Fast facts (if you don’t have time to read the full post): We are two days post chemo and so far I am feeling alert and functional. I have a bit of chemo brain with small details, but nothing too major. I still believe that fluids are the secret to my success, but I am definitely on poop watch right now. I refuse to have another Tuesday like last week. Time to make some more Miralax milkshakes! Who’s thirsty and in need of a good poop?

TO THE SHORT VERSION:

I realized that the current template I am using for WordPress makes all of the images I share black and white. That is so fucking lame! This whole time I thought it was just black and white for me, but it looks like as a reader you don’t get the full impact of color either. I looked into it and I guess you cannot change the template, not even the coding! It makes it all messy. I am a website n00b. I might switch blog templates, but I am also a sucker for a minimalist page. Would it be weird for me to switch it mid blog adventure? Aesthetic problems.

**Update: A friend texted me and said everything is in color on their end! So I’m the only one who sees black and white images. How deceiving!

Since my cancer diagnosis, my side hustle life has really slowed down. I am the kind of person that likes to see how much I can pile on my plate before the plate cracks and I am eating the food off the ground. It is weird to prioritize rest and sleep and just being a lil couch potato. Chemo really kicks your ass though and I know rest is just as important as the poison I get injected into me. Is it weird that I miss the high speed of my past life and my high functional anxiety? Oh sweet anxiety, where did you go? Cymbalta out here really doing the most!

Speaking of doing the most, I forgot to share the cool news with you all that this week my position at work was reclassified and I was promoted to Senior Communications Specialist for the library! Slow clap for me. I celebrate seven long years in my position this June 15 to be exact. I started my job a week and a day after my 23rd birthday. It was my first job out of college, the job that I thought I would only stay at for a year or two to get my feet wet. I was such a little peasant. I knew nothing and thought I knew it all. Now I realize I know very little in this big world. Here I am, moving on up, securing the bag, and still loving what I do, which feels rare to say. It is so wonderful to feel validated and valued in what I do and what I bring to the table. Life has interesting timing.

In celebration, I am allowing myself all the cat naps and orange chicken for dinner. This is how adults celebrate good news, I guess.

Today’s song lyric of the day is brought to you by Ashley O (aka Miley Cyrus!)

“Hey, yeah, whoa-ho, I’m on a roll
Ridin’ so high, achieving my goals

I’m stoked on ambition and verve
I’m gonna get what I deserve”

– On A Roll – DallasK Remix, Ashley O, DallasK