It was a piece of cake!@

Well the mammogram is over and it was easy as pie...a piece of cake! No pain, not even slightly. I hope I get a cute little membership card in the mail...I asked for a sticker but the only ones I got were the ones to mark my nipples. Darn, at least the dentist gives you floss and a toothbrush.

Squish Me Luck!

At 10 am tomorrow I will become one of the newest members of the "Squeeze a Boob, Save a Life" club. Yessssssssssssssss my FIRST mammogram! I'm not really worried about it, I don't fear pain it's just one of those things that you'd rather put off. My family doc says I have put it off long enough, apparently she had my membership card ready two years ago when I turned 40 and I never picked it up. LOL.

Tonight I was grumbling about going in tomorrow and my 13 year old daughter says... "Mom, just pretend it is Dad squeezing your boobs!" And then she bursts into laughter...hmmmmmph! I went over my "instruction sheet" no perfume, no lotions, no jewelry, no deodorants, bla bla bla... I also looked online for some helpful tips on getting thru this procedure and found a very helpful list. I am posting it below for anyone else who may be preparing for their own mammogram.

PREPARING FOR THE MAMMOGRAM

Many women fear their first mammogram, and even if they you had them before, there is the fear. But, there is no need to worry. By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam and doing the following practice exercises, you will be totally prepared for the test, and best of all, you can do these simple practice exercises in the privacy of your home.

EXERCISE 1: Open your refrigerator door, and insert one breast between the door and the main box. Have one of your strongest friends slam the door shut as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure.Hold that position for five seconds.Repeat in case the first time wasn't effective.

EXERCISE 2: Visit your garage at 3 a.m. when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off all your clothes and lie comfortably on the floor sideways with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled. Switch sides, and repeat for the other breast.

EXERCISE 3: Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Have the stranger press the bookends against either side of one of your breasts and smash the bookends together as hard as he/she can. Set an appointment with the stranger to meet next year to do it again.

You are now properly prepared!

Also, notice ladies:
MENtal illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause

Ever notice how all of women's problems start with men?

Squish me luck for tomorrow!!!! Oh and I am walking in wearing my new pink tshirt that says "My Boobs are NOT SQUEEZE TOYS!"

Chocolate Malted Crunch...

and make that three scoops please! Where is a Thrifty drug store when you need some cheap ice cream? Ahhhhhh Thrifty's! Ring a bell? Were you one of the lucky kids who grew up with Thrifty's ice cream?

Tonight I wanted to take Gabby for an ice cream. We don't have a Dairy Queen near by, the Cold Stone Creamery closed down so we drove to McDonald's. We got there and guess what...ice cream machine was broken!

I found another McDonald's...thank goodness there is one of every corner but it's just not the same. When I was a kid my Dad would ALWAYS take us to Thrifty for an ice cream, he never said no. Now I know as an ice cream connoisseur that Thrifty isn't high quality ice cream but we were kids so we didn't care and back then it was 10 cents a scoop! That's right TEN CENTS! If Mom wasn't there we could get away with three scoops and one scoop had to be "Chocolate Malted Crunch!" It was by far the best flavor and the most fun to say!

The scoops themselves were quite unique. Thrifty had a special scooper that sorta made each scoop look like a hockey puck, cylinder in shape. I remember as a little girl thinking it would be my dream job to work the Thrifty Drug store ice cream counter...I never got to live out that dream. I think they are all closed up now. I don't even know when the last time I had one was...I think I was about 20 and there was one still open in Phoenix. It was a bad area but my boyfriend would take me and we would get in and out and go eat the ice cream somewhere else.

It's too bad we don't have a Thrifty's anymore, I think the world would be a happier place if everyone had a ten cent ice cream cone.

A day spent back in time...

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Just some stuff...

First on my list of things to say is....MY LINDA IS COMING HOME!!! Well not to my home but to her home in WA! I am glad she got to get away and we still chatted, emailed and text each other but I like it when she is home. LOL! I'm such a baby! WELCOME HOME LINDA!

Next is an update on our Princess. I think I mentioned that our Chihuahua has been having seizures. We had some tests done and the Vet feels pretty strongly that it is epilepsy. Apparently there is no test for epilepsy, you just have to test for everything else and by a process of elimination you rule out the other possibilities.

We started her on medication, I am gonna butcher the spelling of it but it is "phenobarbital?" It cost 35.00 an OUNCE! But she is so worth it. I give it to her twice a day...it's liquid thank goodness. Getting a pill down her twice a day would be a nightmare. And she seems to like it...it is chicken flavored. LOL

At first it seemed to really knock her out. I back her dosage off just a smidgen and she does better. After about 2 hours she gets a little sleepy, but she sleeps a lot any way. The good thing she hasn't had any seizures this past week and she was having two to three a day before.

Gabby and I are in full summer vacation mode! Sleeping late, shopping, hitting the mall and going to lunch! We went to Michael's craft store and got a ton of craft projects, we were there at the right time cause the clearance row was stocked so we got a lot of stuff real cheap! Gotta love it. Almost feel guilty seeing Michael go to work every day. But no worries...I'm takin care of him.

That's it for now...oh yea one more thing! I almost forgot... WELCOME HOME LINDA!!!!!!

I'm offensive...er at least not who you thought I was.

Apparently my last entry was offensive. I've lost a reader to ALL of my blogs because the last entry was "out of character and not the Robin they thought they knew."

I'd written an entry in reply to the email exchanges and comments I got (from one person) on that entry and decided to delete it. I can still sleep at night knowing I hijacked Miss Rude's store items so I figure spelling it all out here trying to justify my actions just isn't worth it.

The only thing I do feel obligated to do is apologize to you all, I certainly am not a horrible person and I in no way meant to offend anyone or show you a side of me that would make you think less of me. I am sorry.