More Doggie Stuff

We found out that Sue will get a lab mix. Here are pics of the possibilities:

Help With Sue's Service Doggie!!!

Sue has just been approved for a service dog! We are very excited to be traveling to South Dakota this summer to finish training with the new dog. It will help her with seizure recognition, getting up and down, climbing stairs, companionship, among many other things!

The cost for this dog is $15,000. Much of it is underwritten, but we are expected to pay or raise a percentage. We are asking all of our friends and family to make what ever donation they can. $5 is great! ANYTHING will help!

Tax deductible donations can be made to:

Service Dogs for America
Great Plains Assistance Dogs Foundation Inc.
920 Short Street P.O. Box 513
Jud, North Dakota 58454
701-685-2242 * 877-737-8364 (toll free)
**Please make a note that the donation is for Sue Reynolds



Lesli

Winter is here : )

School started last week. (much anticipated, i was dying of boredom!) All of my classes are going well and seem to be manageable. And a couple of them are actually fun.

I FINALLY got into to see a Primary Care Physician here in NoHo. (The wait list was 3 months long). He is concerned about some stuff he found during my girlie exam and sent me to an OB/GYN. They will be doing biopsies on Wed. It's all pretty much precautionary, but unsettling none the less. I also have a round of blood tests tomorrow at 8am (how evil is that!!!) I have to wake my ass up at 7am to let someone stick a needle in my arm. Can we do a brunch time type thing?

The cold is brutal here. I am becoming an expert snow shoveler, for a Texan anyway. (not a skill I ever really wanted)

More updates as they come in!

Leap of Faith

Having conquered my fear of adding friends from college, I have ventured on to HS. All but one of my college friends have been really cool. The irony is that she was the one who was the most ok with everything "way back when." It sucks, but I am thankful for the people who have accepted me.

On to the WBC youth group. I am not sure that they will react as positively. I am hopeful that most will turn out well. I guess I am hoping what everyone hopes... that they will be happy that I am happy. We'll see...

Completely changing the subject. Ben, our previous roommate, had a family emergency and has moved out. So, Sue and I have the place to our selves. There are definite pluses and minuses to him being gone. All being said, we miss him. But, I have had a blast buying new furniture for the house. We just bought a reclining sofa, recliner, and marble top kitchen table. The HD tv comes next month. We are looking at paint samples to paint the living room. And on the hunt for a bed for the guest bedroom.

I should probably get to sleep. More snow tonight, which means lots of shoveling tomorrow.

SD

Spring Classes

So, I finally caught up with my Dean to get her signature on my course request! It was all via email... but hey it's done.

I will be taking:

Spanish for Health Professionals (took 4 years in HS...hoping this will be fairly easy)
Advanced Algebra (Easy)
Nutrition (sounds easy, but is supposed to be a rough course)
and Chemistry (I love Chem...should not be too intense)

So, all in all the semester looks like a lot of work, but nothing insurmountable!

SD

Catchin up

So I am catching up with the times...

All of my lovely blogger friends have one of these counter thingies... so here is mine. Woefully past due. I didn't realize it was read this often!

Love you all!
SD

Thankful

I am wide awake at 4am fighting insomnia, as usual. Tonight is different though. I am not fretting over bills, Dr appts, moving, school, or any of the normal things that keep me up at night. Tonight I am watching Sue sleep, and I feel blessed. We are in TN with my family, celebrating another Christmas together.

We spent the past two days baking cookies, making truffles, cleaning the house for all of the Brown clan to come over for Christmas dinner. We did it together and have enjoyed sharing a domestic kind of bliss... together.

I think I lose sight of that sometimes. I get so wrapped up in the "normal stresses" that I forget to enjoy today. I am enjoying tonight greatly. Sue has the cutest little snore and I am being insanely mean by tickling her nose and giggling as she rubs it.

I know tomorrow, well later today, will be a flurry of relatives and cooking. So, I am enjoying the calm and quiet that only 4am can bring.

Merry Christmas everyone. I wish you all the peace that I feel right now!

p.s. just looked up my grades for the semester and am exceedingly happy!!!!