Today is my little sister's birthday. I haven't talked to her yet, but since everyone enjoyed Don's birthday clip last year, I thought I'd post this one for her. I'll make you a cake and bring your gift when I come!
Hope your day is a great one! One year from now and you'll be the big 30!
Happy Birthday Laura!
Love you bunches!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
This is Wild
Not very long ago, I posted a news article about the famous "Touchdown Jesus" that was struck by lightening not far out of Dayton on the home stretch leading to my grandparents home in Dayton.
It appears that Dayton is making the news again this week. This is an UNBELIEVABLE video on I-675 in Dayton just mere miles from their home. I keep watching this clip and I'm thinking - "what was HE thinking?!?!?" My family drives this route all the time, and we drove it just a couple months ago. It's just crazy! This video has made it to almost every huge news outlet - (I've been hearing it on Fox News on XM all morning) and Drudge Report.
You have got to see this!
It appears that Dayton is making the news again this week. This is an UNBELIEVABLE video on I-675 in Dayton just mere miles from their home. I keep watching this clip and I'm thinking - "what was HE thinking?!?!?" My family drives this route all the time, and we drove it just a couple months ago. It's just crazy! This video has made it to almost every huge news outlet - (I've been hearing it on Fox News on XM all morning) and Drudge Report.
You have got to see this!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
New Changes
I guess I don't need to tell you that there have been some recent changes to my blog, huh? Hope you like it, as I was kinda getting tired of the other background. It was getting old to me. There'll be more layout changes eventually as I get time, but technically there's been no real significant changes in the way things work. If you have any problems with it, I'll be happy to listen to your complaints! lol
Just figured I'd go ahead and warn you that more was to come!
Just figured I'd go ahead and warn you that more was to come!
"Words"
A few Sundays ago, Gregg text me on my way to church about some lyrics to a song he was going to use in his Sunday School lesson. Fortunately I was able to find them on the internet on my phone and save it to a location where he could retrieve and read them. I had saved them to my little home screen so I wouldn't lose their location. Since saving these lyrics, they have been sitting beside a little icon of another website that I frequent. The icons look so much alike that somehow I often manage to click on the opposite link of where I'm attempting to go. Every time these lyrics pop up, I re-read them, thinking to myself how well of job someone did in putting all of these "words" together. With these lyrics being read almost on a daily basis since that day, I was reminded of them in a real way yesterday while at work.
A young nurse I was working with, was involved in a casual conversation, along with myself, my boss, and our secretary. Somehow throughout the topics being discussed, it eventually led to our parents' discipline of us as children. It was a fun topic, to say the least.
As we all chatted about our memories of "spankings," etc.... the other nurse piped up and with an obvious change of expression from the laughter she had just been experiencing, made the statement, "I never got a spanking when I was a kid." The disbelief from the other three of us was notable. Then with a far off look in her eyes, she said, "No, my dad always verbally punished me and those are the most hurtful words I will never forget." Needless to say, we were all scrambling to figure out a graceful way to end this conversation and move on about our business. She said that usually after about an hour he would come with his head held low and apologize for the "words" he had just spewed at his daughters. She said "by the time I was 13, I finally told him that it was too late for apologies, those were words that were already "engraved" on my brain." My boss, the secretary, and I all agreed that we were much happier with our "spankings" because that pain was short lived, but the lesson was learned. And we were not left with the ever powerful memory of "strong words."
Sometimes I think we forget how powerful our words really are.....next time you are tempted to go on a verbal rant, remember this.......
"In a hundred different languages
They convey the thoughts of man
They can form a bond as strong as steel
Or break a golden band
They can disappear with one small wave
When written in the sand
Or endure 10000 years in stone
Engraved by God's own hand
Words
Oh their power is real
They can hurt or they can heal
Can't be touched but you can feel
Words
There is strength in every one
And when all is said and done
Wars are lost and battles won with words
Mightier then tempered swords
As they flow from the quill
With every stroke the letters formed
Can breath life or kill
With icy lips and tongues of fire
We burn or bring a chill
But when the truth is told
The rule is gold and universal still
With words.......
Oh their power is real They can hurt or they can heal
Can't be touched but you can feel Words
There is strength in every one And when all is said and done Wars are lost and battles won with words" (This song has been recorded by the group "Heirline" although, any place lyrics are found, there is no credit to the writer. I'm assuming it's Ernie Dawson since he writes most of their music.)
A young nurse I was working with, was involved in a casual conversation, along with myself, my boss, and our secretary. Somehow throughout the topics being discussed, it eventually led to our parents' discipline of us as children. It was a fun topic, to say the least.
As we all chatted about our memories of "spankings," etc.... the other nurse piped up and with an obvious change of expression from the laughter she had just been experiencing, made the statement, "I never got a spanking when I was a kid." The disbelief from the other three of us was notable. Then with a far off look in her eyes, she said, "No, my dad always verbally punished me and those are the most hurtful words I will never forget." Needless to say, we were all scrambling to figure out a graceful way to end this conversation and move on about our business. She said that usually after about an hour he would come with his head held low and apologize for the "words" he had just spewed at his daughters. She said "by the time I was 13, I finally told him that it was too late for apologies, those were words that were already "engraved" on my brain." My boss, the secretary, and I all agreed that we were much happier with our "spankings" because that pain was short lived, but the lesson was learned. And we were not left with the ever powerful memory of "strong words."
Sometimes I think we forget how powerful our words really are.....next time you are tempted to go on a verbal rant, remember this.......
"In a hundred different languages
They convey the thoughts of man
They can form a bond as strong as steel
Or break a golden band
They can disappear with one small wave
When written in the sand
Or endure 10000 years in stone
Engraved by God's own hand
Words
Oh their power is real
They can hurt or they can heal
Can't be touched but you can feel
Words
There is strength in every one
And when all is said and done
Wars are lost and battles won with words
Mightier then tempered swords
As they flow from the quill
With every stroke the letters formed
Can breath life or kill
With icy lips and tongues of fire
We burn or bring a chill
But when the truth is told
The rule is gold and universal still
With words.......
Oh their power is real They can hurt or they can heal
Can't be touched but you can feel Words
There is strength in every one And when all is said and done Wars are lost and battles won with words" (This song has been recorded by the group "Heirline" although, any place lyrics are found, there is no credit to the writer. I'm assuming it's Ernie Dawson since he writes most of their music.)
Friday, August 13, 2010
On the Other Side
This is very RAPIDLY becoming one of my absolute favorite songs. I have a flair for contemporary bluegrass from artists like the Isaacs and this quickly rising group named Dailey and Vincent. This particular duet is becoming one of the most awarded artists that Gospel and Bluegrass music has had in a while and is also becoming one of my favorites as well.
The reddish-blond haired guy, Jamie Dailey, is formerly of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and was singing with them the first time I ever saw Quicksilver in Waynesboro, MS. He had an amazing voice. The other guy, Darrin Vincent, is the brother of the famous bluegrass diva, Rhonda Vincent. If you ever heard the Bill Gaither Bluegrass series, you heard her sing, along with Darrin. Needless to say they have some pretty interesting roots in bluegrass and are making a big name for themselves and stirring up some dust in the industry these days.
I think this song has a way of pulling you into it's magic and makes you wish that it wouldn't end. Even if no one else cares about it, my dad and brother-in-law, Don, will love it. Especially Don. We were both Quicksilver fans anyway, so this is right up our alley.
Enjoy.....and you might end up needing a tissue!
The reddish-blond haired guy, Jamie Dailey, is formerly of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and was singing with them the first time I ever saw Quicksilver in Waynesboro, MS. He had an amazing voice. The other guy, Darrin Vincent, is the brother of the famous bluegrass diva, Rhonda Vincent. If you ever heard the Bill Gaither Bluegrass series, you heard her sing, along with Darrin. Needless to say they have some pretty interesting roots in bluegrass and are making a big name for themselves and stirring up some dust in the industry these days.
I think this song has a way of pulling you into it's magic and makes you wish that it wouldn't end. Even if no one else cares about it, my dad and brother-in-law, Don, will love it. Especially Don. We were both Quicksilver fans anyway, so this is right up our alley.
Enjoy.....and you might end up needing a tissue!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Summertime Views
You know, as many things as I enjoy about the summer, there are a few things that I don't like. For starters, probably at the top of the list is the unbelievably, ungodly clothes that some people go out in public in. I won't link it, because of some of the content involved, but there's a website called "People of Walmart" that has some unbelievable pictures of some of the clothes people wear outside their homes (one of my close friends recently sent me a link with some unbelievable stuff on there). Thank God, but this is just beyond my comprehension. It would not even CROSS MY MIND to go out wearing some of the things people wear outside their front door.
I was recently in the doctor's office and this girl (I won't repeat what I imagined she was), but anyway, she had what she would consider a dress on that barely covered the tops of her thighs. In addition to the little frilly "thing" she was wearing, she also had some little purple suede boots that came to the top of her ankles that were just pathetic. Where do these people come up with this stuff? Anyway, the nurse who was escorting me down the hall turned around as we passed her and looked at me with her eyes as wide as saucers.....as soon as she shut the door in the room where I was to stay, she asked me if I could believe what we'd just seen! It did my heart good to know we were on the same page. We were feeling nothing but pity for the nurse having to take care of the other girl.
It's just more than I can take sometimes. Just for the record, if anyone thinks that I want to see them like this, they are badly mistaken - and if they think that others do, again, they are sadly mistaken. Anyway, I'll be absolutely thrilled to no end when fall and winter get back around so that these people will put some clothes back on!
Anyway, after my experience at the doctor and going through all the thoughts in my head about this dreaded "requirement" of the summer, after reading this comic strip, I could definitely relate! I read it in the actual Sunday comics in the paper and laughed my head off when I saw it - cause I was feeling his pain!! lol Also, go ahead and click on the comic strip and blow it up so you can actually read it. The print is kinda small, and I don't want you to miss it! It's way funny!
I was recently in the doctor's office and this girl (I won't repeat what I imagined she was), but anyway, she had what she would consider a dress on that barely covered the tops of her thighs. In addition to the little frilly "thing" she was wearing, she also had some little purple suede boots that came to the top of her ankles that were just pathetic. Where do these people come up with this stuff? Anyway, the nurse who was escorting me down the hall turned around as we passed her and looked at me with her eyes as wide as saucers.....as soon as she shut the door in the room where I was to stay, she asked me if I could believe what we'd just seen! It did my heart good to know we were on the same page. We were feeling nothing but pity for the nurse having to take care of the other girl.
It's just more than I can take sometimes. Just for the record, if anyone thinks that I want to see them like this, they are badly mistaken - and if they think that others do, again, they are sadly mistaken. Anyway, I'll be absolutely thrilled to no end when fall and winter get back around so that these people will put some clothes back on!
Anyway, after my experience at the doctor and going through all the thoughts in my head about this dreaded "requirement" of the summer, after reading this comic strip, I could definitely relate! I read it in the actual Sunday comics in the paper and laughed my head off when I saw it - cause I was feeling his pain!! lol Also, go ahead and click on the comic strip and blow it up so you can actually read it. The print is kinda small, and I don't want you to miss it! It's way funny!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Read Up!!
Ok, I rarely ever do this. So, let's just say it's the nurse coming out in me.
Btw, before I head off on my little rant, Jeremy is improving. He still feels pretty weak and painful, but is definitely improving. Yesterday as I was talking to his surgeon's nurse and reported that he was improving he began throwing his hands in the air and questioning me and ranting, "I'm dying over here!" lol! So, when he can argue the point, he's definitely improving! If you know Jeremy well at all, arguing any point, whether right or wrong, is his specialty! :-) I love him anyway!! However, he did NOT argue with me when I told her that I thought this was a little more difficult than he had anticipated and that he thought he'd bounce right back! But he is actually out of the bed now, so this is good. On Saturday, he was asking me and his brothers to find someone to decapitate him. Now, I think he's actually glad he kept his head!
Now, that you're updated. I'll continue to the reason for my post......
This is to all of those individuals who hear of a good vitamin or supplement and are eager to run out and try it. Personally, I'm petrified to take supplements. First of all, because I know some have the ability to alter drug screens, and being that those are done randomly at my work, I'm not in any way going to chance that!! I like my job WAY too much for that.
Secondly, I am very aware that just because a vitamin or supplement is on the market, does not mean that it has been approved by the FDA and may be someone's attempt at making another dollar - which is the case of many of the supplements sold on commercials that people spend tons of money on!!
There are always articles on the hazards of some supplements, while some may boost some certain aspects of the body, sometimes, they pull other nutrients from vital areas to do their job, in the end, causing more harm than good........(and yes, that was a very long sentence.)
So, to cut to the chase, this article made headlines today on Yahoo News about supplements........being that I find it to be very applicable, I thought I'd post it. So, HERE's the link, but to bring out the importance of the article, I'll point out the highlights!
This is from the article, "Dangerous Supplements", from Consumer Reports - posted today on Yahoo news....
"We have identified a dozen supplement ingredients that we think consumers should avoid because of health risks, including cardiovascular, liver, and kidney problems. We found products with those ingredients readily available in stores and online. "
"Because of inadequate quality control and inspection, supplements contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, or prescription drugs have been sold to unsuspecting consumers. And FDA rules covering manufacturing quality don’t apply to the companies that supply herbs, vitamins, and other raw ingredients."
The Dirty Dozen:
"To come up with our dozen finalists, we also considered factors such as whether the ingredients were effective for their purported uses and how readily available they were to consumers. We then shopped for them online and in stores near our Yonkers, N.Y., headquarters and easily found all of them for sale in June 2010.
So, I NEVER take a supplement until I run it by at least two of my physicians and usually more that I run into in the hospital. That leads me to the point that the only thing I've been approved to take is CoQ10 that I can get off the counter, and I don't take it every day.....However, never in this life, will I EVER buy products that come from any type of commercial, or someone selling "snake oil." That's about what it boils down to.....
I'm not trying to make you paranoid, but then again, I am.....so be careful....at least I warned you!!
Btw, before I head off on my little rant, Jeremy is improving. He still feels pretty weak and painful, but is definitely improving. Yesterday as I was talking to his surgeon's nurse and reported that he was improving he began throwing his hands in the air and questioning me and ranting, "I'm dying over here!" lol! So, when he can argue the point, he's definitely improving! If you know Jeremy well at all, arguing any point, whether right or wrong, is his specialty! :-) I love him anyway!! However, he did NOT argue with me when I told her that I thought this was a little more difficult than he had anticipated and that he thought he'd bounce right back! But he is actually out of the bed now, so this is good. On Saturday, he was asking me and his brothers to find someone to decapitate him. Now, I think he's actually glad he kept his head!
Now, that you're updated. I'll continue to the reason for my post......
This is to all of those individuals who hear of a good vitamin or supplement and are eager to run out and try it. Personally, I'm petrified to take supplements. First of all, because I know some have the ability to alter drug screens, and being that those are done randomly at my work, I'm not in any way going to chance that!! I like my job WAY too much for that.
Secondly, I am very aware that just because a vitamin or supplement is on the market, does not mean that it has been approved by the FDA and may be someone's attempt at making another dollar - which is the case of many of the supplements sold on commercials that people spend tons of money on!!
There are always articles on the hazards of some supplements, while some may boost some certain aspects of the body, sometimes, they pull other nutrients from vital areas to do their job, in the end, causing more harm than good........(and yes, that was a very long sentence.)
So, to cut to the chase, this article made headlines today on Yahoo News about supplements........being that I find it to be very applicable, I thought I'd post it. So, HERE's the link, but to bring out the importance of the article, I'll point out the highlights!
This is from the article, "Dangerous Supplements", from Consumer Reports - posted today on Yahoo news....
"We have identified a dozen supplement ingredients that we think consumers should avoid because of health risks, including cardiovascular, liver, and kidney problems. We found products with those ingredients readily available in stores and online. "
"Because of inadequate quality control and inspection, supplements contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, or prescription drugs have been sold to unsuspecting consumers. And FDA rules covering manufacturing quality don’t apply to the companies that supply herbs, vitamins, and other raw ingredients."
The Dirty Dozen:
"To come up with our dozen finalists, we also considered factors such as whether the ingredients were effective for their purported uses and how readily available they were to consumers. We then shopped for them online and in stores near our Yonkers, N.Y., headquarters and easily found all of them for sale in June 2010.
The dozen are aconite, bitter orange, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, country mallow, germanium, greater celandine, kava, lobelia, and yohimbe. The FDA has warned about at least eight of them, some as long ago as 1993. "
So, I NEVER take a supplement until I run it by at least two of my physicians and usually more that I run into in the hospital. That leads me to the point that the only thing I've been approved to take is CoQ10 that I can get off the counter, and I don't take it every day.....However, never in this life, will I EVER buy products that come from any type of commercial, or someone selling "snake oil." That's about what it boils down to.....
I'm not trying to make you paranoid, but then again, I am.....so be careful....at least I warned you!!
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