Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Need Some Training!

I've got to find some tutorials or something to teach me how to jazz up my blogs and find additional followers and blogs to follow. This is currently my 1st of 3 I'm admining, and I don't write on any of the 3 of them as often as I should, this one particularly. Surely youtube has some tutorials on blogging, I just can't see how it's that hard! And Lord knows I've never had a shortage of things to say, I just need a direction. :) So stay tuned! I'm working on fixing this one up and getting on it regularly. I'd like to hit them all 3 daily, maybe the 2 business ones more than once a day. I'll post the links to them as soon as I figure out how. **sigh**

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

He Never Puts More On Us, I Believe That!!

So today is what, June 30th? My last rambling was a month and a half ago, not too terribly bad considering all that I've had going on. Yes, I forgot I had started a blog. I knew I would, it was just a matter of how long it took me. Two entries, whoo hoo, go me! Geez.

Well Christy is doing well, finely, from her surgery. Once she finally decided to slow down and actually rest she started to recover and heal. It took her almost winding back up in the hospital with torn stitiches though for her to let her body recover. The woman, she just goes at 180mph, no wonder she helped get me started in NASCAR.

Me? I'm doing well, knock-on-wood and Praise Jesus!!! BUT, there's always a "but" in these things, my Nanny has been diagnosed with Large B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, just almost 5 years to the day from her original diagnosis and remission. We meet with the oncologist this afternoon at 1:30, since it is now 1:30 in the am, to see what Dr. Cantrell has to offer as far as treatment options. His nurse, when she called with the biopsy results, stated he did not feel she will be a chemo-candidate, as her body will not be strong enough for it. Now crazy as it sounds, other than a low red blood cell count thanks to the chemo the 1st time, Nanny is perfectly healthy, at 82-years young. She doesn't even feel bad, just a little tired due to the anemia. And she looks like the picture of health, you'd never know by looking at her that she not only has cancer but it's apparently quite extensive. We'll find out more about that, what stage and all that ugly junk tomorrow. Please keep us in your prayers, we are about to hit a very, very tough brick wall it seems, that only the Lord can take down for us.

In my life, the 2 most spiritual-no I don't like the word spiritual anymore because that has come to encompass too many strange religions and such- but the 2 most Godly people I have known are my Nanny and my Aunt Ann. They were both diagnosed with 2 different cancers at the same time 5 years ago. My Aunt Ann has gone to get things ready for all of us in Heaven, and my Nanny is now relapsing with the same exact thing she had 5 years ago. Now ain't that some mess? So again, please keep my Nanny, Dorothy Ramsey, in your prayers, not to mention the rest of us!

Let's see what else is going on? I'm getting my financial aid together to get in school this fall, I'm determined nothing will get in the way this time. Last semester they got my financials all messed up and I had to wait. This is the first time I've ever had to mess with any of that stuff and now I understand why all my friends fussed about it. Yes, financial aid is a giant pain in the boo-tay but I am so very thankful for that pain in the boo-tay because without it, there is no way I could go back to school! And I've got plenty of boo-tay for them to be a pain in so bring - it - on, I can so handle it!

What else, what else? Oh. I started working on a little bidness to try and make me some muney so that I might be able to enjoy a few things in life again, but that's kinda on hold again for right now since this with Nanny has come up. I'm determined to work on it though. Not saying what I'm doing yet but it will be so surprising and unlike anything I have ever done before. I'll post pictures when I can get back to it and let y'all see it. Mother and I also have a whole other thing we'd like to do if we can get Nanny healthy, so hopefully we can work it all out! I think y'all would be really surprised at it too!! I'm so secretative!! :)

Callie is doing well, she says hello to everyone. We have been staying with Momma and Daddy the last few days. My Mom needs my help, she's been staying at Nanny and Papaw's a lot so I've been trying to learn and help out with her business, so that I can handle it when she's not here. And I've been taking care of their dogs, Momma and Daddy's 4 dogs. Good Lord. They are also remodeling their kitchen, so I've had to over-see the work being done while she's been at my g'parents' and stuff. The first few days, and the day Nanny had the biopsy surgery and such, I couldn't be around because I was sick myself, naturally. But Callie and I have been hanging out over here. I think she's ready to go home, we both miss our house, but it's hard to begrudge it when you are needed here. Momma told me tonight she wasn't ready for me to go home, not for a while yet. What do you say to that?

OH, I have finally started writing my book. I've been planning to write one since I was 17-years old and I'm finally doing it. (A good friend of mine recently had a book published and it is selling like crazy. It's "I Love You, Mille" by Christopher St. Clair. I HIGHLY recommend it! It's very easy to read, I recommend it from tweens on up. It's a Christian-based story of true love, faith and friendship. Perfect book to read on a summer vacation, or a rainy day. Hop on amazon.com and get you a copy then tell Chris I sent you!) So anyway, my friend Chris who wrote the book inspired me to go on with my dream; if he can do it, I can do it! I prayed about what I was going to write on. There were several "topics" floating around in this mushy brain of mine so I waited until the Lord pressed one on me and I picked up a notebook and pen, sat down at the patio table on the backporch one night and it just started to flow! I've now transposed it all into Word, which really is just not near as much fun, even if I can take the laptop outside, it's just not as much fun. I had visions of all these spiral-bound notebooks being numbered with a magic marker to put them in order and being worth thousands of dollars one day, or in a museum. Or in a museum worth thousands of dollars, that's more like it! So I guess I need to share the topic, huh? It's of course a romance story-line, but it is based on one of MY romantic relationships that originally began in high school. I'm of course taking massive creative liberties with it, and I haven't even decided how it's going to end, but last summer when **said guy** and I were dating, he wanted me to write "our story." He said it over and over. Well I don't care for the way it has ended to this point; but that is always subject to change. And that means the way I feel about the ending or the ending, not sure yet! :)

That should be all of the updates I guess. So to the subject of my blog for this month, even though I meant to do this way more than I have. I do believe God never puts more on us than we can handle. And yes, sometimes I do have to ask Him is He really sure I can handle all that He puts on me because I feel like I'm carrying the weight of the world. Then I stop and remind myself, no matter what I'm going through, there is always somebody who has it worse than me. There may be times when I just really don't give a rat's if somebody else has it worse or not, I'm only worried about me, and I have to ask for forgiveness for my selfishness after I take the time to calm down, but I always do calm down and realize it. And I do know that something good does come out of all bad things. We may not see immediate "good results" but there will be something good that will come out of a bad happening, somewhere.

The past 2 1/2 weeks have been a horror with what we have gone through with my Nanny; having to go for the biopsy, them deciding she had to have surgery to remove the knot under her right arm for the biopsy, the knot quadrupled in size in 2 days, etc. It was a whirlwind of insanity and most all of it bad things and bad news coming at my small, 5 person family left and right. But you know what else has happened? My relationship with my Momma has deepened and is growing back to what it was years ago. We used to be so incredibly close my entire life until about 10 years ago, and in the last 8 years ago, it's become almost non-existant. In the last year, it has really changed because of my own medical issues and we have truly tried to change things, but with this happening, my Mom has changed her attitude toward me and mine toward her has changed and we are growing closer and closer by the minute. The same with my Daddy. So right there, 2 something goods have already come out of this horrible situation. And I'm learning, I'm learning all kinds of knew information that will help me help a friend, neighbor, or even a stranger one day. It may even help me in school, who knows how I'll be able to use all that I'm learning? Heck, I may even need it myself one day. It's also getting my mind working and thinking, getting it ready for school. How long has it been since I've done research like this? It's been a minute or two, I must say.

So when I realize that God has given me these gifts out of what has happened to this point, it makes it just a tad easier to deal with. And you know what? I'm handling it. I realize there's a lot more to come, but that means there's a lot more good things to come too. God is also using this situation to show me who really loves me, who my true friends are. I've had an amazing outpouring of emails, text messages, phone calls, facebook messages and comments. It's truly overwhelmed me, people you don't even think pay attention, or care, have messaged me, or called me. And some of the people who I thought were my closest friends haven't. God brings us truth, He brings us love, and He doesn't bring us anymore than we can handle. Afterall, He carries our burdens for us! :)

I'm going to go goodnight now in this good morning.

Blessings to all,
S

Monday, May 17, 2010

Christy's having surgery tomorrow

If you have known me for, oh, 10 minutes max, you've heard me say something about my bestie, my right arm the left one too, the greatest blessing God has ever given me, my partner in the world: Christy, aka BeFri. For those of you who might not have grown up in the '80s (bless you), but we all had the best friend charms that say: Best Friend. You take half and your bestie takes half and part of it says BeFri and the other half says Stend. Get it? Well, we couldn't remember who had which part and I've always just called Christy, BeFri. Now our guy friends, being the superb spellers and giant smart-asses they are, they call her Bee Fry. I digress tho.

So at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon, BeFri is having surgery to hopefully take care of her diverticulitis. They are going to cut out the infected part of her colon and fuse it back together, if I understand correctly. This is a major dealio here but it is going to make my BeFri feel tons and tons better and get her back to her perky self!!! Thank you sweet Lord!!!! She has been hurting and sick since November and it's been so horribly awful to see her suffer. I'm the one who's supposed to be sick, not her.

Tomorrow, at 1:00 I truly do need for the world to stop and pray for the anestesiologists, the doctors, the nurses, and my BeFri. I'm not being a smarty, I'm serious. To me this is the most important thing there is and I need everyone and everything to stop and pray and don't stop praying until they tell us she's awake, ok, and in recovery. THEN I need you to pray for a full and speedy recovery. The surgery should only take 3 hours, that's not very long. Really, is that too much to ask? I mean, my world is stopping, isn't everyone else's?

And no, I'm not worried, not at all. My trust and faith is fully in God's hands, and I know without a doubt He will be standing there with His healing hands on her with entire time. My problem is that I missed the patience line in Heaven, knowing me I was in the bathroom when God was handing that out, and I don't wait well, especially when it comes to my BeFri. I'm like a Mother Lion, on crack, when it comes to her and I just get snippy and nervous and quite awful when it comes to things with her.

Ok so that's what's going on here. I'll be hitting I-20 West bound in the morning. Please pray for my safe journey over as well. My plan is to come home tomorrow night and go back later in the week/weekend.

Thanks y'all, have a great night!
Peace out--
Shann

Let this be my first...

So here it is, almost 4:30 in the morning and I'm trying to figure out what this "blog deal" is all about. K. I'm just supposed to tell y'all what I'm thinking about or feeling or what?

Well, I'm thinking I'm hot and I'm gonna have to take this blanket off the bed and I've got a pretty rockin' headache so I guess I'm feeling headachey? IDK.

Aight. Those topics are covered, now what? You wanna hear my environmental thoughts on the oil spill in my, yes, MY Gulf Coast? Ok, I'll share that real quick like.

I would really like to sit in on some of those meetin's they are havin' down there and ask a few questions. Now my understand is this: something that nobody ever thought could possibly explode exploded, right? Ok, first of all didn't we all learn in like 2nd grade to never say never? So in the event that "oh shit takes over never" don't you just go ahead and make a tornado plan just in case? You know, put that fire extinguisher under the kitchen sink even though the likelihood that you'll ever use it is very slim to none. So question number 1: why on earth was there no emergency plan juuuusssttt in case? Question number 2: How long does it really take to figure out how to fix this? It's been 3 weeks and just now that have a pipe bringing some of the oil up to the surface. Wouldn't your first effort to have been to see if you could stop it, then immediately if you realized you couldn't to divert it to a manageable place? Why has it taken 3 weeks to do that and in the mean time killed wildlife and marine life, stopped and "killed" gulf industry and taken a serious hit to the tourism industry. This could have been done so much faster minimalizing all of these things and more importantly, the long-term effects that this oil spill is going to cause. And my final question and then I'm done on this topic, 3: what in the hell is Haliburton not involved in? For real!?! I thought the newscaster messed up when I first heard them mentioned "to blame" for the oil spill. I have yet to hear what their role is/was in this entire deal to begin with. What in this country does Haliburton not have their fingers dipped in? And why has no one ever heard of them before Dick Cheney?

Ok, that's enough seriousness for one morning. Besides my dog is snoring entirely too loud for me to be very serious at this point. Which brings me to the thought, has anyone tried Breathe Right strips on a dog? If so, how did the experience go? What was the effect on the dog? It's something I plan to research, fo' reals peeps.

Got anothern' for ya. I've just recently started using my iPod on my iPhone. Well, had the phone for a year and a half and it's just been in the last 9 months or so that I broke down and started using the iPod. I'm a purist who believes you should buy the CD/album/whatev to make sure you are supporting the artist. I had to go through great convincing and conviction that iTunes truly goes to the artist as well. Plus it's too cool to be able to find old stuff I no longer have on CD! Anywho, my iPod skips sometimes, why is that? How can I fix it? And let me pre-answer some questions for you: yes my phone has been dropped, a lot! In fact I'm on the 2nd face for it and about to get a 3rd. It's also had water damage but has supposedly been re-worked. No water damage since the re-working, I don't think. Maybe a drop but nothing major. And yes, I've had "the case" the one that's indestructible. That's a crock of crap, in 3 days I had one side completely gone and by the end of 2 weeks I think it was toast. I am HELL on phones. If there's a flight of stairs, particularly if I'm in a stadium or something, my phone will go sailing down the stairs. It jumps out of my pockets or purse, I swear it does. I've tried cases too, doesn't work for me. Plus I wear sundresses all summer, it's my thing, and you can't but a case on a dress! :-)

Ok so this is my first blog. Not much too it. I tried a bit of seriousness, I asked for advice. Tell me what y'all think!!

Peace Out!