Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night.   JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:  ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥  Breakfast ~ If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be? Donny Osmond, in addition to talking he would need to perform a song and dance number Johnny Depp Sam Elliot Lunch ~ If you could eliminate one thing you do each day to get ready for the day so that you never had to do it again, what would it be? Applying makeup, More specifically I would love to never have to use mascara again! Dinner ~ If you owned a CB radio what would your "handle" be?  In high school a few of my friends created “handles” for ourselves.  My handle was “Pooh B...

Still struggling with my emotions this week, hoping that I will be able to get back on top of them again very soon.  I'm seriously looking forward to lots of sunshine this spring and summer. However, even though I am fighting emotional battles within myself, I am very much aware of the fact that I am very blessed.  I have so much to be grateful for and I don't take my blessings for granted.  This week has reminded me again how blessed I am.  Apparently this week I have had a sign on my door that says, "come, share with me all of your troubles and I will listen" because it seemed like everywhere I turned someone was confiding in me of hard things they are facing. And let me say, there are a lot of weird situations going on in the world!  Not to mention really sad and horrific situations.  I feel very good that people view me as a safe place to vent and explore their feelings, I guess I have a good shoulder to cry on.  However the down side to thi...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Breakfast ~ Would you rather legally change your last name to Hitler?  OR  Never eat chocolate again? I think that I would change my name, I’m sure that there are many Hitler’s in the world and not all of them are evil.  Perhaps I could be good enough to give the name a good reputation. Now on the other hand, giving up chocolate is just evil!  How in the world could I cope with all of the stresses in life without my favorite vice?  Lunch ~ Would you rather have no internet?  OR No cell phone?   This is a very hard question.  I rely on the internet for just about everything I do, shopping, preparing my l...

I started the week off with a bad day!  Sunday I spent the day filled with anxiety and depression.  It was a rough day,  I did make it through church, and even had nice time teaching my family history class.  This round I have been asked to teach the "Ma's and Pa's" who will going on the Trek with the youth this summer.  I think it will be a good class with a wide variety of skill and knowledge.  After church when Kim left, I pretty much just fell apart.  Who knows why.  Luckily "Fuller House" the sequel to the 1980's sitcom " Full House " had just come out on Netflix.  I sat all evening and watched the entire season in one shot.  It helped and I felt better the rest of the week. Shandra has a new schedule at school where she has class until 9:00 on Monday and Wednesday nights.  Since we both have to leave very early the next day (at 5:00) I decided it would just be easier for me to keep the kids overnight so she doesn't have to p...

Well, the results are in from Kim's gallbladder tests.  According to the HIDA scan  he has absolutely zero gallbladder function.  Kim told everyone that he was about to have a "2-pound gall-baby" that Mont named "Gall-Bob".  Dr. Dave recommended that Kim have surgery to remove the gallbladder so he has an appointment next Monday to meet with the surgeon and to schedule the surgery.  Thankfully his pain has subsided for now and he is feeling pretty good, so he is good to wait a bit. One of the disadvantages of buying a car from a Salt Lake dealership is that it may require driving to Salt Lake when something is needed.  I purchased a clear covering to be adhered to the hood of my car to help prevent chips since I am on the freeway so much.  In order to do that I had to drive down on Monday evening to drop it off.  Luckily they gave me a rental car to use.  It was a Subaru Crosstek.  I was so glad to have the opportunity to drive the Cro...

So, I was hoping for a week with good health for all, however I should have known better.  After taking a sick day on Sunday I have steadily and joyfully improved with just a slight lingering cough and a voice that cracks as if I were a boy in puberty.  Kim got hit hard Monday.  He was much worse that I was, cough, pain in his lungs, etc.  He ended up taking the rest of the week off work.  Wednesday night he was up all night with severe abdominal pain, and the next day he went to see Dr. Dave.  Diagnosis:  pneumonia and possible gallbladder disease.  A course of antibiotics and gallbladder tests at the hospital were next on the agenda.  It will be next week before we get the test results. The arrow pointing to the pneumonia Kim's brother, Dave, remains at the University Hospital undergoing rehab from his stroke.  Apparently after some additional testing they have found that he has some damage to the "executive suite" of the brain. ...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Right Now Breakfast ~ What sounds do you hear right now? What time is it right now as you answer this?   It is quiet right now.  There are no television noises, no people’s voices.  It is late morning, I slept in today and Kim is still sleeping.  Kim’s brother, Doug, and two boys spent the night, we got up early to see them off and then went back to bed since the calendar is clear today. Lunch ~ What are you wearing right now?  What are you thinking right now? What are you eating/drinking right now (if anything)?   I still have my pajamas on, one of the very few times I am not dressed and ready to go b...