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March 03, 2003
Hey, there.
No updates lately. I haven't been in much of a mood to write. I keep meaning to, and then I close my browser and wander off for a while.
The one thing I've been wanting to write about is the thing that has been making me cry off and on for a week or so now... you see, I post to an online forum. I've met a lot of very cool, very interesting people there. I've made some very good friends -- some I know very well now, and some I want to get to know better. Laurie was in the latter catagory. We interected a bit on the boards, and I thought she seemed like a hell of a lot of fun. We didn't talk much -- I was a bit shy around her, and rarely knew what to say. We did banter back and forth in chat a lot, and she always made me laugh. She was also incredibly strong, and brave. See, she had cancer. She kept us all updated on the boards, giving us reports on how she was doing -- for a while, she seemed to be getting better. Everyone was happy. Then, she took a turn for the worse, and on February 25, she passed away. I'd known it was coming -- she had been fighting it for so long, and she was so tired -- but it still stunned me. I still have the birthday card she sent me -- it was a complete surprise, because she was surrounded by so many good friends on the boards and in real life that I never knew I'd made any sort of impact on her. The message she sent was sweet, and made me tear up a bit. I printed it out and saved it; it's tucked away in a photo album. I never got the chance to meet her, but she still left a mark on me, and I'll miss her.
Other things keeping me from updating -- I blew my tax refund money in a very irresponsible way. I bought a Playstation 2. I bought two ganmes with it: Crash Team Racing, and Silent Hill 2. I have been playing CTR so much I have a small blister on my left thumb. I tried Silent Hill 2, and gave myself a case of the creeps -- that one is best left until daylight, I think.
I also had to have an upper GI exam today, which sucked mightily. I had to be there at 8:15, and was not allowed to eat or drink anything beforehand -- I'm rarely hungry before work, but I do wake up thirsty, and I need my coffee. The exam itself wasn't too bad -- the barium liquid they make you drink is foul, but I could see the monitor for part of it, and the pictures were neat, in a gross kind of way. My stomach has been very unhappy ever since, though, so I'm going to go soothe it with a cup of tea.
Posted by Mary Ellen at March 3, 2003 11:41 PM