guess it's been a while
I've gone long periods of time without writing anything in there before but I think this gap should win a prize of sorts. I think February was the last update and with that one of the last times I really attempted to sit down and try to piece my thoughts into words.
We lost our kitty in March. He was just too sick and though the house is too quiet now he's in a happy place filled with tuna and giant puddles of water to play with.
My sister is amazing and kicked breast cancer's ass like nothing I've seen before in my life. She powered though a double mastectomy, 4 rounds of chemo and what will in the end be 3-4 reconstructive surgeries without a whine or more than a couple of tears (and that was mostly because she got sick of everyone doing everything for her). Crazy woman is back to running 3 miles a day and looking forward to getting her "real" boobies put in next month. The next few years will involve a lot of holding our breath as she goes back for checkups and scans to make certain nothing's slipped past chemo and surgery but doctors are predicting less than a 7% chance of it recurring. The whole thing has brought us together in an amazing way. It's amazing how you can go along never considering that life can change in an instant but when it does and the outcome is good it makes you just that much more appreciative of what you have.
School's back in full force and while it's tiring, I'm so psyched to start clinical and be in the hospital and really get my hands into what I want to do. Though the end is still 2 years off, I'm starting to get ideas and make plans for the future, including where to work and where I want to live (I definitely plan to get a house of my own ASAP so I can get mahself a puppy).
The countdown is on for Hawaii in December. 17 days of bliss on white sand beaches! I can't freaking wait. It's making the semester from hell a lot easier to get through, that's for sure. I've set a goal for myself and am [very] slowly working toward wearing my 2-piece on the beach and not a muumuu!
It's taking some time to rediscover who I am. I never realized how much weight I put on others to hold me up until they were ripped away from me and I spent a long time wandering aimlessly feeling totally disjointed. I'm finally learning what it's like to depend on myself and not have to worry constantly about pleasing someone else. I've changed a lot in the past year and I like to think I'm a better person for it all. I know for certain that I'm stronger than I ever gave myself credit for.
And now I should probably write this damned paper for my GAH.
We lost our kitty in March. He was just too sick and though the house is too quiet now he's in a happy place filled with tuna and giant puddles of water to play with.
My sister is amazing and kicked breast cancer's ass like nothing I've seen before in my life. She powered though a double mastectomy, 4 rounds of chemo and what will in the end be 3-4 reconstructive surgeries without a whine or more than a couple of tears (and that was mostly because she got sick of everyone doing everything for her). Crazy woman is back to running 3 miles a day and looking forward to getting her "real" boobies put in next month. The next few years will involve a lot of holding our breath as she goes back for checkups and scans to make certain nothing's slipped past chemo and surgery but doctors are predicting less than a 7% chance of it recurring. The whole thing has brought us together in an amazing way. It's amazing how you can go along never considering that life can change in an instant but when it does and the outcome is good it makes you just that much more appreciative of what you have.
School's back in full force and while it's tiring, I'm so psyched to start clinical and be in the hospital and really get my hands into what I want to do. Though the end is still 2 years off, I'm starting to get ideas and make plans for the future, including where to work and where I want to live (I definitely plan to get a house of my own ASAP so I can get mahself a puppy).
The countdown is on for Hawaii in December. 17 days of bliss on white sand beaches! I can't freaking wait. It's making the semester from hell a lot easier to get through, that's for sure. I've set a goal for myself and am [very] slowly working toward wearing my 2-piece on the beach and not a muumuu!
It's taking some time to rediscover who I am. I never realized how much weight I put on others to hold me up until they were ripped away from me and I spent a long time wandering aimlessly feeling totally disjointed. I'm finally learning what it's like to depend on myself and not have to worry constantly about pleasing someone else. I've changed a lot in the past year and I like to think I'm a better person for it all. I know for certain that I'm stronger than I ever gave myself credit for.
And now I should probably write this damned paper for my GAH.