Potty mouth crafts, hats, and romance novel covers

I have had a busy week!!  Let me fill you in on some highlights.

I did some crafting.  I stumbled across Subversive Cross Stitch randomly and found a pattern addressing cancer.  I emailed Julie, the owner, to ask if she could tweak the pattern for tumors.  She did (for free) and told me that her brother had died of a very aggressive brain tumor.  She said lots of words of support and I was off!  After receiving my cross stitch kit in the mail, I created this beauty.

Pardon my French, but it's deserved

This little ray of sunshine now hangs in my bathroom

I sent these pictures to Julie to show her how well it turned out, since it was the first F Tumors cross stitch to be done (I'm such a trailblazer, I know...).  She asked me if she could share it on her site's Facebook page, and I told her of course she could.  Well, it got a REALLY great reception!!  I was SO touched and teared up at work (right after she posted it) with all of the wonderful things all these random strangers had to say.

I think my favorite is the guy who says "She looks much too nice to have such a potty mouth, but I have to agree with her on this point."  HA!!!  

I've also been continuing to clean the clutter from my life (and physically from my apartment).  I had a large pile of hats and scarves that have lived on the floor next to my couch since May.  With my new 'do, they are officially retired!  

My head feels cold already!

Some of these are getting donated and some I'm keeping (and may wear casually, for fun! nuts, right?!).  There are just too many for me to keep.

On Saturday, besides enjoying the company of my out of town guests Mindy and Casey and prepping for my party (details in a post to come), I also received what may be the greatest wedding save the date magnet of all time from my seester Amy.  OF ALL TIME.

GENIUS!

This magnet will likely live on my fridge forever.  Past the wedding, past more cleaning out the crap from my life, FOREVER.  I canNOT get over it!  I LOVE IT!

Alright, I'm almost caught up.  Details about the best birthday party ever coming soon!!!

Random bullet point list

I love lists.  Listy list lists.

• For a couple months after surgery, I'd get this thing where when my heartbeat is elevated, it pounded super hard in my head.  It's very uncomfortable and kept me from wanting to work out or even walk fast up hills.  Then it got better.  Well... it's been doing it again.  A lot.  It just about stops me in my tracks.  It's bizarre and quite annoying and slightly painful.  :(
• When I get home at night, all I do all evening long is run my hands through my hair.  It gets all puffed up and looks QUITE gorgeous, and it feels good on my head.  Plus it feels cool to my hands, since my head feels so different than it has my whole life.  So, needless to say, if I see you after 7pm, my hair is probably looking REALLY good.  I'm currently taking volunteers for head rubs and hair puffing.
• The cleaning out and cleaning up of my life continues.  I turned in probably around 75 CDs to Easy Street today to sell back to them, and they took all but 3 (that were scratched).  It earned me $162 in store credit!  Yessssss!  And got some old clutter out of the way.
• I'm thrilled and relieved to have gotten such great feedback on my new haircut!  I knew my girlfriends would like it, but I've received (very unexpected) compliments from heterosexual males ("stunning," "amazing," "supermodel," "better than before").  I'm amazed and VERY flattered.  And I'm sooo glad that my short 'do isn't a turnoff!  ;)
• I talked to Dr. M a bit at my last MRI appointment about my tumor, what he expects, brain cancer, etc.  I'll post a separate update to include the information I received.  It was reassuring.
• My new haircut gives me the best bedhead EVER!  I've been tempted many mornings to take a picture.  Maybe I'll do it one of these days.
• I recently finished some pretty badass crafting.  I'll share results soon...
• I never posted anything about my appointment at the sleep clinic (which was sandwiched between the days of my MRI and haircut... it was a busy few days!).  I met with a new neurologist, Dr. B, and talked to him about my sleep issues.  Most I've had all my life but some have been even worse since surgery.  He was really nice and seemed intrigued by my situation, so I have a sleep study scheduled for tomorrow night.  I'll go to Harborview around 7pm, stay the night there in a special hotel-like room with lots of monitors hooked up to me (lights out at 11pm), and they'll wake me up at 7am.  I can shower there in my private bathroom to get the goo out of my hair and then I'll get the results from Dr. B a couple of weeks later.  Should be interesting!!

That's all.