I have an apartment!

I found an effiency apartment in The Alcazar, which is now on the National Register of historic places. It's a beautiful building - check their website: www.thealcazar.com
Bob Hope kept a suite here and rumor has it Cole Porter was in residence when he wrote his hit "Night and Day" seems to be a very eclectic, creative sort of place. I think I'll be very comfortable here. It's also a fraction of what It would cost to stay in the hotel and I have more space and a view of the beautiful courtyard instead of a parking lot and there is a fireplace in the lobby, I hope it gets cold enough for a fire soon! I just love sitting in front of a fire and now that I knit, I can sit in front of the fire and knit. How cool (make that warm) is that!

All in all I had a really good day, got tired, but they said to expect that, so I took a nap and now I feel great. I can go for the naps, use to take them all the time and it was wonderful! So that's definately a plus for me, not a negative ;-)

I just wanted to check in and give you a little update, gotta run so I can get a few more things taken care of before dinner. Everything is still revolving around food!

I hate to end on a sad note, but I think it's something important for us all to think about. I was told a story today about a young woman diagnosed with brain cancer and given 2 weeks to live. The doctors told her to get someone to come stay with her for her last two weeks, which her mother did. Two weeks and one day later she was dead. I was given the same prognosis but I chose not to believe it and I can only wonder whether she might still be with us if she didn't believe it and looked for options???? So what I take from this is never give up! Bharata tells me I have the right stuff. Apparently there was a book written some years ago about pilots who tested new planes, they had a checklist and they were going through their checklist as they hit the ground, because they had the Right Stuff! Well, you can be sure I'm not going to sit back and let this disease take me - I'll be going through my checklist and quite frankly I intend to conquer the disease, but that of course is up to a higher power! We all need to always stay positive and never give up, don't go down without a fight! Believing is over half the battle, I personally don't think there's much (other than God of course) that's more powerful than the human mind, we just don't tap into a fraction of it's power. On that note I'm saying good night. I thank you all again for all the prayers and love you're sending, I've never felt so loved in all my life!