To celebrate Bo's father's retirement, Bo's father is taking us to Shreveport for the next few days. We're about to leave in a few minutes and we'll be back sometime tomorrow afternoon or evening.
I'm really looking forward to just a few days without any hassles. I don't much care for gambling, so I'll find other things to occupy my time. I've packed a couple of books and some magazines as well as my knitting (I've taken up knitting again, did you know?), so even if I just spend the whole time alone in the hotel room, I think I'll be okay. Bo is going to have to spend most of his time with his dad, which saddens me a little but I'm hoping that we can steal a bit of time to ourselves.
And I'm only a little worried about spending a four hour car ride with Bo's father. In truth, I've only spent a few passing minutes with him when I met him for the first time and it was just a casual greeting. I know that I will have to talk to him, because he's legally blind so there isn't anything that he can do to keep himself occupied other than talk. I hope I don't embarrass myself or Bo. I know I can be rather charming at times, but sometimes I try too hard and end up looking like an ass.

As for my heath, I've meant to post about this for awhile but just haven't been able to reign my attention long enough to do so. I'm severely anemic, not diabetic. For those of you who don't know, anemia is a deficiency in the blood of red cells or their hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and weariness. Mine is a result of low iron in the blood. I had to go in for two shots just to get my levels back up to semi-normal and now I have to take supplements for the rest of my life, which I just found out (through a friend, not through personal experience) cause constipation, so I'll have to start taking fiber as well. I'm also supposed to change my diet a bit to eat more foods that will keep me strong and healthy, like spinach and kale, but I haven't really done that yet. It kind of pisses me off that I never learned the proper way to feed myself.

That's really all I got for now. Bo should be here soon and I don't want to have to make them wait. If anything interesting happens on the trip, I'll be sure to post about it. Lates.