Get yourself a cuppa cuz this week feels like two week’s worth of week.

Monday: Went to the urologist about the kidney stone (which has turned into two kidney stones so Let’s Take Care of This Right Away says Dr. Uro.) and he recommends a lithotripsy (shock wave stone breaking up procedure – I’ve had 3) asap. Someone will call me about scheduling, he says. I’m not eager cuz a) it’s a 2-day off work process, b) it’s a hefty co-pay and c) I need a personal human (not Uber) to pick me up afterwards (it’s twilight anesthesia). It’s always hard when I need a personal human for anything, cuz I don’t have one of those.

Also, I already hit my 12-mile goal for Step Up for Autism, so what the heck, I’m doubling down on my goal and aiming now for 24 miles!

Tuesday:

This dress arrived from Anthropologie. I was very excited to try something from their new plus size line. Amazingly, it’s TOO BIG and going back.

Wednesday:

Went to dinner with friends. Food was good, felt fine. Woke up at 2 am with fever and violent trembling and chills and could not stop for like 8 hours. Spent Thursday in bed. By Friday I felt fine. Weird.

Friday:

Finally got the call from the lithotripsy scheduler. Only heard it later on voice mail. “Hi, we can’t help you as your BMI is too high (read: you’re too fat) and we a) no longer work with the hospital and b) we can’t take the risk at our own center, so…you’re on your own. Bu-bye.” I’m paraphrasing slightly, but…not too much. So…uhm…

As of 4:01pm I was officially ON VACATION!!!

Went shopping. Looked at shoes. I thought these were fun…and they reminded me of Sharon from Best Before End Date.

Saturday:

Got a bang trim in the pouring rain. I never knew the salon where I go offers complimentary bang trims to their regular clients! Sweet!

Spent the afternoon napping and reading. I’m trying to push myself to the end of this book so I can move onto something better. Will explain in my review.

Easter Sunday:

Katie’s first Easter.

Went to the ex’es for Easter dinner. One niece made THE most delicious lemon cake (which I wish I had just one more sliver of), another cuddled with one of the dogs…

Detour on the way home to see the water.

Watery light.

I have given my vacation to-do list some thought and cannot go entirely without a list, but I did try to keep it to only three items in each of the three categories: blogging, apartment and fun. That’s 9 items and I’m off for 9 days…so we’ll see how I do.

Hope you all had a nice weekend or holiday…it’s finally pretty out, with flowers blooming and trees budding, etc, so I hope to get out and see it all this week!

xoxo Bettye