The Pictures were AWFUL...lol

I think they take awful pictures on purpose so that you will buy their more expensive "touched up" version of your picture with frame....blah...so we didn't buy any and we didn't ask them to retake them because they were already running two hours behind schedule and we'd been there long enough...we've decided that if we can figure out the delay action on my digital cmera, we're going to take our own photo...lol...so anyway, one turned out decent enough for the directory and we get a complimentary 8x10 of that one...yipee...but it was still yucky...

anyway, so we spent most of our evening last night getting ready for pictures and then at church...they were running behind when we got there...about 30 minutes...I think we waited 45 minutes, which was ok because there were plenty of people there to talk to...but by the time we left they were really behind...I bet people were there until at least 10:00...

We got some pretty sad news last night...please say a prayer....Jimmie's Aunt "Weezie" isn't doing well...she has battled cancer on and off for several years now...it started in her breast and moved slowly into other parts of her body and eventually into her bones...she has been having a problem with fluid building in her lungs...they were finally able to stop that but now fluid is draining into her stomach and she isn't able to eat much of anything and she is just wasting away to nothing...Jimmie's cousin called last night to tell him that we should probably come see her in the next week or so, if we want to say goodbye...Karen said that Friday night she really didn't think that Weezie was going to make it through the night...so we plan to go up either sometime this week or on Sunday...I'm kind of leaning toward like tonight...because I'd hate it if we waited until the weekend and she didn't make it..but apparently Jimmie said that it didn't sound as if she would die this soon...but anyway, please keep the family in your prayers...

Weezie was such a unique special lady...it's so sad to see her the way she is now...it's seeing people like her suffer that makes ya wonder why why why...I just feel a little like she got a "raw deal"...her husband died fairly young of cancer...but she still remained this brilliant resilient strong woman...just a really neat person to be around...she had a great deal to do with raising my husband and him turning out to be the wonderful man he is....and she helped raise one her grandsons...he had to do a book report in History class about several places in Ohio and so she and he jumped in the car and away they went to the site of whatever he was suppose to tell about...one time she went to wherever it is that they do the Rose Bowl Parade and she camped out in a spot in the median of one of the turns so that she could take crystal clear up close photos of the floats...the pictures are amazing...she was a crafty person too...always working on projects...scrapbooking, knitting, painting, ceramics...you name it, she was into it...she built a whole custom shelving unit in her grandson's room...she was just this neat lady that you could sit down and have a real conversation with about any old thing...she loved to share old family photos and stories...I learned a ton about Jimmie's family from Weezie...her latest project was that for all her grandchildren she was making this telephone/address directory of everyone and anyone in the family...cousins, distant counsins, aunts, uncles, etc....I loved to go visit her and just sit and talk and laugh for hours with her...one of the things that she wanted to do most was retire, buy a mobile home and travel the U.S...(this is the "raw" deal part)well she retired and the cancer hit almost immediately...when she went in remission the first time she scraped together what money she had left after operations and medications and went to Hawaii with one of her good friends...after that she was ok for a while then the cancer came back and has totally taken a toll on her...even if she were to recover right now she wouldn't even have the money to live out her dreams of travel...

I'm rambling...but it helps to put in words what she meant to me...she will leave a hole in her family that is for sure...she's kinda one of those glue kinda people...ya know...the kind that things fall apart a little if they aren't around...

anyway, please pray for the family...thank you....

on an up note,someone gave us tickets for a sneak preview of Syriana (that was so nice of her to think of us!!! How thoughtful!)...the new George Clooney movie...I didn't really have a desire to see it but someone gave tickets to husband (they were trying to be sneaky lol) so we are going to do that tomorrow night (Wednesday)...lol...I told him I can't go because LOST is on...lol...he said tape it...your life doesn't revolve around tv...I said my life revolves around LOST (I start looking forward to the next show immediately after the last)...lol...he said nuh uh...I said...ok...lol...so anyway...there ya go...

well it is time to go home...so I'm outtie...love and prayers to the Journal Goddesses...

oh p.s....they are making a big rucus down here because a big church in Lexington has decided to close on Christmas so that the staff can be with their families...I hadn't even realized that that was an issue this year...Christmas is on a Sunday...what are your churches doing? Just curious....that's a toughie....because on the one hand...it'd be great to go to church on Christmas morning but on the other hand...people shouldn't have to "work" on Christmas and that is a job...

alrighty, I'm rambling...love ya'll