I’m back . . .

. . . and I missed you all so much!!! hehe  I’ve finished with my medical stuff and now I’m staying at my sisters house until I go back home.  She and her husband took off for a romantic trip to Wendover, Nevada and I’m at her house dog sitting.  My favorite part at the moment (until she gets home) is that she has the Internet.  Yay!!!  My favorite part when she gets home will be visiting with her.  We plan to got to Salt Lake City on Saturday and have a sisters day.

The rest of this post may be boring for everyone.  I just wanted to ramble about my week so don’t feel bad if you don’t want to finish reading.  I won’t be offended.

I have mostly been looking for shoes and a dress on this trip.  On Tuesday, I went to a mall and checked out their shoe stores but found nothing.  I really wanted to find something that would help with the pain in my feet.  Then my friend, Sharon (she let’s me live in her basement when I’m in SLC), and I went out to dinner and I went to her neighbors to take a quick look at my email because I had a dinner date the next night. 

On Wednesday, I stopped at the Easy Spirit outlet store to see what they had only to find they only had a few shoes left and were closing on 5-25.  As I mentioned in my post on Monday, I had plans for a drive up in the mountains to see the wild flowers.  After paying the forest service $6.00 to access the road, I went about three miles to find the road closed.  I’m still going to display my ticket on my windshield until it expires tomorrow just out of spite.  (I forgot to tell you about locking my keys in my truck Monday night at Wal-Mart.)  However, that’s where the bad luck ended.

I took a different, not as scenic, road and headed to the Park City outlet mall.  I looked at a few of those stores for shoes and a dress but found nothing.  I had to rush home for my 7:30 dinner date with a fellow transplant patient.  I met him and his wife at Texas Roadhouse and had a wonderful visit.  He is still waiting for his transplant.  He is also from Boise and relocated to SLC a year ago to wait for his transplant.  He has been listed for a total of three years so, please everyone, keep him in your prayers that he will be able to start his new life with a new heart soon!!!

I had a few minutes to kill before dinner so I stopped by a shoe store near the restaurant and took a total of 15 minutes to buy two pair of shoes.  I should have stopped by there first!!!

This morning I had a Transplant Support Group meeting to attend.  I tell you, I know that God takes care of us all but I think he has a special place for transplant patients.  If I told you all of the “coincidences” to do with my heart transplant (and other peoples) it would send shivers up and down your spine.  I was the only post heart transplant patient at the meeting today.  A family came in whose father/husband had suffered a debilitating heart attack and the wife and to make the decision whether or not to have him listed for a heart transplant.  I talked to her at length about the choice she was having to make.  I really pray that she makes the right choice for her husband since he can’t do it for himself.  She lives only a three hour drive from my house and I told her she could call me whether she was at home or in Utah and I would be there as soon as I could get there.  I can’t even imagine having to make that decision for someone else.  Also, please keep her and her family in your prayers.

Tomorrow, I’m going to take a drive to some different mountains.  First, I will go to the Pepperidge Farms factory store for cookies and then I will go though Logan canyon.  It’s also a beautiful drive.  Speaking of a beautiful drive, my next doctors appointment is at the end of September so I will be able to take the same drives and see all the beautiful fall leaves.   The red and orange oak brush and the golden aspens are striking in contrast with the forest green of the pines.  I wish I had a picture to show you but those were among the pictures that I lost when my computer died.

Well, if your not bored and still reading this, that’s about it for now.  Hopefully, I’ll be back tomorrow with some beautiful pictures,  I know at the very least I will have had a delicious red raspberry milk shake in Bear Lake.

Blessings,

Christine

Oh, I forgot to tell you why I was shopping for a dress.  My niece got engaged and she is getting married on August 8 (this year).  She has asked me to design and make her wedding invitations, thank you notes, etc. I will be having another giveaway/contest for those who help me to them.  I think I’m going to purchase Photoshop (I've been looking for an excuse to buy it for awhile now hehe) to make most of the invitation and then add some final embellishments/details.  I’m thinking of a tri-fold with a belly band.  Details to follow when I get some more details myself.  Since I will be new to Photoshop, I’ll be needing some help!!!