Sad

My monitor died today (*crossing self). So until I have another one, which will hopefull be soon (i have some calls into nerdly types for help) internet functions will be limited to the generosity of Johanna. And well, I think we all know how that goes...cough..(Jo, stop hitting me!). My compy is still on, so it looks like I'm online...don't try and talk to me, I can't really answer.

In conclusion I would like to congratulate Rachel on her last day of work and a second interview, tell Jo to stop trying to kill me in my sleep, say a prayer for my monitor that was manufactured in 1996 and to my brakes which are worn down. Sigh. I hate money. But I love Jesus and hot tamales, so it all works out.

wanna know what is funny and annoying?

trying to explain to a skinny girl what chaffing feels like.

Speaking of secret crush...

**the messenger window was edited in no way**

Calling Secret Crush Into Action

Dear Secret Crush,

I don't know if you exist or if you read my blog, but let us just say you are and you do. I have a hankering for some batting cage action. So I think you need to get some courage (liquid or otherwise) and take me to the batting cages. Assuming you aren't creepy and unbiblical I think it could be a good start to something beautiful.

Your slugging sweetheart,

Laura

My Mom

I love my Mom. I seriously do.

Sometimes I mention that my Mom is not a healthy woman and many of you ask me to expain. I think this should help:

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Stewart
To: Laura Stewart ; Johnny Stewart
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: hi kids
I am SO STRUGGLING TO THINK CLEARLY . mY BACK AND LEGS HAVE NOT BEEN THE SAME SINCE I WORKED ON/FOR THE PIE BEE BACK IN AUGUST. SO dOC tWIDDY HAS ME BACK TRYING gABAPENTIN A MEDICATION I WAS ON PRIOR TO THE BACK SURGERY. HOWEVER...i AM HAVING TROUBLE TOLERATING IT. tHREE PILLS WASway to many and so is two. One at night does not seem TO HELP MUCH, AND SO i TOOK One at breakfast time, and now at noon I am sleeping and now I am still loopy. I say crap!

I think i will go back to taking one at night, but not this evening so i will be ok when you are home Laura.

Seems i am just not cut out for the long term standing, which kinda cuts into my shopping...grocery as well as others. I am SO GLAD I have the handicap parking thingy. The less steps taken the better.

Well I guess I will do some painting this afternoon til my head clears. Johnny, I will have to get Laura to set up the camra thing on the computer so you can see how the "grocery shopper" painting has come along. I have finished working on the parking elf at Christmas at Persqui'le. It looks good and Iam contemplating (big word for the way my head feels) having it printrd up into greeting cards.

I love you guys.
Be good, Christmas is coming (especially in Trenton where they are already putting up decorations) and Santa is watching!

xxx, Loopy mom xxx

Example

An example of how my brain works while I am running fever...aas if the prevous 3 pots weren't enough...

In the freezer there is some pasta. Karmyn has labeled it as hers. The marker used to label it is starting to come off. When I glanced at it I thought it said Larry instead of Karmyn. Then I thought in my head that Karmyn should change her name to Larry the Apostle.

Yeah Stewie...good one...go back to bed.

Rob Joustra

Once upon a time there was a dude named Rob Joustra. It turns out that he isn't dead, but in Japan (which some view as being the same as dead). But in this picture it looks like he has expired at some sort of beachfront life celebration service. We'll miss you brother Rob.

Annoyance

I was watching a bit of the Emmys tonight. I have noticed that on most shows where celebrities are presenting awards the celebrities don't seem to be aware of the omni directional mic they are using and feel they have to crouch down and speak directly into the mic. Can no one give these people a primer before they embark on this televised journey? Don't they see their friends and colleagues looking like idiots by leaning into co-presenters to get closer to the mic.

Ack.

Family Feud

Today I thought of a terrible Family Feud survey question.

"Ok hands on your buzzers...ready?"
(head nodding)
"Alright Nunnzio Family, Wong Family, what is something dusty you put in your mouth?"
(stupified looks)

(Laura in audience, tips head back and cackles) "Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha..cough, ha hah..wah, whoa."

Ouch

In case you weren't around when I got stung, this is what my arm looked like a few days after the actual stinging...

Yeah

I'm glad we have 100% of a married couple in choir again.

Botox

Botox being used for children with excessive drooling.

Name

These are three names I'm glad that aren't mine:

1. Goneril
2. Eunice Gayson
3. Lesbia

Happy 66th Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa Stewart

So, I haven't posted for a few days because I was trying to think of something worth while to post for my 350th post. Then today happened and its my awesome Grandparents' anniversary and I think that is worth a post (or two). So Stirling and Edna Stewart I raise my Bible to you and pray that I can one day have a marriage as solid, Christ centered and loving as yours!

These are the people in my neighbourhood...

This is which profs I will see Mon-Thurs (i have no Fri class) (and this includes choir) and what order I see them in:

Sharon Klassen, Ray Louter, Dr. Teeuwsen, Ray, Sharon, Dr. T, David Antscherl, Sharon, Ray, Ray, Sharon, Dr. T.

Variety is the spice of life.

Olé!

Sometimes..

Sometimes I have this little wish that Patrick Stewart was one of my Theatre profs. I'm pretty sure I could listen to and look at him alllll the doo-dah-day.

I might also feel that he is an attractive man and should he become one of my profs he would not be the first prof that I felt had been sculpted extra nicely by the hand of our Creator.

Priorities

As a student who has lived in and had to set up four off campus houses, I understand the priorities of the newly moved in person. Here are some of the main ones in the order that they get set up:

1. phone
2. computer & internet
3. bed
4. food/kitchen
5. stereo
6. tv/dvd/vcr

and two months later everything else...

Oh Betty!

Today after church Betty Spoelstra (my favourite woman of colour) told me that the reason I don't have a boyfriend is because of my quickness and my brightness, and she said that all the boys would be intimidated by that/me.

Prayers Answered In a Big Way

Alright, this should be what I am hoping is the last addition to the Sting Saga.

My parents came and picked me up on Sunday and gave me the love that only a parent can. It was nice not to have to worry about meals and such. I also got to take advantage of their satellite television and catch up with some old friends called V.I.P. and Star Trek T.N.G. (my goodness i love Spike TV).

Tuesday rolls around and in the middle of a nap I get this call from the City of Hamilton telling me that I have to go back to work and what day am I coming. Let us just say that my heart started to pump quickly as I struggled to grasp what was going on. I fumbled with an answer of Thursday, but told her that I really wasn't sure. She told me I had to come back before school started and that there were all kinds of forms that I should have filled out and would need to fill out and get a doctor to fill out. This was all a surprise to me. No foreman had mentioned anything like this in their phone calls to me. I did what I could to satisfy the woman on the phone and the call ended.

I tired to convey the details of the conversation to my Mom and almost ended up in tears. I knew I wasn't ready to go back to work. Mom and I devised a plan of heading to the hammer on Wednesday, seeing a doctor at the Locke St Clinic to fill out the Functional Abilities form the City wanted, take that to my yard and then see what happened. I still can't really drive so my Mom was going to have to take me to work the next day.

Wednesday morning we were preparing to go and I tried to get a hold of a foreman to make sure everything was for real. After leaving a few messages I had given up on trying to reach them. Then I struggled with my parents dial-up 24.0-26.4kbs internet to try and get the aforementioned Functional Abilities form to bring with us. While I was online God worked in a very tangible way. He got the acting foreman, George to call me and leave a message.

After a very affirming call to him things became much clearer. He agreed that still being dizzy, running a fever and super tired I was still unfit to return to work. He told me to go and see a doctor and get back in touch with him. He also said that he would lean on the people downtown for me. (yeah George!) That lead me to believe that the trip to the hammer might be premature. We called my parents General Physician (formerly mine) to see if he could take a look at me and fill in the form. His receptionist told me to come in in one hour! I called the lady downtown who had put so much pressure on me. She had just got off the phone with George. (yeah George!) She agreed that I likely wasn't ready to come back to work, but still needed to see the doctor. She faced the F.A form to the doctor's office for me.

I went to the doctor in Brighton. He said that I had been entirely over medicated and wondered at the functional abilities of a doctor who would put a girl being sedated by an antihistamine on a stronger more sedating antihistamine. He continued and told me that I was having a delayed hypersensitive reaction to the sting. I would make a full recovery but with such a short time being left in my contract, wouldn't feel comfortable sending me back to work in that time. So he wrote me off for the rest of my term. My term was to end on this coming Tuesday.

Now I am able to recover without stress. my parents brought me back today in order to avoid the bulk of holiday traffic. I am still dizzy, very tired, and running a slight fever. But I do know what is going on, and that I am being taken care of by my heavenly Father and my friends and here on earth.

I'll be at the house sleeping and cleaning this weekend if you want to stop in (maybe call first).