My Tea Cup is Half Full

Drinking some tea - surfing the web before my shift starts. The quiet hum of the office - people I love and am blessed to work with - I wouldn't have it any other way.


Little boy blue is slowly improving, he was fully standing in his physio yesterday (I almost screamed when Mumma Kasey told me that, I was so proud). Still praying that he'll make a full recovery - and that this will be used to guide others. I miss him a lot, not that I'm shocked I do, but seeing him and him not being totally himself is hard. God must really want his heart as it was a miracle he survived in the first place!

It's still a go for the move today and this weekend - thank goodness. I was a little worried that something would happen and it wouldn't be possible, as this single thing is keeping me hopeful and my head above the water. Chris is going to possibly clean the carpets today and we'll start moving things into the garage. It'll be nice not to be rushed as I took Monday off in preparation, so we could move and still have some breathing time.

Thinking of trying to go organic...we'll see about that one. I think I'm finally rock bottom enough to realize it and work on my health. I'm taking a multivitamin and some primrose oil at the moment, and I found out that I adore mangos (they're really good tasting, who would have thought it?)..shocking news I know.

Time for me to pound out some resumes. May God bless your day with the knowledge that his love surrounds you always - even in the darkest of times :)

<3

By the way if you love tea as much as I do, a great site for buying it is:
http://www.adagio.com

A Weekend to Forget

My fair brother in law was in a motorcycle accident on Thursday night. Needless to say it's been excruciating waiting for the phone to ring and hearing what the latest news is. He's finally out of the woods. Thank goodness for the mass prayer network we have going - from Cali to Canada to as far as Switzerland. He opened his eyes and gave a thumbs up today, sounds like good news to me. It's going to be a long and difficult recovery as far as I can tell, but he's a fighter, so it'll be painful on all of us.

In other news, another one of our fishies had babies. And in preparation for that we got another tank, a beautiful 20g that is currently cycling with one of the betta's in it - mean I know but
he's a strong wee fish. We have total 49 baby fish aka fry, so they're getting a bit pent up in their little floater holders, it'll be nice to give them a larger home of their own once we move over to the new house - but that's other news all together.

T-minus 116 hours we'll be moving into our new place. I was excited, though I think it was more of me trying to be excited through everything that has been happening - even prior to the car.. er motorcycle accident. I'm trying to keep busy to stop thinking about everything that is running through it. I've also taken to reading the left behind series again - I completed the first four books in 5 days - I find reading a fantastic diversion though it is currently failing me.

We didn't go to the baptismal service today as it's been raining since yesterday, such a shame. A sad Memorial Day weekend in my humble opinion.


Because if you didn't think I was depressed before. Here is a picture of my beloved (and dearly departed) Bailey. He loved me like I loved him - whole heartedly and without prejudice. He had the best personality.. I miss him so much. It's been over a month and I doubt I'll truly get over it. /cry..


Since that would be a terrible way to end a post I decided I'm going to list all our fishies names (excluding the babies). Fyer, Lola, Roxanne, Dottie, Ski, Optimus, Scarlette, Giah, Bernadette (Bernie), Nera, Pharo, Sunny II, Kenya, Striker, Casper II, "The Fish", Nio, Milo, Saphire, Leroy, Blazer, Shiloh, and Muoka. Very creative I know. We've lost some good fish already..I just hope that we don't lose any (or very few) during our move next week.

Eagh I'm exhausted, having a hard time sleeping, or staying asleep for very long.
The sleeping aide of choice - Benedril - has yet to fail me.

Night peoples! And don't worry I'm not depressed, just a terrible writer :). Oh and does anyone know whether it's costly to live in Denmark? That's a venture I'm looking into!

"Let your tears come. Let them water your soul"
-Eileen Mayhew

Ooopsies

So...I am guilty of not posting in awhile. Me so sorry :). In my defense I'm still getting used to this idea of posting again, after my livejournal years this is kind of .

What is new you ask?

*Well we're moving into the new place in under 2 weeks!! I'm so excited I can barely stay still!! I've already decorated in my mind. Though plans changed, and Alex will now be staying with I couldn't care less; plus I'm glad that he won't be down in Florida, and would rather him stay with us then not see him for 3+years!

*More of our fishies had babies! So now we have 2 from Scarlett's brood - she had a small brood and by the time we found out she had them we could only find 2, 9 from Kenya's brood - she had them while we were house sitting so we weren't able to find as many because they'd been in the tank for already a week (big fishies eat little fishies), and 30 from Gaeia's brood - we knew she was about due to pop so we turned up the temperature in the tank and surely enough next morning we were scooping out her babies!

*Mattie and Nate are moving back to Canada, sad times indeed, I'm going out for coffee/jambas with her tomorrow to commemorate her farewell. I know that Mattie must be extra excited to get back to her family and maybe start a family of her own. Though I'll miss her terribly - I regret not spending a lot of time with her, just with silly life getting in the way, I know I missed out on a great thing.

*The kitties are doing good, being rambunctious and crazy, but growing. We might have to restrict their diet as Abbie is getting chubby and little Chloe is staying skinny - not sure how it's going to work but we'll see. As long as one isn't starving our the other...Abbie is a little moo cow we won't worry about it too much, or lose too much sleep over it either way. Though I think Chris might scream if they keep waking up early with me. Hehe.

*Work is amazing per usual. I couldn't be more thankful for a group of people so supportive and just caring in general. It feels like home, that's the best way I can describe it! It's the first job that I've planned along with for the future --> like vacations and whatnot. It's been a blessing, and I am so grateful for all the prayers that landed me where I am.

*G-ma and G-pa came out during mother's day. It was good to see them considering I probably only spend 5-10 minutes in their presence during the wedding and that's been almost 2 yrs ago. Gosh we've been married almost 2 yrs, scary how time flies. Anyways, they're doing good. They'll be going to Mom-Kay's competition in Hawaii, lucky buggers!

*Mom-Kay's bike thinger majigger is coming up quick, on June 1st she'll be riding the 100 miles (maybe 109, I can't recall the exact length) around Lake Tahoe for awareness and raising of the Lymphoma Society. I'm proud of her, doing all this rigorous training, which with all honesty I couldn't do!!

That sums it up, I'm sure that there's more but lets not say everything at one time! I have to leave something for my next week update; which I believe is more true to my style, plus once a week will be easier for me to upkeep.

On another note, this was a great movie in it's time. I remember loving it as a kid - though I cant't recall much it, other then I believe Bernie is dead and moves/dances when there's music on? Something along those lines, hey it's been a long time! I will have to go out and rent it... With that said, you have a great weekend :)

Whew, long post. Outties kids

Under The Sea

I'm so glad that our aquarium has finally stabilized, it was quite worrisome when we had an ammonia spike and a few were given a flushing burial. The babies are growing (2 are still alive) and it looks like we'll be getting another brood in the next couple weeks.

Eventually we'll start working on a salt water aquarium, but for now we'll work on the fresh water; that way if a fish dies it's not oh my gosh that was a $$$$$ fishie, and I start crying because it died, etc etc. Anyways, the newest members are Lola, Roxanne, and Patches O'Hoolihan.