Mar. 23: Post-it Note Tuesday #3

You know the drill by now, right? Here’s the link to the Post-it Note maker, and here’s where you put a link to your blog and visit other Post-it Note Tuesday participants. Have fun! Be nice! Make friends!

Mar. 18: Nothing

I’m still feeling drained and I’m quite sure my brain has stopped working correctly. Like, I’m forgetting words—last night I was rubbing my noggin and couldn’t remember “stubbly.” My typically high typing speed is as high as usual, but if you count the errors, I think I’m at a negative number of words per minute. It’s that sort of thing ‘round here, all the time nowadays. Gah.

There’s nothing much to say, so I found a meme to answer this morning. Good thing I save these to post when I have nothing else, right? I mean, God forbid I only post when I have something meaningful to share! There’s no apparent theme to this meme, obviously… just a bunch of random questions about myself and my attitude toward some legal and political issues. You can stop reading now if you want to. Or you can answer these questions yourself in a comment or your own blog. Here we go…

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What were you doing ten years ago?
Honestly? I was losing my mind. I had a month-old infant and my postpartum depression was at its peak. Tough time. I adored that little one, but I wanted to give her to the mailman some days.

Five snacks you would enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:

1. Double-Stuf Oreos
2. Milky Way bars
3. Lemon Hostess Fruit Pies
4. Hot Tamales
5. Smarties (the American ones)

Five things you would do if you were a billionaire:

1. Go on a really, really long vacation all over the world, preferably with friends joining us along the way
2. Buy a new, big house with at least as many bathrooms as Loveliest Lori’s
3. Cure cancer
4. Buy a jet since I hate long car rides, and a pilot since I don’t know how to fly a jet
5. Get lots of unnecessary plastic surgery

Three of your worst habits:

1. Procrastination
2. Impatience
3. Taking on too much responsibility

Five jobs you’ve had:

1. Administrative assistant
2. Reader for accounting professor
3. Tanning bed manager
4. Software trainer
5. Database programmer

Five places you’ve lived:

1. Medford, Oregon
2. Beaverton, Oregon
3. Portland, Oregon
4. College Place, Washington
5. Clackamas/Happy Valley, Oregon

Five things you did yesterday:

1. Went to physical therapy, where I did NOT punch my therapist in the neck, no matter what she tries to tell you through her broken windpipe
2. Had a romantic lunch with my husband at Taco Bell
3. Assigned special ringtones to most of the contacts in my phone while I waited for Sunshine at Peet’s
4. Met Sunshine for coffee at Peet’s
5. Napped

Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
I’m not sure why it isn’t legal, quite frankly. I’m really pretty “meh” about this.

Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Definitely. Who does it hurt? NO ONE. Whose lives does it change for the worse? NO ONE’S. Enough already with the “let’s protect marriage” bullshirt—what are we protecting it from, anyway?

Should the alcohol age be lowered to 18?
I don’t think so, although I doubt it would make much difference. Eighteen-year-olds find a way to drink if they really want to anyway.

Should the war in Iraq be called off?
It never should have begun in the first place. My heart breaks over how many people have died in that war.

Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?
No! Dying with dignity is a right we should all have. It’s ridiculous that people have to suffer when they don’t want to—we euthanize pets to end their suffering; I certainly would not want to live if my quality of life was gone. I don’t think any physician should be forced to assist in a suicide, but if they are willing, they should be able to do it legally.

Do you believe in spanking your children?
I don’t spank my children.

Do you worry that others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
I want to not worry, but I also want to not offend anyone I care about.

Mar. 4: PT is stinky

I went to my physical therapy appointment yesterday even though I felt like shiat because I’m a good little patient. And I’m actually glad I went, because remember how I said the other day that I wasn’t sure it’d do any good? Well, I can already tell it’s going to do some good. And you people say I’m close-minded and stubborn and incontinent and resistant to change. Little do YOU know; I haven’t wet my pants in weeks. Take that!

The coolest part of yesterday’s session was that I got these resistance bands—I think they’re latex or something; they totally stink, whatever they are—that I use for stretching exercises. They look sorta like this:

(That ain’t me.)

I stick this strap/loop thing in the door and close it, then put one of the stinky bands in a loop on the strap and yank the hell out of it (haha, that’s what she said). I can totally feel it working my weakened muscles and it’s way cool because it doesn’t hurt, except that I think the whole thing would be improved if the stinky band was a feather boa. I asked Lisa, my physical therapist, if they had anything fancier and she said, “I guess a feather boa would go perfectly with the IV pole dancing, huh?” See why I love her?

The only reason Lisa knew about the pole dancing is that at my first appointment we talked about the chemo process, and I told her how my friends turn chemo into a big ol’ party and make it the most fun thing about having cancer. It’s not like the rumors are going around that girls are IV pole dancing in the chemo room upstairs. Well, there might be rumors going around, but if there are, Lisa totally pretended not to have heard them. She could just be the queen of discretion.

For my next PT session, I’m wearing something sparkly, for sure. Maybe that way Lisa will be impressed and give me the good exercises. I’m going for the record books—maybe the “Most Likely to Be-Dazzle Her Way Back to Health” category? I can sooo win that one.