Lonely, Lonely Me

What is this? While I wasn't posting, this site was uber-active, but once I post stuff, everyone leaves? This is reminding me of junior high...

Snafu...

Thanks, Danny, for the great countdown timer! Unfortunately, it's not quite accurate, and though I tried to fix the problem, I was unable to. So if you want an ACCURATE reading (which I'm sure all of you are keeping in your heads anyway), add 1 hour to the time.
115 and change left!
timmy

Timmy get's hitched in:

Watching Timmy's little countdown on his MSN account, I thought I would help him out with this little web counter:

Update Central

All right, since there have only been 5 blogs since 12-4, I'm gonna drop an update on you.

First and foremost, we are down to 125 days! Yippee! Heather and I have been crackin' on the planning (okay, Heather has). We have our wedding parties planned and invited (besides me needing to pick my best man from among the guys), a location (Vine Street Baptist--across from Jo Lane), photography, videography (Andy Shire), a dress (from what Heather's told me, it's lilac with scarlet slashes down the bodice), a cake decorator (Mother), a preliminary guest list (only 400 so far!), and Heather is aggressively hammering out the invitations. I think that covers most of everything...

OSU continues. I'm in the middle of my second term there, taking U.S. History (fascinating), my second term of French (a lot of fun), History of Psychotherapy (fun class, boring material), and History of Western Civilization (the prof is BORING!!!). I'm well over halfway to my Bachelor of Arts, History degree. I am enjoying it immensely, at least besids the homework...

Let's see...Oh! I am still unemployed, but I am planning on dropping off my resume at a bunch of law offices, hoping for a part-time assistant position so I can get experience in the field before I enter it in 4-1/2 years...which is a depressingly long time, because I am SO ready to quit learning! Ah well, c'est la vie.

Well, I guess I'll leave it at that. Enjoy this beautiful, sunny Sunday.

No longer the youngest of the bunch,
timmy

Grandma again!!

Grandma is thrilled to tell you all that we have our second grandson! (I love being a grandma, as I knew all along I would!! Johnathon is delightful, and I'm sure Aaron will be, too. I can hardly wait to get him in my arms!!)

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Here is Danny's post from his blog: (Times listed are 'Singaporian'.... In our time, that was 3:40 AM, Feb. 6)

Aaron is here and beautiful!
As you can see from the banner, Aaron has arrived! He was born Monday, February 6 at 7:40 pm after 36 hours in the hospital and 12 hours of labor. Betsy's water broke Sunday morning, but labor didn't start until this morning.Aaron and Betsy are both doing fine.The stats:Aaron was 50 cm, 3.07 kg, with a head circumference of 36 cm.For those of you who are American (most of us!) That is: 19.7 inches, 6 lb 12 oz, and 14.2 inches.Sorry, no pictures yet, I forgot to bring my card reader to the hospital! Will post some pics tomorrow!

Vision for 2006

On Friday we were out doing some banking in Eugene late afternoon, and decided to call the Bashors to see what was up. they were going to go to see 'Narnia', and wondered what should be done for Grandma. So we stopped there and picked her up to come spend the evening with us.

On the way home, my contact started bothering me quite a bit. So I popped it out. Then we got stopped at the railroad track for a train. So I dug in my purse and got out the wetting solution. Put the contact back in, but it immediately starting hurting again. But I couldn't get it back out, and it hurt extremely -- like something was stabbing my eye. I was crying and trying to get it out all the way home. I'm not sure the car was even stopped in the garage before I was out and in the bathroom -- working on getting it out. It finally came, with some pain.... but it was only 3/4 there! We couldn't see any more of it there, but my eye still hurt (though not nearly as much).

Poor Grandma! I took her into the living room and turned on all the Christmas lights so she could see my magical room. We sat and talked for awhile, but I was distracted by the discomfort and by the greatly diminished vision in that eye. I didn't know if that sharp little piece of plastic in my eye could do major damage or not. I finally told Grandma I had to call the doctor. Got the doctor on call and told him the problem. He said I should go to urgent care -- that I shouldn't take chances with my eyesight. So we took Grandma back home and went to the Urgent Care on 13th and Willamette. We waited there for over an hour to be seen.

The doctor did a thorough check, and said there was nothing there except a scratch, which would cause the discomfort, but should be okay by the next day. So we paid our $25 Co-pay, and went back home.

He was right, by the next day my vision was back to normal, and it felt better, but I still felt there was something there, even thinking I could feel something floating around in there at times. When I closed my eyes tightly and when I looked to one side or the other, I thought I could still feel something there, but....

Then this morning my vision was a bit cloudy briefly, and I went in to look at my eye in the mirror, and what did I see, but the piece of contact! It took a little time, but I got it out!!

I had been thinking I needed to get an eye appointment, and upgrade my glasses and contacts because my vision hasn't been good for awhile. Now I know I need to do that! My glasses haven't been changed the past couple of times I got a slight contact change, so they really aren't doing the best job for me. I'll be calling an eye doctor this week and will hopefully get in soon for an exam and the means for better vision for 2006!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

It has been an eventful year - and next year promises more of the same . . . be interesting to look back a year from now to see the changes. May God reveal Himself to each of you in strong ways that lead you toward His plan. God bless!!!!