Yesterday was day 500!
Five hundred days of walking consecutively. No breaks! Pretty cool. I’m still not quite feeling the mojo, but I’m still doing it. I’m going to set a new goal of walking a 5K (3.1 ) mile in one go. I only do 2 miles and less lately. So by January 1 I would like to do this once a week. We’ll see.
today, since I’m off dex and not collapsing in a heap by 1 pm, were going to take a drive up to Nevada city , grass valley to see some fall color and get lunch. Fun!!!
It’s mostly under control, and the evacuees are being allowed home. We were pretty slow at the library and probably also today. Sometimes Saturday is a little busier. We have had cooler weather and I’m sure that helps.
Hurray, we finally have the car back after 6 weeks.What a pain with Allstate this has been. The collision repair shop did their job, it’s the appraisers that were screwing up. This is my sons subaru. It looked good. And I have “red” back. Red is my 1999 dodge caravan that’s actually a shade of pink now( dis colored from the sun). It has 143,000 miles and creaks( no shocks) but I still love her:)
So, from my blog most of you know I work at a little branch library. It’s Applegate. So yesterday a fire started in 7 different areas on I-80. It closed the freeway and by afternoon evening there were mandatory evacuations. Pretty scary. I don’t work Thursdays so I’m ok, but will the library open. If she can get there probably. Hopefully it’s all better by this afternoon but it’s smokey here. Scary to think about evacuating. Grab your pets and go. So I’m worried about some of our older patrons who I know we’re evacuated. I hope their safe.
So on to budget stuff. We had our mortgage modified under one of the first Obama programs. It was great.and easy. But now the interest rate has changed per the modification and our payment has gone up $150. That’s quite a bit for us, but what’s really scaring me is it will change again next year too. I didn’t know that or chose to forget. But another $200 increase will kill us. We will have to sell. Any number crunching I’ve done for retirement is based on the old payment amount. So, it is difficult to think about. I’m not a mover and with my health always in question it will not be easy. But there is no
way with the new numbers could we do it. I’m going to call the mortgage company and see what they say but probably there’s nothing they can do as this was part of the loan agreement. Its very depressing to me and I hate to think about the stress if it all. I am also a planner and I guess I’d better start planning our options. Rent? Whatever.? I don’t know… It’s just hard to deal with this at our age.
otherwise, I’ve done well with not buying lots of groceries. Today I need to get 1/2 and 1/2 and some other things.
We also still do not have the car back from the repair shop. This is now 6 weeks and that is so messed up I can hardly deal with it.
Plus, since I’m off dex, everything is hurting more as dex is of course a steroid that is anti inflammatory. So that completely sucks. Yeah great to be off dex, boooo, I’m hurting.
gee what other bad news, oh the trees. We have now another one dying. The tree guy said it’s way complicated to get these down. It’s probably okay to leave them as they are down the hill. So we looked at the oak near the house and one pine. $1700 is the quote. We said ok, but now I’m really thinking we can’t afford it. They are not a threat yet so should we wait. I’m really insure. We really have so little savings and this would be a big hit. Plus we have property taxes due in December. Ugh…. We just can’t cut a break …
Well, on that dismal note, I’m off for the day.
We are having a beautiful Indian summer. Cool at night , warm in the day. The air smells like fall.
we are having a tree guy come out today. We are losing 3 ponderosa pines to bark beetles. I hope that’s it. These are very big trees but fortunately they are down in our woods. Still we could saved that money for the giant tree near our house that needs to come out. We will see what he says.
I’m in the kitchen zone this week. Always a big cleaning job. I’ve made quinoa for the week and I’m going to make some polenta. I’ve got chili in the crock pot and will make a vegetarian version later. Oh, last night I made the home made tortillas and they were great. Really easy. So that’s cool.
so this is my Sunday without dex. It’s kinda weird but in a good way. I’m still unsure how I feel about it. On the one hand ,wow, it’s great. No up and downs. But then I’m nervous about revlimid working alone. Well, we ‘ll just have to wait and see..
B and I are off to town to get chicken food and a few things. He rented the wood splitter,yesterday and him and my daughter did a huge amount. It’s nice to see all that wood ready to go.
So, yesterday was doctor day. My labs all look good. M-protein at .3 ,so good. It has been in this range since last February . He says I’m stable and he wants to try dropping dex,and see if revlimid will work alone. I’m willing to try. The only experience I’ve had with this is when I first relapsed in 2010, I tried revlimid alone and it didn’t work. But, it could be different now.,my body will know pretty quickly and since I see him once a month and have blood work, I’m not too worried. ( well, maybe a little). It’ll be weird to be off dex, but probably nice. I actually won’t see him till November as I have to work 2 Wednesdays in November , and other days don’t work either for one reason or another. But I’ll still get the labs done, so we will know if something changes. Hey, the great news is the labs are now on an online portal so it makes it so easy to check and less stressful.
OctoberI budget….well, im going to try and keep groceries low. Ha, I think always say that. But seriously I am. We’re going to do a freezer / pantry challenge and try and buy only essentials. We’ve been going to the produce market for vegies, so I’ll keep doing that.
we have to rent a wood splitter this weekend, and buy a car battery. I bought some garlic on line and I may look at potatoes. I really want to plant these at the right time( fall) to get a harvest. Let’s see what else. We need to pay the car insurance bill some on the credit card, and I’m hoping that’s it. Our Christmas fund is funded at $1000 but I always seem to go over with extras like food and little things. I’m not buying a real tree this year so that’ll save $.
November is house insurance and thanksgiving food. I’m still thinking thanksgiving menus and I’m pretty sure I’ll stick to basics.
It is very weird to add another year. But here I am! I am thankful to be in this life and appreciate the beautiful fall we are having. I’m so grateful to my dear husband, and children. It’s tough to live with my cancer but here I am 9 years post diagnosis. Of course, still on drugs that are difficult. But heck, here I am. 
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