Life Update

Hello!

:: I just returned from a 4-day scrapbook retreat, and it was such a great time! I really look forward to this every year, at our annual retreat house in Mansfield (near Dallas). We had 12 girls, but one ended up with a toothache and wasn't able to join us sadly. One girl was only able to stay for one day, but the remaining 10 of us enjoyed our time away. We had 8 scrapbookers and 2 crafters -- they did a lot of different things, like making t-shirts and chalk signs, etc. It was good down time -- and I got a lot done, too! I scrapbooked photos from 2016 (the remainder that I have to do the traditional way; I started the digital scrapbooking with 2017); I got about 75 pages done, and that feels good! I worked on a felting project that turned out pretty well! I'm going to get a pretty frame for it, and then add it to my Easy shop. I wrote some in the fiction novel I'm working on. I ate lots of junk food. I slept well. I stayed up late. I watched movies (including Wonder, which was sooooo good!). I watched the remaining episodes of The Crown. I tried to start watching The Office, but I just don't find it funny so that's a no on that one. Watched Season 1 of Sex and The City. And I laughed a lot with my girlfriends...such a great group of ladies. It was a very successful weekend, and we have scheduled our retreats for the next two years! Now, it's Monday and I took today off to recover and do my normal weekend chores.

:: Update on Ocho -- his spot was healing up fairly well on the regimen of Prednisone and Frankincense oil. We postponed the surgery to see if we could get it to heal. We only had enough Prednisone to last until his surgery, so we ran out of that on Thursday. In the days since that, which was only 3 days, the spot has started growing again and it's gotten nasty. I am stopping at the vet today to pick up more Prednisone, and to schedule the surgery. I don't think we are going to be able to prevent it, unfortunately. This gives me a lot of anxiety, but I am trying not to worry about it too much right now.

:: I'll only work 4 days this week, and then Chris and I are headed off on a week-long vacay! Looking sooooo forward to it. He has business meetings in Las Vegas and Albuquerque, so we are going to drive and make a sight seeing week of it! The plan is to drive to Vegas and spend a few days there. He has a day and a half of meetings. We'll have dinner one night with his boss and a client. We'll also see the Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson show one evening -- very, very excited about that!!!! Then, we will leave Vegas and work our way home. We're going to stop to see the Grand Canyon and a few other things along the way. Then he has a meeting in Albuquerque on Friday. We'll head home afterwards. Should be a full, fun week!

:: That's about all I know at this point :) I hope all is well with YOU!