Busy, busy, busy these days and not much time for an update, sorry!

Was in the hospital over the weekend due to an intestinal blockage. I was on a new diet that consisted of mainly roughage and it backfired. Because my intestines are in a new and different place since the surgery, I have kinks….just what ya’ll wanted to know! Anyway, food that’s hard to digest tends to get stuck.

The semester starts next week and I’ve had my back to the wall getting my orientation written and done, student assistants trained and firing those that didn’t bother to show up to the orientation on time! RAWR!

One of our younger sons has started Pop Warner Football and so I’m fitting in scrimages and practices and actual games coming up soon.

I’ve gotten more heavily involved in volunteering with the American Cancer Society and that’s really a rewarding experience. We had a wrap party for the last Relay for Life that I did and it was a very tearful but funfilled evening. I’m looking forward to more events.

Doug is STILL looking for a job and my friend told us we needed to be in our own place by the end of November. A little scary, but things will work out, they always do.

I found a home for all 8 of my rattys. A 14 year old girl who LOVES all kinds of animals came and got them. I made her promise that they wouldn’t be snake food and her dad said she didn’t even own snakes. She was talking to them and cooing at them before she even left so I know they’ll be in good hands.

Hope you’re all doing well!

Namaste!

Men are such asses!

Doug, my husband has been job hunting. I finally made him check out part time positions at Target and Walmart. Something is better than nothing! He called me from Walmart in a whiney, pouty voice and said, “Do I HAVE to work here? Nobody has any teeth here.”  I was dying!!

This weekend is the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life that I’m working. Part of the tradition is to decorate white bags with names of those who’ve passed on and of those who are survivors and put candles in them. I made one for my friend Marty and one for me. They’re kind of hard to see. The names are then read during a candle light ceremony as the survivors take the “Survivors Lap” around the track.

Wow, there’s a lot that goes into a Non-Profit organization! It this point it’s just me so I’m not even sure I qualify as an organization. Yes, I’m organized hehehehe, but I don’t have anyone else organized with me!

This weekend I’m working the Relay for Life in Brea in the Survivor’s Tent. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to start out. My older son is interested in working with me too. He sent me a text message that said, “I’m connected to you and I feel I’ve been given a mother for an extended period and I’m blessed, therefore I should bless as many others as I can.” I almost cried…..which I do at the drop of a hat these days anyway hehehe.

Saturday we’re going to have our mechanic look at a van that we’re thinking of buying. The gas mileage won’t be good but it’ll fit all our family which is a good thing. Wish us luck! We SO need something to go our way for a change………namely a job for Doug!!!!

So it’s time to give back. My life has been living hell for the last 9 months.  Things didn’t stop even after the chemo and radiation did BUT throughout this whole ongoing ordeal, I have been watched over, blessed and taken care of. There’s no doubt in my mind that I’m loved and blessed by all who watch over me. Now that I’m working my way out of this hell hole, I feel that it’s time to give back some of what has been given to me. I’ve contacted the American Cancer Society and asked to volunteer. I’m meeting with a gal tonight and will be volunteering for the next Relay for Life on the 8th and 9th of August in Brea. But I want more than that. I want what was done for me. I want to meet with an individual cancer patient and be there for them. I want to do their laundry, their grocery shopping, clean their home, run their errands. I want to volunteer my heart and not just my time. I asked if there were any programs that did this and I was told there aren’t. They want my time or my money. I think it may be time to start my own volunteer program. One that gets directly involved with patients.

I’m a little sad over this and I’m not sure why. I think it’s stupid that I am. My niece announced last Thanksgiving that she was a lesbian and has since gone all out. Stopped shaving her legs, cut her hair like a guys, binding her breats, etc. Ok, no big deal, I love her no matter what and I respect and admire her courage in coming out, especially in my family. I just read her Facebook this morning and she’s announced that she’s changing her name to Keegan Edward. I went to her page and she’s not only changed her name but her gender as well. Made me kinda sad to think that I’m losing my niece which is really stupid since she’s still the same warm, loving human being that she always was, she’s just deciding to make her world more comfortable for her…as a him. Leni, I miss your long hair and make up and you’re still my niece in my heart and I love you no matter what gender you decide to be!