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Little Ms. Peytiecakes had a Dr. appointment this morning before school. Of course I had to bribe her with the ever popular
McDonalds cinnamelts and a chocolate milk. It's completely Ronald McDonald's fault that we eat at McD's. His happy cheerful face totally suckers us in to believing that those cinnamelts will be WAY more healthy than the icing-laden toaster strudel that she typically has at home. WITH ORANGE JUICE, I might add. (Did you all see the news about the group trying to get McD's to remove Ronald because he lures kids into thinking they are making healthy choices?) Frankly, the poor redheaded afro sporting fellow isn't on a whole lotta merchandise that I see. Although he WAS on the chocolate milk this morning. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with milk. Or chocolate...it has some antioxidants or something, right? ;-)
SO anyway, after P got dropped off to school I swung by a Goodwill near her school that just opened TODAY to drop off some things Matt doesn't wear anymore...mainly tie's that his classes had given him over the years...zoo animals and brilliant blue with panda's just isn't cutting the dress code over at the office anymore. Being the good shopper that I am, I couldn't NOT stop in the store after I contributed. Low and BEHOLD, my pretty footed milk glass compote/vase or something or other. I think it's LOVELY. It will be so pretty to hold silver ware at an impromtu lunch. I'd have to give it to my sister if it was hobnail. Thank goodness it wasn't! I'm sharing it with Melissa's Thursdays Treasures and Trinkets over at MY COTTAGE CHARM
If you are interested in my back issues, (HEY WHO COULDN'T be interested in my SPINAL wonkieness~ total sarcasm if you didn't know folks!), I'll edit this post in a bit and let you know what might be happening in the next month or so. If you ever wonder why I post this wonkified spine stuff on here, the two most popular searches for my blog are BLACK PAINTED KITCHEN CABINETS and SPINE SURGERIES. Weird combo, huh?
EDIT: If you're interested in hearing about my spinal issues, read on...if not, you can stop now and look at some exciting blog with a cool give away http://www.dreamywhites.blogspot.com/
As you may remember, my pain doctor feels that "this is as about as good as it's going to get". He thinks that most surgeons won't really want to operate because of several factors, ie: age, prevelance of scar tissue etc, accelerated rate of degeneration, etc. My family thought I should have a second opinion from another surgeon just to double check. This time I tried a orthopedic surgeon even though my neuro surgeon had said something to the effect, having an ortho work on your spine is like having a handy man build you a custom home. The past two weeks, I've seen the Ortho Dr. assistant and also had an MRI. The assistant Dr. decided that it would be a good idea for the surgeon to look at my case. Because the pain I'm in is over 95% in my lumbar BELOW my prior fusion and in the top of my butt, the success rate is approximately 50/50. I'll know more about that when I see the surgeon next week. Apparently, if they decide to do it (and I DECIDE to do it) then they'd go back in, remove my 11 month old hardware (instrumentation) that is at L3-4, leave in the artificial disc, give me another artificial disc or two between the vertebre's below (I already have a broad based disc bulge there anyway with some narrowing) and then re-fuse me from L3-4 through L5-S1. The only disc that looks okay is the one at S1. I'm really in a quandry...do I go through with this knowing that if it doesn't work, I'm just back where I am (minus the summer for the recup time) or I could be in a lot LESS pain. I'm typically not a gambler but I'm just about desperate enough to go for those odds. I'm really curious to see what the surgeon says on Tuesday! ;-)
EDIT!! FIRST before I tell you about the Give Away...I want to THANK Cassity from the ultra FAB site Remodelaholics.com for featuring our budget KITCHEN renovation. She is SO sweet and her site is a WEALTH of information so check it out here if you like REMODELAHOLICS
Yup! You heard me right. Whimages is having it's first give away EVER. The other day I started thinking about opening an Etsy store. I thought, "Self, you can open an Etsy store. You've got all those pretty photo files filling up your hard drive, why don't you let some other people enjoy them too!" and I thought that I might be onto something! So we (Matt and I) started the process. There are no prints IN the store yet, but I do have a rudimentary "storefront" if you want to check it out...it's http://www.whimages.etsy.com/ .
In the spirit of SPRING and renewal and all good things happening, it's GIVE AWAY TIME! Here's how it's going to work folks: You are going to get 3 chances to win. The first is you have to become a follower or BE a follower and make a comment here about that. THEN, you also can have another chance of winning by telling me which one of these prints (I'm going to show you in a moment) that you WOULD choose if you were to WIN! You are going to tell me by leaving ANOTHER comment with the print name. These are some of the VERY same photos that are going to be in the Whimages Etsy store. I'm sneakily trying to figure out what type of prints people like. Pretty sneaky, huh? Third chance to win, post a link on your blog linking back to this post telling about the contest. THEN leave me another comment saying you did that and a link to your blog. WIN WIN situation eveyone, right? Okay, so you KNOW you are going to win a print but WAIT there's MORE! (Did I sound like an infomercial there for a second? Good. I thought so.)
The print will be professionally printed on matte paper and will either be a 6x6 framed in a black FLOATING frame (that's the kind where the wall color shows through AS the mat...I LOVE those. OR it will be a 8x10 in a black frame, it depends on the photo and you are just going to have to trust my judement here everyone. Some photos totally lend themselves to squares...it just depends. I have 2 black floating 6 x 6 photos framed in my black and white photo collage in my family room. Either one will be fabulous! All of these prints will be available in color or black and white even if I don't show it that way, so if you choose one that's not shown in BW but you WANT BW, or you want COLOR, tell me in the comment. THERE WILL BE MANY MORE in the store but it took me forever to load these onto this page and it got all wonky because of the sizes and my template and stuff...so really check the store early next week. AND if you mention this post and order by April 25, you'll get 15% off! ;-)
Let's break this down and get rid of the confusion. If you want to win, this is what you do:
1. BECOME a Follower over there ----- to the right or you can be one already.
2. Post a COMMENT ON THIS POST about being a follower (thank you in advance!)
AND for another chance to win
3. Check out some of this photo goodness (I'm not patting myself on the back, some are taken by my father!)
4. LEAVE a COMMENT ON THIS POST telling me which photo you would choose.
5. POST on your blog a link to this post and then leave a comment with a link to your blog telling me you did!
THAT'S it! EASY PEASY~!
THEN I'm going to use that ultra cool random number generator to pick the winner! My kids really want me to put all your names in a hat, but that's not going to happen. I've been dying to use that random number generator like all the cool bloggers. Now is my chance. ;-)
YOU have till Sunday, March 28 at midnight to enter. That's a whole lotta time, so tell your friends!
Okay, here we go, they'll be smaller but you can click on them to see it bigger and of course you won't have a copyright on yours...I hope you like them!
If you made it this far, I'm so proud of your endurance! Check back next week, I'm going to be featuring a SUPER SWEET CUTE COTTAGE that my dear friend Tina is moving into this weekend. Tina has a FABULOUS decorating eye so you are sure to want to tune in to see what she does!
Here's a happy little image for you for a Saturday night. Today was so pretty here, I LOVe spring! I'm going to get together some links of some GREAT blogs that I've found that I think you'll love too. Or you may hate me for giving you too much inspiration. Inspiration overload is on it's way!
These Tulips were left over from Peyton's party last week. I just thought they looked so pretty against the blue sky today. Yes, it was THAT blue, no photoshop tweaking I promise!
I'm kinda sorta a little bit thinking of opening an etsy shop. Oh geez. I actually said it out loud. I really have nothing to loose. And since I'm not really shooting families or kids now because of my spinal issue, I figured I could maybe list some prints. I have some cool architectural ones and some graphic landscapes. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not but what do I have to loose?
Well, I thought I'd just pass along a happy image after yesterdays unusual post. I would actually love to go do it again and my father and I talked about it. It's something I can only do in small doses because of the ride and walking but it would be worth it!
Hey if you are interested (how could you not be?) one of the blogs I follow has a GREAT giveaway right now in her etsy shop. CHECK it out for a chance to WIN! FABULOUS pillows from Marley & Lockyer
Little Ms. Peytiecakes had a Dr. appointment this morning before school. Of course I had to bribe her with the ever popular
McDonalds cinnamelts and a chocolate milk. It's completely Ronald McDonald's fault that we eat at McD's. His happy cheerful face totally suckers us in to believing that those cinnamelts will be WAY more healthy than the icing-laden toaster strudel that she typically has at home. WITH ORANGE JUICE, I might add. (Did you all see the news about the group trying to get McD's to remove Ronald because he lures kids into thinking they are making healthy choices?) Frankly, the poor redheaded afro sporting fellow isn't on a whole lotta merchandise that I see. Although he WAS on the chocolate milk this morning. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with milk. Or chocolate...it has some antioxidants or something, right? ;-)
