Found out that my uncle is doing fine. After his angioplasty, it was determined that on one side of his heart is completely ok...but the other side had 90% blockage. :( So, he has a stint in that side to open up the artery and he's on medication to thin his blood out a bit ( Read more... )

My beloved uncle (my mom's brother) had a mild stroke on Christmas Eve and is still in the hospital. I didn't find out about it until Christmas morning. He'll be having an angioplasty tomorrow...I'm just saying a prayer that no complications will occur (somtimes that procedure can induce heart attacks) and that he'll recover quickly ( Read more... )

For Christmas I got ( Read more... )

For the past couple of years, I've done a lot of baking and gave my baked goods as presents to my neighbors. This year I took the lazy route and gave something else. Our next door neighbor said, "Aww, that's sweet, but people are going to be really disappointed that there's no Dina fudge this year ( Read more... )

Yesterday we dropped off a whole bunch of toys at the fire station. We donate every year for the Toys for Tots toy drive - it's fun doing that kind of shopping. We picked up dolls, toy cars, sporting equipment, games, and books. When we dropped the toys off, there were a lot of toys already donated - it's good to see people who can donate toys to ( Read more... )

I'm watching this one show on HGTV and this gal has a pink kitchen.

...wtf? A PINK kitchen? She said that she wanted it to be "girly" and "beautiful". Well, some of the other features (stonework, warming ovens, large island) in the kitchen are very nice, but the color has to go. Some of the pink is Pepto pink, which isn't appetizing in a

I think I caught my friend's cold Friday night ( Read more... )

At work, I have 3 computers on my desk. I can spin in my chair 180 degrees from one to the next. I used to have just 2, but the addition of the third one has me giddy in a geeky way ( Read more... )

..cause here I come
Because weekends were
Made for fun

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