commitment
It’s me again. Posting twice in the same month—that’s a damned fine start if you ask me.
Tomorrow is my one year anniversary of breaking my first, and hopefully last, bone. I broke my left ankle in two places by stepping on ice I thought was snow. Because my hands were full, I couldn’t catch my balance and crash down went I.
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Me Again
Cooking: the Early Years
I’m not going to fill in all the gaps since my last post. I ought to but I won’t, at least not now. I may in the future fold in things that will explain what’s happened since going to London or moving but not today.
Today I can formally proclaim I have fucking breast cancer AGAIN. It’s a new primary (that’s good) and I can manage with another lumpectomy versus a mastectomy (also good) but it’s still twice in 10 years and that sucks.
Surgery is March 3. Radiation to follow.
Over the last year, I have pondered and thought and come to a resolution which this diagnosis has only served to solidify. This year, I am retiring. This is my last lunch break at Starbucks on a February 6 because after November, I will be retired.
Who knows, I may actually have time to make that jam.
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According to “the life changing magic of tidying up”. . ..
I must ask do I feel joy surrounded by these things and then I must only keep things in my life which bring me joy.
What does it mean that all my work clothes are in the joyless pile?
hmmm. Thats what I thought it meant.
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We. Have. To. Move.
We have to move.
Our lovely delightful, hippy-dippy, union member, lefty, pot smoking expat landlords have decided to come home to Seattle. Which would be just smashing if I was their family and if it wasn’t for the fact that they don’t want to keep leaving in the Mother-in-law apartment downstairs: they want their house back.
Despite knowing this was coming someday, it seems I was subliminally always hoping they’d stay in Mexico forever or at least until I got all three kids through high school. No such luck. So now I need to find someplace in the same school district that takes cats and won’t bankrupt us and prevent us from doing all the meaningful things in life like TRAVEL and THEATRE!!
Did I mention this year the rhubarb seems established and that my ligonberries are taking off and the thimble berry patch will be brilliant this year and I replanted the lavender and added some verbena and I FINALLY got my Little Free Library up? I’m not even going to think about the blueberry bushes planted nearly 6 years ago.
On the bright side, we have amazingly long notice–June 2017. Which will hopefully be just long enough to pare through 5 people and 8 years and 2 deaths worth of accumulation.
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This Year
This year there will be no one dying of cancer or just dead of cancer or going through treatment for cancer.
There will be no one having surgery or in the hospital.
There will be no work crisis.
There will be no flu.
There will be hand made gifts finished before the holiday.
There will be a holiday party to make up for years of missed parties and half-assed parties.
There will be home cured gravlax and ham.
There will be fresh baked buns on Christmas morning.
There will be goose and pudding.
There will be special crackers for each person with unique treats and maybe even a poem.
There will be cookies and homemade candy.
There will be boxes of treats and presents sent out.
There will be family time and reading and playing board games and watching family favorites on television.
There will be Boxing Day.
There will be Christmas.
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