Post TX-week 12 Sunday

This last week was spent painting, riding bikes, and planning future trips. We booked a trip to Alaska for the last 2 weeks in August. We will be in the wilderness camping, fishing, river rafting, hiking and kayaking. Yes, the big T has agreed to camping, yes, sleeping on the ground and some days without a shower. My, how tx has changed my view of life.

The visas needed for the fall trips are a pain in the ass. Bolivia wants 120.00 and send the passports to DC with all kinds of documentation. Brazil wants 130.00 and you have to enter the country within 90 days of issue. India wants 65.00 and the visa is only good for 6 months. All this adds up to 630.00 and a lot of time wasted. These countries do this because we do the same to them. Had I have known this earlier, I could have skipped Bolivia and Brazil. I mean Bolivia, if you've seen one Latin country......

We get the puppies at the end of July and TVB comes back from Thailand. The dog's name will be Lucy Karma-Moon(don't ask).

I have been feeling great and sleeping well. I go for my 3 month blood test on Thursday and this time I will check for the results the next week, that is if I was still clear at 30 days.

Magda and her friend from school have a 19 year old man/boy in their study group. Andy is a devout catholic who has chosen to be chaste until he is married. These two horn-toad ladies took it upon themselves to tell him how he needed to learn to satisfy his girlfriend before he married her. Poor Andy

Post TX-week 11 Friday

New Chris Brown Painting



I took the train SF Monday and stayed through Thursday and I had a great time. Every meal was with a different friend(s). I have been wanting to buy a painting by Christopher Brown for the last 10 years. Tuesday, I walked into the Burggrugen gallery and there it was, 5 feet by 5 feet just sitting there saying buy me, and buy it I did.

I went to the Indian Embassy to get M and my visas for our trip and I was told that we each needed extra pages in our passport as we didn't have 2 blank pages facing each other. I'm glad I'm starting early as we have to send our passports to washington DC and they won't be back for 6 weeks. We also need to get visas for Brazil and Bolivia. Brazil is in SF but Bolivia is a pain in the ass.

We had a disappointment on Friday. We were supposed to see George Michael in concert in San Jose. Our friends, who are always really late for everything, called us at 7:20 and said they were still 80 miles away. The show began at 8:00 and m and I had no choice but to drive the 140 miles home to Sacramento. We lost $200.00 and dumped the people who were so rude and so late. This wasn't the first time.

Today, M and I bought all the food for my daughter's baby shower tomorrow and it should be a lot of fun. Sunday is a bike ride.

All is well and bye for now


The babies at 5 weeks

Post TX-week 10 Sunday

I itch like crazy at night and it makes it really hard to sleep. I went on line and it seems as though a lot of people have this happen post tx, I hope it stops soon as it's quite irritating.

I have finished booking all of our fall trips and I must tell you that the Hotels in Dubai are outrageously expensive. I have booked South America for Nov 13th, returning December 10th. The trip sounds great, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Patagonia, and Chile. Hotels aren't too expensive but the airfare in SA is quite high. I guess that's a sign of things to come.

I've decided that it's time to start to spend my IRA. I'm going to hit it every month with a time line of having it all gone by the time I'm 80. Tx made me realize that it's time to enjoy my life to the fullest from this point forward.

I asked Magda to cut my hair and she does a great job. Now I will save $18.00 every 3 weeks. It's very upsetting to pay that much when you have so little hair.

M started her job Saturday. She volunteers twice a month in the trauma center at the hospital and she really liked it. Now she might want to be a nurse.

All is well and bye for now


The new baby at 4 weeks

Post TX-week 9 Monday

Things are going along swimmingly lately. M and I have been riding bikes a lot. 25 and 14 miles fairly regularly and it is alot of fun. I don't feel any younger than I did before I started tx but I guess that's because I'm a year older. I'm off all the pills, the prozac and the sleepers and I'm sleeping very well.

I went to Oklahoma City to inspect the building I own and it looked great. I met wth the management company and then with the man who owns the furniture store on the ground floor. Rusty is a real good ole boy for sure, we got along famously and his business is doing very well. The whole state needs to get a personality, I mean, these people don't smile very often and laughter is rarer yet. When ever I eavesdropped on conversations around me it seemed they were all discussing their church. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a lot of the people were going to vote for Obama. I went to 2 movies while I was there as there is nothing else to do. Sex and the city was a scream and I liked "stays in Vegas". Thank goodness they finally built a Starbuck's Downtown. I went to the memorial for the bombing of the Murrah building and I was moved by the beauty of what has been built in it's place. All in all OKC is a very lonely town.

I finished booking our trip to Dubai and India for the month of October and I'm finding Dubai hotels to be really expensive. Next, I'm going to start booking our trip to South America for the month of November. It's a lot of work, but it will be a lot of fun.

I would like to see Hillary on the ticket as I think she would be good for health care changes so that everyone can get the basic care they need. She will need to tone down her rhetoric and accept her roll as VP but I think she would be good for the country. They will have to gag Bill as he has become the village idiot. As far as bringing the women along, who needs that? I mean, the Hillaristas aren't going to vote McCain. Obama and McCain are both men. So you cut off your nose to spite your face? Yes, many women are hurt and angry, but let's face it, a woman needs to have a right to choose. If McCain is elected, the women of America will be spending a lot of time in Mexico.

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial

Post TX-week 8 Monday

The divine miss M has become a personal trainer with me as her client. So far, we rode 65 miles in 3 days on the bikes. Yesterday we went 25 miles with a lot of it uphill. It was fun but today I feel my age. I can say that this is the first day since tx ended that I feel 100% of what I used to feel. I can say with some certainty that it has taken me about 2 months to hit my old stride. I've kicked the sleeping pills and I'm down to 10mg's on the Prozac, headed for zero soon.

M is back in school so I'm learning all about our body's optical system. Tomorrow, I fly to Oklahoma City to do the annual inspection on the building I have there and I'm back in Sacto on Thursday.

All is well and bye for now.


The new puppy at 3 weeks



The painting continued............