Totally Tasteless Tuesday

Too bad this BBQ pit can't be towed

with the gun barrel pointing backwards!

Apple's new iTit, a must-have for breast cancer reconstruction!

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size. This is considered a major breast reconstruction breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Totally Tasteless Tuesday

Another
Texas Grill Accessory

See last week's Tasteless Tuesday
for the rest of the story!

Local benefit for Paper Cowgirl!

If you live in or near the Bryan/College Station area and are planning to eat Thursday, help out fellow blogger Tina Wright (Glue on my fingers, paint in my hair; Paper Cowgirl) and get your eats here.

A dinner and silent auction

benefiting Tina Wright and Stan Kistler

will be held

Thursday, October 29,

4-8 pm

at the Wellborn Community Center

on Wellborn Rd. in Wellborn, Texas.

Proceeds go towards the cost of cancer surgery and treatments. Tickets are $8 per person and may be purchased at the door the day of the event or in advance at Changes Hair Salon, Independence Harley Davidson, and the First Baptist Church of College Station.

For more information or to make a cash or auction donation, please contact Faye Lane 979-680-1025 or email elliefae@gmail.com. The event is sponsored by the Brazos de Dios Harley Owners Group.

I hope to see ya there!

I've been BOO'D!

Me, Sis, and friend back in the day!
I'm the one with the big, black buttons
which is the only thing I remember
about the costume. Sis is the cat in black.

You Have Been BOO'd!

The air is cool,
the season is fall,
Soon Halloween will come to all.

Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore...
Tricky witches at your door.
The spooks are after things to do,
In fact, a spook brought this "BOO" to you.

The excitement comes when friends like you,
Copy this note and make it two.
We'll all have smiles on our faces,
When we see who Boo'd who's places.

I was Boo'd by Amy at Whisperwood Cottage. Now...

The following 4 ladies have been officially BOO'd...

1. Colleen at Utah Grammie...fun and clever!
2. Lori R at Altered Glass...creative in so many ways!
3. Tina at Glue on my fingers...so creative but right now fighting cancer with all she's worth!
4. Donna at Brynwood Needleworks...projects and more!

This BOO party was started by Toni at The Tattered Cottage. Please keep the fun going by following these instructions.

1. You have 24 hours to work your spell

2. Copy and post the Halloween Boo Poem with the instructions for playing.

3. Pick 4 blogs you enjoying visiting and tell why you enjoy visiting them, with a link to their blog and remember to link back to me.

4. Go to the original BOO Party post at the Tattered Cottage and add your MckLinky.

5. Let's see how fast and far this spreads between now and Halloween.

Totally Tasteless Tuesday

Texas Grill Accessory

I'm not tellin' who sent THIS one to me!
You'd be so-o-o-o surprised!

Unluckyb@$!@#d!

Hubby Juan Luckybastard is considering changing his name. Apparently, he isn't feeling that the next few weeks will be his luckiest.

Ya see, I had a little surgery at MDAnderson Friday that installed a Power Port into my chest. This will make chemo infusions much easier and is the only way to handle the upcoming harsher chemos.

The port is placed below the collarbone under the skin. Tubing from the port is tunneled upwards towards another incision which is made to help thread the tubing downward into the jugular vein. The whole procedure takes about an hour, following an hour of prep with an antibiotic transfusion. It takes about hour in the recovery room after the operation.

Cute cowboy boot slippers from Joan that I wore in the hospital!

No biggie, really. I had a fairly comfortable night in a propped up position in our fifth wheel travel trailer. A small amount of pain in the morning saw me taking a pain med. If we'd been home, I could have done without it but we had to drive our rig home and that's a bumpy ride after a surgical procedure.

So what does all this have to do with Juan wanting to change his last name to Unluckybastard? Well, postoperative instructions for him were MUCH longer than the ones for me.

My list only stated that for two weeks I cannot lift my arm above my head or straight out to the front or side. I cannot lift over 20 lbs. I cannot drive.

Here's Juan list for the next two six weeks :

• Juan shall do all incision dressing changes.
  
• Juan shall drive me wherever I want to go.
  
• Juan shall do all grocery shopping as well as the putting away of said vittles.
  
• Juan shall do all vacuuming, laundry, and ironing.
  
• Juan shall empty dishwasher (it involves putting dishes away over my head).
  
• Juan shall change bed linens.
  
• Juan shall unload travel trailer (and load, if need be).
  
• Juan shall continue to work to support me in the manner I have become accustomed to.
  
• Juan shall continue to visit and monitor his mother's care and feeding.
  
• Juan shall continue with all of his usual chores around the house.
  
• And, in his spare time - if there is any - Juan may gather with his male friends and fly his precious remote control airplanes.

I think you get the drift of the proposed name change.

And, of course, Juan shall do all this while putting up with my chemo treatment aftereffects. Just so he understands what he's in for during the week, I've renamed the days.

Chemo Friday, of course, is the day we travel to Houston for treatment.
Steroid Saturday is definitely a good day for me. If I plan on doing anything at all during the week, that's the day to gitter done! Of course, I'm a little chatty on Steroid Saturday, usually starting at 5 a.m. and continuing until bedtime.
Sucky Sunday, when the steroids have worn off, starts the downward slide into Chemoville.
Mattress Monday is a very tired day for me. The dogs and I sleep in every room of the house.
Flu Tuesday is full of achy muscles and fatigue.
Wild Card Wednesday can be good, can be bad. It's a wild card kind of day, all right.
Thrilling Thursday is the closest day to feeling back to normal for me...most of the time.
And then we're back to Chemo Friday, starting my week - and his - all over again!

Poor Juan. Poor, poor Juan.