Thanks to my friend, Ang, I have been "tagged."
Before you run out to be innoculated to remain in my pressence,
I have been "tagged" to play a game of "blog tag"
The Rules:
1)Link the person(s) who tagged you
2)Mention the rules on your blog
3)Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4)Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them
5)Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
Now, I am all game for tag, and items 1 thru 3 aren't an issue, but unfortunately I don't know 6 other bloggers, much less, 6 that will play along.
So, I will go thru with items 1-3.
1) Link the person who tagged you...okay...done.
http://www.hopehealingempowerment.blogspot.com/
2) Mention the rules on your blog
....see above...
3) Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks about yourself
a) I, too, am proficient in picking up items with my toes.
b) I have OCD...and not in a good way
c) I brush my teeth with hot water ( my husband thinks that's a quirk)
d) I like salsa on my scrambled eggs
e) I am the family trivia queen, and am highly sought after for games such as Trivial Pursuit,
Pictionary and Cranium.
f) I cry, or at the very least tear up, when ever I hear the National Anthem.
Now if I could have a little help with the other bloggers, then I could continue the game.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Craziness...
So much craziness in my life right now...
Gas Prices are Crazy. Bills are Crazy. Work is Crazy. Friends are Crazy, Family is Crazy.
It's enough to make you want to kill someone!!
These things, however, are already dead :
Dead car battery
Dead husband's car
Dead-Dog-Tired
I did have one bright spot...I bought a pageant dress from a drag queen. Oh, sorry, That's Female Impersonator. And I'm really looking forward to getting it.
Crazy, right?
See what I mean...
Gas Prices are Crazy. Bills are Crazy. Work is Crazy. Friends are Crazy, Family is Crazy.
It's enough to make you want to kill someone!!
These things, however, are already dead :
Dead car battery
Dead husband's car
Dead-Dog-Tired
I did have one bright spot...I bought a pageant dress from a drag queen. Oh, sorry, That's Female Impersonator. And I'm really looking forward to getting it.
Crazy, right?
See what I mean...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye...
DISCLAIMER; IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY SQUEAMISH, STOP READING HERE AND FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, DO NOT LOOK AT THE PICTURES IN THE LINK ARTICLE!
Okay...that out of the way I can move on to the topic of my post EYEBALL TATTOOING
Yes, you read that right...tattoos on the EYEBALL.
Last night after church, my bossom-buddy, oft mentioned "partner in crime" and fellow CSI/Law & Order/Foriensic Files junkie, Cyndi and I were watching CSI/New York. Of the 3 this is not our favorite...but when it's that or a hockey game, well, you get the idea.
The "perp" was described as having "blue eyeballs." It was first theorized that he could have a genetic disorder called osteogenisis imperfecta that causes, among other things, extremely brittle bones, spinal deformities, muscle weakness and the whites of the eyes to appear blue.
Surprisingly, I am familiar with OI, as one of my Miracle League buddies has it. (Read more here http://www.oif.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FastFacts )
After that was ruled out, it was determined that the "perp" could have his eyeballs tattooed.Apparently the newest tattooing rage in New York! Don't it make my blue eyes...well, blue?!Of course, being CSI, we get to see the procedure being performed. Eeeww factor = 1000.
Luckily for our CSI buddies, despited being in one of the largest populatated cities in the country, only one place does it and they say only 4 people have had this procedure! Needless to day, they catch their "perp" rather quickly. They interogate him, his "blue" eyes glowing throughout. It made my eyes water.
So, I had to google it and guess what...eyeball tattooing is an actual procedure!
(supporting article .. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07312007/entertainment/health/dont_turn_blind_eye_to_eye_tattoo_risks_health_dr__rock_positano.htm)
I understand tattoos (sort of): Cyndi has a tattoo, my husband has a tattoo. The first time my mother saw Heath's tattoo, she embarrassed us in a crowded mall by shreiking "WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT ON YOUR ARM?!" I'd have a tattoo if I wasn't such a big chicken (my mother threatened me many years ago...I learned early that you don't cross Mother). But I don't really care for having something so permanent.
I can "put on" anything I want to. I compete in pageants....I play "dress up" all the time. But I can dress down and be "Mom" when I'm done too. I don't like the idea of having something I can't take off.
I also have a hard time getting shots to get well from things like pneumonia and strep. I know I couldn't PAY someone to repeatedly stick me and I'd have to be DEAD before I let someone stick one in my EYE!
Guess that's where that old saying comes from, huh?
Okay...that out of the way I can move on to the topic of my post EYEBALL TATTOOING
Yes, you read that right...tattoos on the EYEBALL.
Last night after church, my bossom-buddy, oft mentioned "partner in crime" and fellow CSI/Law & Order/Foriensic Files junkie, Cyndi and I were watching CSI/New York. Of the 3 this is not our favorite...but when it's that or a hockey game, well, you get the idea.
The "perp" was described as having "blue eyeballs." It was first theorized that he could have a genetic disorder called osteogenisis imperfecta that causes, among other things, extremely brittle bones, spinal deformities, muscle weakness and the whites of the eyes to appear blue.
Surprisingly, I am familiar with OI, as one of my Miracle League buddies has it. (Read more here http://www.oif.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FastFacts )
After that was ruled out, it was determined that the "perp" could have his eyeballs tattooed.Apparently the newest tattooing rage in New York! Don't it make my blue eyes...well, blue?!Of course, being CSI, we get to see the procedure being performed. Eeeww factor = 1000.
Luckily for our CSI buddies, despited being in one of the largest populatated cities in the country, only one place does it and they say only 4 people have had this procedure! Needless to day, they catch their "perp" rather quickly. They interogate him, his "blue" eyes glowing throughout. It made my eyes water.
So, I had to google it and guess what...eyeball tattooing is an actual procedure!
(supporting article .. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07312007/entertainment/health/dont_turn_blind_eye_to_eye_tattoo_risks_health_dr__rock_positano.htm)
I understand tattoos (sort of): Cyndi has a tattoo, my husband has a tattoo. The first time my mother saw Heath's tattoo, she embarrassed us in a crowded mall by shreiking "WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT ON YOUR ARM?!" I'd have a tattoo if I wasn't such a big chicken (my mother threatened me many years ago...I learned early that you don't cross Mother). But I don't really care for having something so permanent.
I can "put on" anything I want to. I compete in pageants....I play "dress up" all the time. But I can dress down and be "Mom" when I'm done too. I don't like the idea of having something I can't take off.
I also have a hard time getting shots to get well from things like pneumonia and strep. I know I couldn't PAY someone to repeatedly stick me and I'd have to be DEAD before I let someone stick one in my EYE!
Guess that's where that old saying comes from, huh?
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Now that's what I call a "Home Run Assist"!
Sometimes I'm ashamed of the actions of my fellow man and then I see something like this that renews my faith in humanity.
Wish we could all display sportsmanship like this!
Read more at:
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/8091708?GT1=39002
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
AT 8:38 AM CENTRAL TODAY....
My daughter Julia will officially be 19!
(and I have the stretchmarks to prove it)
Happy birthday baby!
Love Mom
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Reflections on the Past
It's 12:24pm Central time on Tuesday, April 29. 19 years ago, right this very minute, I was walking up and down the halls of Labor and Delivery at Brookwood Women's Hospital, trying to speed up the birth of my oldest daughter, Julia. She would still not make her appearance until 8:38am the next morning, after 2 shots of morphine ( that bruised my hip but didn't ease my pain), hallucenations brought on by a dangerous blood sugar dive, the best Sprite I will ever hae in my entire life and the start of a wicked UTI. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
Little did I know at the time, this would set the precident for her life....Julia does everything in "Julia Time" and you can't rush her. I miss the times when I was so young that I had no worries.
Julia stands at the jumping off place between being a teenager and a responsible adult.
I wish she could be young, just a little longer.
I know of another young lady that is having to grow up a little too soon.
I've recently become "aquainted" (thru a blog) with the daughter of a man I've worked with for the past 17 years. Her name is Catherine. She's a 21 year old Senior in college, has a great boyfriend (hopefully soon to be engaged) and is also looking over the edge, at a whole new life. You know the one, where you finish, school, start your career, marry the man of your dreams and start a family. Traveling down the road of life, as it stretches out before her.
But she's hit a little speed bump....she has breast cancer.
I know what you are thinking..."Breast cancer...are you serious? She's only 21! Breast cancer only strikes women in their 40's!" Yeah, that's what your insurance company would like to think too, That is why they only "approve" mamograms for women over 40.
The fact is, anyone with breast tissue (even men!) can develop breast cancer, at any age.
And Catherine is working to spread that message.
I remember when I, myself, was 18 and I found my first lump. It was about the size of a "mojo" marble (telling my age huh?) in my right breast. It hurt like hell and made my whole right side sore. I remember calling for the appointment and the nurse telling me, "Oh, lumpy breasts are common in girls your age, it'll be nothing." and booked my appointment for a month out.
I related this to a dear friend and her mother, content that I had nothing to worry about, because, I was "too young for it to be anything serious." The look that passed between them when I said this could have frozen the Gulf of Mexico. Her mother, usually chatty and upbeat, took my hands in hers and pulled me up close to her. She fixed her eyes on mine, and in a voice I will never forget, said " there is no such thing as 'too young'."
Fighting back tears, she recounted how, just a year before, she had lost her baby sister. My friend and I had been casual friends when it happened. I knew that she had died, but didn't really know the details, and never really thought to ask. She told me about the lump her sister had found, how the doctor told her it was just "lumpy breasts" and at her age it was nothing to worry about. By the time it became "something to w0rry about, " little could be done. She died of breast cancer at 22.
My mother called and successfully convinced the doctor's office to move my appointment up. The next opening was 2 weeks away. In that 2 weeks, my little "friend" had grown to the size of a golf ball. It hurt to wear a bra, it hurt to go without one.
The humiliation began almost immediately. I'd never been to an OB/GYN before and the thought of being naked in front of this strange man was almost too much to bear. The breast exam was painful. When I touched the lump, I did so gingerly, but he did not as he tried to determine size, depth, composition. I nearly came unglued when the doctor suggested he attempt to draw fluid off it to see if it was a cyst. It was solid and unyeilding and the whole process hurt like hell. They took me across the hall to where the pregnant women got their sonograms, to get a look at it. There were were joined by an intern class of about 6. Each one wanted to feel my lump too. Fabulous.
It was determined that not only did I have this lump, I had 2 more on the other side. Not quite as big, but noticable. Attempts to obtain a fluid sample from them were also unsuccessful. It was decided that they all had to come out. Surgery was scheduled for the next week, which was approximately 2 days after Christmas.
I was put to sleep that day, not knowing if I would have breasts when I woke up. I was exactly 6 months from my 19th birthday. I praise the Lord here! Things went well. The lumps turned out to be fibrocystic, which is why they grew so quickly...relatively common. I was told that I had one more small lump, just at the base of my breast. It seemed to be the same as the others and was left to avoid damaging the tissue surrounding it. I went home to recover and prepare for the New Year.
It was then that the bills started coming in. The bill for the mamography...DENIED by our insurance carrier....marked "medically unnecessary before age 40." How can something that is ordered by your doctor be called "medically unnecessary'?! My mother, single by this time, wrote letter after letter, copying and highlighting pages of doctor's notes but the insurance company would not budge. We wound up paying for that mamogram out of pocket.
Because of the condition, my doctor ordered a mamogram every 2 years since and every 2 years, I wound up paying out of pocket. I did eventually get that last lump removed. It grew to the size of a baseball. I had to have a breast reduction to "even things out." Funny...insurance didn't have a problem paying for that.
I am now finally 40, the age when my insurance company thinks I should be worried about breast cancer.
And I am....for the young girls like Catherine.
Little did I know at the time, this would set the precident for her life....Julia does everything in "Julia Time" and you can't rush her. I miss the times when I was so young that I had no worries.
Julia stands at the jumping off place between being a teenager and a responsible adult.
I wish she could be young, just a little longer.
I know of another young lady that is having to grow up a little too soon.
I've recently become "aquainted" (thru a blog) with the daughter of a man I've worked with for the past 17 years. Her name is Catherine. She's a 21 year old Senior in college, has a great boyfriend (hopefully soon to be engaged) and is also looking over the edge, at a whole new life. You know the one, where you finish, school, start your career, marry the man of your dreams and start a family. Traveling down the road of life, as it stretches out before her.
But she's hit a little speed bump....she has breast cancer.
I know what you are thinking..."Breast cancer...are you serious? She's only 21! Breast cancer only strikes women in their 40's!" Yeah, that's what your insurance company would like to think too, That is why they only "approve" mamograms for women over 40.
The fact is, anyone with breast tissue (even men!) can develop breast cancer, at any age.
And Catherine is working to spread that message.
I remember when I, myself, was 18 and I found my first lump. It was about the size of a "mojo" marble (telling my age huh?) in my right breast. It hurt like hell and made my whole right side sore. I remember calling for the appointment and the nurse telling me, "Oh, lumpy breasts are common in girls your age, it'll be nothing." and booked my appointment for a month out.
I related this to a dear friend and her mother, content that I had nothing to worry about, because, I was "too young for it to be anything serious." The look that passed between them when I said this could have frozen the Gulf of Mexico. Her mother, usually chatty and upbeat, took my hands in hers and pulled me up close to her. She fixed her eyes on mine, and in a voice I will never forget, said " there is no such thing as 'too young'."
Fighting back tears, she recounted how, just a year before, she had lost her baby sister. My friend and I had been casual friends when it happened. I knew that she had died, but didn't really know the details, and never really thought to ask. She told me about the lump her sister had found, how the doctor told her it was just "lumpy breasts" and at her age it was nothing to worry about. By the time it became "something to w0rry about, " little could be done. She died of breast cancer at 22.
My mother called and successfully convinced the doctor's office to move my appointment up. The next opening was 2 weeks away. In that 2 weeks, my little "friend" had grown to the size of a golf ball. It hurt to wear a bra, it hurt to go without one.
The humiliation began almost immediately. I'd never been to an OB/GYN before and the thought of being naked in front of this strange man was almost too much to bear. The breast exam was painful. When I touched the lump, I did so gingerly, but he did not as he tried to determine size, depth, composition. I nearly came unglued when the doctor suggested he attempt to draw fluid off it to see if it was a cyst. It was solid and unyeilding and the whole process hurt like hell. They took me across the hall to where the pregnant women got their sonograms, to get a look at it. There were were joined by an intern class of about 6. Each one wanted to feel my lump too. Fabulous.
It was determined that not only did I have this lump, I had 2 more on the other side. Not quite as big, but noticable. Attempts to obtain a fluid sample from them were also unsuccessful. It was decided that they all had to come out. Surgery was scheduled for the next week, which was approximately 2 days after Christmas.
I was put to sleep that day, not knowing if I would have breasts when I woke up. I was exactly 6 months from my 19th birthday. I praise the Lord here! Things went well. The lumps turned out to be fibrocystic, which is why they grew so quickly...relatively common. I was told that I had one more small lump, just at the base of my breast. It seemed to be the same as the others and was left to avoid damaging the tissue surrounding it. I went home to recover and prepare for the New Year.
It was then that the bills started coming in. The bill for the mamography...DENIED by our insurance carrier....marked "medically unnecessary before age 40." How can something that is ordered by your doctor be called "medically unnecessary'?! My mother, single by this time, wrote letter after letter, copying and highlighting pages of doctor's notes but the insurance company would not budge. We wound up paying for that mamogram out of pocket.
Because of the condition, my doctor ordered a mamogram every 2 years since and every 2 years, I wound up paying out of pocket. I did eventually get that last lump removed. It grew to the size of a baseball. I had to have a breast reduction to "even things out." Funny...insurance didn't have a problem paying for that.
I am now finally 40, the age when my insurance company thinks I should be worried about breast cancer.
And I am....for the young girls like Catherine.
Friday, April 25, 2008
"...the best laid plans of mice and men..."
Well, looks like I havent' posted in four months.
Sorry .... they say "men make plans and God laughs."
Had a lot going on. Whenever I have good intentions, something always seems to go awry!
Which reminds me of a favorite quote (if you can call it that)
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
I say it aloud whenever something goes screwy...so much so, my children look at me like I've bumped my head. Guess they haven't gotten to Steinbeck yet.
I was in 6th grade when I first read "Of Mice and Men" (I'd read it twice by the time it was "required" in high school. Lucky me, I just kinda skimmed it as a refresher, while all my classmates groaned and slogged thru it LOL!) It was there that I first read that quote from Robert Burns poem To A Mouse.
I don't know why that has stuck with me all these years. It's just one of those funny little things stuck in my brain, like the phone number of our house in Lovick when I was 7 or this weird sing-songy exerpt from a Mark Twain story (always in the voice of my 7th grade English teacher, Mr Dawson!) "..punch brothers, punch with care, punch in the presence of the passenger". I can sing ANY of the School House Rock commercials in their entirety....go ahead, try me.
Oddly, I can remember all these things, but never anything important.
I can tell you the phone numbers of about 10 of the regular customers I deal with and the account number of a good 15 to 20 more. I can practically recited our product code list, but do not ask me what my home phone number is. I can't remember anyone's birthday, or the ABC's without singing them.
Well...of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most.
Sorry .... they say "men make plans and God laughs."
Had a lot going on. Whenever I have good intentions, something always seems to go awry!
Which reminds me of a favorite quote (if you can call it that)
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
I say it aloud whenever something goes screwy...so much so, my children look at me like I've bumped my head. Guess they haven't gotten to Steinbeck yet.
I was in 6th grade when I first read "Of Mice and Men" (I'd read it twice by the time it was "required" in high school. Lucky me, I just kinda skimmed it as a refresher, while all my classmates groaned and slogged thru it LOL!) It was there that I first read that quote from Robert Burns poem To A Mouse.
I don't know why that has stuck with me all these years. It's just one of those funny little things stuck in my brain, like the phone number of our house in Lovick when I was 7 or this weird sing-songy exerpt from a Mark Twain story (always in the voice of my 7th grade English teacher, Mr Dawson!) "..punch brothers, punch with care, punch in the presence of the passenger". I can sing ANY of the School House Rock commercials in their entirety....go ahead, try me.
Oddly, I can remember all these things, but never anything important.
I can tell you the phone numbers of about 10 of the regular customers I deal with and the account number of a good 15 to 20 more. I can practically recited our product code list, but do not ask me what my home phone number is. I can't remember anyone's birthday, or the ABC's without singing them.
Well...of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most.
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