Dad's going in to have his heart checked on Friday. It's a good thing, really. My uncle only just passed away from a sudden heart failure, and their older brother died a few years back from "mysterious" (for lack of a better word) causes that may or may not have been along those same lines. If it's a family thing, something hereditary, it's high ( Read more... )

The Singer I was working on in the shop today had a minor fit. The result? A handful of craptastic Tree People collars. My first few were lovely, but whatever idiot cut the others left too short a margin between the top of the cuff and the decorative, rope-enclosed circle in the middle so that I couldn't stitch the basting on without running the ( Read more... )

Really really really need prayer right now. I don't know if things have technically gotten "worse," but one doctor is saying that "Oh, the first 72 hours are the most crucial and we're getting to the end of those," but really it's only been 48 hours that he's been sedated. They're trying to bring him out of it and apparently he's moved his leg but ( Read more... )

Rather than bore you with the trivialities of my day, I'd like to beseech you to keep my littlest best friend Maddy in your thoughts/prayers. She's been having what can only be described as mini-seizures for the past two weeks, and we're waiting to hear back from the neurologist tomorrow. She is by far the smartest, most profound little girl I've ( Read more... )

Why is it I always write when there's bad news? I'm seeing a trend ( Read more... )

It seems like I always have bad news... I heard about the following only vaguely from students around campus and found out the identity of the victim on my one. This was taken from a news brief on the Burlington-Times website:

Elon student killed by train
Times-News
April 11, 2007 8:06 PMAn Elon University student was killed when he was hit by a ( Read more... )

If you might be so good as to pray for my friend, Jerrica, I would be so appreciative. She was in a car accident this morning, and has been in the ICU. We think she'll be fine in the long run, but her family definitely needs strength right now. She's going to be in a lot of pain when she comes around. We're hoping her head injuries don't turn out ( Read more... )

"Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life ..."
~1 Timothy 6:12Devon's here, visiting for the weekend! I'm so glad, since she'll be away most of Thanksgiving break, and we wouldn't have been able to see each other much otherwise. I wish I could be better company; I'm certain I dozed off during the first Horst & Graben one-act at the ( Read more... )