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i'm a geek, Director of Community for textPlus and you can see my tweets at @thatdrew (formerly @drew on twitter), and downloadsquad. Oh and you can blame my cancer for stuff.
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About 245,000 people in the United States are affected with some form of leukemia, including those that have achieved remission or cure. Approximately 44,270 new cases of leukemia were diagnosed in the year of 2008 in the U.S.A. This represents 2.9% of all cancers (excluding simple basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers) in the United States, and 30.4% of all blood cancers.
“most days, my job is just breathing”
Read more about “a girl who’s already half angel.” http://bit.ly/8ZCnyY
RIP Gabrielle Bouliane. I #blamecancer for the pain you went through, but I am thankful for your strength and this video in particular.
The next time you think your life is so difficult, watch this video.
Set The Fire To The Third Bar (Snow Patrol with Martha Wainwright)
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you’d be
It’s only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I’d find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I’ve found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We’d set the fire to the third bar
We’d share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can’t keep in
I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
OH HELL YES. Burger King to Sell Beer in Times Square.
(via Burger King)
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One of the cool things about what I do is getting out and about and meeting really awesome people. Surprise randomness is great, and most of my best friends in the world are because of something random…rarely a friend of a friend or by “normal means”.
Chrissy is no exception.
A sucker for cowboy boots and chick flicks, (i mean who isn’t right?) Chrissy loves the Packers. Kind of sucks they didn’t make it further in the playoffs, but Favre still kinda counts right? Ack, she might not agree *hides*
Not just football though! Being in and around San Francisco…you can’t stay away from AT&T park. I <3 this picture:
Ever notice you can’t get AT&T reception in….AT&T park? I don’t get it.
Anyways, Chrissy Emmons is someone you have to meet.
Never one to turn down a camping expedition, or a travel with the family and friends (especially mom), this girl never stops.
Did I mention that Chrissy Emmons is someone you have to meet?
One thing though.
You can’t.
And neither can I. Nope, I’ve never met her.
Chrissy completed her battle with Cancer yesterday. She’s still my friend though. She’s yours too.
She found a swollen gland on her neck in April 2009. It wasn’t just swollen, it was melanoma. From what her mom Sue tells me, she was a fighter. She got to enjoy Christmas, and ended her battle on her own terms spending time with people who took good care of her and realllllly cared about her.
I Blame Cancer for this. There’s nothing else to blame.
I blame cancer that I don’t get to meet Chrissy in person. More than likely we would have, because well I’m very blessed to have met so many awesome people.
She didn’t “lose” her battle, we are the ones who lose out. Time to put the boots on and do some kicking of our own. Kicking cancer’s ass into oblivion. Are you doing what you can? Are your eyes and ears open to how you can help?
Seriously, don’t wait until you don’t have a friend like Chrissy around to watch movies with anymore.
I’m not.
