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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore.

Praying helps!: Special thoughts and prayers go out tonight for the families of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.
We add them to the ones for the families of Ed McMann and David Carradine.
They were all great entertainers and will be missed dearly by us all!
I am still too stunned to blog about it, but tonight I just wanted to keep them all in my thoughts and prayers!
Wow. I still can't believe it!
Hugs, Lisa

The Mansion of Heaven
(Author Unknown)

This world, however beautiful, was never meant to be
The place that we would call our home for all eternity.
And though we would not choose to leave, a loving
God knows best, and in His time,
He lifts us to a place of peace and rest,
For He has built a mansion where
His children will abide, free from pain and sorrow,
Forever at His side.
He said He’d never leave us to face our trials alone,
And though sometimes we fail Him, He never fails His own.
And even when our choices are less than He would ask,
He knows when human courage is unequal to the task.
We cannot judge what happens,
Though tears and questions start –
We only see what’s visible – God sees into the heart…..

And though there may be many things that we cannot explain,
We can be sure it breaks His heart to see His children’s pain.
In loving arms, He bears us to a quiet place apart
Where He mends the wounded spirit
And heals the broken heart.
And though these one we love so much
Have left our present sight, and passed into a
Better world of majesty and light,
Someday we’ll be together in our Father’s home above,
Where we’ll thank Him for His mercy
And praise Him for His love.

Amen

Thursday June 25, 2009 - 10:32pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment
Pet Peeve of The Week: Cell Phone Users: What did we do before cell phones?

I cannot believe how much cell phones effect some peoples lives! What is it about talking on the phone that is so fascinating that some people cannot go a few hours without their cell phone attached to their ears?
Employees come into my store just chatting away on their cell phones. They spend their lunch hour talking on the phone. When they leave for the day - there it is - attached to their ear once again. There is no telling what they wouldn't do while talking on the phone. LOL..

It is nauseating to see how these people cannot seem to function unless they are having a senseless, nonsensical, ludicrous, imbecilic, laughable conversation 24/7 if they could.

Customers come into our store the same way. They cannot stop their conversation for one minute to have the courtesy to ask for what they want rather than motion with their hands. It disgusts me when they stay on the phone and every few minutes they say "hold on" as the inconvenience of answering my questions impedes their conversation. UGH!

But the worst is the bathroom call! What is so important that they have to bring the cell phone into the BATHROOM! The BATHROOM! It drives me crazy when I hear the person in the next stall having a meaningless conversation while sitting on the pot! I love to flush the toilet a few times just to let the person on the other end of the phone know where they are calling them from!

It just makes me sick the way some people cannot function without being on their phone every second they can!

And don't even get me started on the subject of cell phones used while driving in the car! I cannot even count the number of near avoided accidents because someone was so involved in their conversation that they stopped paying attention to the signs, lights, while changing lanes or backing out!

Well that's my vent for the day!
He he!
Hope you are having a good week and that you have an even better weekend!

Hugs and kisses!

Luv ya,
Lucky

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Saturday June 6, 2009 - 12:05am (CDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment
The new 360 :): Hey everyone!
Interesting changes.....

So first (out of the blue) Multiply totally changes it's look and feel. Okay, I can get used to the changes, but I am still not sure if they are better or not. Then I see on one of my friends blogs that Yahoo is not only set to close, but there is now a new Yahoo. Looking at a lot of my old friends blasts and posts, the consensus is that we all want to try it out. Yahoo was always home to a lot of us!

I briefly set up my page and started inviting friends to join me. A lot of familiar faces and much loved friends began to appear. The only frustration I have so far is that every time I try to invite someone now, I keep getting this message: "We're sorry, we encountered a problem while attempting to process your request. Please try again later.Error: 502"
Talk about frustrating! Is anyone else having this problem? LOL..all I keep thinking is that this is a sign of things to come..lol...I can't remember when Yahoo was not a pain...so I am hoping this is just a passing glitch.

On a positive note...hello to all my old friends that had not joined Multiply! I am also glad that a lot of friends from Multiply that left 360 are going back to give it a try!

I know I haven't blogged a lot this past year, but I think with these changes I am probably going to start it up again! I am glad to know that some of my favorite friends are blogging again as well!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Big hugs!

Luv ya,
Lucky

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Sunday May 31, 2009 - 09:57pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment
Happy Mother's day!: Hey guys!

Well, things are better this week and the end of my vacation was pretty nice.
Mom and I went shopping and I bought like ten new outfits for work and I spent the money mom gave me for my birthday on a new purse and wallet.
Mom and I have had our battles (more mine with her) through the years, and I know all she has wanted was for us to be close.
Hard for me to do when I still harbor resentment, anger, and other things I won't bore you with.
Needless to say, it takes a lot for me to spend "quality time" with the woman.
But I am trying...and we actually had a very nice time together.
It was the first time we haven't fought in I don't know how long!
That's an accomplishment in itself!

Her birthday was on Wednesday (Thanks to those of you that wished her a Happy Birthday - that was very sweet!) John and I took her to a place called Macaroni Grill.
Really good food, atmosphere and service!

The neat thing when you have a birthday celebration there is that the waiters sing to you in Italian!
My friends took me a few years ago and I had four HOT guys singing Happy Birthday to me in Italian, a piece of scrumptious cake with a candle on it, and an overall good feeling.
I thought mom would love it! And she did! :)

When we walked in they asked if we were there for s special occasion and mom proudly said "It's my birthday!" so as we all were escorted to our seats I hung back and asked the hostess if we could get a piece of cake with a candle on it and "Happy Birthday" sung. She said no problem! This worked out really well because usually I have to excuse myself and pretend to go to the bathroom and really be sneaky about it.
I do it with all my friends when we go out for their birthdays. They added a really nice touch and also brought mom an iris flower! She was in Heaven!

Our waitress was the one who sang to us and she had a really lovely voice! Mom was just thrilled! They brought a piece of chocolate cake with chocolate syrup on it (you know the kind where you gain ten pounds just LOOKING at it!).
We had been taking pictures and our waitress
asked if we wanted her to take a picture of all of us. I thought that was sweet of her! All in all we had a lot of fun and mom called the next day still gushing about the wonderful time she had and how it was such a nice birthday! We were glad she enjoyed it so much!

For Mother's Day I decided to give mom her favorite thing to do with me - spend the day together! He he! So we are going shopping and out for lunch on Wednesday. She is so excited!

Work took a lot out of me this week and I slept today until 11.00! I ate breakfast and went back to sleep until 4:00! LOL..I think I needed the sleep! We called both our Mother's and wished them a Happy Mother's Day.

We don't have kids but our cats are our "children" he he!

I hope all you Mother's had a wonderful day and all you children enjoyed time with your moms!

Take care everyone! Have a great week!
Hugs,
Lucky

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Sunday May 10, 2009 - 09:43pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
Hey guys! I finally had time to do a blog!!: Hey everyone!
Well I guess it's about time I wrote a real blog again. So much has happened this past year, so I will try and do a synopsis of the most important events!

John and I were hoping to sign another lease on our house for another year, but our landlord's investors decided they wanted to sell the house. We were more than disappointed...but we had to face the reality that moving was imminent. So we agreed to move out in December...

Thanksgiving was really nice! We invited both friends and family and I think wound up with around 12 people! I love cooking Thanksgiving dinner and John was pretty shocked at how well everything turned out! The year before, my friend Amy came to surprise me Thanksgiving week. Apparently her and Geek had been planning it for a couple of months. Geek even got John in on the surprise and made him promise to get me to Church that Sunday - which I think was the only day Amy and I got to spend together.
Ironically John and I went to Florida to visit his family! It was the one and only time I have ever been able to get time off for Thanksgiving! Ironic huh? Anyway, since then Amy has moved to Texas, and so her and Geek were some of the invited guests.

John and I started looking for a new house right after Thanksgiving, but there was nothing but really awful places! Finally we hit on the house we eventually decided on.

It is really similar to our old house, but not nearly as big! But we have a heated pool with a waterfall and a really nice porch and backyard.

The people who lived here had really strange taste! For instance here is the kitchen! Can you say RRREEEEDD? LOL!

Here is our porch! Actually it is pretty cool in person! That was one thing that attracted us to the house! He he! I like having a closed in porch.

Work sucks but I am thankful I have a job! Retail sucks and anyone that is foolish enough to make a career out of it is just plain crazy! This August will mark my 13th year with this company. When you work retail you are literally married to your job. A normal week for me is 50-55 hours. That coupled with having Multiple Sclerosis makes for a very tired woman at the end of the day. You can imagine how it is at the end of the week. All I do is sleep on my days off!

I realized a few months ago how "sad and pathetic" ( winking at Geek) my life is. John and I love each other so much but we have no time, energy, or anything left for each other at the end of the day. We both work our tails off just to keep our heads above water, and that leaves us nothing left to give to each other. It's all we can do to spend any time together. It is just not fair that we work so hard and have no time to enjoy it!

My best friends are all in other states now or have kids or are into deep relationships. I found myself realizing the other day that my support system is gone. There's just no one to really talk to anymore. No ONE friend that I can share my feelings with completely and totally. What happened to the days when there were multiple friends around? Where are the friends I hooked up with like "Sex and the City?" Hell, Samantha just turned 50 and they've been best friends since their 20's. All my friends got married, moved away, had kids, new relationships, new views on life that didn't seem the same as mine anymore. We got older, moved in different directions, changed or grew into different people. How sad. Here I needed to talk to someone, really needed someone to listen to me, and I realized I had no one to turn to. Wow. How depressing is that?
Sometimes it's hard to pick yourself back up when you are sooo beaten down!

John and I are polar opposites, and while we can appreciate how the other feels, we just don't speak the same language sometimes. I know how our partners are supposed to be our "best friends" etc, but sometimes I need someone of the same sex to really understand where I am coming from. John tries (bless his heart!) but there are times I just need some female support. Ironic since all my best friends used to be guys! I always had a plethora of friends (mostly guys) and never felt as alone as I do right now.

I used to write in my diary, then I used to blog, but lately my will to express myself is just zapped in an expressionless moment of fatigue and exhaustion! Both physical and mental! It didn't hit me quite as hard until this past week when I realized I am in a real bad depression! Before I went on vacation I had a really bad anxiety/panic attack at work. It was so severe they had to call the paramedics. It lasted well over an hour and needless to say my blood pressure was sky high and my chest felt like I had had a mountainous heart attack! I couldn't catch my breath and it is pretty scary when you can't breath and it feels like daggers are in your chest. Thank God I had 2 previous attacks - one ten years ago - and the other about five - so I knew what it was. Otherwise I would've thought I was having a heart attack. The paramedics were all very nice (and ladies let me tell you....they were HOT!!!) If I had needed mouth to mouth I wouldn't have minded...he he! Okay so even in the pitfalls of despair I can still maintain a sense of humor! The really good looking one said he thought I shouldn't go to work the next day. He said I should just call in and tell them I can't see. "I can't see?" "Yes..tell them you can't SEE going to work!" Hehehehehehe. Funny...(rolling eyes). But true to my sense of responsibility and knowing I was starting vacation the day after, I went in the next day and worked an 11 hour shift. Isn't it ironic how we work harder when we GO on vacation and then when we come BACK. Almost makes it not worthwhile to take one huh?

Well, Saturday was not only the last night of my vacation, but it was the first night in almost two years that John and I have spent apart! His stepfather is dying and his mother is running herself ragged trying to take care of him, keep up care of the house and yard, doing everything by herself..and she is 79!! Bless her heart! John's Aunt called us to ask John to go down there. His mom is not in the best of health herself and she is just as stubborn as John when it comes to asking for help. Since we can't afford for him to fly there twice, and his sister can't afford it either - they came up with the plan that John would go down now, and his sister will go down when his stepfather passes for the funeral. He's a great "husband" so why would I be surprised that he is also a great son too? <smiling> We have already decided that after his stepfather dies we are going to bring his mom here to live with us for awhile. Heck, we have plenty of room. She'll have her own bedroom and bathroom. I think it will be really good for her to get away for awhile...I don't mind her staying with us at all! She's a wonderful woman! That's her and John and his sister at Thanksgiving 2007.

Speaking of wonderful women..(quick segue here). Friday night Amy took me out for my birthday dinner.

She took me to a great Chinese food place where neither of us had been before.It is called Yao Fuzi Cuisine. The food was soo good! I had shrimp with lobster sauce and it was to die for! It was just great! Not only to be able to spend time together again, but it was a really nice thing to do for my birthday!

John has been sick for two weeks now and was so sick on my birthday that I told him not to worry about taking me out. Birthdays just aren't that big a deal anymore! He bought me a portable hard drive backup so I'll never have to worry about losing anything on my computer again. it's called
"My Passport Essential".Very cool!

I love Amy like a sister and I love the fact that we all have remained friends - her, Geek and I. It is kinda weird sometimes that she is living with my ex bf. But even though Geek and I are no longer a couple, I will always want us to stay friends and want the best for him. It is kind of ironic that in a roundabout way I am with John because of Geek, and he is with Amy because of me. ...

It has been a long restful vacation, and I am dreading going back to work! This was "Doctor week" and I have been poked, prodded, and tested all week. I had my annual checkups at both my regular and Gyn doctors. Blood work, pap smear, had a cyst removed and am awaiting the results of the biopsy, sonogram, mammogram, ultrasound, bone density test. Whew! I need a vacation from my vacation! LOL! What a great vacation huh? Aside from that I just slept and slept and slept. Watched t.v. Ate. And slept and slept and slept! LOL. Geek left town Friday and John left town Saturday morning. John kept teasing me and Amy about going "out on the town" while our men are away! He he! It's a nice thought but I think we are both not up to it! lol! I was supposed to meet Debbie for lunch on Tuesday (her almost free day)

but after having a surprise biopsy and sonogram the day before, I wasn't in any shape physically or mentally to go out for lunch! You know? My M.S. has been up and down all week. Last month I had the run of M.R.I.'s..brain and full spine. But while the tests showed no progression of the disease and no active lesions..I'm still in remission for the PROGRESSION (no new damage has been done) but I still have the SYMPTOMS of the disease.

While having this disease does suck, I know it could be worse.... remember guys..in your darkest hour..it could always be worse. That's what keeps me going I suppose. It could be so much worse. But I am lucky to have the gifts that I have in my life..John, Amy, Geek, Debbie, all my friends on 360 and Multiply.

I have a good job, a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, my family and John's that are very loving. And of course I have a loving, supportive man which absolutely helps!

Yes, having M.S. is the pits. Some nights the pain is so bad I just want to die. But there are good days too. At least I can still work. I can still walk. I can get out of bed everyday. Some people don't think they have much to be thankful for. But everyday when I get out of bed, get dressed and go to a job that I am really beginning to hate, come home to a man that I really love - I am grateful and thankful to God that I was able to get up and out and go through my day...
Some people are not as "lucky."

Well, I am off to visit some of your blogs! Sorry for being my usual long winded self. Thanks for letting me vent!

Thanks again to those of you that have stuck by me...even in my long absences..your messages and comments always brought a smile to my face! The times I may not have answered, please know how much I did appreciate and love you for it! You guys are the best!!!

I love you all very much! And yes, I am a VERY LUCKY person to have the privilege of knowing some really great people on both sites!

Take care you guys! Talk to you soon!

Love always,
Lucky Lisa

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