long time

so it's been a while huh... I guess the news of having to go through more treatment hit me pretty bad... haha...

The day I found out that I had to go through another cycle i was pretty bummed... confided in my wife... and she made me feel better... but the day rest of the day I was pretty "frowned faced"... but the next day I wasn't going to let it get to me... I figured I had a good 4 days of feeling the best I've felt in 8 months... so like that I made the best of it... since my counts were good I ate sushi everyday at least once... oh man was it awesome... I miss sushi soo much... the reason I can't have sushi while going through treatment is cause of my lack of an immune system; it can't fight off the 'rawness' of certain things...

Man I was craving sushi for some time, and I think by having it everyday i might have made the craving worse... but it was well worth it... ... Shahrzad was enjoying it as well... not as much as me though. I think I did a little dance with every sushi piece I put in my mouth...

Monday, nov 9, my birthday... twas awesome... at midnight, my wife came from the our bedroom shouting "Happy birthday".. then pulled me into the bedroom (not what your thinking... ;) ) and showed me this...

She had 2 choices of gifts for me. 1) Coupon for breakfast with hash browns, eggs and bacon, shoes and something else we won't talk about 2) Comfy chair from ikea, comfy expensive sweat pants. I chose #1... once I gave her my option we proceeded to order my presents online, and spent the rest of the night in bed watching movies and being comfy... the next morning the plan was for her to make breakfast in bed, but I couldn't have her make all the stuff by herself, so I joined her in the kitchen and we made breakfast together... it reminded me of before cc, when we were dating. We used to cook together all the time and chit chat... this was while working in Israel,where we first met...anyway the breakfast was awesome. I'm a HUGE breakfast fan... and I can't believe it but I haven't had a good breakfast in a long time, and it was real nice having it on my birthday!!!

the rest of the day was spent in bed watching Monk (i've been really into that show the past few weeks)...

Later that night we ordered sushi and had an awesome feast... and twas the end of an AMAZING birthday!!!... I had such a good day...

The last time I remember enjoying my birthday was my 20th... This was before I met my wife... I was working in Israel at the time and lived in the city of Akka (Acre/Acco, there are many ways to spell it), the old part of the city.. and I spent most of the afternoon in silent meditation and prayer in the shrine of our Holy Place... I know to the average person it might seem a little fanatic... but it was very peaceful... since then ive never really had the opportunity to celebrate my b-day.... my wife and I had a long distance relationship for 2 yrs so before she moved to vancouver we never really got to celebrate each others birthdays together either....celebrating it with her was nice....

Anyway the next three weeks is gonna be a breeze....thats what we keep saying anyway....and my birthday was a good recharge for it. What ive learnt from this is that when you have good days...make the most of them....

peace