Busy week so far

Here's what I spent most of Monday and Tuesday on:

Well, there was actually more than that one paint scheme. I had to do a couple more in a rush job for a presentation that was given somewhere in Arizona today. I had to completely draw a Bell 407 helicopter template to do the paint schemes on, plus redraw the hospital logos. It was not too bad because once I get into a project I tend to get lost in it and time flies for me. Usually the problem is getting into a project in the first place! But once I'm there and the muses are hanging out with me, it's sweet and things get done. Sometimes I wish I were more of a workaholic...like 60% of one...and I'd get more things done but that's just not me. But I do enjoy some of my jobs and totally get into them. It's even better when the check arrives in the mail! Yeahhh!

The last couple of nights we have spent at the old house, painting and trying to organize things. I had wanted to get it completely empty by the end of this month but somehow February is missing a couple of days and it's thrown me off. It looks like the weekend is more realistic to get everything out. If we end up renting the place ourselves, I'll toss some of my stuff in the shed out back so I can sort through it later on without disturbing the rentors. I took a load of things to the recycling center and trashed other things.

On a side note: Happy Birthday, Shannon!

I found out a number of days ago that a good friend of mine might be having a recurrence of cancer...I'm not happy. But she has a good attitude about it. I guess when you've faced the chance of dying once and beat it, why can't you do it again? Natalie is most worried about losing her hair again...it came out so great after her chemo last summer, really cute and curly. She'll have to dig out her wraps and hats again! Jonnene and I will try to spend time walking with her between chemo treatments to keep her strength up and keep her active, but I think she'll handle this second round pretty well. If things had happened like they normally do with Stage 4 ovarian cancer, I wouldn't be talking about this right now. Miracles do happen and they don't have to happen just once, right?

Got in a 3-mile run at lunch today and hope to do a couple of hours on the bike tomorrow afternoon. After that we look at possible new carpet for the old house. I think we're going to be busy for the next 2-3 months...lots to do.