Catching Up - Again

Yikes! Blog much?

Well, let's see. In the last month, we've finished all of our butt worm medicine and all of the kids have a clean bill of health. J finished her last chemo consolidation treatment. Wahoo! But then came down with a type of pneumonia and was in the ICU (and on a ventilator) for five days. Good times. Nothing like spending your Labor Day weekend in the hospital. But the good news is that she is now doing great and back at home. I'm not going to elaborate because I still can't really talk about it. Suffice it to say, it was pretty darn scary.

But something weird happened tonight and I needed to get it down before I forget. Tomorrow is J's birthday and I went shopping after work for some jammie bottoms for her (ones that have not been tainted by the hospital - ick). I have also been having a sort of down day. Just tired and bummed and dreading going to the mall. I wandered into Von M*aur and headed upstairs. I was bopping around checking stuff out and not finding anything that was quite right. This super nice saleswoman came up and asked if I needed help. I told her I was just looking and she wandered away to help someone else. I found the perfect pair of pants (they have cats all over them - heh) and headed up to the register to check out. The saleswoman that tried to help me before came up to ring me up. I asked about the return policy because I wasn't sure if/when J would be up for the mall in case she wanted to return them. I told her why and who the pants were for and we got talking about everything. Cancer, pets, life, etc. She was just the sweetest person and she turned out to be one of those people that make you feel better just being around them. She really cheered me up and she just has no idea. I love it when I run into people like that. Then this other saleswoman came up and asked me if my hair was natural. Man, I haven't heard that in a long time - mostly because I refuse to go out in public. heh So we got to talking about hair and I told them how Ashley the Wonder Hair Girl is moving away and how sad I am and how worried that I won't be able to find someone else to cut my hair and Saleswoman #2 said she thought she knew someone who could do a good job. So she wrote down this name and number and gave me her own name and told me to tell them that she sent me there. Crazy. So I have a potential lead on a new hair person. All I can say is crazy. Sometimes you just really get what you need when you need it. I went in there bummed out and feeling crappy and came out cheered up and with a maybe new hair person. Hmmm. Craziness.

Let's see what else. I haven't taken a lot of pictures either. I'm just so frustrated with my camera. I snapped a bunch of shots of T about a month ago. Everything was the same and I just held down the button. And some of them are dark and some of them are light. It's crazy. I don't know how to fix my flash issue. Or white balance. Or whatever. Ugh. It's just so frustrating and I don't know how to fix it. My camera is known for a certain quirk (yay!) and I just can't seem to get it fixed right. I need to go to Ritz and ask them. And buy a tripod. heh Or just get photoshop and be done with it. It has to be possible to take great SOOC shots. It just has to. I know my shots are crappy. I just want to feel like I have some control over the crappiness. That's all.