Long Over-Due Update: FROM IDAHO!

The past few weeks or so have been ridiculously busy. After finishing radiation treatments, we finally moved out my parents' downstairs bedroom. Who knew one could accrue so much CRAP after 7 months? We definitely had to take two trips to be officially moved. Since then, we've spent our spare time trying to find work here in Idaho (which is, I might say,a non-existent job market!) and putting away all of our things. We've also been purging and cleaning a lot, which makes everything feel new, refreshed; almost like I've been shedding a past life..the life that I had suffering with cancer. I got rid of 90% of the clothes I wore during my chemotherapy because looking at them or wearing them makes me feel sick. I can't stand them being in my drawers or in my closet, so to the donation bin they go!
Yesterday, I planted basil in the pots outside my door and started germinating my sunflower seeds, which will, when hardy enough, grow against the fence in our backyard. It made me think of Piper a little and caused a twinge of Smith-homesickness.
Oh, how I've missed this place! The crops are beginning to sprout along the hills, shading them in gentle green and tawny curves. The sparrows and chickadees are scrounging the ground and you can see quail and their hatchlings hurrying along the dusty country roads. I can't wait until my sunflowers are fully grown! I often wish for a nice little house with a small patch of land where I can start a vegetable and herb garden. I guess after so much turmoil, I'm looking for simplicity and peace; to go back to a 'normal' life. I'll be there soon, I'm sure.

I am THRILLED to report that my hair is looking more full and thicker everyday. Right now, I'm even contemplating a haircut because it is so long in the back! Right now, my bangs are long enough to be swept to one side, making for a choppy, cropped pixie cut look. No more friar tuck, thankfully. I bet everyone will be surprised when I see them at reunion. My hair is incredibly short compared to what I used to have; 12+ inches of red Shirley Temple curls! The only thing that's still growing in are my STUPID eyebrows. I guess there is always something!