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Sunday, October 2, 2011
New Challenge and New Beginnings
I know I haven't posted for a while but I am back! So here I go...my first entry in a year. Wow! I can't believe it's been a year but I guess time does fly. Anyway, I digress.
So my first entry will include a challenge with prizes to add to your stamp or crafting collection. I will also be including a new card I created on a separate post today.
http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/
is where the challenge is located with opportunities to have fun and possibly win prizes. Good luck and Have Fun!
So my first entry will include a challenge with prizes to add to your stamp or crafting collection. I will also be including a new card I created on a separate post today.
http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/
is where the challenge is located with opportunities to have fun and possibly win prizes. Good luck and Have Fun!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Surprises
Some people like surprises others do not. I tend to not like surprises. I like structure. I like plans. Surprises can be good or bad or even mixed. Of late, I have had a few surprises, mostly good even though they started as bad or could have led to bad.
What do you do when you receive information that is not complete? Or you receive a surprise (possibility) of life threatening news? Do you begin to worry? Do you start to pray? Do you accept things as they are, dealing with things as they come? Or, do you jump to acceptance without going through all the phases of grief? Now remember, you don't have all the information yet. You just know something is wrong. Your doctor gives you unclear information because it could be so many things and in today's day and age, they cover themselves by disclosing everything just so they don't get sued. Meanwhile, you are praying, confused, angry, accepting, denying and so many other possibilities. No matter how we react, we react in our own way.
Surprises...I can do without, unless of course it's good news.
Hope you receive some good surprises.
What do you do when you receive information that is not complete? Or you receive a surprise (possibility) of life threatening news? Do you begin to worry? Do you start to pray? Do you accept things as they are, dealing with things as they come? Or, do you jump to acceptance without going through all the phases of grief? Now remember, you don't have all the information yet. You just know something is wrong. Your doctor gives you unclear information because it could be so many things and in today's day and age, they cover themselves by disclosing everything just so they don't get sued. Meanwhile, you are praying, confused, angry, accepting, denying and so many other possibilities. No matter how we react, we react in our own way.
Surprises...I can do without, unless of course it's good news.
Hope you receive some good surprises.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friendship & Love
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
-- Hubert Humphrey
I have not felt well for some time now and have had a myriad of tests to try and find out what is wrong. As you know, feeling ill is not fun. Feeling ill and seeing serious specialists is less fun. Waiting on tests results can really test your patience and your faith at times. During all this, there are at least two things that can help you through it, hopefully....love and friendship. I am very blessed to have both.
I am very blessed that both my family (including extended) and my husband's family care and love me. I don't think I understood this until now. I mean, I know my family loves me. I know my husband's family cares about me, but love???? Well, people show love in many ways and at different times. They are very kind and generous people but we have never been close. We see each other for holidays, birthdays but rarely for no reason. I'm going to see what I can do about that.
During my scare, my husband's family...each member, reached out to me personally. How are you doing? What have the doctors said? What tests have they run? When will they know more? These were the questions my husband and I found ourselves answering, typical questions. I guess what makes me feel loved during all this is that each one of them took the time to ask about me and listen and extend help in any way.
Over the last 4 weeks, I have missed a lot of days from work for tests or pain. I am new in the department and the last thing I wanted was to have this impede my performance. Each day I called my boss to communicate my status. Each day he said to focus on getter better and work can be re-distributed if need be. And then, I started getting calls and emails from people at work asking how I was doing and if there was anything they could do for me. People who only knew me for 5 months. On one of those calls, I broke down and started crying. I was scared. My co-worker on the other line stayed with me. She listened. She didn't interrupt. She lifted me up and gave me the strength to make it through the rest of the day at home. She did this all while she was at work. That is how much she cared. That is how lucky I am. That is how blessed I am.
I returned to work this last Friday and had more people come up to me and inquire about my health. They were happy to see me but wanted to make sure I didn't over do it and have a relapse.
Even as I am writing this now, I still can't believe how blessed I am to have so much but most importantly love and friendship. I guess I need to count my blessings more often.
-- Hubert Humphrey
I have not felt well for some time now and have had a myriad of tests to try and find out what is wrong. As you know, feeling ill is not fun. Feeling ill and seeing serious specialists is less fun. Waiting on tests results can really test your patience and your faith at times. During all this, there are at least two things that can help you through it, hopefully....love and friendship. I am very blessed to have both.
I am very blessed that both my family (including extended) and my husband's family care and love me. I don't think I understood this until now. I mean, I know my family loves me. I know my husband's family cares about me, but love???? Well, people show love in many ways and at different times. They are very kind and generous people but we have never been close. We see each other for holidays, birthdays but rarely for no reason. I'm going to see what I can do about that.
During my scare, my husband's family...each member, reached out to me personally. How are you doing? What have the doctors said? What tests have they run? When will they know more? These were the questions my husband and I found ourselves answering, typical questions. I guess what makes me feel loved during all this is that each one of them took the time to ask about me and listen and extend help in any way.
Over the last 4 weeks, I have missed a lot of days from work for tests or pain. I am new in the department and the last thing I wanted was to have this impede my performance. Each day I called my boss to communicate my status. Each day he said to focus on getter better and work can be re-distributed if need be. And then, I started getting calls and emails from people at work asking how I was doing and if there was anything they could do for me. People who only knew me for 5 months. On one of those calls, I broke down and started crying. I was scared. My co-worker on the other line stayed with me. She listened. She didn't interrupt. She lifted me up and gave me the strength to make it through the rest of the day at home. She did this all while she was at work. That is how much she cared. That is how lucky I am. That is how blessed I am.
I returned to work this last Friday and had more people come up to me and inquire about my health. They were happy to see me but wanted to make sure I didn't over do it and have a relapse.
Even as I am writing this now, I still can't believe how blessed I am to have so much but most importantly love and friendship. I guess I need to count my blessings more often.
Monday, January 3, 2011
A New Happiness
What is happiness? It could be having a home and a successful career. It could be getting a raise. Or, it could be something small like a child's face. But if you do not have a child (in the normal sense of the word), happiness could be brought to you by Charlie, Lucy, or Snoopy. Not the Charlie Brown characters, although those are fun and can bring giggles, smiles, and happiness too. My newest happiness is a sweet little 16 pound Westie called Molly.
Molly is sweet, playful, well behaved, has so many other wonderful traits but most importantly she makes me happy when I am sick or down or anytime for that matter. How can you not love this face?
From Molly to all other dogs of the world, "Woof, ask your master for a doggie massage and you'll want it everyday." Woof, Woof for now.
Molly is sweet, playful, well behaved, has so many other wonderful traits but most importantly she makes me happy when I am sick or down or anytime for that matter. How can you not love this face?
From Molly to all other dogs of the world, "Woof, ask your master for a doggie massage and you'll want it everyday." Woof, Woof for now.
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