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Weekly Wrap Up | 2/26/23

Aloha friends!

Ugh what a week. I’ve been dealing with the chronic fatigue that comes with taking Tamoxifen and it SUCKS really bad. For three days straight, I was napping before lunch time, wanted to nap after bringing my kids home from school and had to crash early for bed. How can I survive this for 5 years? Well I did cut back on a lot of caffeine because I was trying to get my blood pressure to perfect 120/80 but I did have to give in and started to add back a tad bit more caffeine in my day and it helped. I’m not drinking a whole cup of it – my heart can’t handle that anymore…but a few sips actually helped me stay awake all day! Thank god, because I was getting scared there for a moment…I have 2 kids, I can’t sleep the day away!

My husband does come back to visit in 2 weeks so the kids are excited, my daughter’s mood has been amazing since she found out he’s coming home for a little bit. It will be nice!

Anyway I hope all of you have a good week ahead!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 2/19/23

Aloha friends!

My week started with a broken heart – the Eagles lost the super bowl but it made me love Jalen Hurts more, so I’m not totally bummed. It was a good game! Then Monday I had an appointment at the Cancer Center in town, and that was nerve-wracking only because I didn’t know what they would say about my risk…etc…plus I was on a time crunch and had to get back to my side of the island before my kids got let out of school. Anyway the appointment went very well – I am high risk, 31% chance of my lump turning into cancer in 10 years SO the plan is to monitor it VERY closely and I started Tamoxifen to help stop my cells from turning into cancer. I have to take it for 5 years and so far side effects are minimal but I’m only a few days in. I have hot flashes, and I did have a little bit of nausea the second night of taking it. But so far so good and I pray it does it’s job. I’m glad I caught this early and can go preventive medicine.

After that stressful beginning of the week, things tapered off and my kids are on a 4-day weekend. It’s been rainy so we’ve been mostly indoors but I don’t mind because I want to not drive anywhere this weekend or at least anywhere too far or drive all day. I just need a rest. And I’d love to read some books during that rest so yeah that was my week!

I hope all of you have a great week ahead!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 2/12/23

Aloha friends!

Today is the Super Bowl in the USA and the game will not have started when this posts but my family is rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles since my husband is from Philadelphia! The Kansas City Chiefs are a great opponent and their coach used to coach the Eagles so in a way we feel like we’ll be happy with whoever wins. I think having the Eagles win 5 years ago against Tom Brady and the Patriots took a lot of the edge off of my husband and me (he was such a bitter fan LOL…it was tough being married to him during football season 😆). I told him I’m his good luck charm because since he married me this is their second time going to the super bowl – woohoo! Anyway, my son isn’t a football fan so he’s whatever, my daughter loves to cheer the Eagles on and we’ll face time with my husband from the start to the end of the game so he can watch in Okinawa. I hope they win! If they don’t oh well, at least they got there, we weren’t expecting this year at all.

I got a few appointments done which is a relief. I was nervous about the one with the surgeon but since my lump is pre-cancerous I have a bunch of options! I can monitor it or get it removed. With my husband not here we had to discuss the options but my mom said she can totally stay with me and take care of me and the kids if I do the surgery – so I think I’ll do in the summer, after our Okinawa trip. I feel good about it – it’s a quick procedure, no overnight hospital stays involved and I should be after 1-2 weeks. Just in time to do back to school shopping. But we shall see, I have a few more appointments and consultations to go to before I make a final, FINAL decision on the surgery. And with that said – be sure to get your mammograms annually – so you can catch things like these early!

Can you believe we are pretty much at mid February?! It’s pretty wild to me. Anyway I hope all of you have a great week ahead!

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  • Halloween horror background with spooky vines. Green branches and lantern with copyspace.

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  • Ginny & Georgia (Season 2 – Netflix)
  • NFL Football – today is the super bowl so I’m definitely watching since our team is playing!

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 2/5/23

Aloha friends!

Another week has gone by and it’s February – wow! I know this month is gonna go fast since it’s the shortest month of the year. I’m just trying to take it one week at a time. This past week was pretty much more of the same. I bought our tickets to Okinawa so that’s exciting. My parents will be coming with me and the kids so that will be fun and I’m grateful for the help on the plane and traveling a long way.

My husband is visiting us in 5 weeks and the kids are excited.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

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  • Halloween horror background with spooky vines. Green branches and lantern with copyspace.

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  • Ginny & Georgia (Season 2 – Netflix)
  • NFL Football – the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl – which is the team we root for since my hubby is from there. Very exciting!

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/29/23

Aloha friends!

The weeks are flying by and I wish I got a day off – but single parent life is my gig for 23 more months. So I’m just like my kids, looking forward to every holiday weekend they have got coming. Is it spring break yet? LOL…end of the school year yet? I’m looking forward to those breaks and yet not really because that would mean the year would be half over! 🤦🏻‍♀️ January is almost over and next week will be my kids 100’th day in school. Woohoo!

My daughter has a cold but the vog (volcanic air) has been bad this week – my sinuses have been acting up too. But we are both okay!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

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  • NFL Football
  • Bling Empire – New York

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Weekly Wrap Up | 1/22/23

Aloha friends!

It was a nice short week and my kids and I had a busy weekend (every weekend seems busy these days). So this week flew by. I can’t quite believe it’s already Sunday! 🙃 I feel like I have no breaks anymore.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

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**I’m actually listening to Cool for the Summer as an audiobook! Yup, I’m trying audiobooks again. Hopefully I can complete this one.**🤞🏽

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  • NFL Football – the playoff games!
  • Emily in Paris (Season 3) – finally finished and yikes – the drama!

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/15/23

Aloha friends!

I hope all of you had a good week! Mine was busy but I had a nice break this week and actually finished reading a few books. Yay!

I’m excited it’s a 3-day weekend and we have tomorrow off. I am trying to plan a trip to visit my husband in Okinawa hopefully in March. Tickets are so pricey – yikes! But our kids miss him a lot. In 3 days it will have been one month he’s been gone! I felt like he just left last week or something. So like I told him — the days are gonna go by fast and sure enough, it is. I can’t say the same for him though – he is finally in an apartment and waiting for us to visit lol. So he’s lonely (he will start work officially this week though) and he calls us on face-time twice a day, even just to hear our dog bark at him through the phone haha. So hopefully we can go in March.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

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  • NFL Football – the playoff games!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 1/8/23

Aloha friends!

What a week! 🤯

We celebrated my nephew and daughter’s birthday. My kids had a few doctor’s appointments, and they went back to school. My hubby was in Los Angeles for his dad’s funeral and his flight back to Okinawa was riddled with delays, missed flights, etc…he officially HATES flying right now. How did he happen to his every kind of flying drama in the span of 3 weeks? Poor guy, plus his sleep is truly messed up with all the time zones he has traveled. He has a lot to get done this week before he starts his official job so I pray it goes smoothly from here on out.

Yesterday was my daughter’s birthday party so I am exhausted today but I have to take them to Sunday school soon. So no break for me. I’ll finally have a break on Tuesday…just got to take one day at a time! Hopefully I can actually have energy to read this week also.

I hope all of you had a good week!

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  • NFL Football

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Weekly Wrap Up | 1/1/23 | Happy New Year!

Aloha friends!

I was kind of relieved the holiday rush of Christmas was over. We made it through Hanukkah and Christmas without my hubby – the kids survived it and I was glad. We use face-time with him a lot so it’s been really nice for us.

My family (parents and sister and her family) slept over my house on New Year’s Eve because their neighborhood always sounds like a war zone before and after midnight. I feel so bad for their dog and all the pets that get traumatized by fireworks. My neighborhood isn’t as loud and it helps that my house is insulated – so loud bombs/bangs are a bit muffled.

There was some bad news to end 2022. My father-in-law unexpectedly passed away on 12/28/22. He did have neck surgery 2 weeks ago and was dealing with some undiagnosed UTI issues I think but he was unresponsive on Wednesday morning. Thing is my hubby’s step-mom called him frantic because his dad kept trying to go to the bathroom and falling over. He said he was fine and didn’t need to go to a doctor or ER. Clearly he was not fine – that was my hubby’s last time talking to him. So it’s been….quite a week. My hubby flies out to Los Angeles today (Monday Okinawa time) for the funeral. I cannot believe the amount of flying he’s done in the past 6 weeks alone. Poor guy.

Today is my nephew’s 15th birthday. And then my daughter is turning 6 in 2 days. We’re having a party on Saturday and whew am I trying to conjure up energy and positivity!

I’m just trying to hold it all together but I can’t believe this is how 2023 is starting. I pray for patience and peace. I pray for strength and good health. My husband gave me a gift card for a massage so when I get a chance, I’m definitely going to use it!

I hope ALL of you have a Happy New Year!

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  • NFL Football

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Weekly Wrap Up | 12/25/22

Aloha friends!

It’s Christmas so Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays to those who don’t – blessings to one and all!

The one thing I dislike about Christmas is the traffic and short tempers/patience of people rushing to do things. I try to avoid going to the malls the two days before Christmas just to avoid being in a stressed out mood. It’s Christmas! We shouldn’t be so stressed out. But it never fails to give me some sort of stress from gift buying, delivering the gifts and trying to meet up with people, etc…but I do love the joy it brings my kids when they see the decorations. It’s winter break so and I got my kids the board game Life for Hanukkah and we have been playing Life (on repeat), Twister (someone else gifted that to my kids for Hanukkah), dreidel because it’s Hanukkah and my daughter can’t pass up trying to win chocolate! And speaking of chocolates…I’ve been getting so much treats and I try to give them away and then I get more treats back. 😅 My hubby isn’t here to help me indulge and I need to watch myself – he told me to just pack it up and send it to him in Okinawa.

He’s settling in fine, his job seems to be soooo much less stressful than the one here. I said he better relish this mental vacation because when he comes back in 2 years he’ll have to get used to the amount of work and the pace of work he did back here in Hawaii. And it’s crazy to think Hawaii as a stressful place to work, but it can be – he literally went from one island to another island just in different countries lol. He face-times us twice a day – and sometimes he gets on Minecraft with the kids (he created a personal server for them to use while he is away so they can be on together), and then he even played Life with the kids today 😅. So they are doing fine. When he starts work and the kids get back to school schedule it will be more difficult to face time but we’ll make it work.

Anyway that was my week – the stress of the holidays! Now it’s time to plan my daughter’s birthday sigh…the money spending never ends for me in November-January! 😩

Are we all ready for the New Year?!

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I can barely read I’ve been so busy!

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  • Emily in Paris – Season 3 (Netflix) – I’m halfway through the season! I’m trying to watch it while on the treadmill.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!