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Sunday, February 28, 2010

moving stuff

Allison Lang Buechner Cant tell u how much we loved hanging w/ aunt& hubby Sat. We get along so well& had so much fun tho worked r butts off stuffin the Uhual head to toe Their house is unbelievably big& so comfy I love my aunt so much shes the greatest most caring woman to me it meant so much to spend that time w/her she made me feel so am...azing *I was able to LET GO OF GRAM & Im ok I have enough of her in our house now!

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February 28 at 3:26pm Only Friends · ·
Allison Lang Buechner

Allison Lang Buechner absolutely wiped out soo much stuff too much to fit it all too lil time. truly blessed with totally amazing furniture, art& clothes. nursery complete before we even have a baby but we had to get it out now.

babies

Allison Lang Buechner Hysterical comment of the night "honey even ghetto families are having tons of babies & making it" in response to me wanting 2 get a job for a while to save up $ for a baby even though i would kill 2 b able to have 1 now but $9000 teeth adjustments sets you back a bit We have a great nursery when we have a lil one than...x to grams beautiful furniture, we lucked out there!

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February 28 at 9:17pm via Mobile Web Only Friends · ·

Allison Lang Buechner
Allison Lang Buechner
his new comment is: If ghetto people can do it so can you... have a baby... this has been antiabortion public service announcement as he is laughing his ass off...only my hubby... he found a really old book on communism and racism at grams and thinks its gonna b funny to read... again only my hubby At least he keeps me laughin my ass off day and night..
February 28 at 9:24pm ·
Allison Lang Buechner
Allison Lang Buechner
and he is so not being racist here.., meant there are people below poverty that keep having babies and manage somehow

I finally let go & we had a kick ass time & kick ass ride home!

This was a huge step for me to let go off Gram her memory still haunts me. Think I had her as my stable ground for long that when she passed it was like a table whose legs collapsed. I haven’t been the same since no matter all the happy in my life – because I still didn’t have her to share in all the happiness. I don’t handle death well – I get angry with the world that my loved one was taken from me. But Gram was special – we had this unbreakable bond I can’t explain.

When she visited me for 3 weeks in Mexico when I lived there we travled to a town with cobblestone stones and amazing plazas and cathedrals. She was unreligious yet she walked in 1 and let out a gasp of a cry and said this beauty just brings her to tears. Even though she had been so sick b 4 she came we walked from 8am to 8pm and had the time of our lives – I’m sure the sangrias and tequila helped us along.

We bonded so much then. She had traveled the entire world and ben to almost every country. I just wanted to suck all that info out of her brain as I knew I would never see those places ever in my lifetime. She loved that I cared enough to sit there and visit her almost every weekend forever. I loved her so deeply and loved how much she wanted to share with me about her entire life esp with my Papa. I loved just listening to her for hours. I have missed this!!

She had moved from a 7000sqft house to 1000sqft house and had built about 1000 sqft shed to put all the excess stuff from her old house. We had all attempted at dif’t times to organize it and get rid of stuff but had been impossible. Now we have to because my aunt is selling it. We took soo much amazingly beautiful furniture home with us and so many paintings and books but really really old and new. I got tons of clothes, a bunch of hats from my great grandma., sewing stuff, fabric, about one million slides I am taking charge of converting to cd of all my grandparents’ trips world wide. We have boxes of them I don’t know how to begin.

Whats great is I was able to let go – it was something I needed more than anything in my life. It had been holding me back for so long. It helps to have so much of her with us now. But leaving was so much easier than getting there. May have to come back because there is soo much more stuff but I am finally ok!

My aunt loves Scott soo much and we love David just as much, although Scott kept trying to call him Judge and David kept correcting him that unless your in my courtroom I am David. Kinda weird that now his kids that I grew up with are my step cousins. Had the best lunch at Ponders and everyone I knew was there so I felt so at home – needed that feeling again as Gram and I always went there!

Coming home in the Uhaul we made our way to the top of Turner Falls and took lots of silly pics! We screamed to the oldies the whole way home and laughed our sore asses off. Then we got home & had to unload. It was emotional separating the stuff for my parents. Seeing all my Papa’s things that meant soo much to my dad – all the things we got were so emotional to us all. It made me feel good to see my parents so happy! We were cramping soo hard after moving all the furniture we could barely move but in the end it was a great day – one of the bestest ever!

RESPONSE:that was beautiful thank you! I remember when your dad died and thinking I can't imagine what you were going through, it broke my heart so much & I hadnt talked to you in so long I felt weird calling when your whole life was falling apart! It was just too tragic and had to be soo hard! BUt your right - you will always have your memories as long as you live... things come and go but being able to remember the good times is what is truly important.

At the funeral they read her will and I said I didn't care what I got because noone can take away all my memories with her, thats something that goes beyond death and can bring the biggest smile to my face. Of course I got very drunk in order to give her eulogy but I am told it turned out to be very beautiful so I am glad my grieving didnt affect her memory - I think I smoked in her backyard during the entire after party because I cound't handle seeing everyone and talking about it - glasses of wine and cigarettes did a lot to manage my depression and try to cover how bad off I really was - I think thats why I smoked like 2 packs a day for soooo many years - it was my crutch where I didnt have to think about anything.
I am very lucky that I did get alot of heirlooms I never expected to get and this weekend we got a bunch of furniture that will bring even more memories into this house. But I'm finally able to deal with what happened and never thought I could do that. Of course at the funeral there was family drama of who got what, because I did get alot but I was her closest confidant, but I just screamed ya know what I spent the time to come down here every weekend to spend time with her and none of yall gave a damn but if you are really that mad about it all take all my stuff because I will always have those memories and you never will... noone can take that from me - I could give a damn about stuff I would give anything to have her still be alive!!
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The heartache was just bringing me down so much I couldn't move on in certain ways. Leaving her house this weekend was like this physical symbol of being able to let her go, I didn't even notice how it would be the last time I saw her bedroom, etc... We just worked and laughed and had fun.

My moms dad died when she was 16 and to this day she still hasn't been able to deal with it I think its affected soo much of who she is today and has prevented her from from being the woman she was meant to be. She still holds such hostile feelings because it was soo horrible and they literally had nothing even before he died, but I doubt her dad would have ever wanted her life to have been affected this much, he would have wanted his lil girl to live a rich life.

So now we are taking all this furniture and painting it to put in what will be a nursery one day. We are putting our mark on her stuff life a meshing together of two families! We are soo excited to be able to pass on such great furniture to what will be our children... already have my dad's chest of drawers from when he was a baby...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Our Choir & Update

Hey!



Most of you know that Scott & I are in the choir at our church that is a very liberal Catholic church, Corpus Christie in east OKC, and we are in the minority but we LOVE it more than anywhere we have ever gone. Even my parents loved it!


The following are links to video I took from 3 songs we sang this Sunday that are great! Please listen through to the end as they always end so great!


I included our holy holy because it is pretty and we clap which is very different than most are used to. Scott sings Bass and I still sing Soprano so you can here my high voice along with the others in alot of these songs, because we sing high.


And lastly I am adding our favorite song I might have already added previously that sounds a bit like the Lion King intro. that we sang a while back so you can see how liberal we can get - it was in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Our hymnals are named African Tribal Music Hymnals and are the most amazing joyously Christian songs that I love to sing!


My voice was made for this music, and of course Scott has such a large range he can choose between bass and tenor whenever he wants. He has gotten soo much confidence singing now that so many people have told him how great he is that he sings all the time. I think he needs to be lead vocals in a band if can ever find a band that needs one - he is really that good and I think he is finally realizing that. Funny how he used to NEVER sing and now I cant shut him up! I'm just so proud of him for going with me even though he was scared to sing out loud and now he is doing great! Plus its something we do now as a couple which is always fun!


Was thinking of joining the All City Gospel Choir they are creating for all gospel churches city wide just not sure how they would feel about a white girl auditioning... So instead I am going to start taking voice lessons with our director who is also the entire Director of Music at Langston University and is simply amazing both instrumentally and vocally. Then after some coaching maybe I will feel more comfortable singing a gospel solo - which is my dream.


Singing here has changed my life better than any medicine has, funny because Scott always said the farther I was keeping God from my heart the worse my mind was getting - and I am definitely starting to believe that by how much better I have gotten now that I am letting God in my heart and releasing all the anger I had towards Him for everything I've been through these past few years. Scott & I come home soo happy from practice and from church - we feel soo energized and so much closer to God than we ever have. Many may not believe and thats ok- I truly believe its finding something that gives you hope that makes your mind clearer as my gram would say "accepting that what is, is what is and not fighting it"


We never went to church often before this as we always dreaded it, but that has all changed. We jump out of bed we are so exited to get there - we were actually 30 minutes early this week to get our robes on so we just sat and contemplated in the chapel..


I know this type of church isn't for everybody, may not be for most people, and many are uncomfortable being the minority race. We went to the Mardi Gras party (I do admit we were worried we would be the only white people and people might talk about us being there but we were welcome from our first step in the door) and I got Queen leading everyone in the march and dance and had a blast (even with my back pain - YAY I can finally do all the fun things I used to love before my back injury) - there is absolutely no prejudice against us being white.


They have taken us in as a part of their own families and we feel so loved the minute we walk in. And if they don't know us yet they walk right up to us and introduce themselves and thank us for joining the church. We have never felt so truly appreciated just for being at church and joining their church. We already know almost the entire church!


Washington DC sent their Bishop over all Black and Indian Churches in the United States this week (a large honor) - he used to be the priest of the largest Catholic Church in New Orleans even as a white priest. He was very inspiring and upbeat about our future.


I think that's the key - the entire church is upbeat, mass is upbeat, the deacons and the priest are so upbeat and hopeful - you just feel soo positive as if God truly is right there with you and the Holy Spirit is filling you with so much hope. The homilies almost always make me cry as I can't tell you how many have hit so deep at my heart and what I am/have been going through and give me soo much hope and happiness, even my dad was blown away so much he walked straight up to the deacon to thank him for such a beautiful sermon. The gospel music just hits our hearts more than any type of music ever has. It was amazing how packed mass was yesterday and how many white people have started coming. They ran out of wine and of wafers there were so many people.


We started going to Bible Study but 9am got a lil early, but our friend George has of course grabbed us back in so we will be back to Bible study next week! George is in charge of media for all of Dept of Human Services in OK and knows everyone and is a large reason we know everyone as Scott knew him when he would interview him in news! They bring breakfast for us so it works great! Plus I always love in depth bible study esp after my in-depth college bible class of The Pentatuech!


Lastly, I want you to know how much better my back is getting and how I am finally being able to do the things I used to love to do before the accident. Just dancing with my husband without pain was my own personal miracle I never thought would happen again. I am finally starting to get back to my old self I haven't seen in well over ten years, the happy Ally who was bouncin off the walls and so happy - it feels amazing. It has taken me a long time to get here but I am appreciating every minute of it! I actually get to go places and do things I havent done since the wreck, like going to the Thunder/Suns game tom. night, of course we cant figure out who to root for since it would be kinda wrong since we lived in both cities!


Here are our songs:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l4MnypIpEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj66s7WEt4s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzAamIviE3I




Acah Uhuru:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60jTWdfysJA





love, ally :-)


Friday, February 19, 2010

Room For Two

ROOM FOR TWO INFO: really cool bio if you read it all!!

Adam and Nikki Anders will release their first album together as Room for Two early this summer. The couple’s debut effort, entitled Roots Before Branches (Curb Records), has a tentative street date of June 2008. The album’s title track will be prominently featured in the television movie, Princess, which premieres on ABC Family on April 20th.

Room for Two, and the successes of Adam and Nikki Anders as songwriters, wasn’t built overnight. In fact, Adam and Nikki have written Top 5 hits for the Backstreet Boys (“More Than That”) and Billy Crawford (“Trackin”) and tunes for such diverse artists as Sinead O’Connor, Nick Lachey, Ashley Tisdale, Clay Aiken, Jesse McCartney, Ace of Base, Tata Young, Paradiso Girls, The MyClymonts, Shannon Noll and Sheryl Crow. They’ve also penned a myriad of TV themes: for the Kelsey Grammar sitcom Back To You, “The Wedding Bells,” “K-Ville,” “Fashion House” and “Wicked Wicked Games,” among them. Later this year, the duo’s songwriting for other artists will be showcased in several films, including the movie musicals High School Musical 3, Camp Rock, Cheetah Girls 3 and Hannah Montana.

Roots Before Branches unites Adam’s and Nikki’s diverse songwriting, producing and performing talents into one compelling body of work. The album alternates between songs that look outward and inward, examining both ends of the spectrum with an honesty and soulfulness that resonates equally through Nikki’s vocals and Adam’s Motown-influenced bass lines and captivating melodies. The first single, “Roots Before Branches,” tells a personal tale, written on New Year’s Day several years ago “living in a small apartment in New York City, at our lowest point,” as they struggled to break through as artists. Other songs shine, like the upbeat “My Kind of Perfect” and “That’s What Love Is For,” while the pop rock of “Live It Like You Mean It” offers encouragement for anyone who has a dream. “Change,” which builds from a quiet guitar-and-vocal opening to its gospel-tinged culmination, spotlights the challenge of bettering the woes of the world by bettering one’s self.

Adam from 'Room For Two' Adam from 'Room For Two'
Nikki from 'Room For Two'

Adam and Nikki were born more than 4,000 miles apart; she in the small rural town of Waverly, Iowa and he in the bustling seaside municipality of Stockholm, Sweden. Nikki Hassman was a “serious gymnast” and left home at age twelve to train for the Olympics. Already an accomplished pianist, Nikki began to explore her potential as a vocalist and decided this was her true calling, moving to Nashville to pursue her musical dreams. Within two years, she was signed as a member of Avalon, a vocal harmony group which would record two albums, earn eight #1 singles and garner industry honors, including a Dove Award for New Artist of the Year. Honing her talents as a songwriter, Nikki was subsequently signed by Tommy Mottola to Columbia Records as a solo artist where she met another aspiring songwriter, Adam Anders. The team began writing and recording several songs that found their way into soundtracks for film (The Wedding Planner) and television (Dawson’s Creek).

Nikki’s childhood, dynamic by any other standard, seems relatively tame compared to Adam’s early years. His parents, both classically trained musicians who turned to gospel for the Swedish ministry, took to the road with their three children, traveling extensively. Adam, who slept “in motel rooms and under studio consoles,” sang on his first record at age three-and-a-half and performed on tour with his family throughout the world, finally settling in the states. At thirteen, he began studying jazz bass at the University of South Florida and, three years later, joined his older brother in Nashville.

It was in Nashville, while serving as a session player and touring with the likes of Shania Twain, that Adam met his future wife, who had just signed with Columbia Records. Together they decided their shared passion was not just recording, but writing and producing their own songs and performing them in front of appreciative audiences. And with that dream, Room for Two began to grow, ultimately to branch out this spring with an album that reaches out to listeners, on whatever side of the world they may be...

Our dear friend Donnie's Obituary - You probably know him if u workout in the city!

Oklahoma City - Donald "Donnie" J. Lucido, 55 of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formerly of Struthers, died Friday, December 11, 2009 at the Hospice House, surrounded by his mother and his children, following a one year battle with cancer.

Mr. Lucido was born September 18, 1954 in Youngstown, a son of Angelo Lucido and Ann Traficanti-Campolito.

He was a 1972 graduate of Struthers High School and worked as a trainer for numerous health clubs. He was an avid bowler and worked at the Holiday Bowl in Struthers. He managed Club Olympia, in Boardman for several years, and other local clubs. He also managed clubs in Oklahoma, Dallas, and North Carolina. Mr. Lucido loved working out and keep in shape he also enjoyed watching college football, and the Dallas Cowboys. He was the world’s best, son, father, brother and will be sadly missed by all who knew him..

Besides his mother, he leaves his daughter, Rhiannon Lucido of Niles, his son, Jeremy Lucido of Akron, a sister Patricia (Sam) Lucente of Boardman and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins

He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, and his maternal grandparents Dominic & Julia Traficanti.

Family and friends will be received Tuesday from 4-7 at the Davidson-Becker Funeral Home in Struthers, where a Memorial Service will be held at 7:00 PM.

Contributions may be made in Donnie's name to the Davidson-Becker Funeral Home, 11 Spring St., Struthers, OH 44471.

Condolences may be sent at www.beckerobits.com.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sunday morning sex

I will never hear church bells ringing again without smiling.

Upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent's house to visit her 95-year-old grandmother and comfort her. When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, 'He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning.' Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be asking for trouble.

'Oh no, my dear,' replied granny. 'Many years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured out the best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply in on the Ding and out on the Dong.'
She paused to wipe away a tear, and continued, 'He'd still be alive if the ice cream truck hadn't come along.

Extremely upset with CBS NEWS for Feed the Children story tonight

You all know how I feel about Feed the Children and so I am VERY upset with a story they put together to make the company look bad when they SERIOUSLY work SOO hard to help SOOO many people worldwide. This is why Scott got out of the news - he was sick of stories being warped to get what they wanted. Not all news companies are bad but this story totally put people on the spot asking questions he didn't have answers to.

Evidently, this same reporter interviewed Red Cross and did the same thing last year. SHAME on CBS Evening News for putting down such great organizations, esp when peoples jobs could be affected and starving people may not get fed. The one thing I agree with Obama on is to stimulate job growth nationwide, so what does CBS News think they are doing when they alone could be responsible for peoples jobs??
So below is what I left as a comment on CBS's page and wanted to share so EVERYONE knows the truth. Larry Jones is NO LONGER affiliated with this company - he did do bad things, they were brought to light and he did admit to having porn on his computer - but they company fired him and was completely transparent about everything to everyone.

Here it is, I know I said I would let go of anger for Lent but this is just for justification not anger):

This is one of the best organizations in the country if not the world. I know how hard they all work to bring food and clothing to soo many people everywhere, including Haiti where their clinic was ruined and yet they managed to get the food out to get to the people.

Of course it costs money to run such a huge organization – its huge therefore it has to have a HUGE staff to run it – DUH! Look at your own news organization & how much is spent on equipment alone so you can broadcast your show and make money on advertising. They cant shoot commercials/interviews without equipment & they can't get donations without this gear either just like you can’t can’t your money for advertsizing without your news show. And trust me none of the workers theirs are getting millions of dollars like you a lot of you, they aren’t even getting close to a hundred thousand a year. So maybe you really need to look within your own company and ask what good are we doing for society when we have all this money we make, way more than this organization… doubt any of its going out to help the people like this organization does.

SHAME ON YOU for making this organization look bad when it does so much good - your story alone could affect thousands of dollars coming in that will help thousands of people who are starving, could affect hundreds of jobs, when Obama has even said we need to support companies so that people have jobs, and thousands of lives of the homeless. You tried to trap someone who didn't even have the answers to the questions you were asking him and make it look bad like he was avoiding the question – truth is he didn’t have the answer. Why weren't you there in Nashville last month when 400 people received food and clothing at a drop they did there, why weren't you in Haiti showing them distributing food there, or i0\n Nebraska this month when they did the same????? Hmmmm, maybe you don’t want to show that the company is actually doing a lot of good around the world. I mean seriously asking why they have to spend so much on staff should be an obvious one – that would be like asking the President to run the entire country all by himself with NOONE to help him – its impossible.

My husbands been in news forever and this is why he left - because news organizations try to make horrible stories out things that are simply untrue or half truths. They maneuver the truth to make it go their way - the fact that you would do that on such a caring company disgusts me.

People please go to their website and see all the good that they do for yourselves. They have video & stories and please do not believe what you see in the news. I’ve seen how good they are and it breaks my heart that someone in NEW YORK can come down here and try to destroy a company in Oklahoma. Its really sad when news organizations start attacking companies that are helping people when they should be praising them for how much they do. I hope you can sleep at night! And I hope that you spend all your outside time from work handing out food to the poor or else you are a hypocrite.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Expectations talk about Scott & I's marriage at ForEver & ForReal at Express Event Center

I feel very proud of myself for standing up in front of the 500 people at ForEver&ForReal today to talk about expectations & tell Scott & I's story of our past few years.

Can't believe how many lives my talk touched but I sure did feel it with the continued applause & everyone touching me, thanking me afterward!

My main point was you go into your wedding & expect to have this perfect wedding & perfect "honeymoon phase" -you dont expect to have 4 in of ice on your wedding ruin it, preventing family from flying in, no honeymoon, a car wreck, a horrific back surgery that leaves you mostly disabled having to have your spouse do everything for you from bathing you to feeding you which led to our divorce our 1st yr of marriage & then to continuing to fight to save our love and to remarry each other the next yr, much to the shock of others around us!

Expectations are very rarely met but you figure out thats ok, you will get thru it in the end - NOTHING IS PERFECT, you just keep on keeping on no matter what the obstacle and no matter how long those obstacle lasts!

I have our love and THAT and only THAT is what is going to keep us together & happy through any obstacle from here on out - I don't need the perfect wedding, a honeymoon, a perfect job, a perfect house.. those don't make love happen. Only our love can carry us through the really hard times . The more you appreciate the smaller, tiny things in life the easier your life will truly be and the happier you will be as a couple.

It really made me feel good that our story touched soo many lives, maybe thats why we were put there - to teach others about our journey and hopefully help them when obstacles arise in thier marriage.

For this first time I saw our tragedy of our first year of marriage and our divorce/remarriage as a positive! Scott & I both got vey teary eyed by everyone's response. It really meant alot after going through what we have gone through!

I can say we are stronger now than we have ever been because of our tragic past, so I know we can make it through anything now!! Alot of people don't have anything go wrong for so long into their marriage and some have it soo much easier in life but eventually they too will experience problems and they too will need help to get through. I am just glad we got such a huge tragedy out of the way early on in our marriage so we are strong enough to handle everything else that comes along!

Friday, February 5, 2010

The Potty

THE POTTY

A LITTLE THREE YEAR OLD BOY IS SITTING ON THE TOILET. HIS MOTHER THINKS HE HAS BEEN IN THERE TOO LONG, SO SHE GOES IN TO SEE WHAT'S UP. THE LITTLE BOY IS SITTING ON THE TOILET READING A BOOK. BUT ABOUT EVERY 10 SECONDS OR SO HE PUTS THE BOOK DOWN, GRIPS ONTO TO THE TOILET SEAT WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND HITS HIMSELF ON TOP OF THE HEAD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.

HIS MOTHER SAYS: "BILLY, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? YOU'VE BEEN IN HERE FOR A WHILE.

BILLY SAYS: "I'M FINE, MOMMY. I JUST HAVEN'T GONE 'DOODY' YET."

MOTHER SAYS: "OK, YOU CAN STAY HERE A FEW MORE MINUTES. BUT, BILLY, WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF ON THE HEAD?"


BILLY SAYS: "WORKS FOR KETCHUP."

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ridiculous Govt Spending

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM FOR SOME INTERESTING INFO ON WHAT OUR GOVT IS PAYING FOR…

Where is our money going you wonder? Here ya go (which is why I am a Repupblican that wants the government to spend less & have less government instead of using our money and giving it away to frivolous things like the following while increasing our deficit by trillions).

One thing I do agree with Obama on is transparency, although I highly doubt, sadly, most of America would even care if they read what bills really had in them, nor do I think we will actually ever see a database that lists all the earmarks in each bill like Obama said he would do. I think we need to start educating our kids enough to care about politics as that is what our country is founded on and what makes it great. Its when no one cares that decisions start being made for those people without their say.

I really wish transparency would happen, and I really wish people knew more about government and actually cared. This is why I have told Scott he can't just be a Republican because I am, we have to go to both headquarters and learn each of their beliefs so he can make his mind up for himself. Just like I will want my kids to be given as much info. as possible, so they can make informed decisions as they get older. I just want people to be informed and let them decide where they stand.

For me I want less government ( I consider myself Republican, although sometimes I fall more Libertarian), I hate thinking we are headed more socialist than democratic by having the government take over soo much, I especially hate that soo many people aren’t seeing this or just not caring. This, and working for 2 prescription benefits companies for 2 years is why I KNOW YOU DO NOT WANT OUR GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER HEALTHCARE - BIGTIME CLUSTERFUCK!!! Don’t believe it? Go work for one involved with a government plan, other than the federal gov’ts plan that is – they have a plush plan, and you will see just how bad it will get if we have to go that route! You have no idea how horrible Med D was, nor how bad it would be to have the gov't deciding what you can and cannot have.

Right know you at least have options whether you have insurance or not, with the government you will have a set list and thats it - no appeals!! It scares me for people who have never worked on the insurance side with medicare/medic aide/Med D because you don't get too see how really screwed up it is. Just say DONUT HOLE to anyone on Med D and they will scream, actually just say Med-D to anyone on Med-D and they will scream. Thank god there are companies that have come in to provide more even coverage to those eligible for Med-D so they won’t get hit soo bad like they do on Med-D. It scares me that soon all of our choices will be limited like this. It's funny that I used to have a coworker that would actually tell people when they would bitch about their Medicaid coverage that this is why you need to make sure our government never takes over our healthcare because it will just get worse, because then no one, not just the poor, will have any say in it. Me, I like my choices because it is a free country and we should have options without government invading on that and without having to have a million dollars to afford it on my own.

So I thought you guys might like to read the following things we as a country are paying for soon:

-$3.7 million to The Texas Home Weatherization project that won’t even pay for itself for over 150 years, only weatherizing 45 homes

-$950,000 to 2 grad students from Arizona to study how ants work… that’s almost half a million dollars each

-$100,000 each to numerous states to stage puppet shows to save puppeteers jobs

-$50 million to companies that raise tropical fish/alligators for their food

-$4 million to N. Carolina Public Schools to hire 64 Literacy Coaches for Teachers

-$6 million goes to a California construction company that is under investigation for defrauding the city of San Diego during 2007 wildfires

-$13 million to a Denver developer building senior living facilities despite being sued as a slumlord in San Francisco for rodent infested apartments

-$24 million to a Kentucky contractor on trial for bribery

-$15 million to company to monitor water quality of a river that it polluted


Interesting huh??!!

My weightloss ourney...month 15th since surgery

I have to say I have fought a battle for a very, very long time, always embaressed to go out. After college I slowly started putting on weight to my tiny frame, but I thought it was no big deal as I couldn’t exercise because of scar tissue from several surgeries that of course they couldn't go in and remove because it would increase the scar tissue, one thought was to cut the femmoral nerve that is damaged but that would mean I wouldn't feel anything below, great for having kids, bad for having a sex life. As the pain from those worsened, the more I put on weight. Even the Mayo Clinic had to put me on meds that caused me to be hungrier, although helped the pain…

Then we had our car accident, my back surgery & I easily put on another 50 lbs from being in bed over a year, then when Scott left another 50 lbs. I was devastated & embarrassed since I couldn't exercise & I was eating to console myself. When I finally got my settlement from the wreck ($22K which is nothing for the 2 years I was outta work) I decided that I couldn’t live like this anymore & went to Weightwise Bariatric Hospital in Edmond http://www.weightwise.com . I had weighed 278 lbs at the time but had to get to 250 for the surgery. It took me all damn summer to lose the weight I needed to lose because I wasn’t following my dietician’s plan exactly.
I just kept thinking how did someone who weighed 120 her senior year in college get this bad – I was always tiny & could eat whatever I wanted & never gain a pound. Once on with Weightwise, it took me 2 weeks strictly on the meal plan & I lost it & they scheduled me for a gastric sleeve surgery in 3 days. Gastric sleeve takes out about 80% of your tummy (about the size of a hot dog) so its not as dangerous as the bypass but works faster than the lapband. I was running down the halls within an hour after my surgery I was soo excited that it didn’t hurt. Over the year I lost 100 pounds as of Oct.6, ‘09 anniversary & I felt great. I am having it a lil harder now because of a lot of medicines goofing it up & have gained a few pounds, but I know I will lose the remaining weight so I can get to my goal weight of 150 by the 2 year mark. It was soo simple & never felt a thing & love always being full soo fast, getting discounts at places or eating off the kids menu.
It is very rough when going to places like Boulevard Steakhouse & all I can manage to eat is a few bites of my steak & one bite of potatoes at my very favorite place to eat. I do wish at those times I could enjoy more, but losing weight is worth soo much more to me & my health. I am scared because I can eat a lot more than even 6 months ago, which is normal… but it also makes it easier to process foods I shouldn’t be eating at all which is bad!! I can say I am off sooo many medicines that come with gaining weight. Thankfully I never reached becoming diabetic, but my blood pressure and cholesterol were astronomical before!
I finally feel soo much more comfortable in my skin. The only skin sagging issue I have found is with my arms, but once I start working out I am told they won’t be a problem at all, if they do I am so going to have them tucked in. I was really scared I would have no boobs once I lost the weight but I haven’t thank god! Now its just going back to what I am supposed to eat which I haven’t been doing this winter I just want everyone to know that even people you see with perfect bodies could one day balloon up too, just give it time. Noone is perfect, we just have to figure out which way is best for you to get to your goal weight… there is no set way to achieve it! I always hope I can inspire someone else to go forward in their fight against their weight no matter what direction they take it. I feel soo much healthier and alive today than I did then, and I just felt trapped in this weird body back then! I don’t want anybody to have to go through what I have over these past 10 yrs. I can only hope I am helping people when I let the world know what I have gone through… Oh yeah and it was great to have Scott back in my life when I had my surgery and for us to remarry. He loves me in any shape I am in but I also get him to kick my ass a lil to exercise so I won’t be too lazy! It’s definitely nice having someone else there to encourage you and guide you through exercise, especially when you don’t have to pay them per session .
** I feel so much better getting that out, hoping it will change the life of someone else that is battling what I battled for soo long!