Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

I had a bilateral mastectomy. It is still not easy to look at the scars, but I am here and I am still able to enjoy time with my loved ones. Today I am taking the day off to be with my special guy - G. I thought I'd mix it up with a little tag cloud of what its been like in the year since.                                                   

My hubby has a birthday this month and I just wanted to tell him "Happy Birthday" and  to thank him for being the head of our household. In every way. Here he is with our little men after LegoFest in Austin recently.

Every now and then I get the urge to write about something totally random and this is one such time. I thought I could educate my non-Trini friends on the very versatile "ent". To illustrate its use, I have elected to use a couple of lines from the 2011 movie "Thor" featuring an exchange between the gatekeeper of Asgard, Heimdall, and Odin's son Loki (brother to Thor). Loki: "Did Odin ever fear you?" Heimdall: "No." Loki: "And Why is that?" Heimdall: "Because he is my king and I am sworn to obey him." Loki: "He WAS your king and you are sworn to obey me now... yes ?" Heimdall: "Yes." In this exchange, Loki's response (underlined yes) can be replaced by "ent?" So a Trini would say:  "He was your king and now you ha' to obey me, ent?" OR alternatively "Ent he WAS your king but now you ha' to obey me?" But Heimdall's final response of "Yes"

So, we (my husband and  I) are officially no longer traveling on one airline in particular and I had to figure out what to do with my expiring miles. Unfortunately, they didn't qualify to donate to "Make a Wish Foundation", so I used them up getting subscriptions to a bunch of magazines. It started out pretty ok.   With work and all, I started to fall behind.  My stack of unread magazines started to grow...hmmm And then I get this in the mail - WTF??!