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Should I go to the all weekend long party?

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I was just saying in my last post how busy I’ve been this week and how I think I made myself get sick since I over did things. Well, you’d think after the week that I had I might get to relax a bit this weekend? Doesn’t look that way.

This weekend a good friend of ours is holding a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. Not only that, this friend of ours took my sister in law and her husband on a cruise to the Bahamas last weekend too! That was also a surprise. Nice eh?

These parties are a taxing event in themselves. Our friend goes all out. I’m sure she’s got an eight course meal planned, lots of booze and to top things off they have a hot tub so I’m sure it will end with everyone in the hot tub.

Speaking of going all out. Last summer our friend had a 10th wedding anniversary party for my sister in law. She deep fried a turkey, cooked a ham, served seafood and invited guests from all over North America. I’m sure she’s already planning the renewing of their vows, perhaps one of those beach weddings or something!

I’m not sure I’m up for the party. It’s out of town so we’d have to stay over night either at our friends or my parent in laws (also stressful!). I might just try to bow out gracefully. Hey, I need to be healthy by the time we hit Vegas next week right?

If I was feeling better I don’t think I’d mind going away for two days, but the way things are for me right now I think I’ll be putting my trip in jeopardy if I go to this party.

Maybe Chris can bring me a doggy bag?





What a week!

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Wow. I can’t believe I went 6 days without writing in my blog. Blogs I should say – there’s several I haven’t done any writing in all week! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that long without writing!

Sorry! Life just got in the way.

During the first part of the week I was shopping and preparing for our trip to Las Vegas next week. Then, probably because I’ve been a lot more active lately I crashed!

I’ve been so sick from about Tuesday evening onward that I’ve barely been able to do a thing. Ain’t Crohn’s fun? Of course, this means that when I go to Vegas I’ll probably crash again while I’m there or right after I come back.

If you’re going to be at Blogworld or P0stiecon and you meet up with my husband and I, don’t let me overdo things, ok? Honestly. I can be really hyper and sometimes I need to just be told to sit down and take a break. You’ll be doing me a favor if you help make me rest. LOL Also, I’m a huge klutz so making me take it easy might save me from personal injury. Seriously!

Speaking of personal injury. The other day I was standing on the couch to pull our dark curtains shut. We’d run out of Halloween candy and shutting those dark curtains helps make our house look like no one’s home. Shhhh. Well, as I stood on the couch and stretched to reach the top of the curtain where it had become stuck I heard a pop in my right ankle. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but a few hours later my inner ankle, heel and the lower part of my calf started hurting.

I must have stretched or torn something because I’m still limping around the house a few days later! I think I really need to get me some whole life insurance or something … or wrap myself in bubble wrap as I once said I was going to do every time I went out!

I really am a class A klutz.

I’ve got to remember Dahlias for next year!

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I grew this dahlia last year and I never did get around to finding more like this one to plant this year. I just loved the type of flowers that this dahlia produced. It’s quite pretty isn’t it?

I had planted this flower in my front boulevard. It’s a short dahlia – only about two feet tall, so it fits most small garden beds quite nicely.

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Just as good the second time round

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Yum!

We ordered Greek food from our favorite Greek restaurant last night and I suppose they have generous but not overly large servings.

It doesn’t matter to me how large a serving is these days anyway as I can’t eat a lot of food at one time. This works out good though as I usually end up eating only half of what I ordered which of course means that I can have the yummy food again the next day!

And that’s what I did this evening. Finished up last nights Greek dinner.

I ate my meal a while ago, but I held off on the salad until a few minutes ago. Now I have the pleasant salty taste of feta, olives and what I believe was Italian dressing.

Puffy due to new meds!

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I didn’t say anything about this, but a few weeks ago when I saw one of my doctors they finally decided to try me on prednisone for my Crohns.

So far it doesn’t seem to have helped my symptoms or my pain. What it has done though it make me puffy! Geez …I’m traveling out of the country in two weeks. Everyone wants to look their best while on vacation and here I am starting to look like a puff ball thanks to my medication! I almost feel like going out and buying some diet pills. I won’t – but it’s frustrating!

When I feel up to it I get on the elliptical machine we bought a couple of weeks ago. I still haven’t used it enough to build up much endurance though. It’s really hard when you don’t feel well all the time! I certainly hope the steroids begin to work the way they should as I’d love to feel a little bit better!

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