finally feeling blog-ish again

just really have had an uneventful winter.

But it occured to me I should start blogging again when a new bloggy-friend suggested i start one. A bit red in the face I told I had one but was not exactly in the running for blogger of the year. Anyhow I am here and will try, try again.

A couple days ago Matt and I celebrated 8 years of being married to our best friend. I love him and I'm so happy he is my partner on this crazy wonderful ride.

I suppose the most excitement there is to catch you up on is my surgery next week. I will be undergoing a procedure to remove a skin cancer from the tip of my nose. I have tried hard to not think about it. Back in February I decided to ask my Doctor about a small, barely noticeable to others, skin irregularity on the tip of my nose. I had first noticed it last summer when I wrongly assumed it was a pimple and tried my darndest to deal with it the only way I know how. I squeezed the heck out of it but it never really went away. Just got irritated, bled and became flaky again. My doctor referred me to a dermatologist. In March I saw the skin doctor who looked at my nose and asked me "Have you EVER had a bad sunburn as a kid?" At first I thought I would give him a number of how many I recalled. I quickly realized a summer hadn't gone by IN MY LIFE that I didnt get at least one good burn. Probably sensing my thought process the doctor quickly told me one good burn will raise your chances of this sort of cancer. It turns out it is a Basal Cell Carcinoma. BSC is the most common but least aggressive skin cancer. He then did a full check of my skin and fortunately found nothing else of concern. I was scheduled for MOHS surgery for next week.

WHY O WHY does it take this sort of thing to make people do what should be common sense? I have been wearing sunblock every day now. My husband's aunt gave me some great moisturizer that contains sunblock, Eucerin. Its wonderfully light. Annabell has been getting sprayed with SPF 50 every morning and slathering her face in my moisturizer before school as well.

All I can say is 'Don't let this happen to you!'

So it is time for me (to quote a friend) embrace my pastey-white complexion. Treat it with care and respect and hope I will not have to go thru this again. Now instead of shopping for summer clothes in shades that will compliment my 'sun-kissed' skin, (what a joke that phrase now seems, BTW) I am looking for colors that compliment my 'natural (eccentric) beauty' How I will miss that shade of pale yellow that is not at all wearable on my natural coloring. But on the other hand I now have a solid excuse to buy some really sweet wide brimmed hats.

I plan on photo documenting the healing process to properly terrify any of my friends and family who still put effort into 'getting color' all summer. I hope it will just cause you all to think twice- cuz i love you.