Time to buy food for Thanksgiving!  Turkey and ham are required at our household.  Mom , Jane, and Ann are bringing dishes, so the main things we are responsible for involve meat!   Chae and I just got home from Wal-Mart – where I hate to shop now that they have completely rearranged the store to make it the MOST inconvenient shopping place in the world.   I guess a lot of people had the same idea to buy Thanksgiving essentials today, because we were playing bumper-carts most of the time.  I get irritated very easily, but Chae keeps telling me to “just go with it, Beverly.”  Who would have EVER thought that HE would be the laid-back one?!

Tomorrow, I think I am having lunch with Ellen and our Komen grantees from the Alabama Department of Public Health.  Not sure, so I hope Ellen will call me early!  Otherwise, I will be looking in the file cabinets at work for old crackers or something.

Can’t believe it is Friday again – so soon!  Chae is back from Wyoming, or wherever it is that he was – I can barely keep up with my schedule, much less his.  Claudia is happy now that we are both here.  I’m putting together a care package to send to Erin in Atlanta.  She will start chemotherapy on November 30, and I have some tips for “doing chemo in style,” in addition to the goodies I’m sending.   “Doing chemo in style” involves a soft blankie, socks with grippers on the bottom, lavender lotion, iPod, good luck charms that people have sent to you, and at least one good book that doesn’t require a lot of thinking.  What actually happens is this:  you get all comfy with the blankie, put on the gripper socks, because you WILL have to go to the bathroom during the chemo time but having shoes on just seems too uncomfortable, lean your recliner back and pop out the footrest, look at all your good luck charms and think about the people who sent them to you, listen to the iPod (especially if someone who loves you has made you a Chemo Mix), start to read the book…..then you conk out like a burned out lightbulb.

Chae is out of town tonight so I got to watch the finale of Project Runway!  I don’t get away with watching things like that when he is here unless I want to go to the bedroom and watch it on the little TV.  I truly don’t “get” the clothes they design, but the show is fun to watch.

I had planned to go to a Komen meeting tonight, but when I got home this afternoon, I didn’t feel 100% well.  I just couldn’t get warm – a sure sign that I have a temperature.  However, I dug the thermometer out of a bin in the bathroom and the temperature was normal.  Anyway, since Chae is out of town, I decided to just stay home with Claudia just in case.  Now that it is 10 PM, I feel absolutely fine, so it was a false alarm.

It is nearly panic time!  Christmas has sneaked up on me big time this year.  I have a few things already and a couple of things ordered that are on the way, but other than that, I am unprepared!  Chae and C.J. are the hardest to get presents for.  Any ideas?