Weird week huh?

We all know things come in threes... so we all know what I'm talking about here. Let's leave it at that and in a gazillion years from now someone reading this will have go find a laminated National Enquirer to figure out what I'm talking about. Enough said.

I bet you didn't you realize that just about this time last year was when Jody was diagnosed with Lymphoma? I heard him tell someone last night "I'm getting better everyday." That was one of the best things I'd heard in a year. He can sometimes be a pretty melancholy guy.

As we were marking the end of that year, my cousin whom I grew up with back in Odessa was having surgery to remove a malignant tumor in her abdomen. It has been 5 years since she had ended her year of treatment for Ovarian Cancer. She had been doing very well and then began having weird symptoms, pain and discomfort and then the blood counts going up. They found a tumor in one of her Lymph nodes and were able to get 98% of it with the surgery, she'll have to endure 8 rounds of chemo beginning in a few weeks. Hang in there Elga-hay (pig Latin, figure it out)!

As I was talking to Helga last Sunday evening, she told me that one of her daughter's friend's was diagnosed with Lymphoma, he is in his early 30s. It was in his sinuses. His ENT had mentioned doing a biopsy after the guy had gone through many different treatments for severe sinus problems, treatments like polyp removal and stuff. They were going it to Roto-rooter (as my dad would call it) his sinuses and the ENT said "while we're up there we're going to do a biopsy, I read a study in a Medical Journal of a guy who had Lymphoma in his sinuses." Yeah! Just like Jody's. That study probably was Jody's! Hey! Can he get some royalties on that?

Then one of my first emails this morning was from Jolea, "Mom Jessica's husband was just told he has Lymphoma!" (I'm going to freak out if it's in his sinuses.) All I can say to these people who are about to go through this is to tell yourself, that in a year you'll say "I'm getting better everyday!"

Wednesday was not a good day for me (I don't think it was a good day for many people, but that's beside the point), must have been hormones or something. I'd only had a week out of school and I was ready to go find a job. I'd finished (except for closing the toes) one pair of socks, started a couple of other pairs, trying to figure out what to knit next. Read a book, gone through Jolea's kitchen crap, and divided it into 3 groups. Keep, donate, sell. Anyway.... I wasn't looking forward to spending another 5 weeks cooped up in the house doing nothing. I was VERY moody. The 100+ heat outside tends to put a damper on things. So I went to the Library Thursday morning. These were a couple of my selections, I won't bother you with the knitting books right now.

The one on the right is a book that I should have read a year or so ago, maybe two years ago. Any Knitting Fiend such as myself has probably read it time and time again. It's about a woman (a 2 time cancer survivor)who opens a yarn store. I would love to open a yarn store.....

The book on the right is the book I was reading time and time again when I wasn't knitting for the past two summers. It's a book I will be reading for the 4th or 5th time. It's about a couple who sail from Canada through the Caribbean and back. It's my vacation in a paperback. I couldn't find my personal copy so I had to go borrow it from the library. I'm sure I'll find it in some bag of unfinished winter sweater knitting as soon as I finish all these socks. (Michael called, he doesn't have it.)

I sorted my sock yarns (Meerkat Heather, which color do you prefer? Jane, do you have a preference?) and I packed my bag to take to the Ranch, when we leave on Wednesday.










Maybe this heat wave will break while we're gone.

Did I mention Jody has a job interview on Friday? He'll not be going with us to the Ranch. Just Jeff and I and maybe one of his friends (who better be skinny enough to sit in the little compartment behind the seats in Jody's truck.) It'll be a nice diversion from the heat and humidity.... we'll trade for oppressive heat and wind that feels like the Devil is breathing down your back. A good time will be had by all I'm sure of it.

Coming soon... Saturday night pictures from the Square. That is if my attempt at taking pictures at night works out. I'm still learning how to use the camera.