Mario Birthday Party

Happy 6th Birthday Aaron!! Your party was SO much fun!!! We all love to dress up :)

Sleepy Kitties

Saturday Seething, part 60 of a 444 part series

If you've already been president for 4 years, why the heck do you need another inauguration celebration?!! Hello Mr. President, we are broke and cannot afford to throw you and your wife another party where you invite all your celebrity friends and wear designer clothes. The American people are too busy trying to find and job and put food on the table for their families, so forgive us if we don't give a crap about your second inauguration. If you had any decency, you would skip the celebration and get back to work.

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LASIK Touch-Up 2013

Dear Reader-
I had a LASIK touch-up this past Monday. I originally had LASIK in August of 2004 and was so happy with the results up until around September of 2012. I couldn't read street signs and in November, I literally got lost looking for my mom at Festival of Trees when she was right in front of me the entire time. Life is scary when you can't see!! So I went for a check-up at the eye doctor in December and my right eye was pretty awful and my left eye was bad too but still within the legal limit to drive without correction. He offered glasses or a LASIK touch-up and I chose the latter (it is a quality of life issue and I can't see myself going back to contacts and glasses anytime soon after flinging 8 years without them).
So my procedure was scheduled for January 14, 2013. You think it would be easier the second time around but you would be thinking wrong. Since I know exactly how it is, I was terrified, nervous, and basically in full-blown panic. My sister suggested I ask the Doc to call in a Xanax for me to take before the surgery, so I did but the pharmacist talked the doctor out of a 2.5 milligram dosage to a .5 milligram. So I took it and hour before my procedure and waited for "the magic" to happen... and waited and waited and waited. Stupid pill never really took effect, other than making me a little drowsy. After the doc tried to lift the previous flap with a tiny scalpel without success while I was in the waiting room, I got in the chair and placed under the laser. I was shaking uncontrollably as we had to wait 10 minutes for the cutting instrument since it hadn't been prepared before hand. I was anxious and alone with my eyes taped lying under a big machine. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic!! Ha ha. Finally it got underway and everything went well. I didn't hemorrhage this time and the whites of my eyes don't have bruises. I went for a follow-up yesterday and I have perfect 20/20 vision!!! Yay!!! My right eye still has occasional blurriness but eye drops sharpen that up right away. My vision will continue to fluctuate for the next few days/weeks.
All in all, it was so very worth it. I'm a little embarrassed by how nervous I was but you can't really control extreme cases of anxiety with deep breathing and logic.
Here's to amazing technology!!! Now bring on the eye drops!!

Saturday Seething, part 59 of a 444 part series

I have been awake since 5:30 AM and only now getting in the shower at 2:20 PM. Why do Saturdays go by so quickly when I'm not working?!!
Les and I drove our big brother to the airport at 6 AM (he is going to Walt Disney World to cheer on my lovely sister-in-law while she runs the WDW Marathon on Sunday. Go V!!!!!) then we went back to bed for an hour or two, and we have been deep cleaning our apartment and doing laundry ever since.
We are finally done but still need to do a grocery run before we go to a hockey game tonight with friends.
Les and I have not had the same day off of work since early October and we were long over due for some team work in tackling our cleaning/organizing issues.

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Fast and Testimony Meeting, but in a YSA Ward gets confused with Group Therapy

First off- why do some people in my YSA ward get testimony meetings confused with group therapy sessions? It makes it humorous but distracting to the purpose of Fast and Testimony meeting.

I'm too much of a self-conscious whimp to get up in Sacrament Meeting and bear my testimony and the feelings of my heart, so I'll share them here (it's my blog and I can do what I want with it- LOL).
I know Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer. I know He was the son of God, He lives and loves me. I know everything that happens has a purpose in His plan, even the bad things. I know the Gospel was restored to the Earth through Joseph Smith. I know the Church is true and we have a living prophet who talks with God and runs Christ's church under His direction. I am so grateful for the temple and for my covenants.

Our lesson in Relief Society today was on the talk President Burton gave at the RS General Meeting this past September- the one we got to sing in. The talk was about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and it's power to make things right and show God's love for us. The teacher asked us how the Atonement can make unfair things/situations right. The word "fair" has been thrown around a lot lately, with the Occupy Movement, tax debates, and the past presidential election. I hate the word "fair". "Fair" is a perception and an illusion as life is never fair; someone will always feel like they are treated unfairly. We all have experience with feelings of unfairness (is that a word?), so I think the topic of the Atonement's power to heal unfairness is rather universal.
Sisters started sharing personal experiences of how the Gospel and the Atonement helped right wrongs or hurt, unfair, feelings/situations. I still struggle with feelings of unfairness about my dad's death; totally not fair that he died when I was only a baby and I don't know him. I'm still angry. Why did the Lord take him? How can the Atonement help me overcome these feelings when He was the one who caused it? Then my mind comes to the promises of the temple. My family is eternal and that is only because of the the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We will all be together again because of the Resurrection. Our separation is temporary but our love is eternal.
We are all in the hands of the Lord; he will keep us safe and lead us where we need and want to be. The Atonement is love, it is salvation, it is comfort, it is amazing!!!


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Saturday Seething, part 58 of a 444 part series

I am convinced you can do almost anything as long as you have a comfy place to sit.

First post of 2013

2013 is boring (so far)

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