{"id":82438,"date":"2024-08-29T06:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=82438"},"modified":"2024-08-30T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:37:09","slug":"lets-go-chop-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=82438","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Go, Chop Chop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s 0-Dark Thirty, and we’re up and about, getting ready for our voyage to see the doctor in Long Beach. It’s so early; even the roosters are hitting the snooze button!\u00a0 We departed Casa Valencia at 6:50 am and hit the 55 freeway about five minutes later.\u00a0 The freeways were clear, and we landed in Long Beach half an hour early.<\/p>\n

We had 30 minutes to spare, so I did the most logical thing\u2014I went to Micky D’s for a breakfast Mac and a latte. Why waste precious minutes on anything but a breakfast of champions, right?<\/p>\n

We arrived at the office on time only to find out our trusty scheduler was not so trustworthy!\u00a0 She forgot to put us on the schedule.\u00a0 Oh my!\u00a0 \u00a0We decided to wait and fall between bis booked appointments, and it worked out.\u00a0 \u00a0By 10 am, he cut into my head and removed a hunk of cancer, sending it off to make sure the margins were clean.<\/p>\n

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The Turkey is in position for being carved!<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank goodness for the shot to kill the pain!<\/p>\n

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I am such a cut-up!<\/p><\/div>\n

The margins were clear, meaning they got all traces of the cancer, so I was up and out the door by 11:15 am. At that time, we pointed the Silver Fox south toward Santa Ana to get to Girl’s Night Out before noon. I set a new record for the fastest exit!\u00a0 It’s like I was competing in the “Leaving Work Olympics”!<\/p>\n

At the Elks, we met up with the gang, minus Bill Capps, who was at home attending to his bride, who had some medical issues. George was with us but departed early to get home and dine on his dessert before Beverly got to it!<\/p>\n

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So lovely to be with friends!\u00a0 (Bob & Will, Mary & Iris)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob Z got the camera to prove I was there.\u00a0 It’s hard for us to keep a straight face because of the teasing going back and forth!<\/p>\n

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Another successful “Girls Night Out” adventure!<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob played with the iPhone camera controls and created a super B&W image. Does this look like a two-hundred seventy-five-year-old group?<\/p>\n

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We might look better in B&W.<\/p><\/div>\n

We stopped at the electronics store to rescue Marsha Brander from her TV-induced boredom. We picked out a shiny new TV, brought it home, and eagerly turned it on\u2014only to be greeted with a scene from a 1980s science fiction movie.<\/p>\n

All the channels looked like they were playing the same show, and the characters were so blurry we thought it was a covert operation instead of a TV broadcast. It was like watching TV without glasses on! Our rescue mission turned into a swift return mission.<\/p>\n

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When we got home, Mary took a short nap, and I took out the trash barrels and made a small video of the garden, as our trainer had requested.<\/p>\n

Note: The following video is almost 100MB long, so it may take a few seconds to load!\u00a0 Our personal trainer wanted to see our garden.\u00a0 The video is about five minutes long.<\/p>\n