Mantis's Journal - DailyStrength Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:20:52 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/4263/1213274063.jpg Mantis's Avatar http://dailystrength.org/people/4263 Mantis's entry on 10/11/2008 10:52 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1337099 We have back a little bit, heres some pictures.. http://www.vydor.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4669  Tim had an outstanding time. Was very sad to leave, but we will of course at some point bring him back. Was a great vaction, and we REALLY needed it. Lots of stress latly.  Any... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:52:19 +0100 Mantis's entry on 10/04/2008 08:29 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1326794 GOD IS GREAT!  Okay, well umm... how can I put this... to prevent jealousy.... umm... how about this...  M I C K E Y  M O U S E!  or Its a small world after all.... :) Looking out the window, I see... THE MAGIC KINGDOM! BTW - The great golf ball is still there and ... Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:29:59 +0100 Mantis's entry on 08/20/2008 07:33 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1255043 So like this has bee what you call your average every day run of the mill... AWESOME NEWS WEEKS. First I get a letter from one of my banks, thanking me for paying off my mortgage. This of course was a bit of a surprise, and took a little digging to find out.... WOOT! The Nashville house has sold! I... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:30 +0100 Mantis's entry on 08/04/2008 01:47 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1227326 Well, drugs and more drugs... but heres the update... First its been a few WEEKS since my last tick encounter. I now shower in Deep Woods Off before walking the dog. Nothing like chemical warfare to make you feel... sticky and smelly! LOL But man that stuff works. Not a single tick since. I eve... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:47:44 +0100 Mantis's entry on 07/07/2008 10:50 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1173824 YAHOO!! WOHOOO!! GREAT NEWS!!! I got bit by my THIRD lymes tick this season!! YAY! This time the rash around the bite is BIGGER THEN MY HAND!  Anit that great!! And it was in THREE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACES over 50 miles apart! So not like I could just aviod the area. heh ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:50:01 +0100 Mantis's entry on 07/05/2008 12:05 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1168706 Well this was my first attempt at shooting fireworks and I had to do it BLIND. My Digital rebel broke. The focus screen, and all its mounting just plain fell out of the camera. No idea why, expect about 1 and 1/2 years ago ago I had it replaced by Canon because I damaged it cleaning it, so maybe it... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:05:47 +0100 Mantis's entry on 07/02/2008 08:51 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1161947 YO! OKay heres the deal, umm, shoot maybe it is actaully over there... sec while I find it... hmm... err.. umm..oh! There it is! Last year when we moved to Virginia we had to find our house in 1/2 a friday + a saturday. So we went on a wild wind chase through the area and looked at every h... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:51:30 +0100 Mantis's entry on 06/23/2008 08:04 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1141299 Little story from moving day.... two days ago...  It was near the end of the move when Mickey and I were in the back of the U-Haul lifting the last piece of furniture to haul in to the house. Scott and Mike had already started to head in with the top piece when suddenly the 26 foot long U-Haul ... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:04:24 +0100 Mantis's entry on 04/25/2008 08:14 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/1005955 So wow.... been busy... and not good. Since I last wrote in here, Kristi got sik with what Tim had, then we tried to rent out house out to some one that decided they hate it, then I got sick with what Tim had (and since I am hypogylcemic thats a bit trickier, and I guess dangerous), then last night ... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:14:53 +0100 Mantis's entry on 04/21/2008 10:30 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/997144 What start out as part of my "biblical custom" for the Living Cross preformance has stuck... what you think?  Click to see Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:30:05 +0100 Mantis's entry on 04/18/2008 08:57 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/990008 The Saga Continues! So Tim spent all last night puking. But then he was diong fine all day, since about 5 am or so. So around 5pm or so I took him with me food shopping. Food shopping out here means WalMart as it basicly is the only gig for about 45 mins drive in any direction. I figured he wou... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:57:30 +0100 Mantis's entry on 04/17/2008 06:25 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/987087 Soo guess what? I guess I got Lymes Dease (or one of the similar...)  now! Anit that special? Got bit by  tick over the weekend. Doc says since it is so early (less then a week) that 10 days on this dioxy-somthing or another should wipe it out with out any problems.  Kind of sucks how... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:25:32 +0100 Mantis's entry on 03/30/2008 09:47 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/939739 They found him... drowned. The STUPID freaking boat rental company put them to close to the damm. He was like 23.... Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:47:16 +0100 Mantis's entry on 03/30/2008 02:05 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/938761 From a good freind of ours...Hello,Joanne & I just received word that her son, Craig, wason a rafting trip in Alabama with one other person.The canoe flipped the other person made it to shore,but at this time they have NOT found Craig.  911 wascalled immediately and have several looking for... Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:05:22 +0100 Mantis's entry on 03/20/2008 10:56 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/914957 So like I dunno. Got some minor things to mention... Ummm...  Well we are in full swing with this production, but tonight we all got our copies of the cast picture.... as you can see there are one or 2 people involved in this! LOLHere is a picture: http://www.vydor.net/gallery/v/famil... Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:56:39 +0100 Mantis's entry on 02/26/2008 07:44 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/855111 So like hi! Its been a while since we had to consider issues with our son, but it looks like things might be back on the table for him. So this is what happened. Last night Timothy had been complaining that his "ear was broken"  and that he could not hear the TV. So after I question h... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:44:47 +0100 Mantis's entry on 02/09/2008 08:19 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/809231 SO JudyL has been pestering me to post an update .. soo umm... well lets see... umm...hmmm well , err... oh! I forgot to mention this a few months back... But as you may recall I have a defective heart. Half of it is dead (err, not exactly but look up Left Bundle Branch Block, or read older ent... Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:19:40 +0100 Mantis's entry on 01/21/2008 04:10 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/756365 Well just a minor update in case anyone out there is hanging on the end of their seat waiting for one. Been busy and have not gotten around here much....Adrenal or whatever its called test came back as normal of course. No that makes it ever suspects it will be the easiest answer. :) I had a not fun... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:10:55 +0100 Mantis's entry on 01/11/2008 08:34 http://dailystrength.org/people/4263/journal/730012 Sooooo time for a more real update on my Daily struggles...I still fight with out of control blood sugar. That is the short version. I know that I am far more brittle then even many medication controlled diabetics . I know the diet, I know the facts and figures and data. I can quote them categorical... 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