Life with Helen

First, I want to tell you about my life because this is my blog, and I like to talk about myself every once in a while! It has been an interesting couple of weeks, and  I WILL TELL YOU WHY. Rather than type the story, I will just include a video of my Snaps from interesting incident #1 on last Tuesdays snowy, icy evening... Soooo there's that.... Interesting incident #2 - If you aren't aware, I am a federal government employee, so I was forced to deal with all the shutdown mess on Monday, which carried into this week and really messed up my schedule! And then I woke up with a back injury.  Not really an interesting incident, but it's pretty annoying, and I have no idea how it happened. SO, my life is pretty great in case you were wondering! Okay, I will try to quit whining long enough to tell you all that Matt had a great birthday last weekend!  He doesn't do much on social media, but I know he loved the extra special messages he got

I can't think of an amusing anecdote or anything interesting to start this post, so I will just jump right into it.  Matt will finish up his 5th treatment tomorrow, and my dad had the honor of taking him to his appointment this time.  I'm sure there was a lot of Mountaineer talk!  So far he is feeling about the same as the last treatment - tired, weak, nauseous, cold, no taste buds - that whole song and dance.  Never fear, Dr. Oz is keeping a close watch on his patient!  We are REALLY hoping he will be feeling better by the weekend becauseeeeeee IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY! YAY! In other news, we are currently working on selling our townhouse.  Now that it is completely empty, I plan on taking new pictures and posting them sometime this weekend.  I realize this is not a good time to list a house, but I don't enjoy paying for an empty house every month when we could really use the money to send to our besties at Thomas Hospital!  SO, if you know anyone in the market for a lo