My Mohs surgery went great. I don’t know if you know how Mohs works. They cut out the area they know has the basal cell carcinoma plus a little margin. Then they test. If there is any cancer in the margin, they cut again. Repeat until clear. One is told to be prepared to be there for several hours. I had 3 books on my phone and snacks in my bag. Mine was clear after the first cut. The healing has gone well, too. I will end up with a slight scar on my nose, barely noticeable, especially as my nose is not something to look at anyway.
AAA gave me a fairly decent payout on my totaled car. That with some emergency savings helped me get a good replacement. After thinking about maybe a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, or perhaps a Honda Pilot, I decided that since I loved my Honda CR-V, I would get another. So now I have Storm, a white 2018. But she has some idiosyncrasies. Sometimes when I get out of the car, all the windows and the sunroof open. I don’t think that I have been pushing the key fob, but maybe? Also, Android Auto isn’t connecting. I am taking her to CarMax service on Wednesday.
I took myself to Disney California Wednesday. Just me. Flew down and back the same day. It was off to a rocky start. I missed my morning flight! Fortunately, that only cost me two hours. When I got to the park, the app said that one of my favorite rides, Radiator Springs Racers was closed. And then I found out the cost of Mickey Bars had gone up. By a quarter. 25cents not a quartere of the original cost. Still delicious! But it was going to be a good day anway, and things smoothed out. Radiator Springs Racers opened up again. It was a very good day. It was relaxing to just go with the flow and not worry about anybody or anything. I toured the Bakery and had some sourdough bread. I rode Radiator Springs Racers - twice! Luigi’s Honkin’ Haul-o-ween (I love those dancing cars), Grizzly River Run (very refreshing on a hot afternoon), Monsters, Inc Mike & Sully to the Rescue, and Soarin’ Around the World. Turtle Talk with Crush was totally awesome, dude! At Animation Academy, I drew a vampire Mickey. Lots of people wished me a happy birthday. It was a very happy (pre)birthday.
On my actual birthday, I had a relaxed more or less normal day. One thing I did for myself was perform a task I had been putting off - sometimes with good reason and sometimes simply procrastination. Visiting one of my ministering sisters. D is 88 years old and homebound. She is friendly and loves to be visited. Sometimes her speech is impossible to understand. Friday, her speech was pretty clear which was nice! And she demonstrated that her mind is still sharp. Although I had only called for an appointment that morning, she had a birthday card for me! I was surprised she knew it was my birthday. She must actually read the Relief Society newsletter I sent her. And her signature was very clear as well. We had a nice visit. I only stayed about 45 minutes instead of the usual 2 hours plus. I tell myself that maybe if I can do good but shorter visits, I will find it easier to visit more often. From there, I went to the grocery store, partly for Almond Milk we needed for Miriam and partly to pick up some (relatively) cheap steak and ice cream for dinner.
Debi and Lucas came by with a present, but most importantly a delightful visit. We talked about a lot of things - lots of talk about Disneyland and also an interesting discusssion about body disposal. Debi does not want to be under my tree. She wants to feed the sharks. She says she wants her body dumped into the ocean to feed sharks. Realizing that there are problems with that, she wants to be cremated and her ashes taken to one of her favorite islands. Lucas wants to be cremated and scattered in the ocean, too. We entertained ourselves imagining a movie about a husband trying to get his wife's body (dead or dying) out to sea and tossing her to the sharks. Lucas is going to write the movie.
Saturday, my ministering sisters took me to lunch at Black Bear Dinner for my birthday.
Tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, my family will virtually gather and play some on-line games. Next Sunday afternoon, the Sacramento contingency will meet up at a park. The 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. I don’t admire piracy, but pirate day can be fun. I think my family is going to make treasure map pizza and maybe a watermelon pirate ship. More happy birthday for me!
Presents!
Andrew & Joseph took care of things at home so I could have my day at Disney California. Teresa offered to be my airport transportation (maybe I should have accepted her offer!) Andrew did all my morning chores on my birthday and offered to buy dinner. Miriam gave me a homemade card and money to buy a Mickey Bar at Disney Calfornia. And an ebook Backroads California. (Permission to go on little road trips or maybe willingness to go along?) Joseph gave me a stack of delicious Ikea Dark Chocolate. Sariah et al sent me Ghiradeli dark chocolate truffles and a book of Disney Devotionals. Debi & Lucas gave me a beautiful card with an ornament and a Parks game.
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