A Little Bit of Sunshine

So much happened last week that I neglected to mention in my last post how wonderful the weather was over the weekend.  In the 60's and sunshine !!!  Pittsburghers were walking around in shorts and t-shirts.  It was so nice, the Ice Cream Stand that has had the "closed for season" sign on it since we have been here was open with a bunch of people in line.  Now it was nice, but I wouldn't call 63 degrees ice cream weather...these Yankees!

We took the opportunity to get outside a little bit.  Steve and his Mom wheeled me around the neighborhood some and we went over to the Cheesecake Factory (one of my favs) for dinner on Sunday night.  I tried the banana cream cheesecake which may very well overtake my all time favorite, pineapple upside down cheesecake!  And our meal ended up being courtesy of a gift card that we had just gotten from Ellen, Elaine, and Pat G.  Thanks Ladies!!

Of course today it was in the 30's and it's expected to snow tomorrow...but at least I have proof that the sun does shine in Pittsburgh.  Hopefully I can hurry up and get the surgery so I will be in the hospital the remainder of the snow days :)  and re-emerge into the Spring.

Also, this past Saturday I spied with my little eyes a bunch of people dressed in green walking down to the corner pub.  And yes I now have a tendency of watching all the "to-doings" going on in this big city of ours right out of my living room windows.  My sister says I'm like the guy from rear window because there is one particular person who lives about 3 skinny houses down the alley-way who I think is very suspicious.  I keep a track of his comings and goings.  Really thought I've turned into my grandmother who has a fascination with watching people :)

Anyway, Steve stopped and asked some of the people dressed in green what was going on this weekend and they said they were "practicing" for next weekend.  They were practicing for the St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl.  Oh my goodness, I think there's going to be a bunch to spy on this upcoming weekend.  Too bad you are going to miss it J-Owl!  We heard there was a 25 person brawl Saturday night a few blocks down from us at one of the pubs.  The police around here drive motorcycles with sidecars...I really want to see someone get put into a sidecar.

Rehab was good today.  They doubled the times for about half my exercises...it slowed me down a bit today, but that's probably right were I need to be.  I don't think they will be increasing them for a while.  I think they were a little pleased to see me slow down some :) and I may actually be a little bit sore tomorrow.

And I am super excited about my brother's wedding.  Its a new goal for me...get my surgery, recover, and be back home by September so I can dance with my bro at his wedding (and yes, don't give me any B.S. Ira, you're gonna dance with me).

So now I find myself thinking...geez when is the phone going to ring, let's get this party started so I can get back to normal.  A long way from where I was a few weeks ago :)