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[MotoXPrincess99]

http://www.unos.org/

It's the organ sharing network.. when a person gets added to the "list" that is what they are referring to.

The hospital needs to follow specific rules to match cadaver donors and organ recipients. The recipient gets put on the list according to a complex point system: age, health conditions, blood type, previous transplants, history of medical compliance (do they take their meds) , HLAs (the part of the blood - antigens- that is looked at to make a good match), and any anti-bodies (PRA) that would cause immediate rejection. Tons of info is entered into a database, as donors occur.. people get matched.

Each month he will need to send blood work and do regular dental/ physical check ups to be kept on the list.

I hope if he decides to get on the list they are able to match him with a donor.

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

I have the doner sticker on my DL. I would hope that when I die my parts might be able to help someone else.

 

[funnygarcia]

I have the donor sticker on my DL. I would hope that when I die my parts might be able to help someone else.

Good for you !


Dh and I have both signed up for the U of MN body bequest program, if we can not be organ donors then are bodies will be used for medical/dental school.
The studies take about one year before the cremains are sent to the family (free cremation).

As for getting a kidney... it might be a long wait.

1.Type O, can only get type O
2.He's Latino.

Statistically less donors are Latino.
Less chance of matching HLAs due to race.
And less Latinos in general population in the UNOS region for our area
MN, SD, ND, WI, IA

The good thing.. he hasn't had many transfusions, less chance of developing PRA antibodies.

That's if he even decides to be listed. But .. it's time..

Had some good news, he has his .2 position for next year.
The administration staff have been assigned to a different school the teachers are keeping their jobs
The state is pushing for this restructuring as part of the Race for the Top money (which our state didn't get anyway). The district is being forced into these changes.
We were laughing because the district is being sneaky, purposely not posting the open positions right now. (Some teachers are jumping ship and moving to other schools, or moving with administration) They will wait to post openings. Forcing the selection committees to choose from the pool after the first top picks have been made for other schools. Likely to get inexperienced and not ideal staff. Showing the state "HA! see, stop messing with our schools!" when the school fails again next year.

Can I just say.. I love that my boys do not go this district.

Do we or ?

 

[sameyeyam]

Hey ladies. Just another quick drive by, honestly I will come back and chat soon. hahaha, like you even miss me.
I'm going for dinner with a friend tonight for some much needed beer and ice cream. I'll eat real food first, but I am soo looking forward to that beer and ice cream. mmm. I can't remember the last time I had ice cream!

Kelly, it might be worth it for you to use your ignore option and ignore certain people. You will never see or receive posts from them and then they can't bother ya. Just a thought.

What???!!!! You guys didn't tell me there was an ignore option! Do you mean the last few years I could have just put you guys on ignore and talked to myself?

Joining you ...



No more drama please, I have enough of my own at home!

I got my credit card billing for next month in my email.. twice the usual.. what???!
Figured out dh forgot to pay it .. my fault as it was on table not on the bill clipboard. Happily they didn't raise the interest rate. Never paid late for that card until now, wanna keep it for emergencies.

Had an unhappy conversation with dh last night as he was starting his nightly dialysis.
I had shared with him awhile ago of a post from a dialysis board. A man was doing dialysis only for his family. If it was his choice, he would stop treatment and die. Last night dh brought that up and said sometimes when his depression is creeping up he feels the same way.

I have sensed this for awhile and though it hurt to hear him say it..
I understand.
We talked about pursuing transplant again. His siblings have offered in the past and he has turned them down. We agree that we can't trust them to follow through. He also felt that they might have this "you owe me" string attached. It totally changes your relationship. Does that make sense?

When I donated, it was for my own selfish purposes.. I wanted to keep him around and not have him be so grumpy.

soooooooooooooo... he might start the process to be listed with UN
OS

It really sucks that he has to go thru this. It makes me so mad that our own bodies can betray us. I've said several times that I admire E for being able to go thru so much and handle it so well.

To be honest I don't know if I could handle it as well as he has. I feel like I've been thru a lot, but he has to deal with it every single day.

I know I'm not hispanic, but if it would help his odds I'd be willing to find a good looking rich hispanic man, have his love child, have nanny's raise it and then when the time is right donate it's kidney.

I have the doner sticker on my DL. I would hope that when I die my parts might be able to help someone else.

Doner sticker on your Disneyland? As in Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Doner & Blitzen! I had no idea they were at DL this time of year. Yeah, I know I'm a dork!

I too am an organ donor. However, apparently I just couldn't wait to die, I started donating body parts early! Oh come on that was funny and you know that B. just spit diet coke on her computer screen.

 

[sameyeyam]

So you wanna have fun at a crowded restaurant? When you put your name on the list and have to wait...tell them your name is Donner.

Then wait for them to call "Donner Party of 5"! Cracks me up every time.

 

[XTinabell]

Of course we missed you! Silly goose!
Enjoy the ice cream and beer, does that mean you are having beer floats (without the root) ?? Odd mix but hey whatever works right.

I laughed so hard when I read this, a beer float! Now that is class!

Joining you ...



No more drama please, I have enough of my own at home!

I got my credit card billing for next month in my email.. twice the usual.. what???!
Figured out dh forgot to pay it .. my fault as it was on table not on the bill clipboard. Happily they didn't raise the interest rate. Never paid late for that card until now, wanna keep it for emergencies.

Had an unhappy conversation with dh last night as he was starting his nightly dialysis.
I had shared with him awhile ago of a post from a dialysis board. A man was doing dialysis only for his family. If it was his choice, he would stop treatment and die. Last night dh brought that up and said sometimes when his depression is creeping up he feels the same way.

I have sensed this for awhile and though it hurt to hear him say it..
I understand.
We talked about pursuing transplant again. His siblings have offered in the past and he has turned them down. We agree that we can't trust them to follow through. He also felt that they might have this "you owe me" string attached. It totally changes your relationship. Does that make sense?

When I donated, it was for my own selfish purposes.. I wanted to keep him around and not have him be so grumpy.

soooooooooooooo... he might start the process to be listed with UNOS

That's tough. I really hope he can find a donor. This may be a dumb question, but is dialysis painful? I'm familiar with diabetes, where you have to take insulin shots to stay healthy. Is dialysis a similar idea or is it much more complicated and difficult to deal with than insulin? Hm I know that sounds ignorant but I would like to know.

What???!!!! You guys didn't tell me there was an ignore option! Do you mean the last few years I could have just put you guys on ignore and talked to myself?



It really sucks that he has to go thru this. It makes me so mad that our own bodies can betray us. I've said several times that I admire E for being able to go thru so much and handle it so well.

To be honest I don't know if I could handle it as well as he has. I feel like I've been thru a lot, but he has to deal with it every single day.

I know I'm not hispanic, but if it would help his odds I'd be willing to find a good looking rich hispanic man, have his love child, have nanny's raise it and then when the time is right donate it's kidney.




Doner sticker on your Disneyland? As in Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Doner & Blitzen! I had no idea they were at DL this time of year. Yeah, I know I'm a dork!

I too am an organ donor. However, apparently I just couldn't wait to die, I started donating body parts early! Oh come on that was funny and you know that B. just spit diet coke on her computer screen.

First off, you don't need to put anyone on ignore to talk to yourself. You've done that since we first met. Secondly, I totally love your thinking on the rich hispanic man, I like that. I would be willing to do the same. Anything to help a friend. And thirdly about the donor on DL, wow. Actually, I thought the same thing but I won't admit that.

So you wanna have fun at a crowded restaurant? When you put your name on the list and have to wait...tell them your name is Donner.

Then wait for them to call "Donner Party of 5"! Cracks me up every time.

 

[kelmac284]

LOl I missed some good comedy last night. You guys are my kind of group!

Alison LOVED the doner party joke. That was hilarious!!!

Bernice I am sorry your dh is getting down. That must be SO hard to deal with sometimes for both of you!! I know I have had some medical issues for the past 2 or 3 years and nothing NEARLY as serious as your dh but just enough to make it hard to do anything or get out of the house and it has REALLY depressed me so I can only imagine how he must feel. Not wanting to be a burden etc. And it must be so hard being the care taker and watching someone you love in pain! I can't imagine. I admire you both for your brave fight against this awful disease! I hope that if he decides to go on the list that he has good luck in finding a doner! I too am a doner on my license and hope to help if I can someday!

So Tina how was that beer and ice cream??

I had a nice relaxing night last night. I usually only catch up on the latest movie rentals about once a month or longer and so I stopped after work and picked up a few. We watched one called Leap Year which was cute and the Lovely Bones which was weird but interesting.

Now today we have Sherlock Holmes, Crazy Heart and Its Complicated.

Dh has to go take a refresher CPR class for work and I have some chores to do round here but otherwise it is kick back day and I am going to savor it because next week our meets start with swim and then it is NON stop till the end of July!

Hope you all have a GREAT day today and have some fun plans for tomorrow!!

 

[sameyeyam]

You know, I've always felt a bit miffed at my mom & step dad because of their decision not to donate organs.

When my mom passed away at age 59, 5 years ago (brain aneurysm), she would have been a perfect person to be an organ donor. I just assumed that everybody in my family was an organ donor, but when they asked, my step dad was emphatically against it. He instantly said "I don't want her chopped up, they need to leave her body alone". We checked my mom's license and she wasn't a donor. If she had been, I would have fought my step dad on the issue.

One thing that I learned during the process was that your family cannot be with you during the last hour or so of your life. They take you into a surgical suite and start preparing for the process. That would have been so hard for me to handle. Being with my mother and holding her foot as she passed away meant so much to me. Yes, I said foot!...there were four of us and my stepdad and I gave my younger sister & brother her hands to hold. I can laugh about it, because my mother had the same warped sense of humor that I did and she would have thought it hillarious.

I respected my step dad's right to say no, but to this day I'm still saddened that we couldn't use her body to help others.

 

[sameyeyam]

Wow, that was a depressing way to start a beautiful day! Time to spread a little sunshine around here....

DH had to work nights, so he's in bed sleeping right now. Which means I'm stuck in my pj's until he gets up this afternoon. Actually I love it when he works nights on weekends. I quietly get up in the morning, but don't get dressed until he wakes up between 1-3pm. It justifies staying in pj's all day (at least in my mind).

I'm enjoying a cup of french vanilla coffee, watching a little tv and then going to dive into my huge stack of work I brought home.

Tomorrow we are going to a mx track about an hour away from our house. Both of the kids are racing. I know strange way to spend Mother's Day, but I actually prefer to do that. Since my mom passed away, Mother's Day has been a bit hard on me. She passed away on May 10th, so not only do I have to deal with the holiday and all of the emotions, it also brings up the memories of her passing away. Last year her date of death also fell on Mother's Day, so that was hard. At least this year it's a day later. Every since then we have really downplayed Mother's Day because I tend to get a bit emotional. I feel bad for my kids, so I kind of suck it up when they give me cards and gifts. But DH knows how I feel, so the rest of the day we just try to keep busy doing stuff that won't be emotional. You know, one of these days (far in the future) when I go to heaven I'm gonna kick her butt for her rotten timing!lol.

Anyway, I hope all of our Mother's on this thread (and everyone else) has a wonderful and Happy Mother's Day.

 

[sameyeyam]

SO....that wasn't a very good way to spread sunshine was it? Sorry, my emotions just bounce all around on Mother's Day. Of course, they tend to bounce around all of the other days of the year as well.

 

[funnygarcia]

Do you mean the last few years I could have just put you guys on ignore and talked to myself?

I know I'm not hispanic, but if it would help his odds I'd be willing to find a good looking rich hispanic man, have his love child, have nanny's raise it and then when the time is right donate it's kidney.


I too am an organ donor. However, apparently I just couldn't wait to die, I started donating body parts early! Oh come on that was funny and you know that B. just spit diet coke on her computer screen.

You already do that.. quite nicely too.

Love child created for kidney donation? ....Nice...
You know, I caught my hot Mexican at a young age.
There is still hope in the world you single ladies.......cough... cough...Pix.....

Oh sure, make the screen even more sticky.. oh, that sounds bad.


I gave already too, one less kidney for me.. one extra for him. He now has two diseased ones, one in the typical place and one in a pocket in his pelvis.. happy to see me honey or is that just a kidney? and one that took a hike all together (dissolved by the body, weird huh?)

So you wanna have fun at a crowded restaurant? When you put your name on the list and have to wait...tell them your name is Donner.

Then wait for them to call "Donner Party of 5"! Cracks me up every time.

Good one!

That's tough. I really hope he can find a donor. This may be a dumb question, but is dialysis painful? I'm familiar with diabetes, where you have to take insulin shots to stay healthy. Is dialysis a similar idea or is it much more complicated and difficult to deal with than insulin? Hm I know that sounds ignorant but I would like to know.

Much more complicated than insulin and checking glucose levels.
He had a surgery on his arm to create an access, pulled an artery closer to skin surface and attached it to a vein. This is what he uses each night for treatment. His needles are 14 gauge, think of size of the cartridge/ink stick part of a ball point pen. One for arterial (pulling blood out) one for venous (put blood back after it has run thru a filtering process). His blood runs thru a fibrous tube that has one compartment for blood and one for dialysate solution.
Remember science class.. osmosis, diffusion, permeable membrane? Those are the processes that are used. The "dirty" blood runs alongside the dialysate solution, the solution is designed to attract and "pull" the toxins and extra fluid out of the blood. The "clean" blood runs back out of the filter and goes back into his body. The waste fluid (the dirty toxins) is dumped out, we have a drain line that extends down the hall and into the sink. (Waste line.. stinky! Smells like fart! peee-yew!)

When he has used all the solution he is done, he runs on 30 liters at 550 cc per hour. Typically "pulls" 1 to 2 liters per session. Takes about 2.5 hours.
I make connections and attach one line to the saline, he gets his blood back (rinse back). We pull needles, he holds the two sites for 3-5 minutes to stop the bleeding and then we tape down a big bandage.

Ta-da.. you now know enough to be a dialysis tech.

Sorry, my emotions just bounce all around on Mother's Day. Of course, they tend to bounce around all of the other days of the year as well.

Totally understandable. I agree, you should totally scold her for screwing up Mother's day for you.

 

[kelmac284]

Good morning and happy mother's day ladies!!

Alison I totally understand your feelings and don't blame you at all for feeling the way that you do. I hope you can have as nice a day as possible today and I'm sorry for your loss!!

We had a nice relaxing weekend so far. We rented a BUNCH of movies and watched some Friday night and then a few more yesterday but then I got a NASTY migraine so had to revert to bed but Shane and the girls made me a really nice dinner and even brought it to me in bed!!

Then this morning I got up and they had picked out a lovely fresh flower arrangement and each girl had made me something at school. I LOVE those things and know I only have a few years left so I am treasuring EVERY bit I get!!

The weather has been SO great and of course wouldn't you know it, it has clouded up and is supposed to rain! Go figure! But we are still going to go downtown and hope it doesn't get too nasty. It would have been SO much nicer though to walk around the rose garden in the sunshine! But I am looking forward to it nonetheless.

We were going to do this exact plan in Feb when the girls had their break for president's week and it rained the entire time. It is just SO ironic that when we try a do-over it rains again. HMMMM.... LOL

Anywho hope everyone has a WONDERFUL day and take care!

 

[funnygarcia]

Bit of rain is nothing compared to having snow in MAY!!!

yep, it snowed here Friday night. It was cold and raining off and on, went out with dh for his nightly smoke break and noticed how the headlights of our neighbors car were hitting in what we thought was just rain.. uhh dear, I think it's snow. No way! Stepped off the porch, yah it's snow. How depressing.

We went out to Mall of America to shop on Saturday. Noah tagged along.
Dh and I each used a coupon to score the free cami at Lane Bryant, nice layering piece and the price is right.
Ate at Noodles, yum! Dh bought another pen for his collection. Scoured the mall to find affordable shoes that Noah would like, typical teen style he shrugged his shoulders and would say "whatever" with each one offered up. Finally got over to Sears, they had a big sale with lots to choose. I spied some boots on clearance, Noah fell for them right away. (Yes I know, my ds is an odd duck with his long hair, black long wool coat, and now "poo" kicker leather black boots)
They were in the wrong box, no clue on price.
Brought them up to cashier $20, SCORE!

Perused the watches for fun and I fell in lust of a cute metal bracelet style one with penguins. DH snatched it from me and went off to the counter to buy it, while I protest.. Oh I don't really need it! But my sweetie man bought it anyway.

Took the train back downtown, next bus home was an hour away. Walked down to Target and picked up some cheese and snackage.

Got outside and waited for our bus.. a flock of pigeons descended next to us. One was missing a foot, he did well for himself and even fought back when a larger pigeon tried to steal away a big piece of popcorn.

It was interesting to watch and we marveled at all the different colors, the ordinary gray with teal, a black and white speckled (reminded me of a Dalmatian) with extra bright red feet, and a beautiful one with shades of brown white and almost rosy pink feathers. I see now why people breed and train pigeons.

I was soooooo cold by the time I got home!

We noticed a group of middle school age kids in the parking lot above ours. The business plaza behind our building is dead on the weekends, the side that faces our buildings has a vet office and groomer. Their lot is up on an incline, we have a concrete retaining wall butting against their lot.
A drop of 7 feet between the lots.

The teens were hitting rocks with a baseball bat, aiming it down the business plaza lot in front of the vet/groomer. We were concerned they would miss and send a rock flying into the vet windows or bounce to our lot below to crash tenants car windows. As we were about to go inside to report to police, one boy lost control of the metal bat.
It went sailing into our lot, narrowly missing a mini van.
To make matter worse, instead of walking around to reach our lower level lot, they slid down the wall and jumped on a tenants car to hop down!!! And jumped back onto car to climb back up.

We hurried inside and called the local police. I changed to my winter coat and some gloves..
May people! MAY and wearing a winter coat!!

Went back out to wait, they were gone. Darn! Talked to the officer, he went to patrol the neighboring apartment/town home complexes.

This is not the first time this group has climbed on cars or showed reckless behavior. Group of them came over and were doing break dance moves and jumps in our lot.

Another time skateboarding and jumping off the retaining wall, climbing back up to the upper lot by using tenants cars.

I don't get why they hang around our building. There is a huge nature park up the block, elementary school a couple blocks away, heck they have their own parking lots at the neighboring complexes.

If the owners of the business plaza would extend a fence to close the gap between the lot and the next door town home complex it would eliminate the problem. Because apparently, walking around to the proper entrance is to hard for teenagers.

 

[funnygarcia]

This is the watch...

 

[kelmac284]

Morning and happy Monday!

First off B I LOVE that watch! I am a big penguin lover too and that is just TOO cute!! I would have gotten it too had I seen it!!

Sounds like an exciting and eventful weekend!! I have always thought going to Mall of America would be a blast!

I bet you could spend a whole weekend in that place and not see everything LOL. My kind of place!!

Cool score on the Cami's! NOT unbelievable about the kids. They always seem to do what we DON'T want them to do LOL. Glad they didn't actually damage anything and hopefully next time they will get "caught in the act" and think twice the next time.

We had a NICE day yesterday eventhough it did rain pretty hard which sucked because it has been SO lovely for the past week or so. In the 80's and nice blue skies and of course on Mother's day it had to get cold, ugly and rain. BUT we went to mom's and had brunch and then set off for downtown and we toured the old governor's mansion which I have done before but not for years and the girls hadn't been since they were little so it was nice for them to get to go now that they are old enough to remember it.

Then we went over to the capitol and walked around. We missed the guided tour but we just walked around and a lot of it is made into a museum so we looked at everything and were able to get into the senate chambes but not the assembly but it was neat for the girls to see.

We didn't get to go to the big rose garden because it was raining too hard but there is a lovely display in front of the main entrance as well as the peace officers memorial which had several floral arrangements because I guess last week was peace officer week and they were rememberances of the fallen. It was very sombering but lovely to see.

Then we went to Old Sac and had lunch on the river. It was nice and the sun came out while we were there. We saw a few of the horn blower tour boats and decided that would be something fun to do maybe next year.

After lunch we walked around old sac a bit and then headed home.

We bought some ice cream and watched the finale of Amazing Race which I am SO bummed about who won but that's a whole other story LOL.

So all in all it was a REALLY nice day!

Now today our swim team changes times and we have to be there a half hour earlier but today we MAY not go. It is still raining and although they DO practice in the rain shelby is still fighting her cold and I don't like them to get to cold because of school etc. They have already missed too much as it is and they are testing right now.

So the jury is out whether or not I go tonight but then this weekend is our time trials so that should be interesting and Sunday is the finale for both Survivor and Extreme Home Makeover so looking forward to that!

That's bout it for me.

Hope everyone else had a GREAT weekend/mother's day and have a good day today!!

Take care and talk soon!

 

[funnygarcia]

Mall of America is the easiest for us to reach, which is why we tend to go there more than others. I get a kick at spotting the tourists, as locals we kinda laugh because really it's just your average mall just over-sized and has a theme park for the young kiddos.

They add and change all the time, they will open a remodeled section mid summer with more upscale stores. If you want to drool in the pricey stores, we have them or will soon. I will stick to the area of lower end price point stores thanks much.

Hmmm...odd call with one of dh dialysis nurses today. She had come out with a tech a few weeks ago, installed programming on the "brain" part of the machine to outfit a new device. The device will do the charting and send it via it's own network to the clinic. At the time she had come out the device wasn't available to install, she mentioned that they had changed their minds and wanted to do a training while he was dialyzing at the CENTER. We had been told it was a short 1 hour tops training.
After they left, dh came home, he called the center and left a message that if that was the case.. they needed to come to our home or he wouldn't do it.

Never got a reply back.

Got an odd voice mail today from another staff member, stating the nurse had left messages and she was willing to come to our house.

uhhh what messages??

Called the nurse, apparently she had left messages on his cell phone. You know the one I had told her don't bother calling as he never uses it...

I scratch my head with this center all the time when it comes to communication. There were holes in our training, found out a few things by reading online or when they came for a home visit a year later and criticized some of the set up.

well gee no one told us and it wasn't in the manual...

We set up the monthly visit, nurse calls and asks why aren't you here??.. umm what? nooo the appt is next week, I entered it on my touch calendar during our last appt.
Nurse says, doctor couldn't come that day.. okay, but you never told us that.

And now the cell phone issue, again.

hmm, I have no clue where the cell phone has gone. Might have been left in the car that we no longer own.
(No biggie, it was a cheap toss away Tracfone)

It's frustrating, I don't like talking to them anyway because then I have to pass the message on to dh.. makes me feel like I'm scolding him for being a bad patient. Not a role that I want to have.

 

[kelmac284]

Wow how frustrating! I hope you can get it all worked out! What a pain in the patooty!

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

Drive By Hi!

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you had a good mother's day weekend. I went to DL Saturday afternoon. It wasn't horribly packed but it was definitely busy because of a lot of middle school band groups that were there. I took some pictures of Mary Poppins and Bert performing in front of the castle. I also took a short video clip. I'll try to upload those later. I ate lunch at Plaza Inn and had their sirloin tip (which is half the cost of Blue Bayou's five pepper steak that I like). This time it was really really salty. They also brought back the Corn Dog cart on Main St (it was gone for quite a while). I was able to pin trade with some CM's and got some cool pins, including a CM exclusive Figment pin I LOVE Figment!


I found some really cute grey colored Mickey cropped sweat pants. They are so cute and comfy and they only sell them at World of Disney. I went to the doctor last week and was told that I lost 11 lbs! I didn't even realize it until I noticed my pants were getting baggier. I did use a belt but sometimes they still are a bit loose. The cropped pants are comfy and the size L fits comfortably. I think it will be good for my trip out of state this week (it's going to be over 80 degrees there ). I also went to the mall yesterday and went to AE. They have a promo- buy one pair of jeans get one half off.

I bought an awesome Nemo print from DL a couple weeks ago and just got it in the mail. I went to Joann's and used a 60% off any custom framing order coupon, which really helped. The scene is of Nemo and all the fish and has coral and such and looks really nice. This was my first custom framing job and I was told it will take about 2 weeks to complete.


I made a list yesterday of all the things I need to remember to bring for my trip. I need to do laundry and pack and get things organized. I leave early Thurs. I'm excited and hope I have a good time. I really need a vacation to just get away.

I spoke with my therapist. She said that she knows I am dealing with quite the emotional struggle but she thinks I'm doing all the right things and she said that she can tell that I'm going to have a much brighter future. She said that when all goes to heck for my x that he will start to miss me because I'm not there to bail him out. I'm not there for him and he will be alone with his miserable self.

I thought about a question she asked me. She asked if I had never met him before if I would be attracted to him. The answer is no, I wouldn't. I am just missing what has been familiar to me for 13 years. I cannot wait until the day where I just don't have feelings for him anymore. I know I can't rush things but I really cannot wait to get to that moment.

I'm signing up for a hip hop dance class. It's for ages 12-99 and I'm excited and a little nervous. I never learned how to dance and this should be interesting. My little sis is going to take it with me.

I hope you guys are having a good day

P.S. Bernice- that is a cute watch! Penguins rule!







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[kelmac284]

Howdy gang!

Man it is NASTY weather here today. It is just absolutely pouring rain AND it is windy. They even have a high wind advisory and have predicted thunderstorms and possibly even tornadoes although I seriously doubt THAT will happen LOL. IF we ever get those here they are VERY small and not like the big ones they get in the midwest and southwest.

I am just glad to be home and wish I didn't have to go back out to get the girls but it must be done. I usually have to park quite a ways away and it is always REALLY muddy. I JUST washed my car too. Oh well!

Rochelle it is good to see you. Been wandering what you were up to. Your day at Disney sounded like fun and your trip does as well! I think a trip is just what you need right now to take your mind off things! I hope you have a GREAT time!! And you are right, as they say time heals all wounds and it really is true. It may not make it 100% better but it definitely eases things up as time goes on and that is truly what you need is just time to get over him. You will do it I know it!!

I think we DEF are skipping swim tonight because even though the thunder hasn't started yet it is just WAY too ugly out and I don't want Shelby any sicker than she already is. SOOOO... I think we will have a nice kick back evening at home!

Take care everyone and have a great rest of your day!

P.S. Hi Sara!!