Good News and Good News

We were able to host a couple of functions in our newly remodeled living room. It has been a 6 month project that included sanding down the oak floors and refinishing them, plastering a couple of walls, making the entrance larger by ripping out a pocket door, changing the lighting scheme, building and installing base boards, learning how to cut cove molding. And finally yesterday installing my home crafted threshold boards. We hung some pictures on Monday and its looking pretty homey. This all started because we put in a new window, which necessitated new drapes, which required a new paint job...but that wouldn't match the old carpet, and while we're at it lets make the door bigger, etc, etc.
Our progress was slowed somewhat by the fact that I was diagnosed with leukemia in the middle of it all which gave me a great excuse to lay around more and put things off till later, which I did. But the second good news was that on Tuesday I jogged 2 miles in the early morning. Its been about one year since I had done that before. It was last March when I started getting the shortness of breath and the weakness that I figured was tied to some sort of lung problem. In reality I had bad blood, the cells weren't getting the oxygen to their proper areas of need. My blood was running kind of like the U.S. Postal Service. Today, after a productive (costly, but productive) trip to the dentist I went to the cancer clinic and had them do a blood test, which showed that my blood is now much more like UPS or DHL. I have the right amounts of nearly everything and I'm feeling pretty good.
I continually get people telling me how much better I look, man I must have been UGLY before.