It's that time again: Roll call, weekend update!! Feeling a bit ambivilent about it....

Noel said:

Happy Anniverary Mimi and Simon!
How wonderful! And, it sounds like you will have a great celebration of it. I agree, 5 courses might be enough. lol But, it sounds like fun Mimi!

On Saturday, we are going out for pizza and beer with some of our friends. Really looking forward to it. We always have a great time. We all will probably come back to our house afterwords to carry on into the night. lol

On Sunday, I think we are just messing around here. No real plans. Just enjoying the day and each other. It is suppose to be really nice weather and we love just laying around, taking in life!

Thanks Mimi for this post again, and, Happy Anniversary!

chenheart said:

I understand your
I understand your ambivilence all too well, Mimi~ this weekend especially! I too long for the day when I log on and the only subject lines we see say things like: NED, Great Pathology Reports, Going on an End Of Cancer Vacation, and Long Time Healthy Survivors Just Checking In~ NO new diagnoses anywhere, nothing but smiles. Sigh, not today though. but SOON~ and yeah, I really, really, really want to be part of that posting!!!!

So, sweet lady, on to better things for this weekend~ I can imagine how afraid you were when you were originally diagnosed, thinking , in the far recesses of your mind that you just might not see your 7th anniversary. And OMG, look at you now! Having to decide on a 5 or 9 course dinner, and perhaps the museum, what movie to see, and oh yeah, what traditional foods to make from your compilation of recipes! I am grinning from ear to ear and visualizing you!!!

Have a happy, romantic, love-filled weekend;and give Simon a hug and congrats from all of us, would you? or, when you are raising a glass, pretend we are raising one to the two of you as well, ok???

Happy Anniversary!!!!

Hugs,
Claudia

taleena said:

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
A day of celebration for you Mimi... 5 course's would definately do the trick for me...although my eyes are ALWAYS bigger than my tummy... so I would probably order the 9.. and only eat 5...lol

Your weekend plans sound wonderful.... here's mine...

Tonight some kind of take out... just hubby, me and little Liz at home tonight... maybe a movie.. relax and continue to catch up with my family here.

Tomorrow off to Costco.. (I love that place)... have my husbands sister, and two cousins with their families coming over for a bbq here tomorrow.. so have to get all the makings... it will be fun... haven't had company since the dx except for my nephews unexpected weekend...we will play volley ball and red neck golf in the back yard... enjoy some cold drinks laughter and fun...

Sunday... relax.... yes... yes... maybe a walk down by the river...

Whatever your weekend plans... I wish each of you an oportunity to create a wonderful memory... with rays of sunshine!

Again happy anniversary Mimi... cheers to the two of you.

~T

rjjj said:

Happy anniversary Mimi!
Sounds like you and Simon will have a great time. I plan on resting alot this weekend, maybe watching some net-flix, gardening, and church with my old people on Sunday, maybe fishing with the hubby. Pretty boring huh? I love boring.

Hope you all hve a very nice weekend. and thanks Mimi for posting this.
hugs, jackie

lynn1950 said:

Happy Anniversary
I am just finishing a big week staying in a dorm and taking a class at Boise State University. There was a chefs' training going on concurrently(chef's from all over the Northwest were here), so the food was phenomenal! Spinach/fennel soup, wild rice, cassoulet...and no scale in sight!

I work with gifted and talented children. This convocation is called Edufest and people come from all over the US. Many of the presenters are from the University of Connecticut and many are from Idaho. It has been a stellar week. I am so jazzed! I also spent two evenings with my daughter and my new son-in-law; they live, work and attend college in Boise and Caldwell. I went to a Journey/Heart concert (right on campus!) with a fellow G/T facilitor (she taught my children). We drank beer - no driving. We also went to see the new Harry Potter. Our district's G/T program is relatively new (I've been at it for 2 1/2 years). This summer FIVE teachers from my district joined me here in Boise. It gives me goosebumps to think what we can accomplish as a team. You teachers reading this will know what I mean. Next year, I'm going to try to get more parents to come. (One of the teachers who came this year is also a parent of a gifted child in my district.)



At the conference yesterday I won a membership to NAGC (National Association for Gifted Children) for being the first to answer "13 is the 6th in what number sequence?" Do you know the answer? Then I also won a raffle this morning: a huge basket of Northwest goodies including a bottle of Riesling, crackers, smoked salmon, chocolate, dandelion jelly....

To think that it was not too long ago that I was considering leaving this Earth. I am so happy to be alive. Cancer has put me on an incredible emotional and spiritual journey, even though it has short-circuited my short-term memory.

When I talked to my husband last night, he told me he had made arrangements for me to meet with a Subaru salesman this afternoon. Then he plans to come down and pick up our new car on Saturday (gulp!). I plan to stay at home, pick tomatoes, fill my bird feeders, share my goodies basket with some friends, read a good book (Midnight's Children) and watch a Netflix, of course. Tonight my 16 year old is hosting a Rocky Horror Picture Show party.

Whoo Hoo! xoxoxo Lynn