Hey there! I've continued to organize and I have an awesome boyfriend. A couple nights ago, he went to the grocery store at almost midnight to purchase himself some more stuff for his cult diet, and also, to buy me ziploc bags because I'm going through them like they are the best thing since sliced bread. I have organized so many crafts and such via ziploc. All the stickers have purpose when I can find them! Thanks ziploc! All odds and ends fit in ziploc. Not only does it protect from freezer burn, it protects from dust, discoloration and is starting to feel like the 1950s when people ziploced their furniture. Someone better come confiscate the plastic wrap from my apartment before I figure out how to "rip" it without messing up and sticking it to itself and all over myself! (Oh, btw, no ziploc was harmed in the writing of this blog, and no I am not the new spokeswomen for ziploc, I'm just a girl with brain cancer who talks too much!).
Today the big project was scanning, organizing, and "awwwwwww"ing over my family photos. Yes, I am organizing them in folders on my computer by year and season, then subject manner. For example, there is a folder all of polaroids taken at my dentist office for like, 15 years. It has its own special folder, then each picture is labeled by year. I wonder if organizing is addicting? I have photos of things even before I was born. Like, I think I have a photo of my dad's family coming to dinner at my mom's family's house. Stuff like that. I also have pictures of my mom took of me when I broke into the baby powder at age 2. I must tell you, STUNNING! I look fabulous!
I finished the photo project at noon, and then went to coffee with my boss's boss's boss. I'm a chatty cathy so that took 2 hours. We caught up on cancer, family, work. I have a supportive big boss, she's a great listener and very connected lady. Any subject I bring up, she knows somebody who is going through something similar or knows someone about it. I tend to do that in conversations, bring up a "connector." I think that people hate it when I do it, but I ate it up like candy today when she did it, so hopefully us connectors find each other more.
Then, after being thoroughly caffeinated, Lisa picked me up so I can spend the night out here at my "other" house. The boys had baseball lessons tonight, they are so talented for 10 and 12! We went to eat, and then came here and chilled, and I caught up on Idol! My favs have been Casey, Jacob, James, and Haley since Hollywood. Just puttin it out there!
As far as cancer updates: I have hair regrowth in one area and I'm not supposed to yet at all, so I'm performing above average. I am breaking out like a pre-teen, I blame the steroids! My ears ring a LOT. I used to be superstitious, that someone was talking about me when my ears ring. Now it's constant, and I can't be that popular, so its medication side-effects OR: you haters! Don't be so mean! =) Oh, and I'm still playing the waiting game til my scans... Any time someone asks about new information, I hear the "final jeopardy" song in my head. You know, the one where they're writing out their answer and betting their "money". I've been listening to that song for almost a month. I'm in week 3, I've only got one more week to go before the infamous week where: I do scans and stalk my doctors for answers all in one week. Until that week... do do do do do do doooo, do do do do do, dodododododo, do do do do do do do, do... do do... do do do do!
Oh, I had a long convo via facebook chat with one of my cousins the other day. Jeremy Joanette. Cool dude. Doesn't have a phone so none of my family can stalk him and keep him in the loop. AHEM Joanette family, please get facebook accounts and friend Jeremy so he feels all loved and creeped out at the same time, that would be so sweet! During our conversation we talked about his job and dating situation! Any stunning young ladies who are not CHEATER CHEATER CHEATERS, please look him up, thanks! Please be subtle, he will kill me if he knows I put a dating add out for him on my blog. =)
Well, I think why the organizational mania has come from my need to control SOMETHING. I can still organize, I have all the mental and physical capacity to beat the environment around me into submission and all items WILL go into their color coded, labeled, ziploced, and then boxed place in this world. I think its a symptom of WAITING for my brain to stop swelling so we can microwave it some more already. =) Got a messy cabinet, shelf, old clothes to sort? PLEASE send the bat signal, or the jeopardy music will start again! =)
Now that we've mentioned jeopardy, AGAIN, please know that I haven't seen it in a long time. However, I have bet all my trivia knowledge plus a lot more on my treatment. So, its just one more week and some of that addicting music before we get the big reveal and see if I'm the big ole winner! Until then, I'm keeping busy, chatting with family, and enjoying "spring" break! Life is starting to feel more like it did before, I kind of like that. Once the world is flipped upside down it can right itself again, just got to wait it out and focus on the task in front of you (baby pictures!) until it does on its own time. One less thing to worry about for now.
This picture is terrible, (stupid camera settings, this is picture 2 of 80 before i figured out how to get the lights not to blur) BUT, this is THEE Eiffel tower, from my camera, that I TOOK, myself, via my recovered Europe pics. =)
Today the big project was scanning, organizing, and "awwwwwww"ing over my family photos. Yes, I am organizing them in folders on my computer by year and season, then subject manner. For example, there is a folder all of polaroids taken at my dentist office for like, 15 years. It has its own special folder, then each picture is labeled by year. I wonder if organizing is addicting? I have photos of things even before I was born. Like, I think I have a photo of my dad's family coming to dinner at my mom's family's house. Stuff like that. I also have pictures of my mom took of me when I broke into the baby powder at age 2. I must tell you, STUNNING! I look fabulous!
I finished the photo project at noon, and then went to coffee with my boss's boss's boss. I'm a chatty cathy so that took 2 hours. We caught up on cancer, family, work. I have a supportive big boss, she's a great listener and very connected lady. Any subject I bring up, she knows somebody who is going through something similar or knows someone about it. I tend to do that in conversations, bring up a "connector." I think that people hate it when I do it, but I ate it up like candy today when she did it, so hopefully us connectors find each other more.
Then, after being thoroughly caffeinated, Lisa picked me up so I can spend the night out here at my "other" house. The boys had baseball lessons tonight, they are so talented for 10 and 12! We went to eat, and then came here and chilled, and I caught up on Idol! My favs have been Casey, Jacob, James, and Haley since Hollywood. Just puttin it out there!
As far as cancer updates: I have hair regrowth in one area and I'm not supposed to yet at all, so I'm performing above average. I am breaking out like a pre-teen, I blame the steroids! My ears ring a LOT. I used to be superstitious, that someone was talking about me when my ears ring. Now it's constant, and I can't be that popular, so its medication side-effects OR: you haters! Don't be so mean! =) Oh, and I'm still playing the waiting game til my scans... Any time someone asks about new information, I hear the "final jeopardy" song in my head. You know, the one where they're writing out their answer and betting their "money". I've been listening to that song for almost a month. I'm in week 3, I've only got one more week to go before the infamous week where: I do scans and stalk my doctors for answers all in one week. Until that week... do do do do do do doooo, do do do do do, dodododododo, do do do do do do do, do... do do... do do do do!
Oh, I had a long convo via facebook chat with one of my cousins the other day. Jeremy Joanette. Cool dude. Doesn't have a phone so none of my family can stalk him and keep him in the loop. AHEM Joanette family, please get facebook accounts and friend Jeremy so he feels all loved and creeped out at the same time, that would be so sweet! During our conversation we talked about his job and dating situation! Any stunning young ladies who are not CHEATER CHEATER CHEATERS, please look him up, thanks! Please be subtle, he will kill me if he knows I put a dating add out for him on my blog. =)
Well, I think why the organizational mania has come from my need to control SOMETHING. I can still organize, I have all the mental and physical capacity to beat the environment around me into submission and all items WILL go into their color coded, labeled, ziploced, and then boxed place in this world. I think its a symptom of WAITING for my brain to stop swelling so we can microwave it some more already. =) Got a messy cabinet, shelf, old clothes to sort? PLEASE send the bat signal, or the jeopardy music will start again! =)
Now that we've mentioned jeopardy, AGAIN, please know that I haven't seen it in a long time. However, I have bet all my trivia knowledge plus a lot more on my treatment. So, its just one more week and some of that addicting music before we get the big reveal and see if I'm the big ole winner! Until then, I'm keeping busy, chatting with family, and enjoying "spring" break! Life is starting to feel more like it did before, I kind of like that. Once the world is flipped upside down it can right itself again, just got to wait it out and focus on the task in front of you (baby pictures!) until it does on its own time. One less thing to worry about for now.
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