Life on da Island
We have been laying back and living island style for a week now (luckily we still have a half a week before we go home! Woohoo!). Usually we have less than a week when we go to beautiful places like this and then aren’t ready to go home when it is time to get on the plane. I am much less bummed! Hehe. Maybe I will be when it is time to leave. We miss our puppies though, we have a puppy-cam, so when our puppy sitter isn’t...
Picture This: More Support for Advanced Breast Cancer
This past week has been a whirlwind. Literally and figuratively, the world has been spinning around me as I have been battling nausea to the Nth degree and there is a huge windstorm outside right now shaking the house so hard that I may go build a blanket fort and go hide in it with the dogs. For protection, you know… Some of my girlfriend’s and I fulfilled the slumber party of #TheMandiList, my friend was able to arrange...
A Trip of a Lifetime
It finally happened! The trip to Europe that Mike and I have been putting off for almost 10 years. We have been saying since we initially met that we would go to Europe together and it never quite worked out. Work, money, life always got in the way. I am absolutely blown away by how many friends, family, and people I haven’t met were willing to help us in small and big ways to make this dream a reality. All of you anonymous...
Love, Cancer and 67 Date Night Ideas
I am amazed Mike hasn’t murdered me yet. Most men have to go through menopause once with their wife, I believe we have done it 2 times now and have been through Tamoxifen and Letrazole. Estrogen blockers are quite similar to going into menopause, at least for me. I will laugh, get extremely agitated and then cry within a 10 minute period. Over something like the dog puking on the carpet (not that my dogs ever puke on the carpet,...
Fifi, The Police and The Injections of Doom
The last couple of weeks have been a bit of relaxing, time with friends and just living life. We have taken Fifi out several times this summer. We have more Fifi adventures tentatively scheduled and I have been working my way through #TheMandiList, our trip to Europe is mostly booked. I am super excited, and I am nervous I won’t be strong enough for our AirBNB room in Florence that involves 5 flights of stairs, but it has a...
Dragging My Dad Down a River of Fun
After KSL did the news story about Mike and I and Fifi the RV of awesomeness, I was contacted through a friend via the friend of a friend by a nice gentleman who worked at Western River Expeditions, he saw that I had rafting on The Mandi List and wanted to give Mike and I a free rafting trip! They offered us an overnight adventure or a full day on the Colorado River in Moab, Utah. I was in tears when he offered, so amazingly sweet. I...