Smart Aleck Husband Fatally Wounded

A husband found himself in big trouble when he forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife angrily told him, "Tomorrow there better be something for me in the driveway that goes from zero to 200 in five seconds flat."

The next morning, the wife found a small package in the driveway. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.

Visiting hours for the husband at the hospital are limited due to the extent of the injuries.

Wife School and The Man Song

My boss sent me this and I thought it was funny:



Click READ MORE, for one of my all time favs, "The Man Song"

BUZZ-kill!!!

Geesh! When it rains it pours! I've been sick since we were in Nashville, it hailed the size of golf balls yesterday and we haven't assessed the damage yet and to top it off tomorrow we have to have the front wall of our house removed to remove a colony of possibly Africanized Honey Bees that decided our house looked really cozy and decided to make themselves at home.

Hopefully nothing else will go wrong anytime soon!

Pepe Le P-EEEWWW!

Well when we were off living it up in Nashville one of our kids got the bright idea of wrestling a skunk. We got home and the entire house smelled like crazy. They totally reeked up the couch in the formal living room. We had to use an entire bottle of Febreeze and air out the house for three days straight with fans to circulate the air better befor the funk was finally gone.

The strange thing is that none of the kids smelled like a skunk so we can only assume that they chased one into the house but didn't succeed in catching him.

Boot Scootin Boogie

Well this month we're off to Nashville. My mom was there for a conference and we hadn't seen her in 6 years so we decided to fly up there. At this point I hadn't come up with the idea of surprising Jerry with the trip to Vegas for our anniversary yet.

Nashville was pretty nice. Very green and scenic. We stayed at the Opryland Hotel which is beyond massive. Depending on which side of the hotel your room is on it is a .25 to .5 mile walk from the paarking lot to your room. The hotel itself is pretty nice and you never have to leave with all of the restaurants and shops, but I definately would recomend to anyone with a disability to stay somewhere else. It wasn't very handicap accessible and navigating a wheelchair would be next to impossible! They don't even often a shuttle service to the parking lot or around the exterior of the hotel to the different wings. Valet parking is the parking closest to the hotel but it costs $18.00 per day before tip. Yikes!

If you are ever at the Opryland resort and Conference Center stop into Findley's Pub and see James Pendergrast-The Boys of County Nashville. They are a great Irish Folk Band. Pick up their CD while you're there, there is a great mix of Irish Folk Music and not the common stuff everyone always plays.

We ate at the Aquarium which was cool. It's like you're eating underwater. I took alot of pictures. Our favorite fish is the picture of the one that looks like he has a white stripe on his back at the base of his fin. He tilts from side to side as he swims and looks like he'll tip over. We call him the Drunken Fish. They also had a tank in the mall were you could feed Stingrays. It smelled kind of bad, but it was pretty neat having them eating out of your hand.

Looks Like We Made It....

YIPPEEE!!! Well after 30 long years, I finally got to see the "Sex God" live. We finally "Made It Through The Rain" to sunny Las Vegas to see BARRY! Yes, I mean Barry Manilow. Absolutely awesome!!! Jerry doesn't even care for Barry that much but he was shaking his tushie at the Copacabana. It took 5 years of trying to get to Vegas without something coming up, but it was definately worth it to be there the same time as Barry. It was the best show EVER!! It was a great first post-chemo weekend getaway. We're already hoping to go back and see him again.

As if seeing Barry for our Anniversary on St Patrick's day wasn't cool enough, we also went to the Bellagio's art exhibit and amongst other reknowned artist, we were able to see 2 of Van Gogh's paintings up close and personal. Being able to see his use of color and massive use of paint in his strokes was amazing!

Gobble, Gobble!!

Since Jerry's brother finished OCS and moved the girls and mom out to Pensacola, we decided there was no sense in doing Thanksgiving for just the 2 of us, so we slept until 3:00!

I started a new job working for the CFO of the San Antonio Housing Authority on November 7. We're getting ready to start a new project for FEMA to find housing for the remaining Katrina Evacuees in San Antonio, about 2,000 families still in shelters. It sounds like we're going to get pretty busy in order to meet the January 7 deadline.

It's been awhile!!!

I haven't updated in a while, but everything is great. Have been working pretty hard over the last few months at work and other projects around the house. I just completed a 2 year employment contract with Titan Ins and am now looking for my next working adventure. I am looking forward to learning some new things.

Jerry is doing great. He transferred to a field position so he has a case load now, but he is home nights and weekends for the first time ever since we've known each other. It took some getting used too seeing each other all the time, but it has worked out pretty good.

Overall we can't really complain.

Grossly Negative...

My rost recent PET Scan has come back Grossly Negative (don't you love that in every arena other than Medicine negative is bad, but in Medicine you always want to be Negative). One thing I learned from my PET Scan is that my Ureter isn't in the right place. Instead of coming straight down, mine verves off on the left and takes a little road trip. Nothing big, just a curious side note. The only thing going on is that my Liver hasn't returned to normal like it should. My levels have come down since my Jaundice last June that led to them finding the Hodgkin's. Jaundice isn't usually associated with Hodgkin's so the 2 events really fall into the lucky coincidence category. Over the last few years, my PCP (a brilliant Dr named Denoia, who is retiring from practice to go into research unfortunately) has run so many Liver tests on me because my levels were always going up and down. So now Dr. Guzley says if they haven't gone down more on my next visit, June 30, I'll have to go see a GI Specialist. Sometimes you just want to say, Geesh!, haven't I been through enough.

Greetings!

Just a quick post to let everyone know I'm doing great! Here are some pics we took yesterday. Yes, I have some hair!

Pics of Me & Bonnie, Jerry and Courtney