Thank you

To my one funny friend, thank you for the smile. To the rest of you...you SUCK. Thanks a lot for being there for me when I needed you! Ha ha! I am completely kidding. I hope all is well with all of you! Just a quick update on me. I finally found out what was wrong with me. At least medically...Lol! I have something called Interstitial Cystitis (IC for short). Basically, no lining or damaged lining in my bladder. So with an extensive "No to this", "Can't have that", "Oh girl, don't even think about it" diet...I should be out of pain for the most part. It never goes away, but after the strict, strict diet for 3 months, I can start introducing foods back in one at a time to see if they bother me or not. And if they do...goodbye forever. You guys know me...I bake all the time and now I can't eat any of it...so friends that live close...lucky for you! I will be giving away lots of goodies! Friends that live far away...I wish I could send you some!!

Tell me a joke...

I need a pick-me-up. I have been kinda down lately...fighting it because I am usually a pretty happy person and I hate being down. But the past month has beaten me up a little. Come on...cheer me up. Tell me your best funny joke or funny story. I know you people are pretty quirky, I know you have some good ones...

Crazy Driving or Crazy Kids?

Today, I got the girls from school, and we were driving down a pretty curvy road...that had a few hills. Should I take note when they throw their hands up in the air and go, "Wheeeeee!" like they are on a roller coaster? Maybe slow down? I really think they were just being silly given that I was WITHIN the speed limit. It just makes me think about kids and how cool they can be sometimes. They can make the most of any situation. If I could see life through the eyes of a child again, how different would I see? I would believe that people drop gifts in my home when I am asleep, and that I was the smartest girl in the world because I learned a new word or read a whole book by myself. I would give myself credit and not beat myself up every second of the day. I would believe in ME, I would be invincible...Super Stephanie that could do anything, if I just tried. I would believe that most people want to be my friend and would help me if I needed it. That most people are good and honest and would do the right thing. Man, where do we lose that? Oh yeah....reality. But there's a flip side...if we want to believe in people, then we need to be the kind person that others can believe in too. Who said you can't be friends with someone you met 5 mintues ago? Why are we, as adults, so scared? Why don't we believe in "us" anymore? We act like someone might be angry at us, if we smiled and said hello. Ever try it? Most people smile back.  Some look like they might bite, but most won't. And I doubt you will get an invitation to be someone's "best friend" immediately, but hey, we're just not as cool as kids. Now I am not saying there aren't crazies in the world and we should throw all caution to the wind, but I am saying that not everyone is out to get us. When a kid sees a new person, they see a "new friend". They have no reservations. There is no "self-doubt" about "what if that person doesn't like me?" or "am I good enough to be that person's friend?" When we see a new person, we see "competition", someone that might be better than us or different than us or may not like us. Well, big deal. I say we all throw our hands up in the air and yell, "Wheeeee!". I want to believe like kids believe. I want to accept and be accepted like kids do. I think they are much happier for their way of doing things than I am. Now I am going to go to sleep, and maybe, just maybe, someone will bring me a present before morning!