Happy New Year!

                                                           Happy New Year to everyone!

May 2011 bring everything you want! Health, happiness, success, love.....

I haven't thought of any kind of resolution yet for the new year, but I hope it will be a good one for me!  ONLY HEALTHY THINGS FOR ME PLEASE

That's mostly what I want.  Health.  And a little happiness if it can be managed :)

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Despite being Jewish, I do love the Christmas holiday and spirit of the season!

 

And for those who won't be celebrating the Christmas holiday, some Chinese takeout to make it a special day!

Welcome back to the good and the bad

Welcome back!  I'm sorry for the break in posts.  Things have been a little crazy around here.

Why?  Because I relapsed.  But it's kind of good news?  This is pretty weird guys.  I've been getting radiation to my brain for the past couple of weeks and apparently it isn't a big deal.  What????  I was devastated at first, obviously, hence the not posting on the blog thing, but I guess it just isn't that bad of news.  I saw my doctor yesterday and he seemed to think that the radiation I'm getting will kick my tumor to the ground and then he wants to take a break from chemo in general (which he had been talking about before I relapsed).  I guess I'm just a little confused as to how this isn't really changing anything except adding radiation to my treatment plan.  And a little confused because of the tumor in my brain.  It's smaller now so I can process things better, but I had a rough few days at the beginning.

So the good news is that life continues probably as usual.  Which is weird, because having a tumor in your brain is such a big deal, except that for me it isn't?

I guess otherwise I don't really know what to write except that I'm still trying to process all of this and process it in a good way that's positive and all.  I mean, guys, look at my life - gut leukemia, brain leukemia, and it isn't a big deal?  WTH???!!!!

On the other hand, the weather has been freezing but we did get snow.  Yay!  I love snow.

Hope you're all getting ready well for the holidays, and I'll see you all back here soon.

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... will be back in business soon.  Sorry folks!  Just a bunch of stuff going on.

Well, I'm still having computer problems, so for the time being everything is status quo.  BUT, I did pass my GREs!  I got a 1200 composite, including a 550 on the math.  Yay!  Now I just have to write a couple of essays and get those turned in.  That has to happen by December 1st, so I guess the fewer distractions I have the better, right?

And a happy belated birthday to my grandpa!  He's 95!

Uh-oh!

My laptop has some kind of problem.  I start it up, it works fine for a few minutes, and then the screen goes black and I can't do anything!  According to the error report I was able to get back once, it's something with the graphics reader.  Unfortunately it won't stay on long enough for me to do anything about it!  It's only been a couple of days and I'm going to keep working on the problem, but I'm starting to think I may have to say goodbye to my poor laptop!  Luckily we have other computers in the house I can use, but until my laptop is fixed there may not be many updates on here.

GRE on Tuesday!  Can't wait for it to be over!

GRE Update

I took another practice test today.  The verbal stayed at 710 and I got a 5 on each of my essays.

The good news from math?  Up to a 540!  YES!  Amazing what a couple of weeks of studying can do for you!

Random question for the universe: why do I get junk mail from a group called "Americans for Limited Government" on the email account attached to this blog?  Did I ever write anything that would make anyone think I'm in favor of limited government?  If I did, I'm sorry.  I don't feel that way.  I don't think the new health care bill went far enough (meaning I'm all for a single payer system) and I think Wall Street needs more regulation.  When I open up my spam folder and see a bunch of emails from Americans for Limited Government I want to call a bunch of takeout pizzas to their headquarters and make them pay for them.  That, or put flaming dog poop on their doorstep.  One or the other.