I Just Saw Mary Poppins Floating By....

At 6 a.m. it was 65F; right now, at 11:12 a.m., it is 32F, with winds gusting up to 30 m.p.h. and more.  We did not get all the rain we had been told to expect; just some scattered showers and a period of heavy rain late yesterday.  Right now our sprinkles of rain are turning to snow flurries.  I don't think we'll get anything like what the Midwest areas near us have gotten.  Right now I think this Ohio Valley is protecting us from all of that, but you never know -- everything could change tomorrow.

I'm in a happy place right now.  Literally.  I'm sitting in front of my computer in a fluffy robe, drinking a nice, hot cup of colombian coffee with French vanilla cream.  And I am hoping that I can get to all of the journals I love to read by the end of the day.  Possible?  I don't know.  If I haven't left a comment in your journal lately, please, please forgive me.  I just can't seem to get caught up.

  Today is the first day of a new month.  I'd like to take the first of every month, beginning this month, to send out a reminder to all you ladies, and you gentlemen with ladies in your lives -- if you haven't scheduled your yearly mammogram yet, do it today.  Set aside the first day of each month to give yourself a breast self-exam.  If this isn't a good time of the month for you, then take the first day of the month to mark a date on your calendar to do the exam.

Julie had her first dose of chemotherapy yesterday.  I need to call her this afternoon to see how she's feeling.  I hopefully will return later today.  I want to talk some more about this upcoming month.