Blessings

I called the doctor today because I still had not heard back from them regarding Monday's ultrasound and I'm impatient. I called around 10:30 this morning and finally got a call back around 4:00. While I wasn't enjoying the hours of waiting...I was pleasantly surprised to hear my nurse practitioner on the other end. It was the nurse practitioner who has really taken care of me through exams, surgery, ultrasounds, etc. Her personally calling me made up for my wait time. She just really spends the time telling you what's going on instead of what I got last time- "You have cyst on your right ovary, I am going to send you to scheduling to they can schedule another ultrasound in 8 weeks." No other information...just a transfer to the woman who makes appointments. That 8 week appointment was Monday, so for the past 9-10 weeks I have only had that itty bitty amount of information from the previous appointment until today!

Well...God is good! The cyst is completely gone. You read that right! Nothing is present anymore. She could not even see that it ever existed. So...I FINALLY feel like a normal woman again. I haven't had pain in weeks and everything in that department seems "normal" as defined by doctors. I haven't felt "normal" in over a year. I feel like God has finally answered my prayers with healing. Thanks for all your support and prayers for me this past year. You are the best!

My thoughts on Facebook

I have a love/hate relationship with facebook.

I love to peer into the lives of people I have known well at different points in my life, but for whatever reason am not close with right now.

I love to know whose dating whom. Even if I don't know them.

I love to see what the boyfriend looks like. And kids where applicable.

I love to know that my life is not the only totally crazy one.

I love it when people 20+ years older than me are on there posting on eachother's walls. Especially when it's totally inappropriate.

I love it when someone posts something on another's wall and forgets that the entire world is now going to get a message that you wrote that on the other person's wall. The world is watching. This is big brother. You signed up for it.

I don't love that my entire facebook community seems to be on Spring Break somewhere right now.

I also do not love that I am not on said Spring Break.

I do not love it when you are out with someone and they are posting on facebook. Example: Eating sushi at Benihana and the friend posts, "Sushi @ Benihana". I am here with you and I don't even care. What makes you think the general public cares what you just consumed?

I do not love when you post things like, "Editing photos", "Running to Caribou" or "Grabbing dinner with my sweetie"

I much prefer things like, "Just started dating XYZ person", "Pregnant with baby #47!" or something funny your child just said. Particularly the kid sayings...those are the best.

I do not enjoy when you announce you have just purchased a home and it is not my home that happens to be for sale. That one's totally selfish. But true.

So think wisely next time you post something on facebook and make darn sure that it is going to provide me with complete entertainment. The worse the better, I love to see bad haircuts, unfortunate nights out and babies of the day. So if you don't have that, lay off. I'm not real interested in your sleeping habits nor do I think they are facebook worthy.

(I hope you realize I am kidding. Well 45% kidding)

Changes...

This is the story of two people I know.
It is true.
Some details are omitted to protect their privacy.
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They were an unlikely couple.
They met in 2008 at church.
It started with just polite conversation.
He was much older than she.
Almost twice her age
She was seeking someone her age, he was interested in finding someone closer to his.
So they simply spoke to each other from time to time with no intentions of going further.

Fedex T Shirt Illusion

Another great illusion I found at Billboardom. Could you spot the illusion if you didn’t read the post’s title? Look at the guy for a second… now try and find where does optical illusion hide? Solution is inside the post…

Thirst quenching pics (21 photos)

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Now Google, that’s not very nice (7 photos)

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10 most dangerous passwords

By their very purpose passwords are aimed to keep us safe. But, there are passwords that are hacker’s dream. So, for passwords to save us, we need to have safe passwords.
Internet security firm Imperva recently unveiled a list of most commonly used passwords on the Web, which it say are also the most `unsafe’ passwords. The list is based on Imperva’s analysis of 32 million passwords.
Read on to find out the 10 most easily hacked passwords.

Young bodybuilder Richard Sandrak

He started to lift weighs when he was only 6 years old.
When he was 10, all his friends with whom he attended sport respected him for what he was capable of doing.
Now he is 16 years old and he doesn’t think to stop.
I found his photos from the period of 10 to 16 years old.

Why Women Cant be A Mechanic?

 

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Daily Afternoon Randomness (20 Photos)

Smallest Orange Made By Man

Cool finger tip sized miniature oranges created using white and orange colored plasticine and sculpted using a razor blade. Intricate work by people who have too much free time on their hands.

Check out the whole sculpting process of the smallest man made orange with 33 more pics after the jump.

Sinister Images of Public Execution in the Wild West

Image via Brotherhood of Thieves
In an age when the death penalty has been abolished in most of the developed world, and is often frowned upon even where is practiced, it might seem difficult to believe that barely a century ago executions were not only the norm but were put unashamedly on public display. In the American Old West, capital punishment was, by comparison with today, meted out in spades. Lynching from trees and other forms of tough justice were the order of the day, and be hanged with scruples like wrongful convictions and the idea that such practices only ape the culture of violence they condemn.
Tough Justice: Hanging of a horse thief in Oregon circa 1900

Image: The Oregon Native Son
Some might argue that the Wild West was a time when justice needed to be severe: where outlaw order prevailed in the form of brutal banditry that preyed upon banks, trains and stagecoaches, judicial murder was a case of the punishment fitting the crime. Even what we now might consider lesser crimes, such as horse thievery and cattle rustling, were offenses judged serious enough to be punished by hanging – such were the handicapping effects the loss of livestock had on the victims. It was also a lesson to others to keep their hands clean and forget about law-breaking.
Tom Ketchum on the scaffold before hanging, 1901

Image: Public Domain
A cowboy and cattle rancher who later turned to a life of crime in Texas and New Mexico, Tom ‘Black Jack’ Ketchum is purported to have committed his first train robbery in 1892 and his first murder in 1895. He was also allegedly involved in the killing of Republican politician Albert Jennings Fountain and his son in early 1896, and later the same year the robbery of a store and post office after being invited inside by the owners during a storm. Following the latter crime, Ketchum and his cronies were tracked down by a posse, but emerged unhurt from the ensuing shootout while two of their assailants lay dead.
Sending a warning: 1901 postcard of Ketchum’s decapitated body after hanging

Image: Public Domain
Ketchum then joined the infamous Hole in the Wall Gang and focused on robbing trains. In August 1899, Black Jack single-handedly tried to rob the same train in the same way his gang had done just weeks earlier. The conductor recognised Tom as he neared the moving train and shot him with a shotgun, leaving him badly wounded. After being taken by a posse to hospital he had his arm amputated, and was later convicted and – unconstitutionally it turned out – sentenced to death. Ketchum’s weight and the inexperience of his executioners meant he was decapitated as he dropped through the scaffold trap door. His last words? “Good-bye. Please dig my grave very deep. All right; hurry up.”
Mob rule: Newspaper shot of the lynching of ‘Killer’ Jim Miller and others, 1909

Image: Public Domain
Some hangings in the Old West were done even less by the book. James B ‘Killer’ Miller was convicted of his first homicide in 1884 but acquitted, and soon boastingly embarked on a career as an assassin. Armed with a shotgun, he was alleged to have had a hand in at least eight murders for money, plus another six killings due to saloon and gambling disputes. After Miller had been hired to kill ex-US Marshal Allen Bobbitt, he was arrested in Texas and extradited to Oklahoma to stand trial – but with evidence weak, a mob broke into the jail and dragged Miller and three other suspects to a nearby abandoned stable for lynching. Miller is said to have shouted “Let ‘er rip!” and stepped voluntarily off his box.
Shot at the crime scene: Lee seated next to his coffin just prior to execution

Image: Josiah F. Gibbs
Less your typical outlaw, early Mormon pioneer John Doyle Lee was put to death for leading the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In 1856, the Fancher party, an Arkansas emigrant group, were camped in southern Utah when they were attacked by a group of Mormon militiamen dressed as Native Americans. Lee convinced the emigrants to surrender their belongings in return for safe passage, at which point 120 of the party were slain. Lee’s first trial in 1875 ended in a hung jury, but when tried again in 1877 he was sent to the firing squad. Adamant he had personally killed no one and was a scapegoat for others of his faith, Lee’s last words were: “I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner.”
Biting the bullet: 1914 photograph of execution by firing squad in Mexico

Image: Google Books
Execution by firing squad was almost as much a staple of capital punishment in the Wild West as lynching, and those found guilty also bit the bullet south of the Rio Grande River. The difference is: the death penalty was abolished in Mexico in 2005. Still, it all seems a far cry from the present where even the gas chamber and electric chair have been all but superseded by the lethal injection. Yet, more clinical though modern methods of execution may be, do they have any more care for human rights? The days of slow strangulation by short drop hanging may be over, but even lethal injection has come under fire for being too painful. At least it’s all kept hidden behind closed doors though, eh? And don’t mention miscarriages of justice.

How China Negotiates With Kidnappers

Kidnapping for ransom in China = Fail

The Best Of: Ad Campaigns

Advertising industry is getting more inventive and creative each day. They always try to get to our attention in every way possible: sometimes their efforts are meant to disturb you and stir emotion , other times they make all kinds of jokes and funny images. No matter what is the case, they intend to leave you touched and make you remember  images and messages they sent you.
These are marvelous examples of the most successful and creative ad campaigns. These will make you smile, cry or leave you intrigued but surely not lighthearted.
Suffering from over-weight ads:
“Obesity is Suicide” ad campaign:



Every 5th Child Obesity:



To see anorexic

Bringing up the issue of human rights:
In the spirit of past Olympic games: “Stop the world record for executions”

Another Olympic discipline, the archery:

It does not happen here, but now!


Child soldiers in Angola and other African countries:

Now we come to the non-popular topic:
Smoke Free Zone:

Stop passive smoking!
Road Accidents ads:
Buckle Up Ads


Reserved for drunk drivers:

Dont Drink and Drive Ad
After 2 drinks, your attention to 76% reduced

Save your life and use hands free system!

Advertising for the protection or assistance for children
Child abuse:



Every child needs a family:

Reach out your hand to children with autism:

Anti-drug advertising
An old man slain because money is not normal, but on methit is.

$ 15 for sex is not normal,but on meth it is.

So something like “an old junkie” does not exist.

World Hunger
or the homeless, a day-to-day struggle!

People in need – a pint of beer € 4.50, 50 liters of fresh water € 1.50

Handbag € 32, – Food for one week € 4, –

Do you see how easy it is to feed children?

Advertisements for protection against diseases
This protects you too!
AIDS Hockey Ad
Do not be stupid, protect yourself

Do you really aseptic hands?

Anti weapon ads!
If it’s not your problem, it is MINE.

So easy to get weapons in South Africa
Save fresh water ads



Use electricity wisely:

This is parking only for disabled people. For each other: THANK GOD! Yours is still a little further over there!

Video piracy kills the film industry. Purchase the original: