How’s it goin’?!!

Written by JKM on November 29th, 2008

A little rainy, but a beautiful Friday or “shrimp night” as we refer to the Friday after Thanksgiving in the Matthews/Porter/Snow/Mergl/Flack/Tiso families!

The celebration has grown over the years (since 1978, I believe….that was the first year of Thanksgiving at our house anyway). Everyone came up to our house because my dad had fallen off a ladder in August of ‘78, he had just gotten out of a back brace, had a pin put in his arm after removing the head of the radius…given the situation, everyone wanted to come to cheer him up. Either that first or second year, Aunt Ellie and Uncle Jim took it upon themselves to bring some fresh shrimp from the coast of Georgia to share with everyone the Friday after Thanksgiving. We started inviting our friends, eventually boyfriends/girlfriends, fiances, husbands/wives, children….boy did that list grow!!! Everyone talked about shrimp night…all year long! I’m talking the stuff of legends. There was lots of eating, dancing, drinking, laughing, singing, fireworks….and there will be more!!!

So again today was a relatively quiet day, but I wanted to share some more pics with you. You’re gonna have lots of work to catch up on before actually working on Monday morning!!! hahahaha We enjoyed a nice brisk walk, some yummy pumpkin bread from a delicious bakery, Starbucks, lots of leftovers, and I hit the jackpot when I noticed all the Christmas activities and lightings were listed in the paper today! I rarely read the paper….glad I looked today!

We also went to the clinic this morning to have my blood drawn, and I met with some pharmacy specialists to help contact prescription companies that may help with the cost of certain high co-pays. I’m also pretty proud of myself because I finished my application for Social Security Disability……talk about overwhelming!!!!! Everyone I spoke with was very helpful, and they told me I did a wonderful job filling out the on-line portion, so that feels like a big weight off my shoulders. It’s so hard to go through all the financial assistance available out there, but this week I really found some helpful advisers who made the process much easier….plus those steroids are helping me out too!!!

We also watched some great Christmas stories today—have I told you how much I love the holidays?!

In other news, the shaving is going well (I knew you wanted to know). I’m trying to be all spa-like about it, and make sure I pamper my face with warm, soothing washcloths, lots of lotion, and breaks in between pluckings (as in a day or two). I shaved my legs (first go-round!) for the first time in a while, and I just feel so good! I still have to give some of the stubborn face hairs time to grow in before I can pluck ‘em, but I have faith I will again have my eyebrows, lips and cheeks back. :) Wow, that was a whole paragraph on shaving–now you know all the secrets, or what I think to be the secrets to successful shaving post-transplant. :)

Yah, stupid stuff, I know, but it’s good to occupy my mind in many ways, don’t you agree?!!

I hope you enjoy the photos…we were especially excited to see the Christmas tree atop the Space Needle!!!!

Love from Seattle,

Julie

1 Comments so far ↓

  1. Nov
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    Katie

    Do they put a Christmas tree on top of the Space Needle every year? I like all of the photos, Bailey is adorable! I also like all of the photos from your previous post–Laura looks like she is feeling a lot better and Mom’s dinner looked delicious! :o)

    Don’t forget that ABC Family starts playing a Christmas movie every day starting on Dec. 1st! http://community.abcfamily.go.com/25-days-christmas Now is an appropriate time to enjoy them :o)

    Have fun with Lori and Tim!

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