It's only Friday night, but I have a very busy day tomorrow. So, it's easier to do this now when there's nothing going on than try to fit it in tomorrow.

We've had another extremely boring, normal week. Bill's been walking at least an hour a day, sometimes 2, on most days. He usually only skips week-ends, or at least Sunday.

My infection has pretty much cleared on its own. The meds started bothering my stomach so I stopped them. I did keep an eye on the infected area and would have started the meds again if it got worse.

It's been cooler this week, of course, since I spent part of last week swapping clothes. I think tomorrow it is supposed to warm up, and then we are off to Florida. But, it's been cool enough in the mornings to need the heat to take the chill out of the house. I've left it on all day today. It was supposed to be in the 70s, but it didn't get out of the 50s until just a bit ago when it hit 60. It's also been rainy and damp today, just a good day to stay in and read...which I did.

Bill goes back to the hematologist Tuesday just to check the levels of these rogue white blood cells. He's still not showing any symptoms of anything so we'll just wait and see what it shows.

Tomorrow afternoon I have a baby shower at the church and then we are having a BBQ with a gospel group and evangelist coming. Just a mini-revival tomorrow night and Sunday morning. I'm supposed to work the dessert table, or somewhere during the dinner. Hopefully we'll have a good turnout. I crocheted an afghan that uses granny squares and ripples. It's a really neat pattern that works up really nicely. Now it's back to the squares of McKenna's afghan. She was not happy that I was not working on that and asked if the baby was more important than she was! She was also surprised when I told her that at the moment, yes. But, since it's finished and ready to take tomorrow, I've gone back to the squares.

All that I can think of for this week. Have a great week-end!

Another pretty normal week. Hopefully this isn't leading up to a catastrophe, but we'll take normal.

We didn't do much, although we could have. I went through clothes, changing winter/summer. Hopefully it will stay warm now. I did leave a couple of long-sleeved shirts in the closet for Bill since he stays cooler.

Things are gearing up with the grandkids and summer activities. Kayden played 2 ballgames and they won both of them. Brianna's games were rained out and the night they finally played them, she had a choir concert and was a featured soloist so she opted out of the games. McKenna is still practicing and her games don't start for 2 weeks. But, she did have an awards ceremony Friday and she received 2 awards, A-B Honor Roll and Good Citizenship. She also came after school on Wednesday.

We didn't go to Kayden's games but we did go to Bri's concert. It was really good. They sang songs from the 50's to today and you could tell the kids really enjoyed doing it. Brianna sang "Every Breath You Take" and did a great job.

We may try to go to ballgames this week. Bri has a couple of home games and her games start at 4 and then Kayden would play at 6. It would be a long couple of hours, but we could at least say we went.

I went to the dr. this week. Without going into too much detail, I have an infection. Because of where it is, and the pain from it, I was a little concerned. But, 2 antibiotics later it's already looking and feeling better. Still oozing some, but not like it was.

I also got a new arthritis medicine that you only take when you are really hurting and OTC meds aren't working. I had some samples of it before and it really works. The downside is the cost. The co-pay on it was almost $50, but it's worth every penny! As of now there isn't a generic for it.

So, there you have it, just a normal week. See you next week!

Good Morning World! It's a beautiful but very cool morning. After the front with the storms came through it has really cooled down, but will be warmer in the next few days.

We had a very boring week. No medical problems, no major catastrophes in the family, the storms we got were not as severe as some. Just a normal week.

Bill got a summons for jury duty that starts while we are at Mayo. I called the clerk's office and they said he still had to send in the form, with that put as a reason to be excused. Of course, he's still supposed to show up the first day to see if they have excused him. But, that's not going to happen. If it's a problem, we'll just pay the fine and move on. Normally I don't advocate getting out of jury duty as I think everyone should serve if they are summoned, but there comes a time when you have to.

We've been having problems with the kids next door. They've only lived there about a month and they same to think that our yard is the yard to play in and not theirs. I don't mind them playing in the yard if they aren't bothering things, but they life to climb one of our trees. These trees are only 5 years old, so they are still rather fragile. We've asked them to stay out of the tree and they will leave but in a couple of days they are back. Well, yesterday, they broke a branch. It was the lowest one and the one they could reach and hang on. Bill was really angry about it and told them to leave the yard and not come back. Who knows how long it will last. They have a much stronger tree in their front yard, but they can't reach the lowest branches. It will be a very long summer if this keeps up. I don't want to turn into the mean old lady of the neighborhood! We had one of those when I was a kid. My mother will know who I mean when I say I don't want to turn into "The Cat Lady"!

Brianna's high school softball team finally won a game this week, and she was the winning pitcher and got the game ball! There's also going to be a picture in the paper of her mid-pitch. We're really proud of her! Kayden's baseball season starts Tuesday and McKenna's starts the next week. I don't know if we will get to any of the games, just have to see. Kiyann isn't playing this year, she's into planting flowers.

We did find out we're getting a new great-grandchild in September. Aimee wanted to know how many this would make and I had to ask her how many grandchildren she had before I could figure it out. We're up to 34 grandchildren and it will be 15 great-grandchildren with this new one!

All for this week, normal and boring is good!

What a day it has been, and it doesn't seem to be letting up quite yet. Sorry for the late update, for those of you who have been looking for this, but better late than never.

I took myself shopping today, without Bill, and was quite successful; 2 pairs of shoes, 2 purses, 2 tops, 1 book, 3 reams of paper, 2 ink cartridges, and a package of file dividers. The best buy was one of the purses, reg. 79.00, got it for 18.50. At one store I saved more than $100 and still spent less than that. Now for those of you who know me, I hate shopping, especially for clothing. But it was a relaxing day, light traffic until on the way home and Bill behaved himself while I was gone.

But, when I got home, and got on the computer, it had been hijacked and I have just now been able to get things mostly straightened out. There is still one file that I can't get rid of and it is stopping me from being able to do a system restore. I may still have to call 1-800-BRYAN to fix it, but at least it's working. Now if only I could get my favorites bar back!

I talked to Stephanie this week and Bill's schedule has been totally revamped. The heart cath has been scrapped and an echo and dobutamine echo have been added...all to the same day as all the other appointments. We start at 6:45 and the last appointment is at 3:30. We may be able to squeeze in a snack in between a couple of them, and one of them he can't eat anything "heavy" 4 hours before so that leaves out a good breakfast after the fasting labs.

She was very pleased when I told her that Bill was walking 2 hours a day on his treadmill and she had to put me on hold and go tell someone. It was probably Tina or Kim but she was laughing when she got back on. She also talked to Dr. Yip about the labs and he said as long as he's not symptomatic with anything, and Dr. Smith is going to continue monitoring his blood, he doesn't think we need to add the infectious disease consult, so that was cancelled, or supposed to be cancelled. On the online itinerary it doesn't show, but it is still on the paper one we got in the mail today, so I'll have to take care of that. We could get another itinerary in the mail this coming week.

We've had some stormy weather this week, although not bad here. Other parts of the state got worse storms than we did. But, we did have an earthquake! I was just about asleep when it felt like something hit the house and the windows rattled. Bill didn't feel it. I got up to see it another storm was getting ready to come through and the wind was picking up, but it was calm. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I didn't know about the quake until the next morning. At first it was registered as a 4 but then it was downgraded to a 3.6. That's the strongest one I've felt in the 30 years I've lived here. For those of you that are unfamiliar with earthquake faults, we are situated smack dab on top of the New Madrid Fault that runs along the Mississippi River. In fact, the last major quake changed the course of the river to what it is today. It was, I think, in the early 1800's.

So, that's our exciting week. I know what I'm going to be doing this week, backing up files and then I think I'll put this back to factory settings. This is the computer I have used for bookkeeping, taxes, and lots of other important things. At least I do still have my desktop, that also needs a lot of work, and I have my tablet so I won't be completely unplugged. It's just the thought of having to rebuild everything. Calling Bryan, who is our son-in-law and a computer tech, may be the easiest thing to do.

I hope everyone has a blessed Easter. We're planning on church but not much else, just a quiet afternoon at home. Baseball season starts tomorrow night and I can't wait! But, I made it through another off season! See you all next week!