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Morning! My good mood continues as I settle in. Still not sure when internet and tv will be hooked up but I have my Wii and DVD player hooked up now to play and watch shit, and though it is a mild pain in the ass to have to walk up to the main house porch to use internet it's liveable for now. The excitement of finally having my own space that is mine after a year of living in limbo is taking over and mostly I'm wandering around going, "My house, my house, MY HOUSE"

Hot water for shower problem is, in fact, some kinda regulator installed to keep tiny children from scalding themselves. I guess they have to put them on to pass inspection or whatever. The plumbing/heating guy is coming out today for final stuffs though, so I am told I can have him take it off and return to my not safe for babies level of hot shower. \o/

The heating issue turned out to be my own impatience. See, the way radiant heating works is that they run a hose/tube thingie that winds through the concrete foundation. Water (though I don't think it's regular water) runs on a continuous recycled loop through that tubing to the heater thingie and then back through the tubes, and all this warms up the concrete. Heat radiates (hence the name) up through the floor making things toasty. This is all awesome, however if you've never run it before what you have is a very cold, very large slab of concrete that ends up chilling the water as it runs through and warms verrrrrrrrrrrrry slowly by increments. The solution was simply to set the heat all the way up and just let it run until it was all warmed up and then turn it down to normal. By the middle of the night last night my floor tiles were cozy y'all, and I fell in love, as I was promised. It really does keep everything nicely warm...but more than that, the heat is evenly distributed through the whole house, and getting out of bed and putting your feet down on a toasty warm floor is just...nice. Really nice. \o/

I also got my kitchen unpacked. So, slowly but surely it's turning into a home. I just needed to chill the fuck out and enjoy it.

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Woo! I get my internet at the house on Friday! That's only two days away. Things keep looking up.

So, anyway I was thinking about doing another informational post about breast cancer, because I go through phases when I want to talk about it in a more clinical 'this is what it is' sort of way. And it occured to me that, aside from boring the shit out of my f'list when I do this, I am also usually talking about what I wish other people knew about it both as a disease and it's treatment. Which is not necessarily what someone might want to know, or would answer questions they had. And...the good (can we call it good?) thing about being in my position is not that I know everything about breast cancer, because I most sincerely don't...but I have, by virtue of curiosity and necessity, learned where to get answers. And maybe more importantly, at least a rudimentary grasp of how to interpret them in a land of medical gobbledy gook terminology.

So instead of boring you to tears with a long explanation of how 'breast cancer' is not one disease, but many subtypes, and exactly what triple negative is and why it's so difficult to treat, Imma throw the floor open to y'all and ask. Is there anything you always wondered, don't understand, are curious about? I can't promise I'll know the answer, but I can do my best to find it for you if I don't.

I'll be up at the house a little while longer, but also anything I don't get to right away I will for certain by this weekend.