But I’ll show you the flooded backyard anyways This is low lying wetland, so its expected to fill up .. but this is the fullest we’ve ever seen it.

Looking straight out the backyard 

From the south west corner of the raised yard

This is from the corner of the house, where we tie the dogs out

Those of you who have been here might be able to recognize some of these shots. We have no downed trees, no shingles scattering through the yard or any real debris really. I took a walk out to get the mail and its the same story for all my neighbors, luckily. We lost our power for about 3 hours today but its back for now. 

I’ve got 2 beers in the freezer cooling off, some sweet potato fries in the oven .. things are much better now that the power is back on We have a nice break in the action for a bit .. but I can see things building out over the water .. could be heading this way soon. 

I’ve been updating twitter when I can’t get online .. so feel free to follow me and get all my updates!!

Hope everybody stays dry!

My hematologist agrees with the ENT that most likely I have a virus. But .. because the only testing I’ve had so far has been on my neck, he’d feel better getting a CT scan of my chest, abdomen and pelvis. So today I had more bloodwork, scheduled the CT for next Thursday, and the results for the Thursday after that. So 2 more weeks for the complete all clear. He did say that he really doesn’t think we need to worry and not to stress out at all, that he only wants me to worry enough to get the tests done. I’ll def. feel better after the 28th.

We got my results from the biopsy today, NO SIGN OF CANCER! Basically the biopsy they did only collected a few cells, but since there was nothing irregular he is more comfortable waiting it out rather then cutting me open for a full biopsy.  My ENT suggested waiting 2 months and coming back in to see how things were going. His #1 theory is that I have a virus similar to mono, and it just needs to run its course. My neck nodes haven’t seemed to increase over the past month he’s been seeing me, but I have a few new nodes in other areas that are enlarged (slightly), so I’m getting a 2nd opinion with my hematologist tomorrow morning. 

Update on my meal / diet plan .. I do have breakfast, 2 low fat nutra grain eggos every morning .. for like .. the past 3 months or so I dont even think about my breakfast, so I didn’t include it I haven’t been following my plan as closely as I had planned. Tuesday I broke my pinky toe, so I didn’t feel like cooking. Wednesday night I ended up making the tacos, but today I waited until 2:30 to find something to eat, so I ended up with a chicken hotdog in a whole wheat bun. We also stopped at Outback tonight after getting my results .. so tonight’s dinner is gone too Tomorrow I have to figure out what to do with all the left over tacos, chicken breasts and hamburger that’s in my fridge

Just got quite the interesting email from Amazon.com .. 

We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Baby Massage Therapy: Newborns, Infants & Toddlers version2.0 have also purchased The Best of Penis Massage on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that The Best of Penis Massage will be released on August 26, 2008.  You can pre-order yours by following the link below.

At first .. I thought it was a very clever spoof email for porn .. but then I realized that I really did buy the infant massage for Liz & Ella .. and this was a legit email! I’m sure they’re going to get a ton of complaints on this one (Yes, there was even a picture of the cover of the DVD .. no penises, but very suggestive)

I’m really falling behind on my Remember the Milk tasks .. so today I organized my tasks throughout the week based on their categories. I think this will really help me get things done without jumping all over the place like I usually do. 

Monday  - Domestic Duties (aka, menu plan, grocery shopping, laundry, dishes, pick up clutter)
Tuesday – Bookkeeping 
Wednesday - Programming / Design
Thursday – Sewing (start/finish some of the numerous projects that have been piling up, Dr. appt late afternoon)
Friday - Free Day
Saturday – Gardening
Sunday –  Photography Biz

I’ll let you know if this helps me get things done