Accomplishments, Parties and Plans

This past week I accomplished a lot outside of my normal every day goals.  I have to say, the one I'm the most relieved about completing is the photo log.  When I found out I got cancer I lost any desire to take photos I had.  In fact, I sold all of my good cameras and bought a cheap little 3X zoom.  I thought keeping a photo log would help redeem the desire to take photos again - but I was wrong.  I'm just happy to have completed that and be done.  It gave me no joy to pick up a camera again.  In fact, I think just based on the photos I took anyone could tell I didn't care what I took a photo of.  Oh well!

Accomplishments:
76.  Eat a yogurt every day for one month. (30/30) - 2/16/10-3/17/10
77.  Keep a photo log for one month. One pic a day. Blog it! (28/30) - 2/19/10-3/20/10
83.  Do not eat chocolate for one week. Do this 5 times. (1/5)
84.  Pack a lunch every day and eat it for a week. Do this 5 times. (2/5)
97.  Play at least one board game with the kid two days a week for a month. Do this 5 times. (1/5)
100.  Read one new book a month or the equivalent of 33 total. (3/33)

Anyway, tonight was good.  The hockey team that the kid is a fan member of had a special party with the players just for the kids club fans.  I took her and her friend and they had a ball.  We toured the locker room, sat in the zambonie, tried on the goalie gear and got tons and tons of autographs.  The kid had them sign her mini-stick and the other one had the game puck from the last game we went to.  Her friend thinks that this one player is so cute, so it made her night to get his autograph.  Of course they were totally amused by two 7 year olds fawning over them, so they also gave them their name tags at their autograph station.  You would have thought the two of them won a million dollars.  The players were so nice and it was great to see the kids so happy and feel so special.  I got some great photos of the kids!  I have this one of the kid with the goalie gear on making this scrunched up face.  It was her scary face, but she really looks like Pop-Eye the Sailor Man instead. 

The kid FINALLY received a postcard from postcrossing today!  When I got the mail and told her she finally got a postcard she began yelling, "I got one!  I finally got one!  I just can't believe it."  I mean, seriously, her reaction was if she had just gotten the powerball number!!!  The girl that sent the postcard was so sweet.  She must have looked at the kid's profile because she stuck some Winnie the Pooh stickers on the back for her.  The postcard came from Spain. I was so happy that she finally received one!

Well, I'm looking forward to tomorrow.  It's my last day of work for this week!  I'm taking three days off because it's Spring Break.  I still haven't decided what to do.  We were going to go into the city and get a hotel and spend two days down there, but the weather is supposed to be crappy so I'm not spending big bucks to stay in the city with crappy weather.  I guess I'll make a decision tomorrow based on the weather forecast that comes out then.  I do know that one day though we will take the train in and spend it at the museum.  The kid wants to see the dinosaurs.  Then we'll go to Greek Town for some flaming fired cheese.  I think she'll get a kick out of it because they light it on fire right at your table.  Beyond that, I don't know.  We wanted to go up to the skydeck, but again, partly cloudy doesn't cut it for me.
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Today I am grateful that I can give my daughter great opportunities like the party we went to tonight, that I am alive and well to see the utter joy on her face and hear her laughter, and for vacation days!!!!