I am shocked by my answer but:
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk by Rufus Wainwright
second is:
Closer by Nine Inch Nails

Two songs could not possibly be any more different!

The ever popular Buckeye5 gave me the letter "P" and I will now list 10 things I like (in no particular order)

1.Liz "P"hair-I hope this counts because I really love her music

2. Pittsburgh-they get a vote because that is where my daughter lives now

3. Pink-she is my current girl crush

4. Pandora.com--you put in an artist name and it makes your own little radio playlist

5. Peter Paige-played Emmett Honeycutt on Queer as Folk

6. Pain killers-I don't know why you have to have a prescription, I wanna take em every day.
    Oh, I guess that is why!

7. Pillows- nothing like a nice soft pillow when you are really tired

8. Porn-Yes I admit that I like porn. Don't tell my 73 year old Mom please

9. Peppermint ice cream

10. Panic! At the Disco-can you tell I have a music fetish?

If anyone wants to play I will be happy to randomly select a letter, but I think you are all on Buckeye's friend list!

I don't usually post personal entries. I am more of a feedback person who has quick little conversations. But recently I haven't even been leaving feed back.
So here is my story and I hope that everyone reads and passes on the message.

At the beginning of February I went to the doctor for all my regular checkup stuff and also scheduled a mammogram. It had only been 13 months but I am at  "that " age.

I fully expected to go in for the boob squishing and get a pat on the head and told to come back next year. Well two days later I received a call asking me to come back. This did not alarm me because it has happened before. Two years ago I had a calcium build up spotted. It was a took ten minutes to aspirate, no big deal.

This time there were some tiny little dots in my left breast. I joked with the radiologist and tried to rub them off of the x-ray, but no go. So we scheduled a biopsy. I really, really thought they would come back with results of "it is nothing just dense tissue". But I did not get that lucky.

Thankfully the type of breast cancer I have is very slow moving and has not spread. I asked around and got two excellent surgeons to give me opinions. That was kinda of hard to decide which doctor. What if I picked the wrong one?

I had a lumpectomy less than two weeks ago. I also had one lymph node removed.Then had to wait for the pathology test to see if it had all been removed. The lymph node test came back completely clear! Yippee! However the area around the lumpectomy (called the margins) showed clear but closer to the edge that the doctor wanted.
So I went back to the hospital yesterday and had more tissue removed.  Now there is another 6 or 7 day wait for the new pathology report.

In four weeks I will start radiation treatments. I will have to go five days a week for 6 weeks. But there are no side affects to this treatment. No hair loss or sickness.

The fun part is that my daughter came home from med-school and will be here for one more week. In between the two surgeries we have had a great time shopping and running around. She is doing all kinds of things to help me get healthier and loose weight. She has also been a huge help in keeping me calm and understanding all the things the doctor tells me. Apparently it is pretty common for breast cancer patients to have brain freeze and forget what the hell the doctor is talking about.

So, the whole point of this is to please please get your yearly tests done. Tell your wives, daughters, mothers, sisters and aunts.


I am so very very lucky.
What if I had skipped my mammogram this year? I have no family history.
What if this had grown for another year? I might have been looking at a much harder surgery.

Oh, and my daughter has also done an upgrade to my computer and I now have high-speed internet. No more dial up! I hope to get caught up on all the wonderful stories that have been posted, but doubt I will be able the catch up on leaving feedback.
Just be aware that I am still here and reading.

Pass the message!
Hugs Raenae

So I don't really believe in New Year resolutions. Just seems like a way to disappoint myself. However I do believe in self improvement. So my idea for self improvement is to attempt to make a LJ  post at least once a week. Probably on the weekends. I have never used this forum for this purpose. This has always been the place that I just drop by to read and relax. But I think I am not being fair to myself. I really enjoy talking to each of you. So here is my little attempt to open up a bit!


One of my favorite sedentary hobbies is to Netflix DVD rentals. I love to get a TV series and blaze though it. Most recently I watched all of "Will and Grace". I believe this is one of the best comedy's ever to grace TV. However, when it was on the air I lost interest right before the last season and never saw the end. Until last week. Personally I think they did a great job wrapping it up. My favorites are Jack and Karen. The last episode was very sweet and made me a bit teary. Any opinions?

Secondly, was anyone a fan of the original "Ellen" half hour series? I was seriously in love with that show. The famous coming out episode  was brilliant and hilarious. Then the other episodes that ended that season dealt largely with Ellen and her parents coming to terms with her being gay. Once again hilarious. Plus I think it gave a lot of people something to think about. This was the first show to present this topic to America in prime time. Sadly the next season did not live up to expectations. While I still believe the season as a whole was great, the last two ending episodes were not funny and kinda stunk. And I am a HUGE Ellen fan. I record her talk show everyday and watch it after work. It is a feel good kinda thing.

Sooo, does anyone have any recommendations? I already own all of the Buffy's, Angel's, Firefly's and Six Feet Under. Oh and the first two seasons of Torchwood plus other stuff. Speaking of does anyone know when BBC American will start with the new season of Torchwood?

Sigh, sometimes I am boring. Oh well, that is my thoughts for this weekend.
Raenae

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The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

So here it is. My first journal entry.
I have had this journal for several months, but never felt comfortable with the process. And just about the time I was ready to branch out and explore my monitor, speakers and other various items went out. I lost pretty much everything but the hard drive. Simple enough to replace but I am a hopeless procrastinator. What was going to be one week turned into six or seven weeks of borrowing a computer.
But I am now ready to go! I even have an icon now.
I guess the next step is to get a paid account so I can use more than one icon at a time? That is pretty much the limit of my knowledge of Live journal.
However, I promise to begin leaving more feedback. 
I also promise to try and get to know some of you wonderful writers who have been so kind to friend me.

Well after a delay of one week.

I have to go out of town for business on Monday and will be gone until Sunday. Since I don't have a laptop I will be desperately behind on stories and happenings. For some strange reason my company blocks internet access to any site that is for entertainment or personal use. Some silly idea about us sitting around wasting time on the internet! Can you imagine? 
I am going to try some different things with customizing the journal and stuff. So please forgive anything that may be strange or irritating as I send silly messages. 
Raenae