YOLO! (Yes, I Really Just Said That)
My previous post about ups and downs has really been my existence the last bit. You could call me a liar if I said I have been 100% all around happy-go-lucky-handy-dandy-everything-is-fine. I started to let myself get down. Probably more down than I should have. I am a type-A personality planner-type. I don’t like uncertainty, uncertainty drags me down. I hate to even admit that I have been down, I want to pretend like I am the...
Three Years
When I look back at the past three years I try to bury the bad things and find the good things. I keep trying to stick cancer under a rock and keep it there, sometimes it manages to creep out (maybe I need a bigger rock), but I stuff it right back under there when I can. Days like today cancer sneaks out from under that rock. Today is the anniversary of the day of my diagnosis. I won’t ever forget the day I was diagnosed, you...
The Seasons Are Changing
The seasons are changing here in Utah. Every season, when it begins to snow I ask myself the meaning of life, “why the heck do I still live in Utah?” The answer is usually not 42. In Utah we say “heck” instead of the other word, and “darn” instead of the other word because our relatives of the dominant religion have a preference for avoiding the swear words, so we make up new ones that kind of sound...
Positively Positive
I have been making an effort to be positive lately. It may sound funny because as I started this breast cancer blog I surrounded myself with positivity (and maybe a wee bit of sarcasm, ok… a lot of sarcasm). I laughed at the random things that probably wouldn’t make most human beings laugh and I made it through each day so that I could wake up the next and say “wow, it is awesome to be here!” I was making some...
Braaaaaiiiinnnsss
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which side of the zombie obsession you are on) getting a brain MRI just makes me think of zombies. I am not sure why. I am not really a big zombie person… but I kept calling it braaaaiiiiinnnss (apparently I have them (brains), and luckily nothing else is hanging out around up there unusual after a weird series of month long migraine headaches). It did of course come with a bit of...
Angelina Jolie, a Deep Breath and Life as I Know It
A friend remarked on why I hadn’t responded on the Angelina Jolie “thing” on my blog. I explained that I had a lot of emotions and opinions on the matter and thought I should just keep my mouth shut. That friend disagreed and felt that reasonable people (apparently he thinks I am reasonable, hilarious…) should add their voice to the various crazed responses to a very personal choice of a very famous and...