Posts Tagged ‘Sanibel’

I suppose I will just gloss over that fact that I got one, one-worded comment on a post I wrote ABOUT SEEING JESUS IN MY ROOM! This is me, glossing.

My glorious vacation here in Sanibel is coming to a close. Please hold while I cry like a little girl. Okay, back. It’s been really great, and honestly, the Lord has blessed me so much. While I was looking forward to coming to paradise (chuh), I was sad (seriously sad) that I’d have no hip young things to chill with this year. Shortly after we arrived, we found out my cousin Tim would be coming down (for something like 36 hours)! Whoopee! THEN! my cousin Grace decided she would mosey on down too (for barely over 48 hours)! Much excitement ensued, as well as much traveling to the airport, whew. And then, much fun occurred. MUCH. I don’t know how, but sometimes I forget what a hoot (yes, hoot) my cousins are! I miss them!
Okay, okay, enough talking, here are some photos for your delightment.

Paisley was quite excited at all the Christmas merriment!

Grace and me out to eat. There was a guy juggling glow-in-the-dark bowling pins and I was hoping we could get him in the background, but alas it didn’t work out.

try not to be jealous of my awesome tan.

The three cousins! It’s unfortunate that I showered JUST before we went out. Obviously a hott look for me.

Gramps with three of his grandkiddos! Have you ever seen such a look of elatement on a grandparent’s face?

superfluous sunset photograph

Wish you were here!

LOVE!

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I know, I know, yall were probably thinking, “Mandy’s going on vacation, I bet she updates practically EVERY day.” Well JOKE’S ON YOU! haha. Well, technically I’ve only had two days of vacation, as I was driving the first three days. So, here I am, writing on the second day, and that ain’t bad, so be thankful for WHAT YOU GET! I’m so full of Christmas cheer! Thus all the CAPITAL LETTERS.
As for the driving, it was LOOOONG, and I swear Atlanta drivers are trying to kill me. I also found that’s it not so easy to find (clean) hotels that accomodate pets. Another highlight of the trip was when I woke up one night and SWORE Jesus was in our room. Before you go believing I’m super holy, so much so that I am having a sacred vision, please know that I’m crazy in the middle of the night. C-R-A-Z-Y. So yeah, that was interesting. Turns out it was just the lamp shade. Make of that what you will.
The last two days actually on the island have been amazing. Paisley is such a water puppy! Which means she is truly with the right family, as we are all “water babies”.

Today I (drumroll please) got a massage. It was life-changing. MMMM. I’m hoping to get another next week!
Ended the day with my best girl (dog) watching the sun set.

Then dinner at Lazy Flamingo with strangers.

Hope your holidays are lovely!

LOVE!

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Trying a different theme. Spicing things up, you know, it’s helpful when keeping your blog-blogger relationship fresh. I like this theme except for the words “Angley Theme” at the top of the page. This blog is not called “Angley Theme”, no sir. And I’m not at the point where I can rewrite the theme and change that. HOWEVER, this theme has a RSS button thingie, which should help those of you wanting that. I have found that my blog entries do come up on Google reader. And yes, I have my own blog on my Google reader, don’t judge.

I guess the one thing that would make me REALLY happy at this point would be to figure out how the heck to get my xanga entries to show up as fluent sarcasm entries. My books are not helping and I don’t much appreciate it.

Wow, I’m blogging about blogging. Strange.

I’m getting super excited about being a nurse. We’re skipping the thoughts about nursing SCHOOL because those are not pleasant. But dude, being a nurse will be awesome. Except for the poop. And the throw-up. And the urine. And the crabby people. A.W.E.S.O.M.E. No but seriously, I am totally excited and I’m already working on suppressing my gag reflex.

Get used to these pictures, I took about a million.

LOVE!

PS Stumbled upon this A Letter for Every Good, Decent Christian Single Guy Who Just Wants to Find Miss Right
It’s 2 days before New Year’s Eve. Here’s what she has to tell you.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/725483/a_letter_for_every_good_decent_christian.html“>
and the reply
Yes please to this guy.

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The ear fiasco 2008 continued…

Yesterday I talked to my cousin Annie, who also was diagnosed with an ear infection. She talked to her pediatrician and explained my situation. The pediatrician was sure I would be fine to fly on Saturday and this sparked some quick-based action. I called the walk-in clinic I visited on Tuesday to see which ENT they were referring me to. I still haven’t heard back from them. So I called Annie’s ENT in Olathe and they got me in TODAY! I was totally surprised that things moved that quickly. Today after leaving 15 minutes later than planned from work I rushed to Olathe Medical Center, got lost of course and was pretty late for my “be 30 minutes early to do paperwork” date. I did that paperwork in RECORD time I tell you. Then I was off to the otologist for a rather intense hearing test. I’m not hearing so well out of my infected ear, chuh. I was sweating during the test though, my breathing is so loud and labored due to my cold that I was afraid I’d miss some of the high-pitched noises so I held my breath. Next I saw the ENT who checked me out and suggested that I either get temporary ear tubes put in or take short-term steroids. The important part was that he said to definitely NOT cancel the trip to Sanibel. SWEET! I was kinda thrown off by the whole ear tubes bit, I didn’t think I’d have to make such a big decision. And anything involving slicing and inserting sounds like a big deal. He said I could think about it and get back to him the next day (Friday). After talking to mom I decided the ear tubes were the way to go, only problem being I am working all day Friday and have already put this family through the ringer. I didn’t want to go back on my commitment to them so I called the ENT office back and asked if they had any availability today. This is at 2ish PM. They had an appointment at 3:20 and I said I’d take it. What a whirlwind. I went back, the procedure took about 15 minutes and now I’m ready to go!! I am all souped up on drugs now too, shoot. I almost feel like there isn’t a natural product running through my body at all at this point. When those natural products are mucus and viruses, yeah, don’t so much mind those not circulating anymore. Whew. I am worn out. BUT I AM GOING TO SANIBEL. That is the bottom line and it’s the best bottom line. I just can’t believe all that has happened in the last 56ish hours. God is GOOD!

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