Friday, March 13, 2009

"I've been thinking with my guts for most of my life, and I've come to the conclusion that my guts have SHIT for brains!"

Another little dose of serendipity...after posting that my mom and I played the little game of listing things for which we are thankful, one of the movie channels has started showing High Fidelity on a loop, and guess what book I just finished reading for the zillionth time...yep, High Fidelity. (I am never not impressed with movies that can really deliver the goods on a great book. Nick Hornby has gone 2-for-2 in my opinion...and no, I don't count the movie Fever Pitch as as adaptation of his book because one is about Red Sox baseball and the other is Arsenal football/soccer...although I loved that movie, too, and have yet to see that Colin Firth thing from the 90's.) It appears my whole world is being informed by the top 5 list.

Anyway, I'm going to push that forward into my blog. I spent a wonderful night with my high school friends a few years ago, sitting around a fire at Katie's family's cottage, spouting off random top 5s...and since that night had nothing to do with surgery, muscle spasms, narcotics, pain, or really any kind of discomfort...yep, game-time.

Top Five Things to Which I'm Looking Forward:
5. being completely off of steroids (I have like 10 days left, cannot wait)
4. being able to put my hair in a ponytail without PAIN or any insane clicking or popping noises
3. having fully functional innervation on my entire right side (for real, my last three fingers are ridiculous)
2. getting a dog (BTW, Lyle has been adopted; good news for Lyle!)
1. being able to drive, flipping through the radio, cruising down I-75, back to the life that's awaiting me

Hmm...looking at that, there are about 45 other things that I could list. I suppose it's better to be in this position of having things to happily (albeit impatiently) anticipate, than a list of things to totally dread. I mean, I'm pretty sure I've gotten through the part that most people dread...even if that's not really the case, that's what I'm putting under my pillow tonight!

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