4 posts from 2007
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What was the best post or blog you read?
My favorite blog to read is my friend Nancy's. I love the title,Scrapbooking my life...one page at a time I love how she writes, I love her positive spirit about life, I love the photos and she writes almost daily or at least every other day unless she is gone on vacation. She writes about her daily life, she reviews movies has 10 on Tuesday's that we can contribute, she keeps her family and friends up to date, I just enjoy it so much.
I did put a link on my site to hers and I put a link to one of my favorite posts she wrote below this paragraph. The reason I loved this post so much was she join my MK team and I thought she just joined to get the discount for being a consultant, but when I read her post to her family and friends,talking about her serious health problems and how she came to her decision and coming out as a MK consultant I knew she was going to try and work it like a real home business and we would be able to hang out more, I was so excited, I couldn't believe she told them. . Nancy is so motivating and she got me started on trying to write my own blog.
http://nannerfly.typepad.com/scrapbooking_my_lifeone_p/2007/04/this_is_methe_l.html#comments April 28th 2007
I recently found out I can't have gluten(wheat,rye and barley) anymore because I have Celiac disease and I found this new blog last week called Gluten-Free Girl.
I love her blog with wonderful info and the post that is my favorite on her site is to this link below, it is a recipe for a bread that is soft and not hard. Its so difficult to find any bread that taste good without gluten. Its a miracle to find a good tasting bread.
Jan.9th 2007 http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-am-stubborn-i-dont-give-up.html
What was the best blog post you wrote this year? For me the one post that I wrote that I was proud of is below. It was kinda hard to write about personal issues but I thought it might help someone else to be braver than me. I had several people comment and like it so I thought this is probably my best one. DD
October 10, 2007
Mary Kay Makeovers and Mammograms
Sometimes I used to think I might have been in Mary Kay just to meet this one lady who I met at the Kent Cornucopia days several years ago. She signed up for a free facial and entered a drawing for Satin Hands. She was one of the nicest ladies that day, a little older, but very friendly even put her daughters in the drawing. Well when the day was getting close for her appointment, she called and something came up and needed to help one of her daughters but asked me if she could still have a facial and I said of course. Well that happend a few more times and then one day I called and she told me she had breast cancer and I was so sad for her. She said she was doing well and seemed so optimistic and she said they found it early and I mentioned I was having some problem with one of my breasts and she said I should go in right away. I'm so terrible about that kind of stuff but she convinced me to go in and I did. It was good that I did because they found 1 lump and 2 that didn't show up on the mammogram, they found through ultrasound. I had them removed and only 1 was the kind that might have turned into cancer. I was only 38 and I was so upset with my breasts. The mammogram wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I have to go have another one this Wednesday, I'm such a baby though, but I know it can save my life. So I'm thankful I met that wonderful lady down in Kent, and my friend who shared her booth with me that day. I do love teaching women about skincare and making them happy when they have their girlfriend parties, I love all of my friends I have made in Mk and my old friend and new friend who have joined me on my team to helping other women look and feel beautiful too. I'm blessed with a lot of happy times in Mary Kay and my self esteem has grown and I've enjoyed learning how to be a business Woman too.
This event below was held at our Kirkland Training Center. These directors invited a lot of other consultants and directors to come too, so we could share this with our customers, what amazing Go-Give spirit.
Independent Sales Director Annette Bond (left), Independent Senior Sales Director Dr. Karen Galbraith (middle) and Independent Sales Director Delani Hansen (right) with health care workers from the Swedish Breast Care Express Mobile Mammography Unit
Taking care of your health is as beautiful as giving. So Independent Senior Sales Director Dr. Karen Galbraith of Kirkland, Wash., along with Independent Sales Directors Annette Bond and Delani Hansen, decided to combine health, beauty and fund raising at her Makeovers and Mammograms event. Guests had the opportunity to review new products, receive makeovers and, best of all, receive a mammogram and have it billed to their health insurance, thanks to the Swedish Breast Care Express Mobile Mammography Unit. With 12 percent of sales donated to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, the Makeovers and Mammograms event was a wonderful way to raise funds and awareness of a great cause. But most important, the event provided a valuable service for women and their health. Held on Mary Kay’s birthday, May 12, Makeovers and Mammograms paid a great tribute to Mary Kay Ash and her legacy of empowering women in the fight against cancer. Mary Kay would be proud.
At Seminar they told us that The Mary Kay Charitable Foundation now gives 100% to the charities for cancers that affect women and domestic violence shelters. The charity is run by Mary Kay's family (Board of Directors) now and they donate/volunteer their time, any office supplies are donated by Mary Kay Corporate. It is very rare for a charity to give 100% of their donations. I'm so proud to be a part of this amazing company.
So if your not doing anything maybe make that appointment for your yearly Mammogram and if anything at all changes with your breasts, leaking, color, lumpy etc, get in right away. Do not wait.
God Bless You,
Dana Ann
What was the best movie you saw this year?
That is a hard question because I like most of the movies I saw. I listed the ones I saw this year below this blog entry. It has to be pretty bad if I don't like it. The ones that really irritate me though are the ones without an ending, they are the worst. I just took my 10 year old son to see National Treasure Book of Secrets.
My husband and teen daughter went and saw Juno at the same time we were seeing the the other movie. My son was mad we weren't all seeing the same movie together. I kind of agree with him, it would have been nicer to all go to the same movie but he wasn't old enough to see the movie his sister wanted to see.
I guess Juno was really good. Well my son thought National treasure was going to suck but it didn't, I caught him laughing and squirming as if that would help the character run faster. It was a good adventure movie. He told his Dad and sister it sucked. I would give it a 7 at least.
Another adventure movie we saw this summer was Transformers at the drive-in, and you can add 3 more stars to movie you watch at the drive-in. My son loved this movie, he gave it a 10 and said it was the best movie he ever saw, that was on the way home after the movie. It was a really fun movie, my husband thought it was so so but for a kid movie it was pretty great. Another movie I saw with my husband was Linda, Linda, Linda at an old theatre in Seattle. He loved it and still talks about it often. It was an older film from 2005.
I think he liked it because it was set in another country and it was a fun teen movie about these girls getting a band together to perform at their end of the year variety show at their high school. It was a sweet movie.
I always like the Harry Potter, Spiderman and Pirate movies. My son and I were singing spider pig spider pig on the way home after the Simpson movie. But I think I will have to say my favorite movie this year was the one at the drive-in with my family, all squished into the car, watching the Transformers movie.
It was quite funny when the giant transformers were trying to be quiet in the backyard of the teen boy, the boy was worried his parents would hear them and his Dad was a yard fenatic and the transformers kept knocking over stuff in the yard and crushing things on accident, made everyone nervous on the screen and in the car. It was a good fun movie.
The Simpsons Movie-spider pig
Ratatouille."
Knocked up
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Transformers
Shrek the third
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pirates of the Carribbean at Worlds End
Spider-Man 3
Linda Linda Linda
Since I have found out in early October. that I have Celiac Disease an auto-immune disorder where my body doesn't process wheat, rye and barley and my white cells attack my villi so I can not absorb nutrients like iron, calcium and vitamin D etc. I started a gluten-free diet and now have strange dreams about food. Like I dream of toast, and it feels weird to dream of toast. I can see my self putting it in the toaster and buttering the toast with real butter too. Its difficult cutting out certain foods forever. I have searched and bought several different kinds of expensive gluten free bread but they are all hard and nasty. So I have waited a month or so to search again. Carina and I took an adventure the other night to two Seattle wheat free bakery's and 1 in Fremont was closed and the other on Greenwood Ave was open but close to closing and they had 2 loaves of white bread left and it looked like it had a full shelf and I asked the owner if it was good and she gave me a look like what a stupid question but its not when you've been searching for a light, good tasting bread. So I bought 1 loaf of the white and 1 of the cinnamon and Carina and I both picked out a dessert bar too. Well I couldn't wait to get home to try my new bread. It didn't feel quite as heavy and it looked a little airyer too. So I popped it in the toaster after I took a quick bite of the corner to see if it tasted good without being toasted and it did! I couldn't wait to get my toast of the toaster I got my plate ready and I got out my special butter the one no one else can use because they get wheat crumbs in there butter and I guess my body is so sensitive to wheat even a little wheat crumb can cause damage. Well it finally popped up and I buttered it with real butter and I sat down and I had my first taste of a pretty good tasting piece of toast. It reminds me a little of egg bread, a little chewy but not bad. I think I could use this one to make sandwiches with and that is another thing that I miss is having a sandwich. I'm not going to talk about hamburgers with a bun because its just too sad to talk about. So I am happy that I have found a bread that I can toast and have a sandwich and even a toasted cheese sandwich!
Well after being gluten-free for almost a month and half and after reading the book by Danna Korn, Wheat Free, Worry Free' she has convinced me I should go ahead with the second part of the testing for Celiac disease. The first test is a blood test and it showed I had the disease and along with being severely anemic for over 20 years and the docs not able to figure it out and my white cells being high and the docs not being able to figure it out, Celiac is the only explanation along with the blood test and also that I'm starting to feel better too being on the gluten free diet, I didn't see a reason for the the part two of the invasive test of collecting a piece of my intestine. But the author said a lot of Celiacs won't do the 2nd test since they are feeling better, but there is a genetic test they can do too. She said the one reason maybe I should is because I won't be tempted to cheat if I know for sure. I guess that is true. I think the better reason would be so the kids wouldn't have to do a second test if there blood test came back positive if I did the 2nd one. I guess all of my 1st degree relatives and 2nd degree relatives should be tested and anyone who has a auto-immune disease and if you have Irish in your background, there are other symptoms that need to be tested like if you are anemic etc. If they show they are gluten intolerant and they cut back on wheat and maybe they won't get the Celiac disease. I guess a lot of people don't have any symptoms and is why I wasn't checked and usually its kids who have trouble thriving to grow or gain weight they look at more for this. But now after I have gotten better at keeping gluten out of my diet and dealing with the sadness of not being able to eat foods I love, I need to go back and eat gluten foods for 2 months to get a true test results. I guess the gastrinologist goes down my throat to reach my intestine closest to my stomach and clip a little piece of the intestine to see if the villi are crushed or have disappeared altogether. I don't think I will go and eat bread because its so hard to like the wheat free bread, but I think I will go and get the Bainbridge Island bread I found at QFC it is the best tasting cinnamon swirl bread ever, I don't know why every store doesn't carry it.
Now I will probably start dreaming about the Cinnamon swirl bread, I should have gave everyone a loaf at Christmas. Have a Good night. DD
What's the best photo you took this year? Show and tell!
I think the best picture I took this year was of my 4 loves, my husband and kids. They look so happy together.
My husband took a great picture of a eagle in a tree near the cabin above the Dungeness Spit.
Another great picture he took was of my son on the last day of school this year and he looked so happy running home from school.
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