disney fund update....

it's been such a crazy month that i've forgotten to update my disney fund. here's my deposits since my last posting about it:
9/28 - $30.44 - leftover cash from our monthly budget areas
10/3 - $5 - for being a neilsen digital voice participant
10/19 - $11.12 - leftover cash from our grocery budget
10/19 - $60 - from toluna surveys
10/25 - $30 - for being a neilsen tv family this week. i love being a neilsen family.

so that brings our grand total up to $338.98. as i say each time, this is all from couponing, budgeting, and doing some surveys and fun stuff online.

on another note, i'm thinking of starting another blog on my passion, saving money. it feels so good when people say i should teach a couponing class. i would love to share my knowledge, tips, and hints with the world. there's so many savings sites out there, so i'm gonna think long and hard how to differenciate it from others.

october, october....

this is usually my favorite month. i love crisp fall weather and halloween. well, this had been a rough one. my previous post explains my best friend's dad's situation. which he is pretty much still in. it's been a roller coaster, and i just can't imagine what they are going through. so continued prayers for them please.

week ago this past friday, we had major kitty emergency. long story short, wound up with an emergency surgery to remove part of a suction cup out of my baby's intestine. he's recovering well thank goodness. he get his staples out this week. poor kitty

and this morning, i start my week off wonderfully. i got rear ending coming into work. just scratched my car up pretty good and i thought nothing else..... well, i get into work and sit down to start my day and my back starts killing me. so according to the doc, my back took most of the jolt and i'm gonna be "stow up" for about three or four days. this will be fun.

prayers please....

please stop the minute you read this and say a prayer for gary case. he's my best friend's dad. he suffered an aneurysm yesterday followed by a stroke. he was airlifted to umc in jackson. he's in critical condition but has made progress since yesterday. his sister said he started showing some response this evening, but it's still very very critical right now. he is in recovery from brain surgery. i should have posted this sooner, but i've been trying to keep up with the family. being in a different state stinks when people you care about are hurting. so please, pray for complete healing. a miraculous healing from the Great Physician. wow.. amazing peace just from knowing He is the Great Physician. pray for a miracle in their family and all praise and glory go to Jesus Christ. thanks everyone...

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Saint Francis

Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge animal lover. I am a vegetarian on top of that, so I’ve always admired Saint Francis of Assisi. When I had the opportunity to check out Saint Francis by Robert West, part of the Christian Encounters Series, I was very excited. I have never been one to enjoy biographies, but West is definitely a talented writer. I felt more like I was reading a fiction novel because he told the story of Saint Francis’s life like a story. I did not know much about the life of Saint Francis, and unfortunately, lots of details of his life are possibly rumors, hear-say, and the like. But West did a great job interweaving fact and fiction. I really did enjoy reading this book. I look forward to checking out other books in the Christian Encounters Series.

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10 years is a lifetime....

so my ten year high school reunion is this weekend. yeah, that's gonna be weird.

cricket....

we have a cricket that has taken up residence on our back porch. i'm glad he's there. makes me think of home. i never realized how much i missed hearing crickets until he moved in. it's something i'm so used to hearing back home, it's like i don't even notice it until it's gone. that doesn't make much sense, does it. anyways, i hope he stays around.

i have a book review i've been meaning to write for three weeks. i'm so far behind on it, along with lots of other things.

oh and my sweet finney is back to her happy swimmy self. i felt absolutely terrible for feeding her that food. supposed to be the best out there and it's not cheap, i'll say that. so we're sticking to homemade food and nice veggies for the girl. yes, i make my fish homemade food. much better than that flake crap. at least i know what's in it.


not too easy taking a picture of a fish.

poor finney again...

i'm sitting here feeling absolutely awful because i've made my poor precious finney sick again! she's had this awful persistant case of fin rot that just won't go away. used to salt treatments would clear it up but not this time. so i fed her two pellets of medigold to try and start her on an antibiotic treatment. she's had this before with good results. well, not this time. she ate it this morning and i've watched her closely all day. she's getting worse and worse. clamped fins, red streaks, barely moving. this has to be from the medigold, she had none of these symptoms before today. i've been feeding her peas since this started to try and cleanse her system. i feel awful. medigold is supposed to be the best stuff on the market for bacterial infections, now i'm worried i'm gonna lose my sweet girl because of it. say prayers for her please. she's a goldfish, but she's so special to me. :(