Ah the memories

Hey the week has tripped itself right away.....busy busy....more on all that later. This past weekend...well i found THE pictures.

ZIP LINE PICTURES!!!!

enjoy this....lol....they are pretty self explanatory.

Ready to go.."uh, where's mom?"

The first step the the hardest......

above the majesty of the forest





The troop. Such winners!








looking good!

My fear of letting go ~ demonstrated.

"You've gotta be shi**in' me"

The Party's Over

almost 10 am. laundry done. showers taken. trash is out in the farthest reaches of the back yard for 10 days. should go to work, but um, no.

thank you all for your prayers and support. 6 weeks, we'll see where i am. i want to believe i am cooler already. but i think its the sweat poring off of me being cooled by the ceiling fans. but funny thing is, i don't feel hot inside. not like i did before. so.......

and now....im going template hunting. if you know of any good sites that offer templates w/o banners, let me know.

ciao

glowed out

i didn't glow. I dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing, i was kind of hopin it happened but glad it didn't. i keep thinking of the three-eyed frogs from the simpsons. makes me want to eat donuts.

so obviously you opened this page and found my new puppy. i do believe he has worms...watch him drag his butt across the screen. what is up with that? i am going to have to take him to the pound. nasty dog. hmmmm.....my mind says go no further with this commentary. LOL

can you believe its 53o am???? mr p brought me coffee this morning. and jolene served me dinner last night. this is the good life. and dont forget the package of pecan sandies....all mine. i can even put my hand in there and get out as many as i want!

c'mon monday!!

Its A Done Deal

i've been nuked.

now i am sitting alone in my room. i have a lap top (borrowed) and a network connection (not mine) that i decided to tap into. i dont know how long this will last. hopefully i will be able to tap into my own before the weekend is out. i have my book, recommended to me by beth...Redeeming Love. and my book, recommended to me by God.... The Bible. i have m y ears for listening to Him. i have my cell phone. and my water. and my flip flops.

i am not alone. God is with me. and so are your thoughts and prayers...thank you.

here we go......

preparations

Friday, 8/22, 7:45 am ~ the pill. thyroid abliteration. i keep saying abliteration, there is a medical term that starts w/ a and sounds like abliteration. it is what i am having...but abliteration works for me.
here's what i have to do to prepare for my 3 days in exile:
1. no eating for 4 hours before the pill
2. no eating for 2 hours after the pill.
basically the same prep for the test i did last week, only i can eat shell fish. i guess cause they are not measuring anything now.....we have moved to the abiliteration mode.
after the pill......its ugly....for 72 hours:
1. away from people 3.5 ft at all times.
2. no contact w/ children (i guess children are not people)
3. no sharing utensils. use plastic and paper
4. remove all trash to remote corner of house for 10 days before disposing. (she said a far corner of the back yard would work, no need to dig 20 feet and bury it.)
5. wash linen, clothing, daily. hot water.
6. no food preparation. YAY! i think mine will be prepared for me and served through the door from a 10ft pole.
7. separate bathroom facilities. flush 2x's. can shower in same shower stall, but rinse, rinse, rinse shower afterwards.
9. no mass transportation
10. no car trips over 2 hours long

ya know, the more she went on the scarier this got. but alas....there is nothing to worry about. besides, if i need to worry, i have three whole days to do it. but my plans are to
1. hole up in bedroom
2. take lap top (borrowed from amelia cause ours is still broke)
3. read redeeming love ( i got the book)
4. bible study
5. prayers ~ send some requests if you have a need
6. listening to God.
and my favorite....the ever-refreshing SNOOZE.

i can do this : )

I'm lovin' it

A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn't want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe. So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn't notice her. She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.

The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew. She did this for the whole week. As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy's little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week.

Finally she said to Timmy, 'Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?' Timmy nonchalantly replied, 'Yeah, I know who she is.' The little girl said, 'Well, who is she?' 'That's just Shirley Goodnest,' Timmy replied, 'and her daughter Marcy.' 'Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?'

'Well,' Timmy explained, 'Every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, 'cuz she worries about me so much. And in the Psalm, it says, 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life', so I guess I'll just have to get used to it!'

May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always.

Missing Belly Buttons

hey....women's marathon. some are running in what appears to be bikini bottoms. but they have no belly buttons!!!! where are the belly buttons? have they been un-focused out or are those ladies wearing body suits?
tell me

Repository of receipts

I can remember back when I was a teenager someone informed me that I needed to start carrying a purse. They never told me why so much, just that it was something that was necessary to be deemed "normal". So I began the search. There was a purse that I had seen once much much earlier in my life. It was sort of a saddle bag thing, leather, zippers, pockets; all in all, pretty cool. Haven't seen one like it since, but even today I keep looking. Anywho.... When I finally found "the" purse I had to have, I took one look at the price tag and placed it back on the shelf. Here we are 40 years later and I still have the problem. You know why???? Because if I bought "that" purse. the one that suits my fancy just right, I would not have any money left to put in it. And then I would not need a purse. The purse I have now, Mr. P got for me. Its one of those high-falutin' one, (no, not doone and barney or whatever those million-dollar babies are called) And he did not pay the "real" price on it, because the dipstick of a clerk at the register rang it up wrong ~ even after a price check. But anyway, I did not buy it. Mix the purse with an ATM card and what do you get? A receipt repository. I hate it. No longer am I carrying a purse to be "normal" or cool....I have to carry one because I have to save my receipts to balance them out with my bank. I know, I should have enough money in the bank not to worry about it. But I don't ~ I have a purse.

Okay, the Nuking of the Thyroid is set to happen on Friday. It has been confirmed ~ I am hot.
DUH. I am hot in many ways!!! Huh, Mr. P?

I gotta hop off of here....puter is still out. This one is high-jacked. : ) Thank God for adult children that stash stuff at their parents' house.

a new day...and a new opportunity

to post a blog?
uh me computer es down. blue screen. bummer. hopefully we can save the pics and docs we had on there and reload the hard drive. pray for its recovery, pleese.
we went to the beach again this weekend. this time we took his mother, my buddy. to cambria. not being in the mood to shop, we went south to morro bay. i loved it. they got cold. oh to be cold again.
i participated in the I123 test yesterday. will finish today and get results friday. then comes the nuking. i was alright with it until mr. p asked me if i am alright with it. the way i figure, im gonna die anyways, do i want to die hot with a flabby heart, or do i want to die cool with a half-way healthy heart ~ you know what they say about going green....well i wonder if glowing green will suffice. i just want good test results so they can give me just the right amount to kill only the thyroid and then give me the pills w/o having to "experiment".

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. Ephesians 1:16-18

hasta la vista

Gratitude ~ Show it

Check this out: http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php it is a way you can show "them" your gratitude. its important.

i still have two young men in my family serving this country of ours. one is in iraq. one has been. both are healthy and safe. another has already served his time. please keep these boys, all of them, in your prayers.

i honor my father's years defending my country.

thank you

g

You're Nothing but a Cheater ~ The Miracle of Microwaves

Okay, I have long been a hold out. A forced hold out actually. Remember back in the 60's when you discovered TV DINNERS? I loved them. It was neat to get to have one, a very rare occurance because the were so very expensive for a family of eight to feast upon. Well when I grew up and got married, in my gleeful bliss, I forgot to ask the questions about cooking. Boy did I make a mistake! Capt. Kayak, more blissfully referred to as Mr. Wonderful back in those days, is a devout believer that TV Dinners are plastic. And he basically banned, not only TV Dinners, but all pre-prepared foods from our house. (Except for, get this, pot pies ~ another story for another time.) Anyways, not too long ago as I was shopping I noticed the piles, no, slews of frozen foods going into the basket of my fellow (oxy-moron) working wives. I was appalled! How lucky could they be to have finally gone over to the other side and get away with it! Well let me tell you. This weekend, I did a new kind of shopping. Tonight we had the essence of a TV dinner ~ all individually processed and packaged items that came together on our plate...and get this....PASSED inspection and taste tests...and overall dinner won approval of ....Mr. Wonderful. Ladies!!!! Do you know you can buy potatoes in a bag that you heat up, mash, add milk and butter and serve? Yes!!! They are out there! And!!!! BirdsEye now sells every kind of vegetable in those new "steamer" bags. They taste good!!!! So good, in fact, if you are afraid of being found out, hide the bags.....put all of the things in the pans you would have cooked them in! I am telling you, I think this is going to work!!! I am so excited!!! He doesn't even know! "MIKEY LIKED IT". Oh my dears, those are words I have lived for for 30 years. I believe I could even set out Thanksgiving Dinner using my newly discovered finds.
I really do have to run now.....I think there are more bags in the freezer calling my name for tomorrow night.

ciao

it has been hot. not only the week has come and gone, but the weekend is gone too. it was a good week. sent the man off with new boots and attitude on monday. even after all these years it is most like going off to school. monday it was eyes wide open. tuesday still a bit overwhelming, but by wednesday it was better. still a learning curve to deal with. where he was making little teeny weenie parts he is making gargantuan parts comparatively speaking. it amazes me that these parts are actually used in the multitude of machines out there ~ all designed by some man's mind. of course although i refuse to learn and/or remember the science behind it all i am rather fascinatedby how things work. like screws. which came first the screw or the nail? but did you know that screws are actually lifters? go here to find out more --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine i know some of you will actually go look that. it is pretty interesting.....okay a little intesting.
Be kind today.