Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Not the best morning ever

I find it very hard to keep in touch with everyone we left behind. It's like work and stuff. And it get frustrating too. Maybe I should do what they do and leave it at that. Sorry, rambling.

So, today I found out that Gram has some tumors on her lung and liver. Add that to my sister-in-law who will have to have brain surgery for sure, and the other grandma in Texas who has decided to leave the good doctors and go back to Ohio where the closest doctor to her will be over an hour away and doesn't specialize in congestive heart failure issues and you have got one sad morning.

But wait, there's more! Two family friends who are fighting cancer and not winning. One is now with Hospice which means he is being dosed on morphine to keep the pain at bay until his time comes, and the other just had surgery to take out lymph nodes and a thyroid although his cancer is in the bone, and his wife has been dealing with her own cancer issues.

I have been talking with God a lot these days. Things like this are what set me off on the whole "what is the point and purpose" questioning, and to tell you the truth, I still don't know. I have not been depressed for some time now, and I am fighting to keep it that way. These people all need prayer. They need miracles. They need love and faith. I just want to hold them all and be able to make it all better.

I guess the fact that I have already experienced a lot of loss in my life has led me to want to love on people more. We only have so much time on this earth, and only so much time to experience the joy that is family. We are all family after all. Every one of us no matter where we are from. I think that is what God created us for. To be his family. And families should take care of each other.

So, I guess I will go and pray and concentrate on how I can be a positive light in all of this mess. And then, after that, I will put my thoughts and prayers into action because prayer and thought can be great, but action is greater.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Piano and School

Hailey can play Fur Elise now! She has always loved that music and can now play it in it's entirety. Mackenzie is working on Beauty and the Beast and has the first two pages down. They have been working very hard and it shows. We are proud of them.

We grew green beans in a cup and now we need to find a place in the backyard to transplant them to or they will die. I wonder how big they will get? I should do more research. Our science studies have us learning all about plants and cells and such and now we are waiting for our slides to come in the mail so we can start using our microscope. I can't wait until dissection stuff starts, that is going to be so much fun! Well, for me at least, not the girls.

Our turtles are getting bigger finally. After their long winter sleep and getting them their new turtle mansion, they are looking healthier and happier, and growing like weeds. Hopefully they don't grow too big before we find a place to live that has a yard where we can build a good habitat for them.

Oops, need to go! More later....................

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Luck-O-The Irish!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beware of green beer!

Friday, March 16, 2007

Some lessons........

Things I have learned since living in Northern California:

Parking here is a dangerous sport and costs lots of time and money, especially in the city.

Driving here is a dangerous sport, especially in the city, and requires packing snacks and activities to keep you occupied while sitting in traffic.

People are either really nice or really shitty, depending on the amount of money they make and the kind of car they drive or house they live in. (Wait, isn't it like that in Vegas too?)

Heath and environment are super duper important subjects around here. Way more important than in Vegas.

If your kid is a home schooler, you get frowns and dirty looks because you are "steeling from the public school system!". Oh how sad! As if that were true!

This place is full of 9-13 year old gang banger wanna-be's throwing gang signs at you for not hitting them with your car as they walk down the middle of the frickin street. Yep, that really happened. Maybe I should have run his little punk ass over?

The weather here rocks!

The housing market is a joke.

Prices here are well above the cost of living. They just have to be!

Gas prices are insane!!!!!!!!!!

Earthquakes arent' all that scary. The little ones anyway. :)

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Computer on!

Star date, 03042007. Mission, to get Shad off of the Star Trek Legacy game that he continues to play, even though his ship is being destroyed. I have tried to mind meld with him, but it was no use. His brain function is being over run by visions of war ships and laser beams. I've begun to lose hope of him ever coming back to earth.

Yet, perhaps there is still hope. I've heard tell of a "plug" that comes from the wall which if pulled with the proper force should pull him free from his torment. The mission is a risky one, but we are left with no other alternative. I must go inform the rest of the my crew about the mission. We must not fail!

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