mlerules: (bunny clock)
Feeling a DUMP coming on. It's a combo brain-dump, heart-dump, soul-dump, core-dump, emotional-dump, an airing out of my innards, a flooding of my inner-workings w/word flow and fresh air so the cobwebs get blown away and excess dust 'n' kloodge of all sorts gets washed away by the words flowing out and around and through it all.

It ain't gonna be pretty or neat or sensible. It may even appear highly cryptastic. That's b'c it's for me, not you. So deal. Or don't. No skin off my butt, either way.

Yeah, I didn't actually hold anybody's heart in my hands, but I did indeed get down and exceptionally cleanly 'n' intimately involved w/[livejournal.com profile] jaylake's heart last Sunday.Read more... )

Okay, now I wanna concoct - and consume - a FOLFIRI cocktail**. Hmm, mebbe I'll just rework the marvelous Velvet Hammer that Murray bestowed upon us as we gathered up our belongings in preparation for leaving the lovely Zig-Zag Cafe several months back. The coaster on which he wrote out the recipe now lives right here by my small (but sweet & savory) Classic Cocktail reference library.

Yes, my FOLFIRI cocktail** shall consist of Gin 'n' Campari 'n' Canton Ginger 'n' Lime Twist, plus something else to distinguish it as mine own. Thoughts, tips, hints, suggestions hereby solicited from [livejournal.com profile] dritikol and any other mixologists reading along.

EDIT: Quite possibly absinthe will serve as the final ingred. Taste-testings shall confirm or deny this once conducted. Thx for all who're playing along.

** Named that, mind you, not an actual one.
mlerules: (CuMoon pendant w/bee bling)
Not quite up w/the crows today. Got some intermittent sleep. Will try napping some later, but the new dryer's due for delivery 'n' installation here sometime 'tween 9-11am so I wanna be awake 'n' functional for that. [livejournal.com profile] jaylake slept some last night, too, but I'm very glad he's crashed out again on the couch right now, as the exhaustion w/this round o' chemo's been extreme and last night's sleep was fairly fitful.

Have discovered that [livejournal.com profile] jaylake's chemo-infuser pump* goes click/whir every so slightly every minute, so I find myself listening for it (or, rather, listening for not it). Sorta silly, actually, b'c if'n something does go wonky - crimped line, low battery, &c. - an alarm'll go off. And beeping'll apparently happen as well once the well's nearly run dry (approx 2:05pm tomorrow aka Sunday, about 48 hours after it began filling his bloodstream w/toxic chemicals).

He reports that this version of chemo (FOLFIRI) so far has far less harsh mental side-effects than the FOLFOX did last time. (It hasn't halved his IQ 'n' brain capacity.) The new regimen, however, does have far harsher physical side-effects, the ones most commonly associated w/chemo (serious exhaustion & major nausea). Ah, balance...

Yesterday featured a chunk o' time in the OHSU Cancer Care Center (7th floor of waterfront clinic). Lovely views, very nice facilities, and really good staff by 'n' large. I got to watch lotsa boats out on the Willamette cruise by and around Ross Island - dragon boats, canoes, kayaks, power boats, a barge pushed along by a bright yellow tugboat, the Spirit of Portland (if'n that's it's real name - I'm tip-tapping along here w/out paying a lotta attention to what I'm saying now), &c. The window also looks out onto a functioning boatyard, where I could see a guy welding as part of the building of a new boat (possibly a barge). Apparently [livejournal.com profile] jaylake &c. were there to see the last barge built there launch into the river, which was quite the occasion!


*a Cudd Prizm, which puts me in mind of him as a calf suckling while teathered to a medicinal teat
mlerules: (L'il Engine That Could)
Two by two, hands of purple. That's me today, as I double-glove to deal w/toxic spills/spews. Ah, chemo, the rumors 'bout you 'n' whatcha do to folks would appear to be true...

Still, at least I've enjoyed the cherry-popping of [livejournal.com profile] jaylake vis-a-vis Fambily Guy, Reefer Madness: The Musical, and something else that's flown from my mind as it's been a long-@ss day and I'm tired now so'm signing off as I wanna get some sleep.

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