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Monday, August 4th, 2008
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12:46 am - Hey ClockwerkDragon!
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Do you still work with MRI's and things?
My aunt only has major medical, and the Dr. wants her to have an MRI, but it's going to be hard for them to afford one....I wondered if you might know of some program or something that might help her out with finding out if the tumor the Dr has found is serious or not.....
If not, understood....but I thought it doesn't hurt to ask!
Thanks!!
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12:36 am - I suck....
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I haven't posted in forever.
Life has been nuts of late. Work has been busy, and Cass has been in Missouri for three weeks. She is finally home, and I'm so glad. I missed her.
I went to pick her up in Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska. Why there? Because that's where my Dad's brother lives, Uncle Mike. Why does that have anything to do with getting Cass? Well, because my Uncle Mike is dying. Pancreatic and liver cancer. Hard to deny, hard to deal with....I haven't seen Mike since Jeremy was little, and my baby brother is now 27.
That was hard, the drive over, seeing family, then drive back was hard too. Good though was that Cass brought my Mom and Dad, and Granny along with her for a small vacation, so it was great to see them. So much had gone on, though, that I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Even that, though, was not what I thought. A friend of Cassidy's wanted to come stay, and did so Friday night and Saturday night, then decided at 4 in the morning she wanted to go back home.....So...she did.
And just when I thought life might hit even steven....Mom called and told me that my Aunt has a brain tumor. Probably benign, probably nothing big.....but it sounds terrifying, doesn't it?
Hope you're all doing well.
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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10:25 pm - Prayers and thought!
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Tornados are tearing through my old home town tonight, and there are confirmed dead on the ground.
About ten minutes north of my parent's house the tornado dropped down on a busy highway, and there's at least 6 confirmed dead. They had to use helicopters to get in and get people out.
My cousin, who lives about a mile from my house, his wife, and his child are all safe, but his shop located about ten feet from their house is gone. They had some damage to the house, but they're safe. Another friend in the area, just a mile or so away from them had the roof torn off their house.
It's hard to be far from home, sometimes.
Please keep SW Missouri in your thoughts.
current mood:  numb
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| Sunday, April 6th, 2008
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11:11 pm - Transformation
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| Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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5:23 am - Brody and his Mousie!!
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4:49 am - More Brody!!!
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| Monday, March 31st, 2008
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12:23 am - Brody Cat!
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Here is a pic of the handsome fella. There will most likely be more pics on Vampyregirl1995's livejournal as well. :)
Do enjoy!!
current mood:  tired
current music: Late night cable TV
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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12:32 am - Freaking the Mundanes....
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SO.....
Cass and I are driving home from a day spent over at the Carlson's, BBQing and watching the Angel, Season Five....
When she declares she needs some chicken. So I swing towards the McDonalds, because I'm too tired to cook at midnight when I get home...I've been up all day!!
ANYHOW....Being inspired by all the dark and dangerous deaths and things on Angel, as I turn towards the McDonalds, away from the apartments, Cass gets a confused look on her face, and asks where we're going. I explain, in a calm and rational voice, that I'm taking her off to sacrifice her for lots of kewl powers. Matter of factly telling her I'm going to kill her, slit her throat and drain her blood....I'm playing it very kewl. And She's playing along...she knows I'm sick and twisted-cated.
The FUNNY part is as we pull up to McDonalds, we're still joking about the ritual sacrifice, and I order, then Cass says, "You know, you freaked me out a little. We did just watch /all/ kinds of people dying, being killed...." Just as I pull up to the window to pay the McDonalds guy, I say, very loudly.....
"Yeah, but I didn't kill any of /those/ people...."
He laughed, nervous like, took the money, and closed the window.
Cass and I burst into laughter.
These are the nights you cherish....:)
current mood:  amused
current music: Cutting Edge
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| Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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10:04 pm - Philosophy in a Fortune Cookie
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Or.....
From a cheezy TV show.
And yet....
It speaks to me, so strongly I can't explain.
So, without further ado.....
BUFFY (cont'd)
You know, I've always figured there
was something wrong with me, 'cause
I never made it work. But maybe I'm
not supposed to.
ANGEL
Because you're the Slayer?
BUFFY
Because... okay, I'm cookie dough,
okay?
ANGEL
Yet another curveball...
BUFFY
I'm not done baking yet. I'm not
finished becoming... whoever the hell
it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I've
been looking for someone to make me
feel whole, and maybe I just need to
be whole. I make it through this,
and the next thing, and the next...
maybe one day I turn around and
realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And
then if I want someone to eat m --
or, to enjoy warm delicious cookie-
me, then that's fine. That'll be
then. When I'm done.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
While that talks of relationships, I'm just struck with the universals that I'm feeling in my life. I /am/ cookie dough. I have been sugar, and flour, and salt, and components, and....
And up until now...I've just been those bits and pieces. Nothing complex....nothing where I've gotten things together, to make something better.
And now....Now I'm trying to be cookie dough. And I'm hoping someday, to be a cookie. Lots more baking...and while I'm not looking foward to the heat so much, I am looking forward to the end result.
Cookies.
And for now, I'm happy. Because I'm cookie dough. I'm working it, and trying my best.
current mood:  pensive
current music: What not to wear....
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| Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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9:32 am - Soul Quiz
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Saw that a particularly dreamy friend of mine had done this quiz, so I was curious.
Turns out? She and I, we're a perfect match. :)
You Are a Newborn Soul
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You are tolerant, accepting, and willing to give anyone a chance.
On the flip side, you're easy to read and easily influenced by others.
You have a fresh perspective on life, and you can be very creative.
Nonconformist and nontraditional, you've never met anyone who's like you.
Inventive and artistic, you like to be a trendsetter.
You have an upbeat spirit and you like almost everything.
You make friends easily and often have long standing friendships.
Impulsive and trusting, you fall in love a little too easily.
Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul
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current mood: contemplative
current music: Now the 80's....
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| Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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9:56 am - I'm amused.....
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| Monday, August 27th, 2007
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2:41 pm - Weekend update
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Weekend was good, but I'm tired a bit now.
I looked over 9 different places, found the *PERFECT* house...and called to find out they had rented it a few hours before.
Booo.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to go look at a house a few blocks away from the friends, which offers lots of good points to it, including a finished basement, fenced back yard, etc.
It's a bit pricey, but not too bad.
Especially not bad considering the fact it's a HOUSE, good sized, and not an apartment with lots of loud neighbors. It's a pretty quite street, just across from a park. That'd be nice for Cass.
She's not currently enrolled, because depending on where we live, that could change. I tried to enroll her in Lance, and we hit a snafu. If the house tomorrow looks good, then I'll go file the paperwork with the school she'd default to. It's not too bad, and in hindsight, might actually be smaller than the first school we looked at.
I hope all are doing well!!
B
current mood: tired
current music: Pretty quiet today!
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| Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
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1:55 pm - Argh!!
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Getting the kidlet into school is gonna just about drive me batty.
One more day of trips over, paperwork filed, and registrations complete for orientation *(hopefully)*, and then we'll be set.
Then we just hold on, and hope that they don't argue about placements. Cuz....that would suck bigtime.
For now...Just keep trying.
current mood:  stressed
current music: background chatter...
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| Friday, August 17th, 2007
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1:43 pm - A brief update
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A few of you who still read for this journal have asked how things are going....so here's a brief update.
I am now 1 month into the new job. I think I finally know .... mostly ..... what I'm supposed to be doing. It's been a crazy month, trying to learn everything I need to know, trying to find an apartment/house for the family, trying to get enrolled for school, AND traveling and having visitors where I've been staying at.
WHEW.
Life is good. I love my job. Seriously. This is the sort of company that you dream of existing in the world....and now I work for them. I love it. Have I mentioned yet....I love it?
It's a great entry spot, and they've promoted about 10 people in the last two or so months, so there's lots of potential for growth...you just wait for the next wave to hit. I'll be here about 2 years, and that's great.
Cass is doing good. She's excited about school, especially after going to see it last night. I hope they'll let her into the 7th grade...I do believe that would be best for her. If not, though...I think she'll be ok.
Life is busy, and I have little to no access. Right now I'm on lunch, so this is a mad dash while I munch chex mix.
I hope everyone out there, who still reads this, is doing well. Ok. I hope everyone out there, even if they're not reading this, is doing well.
Hopefully soon I'll have the apartment, and the internets running, and I'll be around some again. Look to see that around....Oct.1. Ish.
***HUGS***
current mood:  chipper
current music: The chatter of operators....
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| Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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8:23 pm - Had to give it a try....
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Because sometimes, you just *NEED* humor in your life. Even artificial stuff.
*heh*
Wendy. Smart and Cute with a Mean Streak.
Good answer.
current mood:  blah
current music: Desperate Housewives Rerun
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| Monday, March 12th, 2007
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1:53 pm - Insult on Injury
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Not only will I have to appeal for my unemployment now, but I got an email this afternoon asking if I was still going to turn in my COBRA or not.
Which I did on Feb. 28th.
Which cleared the bank on March 1st.
If they can't find it, and let me know that they've found it and it's all clear....there will be hell paid. I'm sick of this.
B
current mood:  pissed off
current music: Arrested Development
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11:54 am - ANGER
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I am ///so/// angry right now.
I got three pieces of paper from unemployment today. I'm not sure I understand it all yet, so I'll have to check, but it says that my claim was denied.
If that means that I cannot earn any unemployment, I'm hurting a world more than I thought.
Again....SO so so so so angry right now. This is ridiculous.
current mood:  angry
current music: Damien Rice-O
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12:27 am - Surgery, and stuff...
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Well, March 1st I showed up **EARLY** in the morning for my hysterectomy. I remember little from before the surgery. Hemparin shots in the arm that sting like HELL. Being 'shaved' for surgery. (More than slightly embarrassing, when you're in a room with about 20 other people). Dr. Adcock praying with me before the surgery.
Afterwards, I remember hurting. I remember wanting food, and having one bite of something solid, and knowing I'd throw up if I had more. I remember asking to walk that night, because my back hurt SO SO MUCH. (Apparently it's not a comfortable thing to have your legs up in stirrups and stretched wide for three hours) I remember hurting so bad I cried, and that hurting.
I remember having cards, and flowers and calls. I even rated four visits, mostly family, and one friend. So much love, and feeling loved, and still feeling so so sad.
The story a day or so later that I could remember was a full hysterectomy, an oophorectomy, and the fixing of a umbilicus hernia I didn't even know I had, cuz...I hurt so much more in other places. Four incision sites. And everything gone.
Got to go home on Sat, though I went to my Mom's first, so they'd be people about if I had trouble and needed help, so Tom wouldn't have to miss work. Stayed there a week, and was glad I had people policing me. I tend to do too much when left to my own council.
Back home. Tired. Hurting still, thanks to having the glue cut out of the incisions from the surgery at Friday's checkup. Sore. Empty. Emotional. Hot-flashy...
Tired. But home.
current mood: tired
current music: none
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| Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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11:38 pm - Medicine and sleep
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UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the grossest stuff!!!!
10 down.
Bottle empty.
Now...I try to sleep, and see if it'll let me!
*HUGS*
Be good all. Back in about a week!
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10:21 pm - Happy Thought of the Day:
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This time tomorrow.....
I'll be able to eat.
*nodsnods*
***AND*** on morphine.
current mood:  sick
current music: news
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