Posts from — January 2010

Welcome to Friday Felicities, a meme created by Nattie – now a resident of heaven. This meme is all about creating a list of things that make you happy and Nattie knew that when you concentrate on your blessings your sorrows are not as overwhelming.

If you would like to participate please create your own blog post and come back here to link it with other Friday Felicities participants. If you don’t mind, please include a link on your blog to mine so others can also participate with us.

Sales clerk, barista, telemarketer, sign waver…

At twenty-five, free-spirited Becca Daniels is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. What Becca doesn’t want to be is bored. She craves the rush of a new experience, whether it’s an extreme sport, a shocking hair color, or a new guy. That’s why she quit her bookstore job, used her last bit of credit to go skydiving, and broke her leg.

And that’s why, grounded and grumpy, Becca bristles when teased by friends for being commitment-phobic. In response, Becca issues an outrageous wager—that she can sustain a three-month or twenty-five date relationship with the next guy who asks her out. When the guy turns out to be “churchy” Ben—definitely not Becca’s type—she gamely embarks on a hilarious series of dates that plunge her purple-haired, free-speaking, commitment-phobic self into the alien world of church potlucks and prayer meetings.

This irrepressible Getaway Girl will have you cheering her on as she “suffers” through her dates, gains perspective on her life’s purpose, and ultimately begins her greatest adventure of all.

If you’d like to read the first chapter of Becca By The Book, go HERE

I really liked this book a lot. A little different from the usual Christian romance books.

Life for Kelly McGregor is a daily drudge of driving her overbearing father’s mules along Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Canal. She dreams of one day owning an art gallery where her own drawings and paintings are on display. But these dreams don’t include marriage. . .not after seeing what her father has done to her mother. How then can Mike Cooper, a general store owner, make her realize he is different than her father and wants to support her artistic talent? Will Kelly learn that dreams can walk hand in hand with a love created by God?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Kelly’s Chance , go HERE.

Every month I have to fill out an inventory sheet and call my supply company to let them know what I have and what I need.  It’s a pretty simple process and the sheet does all the work for me – all I have to do is make a note of how many unopened boxes of solution I have left (by bag size and solution strength) and what other things I need such as tape, masks, etc.

My inventory sheet today looks a little like this:  unopened boxes of 2.5 liter solution – yellow (1.5%) 5, green (2.5%) 2 and red (4.25%) 4.  My 6 liter bags are 10 yellow, 14 green and 7 red.

I’ll be ordering mini caps (a new one for my catheter after every exchange), cassettes and tubing (for the cycler), drain bags (my drain line doesn’t reach the bathroom so I use a big drain bag and then empty it), patient extensions (so I can watch TV in the LR after I connect at night), soap, tape, masks, IV sponges (to cover my exit site), 2×2 gauze bandages (to clean the catheter after every exchange and 4×4 bandages (sterile place to place my catheter on while I am getting ready to connect).

If my prescription changes, my nurse calls the supply place and lets them know what I need.  Everything is very organized and the process is always smooth.  My supply company will even mail early supplies I need if they see I don’t have enough to last me till the next delivery.

The delivery guys is nice too.  Last month after he unloaded my supplies, he played a few games of Wii with the boys.

Just a little look into my world…

Welcome to Friday Felicities, a meme created by Nattie – now a resident of heaven. This meme is all about creating a list of things that make you happy and Nattie knew that when you concentrate on your blessings your sorrows are not as overwhelming.

If you would like to participate please create your own blog post and come back here to link it with other Friday Felicities participants. If you don’t mind, please include a link on your blog to mine so others can also participate with us.

Today I made this daily to do list to help me keep on track. I thought some of you might find it handy so I am sharing it with you.

To do Template

Thrills, mystery, suspense, romance: Margaret penned it all. Nothing wrong with this, except Margaret happened to be writing for the church newsletter. After making the church picnic read like a Grisham novel, her former pastor took her aside and said, “Maybe God’s calling you to write fiction.”

It turns out God was and Margaret did. She now has more than 20 novels to her credit. In addition, she’s written many Christian articles and a non-fiction book. Still, it took a lot of prodding from God before Margaret tried her hand at writing inspirational fiction which led to her Rocky Creek series. “I love writing about characters at different stages of faith,” she says of the new direction her writing career has taken, “and I’m here to stay.”  Happily married to her real-life hero, Margaret and her husband live in Southern California.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sarah Prescott has never known a respectable life; just a hardscrabble childhood and brothers who taught her to shoot straight.

Justin Wells left Boston in disgrace, heading out alone on the dusty trail to Texas. But when the once-respected clergyman encounters a feisty redhead in handcuffs with a dying US Marshall at her side, their journey takes a dramatic turn.

His high society expectations and Sarah’s outlaw habits clash from the start. With a price on her head and a sweet orphan in tow, Justin and Sarah make the difficult journey toward Rocky Creek. There justice will be meted out hopefully with a portion of grace.

If you would like to read the first chapter of A Lady Like Sarah, go HERE

This was not a bad book, it was just definitely not my style and I did not enjoy reading it. However, you may – it was definitely written in contemporary style.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

An unwed (and unwanted) teen pregnancy with two possible fathers. Abusive relationships. Drug and alcohol addiction. Rape and molestation. The struggle to understand grace, forgiveness, and free will versus predestination. The Judas Ride hits the road running in the opening pages, where Sonia and Xavier argue explosively about whether Sonia should have their unborn child and about who the father is: Xavier, a struggling Christian, or Vader, an abusive and abused drug dealer. As the pages turn, readers continue to meet a hodgepodge of troubled teens and eclectic characters, including Pastor Manny, a quirky immigrant pastor infatuated with John Wayne. Pastor Manny desires to help the tortured souls in his community but finds that it takes more than unconditional love to reach them. Secrets literally kill in The Judas Ride, an edgy, in-your-your face Christian novel that boldly explores the struggles of modern-day young people.

If you would like to read the first chapter of The Judas Ride, go HERE

Welcome to Friday Felicities, a meme created by Nattie – now a resident of heaven. This meme is all about creating a list of things that make you happy and Nattie knew that when you concentrate on your blessings your sorrows are not as overwhelming.

If you would like to participate please create your own blog post and come back here to link it with other Friday Felicities participants. If you don’t mind, please include a link on your blog to mine so others can also participate with us.

• somewhat warmer temps
• house maintenance
• delish meals
• a plan coming together!

Wednesday
Easy Spicy Chicken and Rice, Green Beans with bacon, Cold Pineapple Chunks

Thursday
B – Oatmeal, banana
L – Tuna salad, chips
D – Baked Ziti, Salad, Garlic Bread

Friday
B – Muffins, applesauce
L – Corndog Muffins, Chips
D – Salmon Patties, Cole Slaw, Rice-A-Roni

Saturday
B – Cereal and/or Coffee Cake
L – BLT’s, Celery sticks, Ranch dip
D – Salisbury Steak, Egg Noodles, Steamed Broccoli

Sunday
B – Cinnamon Rolls
L – Taco Soup in the crockpot, tortilla chips
D – left overs