Woooohooooo.....

Well the office found today that we will have SUMMER HOURS starting next week! Starting next Friday until the Friday before Labor Day we get off work at 1pm every Friday...I so very very excited!

A good bit of my summer plans were contingent on getting off at 1pm on Fridays. So worked out great for me!

So needless to say this has been a good week at work. It has also been pretty busy for a holiday week. Usually it starts to slow down this week and stays that way through the summer. Well I have a bunch of "special projects" to do.

I hope everyone is having a great week and has a wonderful weekend!!!!

Projects, Projects...

This week I have been working on some home decor projects. The first project is a set of framed campaign photos. I've been wanting to do the project for a while but I couldn't find frames that I like well these were on sale so I decided I liked them :).

I love them I would do 20 more but I think that would be weird....

This is very cool...It is a big ole' "H". I got it at JoAnn's when Kennedy and Paige were here. It is paper mache. I spray painted it black! Then I hung it next to my front door! I like it.

The "H" had been hung one time before but fell at 5am one morning....scared me! Anyway so far it has stayed on the wall for the last four days! I hope that it stays that way.

HAPPY FRIDAY....

This is HILARIOUS! Very funny! My favorite is the Pooh Bear photo....so awkward! Check out the link below and enjoy the photos!

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend!

Well...

All is well this week in Tennessee! Not a lot going on. It is pretty quiet. I finished two big projects at work one last week and another on Tuesday. The summer is usually our "slow" time at work....so it is starting to slow down a bit.

We are all patiently waiting to hear if we are going to do "summer hours". We haven't heard anything yet and we are afraid that it isn't going to happen. Just a reminder...summer hours are I get off at 1pm every Friday....so I'm very hopeful!

This weekend Governor Huckabee will be speaking at a church in Nashville so I'm going to hear him speak. There are also going to be a few folks from the campaign in town so I'm excited about getting to see them. I'm also very excited about the three day weekend.

I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and a great weekend!

Migraines & Acupuncture...

Well I had five wonderful weeks migraine free! That is no small praise in itself but to consider how busy the last three weeks have been it was a HUGE praise, blessing, answer to prayer. For three straight weekends I have had visitors which I love but it effects my schedule which causes migraines usually. I made it through those three weeks without a migraine.

Webster defines migraine as:

Pronunciation:
\ˈmī-ˌgrān, British often ˈmē-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English mygreyn, from Middle French migraine, modification of Late Latin hemicrania pain in one side of the head, from Greek hēmikrania, from hēmi- hemi- + kranion cranium
Date: 15th century

1 : a condition marked by recurrent severe headache often with nausea and vomiting

2 : an episode or attack of migraine

I would also define them as a "time thief". Well the five weeks ended today with a migraine of all migraines. So starts the rest of the story...

For the last five weeks I have been going to acupuncture once a week. This is to treat and prevent migraines. Right now I'm going once a week. Hopefully I will get to the point where I will only have to go to acupuncture every once in a while when I have a migraine or feel like I'm about to get one. The fact that I'm not having to miss 2-3 days of work a month is AWESOME!

Well today I went to acupuncture. When I left I didn't have a migraine. My head is so sore...which happens after every migraine. Usually a migraine like the one I had today last at least 2 days sometimes 3 days. The headache "hangover"/head soreness would usually be on the 4th day. The fact the the migraine is gone this afternoon is great! So needless to say I'm a happy camper.

One thing that my acupuncturist talks about a lot is how every thing in the body works together makes perfect sense. So he works on that when I don't have a migraine. He does that to prevent the migraines.

To me as a migraine sufferer it was always my goal to figure out what the "trigger" is for the migraines. When I think I figure it out some thing else happens to cause the migraine. So the acupuncture is "treating" my whole body.

Acupuncture: an originally Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points especially to cure disease or relieve pain.

Okay so acupuncture maybe so weird to a lot of folks...I will agree to some a degree little needles sticking out of your body...yes a little weird. IF you can get passed the needles it is SOO worth it.

Anyway I will keep you folks posted!

Finally Pictures From Paige & Kennedy's Visit..

DEEP Fried Bacon...

Saturday morning we had brunch at Chip's house. This picture is of deep fried bacon. Yep that's right battered and fried bacon. I won't lie...I had some of it and it was good!