The Funny Video of The Day- Thanks Rhonda!

----- Garfield Immortalized -----

I have been watching this artist out of New York for awhile now, and finally was able to get hold of one of his 'Cat Heads'....that's what I call them anyway. Looks like the Garbinsky, huh?

I'm growing an egg behind my eye, just in time for Easter...yay!

I was really looking forward to getting a facelift this year, but instead I have to get this taken care of. Seriously folks, my face is dragging...

Well...we're off to Nashville on Monday to see Dr. Reid Thompson about this lovely lil' thing growing behind my right eye. It looks like a meningioma, which is the kind of tumor my dad has(d). His was on his parietal lobe & he had it Gamma Knifed in 2005.

For those who need a primer/ refresher in brain parts see the following link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Brainlobes.svg

My son, as those who know my family may know, had a brain tumor removed last January from his frontal lobe at Vanderbilt by the same doc I'm going to see ( hence me going to see him). His tumor was a grade II astrocytoma. It was completely resected and he has had no re-growth...Thank God!

So much for the good health sentiments below, huh?

No, really...everything occurs for a reason. I already know that. Its not up to me to know why, but I always see why in the end:)

I have met so many other people that have brain tumors, or who have HAD them. Its just amazing to me that these are as prevalent as they are!

I imagine that if everyone had a baseline MRI around maybe 2o yrs old, doctors would be able to catch so many more BEFORE they grow and do any damage, but I also believe that the incidence of brain tumors being reported would skyrocket. There is a group out of NY that is trying to get MRI's available to anyone at a very low cost called The Brain Tumor Foundation. Check out and watch their video http://www.braintumorfoundation.org/roadtodetect.php .

I'll check in later next week w/ more....

* Side note: I asked a neurosurgeon here in Memphis a couple weeks ago about the possibility of getting a lift done at the same time, I mean...you're already there, right???? I had a hysterectomy a few years ago and was able to get a tummy-tuck because they were in the 'neighborhood'....He looked at me kinda' weird. ( I wasn't serious, but he thought I was and just because of that it was worth asking...:)

Jimmy and Wendy in Hot Springs 12/21/08

Garby Enjoying the Superbowl...Sound Asleep.

Happy New Year Ya'll ! ( hehehe-I can say it like that 'cause I'm in Memphis)

God Please....Puuhhleeaasse let these next 365 days be a outpouring or growth spurt because of what the last 365 days has molded us into. I hate to say or ask for a 'better year than last'...that sounds so typical, and of course , isn't that what everyone would hope for?

I just want this year to be less to do with health issues and death and more to do with hope and living life.

As I was going through some old recipes to organize into a book, I found on the back of one sheet of paper some notes I had taken while watching Charles Stanley several years ago. I think they are always timely and are much needed reminders for everyone, so I put them into Word for safe keeping and thought I'd put them up here as a nice little reminder for folks(and myself) to look at and to be a comfort.

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

To get our attention

So we can develop righteousness and maturity into our lives

To prune our life ( John 15: 1-2)

Teaches us obedience ( Hebrews 12: 5-6)

To make you trust Him

Brings us into constant dependence on His grace and goodness

To manifest Christ's life and character in us

So we can share the holiness of Jesus

Enables us to share in the suffering's of Christ ( Phil 3: 8-10)

To prevent pride in our lives