tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76885261649992652232024-03-18T22:39:14.156-07:00Jenny MatlockJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12462124067637610359noreply@blogger.comBlogger2074125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688526164999265223.post-83214154225847479892016-05-11T14:49:00.002-07:002016-05-11T14:49:24.728-07:00You have all warmed my heart so much...but...
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I have to take a break from blogging right now.
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My health continues to grow worse...
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And although my pain is not the boss of me...
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my head is cluttered with trying to manage it 24/7...
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my hands are growing more painful and everything has become much more difficult to manage.
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New medications have been unable to help.
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But...<br />
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The next foray into pain management holds some risk.
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So while I am deciding how to proceed and while I am laying in bed and looking at the spectacular mountains and view from my window
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I'm going to say bye for now.
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I will pop on now and again to update you and tell you hi.
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Over the many years I've been blogging I have made some incredible friends, some incredible memories...
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and you have all blessed me more than you can ever imagine.
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Truly remember friends that pain doesn't always show physically.
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Look at peoples eyes and how they walk or struggle to put something into a grocery cart.
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It never hurts to offer a smile or a helping hand.
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Hugs, hope and happiness to you all.
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<image alt="post signature" class="centered" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysig.jpg"> </image><div class="blogger-post-footer">Jenny Matlock ... off on my tangent ...</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12462124067637610359noreply@blogger.com161tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688526164999265223.post-23720802784480741352016-05-04T13:00:00.000-07:002016-05-04T13:00:22.923-07:00Warm Heart Wednesday Week 25<div style="text-align: center;">
It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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Alliteration.<br />
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Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.<br />
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Alliteration.<br />
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I love it.<br />
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Our youngest Granddaughter, Mo, was here over the weekend. We found ourselves doing silly alliteration over everything.<br />
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Alliteration.<br />
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Awwwwww.<br />
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Lovely Lingering Lingo.<br />
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This post is linked to Warm Heart Wednesday #23. For other heart warming links just <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2016/04/warm-heart-wednesday-week-23.html">click here.</a></div>
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I heard the doorbell ringing at 7:30.<br />
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I heard Mr. Jenny tell someone that I was still in bed.<br />
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I heard Mr. Jenny close the door and when he walked into the bedroom he had a surprise.<br />
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It was a bouquet of flowers.<br />
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For me.<br />
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Delivered from a dear new friend.<br />
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And it was a wonderful start to my 60th birthday!<br />
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This post is linked to Warm Heart Wednesday #22. For other heart warming links just <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2016/04/warm-heart-wednesday-week-22.html">click here.</a></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Jenny Matlock ... off on my tangent ...</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12462124067637610359noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688526164999265223.post-47006036446189439562016-04-20T13:31:00.001-07:002016-04-20T13:31:55.461-07:00Warm Heart Wednesday Week 23<div style="text-align: center;">
It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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Week 22<br />
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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In the wayyyyy back of the freezer in the garage, I found them.<br />
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They looked a little bit frost-bitten, but I didn't care.<br />
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Mr. Jenny and I had picked these little gems of berries at great personal peril...<br />
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Ruining several pairs of shorts...<br />
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And coming down with a bad case of 'Berry-Berry' all over our arms and legs.<br />
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I thought we had eaten them all in muffins and pies!<br />
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But I was wrong!<br />
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There were four cups of the dark purple jewels just waiting to be turned into a cobbler for some company we had coming to visit.<br />
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Black raspberries.<br />
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Not blackberries.<br />
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Not raspberries.<br />
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Black raspberries.<br />
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They grow wild here in patches up around 6,500 feet elevation.<br />
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Mr. Jenny and I picked and picked last year and are planning to do it with wild abandon again this year!<br />
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Black raspberries.<br />
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My, oh my.<br />
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The only bad thing about making a black raspberry cobbler for house guests is that there is a good possibility they will never leave.<br />
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At least until they find out the freezer is empty.<br />
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Week 21<br />
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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We found the rusty bike wheels at a junk yard that has since gone out of business.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">We found the rusty metal cans in the desert.</span><br />
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We found the handyman willing to build both of our garden plots for a donation to the food banks.<br />
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This is our West garden.<br />
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We have marked each of the 6' square plots with tin cans.<br />
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Multiple bright happy colors of chalk marker features silly names thought of by Grandlittles, Mr. Jenny and other garden friends.</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">The names on the plots are things such as:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Lettuce Be</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Lettuce Be</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Lettuce Be</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Lettuce Be...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Art. E Choke</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">The Cruciferous Crowd</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and 24 Carat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">However.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">We're all stumped on the sign for the Onion plot, though.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">None of us can think of anything clever for the onions.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">If you can think if something, I will reward you with a prize.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">And even if you can't...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Thanks for letting me share 1/2 of our garden with you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Planting always warms my heart.</span><br />
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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I allow myself to be filled with weight and worry and woes.</div>
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Not always.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">She brought a cake.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">She is 11 years old and she brought a cake to Easter.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Without being asked.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">When I asked her why she said, "You always make all the food, Grandma, so I thought I'd bring a cake."</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">It was blue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">With vanilla icing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Eleven years old and she brought a cake.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I'm still smiling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">It's been kind of a bleh day...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">After a kind of bleh week...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">In pretty much of a bleh month...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I started a clinical trial several weeks ago and am still fighting the medication headache...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Well. All kinds of stuff that is making me feel...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">BLEH!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">BUT!!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Today I got a dose of some perfect medicine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">And my heart is feeling all cozy and warm and there's a silly smile plastered on my face.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">It's because of</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">WARM HEART WEDNESDAY!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Seriously.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I'm not being self-congratulatory but...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I'm a bit behind on reading so today I read weeks 14 and 15...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">AND IT WORKED!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I no longer feel bleh.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Sure, I still have a headache but now I have a lot of fun, funny and sweet stories floating around in my head WITH my headache.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">And I thank all of you who shared yourself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">You are a perfect medicine for me today!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Bleh BeGone!</span><br />
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Pansies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">At the garden center.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">In the pots on our back deck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Pansies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">They warm my heart.</span><br />
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Ahem...<br />
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Even though I'm more than few years past firm skin and perky body parts...<br />
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And even though I'm more than a few pounds past svelte...<br />
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There I was...<br />
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Shopping at Wal-Mart.<br />
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Looking for white socks for a Grandlittle.<br />
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AND!<br />
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An extremely red and black Valentine end cap caught my eye.<br />
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Cheap red satin. Cheap black lace. Cheap, cheap, cheap prices.<br />
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I mean.<br />
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Seriously.<br />
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Where else could you find slutty lingerie (And I'm not using the term lightly) for under twenty bucks?<br />
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Granted, there wasn't a lot of fabric...<br />
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...but still.<br />
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I looked around and didn't see anyone I knew, so I grabbed two in my size and shoved them into my cart underneath the toilet paper and the giant vat of wrinkle cream.<br />
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In the interest of journalistic integrity, I should also add there was a teeny, tiny, package of chocolates in the cart, too. And, no. The teeny, tiny package of chocolates has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the fact that I'm more than a few pounds past svelte. <br />
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So.<br />
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There.<br />
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The registers weren't crowded so I just slipped the sleazy garments through and that was that.<br />
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Almost.<br />
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The garments did absolutely nothing I had imagined they would do. Nothing looked ummm...uplifted or perky, nothing looked crunched in or sleek. In fact. Although they did make me look incredibly slutty the only person who would think I looked 'hot' in them would be a blind man, with no hands who hadn't been in the presence of a female in 43.7 years.<br />
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And doggone it...my husband is NOT blind, he still has both hands and he hasn't been OUT of the presence of a female in at least 43.7 years.<br />
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So I stuffed both of them into a bag and planned to return them as soon as possible.<br />
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The day of the return I nonchalantly took the bag down to the truck and informed Mr. Jenny I was running to Walmart. The poor guy didn't know how close he had come to being struck blind.<br />
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I breezed in the automatic doors and a wizened old guy said, "Wait. I need to mark your returns." <br />
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I held out the tied shut bag and he said, "I need to mark the individual items."<br />
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Individual.<br />
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Items.<br />
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GULP.<br />
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I untied the bag and pulled out the strap of slutty garment number 1. He affixed the sticker...a cheerful little puppy.<br />
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Awwwww.<br />
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NOT!<br />
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The second slutty garment was not quite as helpful. I tried to pull just a part of it out but the giant, molded fake red satin and lace bra cup bulged out instead.<br />
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Awwwwww.<br />
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NOT!<br />
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The wizened old guy turned red and started to stutter. His hand was a bit shaky but he firmly adhered the second cheerful puppy sticker to the region of the nipple before shoving it back into the bag.<br />
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"Have a nice day," he said without making eye contact.<br />
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"You, too."<br />
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Wow.<br />
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That was an ordeal.<br />
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I was relieved to know that all I had to do was go to the service desk which was, thankfully, absent of any customers.<br />
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I handed the bag to the customer service lady who was probably close to my age and in need of something uplifted and perky and crunched in and sleek, too.<br />
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She pulled the first garment out and said, "OMG! OMG! This is soooooo cute. OMG! Why are you returning this?"<br />
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She then held it up for the second customer service lady who also said, "OMG! OMG! That is sooooo bad. Bad, bad, bad! You go girl!"<br />
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And I said, "I have my receipt and I just need to return this."<br />
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They had a brief giggle and then one rang up the return after carefully placed the cheerful puppy sticker on the tag.<br />
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The second garment was the more...ummm...molded one. They went crazy over it. I mean you'd think I had pulled Harrison Ford out of the bag or something. They exclaimed over it! They ooh'ed and aah'ed and then one asked me, "New boyfriend, honey?"<br />
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I said, "No. Old husband. I didn't want to kill the poor guy."<br />
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Apparently I am much funnier than I know because they cracked up for what felt like ten minutes.<br />
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By now several customers had lined up behind me and the two giggling customer service gals just seemed oblivious to them.<br />
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Finally they stopped giggling.<br />
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And...<br />
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Finally my clerk rang up the return and looked for the cheerful puppy sticker to attach to the tag.<br />
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She couldn't find it.<br />
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She got flustered. "I need to attach the sticker for this return." <br />
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I said, "Yeah, the sticker is right there on the ... ummm.... top ummm...front of the thing."<br />
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She looked again and finally located it.<br />
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"OMG! OMG!" she exclaimed. "I can't believe Lloyd put that right on the nipple. You must have made his day."<br />
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Lloyd.<br />
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I'm so sorry man. I suspect you got razzed about that puppy placement just a little bit.<br />
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Finally, finally, finally...<br />
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the return ordeal was over.<br />
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Finally.<br />
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Mr. Jenny got a candy bar for Valentines Day.<br />
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And that was, quite seriously, the best that I could do.<br />
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Sigh...<br />
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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It occurred to me the other day that sometimes I am stuck in the bad...not seeing or recognizing the good as often as I should.</div>
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
</div>
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Happy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Happy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">A pedicure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And pink toenails!</span><br />
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">My.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Bad.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I've been living the life of a country song even more than usual lately...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">and darned if I didn't do the thing I wasn't supposed to do.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">I forgot to look for the good stuff.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">And actually.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">In hindsight.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">There's been a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">For this week it's actually gratitude toward one of my 'team o' doctors'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Toward the end of my very long exam this specialist (who I see way too often) brought tears to Mr. Jenny's and my eyes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"As long as you want to keep fighting, I'm going to fight with you," he told us solemnly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Wow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Wow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">That was beyond a good moment.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">That was a blinding flash of light in a tunnel of darkness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And that's my Warm Heart Moment for this week.</span><br />
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But sometimes too often.</div>
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I forget to remember the wonderful small, positive things that happen each week...a card in the mail, someone holding a store door or asking where I get my hair cut, a funny little story, or a ray of sunshine warming my face.<br />
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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Warm Heart Wednesday is for me. To start remembering. And to make a journal of joy.</div>
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I hope you will consider joining me on this adventure by sharing something that made <em>YOUR</em> heart warm over the past week. I think it will be fun and uplifting to read your ongoing journals as well.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Rocks.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Almost all of our family </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">(except the weird ones...ssssshhhh...)</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">are rock hounds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Living in the high mountains of Arizona we are always amazed and delighted by all the choices there are to search for.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Sunday we met up with a friend who knew where there were geode and lava fields close by.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Imagine this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Temperatures in the high 60's. Perfectly clear later winter sky with just the faintest wisps of bridal veil clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Driving across streams and parking on a lava shelf.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Hiking a short distance to find a field paved with river and lava rock and sprinkled with enough geodes that the Grandlittles, Daughter-in-law and my constant delighted shrieks of "I found one" made a constant hum in the quiet valley.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">We hiked up a little further to find a low waterfall. The lichened top rocks covered in shallow, but quick moving water, proved interesting to cross. Our lovely girls guide me carefully each step of the way so I wouldn't fall.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">On the other side of the waterfall were huge low waves of matte gray lava beds. Here and there petrified logs sparkled. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Being semi-prepared rock hunters, the chisels, goggles and hammers came out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">We all bemoaned the lack of our spud bars.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">The muddy, wet journey home was spent re-living practically every rock found.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Ah.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">It was a lovely day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">The day and the memories of it will warm my heart for many days to come.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Kindness and compassion are not two words that I generally think of when dealing with big government bureaucracies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">However.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">In the quest to find relief from this unending pain my medical team unearthed a drug that might actually help.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Unfortunately that drug is not yet available in the US.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I talked to a wonderful man named Jim at the FDA.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">He listened to me, including crying, for a long phone call...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">...Immediately contacted the drug company.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">...Gave them a heartfelt plea for a compassionate release of enough meds to conduct a clinical trial of one...that would be me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Alas, the drug company does not have enough of the medicine manufactured...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And the FDA has classified said medicine as an "Orphan"...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">However...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Jim was incredibly supportive...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Offered to stay in touch with the manufacturer to see if anything changes...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And actually apologized profusely for not being able to generate a better result.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I was impressed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And touched.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And the whole interaction really warmed my heart.</span></div>
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