Happy 4th!!

Where does the time go?? Silly question – it’s gone to packing, painting, cleaning, shopping, mowing, schlepping, weeding, framing and a little bit of socializing. Whew…It was a busy weekend for us. We didn’t get everything on my “To Do” list completed, but we did get our new bedroom painted a much more soothing color, Pat got to use the lawn mower, I discovered the joys of weeding, and finally on Tuesday we broke in the new grill with some burgers and dogs and had our first non family house guests. The official move isn’t for a few more weeks, but we managed to pull off a quiet bbq and spend some time soaking in the “country air”. Yup, I was exhausted by the end of it. I keep forgetting that I’m still not running on full power yet and my leg lets me know when it’s had enough, so we may not get to paint all the rooms before moving day, but there’s plenty of time for that down the road.

The next few weeks are going to be crazy busy for me so the blog entries may be more like every two weeks instead of once a week. We’ve got a lot of stuff here in Somerville that needs to be packed up and ready to go for the movers, I’ve got photos to finish for the benefit and now there is that other pesky commitment – work. I am looking forward to returning to the office and between Pat and I’ll we’ll juggle everything and meet all our deadlines, but I don’t think either of us will be sleeping much over the next month. Unless of course Pat gets to go away on business in which case he’ll sleep and I’ll be the cranky one at home throwing stuff in boxes. I guess it’s about time I pulled my weight around here.

We decided we needed to concentrate on the good stuff in our life for once, so I’ve moved all my doctors’ appointments into late August, except for physical therapy. There’s no urgency for any of my appointments and the few extra weeks between CT scans won’t make a difference. One less thing for me to stress over will definitely make my life a little easier.

Pat hasn’t logged much time on the bike recently, but hopefully he’ll bring it out to “the country” next weekend and do some exploring around our new neighborhood. August 5 & 6th will be here soon and 200 miles is a lot of ground to cover. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and it won’t be a soggy weekend.

Hope to see some of you at Tommy Doyle’s next week!