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If This Is My Last Blog Post...

... I will be amazed. Warning to my non-religious readers: Christian stuff is about to be discussed, but at the end I include a list of things I'll be sorry won't happen should tomorrow not be a normal day. That could be funny. In case you are unaware aka you haven't read the paper, turned on the t.v., used the internet, been outside lately, the world's supposed to end tomorrow says Harold Camping. He used math to figure it out. He also used math to predict the world's end in September 1994. That obviously didn't happen and I have his statement about why he was wrong...oh wait, he never addressed it. But we're supposed to believe him this time. No thanks. My Dad put it well when we were talking earlier; he said he can't understand why people think God's playing this huge cosmic joke on us saying only He knows the date and time but is letting one guy figure it out with math or random clues tossed in everywhere when the rest of the Bible is fairly expl

"Give Your Breath Long Lasting Freshness...

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...with Big Red!" I've been next in line in my family to get a new car for a few years. Contrary to public opinion, graduate students don't actually make money and my parents are wonderful and generous and offered to help me buy a new car. And when it got closer to that time, we started talking about it and I expected it to happen in a year or two. Then my sister Kelly totaled her car. And got a new one. Then I was first in line. Then my Mom was almost killed in an accident that totaled her truck and broke the worst bone in your body to break, her calcaneus which is the heel bone. She had to have surgery and couldn't walk for months and it threw off the entire alignment of her body and had to have rehab to learn to walk again. But we were glad she was still with us for Christmas and the rest of forever. But she got surgery, and a new car. Then I was first in line. Then my sister Erin's Hyundai Accent crapped out and she got a new car, but it was a good enough deal

"...the effort is the prize."

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It was graduation this week!! And my lovely and brilliant sister, Erin, graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology with an emphasis in pre-Pharmacy from the University of Arizona!! Parents with the graduate! The fave. I'm so happy!!! So...I'm a little paparazzi-ish when I get a camera... So super proud of you Erin and all your hard work!!