From 80 degrees to 30 in 6 short days

Awoke to an inch of snow this morning – the first I’ve seen this year, though some fell a few weeks ago when we were out of town. It continued to flurry all day but no real accumulation. Good, because I’m not ready for winter just yet. We did break out the hats, gloves and scarves, not to mention the shovels and ice b gone. I put my boots on to go out and said to Pat, “last time I put these on we were in Costa Rica – wait that was only just last week!” What a difference a week makes.

We are all unpacked and the summer stuff has been put away…sigh. Costa Rica is now a mere memory, but a good one that we won’t forget anytime soon. My pictures from the disposable cameras didn’t come out very well, but I’ll post a few here. I just got the first 395 pictures, which includes the last ones taken with my camera. I will whittle them down to a more reasonable number before sharing because even I got bored after the umpteenth monkey picture – not that they aren’t adorable critters to look at.

I’m glad we had Sunday at home to get the laundry and stuff under control because by Monday, things were back to normal. We both returned to work and spent much of the day wading through email because for the first time ever, I didn’t even peek at my mail the entire time we were away. I also resumed my Erbitux treatments. My one treatment on Tuesday really knocked me down. I didn’t sleep during the treatment and didn’t sleep much that night either. Felt wiped out on Wednesday, the usual inability to eat/drink, but by Wed night my appetite was back and I slept soundly. Good thing too because I was up early on Thursday to get down to NYC for a conference. Returned home late Thursday night and by Saturday my defenses were compromised enough and the cold Pat had battled all week hit me. Just the usual head cold – annoying and exhausting, so I’m drinking juice and taking my vitamin C. I’m scheduled for another treatment on Tuesday, but if I’m still sneezing and congested I will probably postpone for a week.

That’s all for now…