Um, sure. But that intro seemed a little, well… let’s say, ridiculous… just to ask if we can go get some more coffee.

Truth.

Yap, well… sorry for the long silence. I think that is the longest that I have gone between posts since I started the blog before the Francey Pantz trip. I have been… well… busy, to say the least.

I kind of fell down a messed up rabbit hole of sorts. In short, I found out about a month ago that I have breast cancer. Do I capitalize that? No, I don’t think that I want to give it that much distinction. It is stage 1 and I feel too young to have it. But am thankful that, via many many many other tests, the cancer doesn’t seem to be anywhere else. That wasn’t stressful or anything: waiting for those tests to come back. Good grief.

It has taken me many weeks to get to this point. To get to the point of writing something down. But here I am. Already I have a changed perspective on how I want to live and the things that I will and am making priorities. Similar to when I was in Europe and then just back, things seem clearer to me now. Realization. But that is really where the similarity to this situation and being in Europe for 4 months stops. I kind of wish I was in Fontainebleau again instead. Damn.

My situation is as good as a bad situation can be. I am so thankful everyday for that. It is treatable. I live 4 blocks from a Top 10 In The Nation Cancer Center. I caught it early. I have a ridiculously good support network of ridiculously rad friends. Other than ‘it’, I am really healthy right now… and I have just torn through my first 2 out of 8 chemotheraphy treatments. Whoa, that is messed up to write that. Only 6 more to go… each separated by 2 weeks. Then I will need surgery, which will probably happen sometime after the first of the year. Then radiation. I am looking forward to sometime in March to be when I come out of the proverbial weeds.

But you know, I won’t just talk about all of this for months. It is a component to my life now, but I am going to be doing and seeing lots of things in the midst of this. Climbing, creating, traveling. I am determined to. It’s weird. Now I have just seen into this other life… the life of a lot of people. The life of so many, you would scarcely believe it. I am being treated at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (part of University of Washington)… a building I have run and walked passed countless times and have just now seen the inside of its walls. For two years I have barely even noticed it. You are on the outside and then you are on the inside, so quickly. It is nutz.

And I did go see a man about a wig. One made of my own hair, no less. Totally one of the most bizarre days of my life, I think. Anyhow, I am sitting here bald as bald can be right now. My head is a bit cold. But that also means Fall is here, good bouldering temps. So there’s that.

So this was by far my favorite video for quite a while. Mainly because I was obsessed with comics growing up. Anyhoo, this video and Yo! MTV Raps bring back some really good memories… Rolston… Taco Bell… watching you skate… then being forced to sit and watch videos for hours or Michaela and I would be asked to “go play in traffic”. Those were the good ol’ days.