Hi I still exist, just been Too Busy

Hi there,
This is just a note to say that I'm still here. Married Now!! Mrs. Danielle Rowland.

I'll post more in a bit, but just wanted to make a note that I haven't disappeared.

bye

Of parties, Hospitals and Shiny things

So this week has been rather hectic, it all started last week with me ending up in the hospital on Sunday because i had a medication interaction, that caused me to have sever vertigo and diaphragm spasms, in other words i couldn't breath well. so i spent my day in the ER which i found out that it was the first day they had opened, for they had been putting a huge expansion onto the front of the hospital it's self a new ER being part of it, so nurses where all running about trying to find things, and trying to figure out which nurse went with what patient. and ways they sent me home rather drugged and with some anti vertigo medicine that did nothing, 4 days latter the vertigo was still just as bad so i went back to my doctor who gave me a huge intramuscular shot and some more meds, the shot finally stopped the spinning, so now the vertigo isn't as bad, it just feels like I'm on a ship. and gets better every day.

well on Saturday Jr had his graduation party which went really well, my aunt made another really cool cake and there was a ton of food, which we now have a least 1/2 of in the fridge as left overs. that night we went and saw the fire works, they where great!! really pretty, though we scared the dog, we made the mistake of taking her along with us, and by the end of the night she was hiding in the car. Well Today was an awesome day!!!! this mornings service was great, then i had a good nap in the afternoon, went to choir practice at 5:15 then started the normal service. it was a little different though, Matthew was acting funny (well funnier than usual) he asked me to help with sermon in the sack which he never does, so he stared his usual gig, of asking kids what was in the sack, finally one of the kids, guessed that it was rocks, only because he had overheard, Matt and I talking about it. any way he started handing me all sorts of rocks and talking about their properties and how they are unchanging and so forth, and here i am holding more and more rock. then out of nowhere he says "and some rocks are small and delicate that they have to be put in boxes" so he pulls out this little blue ring box and my heart jumped though my chest, he showed the kids what was inside then turned and showed me, inside was a beautiful Sapphire and diamond ring, and before i knew it he was down on one knee asking if i would marry him!!!! of course i said yes!!! So yes it was an interesting service and one i will never forget!!!!!!

Goodbye's are the hardest

On Tuesday morning we packed up the rest of isable's things and took her to the air port, we got her all checked in then exchanged several very tear filled hugs before she had to go though security and get on her plaine. She left at 1:49 pm here and arived at home at 8:30 am Wed morning in San Palo. We already miss her dearly espicaly me who is now roomateless. Yet thanks to the wonderous internet i have been able to talk to her quite a bit, using Facebook and MSN messenger, since then life has been the same, we all go to work, then come home and do more work, then sleep and get up the next day and do even more work. so yea such is life. If any one wants her e-mail address let me know and i can give it to you.

it was so sweet, when her parent came to pick her up at the airport they had made her a banner that says "oi! Bel" which means "Hi! Bel" in portuguese, they also had matching tee-shirts that said the same thing. i've a picture of it here. Also before she left she wrote some notes on my white boards in my room, one on the big board, then one on the small door board, which we used to write eachother messages or where we where going to be. it made me cry when i read them. hopeing you all the best, see ya!

Graduation!

Yes it is that time of year when all the seniors sigh with great relief, homework is done, finals are no more and the only thing left is to take that long walk into a stiffiling hot gymnasium to sit for hours listing to bad speeches, and even worse music, to only be rewarded by a piece of paper that will only sit on your shelf and collect dust...well it wasn't that horriable, Yes it was really that hot, it was more like a sona then a gym but it was well worth watching our two graduates (jr and bel) as well as tim. Isabel got to walk with her friend Laura C. form Italy, (she leaves tomarow:*( *sniff sniff)) we'll all miss her. Jr. walked with some guy he didn't know but he didn't mind. The speaches this year were at least barable *wink* ...ok they where good. the studendts did a very good job. Thankfuly it didn't rain on us, yet it would have been welcomed after we spent some much time in that sona. :) any way, as tridition stands Gradma Margie took us all out for ice cream after wards and we filled our selfs to the brim. latter that evering tim, matt, and jason came by to play video games which was fun.

in other news I am officaly a YFU volunteer! and am responsible for the flat rock area! So if any one knows any one who is intrested in hosting a forgein exchange student *Please* let me know! we have to have all our kids placed by august and we still have a ton of great ones to choose from, being a rep. means i get to look at all ther documentations so i could see exactly who a person is as well as what they are like. So please tell your family and friends and let me know!!!

on a more depressing note, the count has begun, as of this morning we only 16 more days to be with bel :( *sniff sniff* She is sechduled to leave tuesday June 24 at 10:00am. We have come to know her as family and personaly as my little sister. it will be very hard to see her go. we are planning on having a suprise farewell party for her on Sunday June 22 between church services, i'm sure she'll be happy if you all came out, but there will be more on that latter.

in the medical relm, last tuesday i had my ekg to which i have still heard nothing, and this mornigng i had 2 more MRI's one of my brain (to be safe and rule out MS) as well as one of my mid back, which is where they believe all the issues are. well i've bored you enough for now. talk to y'all latter!

Yes...I am still alive out here

Hey all. Yes to answer every one's question I am indeed still alive out here. I know i haven't updated in like....forever, but um...yea i totally have no reason. So here is an update on what has been going on since then. Mom was finally diagnosed, she does have M.S. and is dealing with it very well, she is on medication and it seems to be working. Isabel and JR are preparing to graduate. they keep bouncing about the house saying they only have one day of school left. Although we all shed a little tear when we realized that Isabel will only be with us for 3 and 1/2 more weeks :(. We love her to death and will be torn to see her leave. On a lighter note, I applied to a Veterinary Technician Program though Wayne State and all has gone well... I had my interview last week and it was spectacular, they said i had the highest entry score that they had seen in a long while (yay!!) so i have to wait until the second week in July to hear anything on that. Work is going well except that I went from 6th on the seniority scale to 3rd because we lost 2 due to graduation/ babies and one quit. sooo ya lots more work for me! I'm preparing to take my Pharmacy Technicians classes so i can be licenced by the state! As far as my life is concerned my back has been the root of all evil. For some reason my shoulder blade sticks out way too far causing a great deal of pain like being shocked, I've been MRI'ed and EMG'ed and they are still not sure of the main cause. I'm still waiting for the EMG results. I really do hope they figure it out soon. Not much else has gone on besides that I'll try to update more often... i guess i need a more interesting life... oh well. take care!

on hands and feet

Hey all, it's been kinda hetic around here. As most of you know mom has not been feeling to well, she have been numb from the waist down for nearly 3 weeks now and is sechduled for an MRI on April 8th. we are all hopeing everying thing comes out well. They think she may be having an arthritic responce and her pain is being responded to as this numbness. Also Yesterday (monday) i had my own surgery on my foot to fix a nail problem (they tend to grow around my bones) and am now sitting here in quite a good deal of pain. so please keep both my mom and me in your prayers. One good thing that resulted from my foot docter visit is that they perscribed me a medication that can elimate the symptoms of my raynauds diesease, which means no more numbness and pain! makes me happy! In other news both my siblings (JR and Isabel) are leaving next week for spring break. JR is going to Texas to vist family and Isabel is going to New York with her travel group. they are both excited about it. work for me is going well, as every one knows by now i am a pharmacy tech at CVS. its fun and the people are great well thats all for now. bye!

Snowed in!!!

Hey out there! So it's March and not surprising enough there is still a good foot of snow on the ground. So much snow in fact that they actually closed down my college (that never happens). So we spent the day hanging around the house, then at 3 I went to work. Speaking of which, i did indeed start work this week, and I actually like it. I'm never board because they always have me running, and my boss said that is how it usually is so at least I'll never just be sitting there :). In other news every one here is still recovering from the flu, although it has reduced it's self to sneezes and sniffles by now (yay!) Today we went to the Autorama, there where lots of really cool cars including two very well know ones (at least to kids), lighting mcqueen and bumble bee. we (Isabel and i) went with my dad, his friends and his friends darugter. seeing those guys there was like seeing a little kid in a candy shop! they had a whole section devoted to shopping too, model cars, t-shirts old posters and so forth. I actually bought a model kit, it's a 68 Shelby mustang, unfortunately they didn't have my favorite the 67 but I'll live. what i didn't realize is that you have to build everything in the model, even the engine. so i bet my dad that i would finish my mustang before he finished his :). well that's enough for today see ya!