My friend that called me last week to find out a way to get people to donate money for a family of 4 to eat dinner without using their own money let me know the rest of the story. She was in Salt Lake City for a training and her group was asked to find a family of 4 that needed help and to buy them dinner by getting people to donate and they couldn't use their own money. The family of 4 that they found had a 3 year old son and a 3 month old baby that had been born very premature. They got to be a part of the healing process for this young family as they told of the mother's and baby's complications. They ended up with $125 which they bought KFC dinner and put the rest on a Walmart gift card! What a blessing that challenge turned out for all involved! I am glad I could be a small part of it! God works in mysterious ways!
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Something is seriously wrong with me... Last night I was dreaming about blogging!!!! And when I woke it took me a minute to realize it was a dream and not real!!! Holy Hannah!!!
I was dreaming that I was driving in Utah County on this road that goes almost straight down and then straightens out for just about 3 car lengths and goes almost straight up again. In the dream it was snowing like a blizzard and icy as well. I was figuring out how to drive on this road with the ice, my car, and an oar from a boat to steer with. Lol The whole time I am dreaming about this road I kept thinking I need to get my computer so I can blog about this!!! Seriously?!?!? What is wrong with me?!?!?! I hate driving in the snow and ice! Seriously hate it!!! This should have been a nightmare! Instead of being a nightmare it was just something to blog about!!! Okay that means that blogging has taken on a whole new place in my life!!! Being able to express myself and feel like I have put it out to the world makes it so it doesn't hold this terrifying grip on me like it would have before!!! Blogging is definitely dream worthy!!! It is helping me so much with the managing of my anxiety!!! Hallelujah!!! I have just recognized an amazing tool that I have acquired!!! I have cabin fever and yucky winter weather blues and need a vacation!!! While I have been here in Utah since mid October my friend Silvia has been jetting around all over the world!!! A few days ago she asked me when I was going to go on a vacation!?!?! Seriously?!?!?! I have had to think really hard if I can continue to be her friend!!! When I asked her how many vacations she had been on since mid October, Silvia, was smart and said she didn't want to rub it in!!! I know of 3 more vacations she is going on before July!!! If she weren't such a nice person I would have to give her up as a friend!!! Lol
I am so thankful I am getting some of my health back that I can't complain too much that the recovery is keeping me from going on some vacations! However, the weather and horrible air quality coming again is almost more than I can handle. I think I am going to have to take a page from my friend Marianne and have a Hawaii vacation here at my house!!! Maybe she still has all the pictures and recipes!!! If you can't go on vacation bring the vacation to you!!! Love you Silvia and Marianne!!! On Saturday I received a call from an old friend, and I thought she had called to catch up as she does sometimes... However, that was not the case! She was in Salt Lake City and had to do something to get people to donate money to feed a family of 4 for dinner. She asked me if I had any ideas that I had seen work in downtown Salt Lake City. The only thing that came to mind is I could donate a little bit if she had venmo. She said that she wasn't asking me for money and what was venmo! Lol (She does live out in a rural area... I have to give her a little slack!) She asked the little group she was with if anyone had venmo. (She informed me that the younger people in her group had venmo... She should have known!!!! LOL) I gave a small donation and hung up. Hmmmm... This all sounds very Amazing Race-ish!!!
I haven't found out from Kellie on what all they did and how much they ended up with. At one point she text messaged me to let me know that I had started them on a roll and they were up to $65. I hope she let's me know what she was up to and why! It now has me wanting to watch Amazing Race again!!! LOL As you know I went to my voodoo doctor yesterday, and she was doing some energy and electric readings on me, and I had a lot of toxins that although helped fight off viruses etc they didn't leave when they were done! My Voodoo doctor asked if she could start the process to detox and I said yes absolutely!!! She then warned me that I would feel sick to my stomach and have joint and head ache. I still gave my permission, how bad could it be??? Right?!?!? Uugh!!! It is like having a very yucky flu!!!
I am holding off on the rest of the detox until my body calms down!!! I promise going to an energy and electric frequency healer is wonderful and helps so much!!! Even with a detox it is worth it!!! Lol When I was talking to her as the she was reading my body I all of a sudden had a surge of positive energy go into my hands. I didn't pay attention to where the surge ended up because I was fascinated with the strength of the surge and was focused on my hands. I asked her to do it again that it had felt so good!!! It was the subject of what we were talking about that had been the part of the surge of energy and it didn't happen again! It was amazing!!! I hadn't even felt anything like that before! I told my friend about it and she thought it was hilarious!!! She asked me later on last night if I was feeling anymore surges because she was talking about me!!! Dang!!! I didn't get that surge again!!! It was so amazing! I went to my Voodoo Dr today! She is so awesome! I took some of the meds that my primary care physician has me taking to see if my body liked the meds for not. My body did like the meds. I had her check to see if my body liked the CBD oil or the THC and my body hates it!!! I kept thinking if I found the right mix it would get rid of the pain... it didn't and now I know why!!! What was so fantastic is that my Voodoo doctor said my primary car doctor is amazing!!! I always knew Dr Lym, was amazing. He takes his time and really listens and works with me to find what works the best for me!!! I also tell my primary care doctor about my Voodoo doctor and asks me what she says and what she has me doing!
Everyone needs to have a doctor as good as my doctor and have a Voodoo doctor as well!!! My therapist, Ms. Rock, gave me a ton of tools to manage my anxiety as well. As you all know that I admire Brene Brown and her teaching about shame and vulnerability. I have to tell a story on myself... When I was first going to my therapist and she was introducing to me that it is okay to be imperfect, I had a panic attack in her office. My therapist realized immediately that she had to really tread lightly with me. I was a person in crisis! Lol I don't know a single person that was in such crisis when they first went to their therapist that they had a panic attack in the therapist's office!! HAHAHA I was seriously in crisis and look at how far I have come!!! I am putting off my surgery to get rid of the tumors on my legs for a while. I want to make sure I have totally healed from my last surgery I had in September! I want to have the tumors gone and to have that pain gone, however, I am not a fast healer and I am allowing myself to not be a fast healer and am waiting! I AM IMPERFECT AND I AM ENOUGH!!! Today is my 3rd or 4th day with a migraine! Not one of my migraine meds are working to get rid of it, Not even my shot!!!! I have reached emergency status!!! I text messaged my Voodoo Dr to let her know I am in dire need! She had a cancellation on Thursday!!! Now if I can just survive until then. You might think I am joking, however, this is the low down on how things are going...
Christmas is over and so in my estimation the snow should be done as well... Not only is the snow not gone there is 2 to 3 feet of snow in the yard!!!! (and this time I am not exaggerating!!!) I hate to drive in the snow!!! And not only is there snow!!!! It is freezing!!! I have a migraine and I only feel up to doing laundry when I have a migraine if even doing that!!! (Everybody knows that laundry is one of the worst chores... It is so bad that it only comes behind cleaning the toilet and emptying the dishwasher!!!!) And now when I try to write my blog (the only thing I have done today that I like doing... oh and making enchiladas for dinner! they were yummy by the way!) my right hand keeps moving over one key so when I look at what I am typing it is all jibberish and I have to retype it!!!! Uugh!!! Today I cannot do hard things! Today I want to have a pity party and in fact I think I am going to go do that right now. Thursday cannot come fast enough!!! I watched the movie Uncle Buck recently and it reminded me of the laissez-taire parenting style that there used to be. Uncle Buck is looking for his niece that is missing in action. He asks a couple in a car if they knew of a party going on. They affirmed that they did and that their son was there. Uncle Buck said that his niece was also. The parents didn't seem to care about their son being at this wild party. While watching this part of the movie it brought back the memory of our towns council woman holding a keg party for all graduating seniors from my high school. I happened to be a senior that year. I went to the party for a whole 5 minutes and then went to a more sedate party. It was so weird that a council woman was breaking the law and everyone seemed just fine with that! LOL I think that parents didn't have to worry as much about their kids... We tried to please our parents and overall were much more innocent! All though there were still kids that lived in a nightmare back then too.
In that day and age I know that some of my friends could go to the local 7-11 or chevron and pick up cartons of cigarettes, and or booze. The only requirement being a note from home! In fact at a lot of gas stations the cigarettes were in vending machines for everyone to use. There was also the smoking section behind the portables at the my high school. I remember seeing one of my favorite teachers their smoking with the students. Here is the funny part of all this... We could smoke cigarettes or wacky tabacky, however, we could not leave campus without permission. They hired 2 ladies gave them walkie talkies and they patrolled the student parking lot to make sure we did not leave campus. Things have sure changed since then. My cute niece, Katie, took pictures of me for my dating profile. I had fun being with her and her mom in Murray Park! It is such a pretty place to take pictures! My daughter, Megan, and my daughter in law, Dawn, both had their pictures in their wedding dresses taken there.
Yesterday was a pokemon day at the park. Everyone was walking around looking at their phones! It was so funny to see! Twenty somethings and kids with their parents. One particular dad and his 2 kids seem to be photo bombing quite a lot!Lol They claimed that wasn't what they were doing ;) They just wanted the good pokemons and we were in their way!!! Hahaha There is one photo when I am laughing and I really like it even though it probably just looks like I have my mouth hanging open!!! I know I am laughing and having a good time. It was freezing yesterday and putting my arm down on that cold metal and it made my arm feel so cold it had to be getting frost bite! (only a wee bit of exaggeration there!) That is the reason I am laughing! I even find it funny when I am thinking I will get frost bite!!! Yesterday was also my mother in law's birthday. Now that I am not working I get my days and dates confused and didn't remember it was her birthday until Katie reminded me. My mother in law was a wonderful example of strength, kindness, with a brilliant mind. She is very much the way my own parents are and is one of the reasons I love her so much! I was sad I didn't know it was her birthday until I was reminded. I think today is a rambling blog day. No ADHD meds today. In fact the pharmacy changed one of my meds from one generic for another and I think that is really messing me up! So weird that a little change like that can bring on such a big change in me. Yesterday was the first day with the change and I had a migraine come on that I am still fighting! Uugh! Meds! Okay here our some of the pics I picked! :) HA! I just made a funny! |
I am Ally. I am the center of my universe and I can determine whether to be a victim, survivor or thriver. At one time or another I have been all of the above... I am choosing to thrive!
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