Discombobulated…

Hola. I’m feeling discombobulated today.  I think it’s probably  because I’m weaning off the pred’s even more this week.  I’m down to 10 mg’s/day.  That’s really a small amount compared to what some people take, I know, but I’m very sensitive to that med.  I have to keep my brain on track, functional, you know, to get through my day.  I’m trying hard not to be depressed or discouraged over the weight I’ve gained since I had to go up on the steroids again and…my Raynaud’s is still acting up.  But enough of all that negative talk. 

What a beautiful day it is here in Corpus Christi today! I guess we’re having a little cold front go through (yay for Fall) along with a mild wind storm that should be calming down right about now.  :-)   My happy face looks slightly askew to me.  Lol.  I think I need to take something to calm me down.  I feel like I could crawl out of my skin.  That’s going to negative again.  I’m sorry.

Peace and love, out…Linda

Isn’t God Great?!

Oh my gosh, I am so filled with wonder and awe over Almighty God’s wonderful and marvellous works today.  My heart is overflowing with thanksgiving and joy over all His merciful kindness, His tender care and the bountiful blessings that are ours through and in Him.  He is the master artist, creator of heaven and earth and all that therein is, and we are the beneficiaries of His wealth.  Holy Jehovah is a mighty God and is worthy and greatly to be praised.

Woah, and how about our blessed King Jesus and the Holy Spirit?  My breath and my life!  Who have I in heaven or in earth but them?  There is no one that I desire above them.  They bless me and I am healed and filled.  I am so truly and fearfully and wonderfully blessed.  I am so fearfully and wonderfully made.  :-)  

Peace and love, Out….Linda

Challenging Times…

These are certainly challenging days, I think not just for myself but for everyone.  Yesterday morning when I was having trouble getting out of bed after having to go to sleep early the night before, the Lord revealed to me that the reason I am being so tired and weak is because my rheaumatologist has me weaning off the steroids.  Why didn’t I think of that to begin with.  It makes perfect sense.

I went to bed very early last night and still didn’t want to get out of bed this morning.  Besides my other prescriped meds, I took a Phenegran for the neausea and an extra Xanax to calm me down.  I missed my Bible Study last night and even forgot to call them to let them know I wouldn’t be able to make it. 

It all is very clear now and makes sense.  I’m thankful to know this.  I’ve left it up to the Lord if I am to call my rheumatologist to see if I should go back to the higher dosage of steroids again because the affect of going down is so dramatic, but I have yet to call her.  God’s will be done.  I do believe I will be alright.

I’ve coined a phrase and a name for an energy stimulating drink.  I’ve called it “Go-Go Juice.”  I thought about it when I started drinking diet Pepsi (R) Max (TM) with caffeine and gensing to give me the extra energy I need to get through these days.  I should probably register my copyright on the name “Go-Go Juice” but I know that as long as I have typed it out and published it here on pressword.com, it is truly and indeed copyrighted to me.  It is a cute and catchy name, isn’t it?

I have a busy day scheduled.  I need to do a biography on one of my favorite artists/graphic designers and submit it as a PowerPoint Slideshow presentation by this coming Saturday.  So, off to the races I go!

I hope and pray everyone’s having a wonderful day!  My prayers are with you all!

Peace and love, Out…Linda  <><

Hello today…

Hello today.  You’re another beautiful day in Corpus Christi, Texas….and I’m not feeling well.  I think I’ve caught a cold maybe.  I’m congested and nauseas and my Raynaud’s is going ballistic.  I wish I felt better.  God will see me through this.  I have medicines that I can take to make me feel better but I hate to have to take them.  I can’t decide if I’m hot or if I’m cold.

I’m feeling really stressed out as well and I don’t like to be feeling badly like this.  I didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning but I finally did around 8:30 a.m.  I guess sleeping in a little later is way better than getting up at 3:00 a.m.  :-)   I had a dream about one of my brothers being totally drunk and it was like maybe he had spent the night in jail.  A taxicab was dropping him off in front of his home and he was angry about some “bashers.”  I’m not sure I even know what a basher is.  He was alright though, at least in the dream.  I better try communicate with him today to see how he’s doing.

This will probably be a pretty uneventful day.  That’s alright.  My life is pretty uneventful; I’m used to it.  I’m roasting unsalted sunflower seeds (with the shells still on).  That’s my snack of choice these days.  It makes me feel like it’s really close to Halloween for some reason.  Fall is definately in the air – if not outside here in CC, definately within me.  I like Fall.  :-)

So, off to my probably uneventful day.  Please pray for me.

Peace and love, Out…Linda <><

Beautiful Sunrise

Its a Monday morning sunrise – And we start a brand new day – Just another chance to be wise – As we go along the way…lmv

Ok, today started at 3:00 a.m. again.  I did get to bed pretty early last night, probably around 9:30 or so.  I was so tired even though I had slept in.  Hmmm…I was just so tired.  Now it’s 7:07 a.m. and the sun is rising.  I’ve said my prayers, I’ve done my reading, I published my scriptures, I’ve taken my shower, I’m doing my journal and then I guess I’ll start with my school work.  I’m feeling kind of tired again already.  I wonder what’s up with me.

Don’t feel like writing much more.  Peace and love, Out…Linda

Sweet Sunday

Happy Sunday everyone!  I actually slept in today after having a really bad night of sleep.  My stomach and reflux was such that my esphogus and lungs and throat were burning much  of the night.  I prayed and took some extra meds to counteract and by the grace and mercy of Almighty God, made it through the night.  I don’t usually sleep in but I did today and it felt so good. I remember waking up at sunrise and seeing the glorious dawning of the day, the beautiful red/orage tint to the firmament as the sun faithfully raised himself up as is his way.  I smiled at the sight, closed my eyes, and was able to go back into a peaceful sleep, laying my head in God’s lving bosom.

It’s halftime during the Cowboys game right now and we’re not doing so good.  The Rams are ahead of us by quite a few points.  Poor Cowboys, I know they’re trying so hard.  :-(   I know God loves all His children, everywhere.

I had a wonderful visit with my cousins yesterday. I fried up some chicken and made some good side dishes and we had a good meal together and wonderful quality time visiting and catching up with each other’s lives.  These two sweet cousins of mine, sisters to each other from the Houston area, came from a family of twelve children. Their father was killed in a ditch cave in when they were very young.  The family suffered unspeakable hardships and most have survived them well.  I love them all very much and thank God we had this special time to spend together.

I had wonderful communications with my children and my grandchildren yesterday and even with my grand niece who was also celebrating her birthday with her family and friends.  I am so blessed.  I pray that somehow, some way I can be such a blessing and a joy to these little ones (and to everyone for that matter).  :-)  

I have a day of software program familiarization today.  I love working with Office 2007 and am learning many shortcuts and tips that I had not been aware of.  It’s all good and FUN!

Peace and love!  Out!  Linda

Happy 5th Birthday Rory Jaiden Vance!

Aw, today’s my granddaughter’s birthday. I’m in Corpus Christi, Texas and she is in Ceres, California.  Oh how I miss and love my babies.  I can’t wait to see them and hold them in my arms come December (God willing).  Happy Birthday my baby Rory!  I love you! God bless you sweetheart!

I confirmed the deletion of my MySpace page.  It was indeed successful.  I am thankful for that.  I know its a good thing all the way around because when I tried to edit my profile to delete it, I kept getting a pop-up window asking me if I would like to visit MySpace Italy.  I kept clicking “Cancel” and the window kept popping up.  I couldn’t escape it!  I tried countless times to escape it and cancel out of it but couldn’t. I finally opted to continue and actually had to cancel my MySpace account while viewing my profile in the Italian language!  I couldn’t convert it back to English without going through that whole pop-up window again which wouldn’t allow me to cancel out of it!  I prayed really hard about it because it was totally stressing me out as I really wanted to cancel my MySpace membership (and that whole ordeal was confirming to me that my desire to do so was valid).  Miraculously (my mother was a Mexican-American and I am somewhat familiar with the Spanish language which is very similar to Italian – THANK GOD!), I was able to figure out in the Italian language which options to click on and choose to delete my account.  :-)   What a royal pain that was!  LOL!  I have no remorse over deleting my MySpace account.  I really didn’t have time to tend to it anymore anyway.   Dunque è la vita.  (Italian translation resourced from www.freetranslation.com). 

Well, I have a busy day planned for today. Besides calling my granddaughter to wish her a happy birthday, I want to entertain a cousin of mine and her husband who are in town celebrating her birthday and I need to get some things from the grocery store to have some snacks for them to eat.  I think while I’m at the grocery store, I’ll take a picture of the price of an artichoke and post the picture here in my journal tomorrow (God willing).  I’ll bet there are very few places in this country with the price of an artichoke as high as it is here in Corpus Christi.  I do so love this little city.  :-)   God bless it!

Peace and love!  Out!  Linda

It is done!

UPDATE!  it is done.  i do believe I have successfully deleted my MySpace profile and page.  It took some doing (I had to do it in the Italian language – you got me – go figure) but I do believe the deletion was successful.  Yay God.  Now I don’t have to wrestle with that on my poor conscience.  :-)

ORIGINAL POST FOR TODAY:  I think I’m going to die of a guilty conscience now.  We’ve been learning about copyright infringement and plagiarism in my online class.  My MySpace page is FULL is graphics that I am using and that others haveposted in their comments that I know I haven’t asked permission to use.  Whaaaa….  I don’t want to die of a guilty conscience of be guilty of copyright infringement or plagiarism. do I fix this wrong on my MySpace page?  There are SO MANY graphics on it!  I could delete the whole page I guess and not use MySpace anymore.  What to do?  I don’t know what to do.  I don’t know who created the graphics so how can I ask permission to use them?  It’s been decided on in class that if it’s not your work, just don’t use it…but I have SO MANY that I do use.  I do have a note at the bottom of my page acknowledging and thanking the unknown artists.  I’m open to suggestions.  I think the best resolve for this problem would be to just delete my MySpace page.  What do you think? 

I do have a lot of MySpace friends but I really haven’t had anytime hardly since I’ve started school to even tend to the page much less interact with my friends.  :-(   I’m sad.  I don’t want to lost my page.  I don’t want to stop using those cool images.  I have no control over the graphics that my friend’s use when they leave comments.  They very well could be the artists themselves.  How would I know except for to ask each one individually before allowing them to post?  Whaaaa…..  This must be dealt with because I know its just not right to use other people’s work without their permission – at least now I know and I’m convinced of it.  :-(    I must make this wrong right and that soon!

Well, pray for me as I am praying for myself for God to have me deal with this situation wisely and in a timely fasion.  I hope and pray everyone is having a good day and that if it’s your will, no one is using your work without permission, especially me!

Peace and love, Out!  Linda

What an Awesome Day!

What an awesome day I had yesterday…all praise and glory be to God!  One of the coolest things that happened was that Humana approved two medications that had been prescribed to me by my doctors.  I will try to explain how this came about as concisely as possible, because I can be so long-winded. 

Day before yesterday, I called Humana to get the status on the approval of these medications.  I was told that neither of them had been approved and that one of them (out of two) had been pushed into the Appeals and Grievance Department, which just sent me over the edge.  Mind you, at this point in my life, by the grace of God, it is extremely rare for me to “lose it” but this time I did.  I was so frustrated and angry that I vented horribly to this sweet young man who said his Humana title was that of a Clinical Review Representative.  He patiently listened and tried to console me as I ranted and raved about how the patient becomes the victim of Humana’s gross negligence in trying to usurp the professional direction of the patient’s physician by denying the prescribed dosage of medication prescriibed.  I went on about I felt like Humana was trying to kill me and on and on.  I used some very mild foul language (God forgive me) but the sweet Humana rep stayed with me, all the while consoling me.  Finally, after I jabbered off all the horrible physical indications of my physical state via medical procedures and tests that justified the medications in question, the young man asked me if I had access to a fax machine, which miraculously (and I won’t get into that right now – just trust me it is a miracle) I do.  He asked me to fax him the procedures and tests paperwork, which I did.  It was pretty late in the day by the time I did that.  My fax machine confirmed the fax had gone through successfully.  Then early yesterday morning, I got a telephone call from the same young man who explained to me that the fax had been received and that both medications had been approved by Humana for my lifetime.  :-)   YAY GOD!  I asked to speak to his supervisor and when she got on the line, I couldn’t praise the young man enough for his kindness, compassion, patience and for his invaluable assistance.  The supervisor assured me he would receive the credit he deserves.  :-)   I couldn’t thank God or the young man enough.  I had been going through this hard ordeal with Humana for so long and here it was, all resolved in a good manner.  Now, does that make for a good day or what?

I had so many good things happen yesterday (I won’t list the rest, just trust me) that I didn’t even get a chance to post in this journal.  It’s the first day I had missed posting since I started using pressword.com. 

Now one might ask why doesn’t God just heal me.  I personally know that He can but His will for me right now is to be served by these great men and women of the medical profession, who God loves and uses equally, to perform His good works through them.  Sometimes, God will perform a medical miracle and confound all the unbelievers, but for me and many others, He simply chooses to bless us with people who serve God and mankind.  I thank God for them. 

Well, I have much to do today.  I trust that this too will be a wonderful and awesome day.  I wish I could share my joy and the enthusiasm I feel right now with everyone.  Maybe it will rub off on the few that God chooses to bring into my life today.

Peace and love, Out!  Linda

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If I only had a brain…

Wow!  I made a doozy of a blunder today.  All week long on my calendar, I was being reminded about what was (I thought) my nephew’s birthday coming today.  I sent him a really cute e-card and then text’d all my children to remind them as well that it was their cousin’s birthday.  After I sent out the text messages to everyone, I got a message back from my youngest daughter explaining that I might be confused because today is actually her husband’s birthday.  :-)   Both my nephew and son-in-law are named Matt S. and I just got confused because that is exactly how the reminders came up for the birthday:  “Reminder, Matt S. is having a birthday on the 14th.”  My nephew Matt opened the ecard I sent him early this morning.  He must really think I’m a ding-bat.  :-)  

So goes my life.  It was a great joke on me to start the day!  Kept me laughing for some time.

Peace and love, Out!  Linda