New Year's Eve chemo, party

Closed out 2008 with chemo at Weinberg (Taxol 5B) on New Year's Eve day. Nurse Pauline put in lines in both port lumens. That way I got magnesium (which I ususally need each chemo) thru one line with pre-meds and chemo in the other so I could get out earlier than usual.

While I was at chemo, the Veiels, my back neighbors, phoned to tell me our power had gone out around 10 a.m. just as they were leaving. They asked me to phone BGE to report the outage as they didn't have the number with them. BGE had already been notified. When I phoned Bill Lawrence, my next-door neighbor, he told me power had already been restored. Much of the region wasn't so lucky as high winds, fallen tree limbs, and cold temps knocked power out in many areas.

However, the Edmondson's where I was going to their New Year's Eve party, along with many of their friends and neighbors, were without power all day and had hooked up their back-up generator. Their power was restored by 6:30 p.m. so their house was toasty warm and well-lit by the time the party started. Their son and his wife and dog had to spend the night as their home in Pasadena still was without power. Food was pot-luck so JoAnne was lucky she hadn't planned to cook all day. We toasted the ball drop in NYC with confetti (yes, inside!!) and champagne with hibiscus flowers in the bottom of the glasses. Yes, we covered our glasses so confetti didn't get into our drinks. Nice way to enter 2009.