Is forgiveness as hard for you as it is for me?

When people who love you hurt you, is it hard for you to forgive them? Especially when they don't ask for your forgiveness. Especially when they don't realize that their behavior is so harmful. Especially when the pain they cause is not always in their control.

I will work on this one.

I want to SCREAM!

I am so thankful that I DO NOT have a headache today. I have had a mild headache for about the past four days...nothing has helped. Except some serious prayers.

Praise God the headache is gone and I feel really well today - physically.

Mentally, I am super stressed. I want to go to Rome. I want to go to Hawaii...for free. But both trips require working my jewelry business. Unfortunately, ANY extra time I have has been spent attending my kids' sporting events or on my FINAL M.B.A. Class. (The prof loads us up with lots of work so that we'll know what it feels like to be an executive. I think I could handle it if I was getting paid for this. But I'm PAYING this guy to torture me. Where's the brains in that?)

To add fuel to the fire, my father-in-law is having a triple bypass on Tuesday. No stress here...

And they're talking a Reduction in Force at work. Steve asks me, will you lose your job? I'm like..."I don't know. I don't think so." I guess if I lose my job, it frees up my time to finish my M.B.A. and to work on my jewelry. :) Aloha! and Arrivederci!

I'm finished with week four of 15 of this class. Thank you, God, for giving me fortitude this fall. Step by step, inch by inch, life moves forward. The suffering makes me a stronger person.

And please, all your extra prayers should go for my pop-in-law. We are very close and I love him. I also know my husband carries a heaviness about it. We are grateful the problem has been id'd and can be fixed.

We just need faith and prayers. Thanks.

Jesus loves you...or the worst Media Relations strategy EVER!

Check out this video to watch your tax dollars at work. Oh - and Jesus loves you. He really, really does. I know He does. I think this is kinda sick and wrong.

Migraines

Did I ever mention that I've suffered from migraine headaches since the age of five? Yep. There have been times that I have been in bed for 14 hours with excruciating pain, to the point of extreme nausea and tears.

I tried accupuncture in the early '90s. Dr. Wong in Amarillo. I highly recommend the procedure. It reduced the frequency and severity - but did not eliminate them. (Perhaps I should go back for a readjustment...I've heard that is called for. Just no time for that right now.)

I've never liked the prescription migraine medicines because the side-effects always seemed just as bad as the headaches.

Until now.

My doc talked me into trying Imitrex. Aside from feeling a little weird the first four hours after I take it (like my arms tingle, my tongue aches, my jaw is sore and I'm a little nauseous), it is the only thing that has ever tackled the headache. I feel normal again in four hours. If you've ever had migraines, you know that four hours of weirdness is nothing compared to fourteen hours of excruciating pain.

This is not a commercial for Imitrex. Or an endorsement of accupuncture or my doc. I write this because I woke up with a migraine. Yuk. So I took my quiz with the pain in my head (got a 90! woo hoo). I'm waiting to take the Imitrex til I have breakfast. We're having omelettes, cantaloupe and fresh salsa....compliments of my father-in-law's garden. Breakfast is at 9:30.

And Imitrex as a chaser. Hooray! That means I'll feel good by 2 p.m.

Life is good.

P.S. we had .80 of rain last night. The pastures really needed it. Here's a pic from my kitchen window. My hubby says we neede three times as much.

This is for Mitzi!

A photograph of the nutty professor. This is for real. It can be found on the University web site.

Confession101

A friend of mine sent this video. It is adorable! Watch out Oprah.