January 18, 2010
When I first saw the request on Twitter for the family of Susan Powell asking bloggers to come together and blog about her, I thought to myself, this is the LEAST I can do to help a family that is so desperately trying to find someone they love, someone they care about, someone they miss. I got the email from Mr. James Hofheins and I thought about how I was going to word my post. I had seen the story, followed it, and read SOME of the media on it. I talked to my husband about it, because the more I thought about it the more distraught I became. Let me tell you why. I’ve never met Susan and I never have to to tell you that she is loved, missed, cared for, and is simply amazing. Her friends and family are out there doing things everyday to bring her home and won’t give up hope. Here’s the part that stings me just a little bit. I haven’t heard the husband talk. He was a person of interest, but even the donations for the search aren’t in his name. He’s NO WHERE! It turns my stomach. While I am sure Susan’s family and friends are incredibly heartbroken and can’t even begin to imagine how they are going to go on, what makes this story worse is she is a MOTHER! She has 2 boys. She may never again read them a bed time story or tuck them in, kiss a boo-boo, teach them to drive, fix them breakfast or dinner, laugh with them, cry with them, throw a ball for them to catch or bat, take them to the zoo or shopping… this is all things we as parents get to do everyday. These poor boys may never get to know what life is like with their mother.
Someone, somewhere knows something! It was NOT in Susan’s nature to “just leave”. However, if she did, someone is housing her. PLEASE speak up!! Do it for yourself, do it for her, do it for her CHILDREN!!
You can follow Susan’s family and friends on Facebook as they continue to search for her. And follow the stories on You Tube. Hug your loved ones tight and please please pray for Susan’s return or answers for her family and friends… for her sons! (*Click the Flier to see it larger for phone numbers & information!*)
Much Love!
January 15, 2010
I miss my iPhone. I miss it everyday. It’s a long mourning process, but until AT&T gets better service coverage I can not have the iPhone. It didn’t work in my house and 9 out of 10 places I was. That was no good. I hated it. So I am left with no choice but to return back to a smart phone. This time I’ve chosen to go into a Blackberry. Let me tell you, it was QUITE the transition process. I really had a hard time learning to use it, but now that I have the hang of it, I am a pro!It does everything I want it to do and so much more. I am missing quite a few of my apps and I really hate that. BUT, I am learning to deal with it. NOTHING will compare to the amount of apps that are available to
the iPhone. There are way too many apps for that phone. I have found alot of interesting things that I love for the Blackberry though and it’s totally growing on me! I love the Blackberry Messenger.
I’m still working on my daughter’s 3rd grade class project. I really hope to have the painting done TOMORROW. I went in on thursday and the kids helped paint most of it, but it needed alot of touch up and some TLC in which I have to take care of. So I am doing that. Hoping that it turns out good. I will post pictures as soon as I have that done!
I purchased Quick Trim today. To help kick start my weight loss, I thought it would be best to have a weight loss program, not just going to the gym. This would probably help me out better with losing weight if I had something to help me BOOST my metabolism and give me a little energy. I’ll see how it works though. Hubby says there are 100′s of things that I can try, that he can get me from the Natural Foods Store but I asked my doctor about this and he said it was good, so I am going to give it a shot. They sell it at Wal-mart and it was cheap. Some of the supplements my husband takes are so darn expensive, but he’s into working out and all that health and nutrition stuff!!
Okay bloggers, I will update you on the project and my progress. Have a great night!
January 12, 2010
Frequently I seen infomercials on TV and pass right through them. 
In fact I usually find them nothing more then annoying. I hate them and think they are a waste of the hour or whatever time they are on. Really. However, today when I was sitting in the pedicure chair I didn’t have the luxury of changing the channel. I was forced to watch the dreaded infomercial! However, this one was for the “Ninja“. I must say I was impressed. Without a shadow of doubt by the end of the infomercial I had jotted down the number and was SURE I was going to own a Ninja. I was SURE my kitchen needed this appliance. I could then get rid of my less then par food processor and my shady blender. It would also take the place of my hand mixer *most* of the time. My husband would love this because he loves healthy things and protein drinks. With this he can serve up a protein drink in no time and he is able to make a healthy breakfast drink or what not. Guys, if you are looking for gifts for her, I promise you, she will love this… especially if she loves Margaritas, Mojitos or other slushie drinks!! You can make so many yummy things in this! I am drooling thinking about it. Baby food, frozen drinks, slushes, snow cones, deserts, soups, salads, salsa, etc in MINUTES! And honestly I can say, I am NOT being paid to brag about this product! I just truly love it that much!
Tomorrow is hubby’s birthday… We are going out to dinner. No big plans since he is working nights tonight. He will have to get back into the swing of sleeping at night again, but it will be nice to not have to cook and to be out with the family for dinner. The extended family. Mother in law, Father in law, his brother, his brother’s girlfriend, the kids, hubby and I. It’s always a riot!
In other news… Last week I went to the doctor with chest pain. It’s not really pain like you probably would have with a heart attack and I wasn’t too worried. I am growing a little more concerned however. Here’s why. The doctor felt that it was more of an arthritis type thing and put me on anti-inflammatory medicine. He also to rule it out put me on Prevacid in the morning and Zantac at night for GERD. However, since my Gall Bladder was removed 4 years ago I have not had ANY heartburn at all. Prior to that I was a heartburn pro. Let me tell you, THIS does NOT feel like heartburn. I’m at a loss because after 9 days of aggressive treatment I still have no resolution. I still have this chest pain and it’s not getting worse, but it’s not going away. I don’t want to make yet another appointment because I feel the doctor was SO dismissive the first time, but I don’t feel like I should sit with this pain either. It’s not shooting pain, it’s not uncomfortable intolerable pain, it’s just there in the middle of my sternum. Totally at a loss….
January 10, 2010
The weekend is over, well in a few hours. Hubby had off the last 2 weekends and works the next 2. I hate the 2 he works but the kids and I usually find something to do. This weekend we did a few things, but it was a quite weekend. On Friday we did a bunch of miscellaneous errands. Saturday was another story. I was going to get my nails done and a pedicure and hubby had an appointment to have MORE work done on his sleeve. However, when he got there he was made aware they were doing a sale and called me to come over and have some more work done on my tattoos. I have a couple that need to be revamped and then wanted to add one to the other hip to match the other side. So I went there and found out she would do the one on my hip and redo the ankle one for $70.00. So I did it. And off she began. I am so happy with the way BOTH of them turned out. Here’s the new one:
It’s on my left hip. The picture is crappy because I took it with my camera phone. The one on my right hip looks like this. I am happy with them. The ankle redo was amazing I think. The old one is here. And the amazing redo. I am glad to have them done. I am really happy with both of them and now all I have to do is manage through the healing process!! I hate the healing process!! It is the worst!! But I will get through it.
On Saturday night we watched Jennifer’s Body. It was quite possibly the DUMBEST movie I have seen. UGH! It was so lame I demand my hour and a half of life back! Seriously!
Today we watched 9 with the kids. That was good. They watched it again tonight. They really liked it.
I am finishing up some chores, laundry and other things before tomorrow. Also one of the things I had to do recently was put a new hard drive in my laptop. I am still downloading things and putting things back on it. Slowly but surely. Today windows vista freaked out on me because I had no antivirus software so I took care of that first. I finally loaded Photoshop back on there and now I just have a handfull of other products that I would like to get added on here.
I am so over this winter weather I should have MORE then enough time this week to do things INSIDE. It’s so cold here and not to sound down, but I am just tired of the negative temperatures and ready for the warm… so I am going to hide out inside this week. Tuesday I have to babysit and Thursday afternoon I have to be in school all day and help with a class project in my daughter’s class, but other then that I have a nice quite week, SO FAR! It always starts off that way and then gets so complicated by week end.
Oh yeah… Something I wanted to run past my bloggers and friends… I am thinking about getting extensions! The first time I will have had long hair in over 10 years!! I am not sure if I can do it and they are pretty costly to “try”. Has anyone had experience with them? Okay bloggers… have a great Monday and I will talk to you all soon!!
When I first saw the request on Twitter for the family of Susan Powell asking bloggers to come together and blog about her, I thought to myself, this is the LEAST I can do to help a family that is so desperately trying to find someone they love, someone they care about, someone they miss. I got the email from Mr. James Hofheins and I thought about how I was going to word my post. I had seen the story, followed it, and read SOME of the media on it. I talked to my husband about it, because the more I thought about it the more distraught I became. Let me tell you why. I’ve never met Susan and I never have to to tell you that she is loved, missed, cared for, and is simply amazing. Her friends and family are out there doing things everyday to bring her home and won’t give up hope. Here’s the part that stings me just a little bit. I haven’t heard the husband talk. He was a person of interest, but even the donations for the search aren’t in his name. He’s NO WHERE! It turns my stomach. While I am sure Susan’s family and friends are incredibly heartbroken and can’t even begin to imagine how they are going to go on, what makes this story worse is she is a MOTHER! She has 2 boys. She may never again read them a bed time story or tuck them in, kiss a boo-boo, teach them to drive, fix them breakfast or dinner, laugh with them, cry with them, throw a ball for them to catch or bat, take them to the zoo or shopping… this is all things we as parents get to do everyday. These poor boys may never get to know what life is like with their mother.
