I'd like to announce the arrival of my new niece, Alexa Lee Miller, born yesterday, December 30, 2010, at 11:45pm, to her tired mommy (my sister), Sharee, and her husband, Jonathan. She weighed 8 lb 12 oz, and mom and baby are doing fine. Yay ( Read more... )

Tom and I had a wonderful Christmas this year. We celebrated ours together on the 23rd. My humongous gift was a NEW CAMERA! WooHoo! Of course, I immediately took like 75 pics of the animals. :) You know, to, um, practice ( Read more... )

Day 24- A letter to your parents

This post could be about all kinds of things, but I choose to look at the positive (though I'm gonna' try to keep 'em short)! So, here goes...

To Mom: (Loretta-Mom ( Read more... )

Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

I think it would be wonderful to live a day in Oprah Winfrey's or Bill Gates' shoes. I think it would be amazing to experience what it's like to be able to afford to give back that much and feel the power of all that giving. That has got to be pretty incredible. Neat. :)

( The other days )

Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days1 - I've been treating the studying like a 9-5 job and staying on task, and the other day, I reached a previously perceived as unreachable milestone - I started the next-to-last Lesson in the med trans program. I'm almost done! I may legitimately get to afford us a real Christmas this year and ( Read more... )

We had a slight car malfunction a little while ago. Tom and I only have ONE car, which is pretty old (I think it's a 2000 PT Cruiser) and that Tom is constantly afraid of going out on us. Well, it did. While Tom was driving back to work after lunch, the BRAKES went out on him. OMG!!! But. He's safe. Even though the intersection he was at was ( Read more... )

First, a short rant: I'm sick, sick, sick of my back hurting when I've done so little to strain it!!!!! I can't do ANYthing, it seems, without aggravating it. I want to live my life, dammit! *sigh* Ok. /rant Oh, wait, I meant to complain about how my new "time management strategy" of only reading certain blogs and lj has made it so I'm not ( Read more... )

1. Blessing - I've been icing my back every once in a while today and have not had a *strong* version of that "needle in the butt" feeling so far.  So - yay!
2. Blessing - We have a flex card to use for prescriptions.  If we didn't, I would NOT have been able to walk out of the pharmacy with them this afternoon - I'd have been RUNNING, 'cause there's no ( Read more... )

My sis-in-law, Jan, and her daughter Cassie have generously donated several pairs of jeans to me. Cassie's been losing a ton of weight lately b/c she's sworn off soda (Go, Cass!), and can't fit into them anymore. Jan came over the other night and had me try them on, and EVERY single pair FIT. Wow. Yay! They literally quadrupled the number of ( Read more... )