Author: Eileen OShea
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To all of our active friends…
We’ve been quite engrossed over the past three weeks watching the Tour de France (and it’s been a great year!). As it’s been broadcast on Versus (not a major network), the advertisements have been, um, intriguing. Who can forget Smiling Bob? And the constant promos for Fanarchy? But along with the dreck they’ve been promoting…
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Good news
It’s been a while since the last official Chuck-date, but it’s been for all good reasons. He’s been recovering from chemotherapy (and let me tell you, chemo kicks some serious ass so it requires a lot of recovery) and growing hair and starting to run again and regaining his taste in food and wine. So…
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The waiting is the hardest part
Chuck had a PET scan this past Monday, his first since the one that declared him in remission from his follicular lymphoma last April. The test itself was uneventful: he had to eat a weird diet the night before to get his blood sugars low, then got a dose of Ativan and went sleepy-tie-tie for…
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Crazy like a fox
I’ve had, for the past three years, a 2006 Mini Cooper S that we bought (not leased), and it’s just about paid off (yay!). I had been reading that the resale value for Minis was killer so was doing some investigating online and sure enough, values were ranging in the $16,000 to $19,000 range. The…
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Suddenly I feel much stronger…
So I’ve been swimming along Bayshore Beach in Long Beach getting in shape for a September triathlon. Chuck has been kayaking along beside me, giving me grief when I slow down or my stroke gets really sloppy (in his mind most of the time). He told me initially that it was a half mile from…
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Life, etc.
Wow, I haven’t posted in a while. Happily it’s because we’ve been busy doing fun stuff in between work stuff. We spent a great long weekend in Ventura/Oxnard last weekend at a beach house. We spent one day hiking on Santa Cruz Island. What an amazing and beautiful place – we’d never been to the…
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