It's been a while since I've written anything in these, so here we go, a blog:

All is well with summer, it started out pretty rocky but it's going well now. Finals were hectic w/major projects, papers, and tests being combined w/starting a second job and not going crazy but I made it through. Then dad decided it had been too long since he'd been in the hospital (we were going on over two years with nothing serious!) so he went and had himself a heart attack or two just for good measure. Then came the triple bypass surgery last month, but as usual my father isn't done giving this world hell and has ultimately decided to stick around a little longer by way of an amazing recovery, per usual. Now he gets to add open heart surgery to his nifty lists of ailments: back broken in two places and the doctors say he'll never walk again...HA! that's not my dad. Cancer and they said he had 1.5 yrs to live, yeah um Doc that was almost three years ago. And recently when they asked him to sign a living will before he went under the knife, he put the Pixi J. Doodle (the family cat) down as one of the people who could decide to "pull the plug" on him. That's my dad...guess he knew he'd be alright. I didn't intend to write about my dad in this blog, more about the cafe' job that's surprisingly working out well, or the Fal job that I still love, but my dad's been on my mind for most of the summer and I guess I'm pretty damn proud of him. He never gives up or lets anything get him down. He never loses his sense of humor or gets scared (at least not in front of me), and he never lets me forget what's important in life. And now I leave you with a conversation from the hospital, the third day of my father's stay when the doctor was going to pull out his tubes:

Dad-"Alright doc, I've been through this and I know it's going to hurt.."

Doctor-"Yeah Dale, I'm not gonna lie to you this isn't going to be your favorite part of this surgery"

Dad- "well then Doc I'll strike a deal with you, you go get me a big 'ole syringe of morphine and I'll let you take them out, other wise you can put your balls right here (holds out hand) and if you hurt me, I hurt you, and we can just go through this together."

Doctor-"morphine it is."

The man, the myth, the legend:

xoxo,

kt