MU and NO SNOW ICE SLEET....

uhm, MU fell apart last night. No final four. No championships. There's always next year.

We didn't get the awful sleet/ice/snow they were calling for. Oh we got plenty of rain yesterday and we did get a light dusting of a mixture, but they sun is shining oh so BRIGHTLY today. Maybe SPRING is just around the corner!

I went computer shopping yesterday. I was so excited and thrilled! My current dinosaur is almost 10 years old! I have the old CRT monitor-YIKES! Anyhoo, I went to several stores and finished up at Best Buy. There's not too many stores unless I want to drive over 100 miles to KC.

Having no luck finding the one I was searching for, I was hoping Best Buy would have something close. I found a very nice Geek Squad guy and he helped me find not only the computer but the works that went with it. My excitement was building as we took all the boxes to the register. He began ringing it up and when he hit the total button, I nearly fell over right on the spot!

$1051.00!!!!!

I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much. So we picked out another monitor, another all in one printer and it still was over $900.00!

My heart broke as I left the store. I was so looking forward to a new one. I wanted a quad four processor, 8 gig of memory, and at least a 19" monitor. A decent all in one printer would have been the icing on the cake.

I cooked my own goose though. Circuit City had the EXACT one before they went out of business, the ENTIRE package with monitor and all in one printer for $779.00!

So as I sit here typing on my old plunker, I'm being thankful I have one that works, albeit slowly, and deal with it. I am going to keep an eye on Best Buy Sales though and newegg.com and maybe, just maybe, I'll get one before summer.

On a much more serious note.

Please click on the button on my sidebar, praying for Stellan. He needs all the prayers he can get. He's in PICU with SVT and he's been in and out of V tach over the last several days.

GO MU!!!!

My world fell apart in a moment

Friday the 13th.
4:53 pm
cell phone rings.
"Hey, what are you doin?"
I'm out getting groceries, gas, and wally world running, why?
hysterical sobbing begins......from both of us.
"She's gone, the sheriff just called me and said they found her."
Who's gone? What are you talking about?
"Grandma Gen, she's gone." They found her a while ago on the floor in her bedroom."
I don't really believe it, how can it be?
"hang on, I gotta another call"
Circling in and out of the gas station, listening to silence in my ear, trying to process what I just heard and heading towards home, I just had to get to dh and the kids.
"I'm back".
I can't believe it. I just can't. Does Dad and everyone else know?
"He's on his way out to her house now to meet with the sheriff.
Ok, I'm on my way home, I'll call you back and let you know if I'm coming up tonight or in the morning.

I don't remember anything else until I got home and collapsed in dh's arms and the kids. We all stood in the doorway and hugged each other. I somehow managed to spit out that Grandma Gen had died.

My grandma meant the absolute world to me. My mother died in 1992, ironically, also on a Friday the 13th. I was so close to my grandma. We chatted every Sunday evening for about an hour. I could list the things I loved about her and I'd never run out of things to say. She was the world.

She had the flu last April and then came down with what the Dr's. thought were shingles. She battled that all summer and in August broke her hip and had to have that replaced. She had recuperated from that well, and it was determined late fall that she had blistering disease and not shingles after all. They were able to give her medicines that had finally healed up all but one spot on her cheek. After trying umpteen gazillion different medicines, the pathology report came back that it was Anthrax poisoning! It was then they decided to put a port in to administer antibiotics intravenously. They gave her the first dose on the 12th. As far as we know she got up the morning of the 13th, was getting dressed and died at that point in time. We'll never know if it was a heart attack, stroke, or the medicines were too strong for her. I do know she was sooooo tired of fighting the sore on her face. It stung badly, tingled, oozed, blistered, and was raw all of the time. It started out the size of a half-dollar and ended up being all over the side of her face and down her neck. I am so thankful she's in a place where she is healed perfectly. I'm grateful for all the years I had with her. But God, I miss her more than life itself. When I would hear people say they couldn't wait to be reunited with their loved ones in heaven, I didn't understand that until now. I know the time here is just a blip on our way to our eternal home, and I have a family here on this earth to take care of, but I know I will rejoice the day I get to be with her again.

Grandma Gen, I love you and miss you with every ounce of my being. God rest your soul. "Teen"

Not Me Monday

Hello chickeepoos! I thought I would participate in a Not Me! Monday Blog Carnival.

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I can relate to so many of the Not Me! Monday posts, so I thought why not share with the rest of the world.

For instance, I did not take several quarters dollars in change out of dh’s mason jar to buy my 44 oz. Cherry Cokes for the week. He knows he would not miss any of it, because after all, the quarters are mostly on the bottom. What’s a few quarters dollars anyhow?

I did not use the last roll of toilet paper in the master bath leaving none on the roll for you know who. Not me, who would do such a thing?

It was not me who ;) at the hunkiest, sweetest, married orthodontist at her appointment on Friday. After all, we’re both married, happily with children. (But dang, that man is candy to the eyes. did i just really say that? Nope, not me.

Oh and I’m just sure it wasn’t me who read through all my child’s emails and found out some juicy gossip to bribe/bargain/blackmail him with later down the road when the timing’s right. Of course, I have parental controls on their email addy’s, but I usually don’t snoop just to be nosy. Nope nada here.

There, that was pretty painless, unless you count my red face from winking at my orthodontist this week. ;)

Did you change your clocks?

Apparently dh did change some of ours, but not all. I totally forgot. I woke up this mornin and found my family gone! And my clock said 6:49 am! I climbed my big you know what out of bed and was sad because I was thinking they went out to breakfast without me. The phone rings and I'm thinking who is calling so dang early on a Sunday morning????? Wrong #. Good thing I was out of bed or I would have been NASTY! Anyone who knows me at all, knows NOT to call before 9am to our house. ANYWAY....When the phone rang I noticed the clock on the lighted dial read 7:49 am. It dawned on me that my family got themselves up and went to Mass. Yes, we have our first Mass on Sunday morning at 7:30am. Our priest has to work 2 different parishes and by having it that early he can drive to the other one, come back to ours, and we have another at 11:00am. Today is dh and my day to count money(collection basket and envelopes) at church. We'll have to do that later and... I've got to go now, we're having a nice early spring thunderstorm, complete with lightening and blogger keeps popping up with a message it can't save this post. Goin for now.

All That I Need

Jesus said, "...If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17:14-20)

Friends, today, I need a mountain to move. God knows my heart and what this mountain is. I've always been so very private when it comes to my spirituality and rarely share that openly with anyone. I won't go into details because I'm sure it would seem trivial to anyone not walking in my shoes.

The problem is....I don't know if my faith today is as big as a mustard seed. But humbly and openly I am asking for your prayer today for my mountain to move. I am hoping that maybe someone out there in cyberland has many mustard seeds of faith that they can spread over my mountain for me.

Without trying to sound trite because I know you can't hear my words, I would be eternally grateful. And at some point I can maybe share with you some of the things that has led me to this point in my life. Before rumors get started, it has nothing to do with the kids, they're fine! Greg is healthy and well too.

Psalm 131 (New International Version)

My heart is not proud, O LORD,

my eyes are not haughty;

I do not concern myself with great matters

or things too wonderful for me.
But I have stilled and quieted my soul;

like a weaned child with its mother,

like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD

both now and forevermore.

Twitter Help Please!

I have the day off work, been trying to figure out how to Twitter. I set up an account a few weeks ago, I don't know if I am following people or they're following me. I tried to login today and it keeps telling me my password and user id don't match. They sent me an email to change the password, but it takes me to a broken link that won't work. Has anyone else had problems? Do you know how to help me? They are behind in their support issues and I still haven't heard back from them.

It's a gorgeous day here in Mid-Missouri. Absolutely beautiful for the 6th day of March. I STILL have the darn rash. It's slowly creeping around my neck. I think it's better though. And on a much more positive note....the orthodontist told me to make the appointment with the dentist to see where were at. That means that I am almost ready to get my braces off! OH MY golly! It was 2 years in January that I got them on. Of course I'll have retainers indefinitely, but at least I will be able to take them out and put them back in.

Goldilocks is going to a lock-in tonight at her friends church and won't be home until after 8am in the morning. Son #1 is going to a National Junior Honor Society Dance tonight that will last until 10 or so. I am going to try to get dh to watch a movie with me tonight, or at least take me out to dinner. I'm shooting for the latter.

I have heard so much about this book.....anyone read it yet? I picked it up at Tarjay today. Well I did pay for it after all. I do have the receipt. I'll let you know my thoughts after the weekend. I should get in some good reading time tomorrow. NO BASKETBALL GAMES AT ALL. ugh...just practice. but that don't count.

As a side and completely off topic...if you have clicked on any of the buttons on the sidebar and went to Bring the Rain, that is where I found the first two songs that play on my player. I heard them and they just simply move me. Angie Smith has some powerful testimoney if you have the time to jump over to her blog. She has a way of living real and living with God in her life. Take a moment, you'll be glad you did.

I am going to be doing some revamping of the blog soon, new colors, new layout etc. Black is getting depressing to me, but i have so loved the way most of the pics look against the black. Anyhoo, hollerback at me if ya can help me with the Twitter thingy.