lizardblog ( the blog of liz creech

April 21, 2008
This weeks news

It has been an interesting week for me. I found out Friday that my mother has tumors on her brain, they don't know what kind or where but the Doctor should tell them today or something. Please pray for my mother.

Yesterday, for the first time ever I "let someone go". That was a necessary thing but I didn't care for it too much.

My dog has some kind of skin thing going on from his tail to about 7 inches up his back. I had seen him licking a lot but never had the time until a couple of days ago to investigate. I got some scissors to cut the hair so I could check out what was going on and it is pretty bad. I need to cut more of the hair away and give him a bath to clean him up, but I see a vet visit in the near future.

Lastly, my cat is getting pretty old. Yesterday I thought for sure she was going to die. She looks healthy, skinny, but her eyes are bright and her coat is full and shiny. I took her to the vet at the begging of the year and they found a mass in her abdomen. They did blood work but didn't find anything. Her calcium was high, which could be a sign of some type of cancer, but the vet said because of her age it very well could be nothing. She had been throwing up a lot, but now it isn't so much. At least recently. So she needs to go back and get her shots. 13 is a good age for a cat I think. I will be sad when she does die though.

The best thing so far this week is that I am off today and tomorrow, then Friday and Saturday and the weather is beautiful. I need to get some seeds in the ground which I plan on doing today.

Meaghan has prom coming up. She found a lovely dress, not too frilly but sophisticated. AND I have the big 40 coming up May the 6th. Despite being a woman I am not afraid of getting older or being a certain age. I also don't mind telling people how old I am either. I think I look young for my age, but then I don't really care about that either. ( I hinted at a surprise party from Alan so you might get an invite - just don't tell me!!) HA!!

Enough for today. I hope all your news this week is good!!

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April 08, 2008
Choosing

I was talking to Alan not too long ago about choosing to be happy. As we were driving the other day there was a radio program with a guy talking about choosing to be happy and that it wasn't unreasonable to be at an 8 or 9 all the time on a 1 - 10 "happy scale". I told him that most of the time I am at a 9.997. And then I said "I guess you have to be just a bit on the mentally challenged side" to be like that all the time - HA!! My personal situation is that I choose to ignore the bad or hard things, not good all the time, but there you go.

Any way, when I am at the end of an 8 day stretch at work, which I just finished up, it is very difficult to keep that good outlook. I see things at home piling up, I feel disconnected from my family, there isn't enough money, I have gained WAY too much weight, and I feel totally out of control of things. In case you don't know I am a perfectionist, I am very black and white, and have a very strong urge to be TOTALLY in control at all times, and it is very important that things go how I think they should go. So, when people at work are ignorant acting, or a guest at work is mean just because, or my tummy giggles too much, I don't care to have that going on.

It is very safe to say that I like to garden so much because I can control it a lot, they don't argue back, and in general do what I say!! Sad, I know but I have gotten better over the years and it only comes out on "bad" days. I thought that since it has been so long since I have blogged, not that many people read my stuff, I thought I would just put up what I have been recently experiencing.

posted by Liz at 12:11 PM - permalink - -

spiritual

> vine & branches
> vineyard central

blogs

> Garden Escapades
> Trish Hiduk
> Maryann
> Alan Creech
> The Vine
> Little Houses
> Amber Bishop
> Jody Nixon
> Laura Ogle
> Debi Warford
> Jason & Brooke Evans
> Eric Keck
> Beth Keck
> Pete Matthews
> Trudi Matthews
> Brian Phillips
> Bryan Sherwood
> Malie
> Kim Johnson

Homeschool

> vegsource homeschool
> discovery school channel
> saxon math and phonics

general interest

> john rosemond's affermative parenting
> lisa welchel
> thunderstruck
> Homestar Runner

gardening

> Kids Gardening

books i like

Here are some books I suggests if you are looking to homeschool or just for information. I gleaned a lot from them. Our church gets credit if you buy through these links.

In their Own Way
by Thomas Armstrong

Seven Times Smarter
by Laurel Schmidt

How to Talk So Kids Can Learn
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Teen Proofing
by John Rosemond