Nothing major

 Still haven't done any samples, for several reasons which I won't go into. The weather is as perfect as it can get for this time of year and my location. Nippy at night sunny, clear and warm during the day so a wonderful not so cold, not so hot time of year. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AMBER! I saw this cup picture online and immediately sent it to her because it fits her to a T. Love her to pieces, even though I want to throttle her sometimes when she gets into a semantics rant with me.

Jon has an interesting procedure, nothing major just annoying to remove a skin tag from his nether regions. Of course he made the surgeon laugh during the exam, he was told to drop trow and underwear and bend over the table and he said, 'reminds me of prison'. Asked what he does and all that and he said, 'I'm an alcoholic' then had to quickly recover and retract it with a laugh. I told him you do NOT tell a doctor that who doesn't know you! So he has an appointment next week I think or the week after to have it removed and instructions for before and after, all that.

I started my chemo tablets today, the Kisqali and in two weeks have to go get an ECG because one of the things they have to watch for is heart irregularities, as well as liver and other things. It's taken for 3 weeks then off for a week to give my system a chance to reset.  So have to be super aware of how I'm feeling, what happens day to day and all that. I asked my primary doctor if I could stop my statin because I think it's what's making my system upset. Nothing I've been doing is making a difference. I have a video visit with her on Friday so will see what she says.

I was so wiped out yesterday with fatigue for like half the day after having my morning toilet session. I didn't have any energy to cook at all or do much of anything.  Like any other situation like this where your body is dealing with different drugs or illness there will be good days and bad days. I remember a few days when I was going through my first chemo treatments I felt like absolute crap and curled up on the bed. I'm hoping it isn't like that with this med. I've seen ads for Kisqali on tv and print ads and they have smiling women like everything is perfectly normal, all because it's a breast cancer treatment. 

Don't get me wrong, I am thankful and more than that I don't have to go through chemo treatments as well. Katie went through both bless her. Other than the skin issues the radiation was a walk in the park in comparison. So yes, I can smile and do things normally, so far but it's only day one.

I have discovered two new favorite yogurt flavors. Never thought I'd actually say I like yogurt some day. I still remember that awful taste of whatever yogurt it was I had when I was a kid. Anyway, discovered the cherry with fruit in the Yoplait and Chobani makes a pineapple with fruit! Twice as much per container so that's not going to be a regular thing for a bit but I bough one of those. On the advice of a friend I bought a jar of orange marmalade and a large container of regular vanilla yogurt. I have now realized the color coding for the 'lite' version being blue and regular being being red. So steered clear of the top shelf blue containers and found more of the strawberry cheesecake and the cherry, got Jon one container of peach and hopefully next month I can find a large container for him. He adores the peach flavor. 

Collectively we're doing okay. I paid everything but my phone bill that's due on Friday and don't have enough for that. So will see what I can do to delay that payment before the end of the month. 

As for Christmas stuff, no decorations this year again other than a small grapevine wreath I found on the table. It had a set of lights wrapped around it but half the lights didn't work and I wasn't going to try and fiddle with it so took the batteries out and tossed it in the trash. Living in this apartment without access to my decorations or adequate space, just not in a festive mood anymore. I wanted to be the granny on the street that always had decorations and had help from neighbors to put them up. So much for dreams. 

I hope everyone else is having a mostly stress free month and the year ends on a high note, or at least a good one. We can all hope for that at least.