Overdue post

A week ago I took my mom to a lunch cruise on the Portland Spirit. I was invited as a thank you for my peripheral blood stem cell donation just over two years ago from the National Marrow Donor Program. It was a nice gesture and I feel so lucky that I was a match with someone, it's not very common. I put in a request to allow the recipient/his family to contact me if they would like since I have no idea who they are.

The food was excellent, all of it. A wonderful salad, bread, cheesy pasta with fresh vegetables and cheesecake with strawberries.

The move went really well, here are some of my goofy helpers.


My little part of the big backyard. I don't even want to talk about the futon rotting out there. I have my dahlias, tomatoes, strawberries, and herbs.


My dining area

My favorite part of this house maybe? The perfect place to display my salt and pepper shakers.


The bathroom. I tried to take that toilet seat off, it stinks. But it is rusted on, so I need to ask the maintenance guy to take it off for me. I have a new one all ready to go.

The rest of the house is mostly there, but I have way too much stuff for this house, so I am in the process of getting rid of a lot of things so it's not so cluttered in here.
In other news I saw an orthopedist, he's not sure what's causing my pain, but thinks it may be a torn tendon. I had an MRI yesterday, I'll have results on Wed. By the way MRIs are not a fun treat. It's noisy, uncomfortable and you feel like you can't breathe or you'll move too much and mess up the scan. I guess I did good though, it only took 30 minutes and only one scan was unusable. Well I'm hopefully off to hike with some friends today and have lots of little projects around the house. I made lots of lightswitch covers! Pictures to come.