stopped working and shut down my main computer.

Now all alerts for this area are over and frankly I don't think we even got much but a spattering of rain.

Let's see ..I know it has been way too long since I blogged.  For a while my work was slow and so I was taking a lot of walks and now it is getting busy, so I haven't had as much time to blog.

I DID find out something wonderful yesterday!!  I had been holding off on getting my mammogram which was due last October (well that was my one year since prior one).  I wanted to avoid going to the doctor, having that extra expense just to get a script for the mammogram.  But last month I realized I was 6 months overdue. Okay fast forward....went to the doctor last week and got my mammogram finally yesterday morning.  Here's the great news which I wish I had known YEARS ago.

I asked the place that did the mammogram if I absolutely HAD to go to a doctor first and get a script for a mammogram or could I just get one.  I was thrilled to find out as long as I'm over 40...yes the guy telling me the criteria was being kind... and not on medicare/medicaid and the doctor that I choose to send reports to does not require me to have an appointment first, I CAN they called it 'self-diagnose' to have my own mammograms. He checked on his 'list' my doctor's name and said I'm good to go. So next year when it is time I will just make my appointment and skip the worthless visit (and bill).  Wish I had known that before and I would not have waited so long.  Fingers crossed as always that there will be no results from this mammogram.

I have to say that I am very pleased since I went on my 'get even heathier' push. I have been walking nearly every day, eating healthy and did just start taking added Calcium/Vitamin D as I asked my doctor whether I should as I don't take any extra calcium and I don't wish for bone problems like my poor mother is experience!  Without even really trying I have been shedding weight.  I was not what anyone would consider overweight before but I did weigh as much as 151 in the a..m. (when I weight the least) and today I weighed 135.4 lbs!  Woo hoo!  I can definitely tell my waistline is smaller and my legs are thinner. Go me! :)

I am also happy to say that my youngest is home for the summer now and it is really great to have her here again.  She is already back to working her summer job in retail sales.  She likes it and she can earn money to save for college expenses next year, plus she can't get as bored being 'at home'.

Mothers Day

Another Mother's Day has come and gone...got a phone call from each of my daughters which was very nice!  This is the one day out of the year I know I can count on hearing from both of them. Yay for this day!  The youngest will be home soon for the summer.  This may be the last summer she is home all summer, as she is itching to do something else for the summer, but I insisted she come home this summer.  Not sure what next year will hold.  May be getting closer to that empty nest that this blog was titled for.  Hope that this summer goes S L O W !

My oldest is getting ready to move again.  She's subletting an apartment from a friend for the summer. She's got 2 more years of grad school but not sure what she is doing. She needs to support herself while attending and not sure how that's going to work out.  Life is challenging to say the least. 

I visited my mom (and dad) today too with my hubby and we visited for a while. My sister was there when we got there with her son, but she was on her way out the door and had already taken lunch for them.  We stayed and chatted a while with the folks about politics, one of my mom's favorite topics these days. Glad she is still spirited about something!  

May Day!

"It's May, it's May the lusty month of May"....in case you don't know it that is from Camelot.. Anyway changed the calender today.

This is a good month!  It is the month my youngest comes home from college for the summer.  It is the month that I can put away my winter clothes..well I think so at least.  The temmperatures today plummeted from the 80's to the 50's !  It is 6:19PM but it is only 55 degrees out in central Texas.  Weird!  Luckily other than sporadic wildfires, we have escaped any of the horrific weather that has hit so many of the states.  But we are in a drought situation so that is not good. 

My hub came back from being back East on Thursday.  He looked really beat!  It took him a few days to feel a little better.  One good thing about him going back East besides being there for his friend is that he has decided to QUIT SMOKING!  Woo hoo!  I don't know if it was that he realized it is not doing his body any good and the fact that he just came back from a funeral for a 46 year old woman or what, but whatever the reason I am thrilled.  I have only ever known him to be a smoker.   He has only had 3 cigarettes per day the last 2 days (this will make day #3).  I am so proud of him and am his biggest cheerleader!  He has also decided to try to eat healthier and walk with me once in a while. He did walk with me last evening too.  Not only will it be so much better for his lungs and health it will save us at least $1500/yr by him not buying those cancer sticks!