New Pictures

I posted lots of new pictures on my picture blog. The link is on the side.

Check 'em out!!

Answered Prayers

Ok, If you know me, you know I hate my teeth. I mean really hate them. It started in high school with all the braces and surgery and has just gotten progressively worse. My enamel sucks, so they break easily. I hate going to the dentist, my dental insurance blows yadda yadda yadda.

So, I've been having big problems lately with my teeth. Lots of pain, a pretty wicked gum infection that antibiotics are helping and lots of tylenol and advil and such. This last year i dropped my dental insurance and added more money to my flexible medical account with the hope and plan to spend that money on my teeth. Well, after the crap with my stomach and finding out the hard way that a colonoscopy is a pain in the butt (haha) and the pocketbook, that money is gone.


Last Sunday at church I filled out a prayer request and just "let it go." If you know me, you know I'm not good at that either. I keep things that I don't think are important to others bottled up and deal with them eventually. Well, I put in the request for prayer in three areas, comfort for the pain, discernment to find a dentist in the area who will take me, and how to pay for it. Well, the pain hasn't been too bad this week, it's been more than bearable and I've taken less medication this week. Today a deacon at the church called me and said he would make some calls, but there is a dentist in the congregation that will probably see me, evaluate me and give me xrays and the estimate for free. That would be amazing. If all goes well, I may have the money lined up and finally get this all situated. What an amazing blessing.


Trust me, I know God's there. I see his work all the time. Tonight I feel so blessed that the church would take that risk on me, Debra "Crappy Credit" and help me through this. Maybe I'll actually be smiling on the outside in all those wedding pictures of Erin's instead of just keeping the grins in the inside.

More Than Words

Please Mr. Obama, tell me how.

Tonight you claimed you would provide health care. FYI, currently it's there for the employed and unemployed and even illegal immigrants. My question is how are you going to do that.

You want to end a war that McCain will let last "100 years." Let me know about your military service and how you plan on being a commander in chief that until tonight didn't wear a flag pin on your lapel, didn't hold your hand over your heart, and until tonight didn't want God to bless America.

You want to hire a new crop of teachers and pay them well. Trust me. I'm all for that one, but since when does the federal government hire and pay on the local level. If you hire me are you planning on dictating even more so what I can say and the view I can have.

I'm all for helping the environment, lowering taxes, and funding stem cell research. But I wish the democratic party would spend as much time hating abortion as a form of birth control, hating real terrorist threats against our country and changing a generation of non working Americans that are supported by social initiatives that were NEVER intended for use as a life style as you do hating on George Bush personally.

Trust me. I can't handle it when people say he declared war on Iraq...I'm sorry...government in 12th grade you idiots, presidents don't declare war against a country. Bush is the cause of 9-11. Give me a break.

I know he's a phenomenal speaker, he's young, he's got alot of potential. But if my disillusioned set of peers that are impressed by video games and a man who insults as a form persuasion, associates himself for 20+ years with a bigoted, openly racist, America hating, man, and then distances himself a week before he garners the nomination. That's what bothers me the most.

People say that you can't be poor and a republican or middle class and republican. I'm not republican, I'm conservative. Fund stem cell research. Clean our air and our ocean. But don't make me pay more taxes so Joe Schmo that is able to work but won't be able to get health insurance. That's not really right is it?

Whatever. I'm going to bed. This is going to be interesting over the next few months. Vice presidents are going to play a bigger role than ever.

I love that America is a place where we can have an opinion.