oh, where, oh, where has my ryan gone....

i suppose when he gets in his apt in june, he will be more able to communicate, but i haven't heard from him in a while, and i miss him. hope all is well.

flattery will get you everywhere

we (the missionaries and I) were teaching this lady about the gospel. she looked at me and said, we're about the same age. since she had an 8 year old and a 12 year old, she's probably 15 years younger than I am. but, what the hay, think that aaaaaalllllllllllll you want.

Well, they're gone

Well, they left about 11:30. kerry and i put up brave fronts. on to a new adventure.

momorama

so, i heard it is time to blog about my boring life. it has been raining so much we are considering an ark. but today, so far, is sunny.

spent wednesday and friday helping kerry and braden pack. ya just gotta dig in and start somewhere, even if it's not a "plan".

went to kerry's graduation. very proud. i was the only one who saw her march in, because the program and kerry said that the graduation was at 2:30, but le universite started at 2. so, while we thought we'd be there early and get a decent seat, we were up on the bleachers (yuck) and without a decent view. but we were there, we saw it, and she is gradjiated.

Started a new set of sim2 characters, trying to encorporate grandparents, and extended family. yes, i know i didn't need the comma there, but i would rather write this whole sentence than go back and change it. kerry has been born, though not dan. i am currently married to w. dave, at least till dan is born, then we'll divorce. i still have to get all the aunts and uncles together, although rick does like jackie, and larry and anne have met. i have this expansion pack that lets you pick 2 things that your sim is attracted to, plus one that turns you off. so, i like men with brown hair and glasses. also, if a sim is angry with another sim, then in the relationships bar, they have a red covering their faces. when they cool off, it goes away.

oh, well, it's a post, anyway.
love the fam.
momorama

I hate the day after naet

ya see, i can only eat certain very limited things, and have to stay 7-8 feet away from others. last week it was metals. no swimming(chlorine), had to wear gloves so i didn't touch anything metal, nothing cooked in a metal pan or pot. luckily, i passed, even though dad said, about 7:30pm, "what about your glasses?" then he masking taped the metal, which was cool and sticky, not to mention gorgeous.

yesterday it is salts and sodium. so today is, in a way, cause i must avoid until 5:30 tonight. i just saw that one of my meds has sodium laurel stearate, or some such. we will have to see.

i admire ryan's reading of holocaust victims. we really should "never forget", although i think we do, as in darfour, nigeria, etc.

kerry's big day is coming up...don't forget her tomorrow afternoon.

love, mom

I went swimming in my birthday suit!!

that is to say, the 100% polyester bathing suit that i got for my birthday, but only received a few days ago. talking to the water therapy people, they said that the polyester is the way to go. it is resistant to chlorine, suntan lotion or block, doesn't lose its color or shape. it is royal blue, and i look stunning in it. well as stunning as possible for me at this time.

the wall in the storage room has been painted, and we can now put the shelves back in. that is great news for 2 reasons. one is that i might be able to find where i put things. the other is that i may get my car back in the garage. yea to both.

whoever started the contest on "see how long you can hold off posting", knock it off. you win. i lose, along with carolyn and ryan. you know who you are.

it is a gorgeous spring day today. we have tulips and daffodils, grape hyacinths, regliar hyacinths, bleeding heart all going at once. and it's a lovely temp also..about 70.

Kerry has her case study defense on thursday at noon. since she isn't posting it, i will, so that everyone prays for her.

i love my fam!!
mom

modern conveniences

so, if you could only have one modern convenience, what would it be?? my last post was hoping for replies.

i like water

water is good, water is cool,
gather it up into a pool.
or drink it betimes with a terrible thirst
'til again satisfied. go eat a wurst.

sorry, it's hard to rhyme thirst. if i had to give up all but one modern convenience, clean water through the tap has to be it. yes, it would be uncomfortable to use an outhouse. walking wouldn't get me far. lights are better than candles. stoves and refrigerators are up their on the list. but can you imagine having to go to the nearest creek everyday to gather enough water to drink, bathe, cook, etc.? And if it's the River Sidon, get your water upstream. ya never know what someone upstream has done to pollute the water you gather, i.e. bathing, washing, peeing, dead bodies, etc.

so, here's to water!! yea!!!!!

IMHO

IMHO, middle schoolers are oversexed. now, i know that it is not entirely their fault. TV, movies and other media are constantly bombarding them with sexual messages, making it seem like everyone who is cool is "doing it". and sometimes, parental laxness contributes. But to constantly be on the hunt for someone to make out with, or being anxious to lose their virginity....COME ON!

Now, it only gets worse in high school and college. but those people who are actually trying to be chaste have a very difficult time and are often misled by predatory males/females.

rant over....ryan, do you approve of my expressing my opinion??

Ryan says........

Ryan says that I should blog about schtuff if my life is so boring. meaning, of course, that he totally agrees with my sentiments.

my only thoughts today are that it is incredibly dreary. dark clouds, periodic rain. it makes me want to sleep all day. somehow i must make it to the exercising pool.

have you guys noticed the increased fervor about missionary work at church lately. great, it's my worst area. well, maybe not my worst. i have a few sins to work on as well.

schmoops

like i have something to say. every day i look at the blogs, which i love to do, and think, "i should blog". unfortunately, i lead the most boring life in the world. i have meetings, pain, play comp. games, snore, etc. so what's a body to do??

today i restart the no sugar, no refined flour, potato, etc. i despair that i will ever find a reason for the fibro, let alone a cure.

upcoming birthdays!!!! yeah.

Excitement

well, i spent my christmas money yesterday! i am finally the owner of my very own.............laptop!! i am so excited. i kept seeing it across the room and thinking, oh, ryan's home....no WAIT!! that's mine!! haven't done too much with it yet. another cool part of it was that i bought a different laptop, and the "geek squad" at bestbuy had to check it out, and get the bestbuy stuff off of there because it turned out to be the display. they said they'd call me in an hour/hour and a half. after 3 hours, i just went there, figuring they must have lost my phone no., but no, the comp kept freezing when they tried to reload the gateway stuff. so, they told me to look for a comparable one. of course, there were none, except for pricier. so, they gave me a better one for only a little more. i am sure glad that i didn't get the first home, and discover it was crap (probably after 14 days), since, of course, i couldn't afford the service plan which was $300 more.

i got a call at 8am yesterday from grandpa, waking me up. he just wanted to tell me he slept well, ate breakfast, had a good bm (tmi), and was reading the paper. then, about a minute later, he repeated the exact above statements. now, i'm glad he's fine, but he really doesn't have to wake me up to tell me that he is ok. if he's not, call me. but not if he's fine. at 8am. and the bm part was too much. next, he'll start telling me the color of his pee.

ryan, i tried a bunch of times to respond on your blog, but it rejected me. sounds like a good book, but probably too technical for a non-history buff.

hospitals stink

Hospitals stink! or did i say that already. for those of you in the know, which is no one who reads this blog....grandpa S was in the er on wednesday, and admitted. this is friday. if the darn doctors would show up when called, he would have been home yesterday. but noooooooooooo, they have to putz around for 2 days thinking about whether they want to see him, and if it should be at 10pm or not. he is still waiting today for 2 doctors. i was there in a chair for 12 hours yesterday and then died. what a massage i needed. i just wanted to be there to talk to the docs, cause grandpa is forgetting things.

the diagnosis is a probable TIA, or ministroke, no residual side effects now. and too quick withdrawal from a medicine that you get "habituated" to. they told him to stop it for a week before his sleep study, without warning him that he would have to wean down. grandpa in withdrawal. scary.

he was very out of it and confused on wednesday, a very very scary to watch deal. but now that they gave him back the med, he's ok.

kev is in the talent show tonight. he looks well. and sings well. we will go tonight for the real deal.

love you all
mom

today is tuesday

momorama
well, another lost day yesterday due to migraine. thanks, dad. that means today must be the exercise day. tomorrow is naet.

kevin is in the oboba (talent show at school). he is singing acapella (sp?) or without accompaniment. the show is friday...i guess that will be our date.

grandma says, "no balloons around necks, please"

love you all.

really booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrring

momorama
alright. so i knew the last post was boring, but you ask me to post about my life, and....there it is. how do i know?? because only ryan posted a response, and that was to an incidental comment at the end.

yeah, makes me wanna post

momorama

momorama
I live such a boring life...what to blog, eh?? just a little canadian for all of you.

I went to NAET on monday, as someone had taken my regular time of wednesday, 3pm. i fixed them, though, i scheduled all of march on my wednesday. I passed sugar, and now have been treated for vitamin B, in all its many forms. My diet for 25 hours post treatment was.....FRENCH FRIES!! gross. i could only stomach this once. french fries are better WITH something, not by themselves. why french fries, you ask? because i could not have meat, dairy, bread, fruits or vegetables. i could have had cauliflower or deep-fried fish, but i need my cauliflower dipped in something, and the fish needed to have no breading. so, i would have to do it myself, and i can't go into the kitchen after these treatments, cause i would be within 4 feet of things i can't have, and that's a no-no. Obviously, it should be well known that you can't count french fries as a vegetable, since anything of nutrition in it is killed by the high heat of the oil. i am sure the government counts it as a veggie, along with ketchup.

It has been interesting to read ryan's blog and the things he is eating. he will definitely have probs if he moves back home and is vegan. i can hardly feed him as a vegetarian. sorry, carolyn, but i have to plan for you, also, and you don't stay for a whole summer, or we would have issues also.

yesterday was my water exercise day, since my monday got taken up with naet. i spend an hour in the pool, doing walking frontwards, backwards, and sideways, also moving my arms as i walk. then 2 laps, one breast stroke and one back stroke. then i go to the warm toasty pool ( i do the above walking and swimming in the regliar pool.) and sit on a foam tube and just keep moving. walking in deep water, or using styrofoam weights that i push down in different ways, twists, and leg out to the side (s). i also go to the shallow end and sit on the ledge in the water and stretch towards my feet. all this, for that hour. then i go to the hot tub and melt. i feel okay until about an hour and a half afterwards. then i die for the rest of the day and part of the next....today. i still am trying to go grocery shopping, as that only takes an hour. some other shopping i will try to do tomorrow.

also tomorrow, i will try to put sheets over all the junk in the basement. that way, on saturday, i won't have to worry about the dust getting on everything. when all is done, i will (or will have someone else do) fold up the sheets, dump them outside, and wash them.

i love amy's picture... i want to marry it.

love, mom

ramblin' rose

momorama
So, i thought i should blog because i so enjoy reading what everyone is up to. well, not everyone, since some people blog every month or 4 months or so.

i made it to the gym twice this week for water exercise. yea, me. i like it while i'm there, but it's the getting there that is hard. i figure it takes over 2 hours per time when i go.

i have had 3 migraines in one week's time. boo, hiss. i hate headaches. you just can't pretend they aren't there. and migraines knock me out for the whole day or longer. which makes my exercise record even more impressive.

i am going visiting teaching today. then, again, hopefully get the last 2 next week. have you ever noticed how annoying it is to need to get in contact with someone who has neither voicemail nor an answering machine, and who seems to never be home??? and i feel that she is the one we most need to visit teach and befriend.

i teach an inservice this weekend for the teachers and leaders of youth. i am using the february ensign article about teaching from the ensign (and new era). then next week i start a "teaching the gospel" course for eight weeks, interrupted by other inservices, conferences, easter, etc. but i still plan to go to cincinnati for either scott's b-day or dan's 3oth. muahhahahaha

love y'all

Jabber-wocky

momorama
So, just jabbering, cause i haven't much to say. I had an hour massage last friday. it felt great till about 3 hours later when i was in massive pain. but by mid sat, i felt ok.

I am currently waking up several times a night having trouble breathing. david says, oh, yeah, i heard that too. when i'm through exhaling, i have this moaning, squeaky sound. but it's not there all the time. so ya know, if i go to the dr, she'll say, sounds clear to me. and i 'm very congested. but, not VOMITORIUM VOMITUS at least. (Kevin just commented that the house in cincinnati would be a great side show...Carolyn's house o' vomit)

kev had finals last week. hopes all classes are passed and he has only ONE more semester in order to gradjeate.(sic) (not sick)

i made chicken tortilla soup yesterday. well, actually david made it. and i only mention it to make kerry sad that she never comes to visit.

i love my fam

talks

momorama
so, i forgot to tell you that kevin and i gave talks yesterday in church. this is only the second talk he has ever given, since, after the first one, he refused every invitation. his was AWESOME. you had to be there. mine was disjointed, but that was my fault. he worked hard on his, and said that it was like he could hear this voice in his head telling him what to write. coolness, droolness. i said to him, you know that was the holy ghost don't you.

rattling my cage

momorama
okay, so i still after a month or so have nothing to say, but i will take up some time writing about the nothing (Batian, say my name......) in order for people who want to see my nothingness can.

there is a big Q on our door...i.e. quarantine. after my month or so, kevin got evil death illness, and still is coughing and hacking, even though he is better. david has been sick since saturday (alright, he was working on a cold for a week before), death-ray sick. he had to take the first 2 days, so far, of vacation for the year. I am taking every immune booster supplement known to mankind to not get sick again. this smells.....rotten.

haven't been simming too much, except i had to have ryan divorce melissa to marry cassie. oh, and the elder scott watson just had a baby. well, really, megan, his wife did.

we had a new year's gathering (traditional) at my dad's house. dave, dawn, joan, jim, grandpa, me, ryan, kevin, kerry, and braden were there. david was home sick, and i hear that charlie had partied too much the night before.

kev and ry and i are STILL trying to see harry potter. we tried last week and it was sold out (!). i told the kids, who couldn't understand it that all parents get sick of their kids about now, and since they couldn't send them sledding, they sent them to the movies. we are going to try again today.

i haven't spent any christmas money yet....except in my head, which is almost as fun.

love you guys.....