Renae lives in Pomona: Life is what hgappens when you are busy making OTHER plans

Sorry about being late with my post. I TRIED but I actually DO hace a life and it got in the way. I have been fighting this flu/cold for a wek now and I am just not winning, add to that my darling husband turns 50 on the 22nd, and I am trying to arrange a surprise Birthday party. online friends have been asked to please send E cards, friends from choir are being asked to sene-cards and Real World cards old friends are being asked to show up at the tuesday night "Truth Project" class, and my best friendwill bring a cake Meanwhile this cold is NOT letting up, and other that the Truth project class is being held at Pomona First Baptist I honestly don't know what that has to do with living in Pomona Ca

The process of putting together a Birthday party for Bob has inserted NEW goals into my life, and possibly my BLOG Bob has Cerebral Palsy and most people with CP don't get to have a 50th birthdya, or a wife, or a job or university degree. in the process of discovering how amazing my husband is I came accross bad news. the future does not look all that rosy. the symptoms for CP grow wors with aging, and about the only thing that slows it down is very agressive physical therapy and vigorous brain fitness therapy. I have a billion things to do as an advocate for my husband, We need to get heavily involved with United Cerebral Palsy and I have to push Kaiser into providing the therapy he needs, because so far they have watched him fall into decline without so much as explaining to either him, or me what to expect in the future We both had thought that CP is NOT degenerative, and so what it is was prettym much what the future held, NOW after reading a bunch of articles on CP and aging I realize there my not be a future, or at least not a lengthy rubust one, and that has taken a major toll on me not to mention how it has effected Bob. There is SO much to do and perhaps not a whole lot of time to do it, So, I must celebrate as much NOW as we get, and do as much as possible to make as much time as we can.

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What I am eating;

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So the GOAL is to eat 5 servings a day of fruits & vegetables a day, and so far this week again the goal is unmet. but it is better than last weel Last Wed I made a shells and chees with spinache, & had fruit for desert. I bought 15 cartons of greek yogurt at Winco and strawberries. I ate MY strawberries and yogurt, Bob just ate the yougut. and flat out balked at eating the granola, but ate the strawberries. We ate brocoli soup on Thus ate out on Friday & Sat on the grounds that PFB was hosting a marraige seminar, that was good but Friday was the start of an internet ISP nightmare, and was was just too busy to cook.an actual meal Sat I was exhausted and Sundy I served those really yummy brightly colored peppers that are sold at the grocery store in a 2 # bag. I parboiled them let them cool then stuffed them with Tuna salad madw with gorgonzola Canned Tuna Green onion,chopped canned pears, and celery, with a bit of mayo to hold it all together . I think we each scarfed down a@ adozen of them, and Monday we ate Angel Hair pasta with a half a jar of spaghetti sauce thrown in with a half a chopped onion, a package of sliced potabella mushrooms and a couple of sweet Italian sausages and a simple greens & tomato salad, but Tuesday and wednesday again I was scarfing down fast food ~~~SIGH~~~

I'll try to do better

Still no links to coupons. & no fruits and vegie icons, & as suddenly busy as I am I don't hold out much hope for that for next week either.

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What I plan on cooking:

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This week's cat story:

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Still no pics or biographies of the Kiddens - sorry I keep telling you I have been busy. I have read a few cat stories that are far more amusing that anything I can think of at the moment, but I failed to ask for permission to post the stories here, so this will have to do today:

Tommy is my reed boy cat who is 4 years old and still trying to figure out the feline heiarchy in this house Miss Cleo's nighttime Napping spot is on my hip as I tend to sleep on my side, but Tommy is also trying to claim that spot. Sometime I think I am really very little but real estate, that has a can opening feature. So Tommy has a NEW trick he is trying out in his fight for prime real estate, he has started to stretch his furself fro my knee to my armpit, and I am no small person in any sense of the word. He IS that big. So there he is, all stretched out and Miss Cleo hops up on the bed and I have these flashes of what happens to the actual turf opposing armies fight over, as Miss Cleo hops up on top of tommy ontop of my hip, and since Tommy refused to budge, so did M after a while I needed to shift positions and the two sleeping cats tumbled onto the matress And I got roundly chewed out by both parties. Oh well.

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Shopping in Pomona:

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Did my food shpping at Winco I have just been way too tired to do much else.

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humor:

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