I got tagged!

White Lighenting tagged me for this Meme ...and he is probably wondering if I will even find the time to play...

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

1) I'm Not Carrie Bradshaw
2) Behind Blue Eyes
3) BrainCheese
4) White Lightning Axiom: Redux
5) My journey with MS by Some Nameless Chick

Select five people to tag:
1) Tinka
2) Lisa
3) Lori
4) Jenn (she is new to me)
5) Cynthia

Q:What were you doing 10 years ago?

Ah, this brings me back full circle to Gil. Ten years ago in June I had just started noticing this really weird thing about my feet and how they kept falling asleep. A.L.L. the time. The would not wake up. It felt like pins and needles all the damn time. Becasue I was living in total blissful sin with Gil, who at 34 was dying of termminal Pancretic Cancer at the time he kept pushing me to go to the doctor about it. So in June 1997 I did.

It was the very first time in my life I had ever had a doctor say that I either had a brain tumor OR Multiple Scerlosis. It took months to get an appointment with one of the best Neuoplgist in town and thus a week before Thanksgiving I was told I had one very large braint tumor. That is how I know I look ok bald. (Ironically enough Charley rolled into Phoenix the same day I had my surgery.) Gil died in February 1998 and I don't remember meeting Charley until April of that same year but he remembers meeting me and he remembers me as the brave bald girl.

It would not be until October 2003, during a routine MRI, that a new doctor would inform me that I also had MS. This was two weeks after my total hysterectomy that left us childless.

I cried for about an hour because I did not know what MS was and then got on the internet and started to research it. I called foul because gosh darn it, in 1997 the man said brain tumor OR MS, not both. Damn the luck.

God had a plan....it included things I am not allowed to talk about anymore here.

Q: What were you doing 1 year ago?

One year ago I was in Florida hoping that my Grandma was not going to die of lung cancer. And something else huge that has changed my life forever...the joy of life moved in on the 25th.

Q: Five snacks you enjoy:

1) Fresh Cherries
2) diet Pepsi
3) peace & quiet
4) cheesecake
5) Summer's Dream Ice Cream

Q: Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:

1) Jesus Loves Me
2) When I get where I am going by Geoff Moore
3) Twinkle Twinkle little star
4) Theme song to Royal Family Kids Camp
5) The Blessing by John Walter

Q: Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1) Start a homeless shelter for families
2) Invest so I could do more with the money...
3) fund RFKC in my area for several years
4) open a daycare
5) adopt more kids

Q: Five bad habits:

1) fear
2) procastination
3) envy of those darn Jones
4) forgetting lessons learned
5) stubborn as a mule

Q: Five things you like doing:

1) reading
2) wrinkling the sheets
3) writing
4) playing with children & making up silly, silly stuff: like telling them we are having spider soup for dinner.
5) going to church and being with my friends

Q: Five things you would never wear again:

1) bell bottoms, my hips are too large, my thighs are too large
2) itsy bitsy bikini...I have, um, back and bruises from those lovely interferon shots.
3) the guilt of sins past
4) blue eye shadow
5) a bandana on my thigh, it just would look right.

Q: Five favorite toys:

1) bubbles, amuses the daylights out of me
2) my eyes and my imagination
3) books, all books. The good ones and the bad ones.
4) my pretend Ipod
5) computer...duh