Tonight's full moon is the Wolf Moon, so named because it falls in January, a cold month that caused wolves to come out and howl at the moon. It's also called the "After Yule Moon," because it's the first full moon to occur after the Winter Solstice holidays. Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest of 2010; a full 14 percent wider ( Read more... )

I figured I should post something because I'm still very much around and I wouldn't want to worry anyone ( Read more... )

Yes, we can! Yes, we did! Yes, we will keep on doing!

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Thanks to the lovely lunaris1013  for the vote logo! (See previous post.)

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Most of the time, my television viewing is governed by what my four-year old watches, but lately I've had the opportunity to watch some TV more geared towards adults ( Read more... )

Hiya! Just poking up my head to say hello! I've been out of commission for a while; some pesky health concerns that led to an even peskier surgery, and unexpectedly extended hospitalization, that I haven't really wanted to write about, kept me away longer than I wanted ( Read more... )

Sure, everyone knows it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- you can't buy anything without tripping over a friggin' pink ribbon -- but I bet you didn't know that last month was Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month? Bet you don't know when it's Uterine, or Fallopian, or Cervical Cancer Awareness Months either.

Point is, no one does.

No other cancer that ( Read more... )

Have an absolutely fabulous birthday, 
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I’m happy to report that I finished chemo in July with a good, low CA-125, and that my post-treatment PET scan - which I got the results of yesterday - was unremarkable enough to earn me a chemo holiday!

The treatments of the past several months have effectively calcified and made scar tissue of the tumors I had, and the plan is now for me ( Read more... )