So my mom had her surgery today, and it couldn’t have gone any better.  She went in around 6:30 for a test to see if cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, the results were exactly what we were hoping - negative.  So then she went in to surgery to remove what was left of the lump after 18 week of chemo.  It only took about an hour, and she was out in recovery.  We were out of hospital by 1:30 and got her home to sleep for a couple hours.

Shes up now and definitely in some pain, but seems to be doing all right.  Should take a couple weeks to heal, and after that she should be in great shape.  Its been tough with her cancer, but everything has gone as smooth as possible, so we are very lucky for that.  I’m going hang around up here through wednesday, and just help out wherever I can.

Heading up to 909 on Saturday to spend some time with my parents before my moms surgery on Monday to remove whats left of her breast cancer.  She has been undergoing chemo the past 18 weeks, and the lump has pretty much shrunk to the point that its extremely small, and they will just be removing it and the surrounding area on monday.  I’m going to head up to Upland and hang out with them, and probably just work from there m-weds.  WIll be good to spend some time with them and to finally be at the end of this shitty journey of my mom being sick.  Overall, she has handled it really really well, and it hasn’t been anywhere near as hard as I have heard from other people, so I’m thankful for that.

I had a funny IM convo with a friend of mine I haven’t seen since my freshman year of college in Santa Barbara, and who now lives in Denver, CO and married a girl that we also went to school with.  This girl and i never really dated, but had kind of a thing for each other, and kissed ONCE in  the stairway of our dorms.

So he randomly messages me today, and I haven’t talked to him in about 6 years.  He informs me of all the information I just disclosed, and tells me that that kiss had more impact than I knew about!

jlane8000: Nice work bro. Wow, that sounds hard. I ended up going to the University of Denver and majoring in Finance.Did you hear I actually married ***********! We actually talk about your kiss with her more than you’d think.me: HAHA WHAT didnt know you got married! I remember a long time ago you said something about getting together with her jlane8000: I got your sloppy secondsme: seriously? Whats she doing talking about that stuff - shes on to bigger and better things now!jlane8000: It was a great story. I was jealous of you getting it in the stairs.me: haha

Pretty funny.  Wierd how shit you totally forgot about just pops up out of nowhere and makes you remember all sorts of things.  Those 3 years in Santa Barbara were good times.  Learned a lot about people, life, and did a lot of growing up.  Had a chat with Casey “Deuce” Cress today as well, who is on tour with some band and currently somewhere in Nevada or something…sounds like things are going well for him too.

And on that note, I’m out.  Its Danielle’s birthday, so I’m gonna go hang out with her tonight after I finish up some working.

Back to a long non-posting rut as I sometimes have here on T&T…Its hard to stay in the groove of blogging every day, especially when you are running multiple blogs.  I don’t even have a whole lot of time for this post seeing as its 4 minutes past midnight, and I need to head to bed as I’m leaving for Hollywood in the morning.

My friend Laura has been in town from Australia for the past 2 weeks, and we have been super busy doing just about everything there is to do in SoCal.  I took this week off work, and we have headed to Havasu, Sea World, Padres Game, Downtown, The Zoo, and tomorrow -Hollywood / LA.  Its been awesome, as I haven’t even done any of the tourist stuff and I have lived in SD for over 4 years now.  My parents came down on monday, and they have been hanging out doing stuff with us too, so Its been a super busy, hectic, and totally awesome week!

I will have tons of pictures and updates about her entire trip in an upcoming post, not to mention all the insanely cool stuff I have in store for WBSD, along with some new web design jobs I have coming up, Awesome plans for a river trip with Dani for the 4th, and a million other things that make up the way-too-busy but extremely awesome life of Ian.  Stay Tuned!

Everything went well with the commercial.  Headed out the bay at 3 and loaded the boat in the water.  Pretty much just anchored with Evan anchored in an 1800 MX across from me, and then a Kayot took off in between us.  I think its going to turn out pretty cool, and it should start airing on Thursday from they said, so keep an eye out!

Things are rolling on the new boat purchase.  The dealership is working on our financing options right now, and the order is already in on having a custom galvanized and painted trailer built.  We are about three weeks out on pickup.  Until then we are trying our best to sell our Maxum, because the dealership can offer us an even better price if we don’t have to trade in.  Regardless, It should work out one way or another, and then it will be heading over to DBG Concepts for some heavy customization.  It will be used for some advertising for DBG and Wakeboard SD, so they are designing a custom tower for it, and installing an insane stereo system.  More details to follow.

Also, unfortunately, to afford the downpayment on the new craft, I’m going to be selling my FZR 600.  I hate to get rid of it, but I don’t want to pull into my savings account to afford the downpayment since I’m saving up for a house, and I can do without my bike as I’d rather have the sickest wakeboard boat known to man.  Therefore, I’m putting her up on CL for $2500.  This is a sweet bike, in perfect shape with only 10k miles on it.  Check out some more pics on Picasa HERE.

So, thats the news.  My friend Laura is coming out from Australia in a couple weeks, she flies in on the 15th at LAX, and is staying for 2 weeks.  I’m super stoked as we are heading out for Havasu on that thursday, and then have the next week off of work!  It will be the first vacation I have had since I finishing up college, so I am stoked!

And thats that in the world of Ian.

I’ll try and take some pics….going wakeboarding afterwards since we’ll be out in the bay anyway, so we’ll see what happens!