I LIVE and 5 favorites

It has been a really ( that needs to be underlined more than once for the mere understatement) long time since my last post, and for my few readers I apologize.  For the past few months I have been traveling up too Chicago and seeing a team of doctors as I went through tests, pokes, scans and will now become the worlds next superhero with the amount of radiation that is on my body. You can submit awesome name, what you think my powers will be power and costume idea's below.

Good news is I have answers for almost everything now.  I also found out how truly awesome and special my body is with doing the whole Darwin thing and trying to adapt to what is going on.  I may be only about one in 200 people for what I have but my body would not take that and decided to try adapt, improvise, and attempt to overcome.  The outlook is a surgery to fix an issue with my kidney aneurysm within the next coming month or two, and than monitor, the remaining issue with my kidney and aortic artery.  The coming surgery will not put me out of the woods completely but it will make me less high risk.

 And now with that update let's get the the real reason I blog, to be funny, and to share my current likes, and so I give to you my current 5 favorites.

1.  T Swifts new song.  I went through the " I WILL NOT LISTEN TO IT!!" stage and than finally did once another fellow blogger shared it.  She made me laugh and smile.  You go T Swift.

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ALS is a horrid disease and if you have facebook you have seen the ice bucket challenge all over it.  My main issue with the it was the worry of it becoming just another fad, and people not donating money and just doing the challenge to say they did it.  A few days ago I saw Anthony's video and was moved.  He is 26 and has ALS.  All my health issues are scary but not ALS scary and he is so brave for making the video that he did.  I urge you to watch the whole thing and if you have not already give to the ALS foundation or even his personal fund page.

3.

I am sorry if I made your cry.... Baby Groot will make it better....

4.

Buzzfeed has a wealth of videos where both America's and their oversea's counterparts try foreign food.  This one is one of my favorites.

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This also makes me laugh every time, mostly because I feel like I am watching myself on camera, and timers are for cowards.  I also now have Pizza and wine night...

Hope you are all having an great weekend and don't forget to be awesome. 

Sunday Funnies

While I finish up Surgery Part three, I thought I would finally put up a well love Sunday Funnies enjoy!

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This cutie has gotten her 10 seconds of fame and has better moves than most doing it.

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Was it a walk?  Was it a treat?  Whatever is was it got a maximum dwerp out of this pup

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I dislike all bird of this hight because I was bite by an Emu (Ostrich cousin) when I was a kid.  My guess is this child is trying rid the bird of the evil that is within.

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Children are adorable, and yet so funny as the learn consequences for things like this in life.  That is unless that child is like me and sits at the dinner table for 3 hours because spanish was gross.

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He must be a Boy Scout

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Sunday Funnies

Welcome to the very beloved Sunday funnies.  As always enjoy and if there is something your heart desires to see do not be afraid to ask!

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A kitten who has the flair for the dramatics

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A lame pun, because I love them so

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Insert nervous laughter now

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If I only knew this is how you trapped them as a child, maybe I could have gotten some sleep... what's that noise at 3am??  Just the demon Furby your tried hiding under your bed.

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This one just makes me smile

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Let's be honest... this is how I will parent

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And lastly in honor of grad old Turkey day coming up

Sunday Funnies (at long last)

And we are back, with another animal addition because how can silly animal not but a smile on your face?

Numero Uno brings us a horse who shows us the deepest desire of his heart

Number two is the Thumper of duck, or he doing his own rendition of Happy Feet.

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If only Henry the 8th wives could do this trick

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CATZ the Musical now on Ice!

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GULLZILLA!

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And they say animals have no personalities 

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And this last one needs no words.....

Sunday Funnies

What 2 posts in one week?   *say fallow with head bob*  Gurl people are going to being to expect things of you.  

However don't get to excited just yet, but do read and have a good laugh at the fallowing.  You do however get about a months worth of funnies, because I know the five of you that read this have missed them, and you are all quite worth it.

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I am pretty sure the owner will never know who did it...

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Is this even possible??? Kudos to the creative writing.

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My current cover letter

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Does this really need an explanation?

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Once again CATS ARE EVIL

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The answered request of cute babies, and what is better than babies eating Lemons??

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No one had ever claimed racoons to be the smartest theif

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I am sure he is making his father proud and his mother roll her eyes.

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Who is not making fun of the government right now?

And finally in honor of The Walking Dead starting tonight

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(spoiler below picture)

R.B.I. Dale, thanks for always showing the group humanity and always reminding Rick he still has it even when you are gone.

Gma and trampolines

Screw the themed thingy I have been doing, I knew that would not stick long, although if I can muster the discipline I will write about kids with cancer, because they matter and so does more funding and a cure...

But thanks to Grace over at Camp Patton I had the lovely reminded why I am terrified of trampolines... yes terrified.  I will not go on them, nor will any foreseen spawns of mine in the future.  Just no.  And who is the thank for this but my lovely grandmother.  Who is now in her 90's and is a kind but firm Catholic women.  She bore 13 children and was the reason I made my first communion and confirmation because lets be honest who would want Gma breathing hell fire down their neck because there favorite grandchild is not fully received into the Catholic Church.  No hands raised??? Moving on.
As a child I was not a chicken, I was cautious but not a chicken.  After all I was the child the tried to bungee job out of the tree with a jump robe around my stomach, (let's thank God my wonderful mom caught me in time) but it was the caution that would get to me.  Once someone told me how dangerous something was I would NOT do it. It is proubaly why I am the 1% of children that D.A.R.E. worked on, and why Scruff McGruff and Smokey were "so cool" in my eyes.

Anywho Grandma was visiting our humble abode and I was about to go outside to jump on my besties trampoline.  Before I left grandma took me aside and said be careful.  She then proceeded to tell me graphically how Uncle So and So fell off one jumping too high and not only cracked open his head but suffered a compound fracture.  This was the same Uncle that almost lost his eye running with a stick.

I am pretty sure 5 year old me stood with pupils dilated and mouth feel open in fear.  I was then sent out of my way, but every terrifying jump was filled with images of injury and death.


The fear only grew when another neighbor boy feel off a lost a tooth.  Years later I come to find out that the whole story was false, and Grandma only wanted her most favorite and awesome grandchild safe.  However since then every jump has been filled with the terrifying fear that one wrong leap will lead me into impending doom. IMPENDING DOOM

What I am Reading Wednesday

Despite only having one working arm, and how goofy being on pain meds makes me I have missed blogging.  One of my new favorite blogs Clan Donaldson does a "What I am reading Wednesday" and since I am an avid reading and lover of books I decided to give it a go for no mortal surgery or injury will stop me. ( I have a feeling I will faceplam at that comment later.)

Anyway I have been in a HUGE book rut.  In the past month I have started about 10 books and have stopped because I have not been able to get into them.  A friend of mine is an avid reading and upon perusing his book selection last night I happened upon this:

It sounded really interesting and I was promised it was not a love story.  Now I am all for love but am sick of the unrealistic sappy love stories.  They end the the same and well we are going to end it their because it is just going to turn into a huge rant.  Anywho Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is turning out to be quite enjoyable.  It is a fast read and decently written.  I also am enjoying the twist on what happens to us after we die.  Just in a day time I am about 150 pages in and it is still holding my attention.  So the award goes to Gabrielle for being able to hold my attention and also making me realize that my rut is from all books seeming the same to me.  So far she is original and I am happy to spend my surgery recovery reading.  If you have any suggestion please comment and let me know.  

Oh and since I have not done my Sunday funnies is quite some time I leave you with this gem.

Flashback Tuesday

Today you will be sparred for the boring history lesson because there are about 400 pictures that go along with this post... ok ok maybe not 400 but well you will see...

Now Lets flashback to the time France and more specifically Paris (the place not a person) tried to kill me.

It all started when this beautiful group of people worked our butts off fundraising in all form to raise a couple grand each for a European pilgrimage.  

The lovely lady to my left is awesome, and the lovely lady to my right was referred to as my twin and by the end of the trip we just told people we were sister.  And Em some things never change hu?

We ate and were merry till the lovely Werner and Meizis families took us to the airport.  Where we waiting and stared a lot at this excitedly

And entertainded each other with stories and food and what not

We arrived in grand Paris and Lindsay, Laura and I sang this song over and over again...

However Paris did in fact not hold the key to my heart by the end of the week.  But first we had awesome events like....

Seeing this thing

And then getting caught in the rain under it...

And then it raining some more on a boat tour

And eating the best lamb I have ever had

Also an awesome bakery right next to where we were staying.  However it would be Paris baked good that would later try to take me out....

Fast forward a few days to when we were on our way to Lourdes.  The trip itself was delayed because the train workers were on strike, so we spent the night on a nonmoving train and then the next day waited to run to the train in order to board it and make our way to Lourdes.  That morning some Canadians who were Catholic and clung to our group a little bit offered us some of the yummy backed goods above.  Now when they got to me I asked, "is that chocolate or Nutella?"  They assured me it was chocolate and being a trusting human I took a piece.  Instantly upon eating I turned to Lindsay and said, "That was not chocolate, it was Nutella."  She responded with a "How do you know?"  And I calmly as day said, "Because my throat is closing up."  Now it was not that she did not believe me, but I had said it so calmly and was still so calm that it was not until I downed 8 yes 8 Benadryl and told Laura that people started to panic.  While my throat was closing I had just taking enough Benadryl to knock out a large Dog and stop it.  We also has a nurse with us and my vitals were fine and if I used my EpiPen it meant that we had 30 min to get me to the hospital where we had no idea where it was, and then attempt to get to Lourdes while there was still a strike going on.  So we waiting.  

I looked like this

Highly red and drugged.. but relief came in a comedic form when a pigeon missing several toes flew in and slid in Tom Cruise Risky Business style

So Lindsay and I gave him the very approperate name of Tom Cruise 

And because Tom Cruise the pigeon was such a comic relief I vowed to be nice to them for the rest of the trip....

Anyway about 20 minutes after popping the Benadryl we got the green light to run toward the trains and our group did... with Laura pushing me from behind yelling for me to go and go faster... we successfully made it aboard and I passed out, to wake up when we were arriving here...

Which was quite nice, but due to my severe allergic reaction I had the joy of going to the doctor twice, once for the first reaction and than again for a secondary reaction, and was quite medically high for the rest of the trip, and to this day I swear European Predizone has some more hard core stuff in it than the American kind.  

However that did not stop an awesome trip...

And some good "high" quotes from me such as "Laura can do that because she is a soccer player" when she was just waking, and quite a few assisted touring walks from Laura, Linsday and Luke because I could not walk straight.  Luke also came to to rescue several times during Mass when I would go to stand and then almost fall over.  (See what I mean about the drugs being more hard core?)  Alas it was still an amazing trip and would make it again with those amazing peps again but this time no food from strangers.  Fast forward a week and I was on the mend under my good old docs care, and finally decided to try out the chew and dispose toothbrush with Lindsay that we got on the trip.  

It was quite nasty.