the devil and daniel johnston

I wanna see this. Opens on Friday (but not in Atlanta, it seems...bummer).

soulful

You Are a Prophet Soul

You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone. Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people. Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run. No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way. You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle. Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people's feelings. A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning. You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

my little Belle

Soooooo sleepy.
Must..keep..eyes..open.

I was awakened at 3:00am this morning by a whisper in the dark: "Mommy, I feel like I need to throw up." Out of the depths of my coma-sleep, I managed to mumble, "Okay, well...uh...go into the bathroom, okay?" (What a great mom! heheh) Thankfully after a few moments I roused myself to full consciousness and went into the bathroom to, well, hold her hair back away from the bowl (at least) and offer moral support. There has been a stomach-bug going around the school, but I suspected her problem was more likely just something she had eaten earlier (popcorn and soda at the movies, then more caffeinated-soda with dinner despite my protests). Fortunately I was right, and she was only sick the one time before climbing into my bed and falling back asleep, while I stayed awake and kept an eye out for any further "eruptions".

A few weeks ago this same daughter (Lindsey, my youngest) had come down with some sort of flu-bug. That morning when she woke up with a high fever, I immediately took my usual distractionary measures and asked her, "Can I put something on the tv for you to watch?" (while waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in). She feebly answered, "Yes. Beauty & The Beast." Words can't describe how that tugged at my heart. When she was really young, any time she had gotten sick we would lay in bed together and watch Disney's Beauty & The Beast, my most favorite of all the Disney movies. It was just our thing, and it always seemed to make her feel better. But it has been quite a while since those days (so long, in fact, that our copy of Beauty & The Beast is on VHS...heheh).

Now that she is 12-years-old and blossoming into quite the "pre-teen", it feels good every now and then to see that a glimmer of my "little" girl is still there, so I really don't mind waking in the wee hours to hear "Mommy, I feel like I need to throw up." And just this weekend I transferred our VHS copy of Beauty & The Beast onto DVD, just in case she ever feels like watching it.

drama queen

OMG, do I feel like such a drama queen today. Last week I noticed that the ends of my fingers, just under the distal end of my finger nails, had taken on this strange orange-ish hue. It struck me as odd because the bottom half of my nail beds (beginning at the cuticle) looked normal, but the top half had become a dark salmony-orange, particularly on the index, middle, and ring fingers of both hands, somewhat symmetrically. I remembered reading that nail color can sometimes be indicative of other health problems going on in the body, and since having passed the 40-year-old mark I find that I pay more attention to what my body might be trying to tell me, so I turned to the internet for a bit of research to see what I could find. Upon reading about many of the horrific nail afflictions that do exist (and thanking God that none of those matched my particular problem), I did stumble upon this one set of symptoms, referred to as "half and half nails" (half pink/half white), which sounded frighteningly similar to mine (as far as the color markings), and of which the specific cause is renal failure! (yikes!) Now, I'm truly not a hypochondriac sort of person (turning comments OFF now ;) and in fact, I seldom ever get sick at all (knock wood), but reading this sort of got me to worrying. So throughout the weekend I kept staring at my fingers and racking my brain trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for this (and comparing my nails to anyone else who would let me see theirs ;), and although I have no other signs of renal failure, this tiny bit of fear kept creeping into the back of my mind. (And in case you're wondering, no, I don't wear nail polish... ever...so I knew it wasn't that.) Anyway, imagine my relief today when I finally realized the likely cause: I recently started using a new skincare product, which just so happens to contain Vitamin C as the main ingredient. I had been using it during the day but recently switched to using it at night. So it makes sense that while sleeping, I generally have one hand or the other curled up around my pillow, which would place my fingers laying right up against my cheek. (Which explains why my thumbs were showing no sign of the orange-ness.) Anyway, I'm relieved that the mystery is solved, and I don't mind the orange color so much now that I know why it's there, but I have to chuckle a bit at how concerned this had me over the weekend. Oh well, I suppose it's better to be vigilant than to have something serious sneak up on me, huh?

eyes on you

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I know most of us don't generally pay too much attention to our site meters, but sometimes it's nice to know who is showing interest. *wink*

who let the dogs out?

Some unnamed person left the gate wide open last night, resulting in Lindsey and I having to chase our dogs throughout the neighborhood for 15 minutes this morning. Boy are they in the doghouse with me...

SPT #2

1 guitar

2 cats

3 bottles of water*



*and 1 cosmo, because its been a rough day ;)