Cancer Sucks, Obviously

This is a bummer post but it's been a pretty bummer week ~ one of our good friends passed away on Sunday at the age of 36 after a 2 year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was married this past October. WTF.

I'm not sure if it's because I had cancer so I'm sensitive to it, or because I'm getting older, but I feel like everyone I know has cancer. Or they are at least touched by it.

Me
Uncle Bruce
Papa*
Fraelicks*
Monie's Mom
Tanya
Sue's Mom*
Brenda's sister
Silvie's Mom*
Melissa's Dad
Melissa's Aunt
T's good friend
Mr. Z
Kate

Okay so this is the short list of all the people I am connected to that I could name in 1 minute. Gross.

Good results and birds singing...

Living in New England (and Michigan) you know that no signs of spring can be trusted - but - today I could hear birds outside of my office and it was such a sweet sound. It's also been sunny and good lunch time walking weather this week. Hey, I'll take what I can get.

Which was also good pathology results from my excision last week! Wahoo! They took a lesion off my head (above my right ear) and ten stitches later I'm good as new. We never thought it was going to be Melanoma again but it's always nice to know for certain.

My favorite things for today are as follows:

http://www.pandora.com/ - online music where you simply put in an artist, song or genre and they create a music station for you. Today I typed in Old Crow Medicine Show and have had a fantastic stream of bluegrass ever since.

Trader Joe's cocoa almonds

Planet Earth on DVD - I cannot stop watching it!