I LOVE opera!!

I just got home from the third night in a row of rehearsal for Macbeth. I also found out that the women's chorus are the witches in the first scene, so I get to be a witch! Someone was describing the video of the Met's production of Macbeth from a few years ago, and it sounded really gory. I hope we do something like that here. Remember, we perform October 17-25, so it's right before Halloween. Scary witches and goriness is appropriate, don't you think? We don't rehearse again for a week, so I can have some of the pieces memorized by then, but I have to get working on that. I come home from working all day, then going to rehearsal and I am hardly tired. I love opera!!!

KC's first birthday party.

Here are some pictures of KC's party. Mike, Dane, Matt, Tori, and Dave (of course) were there and are in some of the pictures. It was fun and KC really liked opening presents and eating his cake.

update

Wow, it has been an unusual two weeks. For one week, I was being tested with radioactive iodine for thyroid tissue remaining in my body, then the next week I was being treated for thyroid cancer. That's almost continually being in isolation, 10 days on a no iodine diet and multiple full body scans. The whole process was not great. I survived though. Now they will follow my progress with biannual blood tests. I am not that worried about it, mostly I see it as a bump in the road. Maybe I am really in denial. I don't know.

This past Tuesday, Cloud went to Vista Farms, where she will hopefully be sold by Wendy the trainer to someone who wants a really good horse. Wendy and I both have the same goal to get her to a family who will love and keep her for the rest of her life. She is being ridden daily and gets to run around in a big field with the other horses. I am sure this is what she needed all along and if I had been able to do that, we wouldn't have had the problems we did with her. I will miss her when she is sold, but I am so happy that she is where she is now and I really hope someone will want to buy her. Wendy tells me that she is being perfect and sweet to the riders and the other horses. I am proud of what a good horse she is.

I am working on painting my kitchen, with help from Dave. He has been indispensable and I wouldn't be where I am in the process without his help. I will post pictures when it is finished.

Here she is.

Ok, let's try that again.

Cloud pictures

I had a professional photographer come out and take some pictures of Cloud. Here are a few.

More news

I sold my scooter!! Yay!!. No more payments on that. I sold it Monday to a really nice young couple. The lady said that they had been looking for awhile for a scooter and had gotten really discouraged because what people call perfect condition, wasn't. Mine was in great shape and had only been laid down once. They paid $2900 cash and I threw in my old helmet.

I got some nice photos of Cloud and posted them on my ksl ad this morning and got an email about her just awhile ago. So, maybe, with some luck, she will go to a new home where they will ride her. It will hurt to see her go, but it will be better for her and me for this to happen. I do think about getting another horse in awhile , like a quarter horse, gelding, calm old boy horse. No drama.

I am currently radio-active, until sometime tomorrow. I go for the scan tomorrow morning. I went off the low iodine diet this morning. YAY!!! I lost about 5 lbs on that stupid diet, because there is almost nothing to eat that doesn't have iodized salt, or natural iodine in it. All dairy, soy milk, eggs, tomato sauce, bananas, processed meats, crackers, cookies, almost everything premade, beans, broccoli, spinach, strawberries, chocolate, blueberries...the list goes on and on. So, that leaves water, cantaloupe, apples, grapes, lettuce, fresh meat ( I am not a big meat eater), plain pasta (no salt to add flavor), garlic, cinnamon, fruit juices and a few more things. Oh, unsalted roasted nuts, so I ate almonds until I can't look another one in the face. I have been on the diet since last Saturday, so this morning I was having fantasies about french toast, eggs, cereal with soy milk on it, toast with butter, but when I weighed myself and saw the weight loss, I calmed down a little. Then when I went to the kitchen, there was about 3 tablespoons of soymilk in the fridge, so I had cheerios with a tiny bit of milk on them, a banana, orange juice and two slices of toast with butter. I still have to avoid getting close to people, so I am hoping Dana will go to Applebee's and get me take-out. I have been having fantasies about that. I don't usually eat at Applebee's so it is weird. I set up Mike's bedroom in the basement for me and I like it except there is no phone and no TV. I have been watching dvd's on his computer, which is good. Ketza sits outside on the windowsill and begs for me to let him in. I can't have any of the animals on me, but I can't explain that to him. Poor kittyboy. I got a lot of knitting done yesterday and some good naps, but now I am bored. I wouldn't make a good invalid. Because I am excreting the radioactivity in my bodily fluids, I have to use disposable plates and bowls, and plasticware, wash my laundry separate, flush twice and rinse out the tub after showering or bathing. I'll be glad when it's over. The worst thing is that I can't see KC, but I will be able to see him after Friday. It would be awful if this lasted longer than that. Well, I need to find some lunch. Oh, peanut butter was on the bad food list, too. Thankfully, jam wasn't. No chocolate and no ice cream. Life was hardly worth living. TTFN

Yay for the opera

I got the email that I could go and pick up my score for the Scottish Play.    I guess there is a superstition about saying the name of MacBeth.  Anyway, I picked up my score and am excited to get started on it.  It's in Italian so that won't be too hard.  German is my least fav.  Carmen is in French, so that will be a little hard, too.  

I worked 11-7 last night and survived.  It wasn't too busy, so that helped.  Plus, it is a fun group on nights and we laughed most of the night.  It's amazing how funny stuff on YouTube is at 3 a.m.  

I am so glad that I won't have to do that again for 4 wks.  

I am still working on stripping and washing the walls in the kitchen.  Wallpaper paste is miserable stuff, just gooey.  

I also went to PT and Kurt gave me some exercises for  my neck and my shoulders.  He didn't seem to think that it is very serious and  he thinks that I will be able to improve my shoulder and neck with exercises.  He also suggested that I get a massage, so I will do that too.  And he said that riding my bike shouldn't aggravate either my neck or shoulder.  Yay.  

So, tomorrow, I plan to ride Cloud early, before it gets hot.  Then a bike ride sometime tomorrow.  THen, tend my vegie garden, strip wallpaper, clean house, do laundry...maybe I won't get all of that done, but it's good to have goals.  

Today, I was feeding a popsicle to KC and he wanted to hold it, so I showed him how.  Then he held it out for me to take a lick.  He would feed it to me for a few licks and then would feed it to himself for a few licks.  It was so cute and I didn't mind sharing a popsicle with him.  

Time to go to bed.