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Hey hey...

G--stellar job! You got it goin‘ on!

I saw that Rosie started a post, but maybe her computer is still giving her problems...? (It‘s saved as a draft in “Posts. “) Don’t give up, k, Rosie? We know you’re trying & that means a lot.!

I got called twice to sub even tho I blocked out this whole week online--guess they didn‘t look. Would‘ve been easy money, but I‘m getting to spend all this time with Brett & that’s worth more to me than any paycheck.

Yes, snow, the 4-letter “s” word... He was looking forward to doing some hiking or even rock climbing, but he just hung around the house with his ol’ mom. Fortunately he’s really easygoing. We were going to go to a movie, but got a ppv instead--“August Rush.” (Thanks for the recommendation, Cheryl.) Taped it so maybe we could all watch it sometime, or anyone could borrow it. We all watched “The Ultimate Gift” again from the library so Brett could see it. Good movies.

Q. --G, have you checked your new email address lately? Just wondering.

More chickens *sigh*..... here, doggie doggie... J I like how you knew his heart’s in the right place. To be asked first would indeed be nice...

Q. Tina, did you read that book yet,Six Hours One Friday by Max Lucado? I was wondering if it enhanced your Easter season (and this is not a cleverly disguised pitch to get it back from you =).

Looking forward to spring. Whenever that is. Loves & hugs. XO

watching it snow!

Snow is pretty. Oh so pretty! At the North Pole. We got about 3 inches of that stuff. How'll about all of you? Yea it is melting like the wicked witch of the west but somehow my excitement is not like that of the munchkins. Only because I know that white stuff will appear again all too soon.
I am at the library waiting for James to get finished with soccer.
Dean, bless his thoughtfulness, went out and purchased 8 baby chickens for me. I really didn't want them. He never asked me if I did. But he figured I needed them or something. Now I have 8 chickens in the house because they are to young to go outside and survive. I know his heart was in the right spot but if he would only have asked me first I would have told him I think it is time that I quit raising my own eggs. I have been doing it all by myself and I was looking to quit the job. I know turn them all lose and the dogs with destroy each and everyone of them. I better think it out again. I will loooove them.
Tomorrow I will drive out to Cheney and watch a soccer game.
My parents has old whiskey bottles and Jacob will try to sell them on the Internet, probably Craig's list. Any advice? How do we know if the bottles are any value? Jacob thought it would be fun to experiment with it.
Do any of you need any old whiskey bottles? HaHa
I need to go because my time is at hand. Love all of you bunches
Tell all hi for me and I'll write more later.
Is this bloggin....typing anything about anything?
If it is then I have got it. If not.......
shoot me.

What a Day!

Here are the pics from the day. Looking at them, I wish we would've taken more... but I think I always wish that...

Dawn explains the procedure

All of us in the exam room (thank you, Dawn)

Bill, injecting the radioactive goo

Our drive-by to see Annie and her workplace (in front of the $20,000 art piece)

With Annie (aren't we lovely?!)

Cindy, the nuclear medicine technologist, strapping in Cheryl.

All strapped in with masking tape to ensure as little movement as possible.

Can't talk or laugh--movement is completely restricted.

Cheryl, you did SO WELL. To experience this with you--what a joy to be available to you for that! No pics from the library (!) and we didn't even make it to Macy's (!!), but a really good day... I love you guys so much!!!

Rosie, somebody should've taken a picture of us fumbling and bumbling at the counter.......! I'll treasure that story pretty soon...

See y'all on the 22nd.
XO, ~c.

Girls Just Want To Have Fun!!

Girls Just Want To Have Fun!!
by Anit Onnen

TODAY in sunny downtown Spokane, Washington, five older-than-40 girlfriends were seen laughingly romping through town, sometimes even dancing under the Nordstrom's escalator, by hairstylists, medical professionals, nuclear medicine technologists, graphic designers, java baristas, local library attendees, Main Street travelers, and oriental food establishment employees, obviously on sabbatical from their daily routines.

According to Bill Johnson at Inland Imaging, he said it was a day unlike any other. "It's not everyday five beautiful women voluntarily and happily sit in my office. I was struck by the good nature of all these gals. It's no wonder they were all friends regardless of the YA-YA movie they said they watched that bonded them together."

Bill explained that they came in as an entourage to be with the oldest who had a routine bone scan. He further stated, "It's not normal to have so many in one room, but that's because it's not normal for so many people to want to be with those who see us."

According to others like John, Harold, Dawn, and Cindy, they agreed with Bill, it was a day to remember. In unison, they all agreed they wished more days were filled with people who enjoyed one another.

So be on the look out for these gals who escape to do this once a month because they "deserve" it. You may first get a glimpse of them at some local coffee shop to get their motors running and then off they'll go, sunglasses on and driving threesome in the front seat and two in the back with a horn that sounds like a train, laughter that sounds like cackling hens, and conversation that is filled with glee because these girls don't just want to, they KNOW how to have fun.

10:30 at Five Mile Starbucks?

I can car pool from the Outpost with whomever, but would depart there at 9:40 for a haircut, returning Outpost 3ish. Any takers?

Can we meet at 10:30 at Starbucks & leave some cars at Five Mile & head downtown for the injection? The appointment is actually at 11:30 & takes 5 minutes, but check in is 11:15. One thought for the time in between is to bring a laptop and have Cinderelly walk us through a few things, because it is obvious we have not exactly mastered this blog thing.

Then also, there is the possibility of doing lunch or thrift stores as there are several good ones down there.

Kinda fly by the seat of our pants, but might as well put those big bloomers to some good use, eh?!

Irma (Stillar)

what, where, when

[Who wrote the drafts about “Anything”?]

So our Glenice has to go in on her own tomorrow… What about the rest of us? Anything set up to go in together? I want some answers!

(I'm going now to review the Demanding chapter in Inside Out...)

Hi ya ya's

Sounds wonderful. Wow! A trip with radioactive Cheryl. Okay I am in. I am sad for you having to go through this, Baby Doll. I am glad that we can physically join you on some parts of the journey. Hope you know that we already join you in the spiritual aspect of it. Lord God grant Cheryl your grace and healing touch. Amen.

I have some things I need to do while I am in Spokane on Tuesday..shopping for food and James pants, Home Depot for guides for dresser drawers and S video cable. Then I have to be at DP by 3:30 for a soccer game(if one is to be played on 8 inches of corn snow. That is one great thing about basketball and volleyball...they are played inside a building.In soccer and track one freezes to death.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

G
kiss, kiss, kiss...LL

My Turn

My Turn

Love and joy to you my my dear friends. How nice it is to finally be on the same page with you all. Next it will be the stage, I just nose it. (Guess who this is) If you really have to skip to the end, just go ahead.

Actually, I can be quite funny and we know that but today I'm ready to blow a fuse. I'm not mad or anything, I'm just overworking, in my mind though. There is so much to do. The house is a wreck and when that happens, I can't see straight. Not only that. I was skiing yesterday but it was so snowy and foggy I couldn't see so decided to get a running start on the next newsletter. I brought up the laptop in case, and I wrote all kinds of things. I wrote things you want me to write aobut in here but I don't want to again, because I already wrote it BUT I can't find it. I even saved it and everything. I am hoping Steve will do his magic like he does at work and will find what I lost. Then I'll send that stuff to you via postal service. In the meantime you just get the current- the right now-- the waves of thoughts going through my pea brain at this precise moment.

We just returned from Bryan's 2nd BB game in the tournament and guess what? This was the second win. Last week the team, without him, got the championship. It's fun for now and like Cheryl said, next week it will be old news.

Talk about old news.

Thanks Cyndi for including Scripture in your messages. I love that part. It makes it very complete.

Thanks Glenice for being on. This is going to be a blast with you joining in the conversations we have, whether in our heads or in person.

Thanks Cheryl for filling us in elaborately with the details of your moments. I'm looking forward to the saga in written form.

Ok, so I'm done. My bedroom is calling and Steve just came down to take a nap. He thinks the typing is TOO loud. He's in the same boat as me at the moment, but he rests, I reak havoc.

TTFN.

Love, Tina

this 'n that

I've heard people say they wish we wrote letters like they did in the NT, with the author's name at the beginning. I used to think that was a good idea too until we started doing this. Now I like seeing who it is just by the writing style and the content. It's double the fun! I realize G took the guessing out, but that's still okay, too.

Glenice, what a GREAT post. You're like this whole pleasure zone! Don't feel like you've set some high standard that you have to achieve every time though, k? Just post when you can, when you're motivated--that's all I'm hoping for...

No, Ryan's not doing track. He took Brett's comment to heart, which was, "If I could do anything different my senior year, it would be to not do track. Then I could've relaxed and had more fun at the end." He was the only one who had to miss a really fun sr. thing because of state. Jylle will do track, but she's doing basketball now, and Kev is her coach. It makes for some fiery conversations.

Tina, will you be blogging about Greg's memorial? Are you still so full from it all...? You were amazingly inviting and caring with Kev and me. Thank you for that. I'm just sorry it was uncomfortable for you. I know your heart for us, and I know it would've been completely different if you had planned things. Just know that at your service, we will definitely stay. A really long time. Sit down and eat and everything. Probably even dance. With the Ya-Yas. But it'll be less sweet without you.

I'm mourning you already...

Cheryl, I am up for being there with you. I like that you asked. I know you love to be us all together. We are the most intrepid group of sister-friends I've ever heard of, more so than Lynn's group, or the Sweet Potato Queens, or even the Ya-Yas in the movie, cuz we brave those deep and daunting pools of the soul. "And walk in love, esteeming and delighting in one another as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us," ~Eph. 5:2.

That reminds me, someone told me that a doctor pulls out the uterus after a C-section and examines it, showing it to the medical students, "... and here are the ovaries." Then she puts the whole thing back in expertly. They do that with intestines too, pull them out and put them back in. That sounds all perfectly gross, but it reminded me of us. Lord has brought us to this point where we can take out our insides, bare them on the table, examine them, and then with the Great Physician's hands, put them back in expertly. And I say expertly because I come away from us inspired, encouraged, convicted, and more joyful. That is certainly His way. "The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed by healing and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them," ~Matt. 11:5
I'll look for either a post or an email about this coming Tuesday. Brett comes home Mar 20-30 for spring break, so the timing is good for this to happen on Tuesday.

XO, LL (just the tip!!!)

Glenice rocks!

Let me be the first to say thanks for the wonderful post, Glenice! I know I could have done a comment instead, but on my to do list was a post so I am killing two birds with one stone. Or maybe a bird and a speeding bullet? No, it is two birds, but the one is a ROADRUNNER! A little humble pie is always good for the soul.

Thanks for the congrats on Les & Kyle. Funny how much the awards meant at the time and now that it's history it has lost some shine. Fickle I am.

I have an idea for our Ya Ya day on Tuesday. I know it's technically no one's birthday, but since mine is still the closest & because I've adopted the concept of the birthday ZONE as opposed to a birthday WEEK, I would like to make it all about ME again. Or perhaps just somewhat about me?

To bring ya'll up to speed, I have been becoming far more intimate with some traditional health care professionals. I've developed a particularly delightful rapport with the lady at Inland Imaging who schedules tests. She gets me. And likes to match wits with me. She has made it fun.

The painful abdomen returned a week ago. It is not as bad as the week long episode in February that was diagnosed as a virus, but I am so afraid of that kind of pain returning that I hopped on the bus Gus, to get some help. X rays were done on Tuesday which showed nothing. (My primary doc, who's husband is a chiropractor, so she kinda gets me, is thinking small bowel obstruction.)

Yesterday I had a cat scan. I was not prepared for that at all. They make you drink a "contrast" in about 20 ounces of Tang. That was foreign enough, thank you. Then they took me back to dress down & get my IV. I definitely did not sign up for that! Here I've gone from "I don't do medical doctors" to "I ask absolutely no questions, just do what it takes to make this pain stop". Tina was feeling so bad that I was going it alone, and that part didn't bother me, it never occurred to me to get some company, but my general lack of inquisitiveness in these proceedings keeps buying me surprises. So in goes the IV port and turns out this is for an injected contrast that is given during the cat scan. Have you ever had this? The lady said I would feel it going through my body and it would be a warm feeling. Perhaps like a hot flash. Turns out she has never had 1) a hot flash or 2) a cat scan. She should have said "You will feel the poison enter your blood stream. Within 10 seconds it will go everywhere you have veins, vessels or any other blood transporting channel. You have a great deal of these in your vaginal area, and combined with the warmth, you will be sure you have just wet your pants. You probably did not, but we will deal with that when the scan is over. Hold your breath, please."

I did not think to ask when I might get results, but I do know that if it shows nothing, the next step is to send me to a gastro doc for further consultation.

But all of that actually has nothing to do with Tuesday. On Tuesday at 11:15 I am to report to Inland on Cowley down by St. Lukes to be injected with some contrast and then I may leave and return at 1:45 for a limited bone scan on my neck to see just how bad these bone spurs are and to have info to send me to a specialist for further consultation. (Last weekend in bed with the abdominal pain so aggravated my neck that I was motivated to pursue this aforerejected procedure.)

Can we somehow work around my issues and are ya'll willing to be with a radioactive ya-ya in between injection and scan?

Cheryl

Hi yayas! from G

I have been thinking about doing this and now I am. I am doing well. James has a bad cold and I keep praying that I don't catch it. He is finished with the reading and writing WASL test. Boy he felt miserable. Congrats Cheryl on Leslie and Kyle making first string all league for basketball. That is really cool. Tina how did the memorial go for Greg? It sure was comforting knowing that you will be at my memorial and Cheryl's and Cyndi's. Could you please bring the food? The hostess with the mostest!!!!
I think our next gathering is soon. Since its not any of our birthdays does anyone have a suggestion as to where and what we could do? I'll give it some thought too.
Cyndi is Ryan doing track? Is Jylee? I don'f know how to spell her name.
I got humbled yesterday. I went to work at DP and drove fast. I have made a pact with myself that I would never pass anyone on the dirt road because I feel that it is rude. Well I did. Obviously this driver was not going the speed that I felt was reasonable so I did it. I passed him. Well at the time I didn't know it was a him. I just stepped on the gas to get around him fast. I received a phone call today and it was revealed to me who it was I passed. Dave Bare, on his way to work at DP's clinic. He said that I was going 90 mph. huh.. I really was only going 50 plus a little more. Now he says that I am on par with Dean....oh no...Not me! Only one time and I am guilty of all. Isn't that true with life. Yes I am not perfect and I need humbling often.
Time to go and pick up James at soccer practice.

kiss..kiss..kiss...kiss and a little lick.. not with the whole tongue. Just the tip.

Glenice Says...

Wow! To all of you praying for the day that I would begin this blog stuff with you.

Glenice