There.
I feel much better ...
... for now.
If I have to explain this, you don't have cancer.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Argh! Grrr!! Aaahh!!!
There.
I feel much better ...
... for now.
If I have to explain this, you don't have cancer.
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Sorry, Steve... :( We think you're great, btw, did we mention this recently? xoxo-- ok well at least the o's... ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recent mention, Mary. Did I just get hugs or kisses? Do I have to talk to my bishop now? :) Either way I start back on chemo this Friday. I think I'm ready. Glad you're still following along.
ReplyDeleteLove the post. Love you. Hate the cancer. So I guess this means I'm having a love/hate relationship with you right now. (smiles)
ReplyDeleteLove, The Big Sister
PS: ... aren't you my endurance runner brother? Seems like your marathons have prepared for more than expected. Keep up the good work and the complaints. I think they are both good for you!
Sorry you feel Grrrr. Not sure how else to get these book ideas to you other than on here.
ReplyDeleteIf you are tempted by just one I count that a success!
Having compiled the list I realize I am drawn toward stories of endurance and survival even before I reached this point where personal endurance and survival has come to be.
1. “It’s not about the bike” by Lance Armstrong. Even if you don’t follow le Tour de France he is still inspiring, and a cancer survivor.
2. “Touching the void” by Joe Simpson. Survival in the Peruvian Andes after a mountaineering accident. I’ve never mountaineered but used to orienteer so know what it feels like to be out in the wilderness.
3. “Birdsong” by Sebastian Faulks. World War 1 with romance on the side
4. “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” by Louis de Bernieres. Set on the island of Cephallonia during the occupation WWII. Please don’t compare it to the awful film version with Nicholas Cage.
5. “The Siege” by Helen Dumore. Leningrad 1941.
6. “Enigma” by Robert Harris. Good for someone who likes puzzles
7. “Jamaica Inn” by Daphne du Maurier. Written in the late 1930s so dated but a gripping tale of smuggling in Cornwall with a feisty heroine, rogues and villains
8. and a classic from my childhood “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling lived in India in the late 19th C., a time of British Imperialism. He is best remembered for ‘The Jungle Book’ but I prefer this, written to be read to his children. Much of it is total invention but answers those impossible questions such as ‘how did the leopard get his spots’ Daddy. This is from ‘how the whale got his throat’. Ignore the factual errors and grammar and instead listen to the sound and the humour..
“In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he
ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and
the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackerel and the
pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all
the sea he ate with his mouth – so! Till at last there was only one small fish left
in all the sea, and he was a small ’Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the
Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way.
(‘Stute is a play on Astute meaning clever in a shrewd, cunning way)
PS These are a woman’s choices, so may not suit you at all. My H wouldn’t list any of them, preferring detective stories, thrillers, sci-fi, or historical tales of discovery, invention and daring do.
No explanation necessary - LOVE it :-))
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back on top of things again xxx
Up for a little bubble gum blowing contest? We could take a drive down some obscure canyon road and blow our bubbles in unison out the window to random cars we pass. Come on! You Dad and Mom would join us. We could even teach the children.
ReplyDeleteWhat to you say, huh? Pleasssssssssssssssse.
Bubble Yum is way better that Bazooka. I'll bring it. KKKKKKKKKKKKKKK????
You could even bring your girlfriend. Hey, have you filled her in on these significantly special family rituals yet? You've only been married to the gal for what? 17 or 18 years?
Gotta love me, The Big Sister
Lauri - Thanks for reminding me of the marathon approach to chemo therapy. As to the bubble gum blowing contest, you're right - I gotta luv ya. My car or yours?
ReplyDeleteCarole - This post is your fault. You did say to allow myself to feel emotional. Well, it worked. Thanks for the sound advice. :-)) Carla says 'hi'.
Fiona - Wow! Nice list. Carla read over it quickly and said I should enjoy at least half of it. So big success! She was running the children's book department in a major downtown book store when I married her. She's a huge reading fan. We like to say we married two libraries together. She's even got all five of our children reading on their own. I made my email address visible in my profile. So you are welcome to use that for things like this. I have fond memories of my great grand mother reading us the story of the elephant child and the crocodile whenever we came to visit. That's how the elephant got his long nose. Carla really likes Kipling, too. Thanks for the list and the trip down memory lane.
Hi Steve
ReplyDeleteMy computer says it has no email programme installed to perform the requested action when I click on your 'send email', which is weird as it works for others using blogger.
Just thought, are you about to start the next round of chemo?
ReplyDeleteGot message re email. Ta. Off to watch an oldie western on TV with T. T loves westerns, his Dad looked a bit like John Wayne! I'll be one third watching. one third reading my book 'Rose of Sebastapol' and one third having a cuddle.
ReplyDeleteBig 'Hi' back to Carla and totally glad you decided to go with the emotional stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt just becomes excess baggage otherwise - we ALL need a good cry/moan/rant sometimes Steve.
My advice is never be tougher than you really need to be.
No-one expects you to be upbeat and positive all the time - and if they do, they've not had cancer or experienced someone in their family with it.
Much luv to you all xxxx