Have a Terrible Sore Throat, Ugh!

I've been trying to be so good, with washing my hands and all, but I've been taking the subway and that's probably where I got this damn bug.  I hate sore throats - you never know where they'll lead.  Occasionally, my will lead to bronchitis, which scares me to death, especially since I'm a lung cancer survivor and any illness of my respiratory system makes me nervous because of my weak lung.  When I was 45, I was diagnosed with stage 3b, 4 being terminal.  Yep, one stage below terminal.  With super doctors and mega-aggressive treatment, I am here to talk about it 13 years later!  Wow, sometimes it's so mind-blowing to realize I survived that nasty disease - I truly am grateful for the last 13 years and know that I am a very lucky lady.  The survival rates for lung cancer are somewhere around 14%, which are grim statistics.  If you smoke, please consider drastically cutting down or quitting.  I know it's very difficult, but please understand you can have it and not even know it for years.  Don't mean to scare the hell out of anyone, but it's a serious subject.  I had radiation, chemo, lobectomy, and more chemo.  Thank you doctors for my life!

Warm Day Here in Cal-e-for-nea (as our Governor would say!)

Warm and beaut-e-ful day here in Cal-E-for-nea.  For some reason, that really irks me - I mean really - can't the guy learn to say "California" correctly??  It's been 4 years already!  Geez!  I wanted to support Meg in the beginning, but now I'm not so sure.  But Jerry Brown???  Well, she's made herself look bad with the Nanny firing and her wishy-washy back and forth stances, but you have to remember she's new to this, and when you say something, it sticks lady!  Too bad, I really thought California might have a chance still with the eBay ex-exec.  She definitely made some good dough-re-me at eBay! 

One of our court reporting agencies we use at work brought a big bucket of Halloween candy right before lunch.  I ate way too much!!  Then had a cup of Trader Joe's Organic Tomato Soup (try it if you haven't; or try the Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup -fabulous!), and then more candy, then more candy, then a lot of bubble gum....yuk.  I could launch myself to Australia and back if need be with the extra fuel I'm packing, if you get my drift.  Sorry.  I'll try to be polite. 

I guess you'd like to see a pic of Pea-Nuttery.  I'm gonna go look for one now.  Later. 

Here she is - rather here's her cute little face.  She loves to burrow.  She's a fat little Chihuahua!  My Little Pea-Nuttery - I lover her so much! 

Jen
Jen

That's Gabriel, my son (aka Vacuuming Fool!) helping me clean my apartment before we move. You can't see it, but he is sitting on a coaster with wheels. If you look closely, you'll see the vacuum is hanging over his shoulder with a ripped piece of fabric. I had to document this event. Also check out the blurrrrrrrrr of the vacuum wand.