It’s my Mom’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Mom. A week from today, she is having an angiogram. I am sure she will be fine, but I hate these things. She has had several of them in the past. She has had at least one bypass surgery for peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the past. She has had 2 heart attacks. She isn’t old, but I worry about her. My Dad wasn’t old, either. I am going to be the driver who takes her to the hospital, sits waiting patiently, worrying while she is having the procedure done (she doesn’t do well with anesthesia) and then brings her home whenever they let her leave.

I have this grand post in my head. I just can’t figure out how to get it onto my blog. It might take a lot of work. And some more drawings. Sound exciting? I know how much you loved the drawing I did mapping out the area around where I work.

Have you ever had something that was so good, so unbelievably amazing and wonderful that it changed the color of your world and made it that much easier to be alive? If you have, did you ever question how you could be worthy enough to have that something and think that surely you wouldn’t have it for very long? I have something like that. I cannot tell you what it is because I am afraid that if I do, it will tempt fate or something and then maybe it will be taken away from me. I cannot ever imagine my life without this something. To lose it would be the greatest loss of my life.

My friend, ANO, is taking part in the Maryland Race For The Cure on October 14th. She is walking with her company’s team and their goal is $5,000 and her personal goal is $200. She is a little less than a quarter of the way there. Please go to her donation page and contribute if you can.

I think that about does it. If I don’t see you here before Monday, have a great weekend!