Ally and her latte moments
Dogs are amazing creatures. I have always been a dog person and when I saw these pictures, my heart melted. They are the perfect ‘Ahhhhhhhh’ pictures if you ask me. What do you think?
And my favorite of all…………………because when I was a little girl, my aunt and uncle had a dog named Blackie that would let me do the same thing to him. I loved that dog!!
Have A Great Day and remember that within the heart of every stray
Lies the singular desire to be loved!
I knew the day would come when I started noticing wrinkles but not this soon!! After all, I’m not that old for crying out loud. Luckily I came across a web site that has the best wrinkle cream and even gives you decent prices too. That stuff can be expensive, ya know? The things us gals go through to stay young looking and attractive for men, I’m not so sure it’s worth all of the trouble but I sure don’t want wrinkles so this is worth it.
I am so glad that they have now come out with and AED that is affordable enough for most businesses to have on site. Do you know what an AED is? It’s an automated external defibrillator. They’re just like the ones they carry on ambulances only more compact and easier to use in a business situation. I think they are even carrying them on airlines now too which could easily be the one thing that could mean life or death in the air.
This is a very important email I got from my mother who is a nurse about a Proposed Mastectomy Law Change and was written by a surgeon;
I’ll never forget the look in my patients’ eyes when I had to tell them they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember begging the doctors to keep these women in the hospital longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the insurance companies.
So there I sat with my patient giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn’t grasp half of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke louder than the quiet ‘Thank you’ they muttered.
A mastectomy is when a woman’s breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain after wards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure. Let’s give women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.
This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now. It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important. Please take the time and do it really quick! The Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill is important legislation for all women.
Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times. If you’re receiving this, it’s because I think you will take the 30 seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to others you know who will do the same.
There’s a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It’s about eliminating the ‘drive-through mastectomy’ where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.
A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the preacher decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his preachers visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.
The preacher made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the preacher took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent.
The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember’s flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead. Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The preacher glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.
As the preacher reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, ‘Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be back in church next Sunday.’
We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little. Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best sermons are the ones left unspoken. Words can strengthen you or not but a lesson without words is one that will touch you in ways words can’t. I guess the saying “Silence is golden” would apply here because the silence taught far more than any words could have.
Well I have had two sessions with the online counselor and I am working really hard to do what they have suggested. I get up in the morning and look in the mirror and tell myself that I am worthy and I deserve only the best and that’s what I will have. I can’t say I believe it yet but it sounds good anyway. I can easily look at my children and say they are very special and deserve the best and can have anything they want if they work hard enough but I’m still having trouble believing it for myself.
I know it’s going to take longer than a few days. I’m not stupid enough to think there’s a quick fix out there. Its going to take a lot of hard work on my part but my children are worth it. It’s more for them than me. That’s why I’m doing all of this. I owe it to them for bringing them into this hard world we live in I believe.
I suddenly find myself so full of self doubt that it’s almost paralyzing to me. What if I can’t do this? What if I mess up the best chance I have ever had to not only be a good mother to my children but to better my own life so there’s can be better too? I’m so full of what ifs that I can’t hardly function. Life has been hard for me and my children and then this blessing falls right into our laps and I don’t know how to take it.
I have found a great web site online for counseling. I am hoping that they will be able to help me stop thinking so negatively about myself and restore my faith in myself. The counselor is supposed to be one of the best there is so that gives me hope. Hope, that’s a very strong word. In fact, it’s one of the strongest I know. Hope is what they are offering to me and best of all, it’s online and I don’t have to face a group of people I don’t know and whine about my life. I can’t do that. Maybe if you need help too, you should check out online counseling. It has given me hope just knowing something like this is out there for help.
I have to admit I hate my job. I have to work nights sometimes and weekends almost all of the time. Holidays, well most of them too. That’s the worst part of working retail. My mother is a nurse and she has wanted me to go to college to be a nurse like her for as long as I can remember. She says that she’ll always be able to find a good paying job somewhere no matter what the economy does. She’s right too but I’m just not the nurse type. It takes a special person to be a nurse and I’m not that person at all.
I have decided to check into being a radiologist. I could do x-rays. They get paid good too. Charlie fixed it so that I could go to college and he would pay for it so tomorrow I’ll go by the local college and see what I have to do to get into that program. I’m also going to be checking online to see if I can do it online. That would be great if I could take it online. I think some of the courses are online at the local college anyway but we shall see.
Haiti is such a poor country with so much poverty that we Americans could not imagine. We think we have it bad, we live like kings compared to the people of Haiti. They suffer every day and then something as horrific as this happens.
“Three days after the concrete building suddenly collapsed during a children’s party, killing at least 94 students and adults and severely injuring 150 more, Capt. Michael Isetan of Fairfax County, Va., said the chance of more survivors was remote. He also said the death toll won’t likely go much higher. U.S., French and Haitian firefighters used sonar, cameras and dogs Monday in the search for victims at a collapsed Haitian school, but as the stench of death rose from the wreckage, they no longer expected to find anyone else alive.” was written on November 10th.
What an awful tragedy. They are not even sure just how many people were in the building when it collapsed, though the school is believed to have had about 500 students. Haitian officials said some had time to escape when it began to fall. Some students weren’t at the school during the collapse because La Promise was holding a party requiring a donation of about 50 cents that poorer families could not afford, said Deputy Steven Benoit, who represents the area in the Chamber of Deputies.
That was one time that being poor probably was a blessing to some of those people because at least their children are still alive. My heart breaks at the thought of all of those children being trapped and killed in a building that should have been the safest place for them to be and yet it turned into a living HELL for the whole community.
Did you hear about the man that came from Ohio to Atlanta Georgia for his fathers funeral and was shot and killed while in Atlanta? That was absolutely awful. Someone apparently tried to carjack him and killed him in the process. Now the poor family is not only mourning the loss of a father but also his son.
What is wrong with this world? What evil has taken over so much so that innocent people are killed for their vehicle? Is it drugs or just plain old evil? I wish I knew the answer so that something could be done about it. There are so many people suffering because of violence that is senseless.
There was a 10 year old boy that went to a door on Halloween, the light was on so the child thought they were handing out candy. His parents watched as he knocked on the door and the man inside shot through the door 28 times with an assault rifle thinking someone was trying to break in. Can you imagine the horror these parents felt watching someone shoot 28 times at their son, killing him instantly. They don’t want the man put to death, they want him to have to live with what he did to their child. I can’t say as I blame them.