SADDEST.STORY.EVER.
this little boy was diagnosed with leukemia at age four, and his family was told at age eight that he only had a few weeks to live. they wanted to help him accomplish as many of his goals as possible. so he proposed to his little school girlfriend at a party and they got "married". they went out in the mayor's limo for a nice dinner with everyone, they had a fake marriage certificate made, and a ceremony and everything.
they said the little boy was always trying to walk for his family, since apparently a lot of kids with leukemia struggle with walking. the day after he and his girlfriend were "married", he walked to the couch. he died that day. THE DAY AFTER HE MARRIED HIS LITTLE GIRLFRIEND!!!! OMG!!!!
even more sad and awesome - his casket was carried in a horse-drawn hearse for the funeral, and his family and friends WALKED behind it. they said if he could walk for them, then surely they would walk for him.
yeah, read the story and try not to fucking cry. i dare you.
Ugh. I'm hooked.
Cancer:
If you truly care about someone, then you shouldn't have to work so hard at letting him or her know it. Paradoxically, sometimes it's so easy to express what you feel that others think you're not being very sincere at all. This can be quite frustrating for you. To avoid this dilemma today, don't use flattery or flowers; just stick to the facts and simply speak from your heart.
I'm sure it probably could but c'mon. I mean I know I don't have much to look forward to other than being broke but at least let time go by fast here at work! Goodness!
It finally rained a lil bit at my house yesterday! Yay.. well I was at the library when it happened, and my sun roof was open so the innerds of the car got a lil wet but its okay!
It was finally cool in my house it was so nice. I got in bed around 9ish.. and promptly fell asleep but couldn't stay asleep for more than a few hours at a time, that in itself kinda sucked.
I'm hoping to find someone to go to the Dragon Boat Fesitval with me this weekend. They have boat races and a bunch of asian vendors and cuisine.. I think it'd be really cool, and something other than getting drunk and being hungover all weekend.. we'll see we'll see. Oh yeah, and it's free just to attend, so even better!
Hmmm hmmm hmmm.. not much else to report right now, kinda been a boring week n what not...
Guess I should finish up my lunch time and get back to being semi-productive. *shrugs*
ps. I'd really like it if I had someone to cuddle with tonight...
My husband, when he was a young (and hot) fella, served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
He served in Utah, which is where The Church headquarters are, and where lots of members live, so people think it's funny that he served there, but it's really not, because there is a lot of work to do there too, ya know.
(like that run on sentence?)
While my husband was in Utah he was teaching a man that worked with the animals at the Hogle Zoo and got a back stage pass (I don't think it's called that....) and a close up look at the zoo animals.
(and woops, I thought I had the one of him holding a skunk... but I reckon I haven't scanned that one yet...)
But one of my favorite pictures of this one at the water fountain-
I bet there are many a picture taken just like this one. It's just the greatest photo-op.
As a matter of fact, I used it as a photo op years later when my oldest son was in kindergarten and took a field trip there.
Two years after later Nolan took the same field trip to the same place.
Isn't it the sweetest? To re-enact a picture taken of their dad before they were even a twinkle in his eye?
I have a thing for re-enacting poses. As I posted before here.
(Rae recently informed me that she hates when I say, "Before you were a twinkle on my eye". So I have to keep saying it, of course)
I’m in a holding pattern until the UPS guy shows up this morning. Or this noon – whatever time it is. Hubby was just by and I gave him the latest check from church to deposit. When people give to our adoption fund the money goes to TLCC (so they get the tax deduction) and then TLCC mails us a check. It works. Today we deposited the biggest check ever. EVER! So I did a little math and it turns out that we’ve raised 54% of the estimated total needed to bring home our children from Colombia. This is a pretty amazing thing since we are still quite early in the process. Yeppers, this is an amazing thing! To be honest I know that it just simply hasn’t sunk in yet. If it had, I’d be in a puddle on the floor. People have been so AMAZINGLY generous!
In the next day or two, I hereby solemnly promise to blog about the following:
- My new house (I took photos, but some turned out blurry. I'll see if I can take some more this evening).
- The second half of my trip to Chicago.
- My "angry dreams."
But first...
It's been a while since I posted some book reviews. But I'm feeling really lazy as the list gets longer and longer, so here is a quick synopsis of what I've been feeding my brain:
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet was the fascinating story of an autistic savant who clearly maps out what its like to live with his condition. My Rating: 8 out of 10 for being really interesting. The man can recite 22,512 digits of pi for goodness sake! I can't get past 3.14...
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by PG Wodehouse is another fun romp by the incomparable Wooster and Jeeves, this time at Aunt Dahlia's house. When Wooster and Dahlia get together, it's pure hilarious magic! My Rating: 8 out of 10 for being such a good diversion from life. I want to live in a Wodehouse novel!
I listened to the audio version of this book -- the Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff -- and really wish I'd read it instead. It's the story of a girl who comes home looking for answers, and it is interwoven the stories of her ancestors. The main character, Willie, came off as whiny and immature. Grow up! But I did enjoy the stories of her family. My Rating: 6 out of 10, but that might be higher were I to read the paper version.
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë -- the lesser-known Brontë -- was the story of a young woman who becomes a governess to help out her family, which is in financial dire straits. My Rating: 7 out of 10 for making me wish Anne was more prolific -- her writing was lovely. As a side note, the book could be renamed The Nanny Diaries: Kids Were Brats in 1847 Too.
Jasper Fforde's fifth book in his Thursday Next series is First Among Sequels. It's been several years since I finished the fourth book, so it took me a while to get back into his crazy literary world. My Rating: 6 out of 10 for being a little flat and harder to follow than the first four books.
I read Joan Didion's the Year of Magical Thinking for my June book club. I felt the retelling of her husband's death and her daughter's illness was very clinical and not emotional enough. But I can understand that's how she experienced it all. My Rating: 5 out of 10 because I was annoyed that she sort of named dropped. In random news, my old apartment was a block away from her childhood mansion (which was for sale for 1.2 million dollars, if you're interested).
In Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson travels around England, Scotland, and Wales, complaining about the weather, hating modern architecture, but altogether loving Britain. My Rating: 7 out of 10 for being pretty funny, but somewhat competitive and a wee bit whiny.
The Gathering by Anne Enright was De. Press. Ing. It was my July book club book, and it was only for the book club that I finished the thing. It featured light-hearted subjects such as suicide, child molestation, alcoholism, child neglect, sexual repression, near-infanticide, attempted murder, affairs, deranged anger, and running away from your problems. Woo! My Rating: 5 out of 10 for being way too dark for my taste, although Enright's writing was very good. But it doesn't matter how good the writing is if I want to gnaw my own arm off while reading it.
I'm sick of feeling blah every day and I decided that every day I will make a post about good things.
- I'm taking care of a VP's laptop so that I don't have to worry about things malfunctioning and his hard drives will be the way he wants them to be :)
- The cherries I ate were great!
- I'm in my lab in Burl2, which means people can't see me so they can't bug me :D
- Since I'm not in my regular office, I can't multi-task, therefore I can just chill right now
- Dinner tonight with a few friends
- NO SCHOOL!!!!
- Dusty liking his new dry food
- the week's almost over
- My mom, sister & her bf are coming to visit in 8 days :D
- i'm still sticking to Weight Watchers
- There might be a meeting WAY close to work on Mondays at 11:30 which is absolutely PERFECT for me. *keeps fingers crossed*
I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.
4 Cows + 5 Ducks.
Finished Zombie Blondes by Brian James--and seriously, this is a really fun book. :) Like the Twilight series, it involves the undead except this time, the undead are a little...um...juicier than vampires.
I prefer zombies to vampires anyway, I think. Incredibly fun book and I think most people could read it in a few hours.
Next up?
Another zombie book, this time by Daniel Waters. This is his first book, I think, but he's better known (to me anyway) as the guy who wrote Heathers. (If you have not seen Heathers, rent it immediately. If you don't like it, don't ever let me know.)
Meanwhile, weekend plans. I have two episodes of 90210 (the ninth season is winding down, which means I only have one full season and a handful of episodes to go before I can say that I've seen every episode) in my DVR and Netflix sent me 21. I have a load of clothes in the dryer.
(90210 and 21 must be dealt with today as I am spending much of tomorrow in the movie theater.)
