I can't believe it's been a week !!!

But, it surely has, i was just looking back and this week went so fast, did it for you too???

Actually, not much to report here in Mokena, but it is nicer today, warmer the next 3 then rain again.

I got my stitches out of my left leg a week ago, and took the steri strips off today, so, by next week, the 30th, my leg will again be ready to be "butchered", oh, but for the very last time...
i'm surely afraid, but also eager at the same time to get this left foot/ankle fixed and hopefully, I will be able to dance in the spring again, i've sure missed dancing, let alone walking correctly and wearing regular shoes, oh, won't it be a great 62nd birthday present to "me!".

and i'm looking forward to Thanksgiving too, I hope Justine will come here to fix dinner, she is such a good cook, but if any of you reading this are coming this way, I would truly welcome a visit, some gossip, a chat or two, just watching t.v. with me.

and last week, we found out what is wrong with my head too, well, the latest thing wrong, not "everything" certainly, it's old age, lol, but i did sustain quite a bit of injury to the right temporal lobe, the doc gave me a book about it, and we've talked quite a bit about my actions, behavior and how i can improve upon the injury. it's too late for anything medical, cuz Loyola really screwed up, they were "concentrating" on the surface bleed, not the inner bleed, and it's my fault too, though i wasn't aware of it at the time, i do accept the blame, i wasn't aware that they even tried therapy, and insisted on leaving the hospital,i wasn't even in my right frame of mind, but i did it, so i have to live with the repercussions...but, today, i know it...not that i'll know it tomorrow, that's where you come in, to just stop me if i get out of hand, hurtful, nasty, just say, "Sherry, your doing it", i might argue or say no i'm not, but you can either hang up, walk away, be tough cuz i know i need it, and i will accept it eventually.

So, I'm making B-B-Q'd shortribs in the crockpot today, recipe from a new campbells cookbook, yummy.... and i made my friend, Linda's, scratch pumpkin muffins over the week end, and froze 4 ziploc bags for the winter, mmmmmm they are just great !!! ask me for one when your here with coffee...

i also made, Judy's chicken soup with dumplings and froze two bags, stew, 2 containers, and later today, will make homemade potato soup, getting ready for the surgery and want to have good stuff on hand for stan to take out of the freezer and heat up...i was a girl scout, "BE PREPARED" was our motto and i took it seriously....lol

My friend, Darrelle, is in Paris, and she even took the time to email me, God love her!!! and i pray she's having the time of her life !!! and, my friend, Susan, made me quite a list of movies to watch that she recommends, she's also an awesome woman/friend, and don't breath a word, but she met the "right" man, oh, i'm soo excited for her, and i told her about the book, Act like a Lady, think like a Man...i think every woman should read it, it should be "required" reading..a P.E. class or something.

I know at least 4 of you who will be glad to hear from me today, let me know if i said one thing offensive, maybe i'm not a good judge of that now....i only want to do this, cuz it's good for me, and i even asked Mike, my counselor, and he said, keep it up..so, i am..

I have even written notes for several of you, so, you must think i'm good at words, and i use to be, just trying not to be hurtful, cuz it's instant, no chance to put it away and read it before sending it...like in the old days... but the days aren't old anymore, and i'm not going with the Ipod with all those apps, and don't understand much on facebook, all those dumb, silly games, just don't get them and don't even want to...i have too many books to read, real books...and i still like paper forms of things, don't even want the e-book thing, i "like" carrying a book with me, waiting in line with a book , the M.D. office...i like looking smart ! don't you?????

i'm going to go through my book case in the next week, take the old books out, make a list and put them on amazon.com to sell, might as well get some money back for them...once you read a book, you don't go back, and how many of us have saved books, or thrown them away????
it will be more for my and judy's "fun fund" which i now have $9.00 in !!! for a vacation or a concert...with her... we started it a week ago, $1.00/day in our fun fund... care to join us????

i will have my laptop back tomorrow, all reformatted, and then this computer will go to the shop of John...for reformatting...they are both old, more than 1 year old, and needed to be upgraded desperately... it was time, they have been lagging very slow for a while...

well, time to sign off and go upstairs and pet Winston, who's at the top of the stairs, just waiting for me...he's just a love !!!

Till next time, good day and good luck....

Sherry