Music Soothes My Everything!

According to researchers at Manchester University, music fans are stimulating part of the inner ear known as the Sacculus, which responds to the beat in music. This gives the brain pleasure and makes us feel good — during the music and afterwards. [When loud music is playing,] the brain is stimulated into releasing feelgood hormones that make us calm, happy and responsive.

Even though to much loud music is damaging to your ears, I enjoy it. There are a lot of people that LOVE music but don't listen to it as much or as loud as me. So when they are around its n absolute drag when they turn it down-even when a conversation isn't taking place. I get it, I know that some people can't think or do some things like read etc while music is on. My dear Husband is one of those people! Hahaha, I love you James!!  I most definately do not take quiet time for granted, but if you were to add a great song to the silence, its magical!


I love music, I always have! For as long as I can remember I have always loved a good song! My Father always had a good song playing in his Bronco. He even made a box for his speakers so that they were louder. I heard great songs from Musical wonders like, Elvis Presley, Kingston Trio, Def Lepard, Ozzy Osborne, The Beetles, etc..

I have noticed that I am not the only Music lover in my family. Both of my sisters are Music lovers by heart as well! But I seriously have my doubts that they are as bad as I. :) I could listen to music every day all day! When I was 9 years old, my Dad found someone to teach me to sing. From that point on til I was 17 I was a growing songbird. :) So I guess you could say that my Musical ambition is partly my Fathers fault! LOL, Which is entirely okay with me!

-The function of Music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought-
 -Music is just something that helps me escape and be totally free from everything-David Schmitt-
-Music washes away from the soul the dust from everyday life!-
-Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.-

Now, its back to my Music I go...

Prayers for the children!

This really breaks my heart!!! I am an avid Facebook user and lately I have seen so many heartbreaking stories about children being sick, dying, hurt, etc... Tonight I am sitting at my desk looking at these stories being posted by families that all need prayers for their babies, nieces, nephews and friends. I wish I could just write this Blog and everyone everywhere would know how important it is to say prayers for these sweet children and all other children in the world. Alas, I am only one person and I have only 10 followers. However I know that many of my followers will say prayers for these sweet souls!

Prayers: The niece of an old Classmate. Not exactly sure about her age but she has been in the Children's hospital for a week and she has severe necrotic pancreatitis and 2 blood clots. She has been through so much and trying to keep a smile on her face. What a scary thing for her to go through and at such a young age! Please include her in your prayers!! Thank you! My prayers are with you Sipola, and your entire family!

Prayers: A friend of mine's daughter was in a four wheeler accident a week and a half ago. Her and her cousin hit each other head on, both were on wheelers. She has a shattered left arm and a shattered right knee cap. She has been in pain and her family is asking for prayers. As am I also. She is 9 years old. They may have to put pins in her arm and she has been wheelchair bound since the accident. Prayers are appreciated. Thank you. My prayers are with you Preece, and your family, we wish you well as soon as possible!

Prayers: Another Classmate of mine has a sweet baby girl that is around age two. (unsure). She has been through SO many difficult health problems and afflictions. Her parents have spent much of their time in Hospitals. I do not have a current update for this precious girl, but I know that her parents are in need of prayers and thoughts at this time. This sweet little one has been through so much in her short life. My thoughts and prayers are with you Olivia and your amazing parents!

Prayers: This is for Patrick! Patrick has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Patrick was diagnosed with ALL at the age of 5 (on December 18, 2009) and has since been undergoing extensive treatment to combat this terrible disease. This sweet little boy has a Facebook Group called, Prayers For Patrick. You and you amazing family are in my prayers and thoughts sweet boy!!

Prayers: This is for little Devin Drake, a beautiful sweet smiling 3 year old boy who became the victim of abuse on August 30, 2011, by his parents! With unfortunate substantial Brain Trauma and declared Brain Dead, was taken off life support by his supporting family members on September 4, 2011. Even though I did not know you, you are an angel to many and myself. your face is instilled into my mind. May God Bless you!! 

Prayers: For ALL the sick and afflicted and those that have passed.... May you find peace and love with your Heavenly Father who loves you! For all the friends and family that I have lost, I love you for eternity, you ALL brought something worth while into my life..... YOU. I love each and every one of you, big and small. I am truly blessed to have such wonderful people in my life. I feel like I have jabbered on and on, but for a good purpose. I know I often bother ya'll for Prayers but I would certainly hope that you would do it for me if I needed them. 

Hope that everyone hugs their families tight and loves endlessly..... Love is everything! 

Redneck Soap!

Okay, I know that I have enough of my own drama in my life that I don't need to feed off of others drama, but when its FAKE then I'm all ears. Seriously, for as much as I have always hated Soap Opera's, I sure love them now. Yea, I know that they are a bunch of crap but it makes me feel better even if just imagining that someone else's life is tangled in more lies, deceit, betrayal, murder, gossip, cheating, fraudulent, and more down right appalling than mine is!! Maybe that is crude of me, but dang, these Daytime shows can be quite interesting.

When I say Redneck Soap, I mean look at the stories ex: Harold and Peggy were the perfect married couple, then Peggy fell for Harold's brother Ted. Peggy sleeps with Ted and he secretly Fathers her son Ken. Harold raises Ken as his own son when in fact, its his nephew. Then she breaks the news to Harold that Ken is Ted's son. Harold files for divorce and to get even he sleeps with Janette, Peggy's sister, they marry and have a son named Nick. Peggy marries Ted and they have another son named Jack. After both original couples were married to new spouces for two years, they fall back in love and have a love child that Ted thinks is his and its really Harolds. That child is Olivia. Ted and Peggy divorce when Olivia was 16. During all those years between Olivia's birth and Peggy and Ted's divorce, Peggy fails to tell Ted that Olivia isn't his and she also fails to tell Harold that he is Olivia's Father. Harold and Janette divorce somewhere along the way and he ends up in bed with his secretary Penelope. Him and Penelope shag for a few months while he is seeing Peggy once again. But that is okay because Peggy is doing "it" with the Italian Gardner Rico. Olivia goes to college and meets a sexy stunning young man and they fall in love. Next thing you know she runs home to Mom and tells her that she is pregnant and that her and the baby's Father want to get married. Peggy and Ted are delighted that she is happy and they meet the Fiance just to find out is her half BROTHER Nick. Then she has to break the silence and tell Ted that Olivia is Harolds and by this time Olivia is disgusted with her Mother, Father and her own gross tangled relationship with Nick. Now here is the REAL question......... Will Olivia's baby be deformed??? To be continued.....................................

Okay, I am not going to lie, that was WAY too confusing to even type, so I hope that it made sense. I just love these Redneck Soaps where everyone and anybody who's somebody's Spouce sleeps with everyone and creates mind pondering offspring! (lmao) Phew... what is in store for tomorrow!! I better go to bed so I can wake up and find out! LOL. Hope that everyone had a GREAT day! :)

Update

Well, this one is going to be very short... The little boy that had kidney failure is at home now with his family and he is doing well. I spoke to his mother and she was relieved that he was finally home and that he was doing well. She said that he was back to his sweet, active little self! Thank goodness! I want to thank each one of you that said prayers for him, he surely needed them! Prayer is so powerful and you are all so amazing to say them for him. Thank you!!!!

My night of sobbing.

So, my son Corbin has had a toothache for 3 days now and on Saturday night his face started to swell. He had surgery to fix all the cavities in May and now I think one is abscessing. His fevers are scary and he has hardly eaten. So, today I took him to the Hospital to get him some antibiotics. While we were there, I saw someone that I  have known for most of my life, she came in with her son. I was trying to keep Corbin talking so that he didn't think about being in the E.R. Next thing I know I hear the other little boy crying, wanting to leave the Hospital. Corbin started getting antsy, you know, like any other kid would and started crying telling me that the Dr was taking too long and that he wanted to go home. I kept calming him down, but the other little boys cries were overwhelming him. He asked me why he was crying and I just told him that I didn't know. I felt so bad for the little boy, but I kept reassuring Corbin that he was okay and was probably just scared.

As a parent you fear that something worse is wrong with your child than there really is. I was laying in bed watching Grey's Anatomy with my Husband tonight and I was watching the episode where a little boy was dying from organ failure and that a criminal that was on death row and dying in the hospital wanted to give the boy his organs. At the last minute he was saved by a different person that was a match. I know that I am a Mother and seeing something like that just makes me teary eyed, as I know that I am not the only one out there that cries at the drop of a hat when it comes to someone dying, fake or real. I never want to live what other parents have had to live through, by losing a child. Yes, my son only has a dental emergency but infections can also be dangerous. I was emotional about it.

I decided, after the show ended that I wanted to check my Facebook and so on. As I was scrolling down the most recent feed, I noticed that the person that I had seen in the E.R. had left a status that her little boy was life flighted to a Children's Hospital up North for Kidney failure. I have been crying ever since. I keep thinking about him crying and about Corbin's concern for him and I just fell apart. After watching that show and reading what she wrote, and worrying for my own son, I felt compelled to ask anyone that is reading this Blog, to please take a few minutes and pray for this sweet little boy. He and his family need our thoughts and prayers at this time. Her little boy is only about 4 years old.... he needs all he can get.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this... and thank you in advance for any and all prayers, I'm sure his family would be grateful. I hope that everyone has a safe 4th of July.

Scrapbook frames

These are just some Scrapbook pages that I made into frames. They are so much fun to make!!

The first three are the first ones that I did. I did them in 2008

These next three are all new ones that I did a few weeks ago. I still have some finishing to do but I like them so far. :)

My Medical Mystery??

So, for almost two years now I have had severe head problems. No, I am not crazy in the head lol. In lame-mans terms, a migraine. Even though I am not yet diagnosed with anything yet, my possibilities are, Cluster Headaches, MS and something to do with spinal fluid. My only diagnosis so far is from an MRI that I had done in Feb 2010, which shows that I have swelling in my Left Temporal Lobe.

How it started:

My first marriage was nothing nice and our last "physical" fight ended with my head bouncing off the wall of my bedroom. That was May 21, 2009. My head hurt for two days and then went away, problem solved... or so I thought.

I went on Vacation to Vegas on July 9, 2009 to which I ended short due to 'him' taking off with my kids. About a week and a half after returning, I started getting light migraines. I got them 2-3 times a day. On July 24th I got my first BIG migraine. When I say BIG, I mean HUGE! I had that migraine for 10 months. Yes, it was ONE migraine. No matter what I did, it wouldn't go away. I had finally started seeing a Dr for the pain in January 2010 with no relief in sight. In December 2009, I started getting a cold, it lasted two weeks then went away for two weeks, then returned and kept happening til the last week of May 2010. Finally, in May 2010, I went through what my Neurologist said was a form of remission. There was no telling how long I could go without having another one.

In August 2010, I started getting them about once or twice a week but they weren't extreme ones. In January 2011 I started getting bad headaches that literally left me in bed. I couldn't go anywhere. I went to the Dr. and he checked my blood and told me that he was scheduling me for another MRI. My blood tests showed high results in inflammation and my white cell count was up. I had another MRI and they reported that there were no changes from my MRI in 2009.

No relation to the subject, but I re-married during this time.

  Last Wednesday, June 1, I started getting a migraine and thought nothing of it. I was already treating a toothache the day before, so I would just keep taking IBU and hopefully it would keep the edge off. By 7 Thursday night it was a NASTY cluster headache. I was in so much pain Friday and Saturday. By Saturday afternoon I was pacing the floor ready to throw up, which never has happened with the headaches before. I am a person who has Emetophobia, a fear of vomiting. Silly, I know, but I am terrified of it. I have thrown up 2 times in 17 years! I am pretty good at stopping it from happening. Well I failed miserably on Saturday. I had no food in my system for 24 hours. I made myself throw up at that point. To my shock, it was all blood. That was the last straw! To the ER I went.

They ran a blood test and the presiding Dr said that my white cells were slightly elevated from the last test and that I was anemic. He gave me two shots, one was two meds, Nubain and a anit-nausea medication and then an antibiotic. He prescribed Ondansetron for nausea (it made me sick), Tylenol 3 for pain, Omeprazolan Antacid for the blood, and a very pricy anti-inflammatory med that I couldn't afford. He said that if this stuff isn't helpful then he wants me to come back for a scan. (you could imagine my immediate joy considering I have no health insurance).

I finally got sleep for the first time since Saturday night, last night. I still hurt, but the mystery goes on. For now, I hope to be heading into remission soon!!!!!! (and I hope it lasts a while!)