specifically Chilly's funky feet...
Funky feet have landed him a fabulous four day stay (or longer) at the fantastic hospital! Can you give me a woot woot?!? That's right,family & friends! Chilly is chillin' at the hospital as we speak! Yesterday was a flippin' fun day for me and the kiddos! We started our day out with friends at the zoo. I received a call from the Chillmeister that he was in the ER and was about to be admitted due to a blister that became a ridiculously large diabetic ulcer on the bottom of his foot. (Keep in mind he's recovering from a broken leg too...) Apparently, the "ulcer" has created conditions that could cause him to lose his foot (or worse, his life! He can't do anything without a little drama, you know...) So, just when I thought my life was returning to a bit of normalcy, BAM! Here we go again! The best part? He didn't even feel this festering killer wound because of nerve damage. If I had a wound like that, I would be screaming in agony or trying to chew my foot off for relief.....A blessing and a curse.....to be continued....
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Facebook Faux Pas
I have a confession....I do not Facebook, Text, Twitter, MySpace or any other techie type thing. The blog is all I can manage (and lately, I can't even do that with any sort of success...) I do have Facebook and Twitter accounts that I set up in the early days of blogging because I was new to this techie world and wasn't sure what it was all about. I am thinking of going over to the techie side here soon (maybe starting with Twitter.) If you have sent me a friend request for these accounts and I didn't respond, please do not be offended. I didn't really understand the whole "friend accepting" etiquette until yesterday when it was explained to me by a friend. I didn't know I had to click some sort of "accept" link. I just thought I was getting emails telling me I had some cool people who wanted me to be their friend. Oops! So please accept my Facebook & Twitter apologies and know that I will be clickety clicking through these emails soon!
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Family Fun
As I mentioned above, we went to the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson yesterday. It is a delightful small zoo that is pretty easy to get around. (and cheap too!) With my recent frugality brought about by Chilly's constant desire to come up with new and exciting medical dilemmas, I am all about the cheap! A beautiful white peacock lives at the zoo! Cat actually touched a few snakes too...{{{shudder}}} Overall, a fine day with friends until we received the phone call from Chilly....wah wah wah waaaaahhhhh......
(That brown blob in the middle of the photo is the snake.....)
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Friends in Need
My dear Fellow Bloggy Friends....we have a few friends who need some kindness sent their way!
*While reading YaYa's blog the other day, I was deeply moved by the story of Karen "Jo" Mosely. Jo (an amputee) drove herself to a hospital to have a radical mastectomy. She is all alone. I don't know about you, but that just broke my heart. YaYa has written a "Spirit Jumping" post that gives all of the details on how to send a little sunshine Jo's way. I know I am gonna do some Spirit Jumping today...how about you?
*Another bloggy buddy, Shannon from Last Shreds of Sanity, is
hosting a fundraiser to help out her brother who recently lost both of his jobs within a two week period. Yikes! For a mere three dollar donation, you will be entered in a contest to win a blog makeover from April Showers! Not only that, but April is offering two pre-made templates (made for this raffle) for anyone who donates $3! I don't know about you, but I would LOVE to have a custom template made by April! That girl rocks my socks off! Help a sister (and her brother!) out by clicking on over there!
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Finally....
Thank you again for the awesome support during my mini hiatus (aka nervous breakdown) recently. Although Chilly has had his ups and downs (and it appears we're in for more good times with that!) I am back in the Land of Blog. I am truly grateful for all of your support! On to happier times!
Join the Friday Fragments Fun over at Half Past Kissin' Time! It's one of my favorite posts to do!
Have a delightful weekend!
Comments
WB to be back in the land of blogging - we missed you!
Happy Friday! And I hope Chilly gets through this little snaf-foo SOON!
Welcome back. Don't feel obligated to blog; we'll be here whenever you need us :)
I use facebook as a form of communication, and the only apps I use are a couple of games but some people use it in ridiculous ways such as sending "gifts" which are just photos of something, or stupid quizzes. For the most part, I ignore all applications, and only use it to communicate and share photos. So, really, it can be as simple as you want it or as complicated and it actually irks me that so many people on my "friend" list don't actually use it to communicate and say hello once in a while. stop sending me little pictures of cupcakes and write a little message that says "hello how are you" instead. If you really want to give me a cupcake come to my house and bring me a real one. lol
MySpace I used it but not so much anymore. Again, alot of people send silly applications and half the "messages " I have on there are actually little pictures of cupcakes (I'm using that as my example again lol) and you know I'm in my 30's and I feel some of that is ameteurish but I still have my account up and occasionally, like every few months, pop by in there to catch up on a few people. but you know i'm at the point where I might spend some time saving some things and then getting rid of it all together.
I have not yet, amazingly, fallen prey to Twitter, but it's only a matter of time. lol ;)
and yea... at one point i had twitter, myspace, facebook, and my blog... YIKES!!! so i canceled myspace, have not touched twitter since i opened it (in fact i might head there now and cancel it too) and then for friends and distant living relatives i kept faceboook-- but my fave place to be... on my blog!
happy friday and try to take it easy dear!!
And I am just over all the social networking!
I don't facebook or twitter...I don't think there is much more people need to know about me other than I put on my blog...cause basically that is it!
...maybe once I get my i-phone I'll twitter...just cause then it'd be fun...on the go and all!
You deserve a medal of honor. Truly.
I shall nominate you.
xo
Take care...
:^) Anna
Jamie :)
I'm with you on the FB & twitter. I've got accounts with both, but never twitter and hardly FB!
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Im with you on Twitter and Facebook. I *JUST* got my own accounts in the last month or so. Not that I really wanted them, but they became a necessity. ANd now, they're a big ol time suck. *sigh*
I sent a card along to Karen just yesterday and helped Shan out a bit as well.
Tell him to feel better soon. :) Does he have peripheral neuropathy? That happens a lot with diabetics. Funy enough it causes both extreme pain AND numbness. Go figure! By the way, does he not look at his feet, ever? I think I might have noticed that myself, dang!
Thanks for the shout out about my fundraiser! :) Jeannie added her own giveaway to it to help me out. So now everyone who donates can go to her bloggy and enter for a handmade gift by the Queen.
How cool is that? I have such wondeeerful bloggy friends! I love you all for doing this for me! MUAH!
P.S.: You can set your twitter account to tweet AND facebook all you blog posts. You can also make all your tweets go to FB, too. AND you can download tweetdeck to your desktop and twitter & Fb from there. It's a big time saver.
And you crack me up with your Facebook faux pas! Too funny.
Hang in there...doesn't sound too boring to me yet....
You are awesome!
Kelly
i eliminated all of my friends from facebook save for my boyfriend, and twitter is right on the edge of my "i'm about to scream from the technical issues" point of turfing it too.
and congrats to your little one for such a great job dancing...i must have shown everyone within a 20 mile radius my 7 year olds ballet show:)
andy
Wishing you a beautiful week ahead,
♥ Jessica
Romance by Enid Wilson
Start with twitter. You might become addicted actually.
And thank you for spot-lighting the Spirit Jump :)