Friday...

Well, all my food in my house in gone (from the cabinets)....I have washed all the containers that had food in them, and now we are on to the dishes and other containers. I have a LOT of containers!!

Stayed up late watching ER - WHY I don't know - I have my TIVO - which I highly recommend getting one. ER wasn't that good - I am getting bored with it in fact...

Okay - off to school.

PLP

more on bugs....

well, my mom, aunt and sister all say I should throw out all of my food and start fresh to keep the bugs from growing....it is so sad! It is such a waste of food! But, I know they are right.......it is still depressing anyway!

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BUGS!!!

The other day my boyfriend said to me "hey look, two little catipillers" they were these little white bugs on my table. I figured we brought them in the house by accident when we brought something in from outside. A few days later, I found another one. No big deal. Today however, I happened to look UP in my kitchen and they were ALL OVER the ceiling! URGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! I then looked in to where I keep my bird seed, and they were in there, well, now they were flying bugs! I should have known better! A few years back, we had a bug problem at my parents house, and it all started from the BIRD SEED!! Luckily though, they haven't gotten to where any people food is (just cat food, and I didn't notice any in that bag) and I keep all my people food locked up good in Tupperware anyway. I thought I got them all, but they keep appearing - but only one or two at a time now....Hopefully I will be able to stop them. I did take the bird seed outside however! ICK! The cabinet they were in has little holes in the walls to put pegs in to hold the shelf - they were actually making their homes in those pegs!! I sprayed some windex in their - hopefully that will put a stop to them!!! Ick, Ick, ICK!

Brain Injury....

I don't know how I got thinking about this topic last night as I was trying to sleep, but I was.

I have spent some time working with Brain Injured Adults. Usually when I tell people this, they say things like "wow! That must be tough". Really though it isn't - at least now with the people I work with. Some of them have what is called an acquired Brain Injury. That is they suffered a stroke or a lack of oxygen to the brain for some reason. Other have traumatic Brain Injury. They were in an accident of some sort - many of them were just minding their own business when they were hit by a drunk driver who has changed their lives forever. Here is a link to a site that one of the people I have worked with in the past has.

http://georgie8ma.tripod.com/

He is a pretty funny guy and a great artist!

Unbelievable...

i came across this web site the other night when I was searching for information on heart transplants for people with Downs Syndrome.

BE WARNED!! The stories are heart breaking, but not for the family, but for the poor baby who was never given a chance!! http://www.aheartbreakingchoice.com

It is UNBELIEVABLE that they can do this because the family can't "deal" with their special child. When I first read this story, I went right to the end, and thought the baby had been still born. But NO - she murdered it! Yes, I am calling it that - the baby was 9 MONTHS along!! HELLO!!?!?

http://www.aheartbreakingchoice.com/kansas2.html

she had this to say:

We met and discussed all of the options from surgery, adoption, to comfort care to termination. However, because I was 34 weeks and 5 days pregnant, no termination could be done within our state.
so - they go off to Kansas
Then...
Adoption: How could we do that and always wonder “did our child make it? Was our child well-cared for?”
So, rather than give it a CHANCE to be well cared for , just kill it??

Surgery: Facing a heart transplant or three-open heart surgeries with a transplant down the road. Yet with a child with Down syndrome, how would this be a quality of life? Life is hard enough for them.

hmm...lots of people have surgery - clearly she has NEVER met a person with Down's. I have and I don't think their life is any harder than the average "normal" person.

We considered the effects on our family and our three-year-old. Comfort care: We could not get a straight answer that our wishes would be abided by.

What say do you want to have? You want to kill it anyway!

Termination: How could we, this far along? But this option was the only choice in which we would have a say.

Hey - you want a say? I think all your other choices you had a say!

We watch an introduction video had some group discussion with the doctor and his associate. They explained the reason they do what they do: everybody needs a little help.

Yes - it is good to have help when you are going to perform a murder - then you don't have to take all the blame.

2:10 p.m. April 6, 2005 our son, Joseph, came and went in an instant, taking with him a lifetime of hopes and dreams we had for him. He was born silently and not suffering from his broke heart and abdomen with complications of Down syndrome. We can only describe our feelings as being peaceful, knowing that love was all our baby ever knew.

He wasn't BORN at all! He was MURDERED before he had a chance to live! And "Love was all our baby ever knew" - I don't know about that, how much LOVE is it to not even be given a CHANCE to live!

Okay...enough on this topic now....Please PRAY for thesfamilieses and children and all the future children that might have such a terrible fate as them!

PLP

Bad mom....

I am watch Dr. Phil -I use to not like him, but now I do.

He has this BAD MOM on right now. Her daughter has a Disease that makes her skin have bloches on it and she has gained 50 pounds in a year - she is only 7. The mother has ADMIT that she doesn't like her daugher as much as her other daugher because of how she looks! She says that "she could lose the weight if she just tried" (the mom LETS her overeat! the girl is only 7!!) The poor thing! I wish I could take her into my home and give her love! Fortunetly, she lives with her DAD and not this BAD MOM!

Radio talk shows....

I like to listen to talk shows while I drive alone....Then I can yell at my radio and have conversations with myself about what I would say if I was the host.

Tonight on the Laura Ingram show, they were talking about the "race card" in regards to how slow the help was to the hurricane victims. One person pointed something interesting out. He stated that with Hurricane Andrew hit in 1991, it took 5 days to get any real help there. And that the area hit really hard was a "white" neighborhood. Hmmm....so what do you think about that?

hungry after lunch...

so I just ate a Lean Cusine Pizza -not too bad - not that great, but not too bad - it has 6 Weight Watchers Points in it. But now I am STILL HUNGRY! What is up with that!?!??!?!?!

Today my cousin Sue came over to help me ORGANIZE. She is a professional organizer - just starting out - if you need help, let me know and I will get you her number.

We worked on my craft room today. I can actually SEE MY FLOOR! It is amazing! now I can get back to my crafting, although I think I am going to get a new table for that. The one I have is just to small.

Okay - off to pick up my mom!

PLP

up late...

why do I stay up late even when I am TIRED?!?!? It is only 9:47pm, but I have to get up at about 7AM tommrow so I can drive my mom to a computer class at 8:15am! Aren't I a nice daughter? Her car in in the shop.
I just changed my shifts at work, I am going to work every monday 7am-7:30pm and every other weekend also 12.5 hours! Am I crazy or what?!? no, I am just in school.

I am nursing school part time - not sure if I will get in full time or not, somedays not even sure if I WANT to be full time or not! But I have a little bit of time left to decide that yet.

I put Wife Swap on my tivo so I will watch it later. BOTH mom's seemed a bit CRAZY! The other mom (not the OCD mom with the butter) let her kinds run WILD, because "She wasn't allowed to do anything" when she was a kid. HELLO!?!? Have you ever heard of BOUNDRIES! It will be intresting to see what happens.

I have to take my trash out yet - such a chore!

all for now.

PLP

first time....

hi there - first time blogging...I have so much to say and thought I would do it here, rather than babble on to my family, friends and strangers I meet on the street...
I just finished my 3rd 12hour (well, really 12.5 hour) shift at work (that is 3 days in a ROW) I am BEAT!! I think I shall now go to my couch and watch Wife Swap......Why?!? Why not - it can be funny at time!
Oh my - a mom that makes her kids butter her bread the "Right way?!?!!?!" Hmmm...can we say OCD big time!!!!

PLP
(peace, love and PEZ)