I tried to publish this YESTERDAY!

It's been one year since I had my stem-cell transplant.

...Happy Birthday *Natasha*!...

I'm free...
...okay so I still have to wait for one of my blood tests to come back to see if I have to take coumadin... (how ever you spell it...) BUT other than that~! NO MORE PREDNISONE!!! NO MORE NOTHING!!!

This time last year I was taking to many pills to count... now... just vitamins like everyone else...

TODAY~!

ONE YEAR TODAY!!!

I'm in Chicago right now.

I went to the doctor yesterday - I got the all clear. I can stay out late ~ commit general debauchery... I was told not to smoke and drink and have safe sex - (like THAT is really a problem right now...) but I can go around and basically be... normal?

...I was talking to *John* on the phone last night...(early this morning,) about how crazy that sounds in my head... I cried. Even if he did want to run in the ther direction - he didn't - he listened.

A YEAR!

If I actually behave ~ this time next year I could be... *cringe*... skinny... *eh* I think I like candy WAY.TO.MUCH.

speaking of which ~ I want LUNCH... I'm home (apt.) alone as of the moment. I was going to wait till they came home. BUT BUT BUT ~ Potbelly's - the bestest sub shop is just around the corner - maybe I'll drop on by...

It's 4:35.

Maybe, I should just wait for dinner?

Anywho~
I have to go get a loan to finish school... goals ~ I can FINALLY GET OFF ME BUM AND FINISH WHAT I BLOODY STARTED~!...
... I think it's called a life... I'll tell you when it happens...

"Fairy tales are more than true : not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton

I went to the Shedd Aquarium today.

I didn't realize so many people liked fish.