Almost Friday!

Man, the past couple weeks have had my head in a whirl. I hardly know what day it is.  Tomorrow IS Friday, isn't it?

Let's start with last week.  Our friends Bonnie and Polly came up from Florida, stopping by here on their way to Maryland.  They are a blast and I love hanging out with them.  They blew into town on Wednesday and we met them for dinner, where we regaled the other diners with much snorting and howls of laughter.  Thursday we all piled into Bonnie's van and took off for Forest, VA, where we invaded the Virginia Candle Company outlet store.  Oh, it's heaven in there!  And such bargains!  I could care less if my candle has a label on it, and if I can save 75% on the candles, then I'm all for it :)  I did, however, restrain myself, and only bought 5 candles (2 of which WERE 75% off! SCORE!) and 1 reed diffuser (also 75% off :D)   After the candle stop, we went on to Bedford, VA, where we had lunch at the old Liberty Train Station.  It was indeed a train station in its former life, and while freight trains still go by, passenger trains do not.  So the old depot was turned into a restaurant and they do have yummy food.  I surprised everyone by NOT getting what I usually do, which is a Greek Steak salad that is to die for.  I also surprised everyone by not getting a hamburger.  I am the original hamburger kid. I can eat a hamburger any time.  ANY time.  And like it :)  Soooooooo I got a chicken panini, which was good but Polly got a hamburger and I was immediately jealous and shot daggers with my eyes at her but she didn't seem to notice.  After lunch, it was time to head to Mountain Produce.  Now, you wouldn't look twice at this little place.  Handmade sign.  Couple of older vehicles out front.  Just looks like some old run down place.  WELL, we found it a few years ago while we were on our way back from a day trip to The Peaks of Otter, and we wanted something to drink and we stopped at this place.  You open the door and your olfactory senses are assailed by.......apple pie????  Oh yes, please!  They make regular pies, hand pies, breads.  Yummy, yummy, stuff, and they also sell all kinds of cider, apple included as well as blackberry, scupernong, cherry....you get the picture. They sell old fashioned candies.  They sell jams.  They sell ice cream. They sell soft drinks.  But the hand pies.  THESE. ARE. TO. DIE. FOR.  Perfectly fried.  The perfect combination of cinnamon to apple.  STUFFED with the perfect combination of cinnamon and apples.  Oh my.  Each one lovingly wrapped in saran wrap, it taunts you with its little bits of glistening apple filling shining through.  You hear it calling you......come eat me.  Come eat me.  COME EAT ME!  However, if you can restrain yourself until you're home, throw that baby in the microwave for about 10 seconds and plop a bigass scoop of vanilla ice cream on it.  You will see rainbows and hear angels sing.  I promise.  It's THAT good.

Now that I've told you the good stuff about the week, let me tell you the not so good.  So Monday morning we awake to snow, sleet and freezing rain. Lovely.  No D Day for me that day.  So I call the clinic to tell them I won't be there and they tell me to call Tuesday morning cause they don't know if they're going to be open or not.  Greeeeeat.  Tuesday morning arrives and the falling weather has stopped but of course our little town has not salted, sanded or plowed the roads.  So while the main roads may be ok, I can't get TO the main road. Not only has our little street not been cleared, there is a hill no matter which way I try to go.  So Tuesday is spent watching Jerry Springer and Maury and napping.  So I wobble into D Day yesterday but surprisingly didn't have THAT much fluid on, considering it had been 4 days since I'd had a treatment.  I don't advise normally going 4 days between treatments.  Not a good thing.  But I did ok and had no problems with my treatment.  I stayed on the machine about 15 minutes longer than I normally do to get just that much more fluid off.  And YAY, no cramps, no drop in BP or any other funky stuff.

Did I mention that tonight's forecast is..........snow/sleet/freezing rain?  No?   Well.....it is!!  Aiiiiiighhhhhh.  Hopefully they're wrong and the roads will be fine and I can go to D Day and not have to wait til Saturday.  Guess I'll hold off on that extra glass of honey crisp apple juice I was gonna have.

Keep warm and go craft something nifty!

Til later,
Morado