Calling all Yay-Yays!

Beg your pardon, ladies! Not only am I waay behind in my blogging and reading, but now I need to ask for a giant favor on top of it. Shame on me! One of my courses' final project is to do an analysis/study of an online community. This group meets the requirements. I would really like to do my project on us. I have prepared a short survey for willing participants and will post a copy of the assignment sheet on my blog for perusal. However, if you all say no, I will respect that. If you have any questions or are willing to take the survey, please email me at daffodillie@sheknows.com . I will also make available the final copy of my project, along with my received grade, via email or blog posting as soon as they are returned. Please let me know what you think! Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

To my American Yay-Yay Friends....


Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Thankful

I have so much to be thankful for! For this year's Thanksgiving Resolutions I'm committing myself to an Attitude of Gratitude. No, I've never done Tgiving Res' before...it's a new tradition! So, to get me started on my new attitude here's the beginning of my list of grats:
In no particular order....just how they pop up in my head:

I'm grateful for.....
.....my family. Including: immediate {Butchy, & our fuzzies}, extended {my Parents, Bubba, his wonderful wife, Dawn & their 4 amazing little women, Butchy's loving Parents, my heart-sister Misty, my new heart-sister Jill, the Sister-Friends, work-associates, online buds, & anyone else I've adopted over the years who touch my heart}
.....my health. I've finally gotten my wheelchair! I'm back to work and loving how incredible my associates are to me. I can honestly say I love my job & my co-workers (at BofA they're called Associates). I may be a gimp....but, I'm pretty healthy.
..... my job/associates (see above)
.....Katrina. It brought my Bubba and his family home to Washington.
....chocolate....does that really need an explanation?

That's the beginning of my list......I'm feeling so thankful right now that I may just burst! I wonder if Ben & Jerry's Dave Matthews Band's Magic Brownie ice cream is a cure for bursting? This I must investigate.......

Update - Accident I witnessed

On July 15th, 2005 I came to the sisters for support. I had witnessed a horrible accident and was very traumatised (you can go back in archives to read that). You were all extremely supportive and assured me that it was a very traumatic experience and I had every rite to be so upset.
Well last night on our local news they did a story of "love". It was about a young girl fighting through rehab from a horrible car accident. Of course it peeked my interest, I've been thinking about this accident for the last 5 months. Sure enough, it's her, the girl I saw in the silver car!
You can read about it at www.lauralaughlin.com

I feel like I have a sense of closure, I now have a face to that person I've been praying for! I hope you'll join me in sending some good wishes her way!

The Holidays Are Upon Us...

And I can't seem to get rid of this damn morning sickness! Ladies, does anyone have ANY remedies to get rid of the barfy-ness? It's almost Thanksgiving, and saltines and ginger ale just aren't working. I'm making a turkey and stuffing and all the fixings, and I'd LOVE to be able to eat it. Just a little of it.
Speaking of which, Have a Yay-Yay Holiday!

Thanksgiving week.

Ready, set, go! This is the week the madness officially begins. I know that I'm getting a little crazy. I drop over and see who posted then go on my merry way, yet I haven't posted either!

Work is crazy, I think I'm getting promoted w/ employees "under me". Offically they said, "OK Mary Pat you're going to head this up" but didn't hear a new title or $$ increase. Oh well patience.

I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving and we all remember to not bitch about what is wrong but be thankful for what we do have. i.e...mother driving me NUTZO...but she's alive, someday I'll long for her annoying phone calls. Breath, breath...

I had a 20th high school reunion Saturday, about 20 girls showed up. All I have to say is Damn I look Good! A little too heavy but at least I don't look 39, some of these gals look 45.

I should end up w/ some picks eventually that I'll put on my blog.

So enjoy the beginning of crazy season, hope we can all find time to enjoy it too.

Update from a Sista

My husband and I seperated in October. I am living in a trailor about 9 miles out of town(I lived out of town before but, about 1/2 mile so it is a really big change for me).
The kids are with me because after I cheated on him, yes I know what I did was wrong and I have asked God to forgive me, my mil changed the locks on the house(her house, legally she can do that) and kicked me out.
He is in rehab now.

I am loosing weight to go into the Army in March.

Well, my mom is at the library with me and she is getting antsy to leave so, gotta go but, pray for me please!! Email me if you want at flowryname@yahoo.com I would love to hear from anyone of you!!

((((Hugs to you!!))))

BIG hugs for Mary Pat!!!

Mary Pat...I am SOOOO SORRY!!!! You can beat with me with a wet noodle, it's ok, I deserve it. Just cuz I didn't read my email doesn't mean I don't love ya! It just means I'm a worn out-limpin'-drugged up loser.

Mary Pat turned 39 on Thursday!!

Happiest of Belated Birthdays!!

Or....Happy Birthday super early for next year!

It's been sooo long!

My Mom gave me the book, Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. She wanted me to be thankful everyday. The path I chose in my early adulthood was not an easy one, alienated from my parents, living in Youth Homes,not finishing my education, having babies, marrying a man that was older and also uneducated, well you can imagine! Things were bumpy. Divorce was soon to be followed by Single Parenthood. With that my pride would not allow me to "feed from the public trough" for very long and social assistance was not a long term answer for me. So back to school to get educated with 2 babies requiring care...dam what was I thinking. I grew up, my babies grew up and frankly we are all doing quite well today! All that being said I just wanted to share with you that although things get busy in our everyday lives and keeping up is sometimes a struggle! Postings/comments become few and far between but I am thinking of all of you!

Continue to give thanks my Sister-Friends!!

"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you."
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Simple Abundance

Have a Great Week!

Long time no... type...?

I have some crap going on, but it'll be resolved over the next couple of months. I can't really go into great detail here. Most of you know where to find me if you need to know more...

Well, THAT was quick....

On Halloween, the hub-unit and I decided to stop smoking and get down to the nitty-gritty of trying to have a baby.
That was last Monday.
As of Friday, I am WAY pregnant.
So much for time to let it sink in, huh?

A Yay-Yay Birthday!

Yay-Yays, it's Cyli's Birthday!
Woo Hoo!!!
Happy Birthday Cyli!!
Birthday Girl's Blog

Here's hoping none of you get this!

I will seek and find you

I shall take you to bed and have my way with you

I will make you ache, shake and sweat until you moan and groan

I will make you beg for mercy, beg me to stop

I will exhaust you to the point that you will be relieved when I am
finished with you

And when I am finished, you will be weak for days.

All my love,
The Flu

How NOT to Study for a Midterm

1) Fall behind in reading the assigned novels.
2) Devote the entire day prior to test to catching up.
3) Take until 3 a.m. to do so due to spending 4 hours on the phone with Grasshopper.
4) The morning of the midterm, skip first two classes because too tired to move, plus need some extra time to review notes for exam.
5) Curl up under snuggly blanket on couch with notes in lap, Mt. Dew and smokes on end table, and full stomach with Good Morning America on tv.
6) Wake up at 11:58 a.m. when test is scheduled to begin a twenty minute drive away at 12:20 p.m.
7) Arrive in classroom with 1 minute to spare wearing Betty Boop pajama pants, no bra (nipples tucked into pants), blue tank top (no shaving lately), slip-on tennis shoes, and a sweater to hide the tucked-in nipples. Forget to brush hair, comb teeth, Listerine the armpits, or Secret the mouth.
8) Stare at test with sinking feeling and numb expression.
9) Scribble answers in 20 minutes.
10) Leave immediately and chain smoke for an hour while obsessing over who Percy Grimm was...refusing to look in notes to find out.
11) Ten days later, discover that you somehow fooled your instructor into giving you a B-.
12) Celebrate by talking to Grasshopper for another four hours instead of working on your midterm project (in lieu of exam) that is due in two days, must fill a blank boughten journal, was assigned at the beginning of the semester, and must cover each poet read in class(3) in each area discussed (10).
13) Call Grasshopper the next morning to complain about the project...for several hours.

I Need Help Today.

I need help today. It's as simple as that. Very hard to admit, but there it is.

My family has been sick. 3 kids and husband. Everyone is taking turns. I am just skirting it...which means I feel like crap...but have not been over come yet.

I do not remember the last time I've shaved or had sex. Those are big things for me...and I've lost track.

I have a yeast infection. The fact that my throat is sore and my stomach is upset and I'm exhausted doesn't help. Now my whoha feels like it's on fire.

My kids refuse to obey simple instructions so I am at the point of becoming a screaming monster...fuel by the above mentioned issues.

To top it off, my heart is breaking. For someone I don't even know. Actually a mixture of emotions. A family was nearly wiped out in a car accident yesterday. A father and his five children. The children ages 2-10 are dead. They were not using seat belts. I can't tell you my anger about that. The father sounds as though he will recover. The mother was not in the accident, but is home...6 weeks until their 6th child will be born. I think about this and it makes me want to vomit. I can't imagine the devastation. I am not a praying person per say, but I am sending what love, compassion and strength I have to them.

My wish for today. I hope everyone finds someone in their life and let them know they are loved.