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Feb20

Cute Little Critters

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Prairie-DogWhen the kids & I moved here to Colorado 18 years ago I was just enamored with these little critters.  Growing up in California (the bay area) I had never seen a “Prairie Dog” but here in Colorado they are everywhere.  The kids and I were always calling out “there’s a prairie dog”! Every open space or empty field is crawling with these little guys (open space = any piece of property without a building).  They pop out of their little piles of dirt to say hello (I’m sure they’re just looking for bugs)!  They are so cute – they remind me of sea otters with their little paws.  I realize they are probably disease infected carriers of possibly the plague but I can’t help but adore them. I drove by an open space the other day and I STILL thought to myself  “ahhh look, there’s a prairie dog”!

Feb15

A Good Laugh . . .

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A Firmament in the midst of the Waters by Ben Canales, via 500px

I hate when it’s dark and my brain is like, “Hey, you know what we haven’t thought about in a while, Monsters.”
(Pinterest)

Since it’s Friday . . . I thought we all might need a good laugh – LOL I just cracked up when I read this one . . .

Happy Friday! Toodles

Feb4

Heart & Breast Health Event . . .

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The event on Saturday went flawlessly (is that a word?).  We served about 60 women, 27 were scheduled for a free mammogram and we were able to get 3 more women in that showed up without an appointment.  There were another 30 that came for the speaking event and all felt it was very informative.  Two women that I spoke with left an impression on me. One had called me for a free mammogram because she had found a lump.  She (Janice) hadn’t had it looked at for a couple of years because she didn’t have health insurance.  Because she had a lump – she couldn’t do the mammogram on the van, she needed a “diagnostic” test.  I called Sandra Walters from St. Joe’s (one of our speakers) and Sandra was able to get her in at the Breast Care Center downtown.  Janice’s test came back fine and they told her to come back in a year for a follow-up.  It was the relief she had from a couple years of worrying that touched me.  She was so thankful to have that behind her now.  Another woman spoke to me after the event.  She had a call-back on a mammogram a while back and was afraid because no one really explained to her why she had to go back.  She told me how thankful she was because the speakers had answered so many questions that she had in her head.  I believe God put those women in the right place at the right time.  I felt like the event was a big success because my motive behind the event was . . . “Empowering Women With Knowledge”.  There was so much I didn’t know when I was diagnosed last summer, so I’m very thankful this morning that God opened the doors for this event to happen . . . a definite “note” going in my BLESSING’S JAR!!!!

A big thank you to all my friends who were so helpful and supportive!!! Thanks!!!!

Jan30

Heart & Breast Health Event

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iheartyouWell the event is finally here . . . this Saturday, February 2nd from 10am-Noon.  If you are local I hope I’ll see you there.  If you need more info – leave me a message here & I will contact you.

The Mammogram Van appointments have been filled and that means that 28 women without health insurance will receive a FREE mammogram this Saturday. The Exempla St. Joseph’s Hospital Mobile Mammography Unit is funded by the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, Safeway Foundation and the Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.  I am supporting the Susan G. Komen Foundation through this event and for every $100 collected a woman is able to get a mammogram for free.  I have been surprised at how many women do not have health insurance, which just makes me that more thankful for my job and health insurance.

If you would like to donate please go to http://www.info-komen.org/goto/iheartyou . . . Thank you!!!! Ronda

Jan29

Snow . . .

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Snow 2-29It starting snowing last night just before leaving work and it continued through the night.  I probably shoveled about 5 inches this morning, not too bad.  After living here for over 15 years it still amazes me how snow will stick to the tiniest of branches.  Blue skies today! Just gorgeous and we soooo needed the moisture.

Jan28

Smoke Detectors

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thSeriously . . . how is it that your smoke detectors ONLY chirp in the middle of the night!!!! Ugh . . . I was awakened very early Saturday morning (O’dark thirty) to the sound of one of my smoke detectors chirping because the battery needed to be changed.  Every minute that thing was sounding off with that high pitched chirp.  I finally got out of bed to see which one of the 3 upstairs it might have been.  So I stood there waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting to hear it and it NEVER went off again!!! It’s as if “they” know your there and they just want to yank your chain!!! Well because it NEVER chirps during the daytime I totally forgot about it.  So of course, it went off again (O’dark thirty) Sunday morning (this time I located which one it was), then it stopped and I forgot about it AGAIN! I went to bed last night and just as I got comfortable my eyeballs popped open & I remembered that I hadn’t changed the battery yet. So the big dilemma was do I get out of this oh so comfortable & toasty warm place to change that stickin’ battery NOW or do I just lay there and pray that it won’t go off at O’dark thirty AGAIN . . .  I totally considered praying about it but ultimately I got my rear end out of bed and changed the stickin’ battery! LOL