Kelly-tini Anyone?

Mix raspberry vodka (1/3ish of strainer -- I don't know measurements!)

1 can of pineapple juice

3/4 cup of white cranberry juice

A slash of Sprite

A few cubes of ice

Shake Shake Shake!

Strain in martini shaker

Voila! The newest most delicious drink! You could even call it a Kelly-tini if you want! And for even more fabulousness you should rim your martini glass with sugar... I didn't do that because I was too lazy and thought of it after I poured the drinks.

I made this drink last night for me and Pat - after drinking a couple beers, sharing 2 Scorpion Bowls (with extra cherries, yumm) with him (and racing Mandy and Jeff on the first batch) - and the whole time he was yelling at me telling me how terrible it was going to be, ahh but alas, it was delicious and we both loved them! I ran out of raspberry vodka otherwise I would have made another batch. Note to self: purchase raspberry vodka! After the martini's we played some Wii and I schooled everyone at bowling. I really need to start playing for cash and prizes or something... or maybe snugglypoos? I'll have to work on that.

So anywho, I'm pretty impressed with myself, I drank WAAAY more than on my birthday and I was totally fine! Pretty weird, especially since I had a sip of champagne the other day and got buzzed off of that sip...

I need to take a shower at some point. I'm pretty lazy right now. Even though it's such a beautiful fall day and it would be nice to be outside, I'm going to pass for now because I love my couch a lot right now :)

Anywho, that's my story for now. I'm actually being pretty social this week (Weird, I KNOW!!) and will try and do fun things while I'm out and about. You know how I roll... keeping busy keeps the mind off the C...

XO

I'm BAAACK!

I have internet access again!!! HOORAY! I know you soooo missed me! This is just a quick post to let you know that I'm alive and have internet access. I hope you're all well. Today is a super beautiful fall day and I'm going to drink some warm apple cider, yummm!

As for things new with me, I forget what I've posted recently and am too lazy to look it up... sooo

* I'm going to Dana Farber on the 25th for a PET/CT, blood work and an onc appointment, hopefully we'll find out more then, lots more!

*Yesterday I was on my way to go get a facial (thanks to a gift certificate from Karen and Sarah) and I was early so I found the spa and kept driving and was going to get a drink or something before my facial... anywho, I was 30 seconds from the spa and a car in front of me slammed on it's breaks all of a sudden, so I slammed on my breaks and just barely hit them, and then CRASH! Yep, a stupid non-english speaking lady slammed right into me with her big SUV. She hit me pretty hard too. I drive a little Suzuki Vitara and it has the spare tire outside of it, so that stopped me from getting more damage to my car. But I definitely got thrown around a lot and my neck and back hurt from it :( I called the police so they could fill out a report (since the people were a little sketchy) and then actually still had time to get my facial... I figured, I need to relax more than ever now! Ugh. So I have to fill out paperwork (and I HATE paperwork) and get my car looked at. I even had a lovely mini panic attack from all the insanity, I called my mom crying and hid behind my car while I was waiting for the police to come. I think I'm okay now, I hope so!

*My chest has been hurting a lot lately... not crash related. Right between my boobs, like something is stabbing me. I had this pain towards the end of chemo and they did an EKG and didn't find anything.... but it's hurting again and I don't know what to do. Oh and of course, I'm still itchy. I'm going to bring these things up at my next appointment.

* I treated myself to an early Christmas present and bought myself this Origins gift set of body sugar scrub, lotion and a bar of soap with massaging nubs on it -- they smell like spearmint and I've decided that's my new favorite smell. It instantly cheers me up and makes me feel better. I highly recommend it if you're feeling cranky.

OKay, I'm officially done with this post. I hope you're well and that you missed my posts!

XO

Computer Issues

Heya folks. Just a quick note to let ya know I don't have much internet access for the next few days. I forgot my charger for my laptop at my parents house, so mom has mailed it to me... I might get it tomorrow, but I might not.... so if you need to reach me, phone is best.

XO

Sleepy Doodles

I'm back in Longmeadow today. Me and mom got left Block Island on the 8am boat and got home around 1ish, and I'm beat!!! I took a mini nap but I could sleep for hours. I think I have a few crashing days ahead of me!

I hope you all liked my slideshow from the last post, make sure to actually click the link in the post so you can see the pictures better, for some reason they don't fit in my blog :( Sad lamb!!!

I'm heading back to my apartment tomorrow for the rest of the week/weekend. Not much else is new. I'm really itchy again... it sucks. I gotta look into finding another dermatologist that can figure out what this crap is! I'm also going to try and get a haircut soon... I gotta call my cousin Donna so she can give it a whirl :)

I hope you're all doing well. I'll post more soon!! Oh and I updated some of my music on my blog, so enjoy!

XO

Pictures From Canadian Thanksgiving and the Petting Zoo!

Hi everyone. Here are some pictures from this weekend and a few from last week at the Big E fair. The slideshow is a little too big for my blog, so if you click here, you can see them all better and with the captions!

XO




Canadian Thanksgiving

Block Island Blogging

Hi everyone, I'm posting from Block Island. I'm hiding right now while my whole family is drinking wine and being loud - I can only take so much. I think it's funny how the tables always turn when we have big family gatherings, or even little ones, I'm always the cleaner-upper, and my family are the drinkers, and I'm usually sober... weird, I know, especially since I'm 25! Ahh well! Oh and my aunt and uncle gave me a birthday card that was a giant pickle -- and they didn't even know about my pickle fingers, freaky huh!

So today me and dad and the pup went swimming in the ocean. It was a little chilly, but not terrible. I had to at least check it off of my list -- Go swimming in October, CHECK! :) It was a funny day, super cloudy in the morning, then the sun came out for about 2-3 hours, and then tons of fog rolled in. We hit the beach just in time to enjoy the sun while it lasted, yay! But, silly me, I forgot my camera at the house, so no beach pictures today -- sad lamb!


Right now my back is KILLING me and I also have this annoying tightness in my chest, kinda between my boobs, I used to get it towards the end of chemo, but we never figured out what it was. Maybe it's my menopause wearing off?? Eh, who knows. Hopefully it feels better soon.


Oh and my sterry strips fell off this afternoon!! 2 weeks on the dot, probably the same time the surgery ended too!! Pretty crazy. The scar doesn't look terrible so far. I think I'm going to have a keloid scar on a little spot in the beginning of it (at least) it kinda looks like a pimple that needs to be popped... but probably only in my crazy detail oriented eyes. But not as bad and dramatic looking as I thought. I'll take a picture tomorrow, I'm too lazy right now. Cross your fingers for no keloid yucky scarring, I really can't deal with having a painful puffy scar there!!

Oh and Thanksgiving is tomorrow. My cousin Roland is here from Montreal, so we're going to eat like it's Thanksgiving, hooray! Roll out the apple pie and cranberry sauce!

That's all for now. I hope you're all doing well!!

XO

November is the Offical Leukemia and Lymphoma Month, says ME!

Hi everyone. I'm a little less cranky today, been keeping busy and keeping the crankies at bay. I'm extremely itchy though, ugh! I need to find my stash of benedryl somewhere! This skin crap has got to end soon! WTF!

I'm going to Block Island tomorrow with mom for Canadian Thanksgiving. Should be fun and maybe a little hectic with a bunch of family at the house. I'm warning people in advance that I'm not their maid, yep I repeat, I am not your maid!

Hmm what else... Have you met my new friend Baldylocks? She had leukemia and a bone marrow transplant and is now working her way towards recovery, and of course being one of my new cancer BFFs. We decided that with all of this breast cancer awareness stuff, the other cancers get scammed, so we declared November Leukemia and Lymphoma month! Our colors are green and purple and our official drink will be a red cancertini - really as long as it's red you can call it that! Sound good? Mmmk, it's official!

So really, that's the latest and greatest for you. My sterry strips are starting to fall off too!! I've lost at least one, hooray! Oh and I think it's supposed to be nice this weekend, so hopefully I can get some swimming in while the water is still warm!!!

Okay, that's all I got. XO!

I've Got a Case of the Crankies

Okay, I'm officially cranky. It's finally had a few hours to settle in my head and I'm just in a bad, cranky, lonely mood. I even googled "gifts to cheer up", but didn't find anything that I thought, "Damn, I wish I had this to cheer me up before!" so I didn't get anything. Bleh. Somehow I started thinking about all of my friends that just disappeared during my treatment, or when I would tell them about my situation, they would instead tell about their little problems in their life. I hate people like that. I also hate that some people just couldn't deal, or just didn't care enough. I almost want to pick a fight with them and tell them how much they suck to make myself feel better, but that's also lame, so I won't. Karma, it's all karma. I'm the kind of person that would bend over backwards for someone I care about, but I don't always feel I get the same in return... I guess I just need to make some new friends!

OKay, I'm going to close this pity party for now.

XO

Eh

I don't know what to say or think... I just got off the phone with my oncologist, and he said that all the found on the nodes from my thymus, were thymus! But I really wanted to just say "DUH!" It's been such a roller coaster with all of this insanity of yes, it's most likely hodge, we need to biopsy it, to waking me up after surgery telling me it looks just like Hodgkin's, to now them telling me it's nothing!? Kinda weird. But really, I wasn't really worried about the thymus spot, I was worried about the spot they DIDN'T biopsy :( My doc is going to check with the surgeon and see if there is anyway to get to the other spot, ya know, the actually important spot! In a way, I'm annoyed. I didn't go thru all this biopsy crap to be told I don't have cancer, I mean come on, ANOTHER scar!!! Ugh! Of course, I didn't want cancer, but it all seemed like every sign was pointing to YES! So what gives!!?

Anywho, I'm back to waiting again. Yes, I've become to best waiter there is. I should get a medal, or win the lottery or something. My doc said his secretary will call me tomorrow to get a PET scan scheduled, which will be done at the end of October. So what do I do between now and the end of October? What if the spot grows by then...? What if I go back to work and have more crap pop up? Ugh. And PS, I'm still itchy!!!

Anywho, that's all I got. And, no, I'm not going out to celebrate, because I just don't believe this shit yet.

XO

Cancertini's Anyone?

So no men have shown up knocking on my door yet, WTF!? :) Oh well. I had a nice lazy night last night. I watched Side Order of Life which Matthew Zachary had a cameo appearance in. They showed one of the I'm Too Young For This Happy Hour events - it was pretty cool looking, so of course, I sent him an email saying we need to have one in Boston, and apparently it's a work in progress. There is now a New England Region of I'm Too Young For You (I2Y) and they're working to get organized with fellow cancer fighters - especially in the Boston area....so if you're reading this, and you're near me, and have fought cancer and want to attend some sort of fun event, please email Tom Murdock so that he can generate a nice large list of cancer fighters interested in having fun!

Anywho, I'm heading home tonight or tomorrow afternoon to hang out with my mom and then go to Block Island on Thursday. I only brought a few things to wear here, so I'm glad I have laundry in my apartment :) Anywho, I'm pretty lazy right now. I woke up this morning with a terrible stomach ache and thought I was going to be sick, eventually slept it off and am now just tired and lazy. Soon enough I'll get my act together and head home, I'm sure mom wants to play some Wii anyways! :)

My neck is getting gooey from the sterry strips glue or whatever is holding them on. It's in just a weird spot that most of the time they stick together and get yucky. Bleh. I wonder when I can take these things off...?? Hopefully soon they'll start to fall off on their own, I'm going to make sure to soap it up good tonight.

OKay that's all I got for now.

XO