A Perfect Summer Day - 7/1/07

This is a perfect day in the Maryland/D.C. area. Its about 80 degrees with very low humidity. The sun is shining and the breeze is blowing. I have opened all the windows in the house to air it out; all except the den where my husband has retreated to stay warm. I even figured out how to open that bathroom window that I had such problems with when Warren was in the hospital. It was all a matter of leverage. Most of the windows here are tall with the sills being about 2 feet off the floor so it is easy to get a good leverage for raising them. The bathroom window, however, is shorter and set higher in the wall. This morning I thought that if I stood on the step stool I might be able to get it open. It took standing on the top step, but it opened right up. Even Warren hadn't been able to budge it before. I love overcoming seeming obstacles.

I've been doing laundry and and prepping food for dinner. I'm going to make stuffed peppers, but with red, yellow and orange peppers instead of green. I also made a small batch of potato salad with some tiny red potatoes that I had left in the pantry. I cleaned out the vegetable bin in the fridge, more commonly known as the "rotter", tossing out a mushy green pepper and some romaine lettuce that had decided to go the way of all flesh. When there is fresh air moving through, I have a lot more energy and enthusiasm for my tasks.

I had a request from someone new this morning to become my friend in Yahoo. Normally, if I'm not familiar with the person (haven't seen them commenting on other people's blogs), I will check out their page, their profile, and their friends to see if they are someone who I would enjoy interacting with in the future. I take "friends" very seriously and don't view this as a contest to see who can amass the largest friends list. Anyway, I decided to check her out. Yahoo says she's 22 but her profile says she's in high school. There is no blog. I look at her friends, most of which have no blogs, but some that do are written in Arabic. Can she read Arabic? In her connection request she said that she was randomly scanning her friends profiles and found my pic (not my blog mind you) on one of my friends friends list. When I checked my friend that she mentioned, she was not on his friends list or on any of his friends lists. So far her score for being accepted by me is "0". I was just wondering if the rest of you get requests of this nature. Am I being too restrictive? I wouldn't have a problem at all with a teen aged friend who was writing and genuinely interested in what I was writing, but this does not appear to be the case.

Moving on now.......I am so enjoying the quiet peacefulness of this airy day. Tomorrow we go back to NIH and get the results of the CAT scan Warren had on Friday. We're hoping for some good news this time, but are prepared for whatever comes. I've given up trying to "read" his health, its just too hard to do with someone this close to me. There is so much of my own fear and emotion in the way.

The first of July already. Its high summer now. I'm considering doing a mini-road trip this week up to Pennsylvania for a picnic and dip in a cold mountain lake. If Warren is able to continue in his current chemo protocol, this will be the last week of break before the next 2 weeks of daily treatments.

Have a wonderful Sunday.