On the record, I'm pretty happy these days. Happy is the new status quo.

I think I posted this on Facebook somewhere but I think I'm pretty happy, too.
Ain't got no full-time job, ain't got no man, ain't got a lot of money but I'm okay.
;) :)

Headed out to see "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" at the MS Museum of Art this weekend

Life is good

Have you considered a career in country music?

I've restored the Nuclear Muffin Test Kitchen's Auditorium of Annihilation to it's full HK powered, Klipsch voiced glory.

I am very proud of the work I've done so far on the nursery. And I derived a great deal of fun from the process, and satisfaction from the result And I was kinda looking forward to wiring up the ceiling light.

But in the end, I'm totally seriously happy that I'm going to come home tomorrow to find a ceiling light installed, and I won't have had to do squat. Yay for hired help!

I finally got up into the attic to see just how little space the sloped roof leaves over that bedroom. If I knew what I was doing and weren't going to have to figure things out as I go, it would have been doable. But the prospect of being crammed up there with the layers of filth and roofing nails inches from my head AND trying learn on-the-fly was utterly unappealing.

So bring in the professionals!

"My life is one big country song and the hits keep on comin'."

:D

Is that tonight (the BCS Championship game)? What's the point of dragging the bowl system out to mid-January and not waiting for Saturday to play the big game?

How did they turn college football into hockey with a post season that never ends and 90% of the people don't care about?

My sister's biopsy came back negative.

I haven't posted this here, or talked about it with more than a couple people, but late last year my sister was diagnosed with cancer. A melanoma on her back that had made it into her lymph system. It had spread from a node on her back down to an adjoining node. The dr. who gave her the initial diagnosis gave her low odds of surviving even 10 years.

The oncologist she was referred to had a far less doom-and-gloom story for her and went straight to work on treatment.

She's been through a total of 3 surgeries where they removed the melanoma, the first node it had spread to, the two nodes "up and downstream" from that one (biopsy showing that the cancer had spread to the "downstream" one), and then the two nodes connected to that one. Tonight she got the biopsy results on the last node removed, and she's cancer free.

She's got quite a bit of recovery from some extensive surgery, and there remains risk of recurrence, but she's being treated by the guy who literally invented the methods for diagnosing and treating this form of cancer, so she's in good hands.

May 2010 (and beyond) continue to get better from here.