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There's a rooster in my head that won't let me sleep, so here I sit at the computer.
Thanks for all the loving wishes for my woes with doctors, health and surgery. It will all work out, just not as fast as I'd hoped.
Yesterday we moved furniture around to make me happy and it worked!
I also spent all day organizing crap...I mean craft supplies so I can get serious about it.
Ooh, coffee's done...have a wonderful Monday!

My chair

Massage chair extraordinaire is actually my Mom's, but it lives with me and it's the best.
Mom made the pillow and each and every yo-yo herself.

How low can it go?

Happy Halloween out there.
My platelet count has gone way down again even though I'm on steroids to bring it up for surgery.
Down I tell ya...what's up with that? I stay on the Prednisone through next week, have a blood draw and if it isn't better, then I guess it's on to a transfusion. This is so disheartening.
Did I mention that Prednisone makes one depressed? Well, at this moment after hearing the news from the doctor, I am as low as one can go I think.
My Mom said that her count dropped dramatically as well and she starts another round of chemo this week.

So much Halloween goodness!

Itty Bitty Halloween Book Swap book is here!

It's perfect!

My Black Cat from a Black cat Swap is here made by my friend Kai.

The charms from the Halloween Charm Swap that Michelle of Faerie Dust Dreams put together are here!

I am one lucky lady to know such wonderful groups of people who love to swap!!!!

Grandpa's Hat

Grandpa's hat is small and won't fit my big head.
I grew up on a farm in Central California next door to my grandparents and learned so much from them and have wonderful memories.
Grandpa Isaac passed when he was 86 and that was 31 years ago.
I love that hat.

Pink Itty Bitty

Above is my ever growing collection of swap books.

Oops, my pics loaded backwards this time...Oh well, anyway, I love the itty bitty book swaps and the Pink book in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness has arrived!

So pretty...
More pink goodness!

there's the back of my page...

Pink Power...go check yourself!

My Sister was in the paper...

I didn't write this, it's straight from the newspaper article...I'll find the link/name and put it here for the person who wrote it!

Update: Cheryl Stephens takes the podium for the next 20 minute slot while we all pass around a hand out, which is rather fitting since her topic is literacy and the communication of rights. “People who read, think differently,” she speaks about storytelling and the importance of reading. One of her slides is a poster that can probably be seen around town that states, “literacy is a right.” She presents some graphs about the way people learn and statistics on learning and reading skills. Cheryl also speaks to how it can come to be that illiteracy can come to be in today’s society, which can be attributed to learning disabilities, language skills, social problems, along with stress, anxiety, abuse etc. “These things affect the child’s ability to focus, and their ability to process what they are learning.” She notes that it is possible to lose your ability to read if you do not keep it up and keep feeding your brain with literature of all kinds. I just checked in on her website where you can get information about her book, “Plain Language Legal Writing”. Clear + simple + human = good writing (side note, this makes total sense and is also the way I try to approach my blogging). In closing, she just wants us to be aware of these issues and points us to LiteracyBC.

Watch and enjoy.

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Black Cat

My swap was mailed out...

Platelet count is moving on up!

The blood test I took on Wednesday shows a leap from 80,000 to 116,000.
So, the doc lowered the steroid dose I have to take since it is working well. I am glad since Prednisone is rough on the body and the psyche. I am so down and depressed that it's not even funny, however, I am not unhappy or in too bad of a way. It's odd how I am in a floating funk, as opposed to a floating euphoria maybe?
Anyway, I'm blue but with a hint of glitter mixed in...go figure.