Please pass this on!

I got two things going on that I want to share with everyone.  Please pass it on to ANYONE you think might be interested in either.

 The first one is:  ALL Avon home parties I have for the month of October, I'm donating a portion of the sales to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.  This year I'm walking in memory of my sister Terri.  Please help me in donating to find a cure for Breast Cancer. 

The second one is: I am trying to help get Care Packages made for our soldiers over seas.  In doing this, the more organizations that want the items for Care Packages, the less the cost is.  I will be covering all the sales tax and all items purchased will be at my cost.  As of right now, I have priced the deodorant and lip balm.  Both, as far as I know, are unscented.  The deodorant is a liquid roll on, so it won't melt in the high temperatures.  

If you are not in the immediate area, I might have to charge shipping.  Please let me know if you are interested. 

Heartache

Here lately I have been hiding my pain and my heartache.


It's been worse since this very immature Facebook "game" supposedly about breast cancer awareness started.  How is pretending to be pregnant going to help breast cancer awareness?  In a few words, it don't!!  The other day, I was checking my Facebook (because that's the only way I know what's going on) and I don't know how many people had put up that they were so many weeks and craving whatever.  So, I posted this on Facebook: 

"Before playing the "Breast Cancer Awareness Game", please consider "how does this support someone that is actually fighting this disease?" How does a post about my shoe size and where I leave my purse make the person who just had a double mastectomy feel cared for? How is a post supporting the person that has just been told "due to chemotherapy you are going through, you are most likely infertile", when the posts make it sound like everyone is pregnant?"

I had few likes on that and when I posted someone else's blog page that was talking about it, a few people reposted.  It's hurtful!!

Anyway, getting away from that Facebook stuff.  I'm just hurting.  Next week will be our 3rd anniversary and it just seems like somethings missing.  Well, it is missing, but...  I am thankful to be married to Matt!  I'm not going to say it's been all sunshine and roses, but I don't think anyone can say that.  We've had our ups and downs.  It's just that something (or should I say, someone) is missing that makes our family complete.  

If you are not going through infertility, here are a few tips from Resolve.com that might help when talking to someone going through this:

• Don't tell them to relax
• Don't minimize the problem
• Don't say there are worse things that could happen
• Don't say they aren't meant to be parents
• Don't ask why they aren't trying IVF
• Don't be crude
• Don't complain about your pregnancy
• Don't treat them like they are ignorant
• Don't gossip about your friend's condition
• Don't push adoption
• Let them know you care
• Remember them on Mother's Day
• Support their decision to stop treatments

Here are some of my personal favorites that I've been told:

• There's always adoption.  Yes, we do realize that.  At this point, that's not even something that is up for discussion.  
• Don't rush it, you're still young.  I just turned 30 last month.  Fertility decreases as a woman gets older.  Her most fertile years are between 20 and 25.
• You really don't want kids, they're nothing but heartache.  Yes, I know that having children isn't going to be all hearts and flowers.  
• Do you want mine?  Only if you promise not to call the cops on me for kidnapping!!!  :)

For more, use your favorite search engine and look up "what not to say to an infertile."  You'll find some that will blow your socks off!!


And for a parting note, a song that describes how most of us feel!

Skirts!!!

I'll start at the beginning for this one :)

I have a hard time finding skirts.  They are either way too short or cost way too much.  I can't remember exactly when, but I was given a bag full of pants at the church we attended and they were too big.  I decided to try my hand at making skirts with them.  I have posted several of them on a previous blog post.

Well, now I've decided to sell skirts that I make.  Check out Jeani's Skirts on Facebook! 

Another Year....

Last Thursday was my 30th birthday.  I can't believe it!  I don't feel 30.  I certainly don't LOOK 30.

Friday, August 5th, I went for my first "WELCOME TO 30" medical test.  A breast MRI.  Yippee!!  I don't want to have another one done AGAIN!!!  My sternum hurt for 3 days after it was done.  Why you may ask....  It was because ALL of my weight was unequally distributed between my sternum and my knees.  Plus it felt like I had been put in an oven or under a sun lamp.  Maybe it was just hot flashes :) 

Anyway.... This is just a reminder!  Ladies, remember to do your monthly BSE!!! 

Something Fun!

I want to try something fun on here.  I don't know how it will work, but here goes!

I want to know where everyone's from.  I do have the Feedjit thing on the bottom, but it picks me up too.  So, please comment and let me know who you are and where you're from! 

Thank you :) !!

Lots of Love!!

Learning....Rants and Laughs

This past month has been filled with learning for me.  I'm going to do this in list style because my thoughts aren't always in order.  This should be fun!

1. Honoring your parents doesn't mean being a doormat.  This is a form of abuse that extends childhood and on to adulthood.  Just because you are the parent, doesn't mean you still get to rule the life of your adult child.
2. Doctor's don't know everything.  They switch medications without even talking to the patient.  When a patient says, "I've tried it before and I felt strange, but I'm willing to try it again." doesn't mean lets do it.  It means that medication should be out of the question!!!
3. People will foster children for the money (just plain WRONG!!!).  I went to talk to someone this week about some things.  She asked if I worked.  I told her no, my auditory processing disorder made it hard for me to find a job I could do without phones and a lot of noise.  She suggested that I do Foster Care for money.  That some people use it as a full time job and get paid really well.  My thoughts on Foster Care are this, 1) I don't think I could foster personally because I would get too attached to the children in my care and not want to give them up. and 2) using children to get money!!!!  I do realize that if you foster, you do need some extra money for raising the child and all, don't get me wrong.  But to foster just for the money!!!!  That's a morality issue right there!!!
4. Some people think it's very easy to get an attorney.  We have been told several times in the past few weeks that we needed an attorney for somethings.  When they were told that our income was too low to pay for one, the answer would then be, you could probably go through legal aide.  Wrong!!  Our income is too high!!!
5. You have to rid the TOXIC people from your life!!  A Toxic person is anyone that makes your life so miserable that it negatively affects your health.  If you think of someone and you start getting ill (not the happy butterflies, but ill), they are a toxin to you!  Stay away!!
6. Not all counselors have had the pleasure of dealing with Infertiles.  The same person I was talking to from #3 gave me the Infertiles most dreaded comment: you could always adopt!  Getting into that can of worms.... In our situation, all we need is a simple surgery and then we will be back on track.  Our surgery will cost less than $5,000.  An adoption cost over $10,000 and that's for one adoption.  Then, even after you pay all that money and all the emotional cost (which I would think would be worse) it's still not a guarantee that you will have that child.  I know or know of too many people that got right there to the end of the adoption proceedings, and the mother changed her mind.  Yes, I do realize that a positive pregnancy test doesn't always mean that Baby will arrive. 
7. If there are rules that need to be enforced, put them in writing and make them clear!  We were visiting a friend last week.  The place he was at had some very strict rules, but only a fraction were made known to the public.  While I wasn't the one to break these rules, I watched as they harassed a woman because she didn't follow the unknown rules.  She broke the rules all day, but didn't react unprofessionally until she'd been there for over eight hours.  Later on, I looked for those rules.  In the rules that were given to the general public, it said nothing about what had happen.  MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!!!
8. When taking blood pressure medication, wear lots of sunscreen!!! Yesterday, I helped fix the front porch.  I didn't take my meds, so I didn't worry about being out in the heat and the sun burn.  I have thoroughly learned my lesson :) 
9. The best time to write a blog is when you are alone and listening to music.  I haven't wrote a lot because I've been constantly going.  Tonight, I have finally relaxed, got out of my hormonal mood swings and got a moment to myself.  I'm listening to music that reminds me of my childhood and of Terri.  Not necessarily songs that are "Terri songs" but some that just make me remember the good times. 
10. And the most important....Stress can make you reschedule medical test because your body doesn't cooperate!  I was supposed to go for my very first breast MRI early this month.  They (whoever THEY are) now say to get the first (baseline) mammogram or MRI done when you are 10 years younger than the age of the youngest relative was diagnosed.  Terri was 40 when her breast cancer was found.  I'll be 30 in 17 days.  I do have fibroid cyst already and found them when I was 25.  Anyway, I was mentally prepared for this MRI.  I'm not sure how it will be preformed and I hate MRIs because they are enclosed.  I haven't had a MRI in over 5 years and that was on my brain.  Well, for this MRI, my body has to act right.  Earlier this month, there were some issues going on that really stressed me out.  My body, being mean, decides it's not going to work.  So, my MRI had to be postponed.  I go next week to have it done.

Well, I think that's about all for now.  I'm feeling even more relaxed and all.  Good night (or morning)!!!

Sarah's Laughter

I've been thinking about this for a while.  Genesis 18:12 and 21:6 are both proof that when Sarah had heard that she was to get pregnant, she laughed.

Now, every time I've heard the story of Abraham and Sarah preached on, taught about or discussed at all, Sarah is blowing off what she's heard by laughing.  My thought is maybe it was such a shock to her, and even though she was in her 90's, it might have been a laughter of excitement!  I know I've laughed when I have been excited about something I never thought could happen.  I have laughed when I've gotten good new from the doctor.  A laughter of excitement and/or relief.

I was told that when Sarah (or Sara, in the New Testament) laughed, she was mocking God.  So, I've done a little research on it and found that she was either: 1) mocking or 2) excited.  Truly, I don't think we will ever know for sure this side of heaven. 

But, I think I'll stick with excited!!

In Memory of Terri Sue

Terri Sue "Scooter"

 May 13, 1966- April 18, 2008

Today, my oldest sister, Terri, would have been 45 years old.  I decided to blog about her today.  If any of "my readers" knew Terri, please comment with your memories also.

I remember when I was about 4 years old, we were at one of the uncle's house.  They had party trays set out in the living room.  I was sitting there with Terri.  I asked her, "Terri, do you want a pickle?"  She answered, "No."  Then I asked, "Ain't you gonna ask me if I want one?"

Driving with her after her second bad accident was a BIG risk.  Her favorite phrase then was "@#*$^%!?"  In other words, she didn't like it!  LOL

So, I figured, in memory of Terri, I'd put a few songs and pictures here, things I remember most.  I didn't get to know her during her teenage years.  She was almost done with them when I came along.

(Sherli, Terri, Coni, Me in 2002?)

She liked to be a prankster, I guess.  When Sherli was dating her first husband, Steve, Terri was doing chemo for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  She was loosing her hair.  Sherli took Steve over to Terri's and Terri had just finished putting the little sprigs of hair she had left in foam curlers.  It was hilarious!!!  Steve thought Terri was being serious about it and was trying to get Sherli to control her laughter.

After Matt met Terri, we went to see her.  Matt came in and asked her how she was doing.  Terri's response, "I'm dying, how are you?"  Matt was embarrassed because of her response, he thought he did something wrong.  Nope, that was Terri being Terri.  Had a joke for it all!!

For my 15th birthday, Terri and Sherli had planned a surprise party for me at Sherli's house.  That day, we were riding home from Sherli's (before I knew about the party) and we got in a wreck.  Some guy had ran a stop sign and we ended up hitting him.  Later that night, we went back to Sherli's.  It was Terri, Sherli, me, Rose and Julie.  Well, some how Sherli, Rose and Julie got stuck in Sherli's room.  The door didn't have a lock, but it just would not open.  Terri stood back from the door, held on the wall behind her and tried to kick in the door Chuck Norris style!!!  Oh I am laughing my behind off right now thinking of that!!!!

Ok, ok.  Now for some music while I think of some more Terrisms!

 

  I also remember, the day I met Matt, I went to see Terri first.  I remember she was just about as excited as I was while I was showing her the grainy picture that I had of him.

Terri and I had lived in a two bed/two bath trailer in Milton after she had her second wreck.  I don't know if I can pin point anything specific about living there with her, I just remember we would both work on her school work when she was doing school online.  How one day, I went to the ER from work, Terri had just had back surgery...AGAIN...  We were a sight!  Both of us, laying in the living room, on pain meds.  LOL

Stuck Inbetween

* Disclaimer!!!
This blog is not geared towards any one in particular.  If you are going through these things yourself, or you aren't but you are trying to understand how a person going through them feels, please don't get offended!!

With Mother's Day approaching, I get a little anxious, sad, depressed and a whole other range of feelings that I can't even began to describe.  I'm feeling....um....stuck!!!

I am fast approaching the "BIG 3-0" and yet, I still feel like a teenager.  We are unable to have children!  Ok, that's out there in the open.  I am so tired of the looks I get from other people that are my age that are fortunate enough not to have had the problems I do and were able to become the most precious "M" word in the world, Mommy.  I have been waiting for that day for so long, and it still hasn't arrived yet.

I guess I'll start at the beginning.  That's as good a place to start as any.  I knew early in my teenage years something was wrong.  My body wasn't functioning right.  The doctor I was seeing at that time didn't investigate.  I remember when I was maybe 14 years old, crying at Vacation Bible School because I just knew I wasn't going to be a mom.  I got the "don't worry about that, you are still really young to even think about it" speech.  Finally, when I was 18 and having MAJOR female problems did the doctor finally do some test.  She got it wrong and the specialist she sent me to just went off what she was saying.  I was on Birth Control Pills from then until I turned 23.

I was having more problems about the time I turned 23, went in to see my doctor and told her I wanted to go to a specialist.  My insurance at the time required a referral from the Family Practice doctor.  She told me that she could solve the problems in her office, I didn't need a specialist. Fortunately, right after, the insurance changed, so I went to see the specialist I wanted without needing a referral.  When I first started seeing this doctor I remember exactly one of the questions he asked, "how where you diagnosed with PCOS?"  I told him through ultrasound and that the other specialist agreed. This new doctor (Dr. L.) did blood work.  I remember when it came back, him telling me that the FSH ratio would be 2:1 if I had PCOS and it had came back 1:1.  Dr. L. told me that he wanted to try a few different things but if they didn't work, I would need surgery.  I was terrified!!  I had had surgery before, but this was different!  Well, the initial treatments didn't work, so August 24, 2004, I went in for a D&C.

At this time, I was working at a different hospital and one of the ladies there that I had become friends with told me that I was having an abortion.  I wasn't even pregnant!!!  The D&C came back and I was diagnosed with "internal endometriosis" or what is known as adenomyosis.

OK, I'm going to go out on a tangent here.  I have been on progeterone, premarin, so many different birth control pills that I can't remember then name, fertility drugs and the like.  The birth control pills where not to keep me from getting pregnant, they were for my health (or so I was told, I think it hurt more than helped).  I have crazy mood swings, emotional break downs (if you couldn't tell), hot flashes and I'm not even old enough to go through menopause.

Getting back on track, June 2009, I started having really bad pain in my right side.  It started from where my right ovary is, went out in my side and then radiated from my ribs down into my leg just above the knee.  It felt like someone had stabbed me in the ovary and like I had a sunburn.  Matt took me to the emergency room as soon as we got off from work that morning.  I waited for four hours and was never seen!!  I was in so much pain, people from other departments would come in my room to check on me because they were passing and saw the condition I was in.  Even the security supervisor at the hospital was getting upset for me.  He could hear me writhing in pain and he was in a different room.  No one ever came in, even after Matt attempted to get someone to check on me several times.  We left the hospital.  They sent the youngest looking girl out to try to talking me into staying.  I'm not proud of this, but I cussed her out to where I thought we were going to be escorted from the property.

I was finally able to get in to see Dr. L. and he told me it sounded like endometriosis.  He suggested different therapies to try, but would give me some time to think about them.  After much prayer and thinking with my history and family medical history, I'd rather go ahead and have the surgery than to wait until it was to late and get my hand caught in the cookie jar.  September 22, 2009, I went in for a Laparoscopy and D&C.  Matt and Momma were told the results before I woke up from the anesthesia.  I have Stage 1 endometriosis.  I even got pictures!! LOL  Now, I am on progesterone for until.  Until what?  I don't know.  Until the Lord blesses us with a child, until it gets bad enough that I need a hysterectomy?  I don't know.

I think the next time I'm treated like I don't belong since I don't have any children, or told that being a stepmother should be enough, I'm going to try to calmly explain to them the pain I have been through.  As far as being a stepmother, I have no claim to this child.  This child is their father's and mother's child.  I have no say in what goes on in the child's life.  The only time I have any say in the child's life is what they eat when they visit or what time they go to bed while here.  Other than that, nothing!  I'm tired of people thinking this should be enough.  I'm also tired of people saying that maybe this is God's way of telling you to wait, or other things along those lines.

I guess I'm just tired of feeling like a teenager (for lack of a better description) in an adults body with all the adult responsiblities.  I'm tired of feeling like I don't belong due to medical issues.  These issues have plagued my life so, that if affects every single aspect of my life!!!

Need a little Help

Ok, here's the deal.  Now that I have some of my health issues under control, I'm curious to see how much prior illnesses have contributed to them.  When I was about 4 months old, I had Haemophilus Influenzae type B (HIB).  Along with that I had meningitis, an ear infection and at one point a fever of 107.4.  In all the online research I have done on HIB, it just gives information about the vaccine.  That's not what I need to know!!!  The only information I have found on HIB was in a home medical reference book a few years ago.  It said most cases of Haemophilus have secondary meningitis.  There are cases that another infection was involved but I didn't look into them much, but there wasn't much information about any of it at all!!!

The only information other than that that I said above, is fact sheets to scare parents into getting their infant vaccinated for HIB.

I'm looking for this information to figure out if this is where some of my health problems stem from. 

I'll just write a little about the effects that I have a feeling that had been caused by the HIB, meningitis and 107.4 fever.

Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD or APD) is tough to diagnose.  I wasn't diagnosed until I was 25.  It is a hearing/communicating/learning disorder.  Even at 29 years old, I have a hard time hearing people especially on the phone.  If you don't look directly at me when you are speaking, I totally misunderstand what you are saying.  With this disorder, something in the nerves of the ear and/or brain are not functioning properly.  It makes memorization very difficult, as reading comprehending or just comprehension as a whole.  Funny story (although my mom might not think so), the family was at my sister's this past Sunday afternoon.  My sister, mom, niece, my sister's mother-in-law and I were in the kitchen.  I was standing near her dining table and I heard mom say something.  To me it sounding like my mother had said "sniff my butt."  Anyone who knows Momma knows this wouldn't be something my mother would ever say!  I was told what she had said, but I forgot.


Any way, I don't know everyone who reads this blog personally.  That's why I posted it.  I'm desperate for answers and don't know where to even start looking.  HIB is practically gone, like measles and polio.  I just want to find out if this is some of the brain damage that they use on the fact sheets to scare the parents of infants or if there's more to it.

Thank you!!

Preview for May 13th's blog.......

I'm getting anxious to post my May 13th blog, so I'll give a little preview.  Maybe that will take the edge off some, for me that is!!

Enjoy!

Finally got my answers!

I got my results back last week.  They came back negative for Cushing's!  I'm happy about that, but at the same time, I wonder, if it's not that, what could it be?  I wasn't to thrilled that I had to call Dr. P.'s office to find out, when she had told me that they would call me.  I guess that's good news :)

I've seen it said between my "infertility friends" how hard church can be.  Well, I've been experiencing that here lately.  Hubby, at first, thought I just didn't want to go because I haven't been sleeping.  But when I explained to him how hard it was, he finally understood.  I love going to church, but at the same time, it can be the most damaging places to be.  Yes, you miss the preaching and the people that make your church family, but you feel like your heart is being ripped out at the same time. 

You see all the happy little families, and know something is missing.  Sometimes, I even feel discriminated against because I don't have any children.  The look of pity is horrifying.  Especially the looks when you run out of church crying.  I've done that on several occasions.  It's embarrassing (to say the least)!  I'm sorry to say, these feelings have been keeping me out of church!

Please, please, please, don't say in response to this blog:

• "You're still young"
• "Ya'll just got married, don't rush it"
• "Just relax"  
• "Just don't think about it"

Well, I think my mind is just about clear...lol  Good night everyone!!

Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait!!!

Just over 3 weeks ago, I did lab work to check for Cushing's Disease.  All I can comprehend from my limited research is that it's an over production of a hormone in the pituitary gland that makes the adrenal gland make more cortizol.  I'm on pins and needles!!!  I hate waiting!!! 

I went in to see the doctor (I'll call her Dr. P)  over a month ago for swelling in my legs and feet, my hands and my face.  My blood pressure was high too.  My normal is on the low side of normal.  I had all the normal blood test done.  I ain't telling all the bad stuff here (lol!!)  but some of it was high.  Anyway, I went back to see Dr. P after the two weeks, and she asked if I had ever been diagnosed with PCOS.  I thought that was odd, but...eh, what do I know?  I told her that I had been misdiagnosed with it over 10 years ago, but had blood work that said otherwise.  Then she asked about my saliva test because I'm on Compounded Progesterone for my endometriosis.  I didn't have the saliva test, my GYN (Dr. C.) started me on the lowest dosage, and we'll see from there.  Dr. P. told me that PCOS and Cushing's some of the symptoms can be mistaken for the other.

So, now after three weeks of waiting, I'm getting impatient!!!  That, and I haven't been taking my progesterone like I'm supposed to, but I'm getting it today!!

I just can't believe it!!!

Right now, I cannot even see straight, I am just that mad, hurt, and offended!!  PETA's new promotion was "Win a Vasectomy"  "in honor of"  National Infertility Awareness Week.  They have slightly revised their promotion to say "during."  Still!  What are they wanting, the publicity of shock value??  In one letter that a fellow blogger and volunteer with RESOLVE received, they said that infertile couples just need to adopt.  Yeah, like that's as easy as adopting a pet.  They also consider it justified that 7.3 million people in the US are dealing with infertility because the world is "overpopulated." 

That really makes me think.  When God made this world, it wasn't his will for people to die.  His first commandment to Adam and Eve was to be fruitful and multiply!  Now, if sin hadn't entered the world, how many people would be here today?  God made provision for this!  But I forget, God is the last one on the minds of the people with PETA.  They even want the Bible to be changed to consider the animals and make it more "animal friendly." 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to this link Tell PETA infertility is not a joke and sign the petition to get them to do away with this ad, or at least change it and leave National Infertility Awareness Week out of it.

Emotions and Skirts

Sad to day, but the past couple of days, I've been having THOSE days.  Today, we visited a church that we weren't sure about, but enjoyed it.  I think we enjoyed talking to the Pastor more than the actual service itself. 

Today, I want to add a song to this blog.  Warning~~  it is secular, but describes how I feel.

I have also finished Lew's skirts!!!  I made me one too.  They were very easy, well, until I got to the sewing machine :)  I'm not very good with the sewing machine, but I made it work!!

 

All I did was undo the seams in the legs of blue jeans, evened up where the would go to back together as skirts and then sewed them.  The top one, the legs were a bit slimmer, so I added panels to the sides.

Things on my mind

Over the past few years, I've lost quite a few friends.  Some where like an extension to my own family and others just drifted.  Now, I don't know if I was at fault for any of these "break ups."  I was never told why we weren't friends anymore.  I got to thinking about it last night, I haven't lost any sleep over it, but I do wonder what happened.  I do wonder how they are doing from time to time.  If I do see these old friends, and try to talk, I just get shunned.  How can I know if I had done something wrong, if no one says anything??  Last night, I was reading in Matthew and came along some verses that explain what to do if you do have a problem with someone.

Matthew 18:15-17
15.  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16.  But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17.  And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Matthew 18:21-22
21.  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22.  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 

So, with saying that, if you have a problem with me, or if I've done you wrong, talk to me!  Tell me what I did!  

Ugh!

It's just been one of those...ummm...months!  It's been a month of trial and error, of just plain out frustration, and almost seeming like if it could happen, it will. 

I went to the doctor earlier this month because my body was swelling (not weight gain swell, water retention swell).  My blood pressure was abnormally high when I went in, so I'm now on a blood pressure pill that is also a diuretic.  Did all the blood work because the doctor was concerned that I might have a thyroid problem or possibly Lupus.  Those came back fine.  My cholesterol was high, I'm ashamed to say, and my Vitamin D was low, but everything else checked out normal.  She asked if since I'm on the type of hormones I'm on, if the saliva test done was normal.  Usually for the Compounded hormones there is a saliva test to see what level is needed.  I didn't have to go that route because the starting dosage was good.

Now, I'm awaiting my test results back for Cushing's Disease.  I went to the lab that's just a few miles from my house and found out for the blood work portion, I would have to be there before 9am.  Since it was later than that and I had to do a 24 hour urine test, the told me to reschedule.  They didn't have one for a week that early, so off to Crestview I went!

This weeks project has been fun, but not over yet.  Tuesday, I took the car up to the tire place because the back tire was going flat.  While getting on the ramp, BAM!  I was a little worried, but while it was in the air I didn't see anything wrong.  The ramp actually is under the whole car, and when it lifts it, it supports the whole underneath.  After getting the flat repaired from the nail it had found, I started the car to back it up.  Boy, was it loud!!  On the way home, I stopped to get gas for Matt.  When I came out I had found the problem.  The muffler was no longer connected.  I get home thinking this is something that I could easily fix.  NOPE!!  The flex pipe had come unraveled.  So, Matt and my dad get out there and give it a temporary fix.  We went today to go get it fixed correctly, and the guy tells us that it's going to cost $100, which $80 of that was for more flex pipe which was already there!!!  So, we left!  Tomorrow, while Matt's sleeping, my dad and I are going shopping for the correct parts and going to see if we can fix it tomorrow morning.

As it is pretty obvious, I have been getting frustrated so easy lately.  Even more so than normal.

Avon Product Giveaway!

I am hosting a giveaway on Facebook for your choice of Nailwear Pro Enamel or Ultra Color Rich Moisture Seduction Lipstick with SPF 15.  I will be choosing the winner for the giveaway after I reach 700 likes and have 350 sales.  Two prizes will be given way!  So, head on over to Jeani Williams ~~ Independant Sales Representative for Avon.  While you're there, check out My Personal Website.

Thank you God for today!!!

I feel so bubbly today for all the good news I've gotten.  I had a doctor's appointment this morning for a recheck on my hormones.  I was telling him how I was doing on them, which I thought something was wrong.  It wasn't normal for me.  He told me that it was good that my body was responding in that way and then said "welcome to normalcy!!"  I'm so excited!!!

Then after the appointment, we went to the bank to see if they would work with me to make a payment plan on a credit card I got long before Matt and I met and expired right after we got married.  I told them the amount that I would be able to pay on it now, and when things get going with my business, I'll pay more.  I told her I want to pay it off, but I'm working my way up to it.  She said that would work!!

Then when I get home, Momma and I are watching my niece's daughter.  This morning when she got here, she only wanted me (well, after she got here and I woke up).  She is such a sweet heart.  When I put her down for her nap, Momma's dog decided she was going to get up there too.  So, I was patting baby on the behind and rubbing puppy's belly at the same time.  It was just too cute!

Now, I'm waiting on UPS to arrive.  I am getting new catalogs (one shipment) and a portion of my office supplies (another shipment) today.

Thank you God for such a blessed day today!!  I was getting discouraged and about to give up.  This day that He has given me has put me back in the fight!!

New Business!!

I am now an Avon Independent Sales Representative!  I've very excited about this and hope I do well.  I just started Monday, and already I have given out all my books!!  Interested in buying Avon?  Need new makeup?  How about a skin care regimen?   Or even bath and body products?   Just click on my link and it will direct you to my website.  Shop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the products will even be sent straight to you!!


Jeani's Personal Avon Website

Quick Easy Personal Pizza

I used to make this a lot when I was living on my own with no stove.  I had borrowed Terri's electric skillet to make them.  I love making them with my step-daughter because it gives us time to bond.  Anyway, tonight I made them for us and they were so good.

Here's the recipe that I use, you can scale up or down depending on your needs.

1 bag of flour tortias
tomato sauce  (what ever you please, I make my own)
2 bags Italian cheese
Mushroom
Olives
Pepperoni
Sausage (cook before making the pizza)
Whatever other things you like on your pizza

Have everyone put the sauce on their own "pizza crust," and then add toppings.  I did mine in an electric skillet and waited until the cheese was melted. 

Makes yummy crispy crust personal pizzas and perfect for kids to do in the kitchen.  Well, except the actual cooking  :)