Friends Forever

 I recently started a vlog series on You Tube. I have met many nice people there whom I hope to meet sometime in person:) It is the best feeling, making new friends to help support you in what you do:) I have met Sherry( ChiaChatterVlog) and her husband,Pete Peters from Michigan:) Also Jon Harrison from England, King Ciggy the Legend,WolfBracker, Mari Oliveros, and her son Eddy ( Tacobay07:) Just to name a few as well as Rich & Rocky Barrigan:) We didn't meet in real life yet but hopefully sometime we all will:) They are all such nice people:) You Tube helps bring us all together:) I used to just shoot videos of my 3 cats and grandkids but then I got to know all these amazing people on you tube. Got to know them all and looked forward to watching their lives. At first I felt shy about filming myself in public,but then i thought it is not fair that I don't show myself to them as they have done for me and the rest of the you tube community so I felt that they deserved to be able to see me too so I finally did:) It was a rewarding experience and hope to do a google hangout with them sometime soon. Right now, some of us are going to do a fit 4 fall challenge to get healthy and to lose weight which I am all for since I have packed on the pounds since I had a knee replacement, 3 years ago and also need to wear oxygen 24/7 which I hate doing. i smoked from the time I was 14 and quit 5 years ago when i turned 50 but not soon enough before it caused breathing problems. I smoked for 36 years straight 2 packs a day and just quit cold turkey back in July of 2009 after a bout with pancreatitis.  I also learned back then that I had to stay away from fatty foods cause I sure as heck didn't want pancreatitis again cause the doctor said once you get it,you can get it again. It was so painful, I suffered in silence about 2 weeks back then in July of 2009, before my wonderful hubby,Larry made me go and have it checked cause all i could say is, what can they do for a stomach ache as I lay on the floor passing out from the pain. That was after we got to the hospital after my doctor called and said get to the E R immediately cause I think that it is either your gall bladder or pancreas and he hit it on the nail with it being my pancreas for a 5 day hospital stay and only allowed ice chips for 3 days and no food. I quit smoking right then and there cause it just aggravated the problem so I figured this is as good time as any to quit so I did, It wasn't even that hard. i just thought about the awful pain in my stomach and that was all it took. More to come.

Missing My Real Home

I love animals and plants. One of my 2 favorite joys in life besides my husband,family,and all my friends. it is what makes me the way that I am. I love writing. But just the joy of seeing my husband's love in his eyes for me,make me the happiest that i can be. I love living in Happy valley,Oregon but i still miss my real home, back home in Cabot,PA. A little town in the country about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh where I grew up.I  raised my 4  children and all of my family are still back there including my parents. My dad is 94 and my mom will be 78. I especially miss my younger sister,Marcy too. We are so close even thought there are 12 years between us as well as 3,000 miles,we still talk on the phone most every day. She tells me what she thinks and I listen and laugh as she guides me through life as I guide her from 3,000 miles away when she is driving home on the back roads back there from her job at BH Faster care, an urgent care medical facility back home where she works. She said on those long dark nights when it is raining that if anything happens to her,to call 911 cause I am the only one that is always there for her. I miss her so much. After i moved to Oregon, 14 years ago now, she was mad at me for a long time. i wouldn't talk to her on the phone cause she always was yelling at me and saying that I don't care about anyone but myself. I would cry many times after she said that cause I felt like I was losing my best friend. i knew she was hurting inside cause I wasn't there any more. Later years she told me that she missed me so much. We always did many things together. She was there for me through my first marriage to my ex-husband. i was 19 and she was 7 when  I first got married. She was there for me when my first daughter,Tanya was born in 1979. She was 8:) She was there when my second daughter,Lisa was born in 1981, she was there when my third child,Georgie was born in 1983:) She was 12 then:) She would come and spend the summer with my ex-husband & me. She helped entertain my 3 kids then:) Her nieces and nephew. She was great. i could get stuff done :) She was 19 when she had her first daughter,Bailey:) I was 31. She would come over with Bailey and I returned the favor of helping her with bailey:) My 3 then Tanya,11, Lisa,9 and Georgie,7 also liked helping and playing with Bailey. This was 1990. then she was their when i had my 4th and final daughter,Chelsea in 1991. Bailey & Chelsea were 8 months apart and grew up together. Now all my children are all grown up. Tanya is 35, Lisa is 33, Georgie is 31, & Chelsea is 23. Chelsea,my youngest,has my first adorable grandson, Landon James. he will be 3 on July 1st. I miss them all so much. I went back home in July 2012 for a month. A month wasn't long enough.