Settling in

I have found a nice coffee shop to write this latest entry. This is nice in a back in Minneapolis kind of way. I am able to drink coffee, be on line, and get out of place. The weather has been very hot and not to conducive to going out side and smoking one's pipe. I was driving around yesterday and the temp on one of the bank signs said that it was 104. I thought holy shit, I have gone to hell. Just then my air conditioning started acting funny, switching on and off. I guess I should be more grateful for being in the heartland and for what I am about to embark on. The moral is don't look a gift horse in the mouth or rather the gift bushel of corn.

The main pain that I have found with this whole moving thing is that I keep having to go out and buy those little things that used to be readily available to me. This is the first time that I have lived in a place that isn't owned by my family or some relation in that fashion. What that means is I have to constantly be writing down what I need and make do until I can go out get it. Really, it's not that hard to go out and get it. It just gets annoying always having to run out to Wal-mart, Target, or ShopKo. Maybe I am just being a little bit spoiled right now.

Tomorrow my washer comes, which is good because I have a little bit of laundry to do. I made the decision to buy a new washer rather than get a used one. This one wasn't that expensive and I know it will work for the time that I need it to.

So yesterday, my mom had her appointment to shave her head and to begin wearing her wig. She is on her third or four treatment of chemo for breast cancer, her hair is starting to fall out in clumps and she just wanted to get it all off. I haven't talked to her since the shaving happened, but now she has a natural hair cut like me, hee-hee. Anyway, her treatments are going well and she is feeling okay. She hasn't gotten sick or anything from the treatments, so I guess the anti-nausea pills are working the way that they are supposed to. She has just been taking things one day at a time.

For that matter, I should start applying that to my life. Things are good, even if I have to outside in godd-awful heat.