Sometimes the truth hurts

Yesterday I went to Walmart to buy a new pair of shoes and also to exchange Tylers new jeans that I got him for his birthday. I found the cutest pair of sandals for like $12.00 and a pair of cheap canvas slip ons for $4.50 so I grabbed them, found the right size jeans for Tyler and headed over to customer service. I didn't have a long wait but the lady at the counter just LOOKED like she was having a bad day, and was just going through the motions, but not really there. First she refunded the jeans and then I told her I was buying the shoes so she rung them in. The difference was $2.23. Then she picked up the new jeans and put them in the bag saying "OK these were just exchanged", then turned, looked at me and said "that's $2.23". I knew right off the bat my shoes alone came to $16.00 or so and there was a slight difference in the jeans price so I had a $20 bill in my hand.I said (big sigh) "No...that is wrong!" She says, "nope that's right", then checks the reciept, and hands me the bag. Again, I said "No, that's wrong, it's not enough." She checked the receipt again, and says "nope that's right", I argued again. Then she rolled her eyes at me and sighed. I tried to explain she refunded me the money for the first pair of jeans but then didn't ring in the other pair, and the shoes alone ahould have been like $16.50. She could just not get it, and the people in the line behind me looked just pissed that I was holding up the line by arguing that I wasn't paying enough. You should have seen the looks. Anyways, I did the right thing and even though I could have paid a mere $2.23 for one pair of jeans, cute flip flops and tennis shoes I was an honest citizen. Then, I went to the truck where Craig was waiting and after I tell him he says "For someone who's so POOR you're a pretty honest person." Later on in the evening I was asked a question that I didn't want to answer, knowing this info would really hurt the other person. I was so tempted to twist my answer somehow, to not have to tell the truth and I froze... I did the right thing even knowing it could possibly change things. But it didn't feel the same as when I was honest about the Walmart purchase. Shouldn't doing the right thing always feel good?

I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and as I approached, there in the window were a host of goodies. I felt this was no accident, so I prayed ... "Lord, it's up to you, if you want me to have any of those delicious goodies, create a parking place for me directly in front of the bakery." And sure enough, on the eighth time around the block, there it was! God is so Good!

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A man was walking in the street when he heard a voice, "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head and kill you." The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished. He went on, and after awhile he was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted, "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step a car will run over you and you will die." The man did as he was instructed, just as a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him. "Where are you?" the man asked. "Who are you?" "I am your guardian angel," the voice answered. "Oh yeah?" the man asked, "And where were you when I got married?"

I'm bored!

I'm going crazy from boredom. I just played with photoshop for a while. Here's my latest creation.

More Seth Pics

What a handsome little guy!

Emma and Seth cuddling, Awwwww!

Career Cruisin

A few years ago I took a Career Desision Making Course in B.C and we were given access to this program that will match up your skills and intesests to a career that suits you.

According to a questionaire about my intesests, these are my top job matches.

Then I did another quiz about my skills and they told me which on the list below matches my intesests with the transferrable skills I already have. So these are my job matches: (the ones in purple are the top matches for skills)

1. Office Machine Repairer 2. Locksmith 3. Industrial Designer 4. Technical Writer 5. Website Designer 6. Interior Designer 7. Tilesetter 8. Exhibit Designer 9. Welder 10. Boilermaker 11. Desktop Publisher 12. Lobbyist 13. Sign Maker 14. Cabinetmaker 15. Security Systems Technician 16. Food Inspector 17. Immigration Officer 18. Fashion Designer 19. Potter 20. Craftsperson 21. Electronics Assembler 22. Animator 23. Model Maker 24. Jeweller 25. Cartoonist 26. Plumber 27. Electrician 28. Autobody Repairer 29. Criminologist 30. Pet Groomer 31. Sports Official 32. Multimedia Developer 33. Correctional Officer 34. Chef 35. Driving Instructor 36. Professor 37. Butcher 38. Cook 39. Elevator Installer and Repairer 40. Electronics Repairer

What do you think I should do once I recover?

Follow up

Follow up with Dr. Henderson

I had my follow up with the surgeon yesterday and he explained what happened with my back...

He said that the disc was very degenerated for my age and the disc itself had hardened & the disc space is very narrow. And the disc bulge wrapped up and over that bony part on the back of the spine and it was compressing my spine and nerves. (It probably looked more like the herniated disc in the picture above) That explains the hook like scar I have, too. He also said I have arthritis in my back, yikes, that makes me feel so old! Anyways, he also took more x-rays of my foot and recommended I wear a foot support for the next 6 weeks but everything is coming along fine. The hardest thing for me is to get my proper posture back, it's really hard because I'm still kinda hobbling on my foot. The underside still has a fairly tender black bruise and the top of my foot feels like it was crushed.

By the way, if you watched the UFC fight last weekend?? Well, the most recent one, where the guy got kicked in the face , and BAM instant KO!!! and he went straight down on his foot and it went the wrong way... well that's what happened to me!! I am sure, though I don't really remember the fall it would explain the big black bruise in my, uh, private personal area... and the bruise patterns on my foot also follow that theory. And how I landed. Anyways... I CRINGE every time I see a replay of that fight KO, it even hurts my foot to WATCH!! I feel for the guy. I wonder if he got a robo-boot too??

Message for Men!

I found this on the net, too funny!

Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties and local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman. Many females use a date rape drug on the market called "Beer."

The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, or from taps and in large "kegs."

Beer is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and sleep with them. A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of Beer and then simply ask him home for no strings attached sex.

Men are rendered helpless against this approach. After several beers, men will often succumb to the desires to sleep with horrific looking women whom they would never normally be attracted. After drinking beer, men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that "something bad" occurred. At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's savings in a familiar scam known as "a relationship."

In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to as "marriage."Men are much more susceptible to this scam; after beer is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.

Please! Forward this warning to every male you know. If you fall victim to this "Beer" scam and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly victimized men. For the support group nearest you, just look up "Golf Courses" in the phone book.

Seth

Just look at this sweet little face! This is my brand new little nephew and though I don't know when I'll ever be able to hold this little bundle I already love him with all my heart!!

Welcome to the family little one!!

Happy Birthday, Tyler!!

Tylers' 10th birthday party

We had 10 kids over for the party! What a headache when it was all over!

Shay and another guest, I can't remember all the names!

Breanna and her big sister! I haven't seen Linds in almost 4 years...She's all grown up and soooo beautiful!

Thank you God for little Seth!

IT'S A BOY!!

Seth Elijah Jackson

April 20, 2007

12:20 am

20 in, 6 lbs 14 oz

Prince George, BC

Congratulations Ryan and Char!

I can't wait to get pictures!!

This is REALLY Funny!!

Go to google.com

Click on Maps

Click "Get Directions"

get directions from: New York, New York

to: Paris, France

Then read line 24

teehee

Soon...Very soon!

My brother and his wife drove to Prince George today to have the baby, It was due today, but nothing was happening but Chars rising blood pressure, so they decided to induce. Yay Baby!! I can't wait to be an aunty again!! I'm saying prayers that everything will go good and the baby will be healthy and happy. I'll post pictures as soon as I can!

I love you Char!! Hang in there, it'll all be over soon!

Update

Well, the recovery process has been pretty rough but is now underway and I've been getting a bit better each day. I don't use the crutches anymore, I just wrap my foot up real tight, or if I go outside I have a nifty "Robo-Boot" air cast, which has been great. I took my first car ride to the south side this morning to go see my lawyer and mom bought breakfast at Timmys which was badly yearned for over the past week. Mmmm. Timmys coffee! It was just most of all great to get out of the house and do some of the things I needed to do. Shay ended up in emergency on Friday the 13th...The doctors were convinced he had contracted Hepatitis A but thank the Lord they ruled that out! He has something going on inside his small intestine. Tomorrow Shay and I see the doctor and hopefully his results are back so we can get him on medication if he needs it. He seems to be getting a bit better, but it's been off and on for 6 weeks straight and I'd like to see him back to his regular energetic chipper self for good. Tyler turns 10 next Monday, it's amazing how fast your babies grow up. I've decided to plan the absolute best party for him this weekend that I can but I still don't know what to get him. And more good news I am going to be an aunty any day now...I CAN"T WAIT!! I can't wait to meet this tiny little precious person and have some good and some excitement!! CHAR...DO THE MACARANA!! I SWEAR IT WORKS, JUST TRY IT!! Have a good day everyone!!

Standing Ovation Please!!

Well sad to say but I nominate myself for The Best Dummy of 2007 Awards!! The night that I got out of the hospital, I was feeling better than I thought I would, I apparently had a little too much morphine, and got up in the middle of the night to pee and walk around. I went into the living room to get the phone # for the hospital and on the way back to my room I totally passed out. I don't know what happened...I was fine one minute, and the next, I knew I was going down fast. The next thing I knew, Craig was trying to wake me up and called an ambulance. And my foot was throbbing unbelievably!! They took me back to the hospital where I had my surgery done and it was a nightmare!! They pretty much completely ignored me for 11 hours, (only giving me an x-ray on my foot and a percocet for the pain after being there for over 8 hours!).They finally came in and told me it wasn't broken or fractured, just badly sprained and bruised, but they Didn't feed me, give me blankets, help me to the bathroom, ask how I was doing... nothing. Finally I decided I was leaving and mom had to hound the staff to help get me some crutches or whatever so I could leave. So here I am, a total wreck. But my foot hurts worse than my back and I can get around pretty good with the crutches so I guess I have to look at it that way. I guess things could be worse but I don't dare say that out loud!

I'm Alliiiiive!

I made it! Phew. But that was definately the worst operation I have had to date, and the most painful. In every way! I got to the hospital for 10:30 am Monday morning but of course, in true medical fashion, it didn't actually happen until much later...by noon they had a bed and a room for me, which kinda surprised me because it was only a day surgery. But I figured at least I didn't have to sit on those sucky hard waiting room chairs! So I got pampered in a bed with warm blankets and pillows and Craig to keep me company. And we waited...and waited. Well not much longer then we were introduced to "Mrs. Mills"....the wailer! OMG! She had a creepy creaky crackly horror movie old lady voice and it started out "I have to go peeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Somebody come, I have to go pe-he-he-he, WAAAAAAAAAAA! There'd be moments of silence then "Nobody cares about meeeeeeeee, I have to go peeeeeeeee, WAAA. So the first time the nurse came she asked what she needed and she said she wanted a MUFFIN. So the nurse leaves again, and she starts crying again, for way too long, this time screaming she had to go pee, but the nurse took so long to get there that she peed the bed. Then she wailed about that, rightfully so, but AHHHH! Anyways she wanted everything, she was cold, she couldn't reach something...whatever it was was wailed out in that scary voice. Finally at 4:00 the OR called for me. They brought me to the cold shiny room down the long hallway and left me parked in front of a wall full of clowns on tightropes paintings. I didn't much care for them but I ended up staring at them until after 5:00 because they were waiting for my surgery instruments which were apparently wayward. Then to the other cold shiny room with the lights when they were found. Now we were ready to go but the doctor was missing, so I watched them all get everything ready. I watched as the nurse asked for a #10 blade and put in in the scalpel and then set it on the tray. Not long after that the doctor came in and put the mask on me, put the dose in the IV and said "see you later" I knew as soon as he said it I'd go, I tried to last that extra second but it never worked...lights out. I think it was about 8:30 when I woke up, I don't remember much but my doctor came in and said I was staying overnight, a needle coming towards me, and Craig saying he was going to phone mom. I don't know when I woke up next but I was really hurtin and they gave me morphine and gravol like every two hours. The wailer wailed, the lady beside me kept waking up, it was not a good sleep. Anyways, they sent me home sometime after lunch time. I've been getting around but am definately tender and sore. But I made it, thanks for all the prayers, everyone. I'll write more later when I'm not so drugged up.

I'll be BACK!

In the bunny hutch at the farm

On Easter Monday I am going under the knife and having surgery on my back. I was pretty okay with the idea until about a half an hour ago when the hospital called to make the final arrangements. Hmm. Maybe final arrangements isn't the best phrase. Ok, called to make the final confirmation. Anyways, NOW I am nervous! But also excited that though it is not guaranteed, that I have the CHANCE to live a pain free life. That I'll be able to drive again without constantly looking for a place to pull over, or be able to sit through a TV show or a movie, pick something off the floor without tears in my eyes, to play with my kids, do laundry, walk normally again, be able to work... Anyhoo, I'm excited and scared, and I really really really really really hope that it works! My biggest fear so far was that I was told I would be Stapled back together and my regular doctor would be taking them out in a few weeks, but last night I talked to Belinda and she said it was nothing cus she's had them herself- so she made me feel a lot better. (Thanks Bee, I love you!) So I don't know how next week is going to be but I'll update as soon as I can. And I have lots of offers for help if I need it so thank you everyone. I love you all.

Happy Easter

Can you read this?

C D E D B D bunnies?

M R not E D B D bunnies!

O S A R! C D E D B D fluffy cottontails?

L I B! M R 2 E D B D bunnies!

What do you call a chocolate Easter bunny that was out in the sun too long? A runny bunny.

What is the difference between a crazy bunny and a counterfeit banknote? One is bad money and the other is a mad bunny!

How do you post a bunny? Hare mail

How can you tell where the Easter Bunny has been? Eggs (X) marks the spot

What did the man say when he saw 10 bunnies hopping over the hill? There go ten bunnies hopping over the hill.

What did the man say when he saw 10 bunnies hopping over the hill wearing sunglasses? Nothing- he didn't recognize them.

Easter is almost here!

Maybe the green eggs in my fridge have been dyed...Maybe not. You feel lucky??

TOP 8 MORONS OF 2006

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP? AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence. 2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up." 3. WHAT WAS PLAN B? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts. 4. THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him. 5. DID I SAY THAT? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted, "that's not what I said!" 6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING? A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart." "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!" 7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED! In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. (hellooooooo)! 8. THE GRAND FINALE! Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new-22 foot boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. NOW REMEMBER ...THIS IS TRUE: Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!