Last month when we had the hurricane, lost power, trees down and all that good stuff...you'd think that the mail wouldn't be delivered....well, it was and I received a Jury Summons in the mail. Don't get me wrong, I really wouldn't mind doing my civic duty but for $5.00 a day and just the idea of having to sit and really listen to everything said - I really preferred not to....The information needed to get out of serving was one thing I was able to reply with - having an illness would prevent me from serving.... I needed a letter from the doctor and with the weather and the gasoline lines I wasn't really able to get there so I called and asked if they could fax or mail me a letter. This was done about November 3rd. Days went by, no phone call or letter faxed or mailed to me.... I need to have my port flushed every 4 to 8 weeks if I am not doing chemo. I had gone the last week of September and wasn't due until the middle of November. I needed to reply to the county within ten days so I made a copy of my last/latest CT and MRI scan and sent it to them. They replied that it was not what they wanted and I still had to report to them. To make a long story short (which as you already know me, I can't do it!)....I had to have my port flushed and I picked up the letter and faxed it to the county.
I did get a reply saying that I was excused.....now my neighbor and good friend had gotten the same Jury Summons....SHE had to go to the court house and she told me that this was going to be a 'murder trial'!!!! She said that they asked people if they were unable to give at minimum of two/three weeks on this jury and needed to be excused to step aside....She said about 3/4 of them went to that side! Took her all day before she was able to leave. They had to interview everyone to find out their excuse, hers was that she and her husband had planned a vacation. She also said that EVERY one that received this summons was called to show up. Half the people went in the morning and the other half went in the afternoon. She did get out of it.
Murder trial!!! Two young guys in Phillipsburg supposedly killed someone........I'm sure it would have been an interesting trial but - if for some reason these two kids didn't do it and were committed - how awful I would have felt or visa versa....I really don't like the idea of putting someones life in my hands.....again, if you know me...I'd be the one of the jury members that would question EVERYTHING!!! and be a juror like the OJ Simson case!!!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Thursday, December 13th
I went LAST WEEK (Wednesday) for my CT scan and still haven't heard anything from the oncologist....not that it's a bad thing as I prefer to wait until the new year to find out the results of it....I'm feeling good and praying that: no news is GREAT news! I'm afraid even if I see their name on my caller ID that I won't answer the phone right now....
For anyone that received my Christmas card and didn't see a 'holiday newsletter' in it...I figured I say enough about everyone and everything on this blog - so this is it = my daily newsletter!
Nicholas is in China for ten days (on business) and he called me yesterday morning, our time: 8:20 AM and his time: 9:20 PM....he called me from his cell phone and it sounded like he was in the next room! Our connection seemed better -there - than when he talks to me from here! The weather is winter time too - chilly! He has the weekend off so he and his co-worker will do some sightseeing...asked him if he sees a Budda key chain to get me one! He kind of looked last year when he went the first time. I also saw the hotel that he's staying at on line - it's beautiful!!!! So nice and has so many restaurants that he doesn't even have to leave the building! I did ask him this time as he didn't remember or look last time === they have a gas mask right by the door and my question was, do they have a Bible....NO was his answer...hmmmm.
Paul and Samantha will be coming home soon! Of course, not soon enough for me....but we did have kids to let them fly and boy did they leave the nest!!!!
Charlie is still putting in the pellet stove. Thanks for the help from his brother Christopher in helping him put up the stone and lay the floor on the hearth...now Charlie is 'trying' to run the pipe up and out the chimney of the original fireplace....he was having such a hard time and found out the other day that he was actually missing one piece - now the puzzle of the pipes fitting together will work! He's off tomorrow and will finish it up and we'll be HOT in our, kind of, chilly house. The wood stove heats up the back of the house and this pellet stove should heat our bedroom (upstairs) and the rest of the front of the house (we have a high ceiling where the stove is).
I'm still putting up decorations around the house. I was able to do 'some' because we had stored them in the basement (as Charlie thought it would be easier to have them already to go - when we move....which didn't happen THIS year)...and then I had to wait until he had time to get the rest of the stuff down from the attic. Now with being busy, shopping and doing hair cuts...I'm a little behind and my house is definitely a mess! Stuff in every room, nook and corner!!!
I'm not happy with our fresh tree this year...it looked so nice when Charlie put it in the stand...then I added the lights - lots of them and then the ornaments......and then - the branches started drooping!!! My ornaments are too heavy for the branches!!! Even the strings of lights are sliding off. I don't even enjoy lighting the tree! I usually keep the tree up until two weeks after new years...but this year = it will be down on January 2nd! It's much narrower than ever too, I can't fit all my ornaments on it...and I have such beautiful ones that I can't even hang....I have to keep them in the box. I did hang a few 'memory' ones on my screens (my screens are on the inside of the windows)...but those are the 'flat' ones too.....I was so upset that I was ready to take out our artificial tree but it was in the attic and having everything on it already - where would I begin to re-decorate....taking all the ornaments off and then the lights and then doing it all again....na, I just look the other way when I walk past it......and every now and then, I hear an ornament fall off.
I was checking some medical stuff on line and found that people that have had their gallbladder removed have a higher chance of getting colon cancer....hmmmm. I didn't realize that and if I did, I may have gone for a colonoscopy sooner....so, my advise to anyone that has had this surgery - when you are 50 yrs. old = go for one!!!
Thank YOU again, for keeping me in your prayers and from our family to you: We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year!!!
Believe in Miracles!!!!
For anyone that received my Christmas card and didn't see a 'holiday newsletter' in it...I figured I say enough about everyone and everything on this blog - so this is it = my daily newsletter!
Nicholas is in China for ten days (on business) and he called me yesterday morning, our time: 8:20 AM and his time: 9:20 PM....he called me from his cell phone and it sounded like he was in the next room! Our connection seemed better -there - than when he talks to me from here! The weather is winter time too - chilly! He has the weekend off so he and his co-worker will do some sightseeing...asked him if he sees a Budda key chain to get me one! He kind of looked last year when he went the first time. I also saw the hotel that he's staying at on line - it's beautiful!!!! So nice and has so many restaurants that he doesn't even have to leave the building! I did ask him this time as he didn't remember or look last time === they have a gas mask right by the door and my question was, do they have a Bible....NO was his answer...hmmmm.
Paul and Samantha will be coming home soon! Of course, not soon enough for me....but we did have kids to let them fly and boy did they leave the nest!!!!
Charlie is still putting in the pellet stove. Thanks for the help from his brother Christopher in helping him put up the stone and lay the floor on the hearth...now Charlie is 'trying' to run the pipe up and out the chimney of the original fireplace....he was having such a hard time and found out the other day that he was actually missing one piece - now the puzzle of the pipes fitting together will work! He's off tomorrow and will finish it up and we'll be HOT in our, kind of, chilly house. The wood stove heats up the back of the house and this pellet stove should heat our bedroom (upstairs) and the rest of the front of the house (we have a high ceiling where the stove is).
I'm still putting up decorations around the house. I was able to do 'some' because we had stored them in the basement (as Charlie thought it would be easier to have them already to go - when we move....which didn't happen THIS year)...and then I had to wait until he had time to get the rest of the stuff down from the attic. Now with being busy, shopping and doing hair cuts...I'm a little behind and my house is definitely a mess! Stuff in every room, nook and corner!!!
I'm not happy with our fresh tree this year...it looked so nice when Charlie put it in the stand...then I added the lights - lots of them and then the ornaments......and then - the branches started drooping!!! My ornaments are too heavy for the branches!!! Even the strings of lights are sliding off. I don't even enjoy lighting the tree! I usually keep the tree up until two weeks after new years...but this year = it will be down on January 2nd! It's much narrower than ever too, I can't fit all my ornaments on it...and I have such beautiful ones that I can't even hang....I have to keep them in the box. I did hang a few 'memory' ones on my screens (my screens are on the inside of the windows)...but those are the 'flat' ones too.....I was so upset that I was ready to take out our artificial tree but it was in the attic and having everything on it already - where would I begin to re-decorate....taking all the ornaments off and then the lights and then doing it all again....na, I just look the other way when I walk past it......and every now and then, I hear an ornament fall off.
I was checking some medical stuff on line and found that people that have had their gallbladder removed have a higher chance of getting colon cancer....hmmmm. I didn't realize that and if I did, I may have gone for a colonoscopy sooner....so, my advise to anyone that has had this surgery - when you are 50 yrs. old = go for one!!!
Thank YOU again, for keeping me in your prayers and from our family to you: We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year!!!
Believe in Miracles!!!!
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