life at home

last thursday was our last primetime (our large group meeting on campus) and in a fast turnaround, by 9 am friday morning, i had moved home to appleton for about a month. crazy to think how much my life can change in the matter of a few hours.

life in madison is crazy and busy and full of people.
life in appleton is slower and the only people i really see are my parents and brothers (oh, and the pets if you count them and there are 2 cats, 2 dogs, and i brought home my cat!)

life at home has been good though. mom had another chemo treatment on friday and so by sunday, was not feeling so hot again. so mothers day was a real treat. ;) but she is feeling better now and even went to work for half a day today. she is beginning to lose her hair. i guess i had always pictured it coming out in big clumps for some reason. but really it just is falling out like you would normally lose hair, just more frequently. my job lately has consisted mostly of picking hair off of mom's shirt. she modeled the wigs she had gotten today so we could figure out which ones to keep. it was kind of amusing. wigs look very different on than they do just on a hook or in a magazine. mom is hoping her hair will last through the weekend. we have a family bridal shower on saturday and i don't think she wants to debut her new wig in front of a ton of people right away. (ps i think i forgot to tell you that i cut at least 8 inches off of my hair. figured i would support mom and have less frizz to deal with this summer. picture to come soon.)

i've had more time to exercise, do my laundry, read, write some letters, and other things that i haven't had much time to do lately. it's been nice to do life at a little slower pace. i've been cooking and making real meals instead of eating on the fly which has also been nice. plus mom just has a much larger kitchen than i do. i also have gotten to watch tv at the actual time that it is on. instead of watching american idol at like 10:30 at night or a few days later, i actually got to watch it live. weird. of course that meant i had to watch commercials. lame. (i do enjoy the mac vs. pc commercials though. those are funny!)

i have also been enjoying the fact that it is nhl playoff season. i don't get much of a chance during the rest of the year to keep up to date on the nhl, but come playoff season, i love to watch my redwings. they just lost tonight, but are still up in the western conference series 3 games to 1. i like the stars, but i like the red wings more. if the stars were still the minnesota north stars, i might like them more. but alas, they are the dallas stars. so go red wings!

i guess that is about it for now. life at home allows me to post more, so i'm sure i will be here again soon.