I have been hearing a lot on the news lately about how MY MONEY is being spent. Mostly these talks are referring to how tax payers money is getting spent by the stimulus and such. I am frustrated by these reports because a lot of these things MY MONEY is getting spent on are useless (in my opinion of course). On top of this there is NOTHING I can do about this. If I want a say in my money going places I have to vote, well I do vote, but the people that win are usually corrupt government officials that don't have my best interest at heart at all. The biggest corruption of all is the highest position in the USA, so for the next 4 years we are pretty much toast with what he does with my hard earned tax payer money. Get ready for an awful bumpy ride folks!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Your Money
I have been hearing a lot on the news lately about how MY MONEY is being spent. Mostly these talks are referring to how tax payers money is getting spent by the stimulus and such. I am frustrated by these reports because a lot of these things MY MONEY is getting spent on are useless (in my opinion of course). On top of this there is NOTHING I can do about this. If I want a say in my money going places I have to vote, well I do vote, but the people that win are usually corrupt government officials that don't have my best interest at heart at all. The biggest corruption of all is the highest position in the USA, so for the next 4 years we are pretty much toast with what he does with my hard earned tax payer money. Get ready for an awful bumpy ride folks!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wubbzy is coming early!!!
I went the to doctor today and she informed me that her family had just scheduled their vacation. They are leaving June 17. (why do I have babies during prime doctor vacation time?) This means that if wubbzy and my body will cooperate and be ready, I can be induced sometime before that! This moves me up from being 10 weeks out to being 7-8 weeks! Yahoo! I'm all about getting him out early. I want to be healed and feeling good for my family reunion which is a couple weeks later. I really like my doctor, and I REALLY need her to be the one to deliver the baby. I had a really bad experience with the delivery of Paisley and the doctor has given me assurances that things will be better and that she can make this happen with a lot less pain involved afterward. I hope that things cooperate and the stars align because it would be great to have her deliver my baby. But, if things aren't looking good she won't induce me and then I'm on my own with whatever doctor is on call... probably her associate in the office (whom I switch from being his patient.... AWKWARD!) Wish me happy baby cooking thoughts!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Good for Her
This is Carrie Prejean. She is Miss California 2009. I don't watch pageants on TV but this article caught my attention on yahoo news. During the Miss USA pageant, during the interview portion of the pageant she was asked by openly gay Perez Hilton (he thinks he is a celebrity although I don't know what would make him famous) what her thoughts on gay marriage were. This courageous young lady responded that she believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. GOOD FOR HER! I can only imagine that kind of pressure, being on live TV, being asked by a gay person your opinion and still being able to hold true to your beliefs. You can find the clip of this on youtube. If you notice in the backgroud there is loud applause in support of her answer. It just goes to show that the loud minority may try to pursuade you to think you are wrong, but you are not. MOST people believe that marriage should be between a man and woman, and they are right! Thanks Carrie for standing up for what you believe!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Great Email
I get emails from time to time about the progress of prop. 8 and just how marriage in general is doing in this wicked world. I got this email tonight, and loved it. I thought everyone could use the encouragement and know that we cannot give up, because that is the oppositions only way to win. Enjoy these great words of wisdom and the spreading of good news that marriage will defeat the evilness of gay marriage!
Let me step back from the news headlines and tell you what is really happening
out there.
The ultimate goal of the architects of gay marriage in this country is to get
inside your head and make you feel despair. Make you feel alone. Make you feel powerless. They need
you and me to give up. That's the only way they can win.
They know that only one thing stands between them and their peculiar drive to
end
marriage as we know it: the good sense and good will of the American people.
Even with all the enormous powerful assets on their side: a news media almost
uniformly sympathetic, an enormous war chest of money fueled by wealthy donors, a network of
powerful
people capable of punishing anyone who disagrees, backed by angry netroot mobs licensed to hate good
Americans who speak up for marriage: They cannot take their case to the American people and
win.
Not in California, not in
New York, not in
Connecticut, not even in Vemront. As NOM's
president, Maggie Gallagher, kept reminding the news media during their "big mo" message meme: One
thing that hasn't changed is the opinions of the American people. Only one-third of Americans in the
latest (March 12) CBS News poll said they support same-sex marriage.
This is a movement dedicated to imposing gay marriage on you and your children,
whether you like it or not.
(Now I know by the way that not all gay people or gay marriage supporters think
like that. And even for those who do, in the midst of this vigorous battle for God's truth, we
are charged with the task of nurturing charity in our hearts towards the people with whom we
disagree.)
It's clear now that the last two weeks
Iowa-Vermont-DC-New
York-New Hampshire were a
one-two-three-four punch that was part of a coordinated strategy with one single goal: to
engineer a story line that the marriage debate is over--gay marriage advocates have won. It's
over. Despair is the only option.
Instead something extraordinary happened: You didn't give up, you fought back!
In New Hampshire, thanks to
Cornerstone Policy Research, hundreds of people crowded the capitol to protest the gay marriage
bill. Kudos to Kevin Smith's leadership. Thanks to you NOM was able to reach out and help spread
the word in New Hampshire using sophisticated
technology--and the people of New Hampshire responded
to the call to speak truth to power! Gov. John Lynch of New
Hampshire just announced he's with us on marriage.
In nearby Rhode Island, Catholic
Online reported that "Gov. Donald Carcieri announced he would throw his support behind the
Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for
Marriage (NOM)."
Well I wouldn’t necessarily put it that way, but the feisty NOM Rhode Island
chapter, under the leadership of new executive director Chris Plante, generated local headlines with
a Providence press conference and rally to announce NOM's
new "Gathering Storm" media campaign. Thanks Gov. Carcieri, and all the good people of
Rhode Island who stood up for marriage!
In Connecticut, thousands of calls are flooding the legislature to protest SB
899, a bill that supposedly "implements" the Connecticut court decision by repealing protections
against using public schools to propagandize for gay marriage. Once again you helped us swing
into action to help in this fight. Within 24 hours of learning that the bill was being taken up
NOM hit the airwaves with a brand new radio ad. (You can hear the ad, and all of NOM's ads, here.
Help us take this message to
the next level--can you donate $10, $40, or $80 to put a marriage ad on the radio today?)
And yes, we're working on New York and New Jersey too--more on that in the
future.
In Iowa, we are working with Congressmen Steve King to contact thousands of
Iowans to personally urge them to call their legislators and let them know: Same-sex unions are not
marriages. Iowans want the chance that Californians and people of 29 other states have claimed
for themselves: the right to take this issue out of the hands of judges and politicians and to
decide
the future of marriage themselves.
Do not believe the sophisticated media spin: The battle in for marriage in Iowa
and elsewhere is not over. We have not yet begun to fight!
Speaking of the media campaign, it has been an enormous success: Millions of
people have viewed our "Gathering Storm" ad, which you can see here. In fact, we broke into the
top 100 videos on YouTube in the entire
country. Thank you. (Stephen Colbert even made fun of our ad last night. The "Colbert
Report"--now we've really made it into the big time! Thanks, HRC!)
(Help us spread the word! Believe me, we understand that not everyone can give
money. We appreciate all you do: your prayers especially, your words of encouragement, your
courage in speaking out in your own community, your willingness to email and call politicians and
alert your friends. But the battle for marriage is urgent now: We need your help. If God
has given you the means can you give $10, $50, or $100, today to protect marriage?)
This first ad in our $1.5 million media campaign helped us kick off our much
larger goal: recruiting two million for marriage . (A side note: No, we don’t call it "2m4m,"
that's what MSNBC's gay-marriage advocate and sometime journalist Rachel Maddow called it--amazing
how much stuff they just make up while calling our side "liars," isn’t it? Silly
stuff.) The response has been so tremendous so far, I'm thinking of renaming it: ten
million for marriage!
(If God has given you the means, can you reach down and spare $2 a
month for marriage? Just $2 a month can help us find two million Americans to work with you
to defend marriage. Or if God has given you the means, can you spare $20 a month? Or even $200 a
month?)
Another amusing side note: At the same time that HRC's Joe Solomonese called us
liars and bigots on national TV for noting that same-sex marriage has consequences for
religious liberty, the Washington Post published an story on... how scholars agree that
same-sex marriage has consequences for religious liberty. ("Faith Groups Increasingly Lose
Same-Sex Marriage Battles," April 9.) Nice timing, that Joe!
The gay marriage advocates interviewed by the Washington Post were
unashamed about cutting off religious people's rights: "We are not required to pay the price for
other people's religious views about us," said Jennifer Pizer, director of the Marriage Project for
Lambda Legal, a gay rights legal advocacy group.
Finally, the Washington Post acknowledged that even worse may be to
come: "Some legal analysts suggest that religious groups that do not support gay rights might lose
their tax exemptions because of their politically unpopular views. Jonathan Turley, a law professor
at George Washington University who supports same-sex marriage, said current law 'puts us on a
slippery slope that inevitably takes us to the point where we punish religious groups because of
their religious views.'"
We're telling the truth about what gay marriage is going to mean--for children
and for faith communities. That's what’s making the Human Rights Campaign go ballistic.
Finally, I'd like to close by sharing with you an extraordinary interview Maggie
Gallagher did with Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher:
Rod Dreher: Maggie, you and I are on the same side
of the gay marriage issue, but I am pessimistic about our chances for success. You, however, are
optimistic. What am I missing?
Maggie Gallagher: Vaclav Havel mostly. "Truth and love wlll
prevail over lies and hate." On that basis Havel took on the Soviet empire. Where is that invincible
empire now?
Same-sex marriage is founded on a lie about human nature: "there is no
difference
between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and you are a bigot if you disagree."
Political movements can--sometimes at great human cost and with great output of
energy--sustain a lie but eventually political regimes founded on lies collapse in on themselves.
I don't think of myself as optimistic: just realistic. What does losing marriage
mean? First the rejection of the idea that children need a mom and dad as a cultural norm--or
probably even as a respectable opinion. That's become very clear for people who have the eyes to see
it. (See e.g. footnote 26 of the Iowa decision.)
Second: the redefinition of traditional religious faiths as the moral and legal
equivalent of racists. The proposition on the table right now is that our faith itself is a form of
bigotry.
Despair is gay marriage advocates' prime message point. All warfare, including
culture war, is ultimately psychological warfare. You win a war when you convince the other side to
give up.
So now you want to decide we've lost on an issue where, in the March 12 CBS News
poll two-thirds of Americans agree with us. I mean, does this make sense?
...People are flocking to the National Organization for Marriage
(www.nationformarriage.org), not because we try to scare them about how bad things are going to
be--but because we offer them a chance to come together with other people of all races, creeds and
colors to stand up for a core and timeless good.
Here's what I know that maybe you can't see: There are enormous untapped
energies
out their waiting for someone to organize them effectively.
RD: It's my view that our side has lost this battle, at least in
the long run, because we've lost the culture. Bottom line: I believe we should retreat to a
strategically defensible position while there's still time. You disagree. What's wrong with my
analysis?
MG: Rod, you are bargaining with yourself by saying "give up
marriage and focus on religious liberty protections." The proposition on the table is your faith is
a
form of bigotry and Americans don't grant religious liberty protections to bigots.
Conceding the main point--that our marriage tradition is a good and honorable
thing that deserves respect--is not going to help you win any religious liberty protection.
We need to build effective grassroots organizations in blue states. Or we are
going to lose marriage. And religious liberty.
Abandoning the 60 percent or so of Americans who agree with you on marriage
isn't
going to help you win any fight at all.
We need to do a lot of things but one of the key ones is: we have to find the
people who care about marriage and organize them into an effective force. Especially in blue states.
We don't do that, the churches are going to get rolled.
I don't have time for pessimism. The stakes are too high.
Hope is a virtue. Despair is not only a temptation, it's the
greatest lie of them all. Because we know who wins in the end, don't we?
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be your voice for God's truth
about marriage.
Keep me in your prayers. You are in mine.
God bless you,
Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542
bbrown@nationformarriage.org
Let me step back from the news headlines and tell you what is really happening
out there.
The ultimate goal of the architects of gay marriage in this country is to get
inside your head and make you feel despair. Make you feel alone. Make you feel powerless. They need
you and me to give up. That's the only way they can win.
They know that only one thing stands between them and their peculiar drive to
end
marriage as we know it: the good sense and good will of the American people.
Even with all the enormous powerful assets on their side: a news media almost
uniformly sympathetic, an enormous war chest of money fueled by wealthy donors, a network of
powerful
people capable of punishing anyone who disagrees, backed by angry netroot mobs licensed to hate good
Americans who speak up for marriage: They cannot take their case to the American people and
win.
Not in California, not in
New York, not in
Connecticut, not even in Vemront. As NOM's
president, Maggie Gallagher, kept reminding the news media during their "big mo" message meme: One
thing that hasn't changed is the opinions of the American people. Only one-third of Americans in the
latest (March 12) CBS News poll said they support same-sex marriage.
This is a movement dedicated to imposing gay marriage on you and your children,
whether you like it or not.
(Now I know by the way that not all gay people or gay marriage supporters think
like that. And even for those who do, in the midst of this vigorous battle for God's truth, we
are charged with the task of nurturing charity in our hearts towards the people with whom we
disagree.)
It's clear now that the last two weeks
Iowa-Vermont-DC-New
York-New Hampshire were a
one-two-three-four punch that was part of a coordinated strategy with one single goal: to
engineer a story line that the marriage debate is over--gay marriage advocates have won. It's
over. Despair is the only option.
Instead something extraordinary happened: You didn't give up, you fought back!
In New Hampshire, thanks to
Cornerstone Policy Research, hundreds of people crowded the capitol to protest the gay marriage
bill. Kudos to Kevin Smith's leadership. Thanks to you NOM was able to reach out and help spread
the word in New Hampshire using sophisticated
technology--and the people of New Hampshire responded
to the call to speak truth to power! Gov. John Lynch of New
Hampshire just announced he's with us on marriage.
In nearby Rhode Island, Catholic
Online reported that "Gov. Donald Carcieri announced he would throw his support behind the
Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for
Marriage (NOM)."
Well I wouldn’t necessarily put it that way, but the feisty NOM Rhode Island
chapter, under the leadership of new executive director Chris Plante, generated local headlines with
a Providence press conference and rally to announce NOM's
new "Gathering Storm" media campaign. Thanks Gov. Carcieri, and all the good people of
Rhode Island who stood up for marriage!
In Connecticut, thousands of calls are flooding the legislature to protest SB
899, a bill that supposedly "implements" the Connecticut court decision by repealing protections
against using public schools to propagandize for gay marriage. Once again you helped us swing
into action to help in this fight. Within 24 hours of learning that the bill was being taken up
NOM hit the airwaves with a brand new radio ad. (You can hear the ad, and all of NOM's ads, here.
Help us take this message to
the next level--can you donate $10, $40, or $80 to put a marriage ad on the radio today?)
And yes, we're working on New York and New Jersey too--more on that in the
future.
In Iowa, we are working with Congressmen Steve King to contact thousands of
Iowans to personally urge them to call their legislators and let them know: Same-sex unions are not
marriages. Iowans want the chance that Californians and people of 29 other states have claimed
for themselves: the right to take this issue out of the hands of judges and politicians and to
decide
the future of marriage themselves.
Do not believe the sophisticated media spin: The battle in for marriage in Iowa
and elsewhere is not over. We have not yet begun to fight!
Speaking of the media campaign, it has been an enormous success: Millions of
people have viewed our "Gathering Storm" ad, which you can see here. In fact, we broke into the
top 100 videos on YouTube in the entire
country. Thank you. (Stephen Colbert even made fun of our ad last night. The "Colbert
Report"--now we've really made it into the big time! Thanks, HRC!)
(Help us spread the word! Believe me, we understand that not everyone can give
money. We appreciate all you do: your prayers especially, your words of encouragement, your
courage in speaking out in your own community, your willingness to email and call politicians and
alert your friends. But the battle for marriage is urgent now: We need your help. If God
has given you the means can you give $10, $50, or $100, today to protect marriage?)
This first ad in our $1.5 million media campaign helped us kick off our much
larger goal: recruiting two million for marriage . (A side note: No, we don’t call it "2m4m,"
that's what MSNBC's gay-marriage advocate and sometime journalist Rachel Maddow called it--amazing
how much stuff they just make up while calling our side "liars," isn’t it? Silly
stuff.) The response has been so tremendous so far, I'm thinking of renaming it: ten
million for marriage!
(If God has given you the means, can you reach down and spare $2 a
month for marriage? Just $2 a month can help us find two million Americans to work with you
to defend marriage. Or if God has given you the means, can you spare $20 a month? Or even $200 a
month?)
Another amusing side note: At the same time that HRC's Joe Solomonese called us
liars and bigots on national TV for noting that same-sex marriage has consequences for
religious liberty, the Washington Post published an story on... how scholars agree that
same-sex marriage has consequences for religious liberty. ("Faith Groups Increasingly Lose
Same-Sex Marriage Battles," April 9.) Nice timing, that Joe!
The gay marriage advocates interviewed by the Washington Post were
unashamed about cutting off religious people's rights: "We are not required to pay the price for
other people's religious views about us," said Jennifer Pizer, director of the Marriage Project for
Lambda Legal, a gay rights legal advocacy group.
Finally, the Washington Post acknowledged that even worse may be to
come: "Some legal analysts suggest that religious groups that do not support gay rights might lose
their tax exemptions because of their politically unpopular views. Jonathan Turley, a law professor
at George Washington University who supports same-sex marriage, said current law 'puts us on a
slippery slope that inevitably takes us to the point where we punish religious groups because of
their religious views.'"
We're telling the truth about what gay marriage is going to mean--for children
and for faith communities. That's what’s making the Human Rights Campaign go ballistic.
Finally, I'd like to close by sharing with you an extraordinary interview Maggie
Gallagher did with Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher:
Rod Dreher: Maggie, you and I are on the same side
of the gay marriage issue, but I am pessimistic about our chances for success. You, however, are
optimistic. What am I missing?
Maggie Gallagher: Vaclav Havel mostly. "Truth and love wlll
prevail over lies and hate." On that basis Havel took on the Soviet empire. Where is that invincible
empire now?
Same-sex marriage is founded on a lie about human nature: "there is no
difference
between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and you are a bigot if you disagree."
Political movements can--sometimes at great human cost and with great output of
energy--sustain a lie but eventually political regimes founded on lies collapse in on themselves.
I don't think of myself as optimistic: just realistic. What does losing marriage
mean? First the rejection of the idea that children need a mom and dad as a cultural norm--or
probably even as a respectable opinion. That's become very clear for people who have the eyes to see
it. (See e.g. footnote 26 of the Iowa decision.)
Second: the redefinition of traditional religious faiths as the moral and legal
equivalent of racists. The proposition on the table right now is that our faith itself is a form of
bigotry.
Despair is gay marriage advocates' prime message point. All warfare, including
culture war, is ultimately psychological warfare. You win a war when you convince the other side to
give up.
So now you want to decide we've lost on an issue where, in the March 12 CBS News
poll two-thirds of Americans agree with us. I mean, does this make sense?
...People are flocking to the National Organization for Marriage
(www.nationformarriage.org), not because we try to scare them about how bad things are going to
be--but because we offer them a chance to come together with other people of all races, creeds and
colors to stand up for a core and timeless good.
Here's what I know that maybe you can't see: There are enormous untapped
energies
out their waiting for someone to organize them effectively.
RD: It's my view that our side has lost this battle, at least in
the long run, because we've lost the culture. Bottom line: I believe we should retreat to a
strategically defensible position while there's still time. You disagree. What's wrong with my
analysis?
MG: Rod, you are bargaining with yourself by saying "give up
marriage and focus on religious liberty protections." The proposition on the table is your faith is
a
form of bigotry and Americans don't grant religious liberty protections to bigots.
Conceding the main point--that our marriage tradition is a good and honorable
thing that deserves respect--is not going to help you win any religious liberty protection.
We need to build effective grassroots organizations in blue states. Or we are
going to lose marriage. And religious liberty.
Abandoning the 60 percent or so of Americans who agree with you on marriage
isn't
going to help you win any fight at all.
We need to do a lot of things but one of the key ones is: we have to find the
people who care about marriage and organize them into an effective force. Especially in blue states.
We don't do that, the churches are going to get rolled.
I don't have time for pessimism. The stakes are too high.
Hope is a virtue. Despair is not only a temptation, it's the
greatest lie of them all. Because we know who wins in the end, don't we?
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be your voice for God's truth
about marriage.
Keep me in your prayers. You are in mine.
God bless you,
Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542
bbrown@nationformarriage.org
About Paisley...
Yesterday it was finally time to start joining the yard care club. We picked up all the sticks and branches that had fallen off our trees, we picked up the annoying little balls that grow on our tree and then fall on our grass, Jason mowed until the mower ran out of gas and we sprayed some weeds. Paisley during all of this was a good helper when she needed to be a good player when there wasn't anything for her to do. She also got to have a fudge-sicle for being such a great helper which she proceeded to eat and wear.
Paisley is a good mommy. Just as she has learned that sometimes a time out is necessary to calm down or to learn a lesson she also is teaching her babies that they must go to time out to learn something. I don't know what this baby did, but she needed a time out and then Paisley lovingly picked her up to comfort her and remind her that she still loves her. (p.s. Paisley picked out her not matching outfit, not me!)
Yesterday we read a book about Clifford and spring cleaning. In the book it talks about planting a garden. Jason asked Paisley "what do we have in our garden?" To which she responded without any hesitation "Weeds!" Thanks a lot Paisley. We'll get to hoeing out the weeds immediately.
10 Weeks Left...
Fewer if I have anything to do with it! :) It is pretty exciting to be in the 30+ week stage of this whole thing. Finally there is a tiny glimmer of a light at the end of the tunnel. My friends and I have talked about a baby shower in the beginning of May so I have yet to really buy anything for the baby. I have received a few things as gifts and I have bought him maybe 3 things so we are really unprepared, but hopefully within the next month I'll start to feel like we can bring him home and he won't be naked for the rest of his life!! :) I go to the doctor next week. My appointments are now 3 weeks apart, hopefully they will stay that way. I don't want to go to the doctor more often than I need to. That doesn't help the time fly by. Now that I am done with all the blood tests and things I only have the group B strep test to dread. Getting swabbed isn't my favorite activity.
On a side note I go to the dermatologist today and I'm scared out of my mind. I'm not the biggest fan of dermatologists (shocking I know... I apparently am not of fan of any who will hurt you!) I am hoping to get some better medicine for my acne and rosacea that is safe while pregnant and breastfeeding. I also think that skin cancer #2 has popped out underneath my scar from the first time. My regular doctor doesn't know much about it so I've had some pretty bad skin these past 7 months. There is one dermatologist that comes to my town once a month. The appointment for today was made back in November. That's how in demand things are here.
Here is my rant about skin cancer. I hate the sun. I have always hated the sun. When I was a small child my pediatrician told my parents that I would be very susceptible to skin cancer, I don't know if that made me subconsciously hate the sun for life knowing it would be my enemy or what. I am so annoyed that so many people go sun bathe and spend excessive amounts of time in the sun and they will never get skin cancer, and I avoid it like the plague and here I am, 26 with a possible second occurrence! NOT FAIR! Anyway, I'll post an update when I get back and let you know if they cut my head open. Fun, fun! :)
UPDATE: Now I will have a little scar right under the big one to match. I was right and I did have more basal cell carcinoma. Joy. Luckily they were able to get it all out today and I don't have to go back for more surgery as far as I know. Last time they took a biospy and then at a later date I had to come back for the removal. I was prepared for them to get it taken care of today so I'm glad they were able to. Also, there is a not-so-strong acne cream that I can use while pregnant. The doctor said that I won't think he is a miracle worker because it won't work very fast, but it should at least help me.
I feel like I live my life as a series of things to dread and then relief when they are over. Let me tell you I have been dreading this for weeks. Now that this is gone, my other things I am dreading don't seem as major. The list is this:
Singing in Sacrament meeting on Sunday
Do Sharing Time in primary this Sunday...
After those two things I'm home free for a while... as long as I don't have to do the group B strep thing on Tuesday. Although, with all of these dreading things, maybe we should just get that over with too. Am I a weirdo or what?
On a side note I go to the dermatologist today and I'm scared out of my mind. I'm not the biggest fan of dermatologists (shocking I know... I apparently am not of fan of any who will hurt you!) I am hoping to get some better medicine for my acne and rosacea that is safe while pregnant and breastfeeding. I also think that skin cancer #2 has popped out underneath my scar from the first time. My regular doctor doesn't know much about it so I've had some pretty bad skin these past 7 months. There is one dermatologist that comes to my town once a month. The appointment for today was made back in November. That's how in demand things are here.
Here is my rant about skin cancer. I hate the sun. I have always hated the sun. When I was a small child my pediatrician told my parents that I would be very susceptible to skin cancer, I don't know if that made me subconsciously hate the sun for life knowing it would be my enemy or what. I am so annoyed that so many people go sun bathe and spend excessive amounts of time in the sun and they will never get skin cancer, and I avoid it like the plague and here I am, 26 with a possible second occurrence! NOT FAIR! Anyway, I'll post an update when I get back and let you know if they cut my head open. Fun, fun! :)
UPDATE: Now I will have a little scar right under the big one to match. I was right and I did have more basal cell carcinoma. Joy. Luckily they were able to get it all out today and I don't have to go back for more surgery as far as I know. Last time they took a biospy and then at a later date I had to come back for the removal. I was prepared for them to get it taken care of today so I'm glad they were able to. Also, there is a not-so-strong acne cream that I can use while pregnant. The doctor said that I won't think he is a miracle worker because it won't work very fast, but it should at least help me.
I feel like I live my life as a series of things to dread and then relief when they are over. Let me tell you I have been dreading this for weeks. Now that this is gone, my other things I am dreading don't seem as major. The list is this:
Singing in Sacrament meeting on Sunday
Do Sharing Time in primary this Sunday...
After those two things I'm home free for a while... as long as I don't have to do the group B strep thing on Tuesday. Although, with all of these dreading things, maybe we should just get that over with too. Am I a weirdo or what?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Jewelery Update
Ok so I posted about that jewelry website where you can get sterling silver pieces for free (but really with $6.99 for shipping) Well I found one piece that I thought was pretty unique and I ordered it. It arrived about a week or so later and it is beautiful! I am now a full fledged supporter of the site and can say that they will not take your almost seven dollars and run with it! :) Also, if you don't have a silver chain the sport your new pendant with you can purchase one of those for $4. Pretty good deal. I already had a chain so for now I can't vouch for those.
I would like to think of myself as a jewelry wearer, but I'm not. Besides the wedding ring I don't usually wear jewelry, but this doesn't stop me from purchasing it. When I remember I will throw something on for church or for a party, but as soon as I walk in the door it immediately comes off. I'm not sure why it bugs me so much, I wish it didn't. But none the less, if I find another piece of sterling silver jewelry from that site that I love, I will purchase!! Take a look and see if there is anything for you!
I would like to think of myself as a jewelry wearer, but I'm not. Besides the wedding ring I don't usually wear jewelry, but this doesn't stop me from purchasing it. When I remember I will throw something on for church or for a party, but as soon as I walk in the door it immediately comes off. I'm not sure why it bugs me so much, I wish it didn't. But none the less, if I find another piece of sterling silver jewelry from that site that I love, I will purchase!! Take a look and see if there is anything for you!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Easter Party
This past weekend we had the annual work Easter party. Paisley was at the top of her game collecting a huge basket full of goodies. She is in the 0-3 year old group, so being the big fish in a little pond suited her well. We now have so many treats that we may text the Easter bunny to skip our house this year.
The Cute Things Paisley Says
Lately Paisley has been coming up with some very cute thoughts. Here they are as best I can recall them.
Most mornings we call Jason at work while we are having breakfast. For the past couple of days for some reason when it is my turn to talk she says "Here you can talk to Stefanie now." or some variation of that. Every other time during the day she calls me mommy, so I'm not sure why on the phone to Daddy I'm Stefanie.
She was flipping through a pregnancy book I have looking for babies and came across a drawing of a baby crowning (I know, I should have grabbed this book away before she even had the chance to look at the pictures) She asked is the picture was the baby's bum. I said no it is the mommy bum. Then she asked where the baby was. I showed her the small top of the head of the baby in the drawing. She then said "so the baby is going to come out of your bum?" I said "pretty close to there." So now she always talks about how my baby is going to come out of my bum and her baby is going to come out of her bum. This morning I asked her what she wanted for breakfast and she said "I want honey nut cheerios because they are honey and they came out of a bee's bum." I then asked her if they were the bee's babies and she said "yes!"
Even before this experience she asked me if my baby was going to come out of my stomach and before I could even answer she said " no, there is no hole in your tummy, it can't get out. The baby is in the dark because there is no hole for light."
It is very funny the things she comes up with and where her thought process leads her. She is such a sweetie!! We love our clever three year old!
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