Rob gave me the Nikon D40 for my birthday, and I thought I would share my first images taken with you:

They are all in the Gallery Section!

Suggestions would be great!

I am feeling loads better today - energy levels up and have gotten loads of rest.

So, Rob sent my invititations off to the printers (RUSH job), and I thought I would share them with you (personal information has been removed).

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Two and a half years of love.

Courting.

Laughing with each other, talking about life, their friends and families.

The movies, the long walks along the beach.

The midnight drives, celebrating youth and romance.

Today, ladies and gents, he officially asked me to marry him.

Here is the ring in all of it’s glory, custom-made, 0.5 carat, round cut, F in colour, with no inclusions (great clarity) in a white gold tiffany setting :

ad divorce court today - been doing this since August of 2004 - yes that is right, 2004.

This was another court date that I thought would not resolve anything, but things got interesting - it looks like his attorney’s “forgot” to file his sworn legal documents. I was thinking OH NO, not another 6 week wait for ANOTHER court date.

Anyways, the ex starting sweating it knowing that the courts would come down on him hard for this, sooooo, he agreed to all of my terms, and I was able to squeeze an extra 10K out of the deal (he still lives in the family marital home with his new pregnant girlfriend). This will also allow him to keep the house without any major financial difficulty - so everyone wins.

So, within 3 weeks time I will officially be divorced with a large chunk of cash in the bank!

I am sooooooooooooo happy!

I plan on making a “just divorced” sign for my car - does anyone else have any suggestions on celebrating such a wonderful event?

I finally got the old furniture on ebay - get to clicking and happy bidding!

Click here to view it!

Dumping Syndrome.

It occurs when I eat something that for one reason or another, does not agree with my new stomach and intestines. I don’t know that this is occuring until about 15-30 minutes after a meal.

The rapid “dumping” of food triggers the pancreas to release excessive amounts of insulin into the bloodstream.

This is what I experience when I dump: shortly after eating a food I can’t tolerate I begin to feel a bit disoriented, maybe dizzy and then an overall sense of confusion or panic takes over my mind and body. My heart starts to palpitate and I feel as if it is going to jump out of my chest.

This is a mild state of delirium. Then I begin sweating. During this state of sweaty panic I feel like I’m out of my mind! Once during an extremely dramatic dumping episode I literally thought I was dying, the state of distress was that severe.

Sometimes this is occompanied by being violently ill.

I know the event is starting to pass when the sense of panic is replaced by exhaustion and cold chills instead of sweating.

The mild delirium associated with dumping is the result of an interruption of nerve impulses affecting cerebral metabolism. This mild delirium is characterized by a reduced ability to maintain attention to surroundings or disorganized thinking. The daily routine can become confusing. In extreme cases a person who is dumping may experience rambling, irrelevant or incoherent speech.

Through trial and error I can predict most things that make me dump and I avoid them contemptuously. it is still early days yet so some things I just don’t know about.

There is no way to stop this once it starts, but lying down helps. So you may see me with my head on my desk after lunch sometimes, as this is as close as I can get to laying on my right side.

If you want to read more about Dumping Syndrome, the Mayo clinic has an article at http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00715.html

I predict that within the coming week, there will be an announcement that Britney “Ya’ll” Spears and Kevin “been a great dad” Federline will be reconciling.

Due to complications in surgery, I will be in hospital for a few more days.

This (private) hospital is great, they actually put patient care before checklists!

So, once I get home, I will probably still spend 90% of the day in bed - full of co-codamol (the only thing that seems to sure my migraine that I have had since surgery on Tuesday).

Any suggestions on boredom remedies?

I got to start a liquid diet this morning and had redy break for the first time. Its the same thing as cream of wheat and I loved it! So its now my staple breakfast, 3 spoonfuls with some sweet and low, until I am allowed to eat eggs - yum!

I have been craving brocolli and spinach and fish. Perhaps my iron and protein levels are too low. In a few weeks, when I can have solids, I will steam some fish and broccoli - can’t wait!

This video may help some people understand the difficulty of communication in austism.

The internet is now public conciousness and videos, like these, will soon unite us in ways never thought possible.

AirTran is defending itself today for removing a screaming toddler and her family from a flight bound for Boston.

“The flight was already delayed 15 minutes and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on the plane, the crew made an operational decision to remove the family,” AirTran spokeswoman Judy Graham-Weaver said, ” [The toddler, a three year old named Elly] was climbing under the seat and hitting the parents and wouldn’t get in her seat.”

The family was compensated to the tune of “$595.80, the cost of the three tickets,” and “flew home the next day.

They also were offered three roundtrip tickets anywhere the airline flies,” but the father said they’d never fly AirTran again.

This, of course, means we are suddenly more interested in flying AirTran for the no psychotic toddler policy.

There are other people on the plane, and if you can’t control your kid you need to be removed rather than ruin/delay the flight for everyone else.