Blog 27

Year recap & Summer '09
at 07/02/09 12:24AM

Ok, so here's what's been up with me in case anyone's been wondering:

Just about fully recovered from the whole illness and relapse thing in April before the summer time, thank goodness, and granny survived cancer for the 3rd time, very wonderful news that was of course!

May was okay, celebrated dad's b-day, not much of anything else happened here, oh wait....that stupid car battery dying in West Columbia thing happened then....I'm cautious/paranoid about keeping the battery from dying now.....

June has stunk horribly mostly.....blah.........except um, well a long time friend of mine graduated this month...time truly flies..... I did get a part time job at a newly opened small town deli/restaurant (btw we've already gotten cater requests from places like STP) and later got my Zune player stolen but have replaced it with a better one, used, but almost like new for $102, it's an 80 Gb now instead of the 30 Gb that I had before, I really like it. I have been helping a lady from our congregation with cleaning up her house since she's had shoulder surgery, and she even gave me some money for it, I was really and honestly surprised at that, but don't get me wrong, I was very thankful. Saw Transformers 2, that was great and also long too (2:20 in length), if you haven't seen it yet, make sure you go to the restroom before it starts b/c you don't really want to miss any of it. Ummm, Farrah Fawcet (sp?), Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays have all died this month too.....been having an unusual and maybe to some of you ppl, unnatural amount of fun playing Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii with friends (we should videotape ourselves, haha), been lowered down to 10 mg of Predisone yay but doctor wants to keep me on that for a little while longer *dadgummit*. Seem to be gaining and losing lbs. in this slow/crazy process, and I am also trying to exercise whenever I get a chance so to rebuild more of that muscle strength I had lost (the lady friend from church has a treadmill and some other thing I am allowed to mess around on when I'm not having to work). Now this weekend Laci and I are gonna go up to the Silsbee/Woodville area to her BF's house for the July 4 celebration, it's gonna be great! We'll be leaving Friday and be back by Sunday afternoon or so.....so me and sis's first "road trip" since we'll be going 3 hrs. on the road over there, though I will be driving when we are going around the Houston area.....thank goodness I got a replacement mp3 player before this little trip, I just really like having my music with me everywhere, it really helps on the longer trips, and definitely will be sure to make sure this one doesn't get stolen from me, or anything else for that matter. SoIamexcitedaboutthewholetripandpartyeventhoughyoucan'texactlytellbecauseIh aven'tusedmuchpunctuationbutreallycan'tyoutellI'mexcitednow?? LOL

This year for the most part has really been mean to me.....but perhaps June will mean better things coming up for me in the future, since I have been involved in a bunch of wonderful things. A great ending to a long period of idleness forced by the illness/relapse and recovery process, even though stressful a lot of times, especially with summer school coming up soon (July 13) and who knows what next year (hope to be at A&M by then), but it's so much better than not having a real life at all being in the hospital for the time that I did.....nowadays when I hear ppl complain about common life stresses, I want to sympathize still, but now I really sometimes want to reproach them for forgetting so easily how they've been blessed and oftentimes use myself as an example of one having a "normal" lifestyle, but then suddenly having all that interrupted and taken away for a time, it really made me thankful for even the stressful times....I was even becoming *jealous* of just about anyone living outside the hospital ......ppl I see sometimes plan to "build a barn then later build bigger barns" and keep stressing and stuff, but forget that there will times when all that will be interrupted not of their own will....and that one day, not knowing when, "our soul will be required of us". I am thankful that God helped me through those hard times and since that time of hardship, some of the ways I look at life have never been the same.....I have never been the same.

Paul