The monumental first post

Monumental indeed. The last six months have seen Jen and I get married, Jen's dad make several trips to the hospital as he combats a heart functioning at a fraction of what it should, a work promotion for Jen, the accomplishment of my AA degree (finally) from Mt Hood CC and the start of my BA pursuit at PSU, and two days ago, my mother's diagnosis of cancer. Ok, time for a breath. Oh wait, I forgot something. My biological father who I have had little or no contact with in my life also has cancer. Not to bum my loyal readership of, ummm...if you're reading then count yourself among it, but I just had to get this out of my head and in a virtually tangible format. Now that I see it, I can't quite believe it myself. With that off my chest, let's get this party started. The purpose of this blog, something I should have started a long time ago, is to inform, share, entertain, vent and be generally bloggilicious. This will hopefully be the most serious post for a while. But hey, you gotta start somewhere.

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