Vacation!

I'm spending the weekend preparing for both my trip to California and what I'll refer to as my month long vacation from normal life in November. I bought the new I Pod Nano and spent most of the morning playing with all the cool features. I'm still looking for great song suggestions, especially since this I Pod has a great feature that takes any song in my song library and puts a play list together of other songs. Gotta love technology! I chose pink, of course :)

I'm excited for my trip to California and to spend time with Tim's family. We're going out early Wednesday and will be touring wine country Thursday, going to the rehearsal Friday and wedding Saturday, home on Sunday. I see that its about 79 and sunny every day, so I'm looking forward to the warm weather again.

A lot of people have commented on how well I'm adjusting to the news that I'll be having the surgery. I explain my "comfort" of this news by saying I have lived the past seven years knowing that I will, at some point, have to have the surgery, but never knowing when it would actually take place. Its a strange sort of calm that took over me when I knew the exact date and could actually plan on the surgery happening. A large weight was lifted from my shoulders when I knew it would be this year. I do still have moments of "oh crap, what am I in for?!" but I try to keep my mind occupied with what I have to plan before I am out for a month.

I have also come up with a list of things I would like to do during my recovery period. I know that I may be too tired and not feel well enough to complete these tasks, but it does help knowing that I have some sort of goal while laying around the house. My grandmother made the most wonderful applesauce and I always remember it making me feel good when I was having a bad day. I want to learn to make this applesauce...but don't have the recipe...so if any of my aunts has the recipe, can you please send it to me?

I have also missed out on some pretty great movies that I apparently can't go on living without seeing, so my wonderful boyfriend has offered to host movie nights every night at my house...looking forward to catching up on some classics!

If anyone else has some "low key" suggestions of things I might be able to try in my third and fourth weeks of "hanging around the house" please post them. I might not be up to it, but appreciate any suggestions!