So many ones and twos and zeros. Yay-uh. Happy New Year! I am fairly certain this year is going to be a gozillion times more rad that 2011… which kind of sucked a bit. But didn’t suck totally.

Heh? Nice isn’t exactly how I would describe the weighted one legged squat. But to each its own I suppose.

Today was a good day for Charlie and me. It was my last chemotherapy treatment, at least as far as we know now. Once I shake feeling like crud, I can go and do whatever I want until surgery. Whatever I want… like set after set of one legged squats. Wheeeeee! Happy Friday everyone.

This phrase was implemented as a sort of ‘in your FACE’ type of thing. Note it and use it. So amazing. I have been laughing at it ever since I read it. Our friend / Charlie’s co-worker Brian wrote this in an email. An email proving he used to belong to a hip hop group that used to exist: Strategic Prophecy.

By the way Lauren, that link to the image (shown below, Brian right) doesn’t really prove he was in a hip hop group, does it? I believe it though. I mean, that shit looks real… real awesome! Yay-uh. Brian, thank you for the laughs. For reals.

Hello people! Just checking in and hoping you all had a great Thanksgiving. I have a lot to be thankful for this year… although I caught myself doing a lot of looking back and looking forward to different (and arguably) better times. I guess that is just how it goes sometimes. But moving forward while constantly looking back can make you trip over things. True I think.

On the really bright side for me, Seattle’s Fall has been going off, rad colors and weathery weather. I have been spending my time surrounded by rad friends: bouldering, snowboarding, seeing good music and getting my creative on. There have been lots of experiences recently that I am filing away under Good Shit That Has Happened During This Shitty Shit. Opening weekend at Mt. Baker, having my family come to Seattle to hang, chatting daily with my Doug Friends, making miniature model lands come to life, jogging through fall colors, bouldering in Yosemite… there have been lots of things to put into The Good Shit folder. I love that.

The most recent chemotherapy treatments are hitting me hard right after I get them, but then I kind of bounce back… not feeling totally normal then, but at least better. I hit the bouldering gym a couple times a week (outdoor season is a bit dampened) and have been running a couple times a week, too. Stoked about that stuff, always. Anyhow, tomorrow (Friday) is my second-to-last treatment, so that is progress.

Friends all around: you are ridiculously rad in all ways. Just one very visible example… thank you to our friend Holly for taking some bald photos of Charlie and me.  It is virtually impossible to ask me to like a picture of myself in the state I am in… but your pictures did it. What a fun (and cold) evening that was at Discovery! File that away under Good Shit That Has Happened. For sure.

Check out her site for some photo inspiration: http://hollyannephoto.com/