Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!  It's been some time since I last wrote.  Since then, I've seen my urologist, discussed my prognosis/diagnosis, talked about the CAPA diet, and he's ordered up another biopsy for next Thursday, December 26.  Regardless of the outcome, life is good.

I was telling someone the other day that this is the first time in the last 13 years that I love where I live, and where I work.  

Think about that.  

I'm not quite sure what this says about me, but I know that I am blessed, lucky, happy, fortunate - whatever words you want to choose. Have I, as my hero Thereau said, been "... leading a life of quiet desperation"?

How could I have gotten by these past 13 years without being happy?  I suppose that the title of this blog has something to do with that - or is it vice versa?  Now, the way my feeble brain works, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.  I get a lot of love at work from my boss, my peers, my students, and parents.  Shouldn't this be good enough?  The one nut I've yet to crack (so to speak) is the big boss in the corner office.  He's admitted to us that he is terrible at feedback and recognition.  So where does this leave me?  It leaves me like millions of other Americans who don't know from one minute to the next if there job is secure or not.  I just have to press on doing the best I can do and believing that the rest will take care of itself.

Well, holiday season is upon us and I'm leaving tomorrow to visit friends in LA tomorrow night (well, after I wrap up my class in Murrietta at 10PM).  The upshot is that I've got packing to do, presents to pack, and a soak in the bathtub in my near future.  Those damn antibiotics do a number on me and I can't believe I have to take them again next week :(

I'll write again over the holidays and perhaps even weigh in on the holidays themselves.  Christmas day will be spend quietly at home (I'm quite OK with that...) prepping for my procedure on Thursday.

Be well everyone - and hug your loved ones!!!