Wordless Wednesday: Hummingbird

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If you look close you can see the little creatures that love the sweat sugar in my feeder.

Menu Ideas for Marvelous Menu

Here’s some simple to make menus for someone with a chronic illness. Hope you all enjoy them.

Barbecue Chicken, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes, and chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream
Refried bean with mexican cheese buritos, cinammon chips
Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread and chocolate pudding with whipped cream
Eggs, toast, tomato and blue berry muffins
Chef Salad with croutons and salad dressing

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What's All the Hair About?

I could write a book about bad hair styles because I was raised around several hairdressers and spent hours sitting at the hair salon watch people transformed before my eyes. The clients didn’t leave with the bad hair styles unless they insisted on an out of the ordinary hair style. When I sat in the receptionist desk waiting for the phone to ring, I saw quite a few people chose hair styles I would never dream of doing with my own hair. Another words what one person does with their hair doesn’t mean it is a bad hair style. Some people don’t do any Hair Care tact. It would be a boring world if we all had the same hair style. It would be too much like the Stepford wives or husbands. That is too creepy for me.  I prefer to have my hair just above the shoulder because it is cooler and easier to style and my hair frosted with the color caramel. I need to color it again, just have been too sick to bother with coloring my hair or just too busy with doctors appointments. Either way I need to color my hair because it helps me feel better about myself. A woman’s hair style and color is important to feel good about yourself both inside and outside.

Surgery Count Down

I’ve been absent a lot lately because I’m dealing with several medical problems. I found out a few weeks ago that I need my gallbladder out. Typically it is a routine surgery, but lupus and a bleeding problem I have will complicate the whole procedure. It would be easier to avoid taking the gallbladder out, but you can end up with severe complications if it bursts. My surgery is Monday so please any good thoughts or prayer would be appreciated. Thanks for stopping by. If you like here’s a video of a gallbladder surgery and more information.

Music Monday: Life is a Highway

Finding Your Speck of Light

Depression is the number one mental illness in the United States. Everyone suffers from the blues atleast once in their life. Since living with lupus it’s been a struggle to  avoid depression. During the first few years of my illness I went through a time of deep depression. I felt like the world had ended. I had given up on life. I just went through the motions of life rather then pulling my self together and accepting it as another one of those opstacles in life. It took me years to get to the point where the depression does not affect me as much. I still do struggle with depression every day. It’s heard getting up each day when your in pain almost constant. It would be easier to just sink back in to depression.  At the time, I felt like I was the only one dealing with the pain. In reality I did know other people suffered from chronic pain, but at the time I felt like the pain had stolen all my hopes and dreams. I’m realising now that I can over come things even if I live in pain every single day of my life. I pray eacch day for it to disapper in the sunset and wonder why I got ‘blessed’ with chronic pain and lupus.

For anyone dealing with chronic illness hold your head up high and smile beccause their’s always light at the end of the tunnel even if it’s just a speck of light. Have a great day and pray your pain will be reduced.

Having Issues with Blog

Hello readers,

I have been having major issues with my blog not from my own doing. There is a bug running around that attacks your header, so make sure your permissions are set correctly and only the file information you put into the header. It is a really nasty bug that may require you importing your entire blog and your php admin. It is not an easy fix either. I had to put an entire new wordpress file and re-upload your wordpress files. Make sure you look at wordpress.org on how to do it all

it will be fixed really soon.

Checking to see if things work…

Getting Back on Your Feet

A friend of mine was having a lot trouble keeping on her feet after a divorce. She fought to keep her house during the divorce, but she had to let the house go because she could not afford to take care of the house and her son. She lost her job and it took her over 6 months to find a job. Meanwhile, she put in over 50 applications for a job. During the time she lived off her credit cards and living with a friend. She had to turn off her water and electricity because of not having enough money to pay the bills. She lived on her friend’s sofa bed while her son stayed with a family member. It was a rough time in her life. She had to use her credit card to pay her car payment which has caused her to be in debt. I have talked to her about calling a debt consolidation firm, but her pride just will not let her. I have tried telling her it is not the same as filing bankruptcy. I told her at least give them a call and she might be surprised how helpful the company will be for her. I have had to deal with a debt consolation company to get me out of debt. I was pleased with the help.