Hmmm… where to begin? Well, you all know I got a new joblet and that I have been so busy! In the past 2 months, I have trained for three 5k races almost every other night. I ran three 5k races. I had several birthday celebrations, had Traczillas bridal shower and bachelorette party, played lady dice, went golfing, went to the driving range to improve my golf game, read a couple books, baked a few hundred cookies, mowed my lawn several times, learned to re-ride my bike, swam enough to have an August tan in June and watched a couple movies… That doesn’t cover it, but I am winding down.
My employer finally hired a person to take my job so that I can move into my new job full time, so that is nice because I will not be doing 2 jobs for the price of 1 anymore. My sister will be married next week, so that will take some more stuff off my plate. I do not have another race until July 17, so I have slightly more than a month to prepare for this one… Im going to take it slow J And hopefully our lawn will not need mowed every 4 days anymore.
I am just going to entertain you today with a couple little funny stories:
My cousin Sally*purchased some plants to have a garden this summer. She went to the local greenhouse and picked up several different plants and 1 tomato plant. If you don’t know this, in Western Pennsylvania, the tomato plants have been diseased and then you put all this time into a garden and the tommies are rotten. Many people in our area have purchased Topsy Turvey Tomato Planters – my father also purchased a Topsy Turvey Pepper Planter – and they seem to be growing nicely. Anywho, I digress… So, Sally purchased 1 tomato and told her husband Ramón* (who is a farmer may I add) that the man at the greenhouse told her to cut the plant off at the stem (like horizontal away from the root) and plant the top half of the tomato and throw away the rest (like the dirt and the root). Ramón asked Sally a couple times if she was sure because he had never heard of throwing away the root. OK, well in the end Ramón only wanted to please Sally, so he whacked the top of the plant off and stuck it in the ground.
Sally coated the plant in fertilizer (to help the stick grow) and watered it really well. Then they went in the house and went to bed. In the morning, Sally went out to look at her garden and low and behold that tomato plant was shriveled up and dead. Sally scooped that plant up and took it back to the greenhouse and said to the man “I did what you told me to and look at my plant, Its dead.” The greenhouse man replied to Sally “I told you to dig a hole deep enough [to get to where you cut off the plant] and plant the whole thing.”
Good times were had by all at the greenhouse I am sure :)
I am not sure how many of you know this but my Grandfather whom I call “Pap” has lung cancer. He has a few spots on his lunglets and I am sure he will be ok. He is in good health otherwise and I think they will get all the cancer when they operate later this month. So here is a funny about that.
My friend Kara* was emailing another friend of mine Krissy* to tell her about my grandfathers condition. I believe the email from Kara went something like this
“Toni’s pap has cancer that needs operated on and he is going to the Cleveland Clinic to get a second opinion on the operation”
Among other things, but that is the just of it. So Krissy emails back to Kara
“Are they sure its cancer, maybe it is HPV or that precancer in the cervix”
Kara got the email and was very confused. Wrote back to Krissy
“I do not think that her Grandfather is worried about cervical cancer”
Krissy wrote back the following
“I thought Toni’s pap like the smear kind, not her Grandfather”
So…. While Kara was telling me this, I almost peed my pants… And I would like everyone to Pray for My Pap today… (my Grandfather, not the smear)… Oh good times!!!
* The names have been changed to protect the innocent
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