Thing are slow around here, BLOG people!!! I have a few project in the works but nothing to blog about. I am looking for a song for Buddy's birthday video. Any idea's?
I haven' been playing much with my camera, since I got permission to buy my new lens's (is that plural, cause I can't just buy one I need them ALL). Now the camera seems boring with out them...but I can't afford them yet, so, I have to wait. Come on dividends!
School starts soon, I am job hunting again, you will find I do this every fall and nothing ever happens. Maybe this year I will apply myself! Byrd is only going into 4th grade, doesn't take everyone 4 years to find a job?
I am committed to volunteer for the MS bike ride. I am still looking for buddies...I sent out an email to my friends and relatives with the details!! Who's with me? How come I can find all these things to volunteer for but if it involves making money I don't want to do it?
Did you know "Windows Live Messenger" will donate a portion of their advertising revenue to a charity of your choice every time you chat on Messenger? So now every time you chat me up, I am raising funds for the National MS Society. There are several different Charities you can donate to...check it out!
I am going to do it! I am going to volunteer this year, for the National Multiple Sclerosis Bike Ride. It starts at Mile 63 Seward Highway (Moose Pass), the riders ride into Seward, stay the night and ride back out for a total of 126 miles. It is my understanding that you can have a "team" and share the distance, so next year, maybe, I can get a team together to do some fund raising. This year, I will just volunteer, maybe as a photographer, or wherever. Anyone want to join me?
Twelve more days and school starts, the girls are all registered. Spent the week doing that ...one girl... one school...one a day. Big changes this year Rose has to ride the bus for the first time, Byrd is the only one at her school now, and Tay is a big bad 8th grader. The only hassle we had this year with her registration is they stuck Tay in PE again and two class were out in relocatable, No Wheelchair access. Which mean she is inside for Health and is disappointed that it will be taught by the male teacher that tends to look at her breasts and comment how nice her PLAIN WHITE t-shirt is. Everyone was teasing that I map out two hours to do Tay's registration. There's reason behind my madness! Now its time for supplies, and what I save by not buying glue sticks and crayons will be spent on Rosey's activity fees...is it wrong for me to pressure her into wrestling? I do miss watching sports!! Tay got her Journalism class, but had to give up keyboarding for art (my girls hate art). Rosey got French, home economics, Art and Keyboarding. homework should be a fun battle with two in JR high.
Rosey has been working hard on some video's
She had a friend over and they taped this, then put it all together. There are two more video's she is working on. I need to get her into the Audio video Club.
Here is Lou's Birthday, it was from back in May, but I just finished for Sister dear so she would feel left out.
On another note, Have you ever heard of this web site? I got a message on my FLICKR account that they wanted a photo of mine. It wasn't a great photo so I let them have it....but now I am published!!!! My photo is in the slide show, on the right lower part of the article.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Our trip was one of waiting, now I remember why we moved to Anchorage, so a dang doctor appointment wouldn't be a whole day thing. The flight down was a long one, it left an hour late, and of coarse we were on the plane when they decided something need fixed. So there went any sleep, as I worried about the plane going down over a 50 cent part.
When I did finally go to sleep I was awoken a half hour later buy this snuffling snorting noise. The gentlemen sitting in front of me, in the bulk head, was standing up staring at me making these odd noises, the noises were like what I would imagine a pig making when they are rooting for grub. It wouldn't have been so bad, god forgive me for saying this, but his whole face was deformed, swollen and lumpy, like a tumor, like Quasimodo, at 3am it is not a good way to wake up. Needless to say I did not go back to sleep because he wouldn't sit down and stop starring at us.
When we arrived, our ride to the Hospital was there waiting for us, we arrived just in time for the morning rush hour, 7am, the 30 minute ride took an hour. We waited at the hospital for her 9am physical therapy appointment, which was a mistake, they canceled that one and didn't tell us, but on a good note we didn't have to wait until 1:30 to see the doctor. By 10 am, the x-rays were good and we were waiting in the exam room. The doctor pushed and poked then had Taylor walk. "It doesn't get better then that!" his words (not mine) and for a perfectionist it was exactly what I wanted to hear. He also noted her hip flexion wasn't as bad as he thought. So maybe that means he won't have to operate on her hips and fix what I think the other doc broke.
The Physical therapist (note the therapist not terrorist, AWESOME GUY) Herb, noted that Taylor tends to pick her walker up when she turns and that she doesn't set it back down until she has taken a few steps. She is doing independent standing and a few steps. She didn't realize that, Herb asked her to walk/stand alone, it didn't work. Our conclusion, the next step is overcoming the mental side of it all, a battle she has to overcome. Which means we are back to where we were before the burns and torn knee tendons. YEAH!!!! Her next appointment is in October here in Anchorage, if all goes well there she won't have to go down again until May for another Gait Clinic.
By 11:30 we were done, but our plane didn't leave for another 12 hours, we talked our way into a ride back to the airport, where we lucked out. A flight leaving at 5:10 had two empty seats. We were on it at 4:30 and I was passed out by 4:40, I didn't even hear the other passenger board not did I feel the take off. Our stewardess was the same on from the flight down and she made sure the rest of the flight crew knew we only wanted to sleep. I am not sure when Tay finally slept but I know she slept hard because I have the drool stain on my pants where she laid her head and she had some major morning breath. We were home by 9pm where we were greeted with what did you buy us. Dang we forgot the souvenir's.
It was an adventure...not...more of a hassle, but we made it through. Wednesday before we left I was trying to finish up some photo's. All day I worked on this, but didn't have a chance to post it....so hear you go....
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
I can't believe time has flown by so fast. What has happened all week, the house was quiet without Byrd...we had two great BBQ's one for Riley's Birthday, the other just for the tequila! I have been working on a video for Josh, Crissy, and Riley. It's going slow because I have no music appropriate for a two year old party that won't drive an adult nuts! I picked Byrd up from camp and Tay and I fly out tonight...not much else is happening.
