Long overdue post…

Hello Everyone!

Well as you can see fall has come to our neck of the woods. The first picture is of Nassau hall. It was a bit dark out but I still think it is a cool picture. The other two are taken on our patio. The last picture is of me because I recently got my hair cut. My mom saw the made up version but this is me when I don’t have a stylist. I like my hair now. For those who don’t know me I have had the same long hair style for about 12 years. This style cut off about 8 inches off. I had a lot of hair! There is a picture of me with Emily in the other blog that shows how long my hair was. It was taken about 1 month before she died.

I got the news from the beta back. Sadly it wasn’t good news. My beta level has lowered to 10 from 15. I need it to be under 5. So now they are having me go back in 2 weeks. This really doesn’t change anything as far as me cycling. I am just going to call them when I get my period and with any luck I will be below 5 then. Then I can do testing and all and move forward. I don’t expect to get my period though for a couple of weeks. My guess is a week from yesterday (or Sat. Dec. 1st). I guess that only because I have a dentist appointment the following day and this would make it so that would conflict. I would have to figure out a way of being in two places at once!

In other news my beloved Sally (our Camry) has a boo boo. Tony was stopped at an intersection and a delivery truck rear-ended him. He is fine but Sally got a bit of a bump. Her bumper is cracked and I worry that with Tony normally driving Sally that if he got rear-ended again that the next person would end up in the back seat! So tomorrow we are bringing her in to be repaired. It is expected to take 2 days but that is only based on what they can see from the outside. There is a chance that there could be more damage on the inside that they can’t see. That is why I thought this week would be perfect. We have an extra day on Wednesday and Tony will not have to miss work. (You all know how I don’t like him to miss work! Ha ha!)

Tony got his Christmas present already. It is a limited edition book, The Grimani Breviary. Tony hasn’t looked at it much yet but it looks like it will be a treasure in our family for years to come!

Thanksgiving: Well for Thanksgiving we are going to stay at home this year. I got a turkey breast and we are going to brine it in a cider brine. We are also going to have Cranberry Stuffing, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, and for desert Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake. Believe it or not I have planned this meal to work in my diet. So that is good! We will just have LOTS of left overs! I am going to try to take a picture of the final product and I will post it next weekend.

Next weekend I also plan on bringing out some of Christmas. I am going to use my tomato cages as Christmas trees in my pots on the patio (upside down of coarse). I will string a bunch of lights on them. I also plan on doing lights around in other areas out there. Depending on how festive I may get I might also bring out indoor Christmas with my Snow Village and the Christmas tree (fake of coarse!). Depending on how much I get done I will also take pictures of that.

Well that is about all I can think of. I hope all is well with everyone and I hope that you have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving… provided you celebrate it.

Jennifer