Two birds...one blog post...

I'm just going to air out the subject of this post now. that way, if you feel offended or something, you can quit reading right now and not hate me.

This is going to be about race, politics and Christianity.

I'll start with the facts:

1. I'm a Christian
2. I'm not technically Caucasian although just looking at me is hard to tell
3. I'm a Democrat who borders more on libertarian

Recently, I was reading an article from CNN that said "Official apologizes for Obama chimpanzee email" My mouth dropped. Umm what? Obama and a chimpanzee were in the same email? Oh no, it's worse than that. A Republican representative from California felt the need to forward on an email with Obama's face on the body of a baby chimpanzee. The caption of the picture went on to read "Why there's no birth certificate" or something dumb like that.

WHAT?! An elected official, who technically works for the President sent a racist, horrible email about the POTUS? What in the world are people thinking when they do stupid, stupid things like this? Who are you helping? My friend Janet likes to ask me, "What's the advantage" when I'm about to make a stupid mistake. Same applies here....what advantage did this representative gain by sending an email like that? Nothing. In fact, many Republicans are now calling for her resignation!

Now, on to Christianity. In her "official" apology, she wrote some hub bub about how she tries to be a good Christian lady who follows a Christ like path or something. Can I just point out that one of the biggest things about being a good Christian is not judging people like she just did? I know that some religions think that it does involve harsh judgment of other people, but it doesn't. It's about loving your neighbor and respecting those around you. Not sending out hateful emails of people you are supposed to respect! I would have been okay with just an apology, but throwing the Christian twist in there to me, is just an attempt to get more people on her side. Grow up! Christ would not condone what you did, lady. You can be sure of that!

I wish America would just grow up. Learn to respect others the same way you'd want to be respected and we'd all go a lot further in this world.

Sheesh.

LET ME CATCH MY BREATH!!!

I feel like this week has been a whirlwind sprint to the finish kind of week and it's only TUESDAY.

I know that a lot of my friends are extremely busy, and I'm not jealous of them at all. But, I like being busy in my personal life more than I do in my work life. I mean, when am I going to fart around on the internet if I have to actually do work?!!? Hello? Not convenient.

I feel like today I can't catch my breath. I'm running around doing a million different things! It's almost lunch time though so I felt like I could go ahead and take a little break to post this nonsense on my blog.

Hey, I don't take my 15 minute smoke breaks 12 x a day so I feel like we're equal. :)

What a whirlwind this week has been....

Instead of providing an update in little tidbits on facebook, I thought I'd write it all here and then blast to facebook that I wrote it and let that serve as my update for tonight.

Hubs woke up at about 4:00AM this morning with a terrible, terrible headache. He toughed it out until about 6 and then while I was getting ready for work, he came out and told me about it and almost immediately started vomiting. With that, I determined that we were going back to the ER. We got there about 6:45 and they decided to re-scan his brain with a CT and make sure there was no new bleeding or missed bleeding from the previous CT scan. That came back clear. With that, they decided to do a spinal tap to see if there was any bleeding that wasn't showing up on the CT scan. That also came back negative. So, they sent him home.

It looks like what they're technically diagnosing him with is "concussion syndrome" or "post concussion syndrome." Reading the information, it seems like that is definitely what's going on and it's likely that the headaches he is having are migraines. We have an appointment with a primary care physician tomorrow so that should give us more information as well.

The calls, facebook messages, and texts have been very important to us and we greatly appreciate you sending them! Thank you for keeping him and us in your thoughts and prayers!

It's a FRUITVEGGIE Challenge!!!!

So, while at work last week, my co-workers and I decided that we wanted a new challenge. Something fun, yet difficult to accomplish. In about an hour, we came up with the FruitVeggie Challenge.

The rules are simple:
Guys must eat 10 servings of fruits and veggies per day
Girls must eat 8
Potatoes don't count
6 weeks (business days only)
and you can't miss your count one day and add on the next day (like eat 7 Mon, and 9 Tues).
If you miss your servings in one day, you must pay $1 to the Victory Jar. (To go to the victor of the competition)

Yesterday was day 1. I think it would have been easier if I would have been at work instead of at home taking care of the hubs, but I still managed to get in 9 servings of fruits and veggies.

Today, I'm about to get my 3 and 4 serving in and will probably stack up on vegetables at dinner to get the other 3. (I have one piece of fruit for the rest of the day which would bring my total to 5).

Everyone made their goal yesterday. There are officially 5 competitors. Should be an interesting competition! I'll try to keep you updated on how it's going.

Let's go team Tiffany!

Funny how things change....

It's funny how we go through life with certain friends and groups of friends and then as our life changes, so do those friends. People we thought would be in our lives forever fade away and new people shuffle in. People we didn't expect to be friends with suddenly become some of our best friends. Life is constantly changing.

My boss told me the other day that if you don't work hard in life and make things hard for your self than life ends up being hard. We were talking about working out, but it applies in all aspects, when you think about. If you train yourself by constantly pushing yourself to be better, to work harder than other people, then when disappoint or sadness finds you, you're going to be well equipped to deal with whatever life presents.

I guess my point in writing about both of these is that we often find in life that there are some friendships that are worth trudging through quick sand to save and some that could disappear tomorrow and we'd let them fade with the sun. The trick is finding out and learning which ones are worth the effort. Personally, I've tended to look at life like all of my friendships are that important to me. But in reality, there several that I would go to the ends of the earth for. Others that I would trudge through mud for, and others that would simply let fade with time. I'm beginning to learn the difference in my friendships and learning that it's okay to not be best friends with everyone. In fact, the friends that I do call best friends have earned that title. They've been there for me through bad times and through good and have proven themselves worthy of my devotion. Others? Not so much.

So here's to the friendships that are worth trudging through hell for. And for the others? Eh, keep them around as long as it's beneficial. Once it's no longer beneficial, quit putting in so much effort.

It's funny the things that trigger a memory....

Sometimes it's the day of the year...like my friend, who blogged about his deceased father in law
Sometimes, it's a song that triggers a memory...like my friend Janet, who blogged about a song that often times reminds me of her wedding.
Sometimes, it's a smell, or a car driving by, or even just a chain of events that happen in a particular order more than once that triggers your memory of a moment already passed.
Each time it happens, no matter what triggers the memory for me, I find myself lost in the moment. Lost in thought about things that have happened before. both good and bad.

Today, my husband sent me beautiful flowers for our anniversary. He carefully selected an arrangement that included my favorite flower, the stargazer lily. If you've ever been around stargazers, then you know that the fragrance is strong and they have a very distinct smell. Today, the fragrance is triggering memories of our wedding; where stargazers were also present and very fragrant. Today, the memories triggered are happy ones. Ones of love and joy and a fun party!


But it's not every day that a memory lost triggers happy thoughts. Sometimes, it brings up the memory of a lost friend or loved one. Sometimes, it's a moment in time that you'll never get back that you might regret.

Which makes cherishing the memory triggers like today's even more important.

There are some joys that will last us a lifetime. Marrying my best friend, has been one of those joys.

If you love animals....

You should check out this live feed of two bald eagles and their babies.

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles


That is all. It's AMAZING.

3 YEARS! 3 YEARS! Wahoooooooo!!!

Tomorrow is my 3 year wedding anniversary. This weekend, as I was hanging out with the hubs, I realized just how incredibly lucky I am to have married my best friend. I may not always think that, but after some unexpected twists of fate from a few friends of mine, it was nice to realize that the majority of the time, he does put my feelings before is and thinks about his actions might affect me before he goes through with any kind of plan.

I wrote last week that it's probably expecting too much to think that my friends would do the same thing, and it's true. But what I'm realizing is that I really only need my one best friend. My true best friend. My soul mate.

Happy 3 year anniversary to us! Here's to another 3 years and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another.

here's some wedding photos in honor of our big accomplishment! 

Here's my handsome guy (I love this photo...he seems....happy!)

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
~Marcel Proust

It's a blessing and a curse......

I wear my heart on my sleeve. Especially when it comes to friends and family. I've never been good at being very guarded, and I've kind of always cared more about others than I probably should. I've always put other people's feelings before my own. In some instances, it's a blessing. I've been able to be there for people when they needed me and put my own anger or whatever aside to do what needed to be done.

Other times, it's a curse. I've learned in a rather unpleasant way this week that most people only think about themselves when making decisions. They don't consider other people's feelings and they do what will be fun for them regardless of what might be involved otherwise. I know that the hurt they inflict is unintentional, but it's still being inflicted. And to them, I know that it makes no sense. Because, if you're not someone who wears your heart on your sleeve, then you're never going to understand how it might feel for a friend to not consider your feelings when making  a choice.

Moral of the story? I've got to quit caring so much. I've got to get tougher and protect me more so that I don't end up in situations where I'm the one being hurt. If I'm the only friend in the relationship who is putting thought into how my actions might affect the other person, then I'm the fool. 

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME.