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[lizzybennet]

Since I am the only female in this home, I have no one to chat to. Of course I can talk to Chris, but he's having too much fun digging around in his dad's garage for treasures. As a result of no conversationalists, I am getting a lot of reading done (Shem Creek, a recommendation of my sweet MIL). I also spent some time digging around in the toy box with the boys. I taught them how to dig tunnels and they thought that was so cool. I love being cool.

I forgot to mention that last week was the last of my MIL's chemo treatments. Her lymphoma is officially in remission. I went with her on Tuesday to her chemo session. The center has a huge room full of leather lazy boy recliners, each with an IV pole next to it. On the day I went it was one of the nurses birthdays, so all the IV pole's were decorated with balloons and crete paper streamers. The music playing in the background is soothing circa-1940 type stuff. The nurses are all up beat and cheerful. I didn't see one grouchy face in the whole bunch. They just flit around that office, smiling and cracking jokes. It was quite refreshing. I know nothing they can do will make Cancer easy to deal with, but it seemed to me that the Center did their best to make it a little more bearable.

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[texastea.livejournal.com]

Hm .. I can relate to the only female factor, only at work and not home. Up until I took a new position a year ago, I was the only woman in a group of about ten to twelve people working out of a field office. We're an engineering firm that goes and works on DOT projects, and we set up an office onsite. It usually lasts from two to three years, start to completion.

I remember that I enjoyed working with the guys and not having to worry about diva hiarchy issues, I certainly missed the occasional conversation with another woman; sometimes guys just are not sempatico to our concerns, through no real fault of their own. It was okay, because I got along better with men in general. I couldn't tolerate the pouting parties that some women throw for themselves, and I am older and less tolerant of that sort of thing than I even used to be.

But with the new work, it surprised me that one of my favorite things is that I have made about a half-dozen new and *good* female friends! I just heart them so much and am glad to have them.