A Long Time Coming

Wow.. It's been a year almost since I've updated this thing???? Well, not a whole lot has changed since my last entry.. I am still working a lot..haven't gone back to school yet.. A friend is coming to visit me next week, we haven't seen each other in a really long time but I'm looking forward to it. Family wise things are the same.

I went to the Race for the Cure again this year.. this was my 5th race. This year my friend Amy and I walked the entire thing (5 K) instead of the "Fun Walk" I usually do...

I will be 34 (yikes) next Sunday. I don't feel 34.. On a good day I feel about 12. On a bad day I feel about 90. I'm trying to work on my attitude but it's difficult.. I'll start out thinking things will be ok/go well and something always happens to mess things up.

How's that saying go?

Racing For the Cure

I think I've posted about this before, but in 2003 I lost a very dear friend to breast cancer. She was 49 when she died. She lived one year after being diagnosed. Deb was fantastic in every sense of the word. She was hiliarious-always had jokes printed out from her computer and pasted on the door of her office. She was patriotic-she had bumper stickers on her bulletin board that said "These colors don't run", etc..She was tacky-she designed a tattoo of Tweety Bird and had it made onto her right breast (shortly before her diagnosis) And when she was told she had cancer she said "Well..I don't know what they are going to do, but they're not touching Tweety." (The surgeons worked around Tweety, needless to say) She saw nothing wrong with the "F" word but got really upset if I would say "Oh my God" or "J.C." Those words were no no's. She loved Billy Ray Cyrus and wasn't afraid to tell anyone. She loved Elvis as well but that's a little more common I think. If she knew you liked something (i.e in my case, Titanic and Leonardo DiCaprio, she indulged in buying things that helped feed the addiction..) For example, she brought me a video from California that was called "The Lives and Loves of Leonardo DiCaprio". She also bought me a replica of the "Heart of the Ocean". (I still have both things). You could always find candy in her office, a smile on her face and a hug if you needed one. I loved her dearly and always will...

 So why post this now after almost 5 years that she's been gone?

Well, yesterday was the "Race for the Cure". I went as I have every year for the last 5. I urge my friends to go as well. I also urge people to keep up with mammograms- Debbie only missed one. They were able to remove the lump from her breast-but not before it had travelled to  her brain. 

Yesterday Komen St Louis raised $3.3 million from the Race for the Cure.. and while I was down there, amid the floods of pink shirts, posters and flowers, I realized that Deb's spirit lives, as does the millions of others who have lost their battle with breast cancer..and in the hopes of those who the battle continues...

Never give up..hope lives on.

FogOfConfusion

Hi everyone.. A friend of mine came up with a pretty interesting business idea... and as much as I hate it when my friend has a good idea (thank goodness it doesn't happen more often), I have to say this one bears repeating...

Check out this site..

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A day in the life

Well.. It seems like it takes me a long time to come back here and post.. so here goes..

I am back to work (in case I didn't mention that in previous posts). Still having trouble with memory.. In the last few weeks I've lost my purse (which I got back, minus my money), my car keys, my registration paperwork for my new car, my work computer (left it at home, a fact I realized after my 20+ minute commute to work) . I've applied for Short Term Disability through an insurance policy I thought I had (but didn't).. Confusion is unbelivable... The saddest part of it seems to be that I realize I'm losing things.. Just not sure where they are going.. If that makes sense.. I finally got upset enough to call the neurologist I was told to see following my accident. He did an MRI, which much to my delight proved I do have a brain...unfortunately, it also showed some "small bulge" in an artery that the Dr said he doesn't feel is a huge cause for concern.. but all the same he ordered a MRA... which is an angiogram. Now, when I think of "angiogram" I think of beginning credits of house when you see artery filling with white contrast.. But, much to my relief the angiogram I have to have doesn't require an invasive procedure..so that's a good thing..and it'll only take 10 minutes..

Meanwhile, my family is embroiled in a new stupid argument.. this one involving the fact that my brother didn't buy a cousin a graduation gift.. Now, considering the problems facing the world today, you'd think that this one would be a little fish in a big pond..but not in my family.. they've spent the last few days bickering (all be it behind everyone else's back). It's sickening.. I love them all but at the same time, am really frustrated with each and every one of them..Wonder when they will ever "get a clue.."