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Day 4 At Combine BeginsPosted by on February 27, 2010 – 8:04 am
It's already Day 4 here at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and it's also the last full day I'll be here taking in all of the action. But don't worry, vikings.com will continue its coverage of the Combine through the event's conclusion on Tuesday.
Day 4 marks the arrivals of the final groups of players – Groups 10 and 11 – which consist of DBs. These players will travel to Indianapolis today, go through registration, have hospital pre-exams and x-rays, orientation and then team interviews. Here's what the other groups of players will be doing…
Groups 1-3 (kickers, specialists and TEs): on-field workouts and then departure
Groups 4-6 (QBs, WRs and RBs): NFLPA meeting, psychological testing, team interviews
Groups 7-9 (DL and LBs): measurements, medical exams, media sessions, psychological testing, team interviews
As you can see, we'll have our first set of on-field workouts today as Groups 1-3 get out on the Lucas Oil Stadium field. That is exciting. I'll also be sure to keep my eye on the media room as players and NFL head coaches and GMs make their way through to speak with reporters.
That's it for now, but be sure to keep checking back here all weekend for updates…
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Mammoth Lakes Townhome Rental Photos and Description
Vacation Townhouse - 2 Bedrooms - 3 Baths - (Sleeps 6)
Nestled in the forest but close to everything, this premiere property is a home away from home! Forest Creek is half a block from the bus line which goes to the Eagle Lodge lifts. The property is around the corner from the Sierra Star Golf Course. Just picture yourself after a long day on the mountain: relaxing with some wine in the private hot tub, preparing a sumptuous meal & enjoying a movie on a 36 inch flat screen TV equipped w/surround sound. Turn on the fireplace & enjoy the warmth, or just enjoy the heat of the extremely efficient heating system. Tuck yourself into one of the comfortable beds & drift off to sleep in preparation for the next wonderful day of your mountain vacation!
Large, 2 story townhouse nestled in the forest. Newly renovated & furnished with everything new! Beautiful gourmet kitchen featuring granite countertops, stainless steel appliances & a stainless steel gourmet gas range. Large 10ft breakfast bar w/4 chairs & a dining area.
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I'm a health care professional who enjoys skiing and traveling the world.
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I've been skiing at Mammoth for 20 years. I usually ski 20-30 days a year. I became tired of constantly going on trips with a bunch of friends and sleeping on the couch, or paying exorbitant prices to stay in a nice environment. Three years ago, I was blessed with the ability to purchase this wonderful property, and I took the plunge! Now I have a home away from home and I truly enjoy Mammoth.

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- lamaranthe Jan 10, 2012 02:01 PM
What are still the best places where to be served the best fresh oysters in TO? Thanks for any suggestion.
re: biggreenmatt
Adding Diana's, Starfish, Zee Grill to the list.
re: lister
Oooh, forgot that Smokeless Joe's re-opened! A good'un!
re: bluefirefly
+1 for Starfish
+1 for Diana's Oyster bar and grill (simply sublime)
Unfortunately I didn't like Pure Spirits Oyster House and Grill in the Distillery District unlike Bluefirefly. Maybe it was an off day due discounted oyster night at $1.50 an oyster (I preferred the buck a shuck oysters at Biff which is everyday after 5PM)
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Perhaps. We paid full price for ours at brunch recently and they were delicious. They came with 3 different condiments although I prefer not washing out the natural flavour with sauce.
re: bluefirefly
Yeah it must be one of those days like I expect the place that has oyster in their name to be at least decent. I would go as far as saying they were of the same quality that is served by corks on Thursday's in Longos next to ACC and you get 3 of those free when you buy a pint or glass of wine!
re: elvisahmed
These threads frustrate me to no end. Oysters are shucked and served, there is no Chef involved. I'm sure all of the places mentioned in this thread source fresh oysters from the usual places, shuck them cleanly and serve them with fresh condiments. The oysters are just out there hanging out in the ocean, wild or farmed, you can't tell if one is better than an other. Oyster shuckers talk a good game and that can be entertaining but really at the level of the places mentioned here, the oysters are all the same quality. So it is all about the restaurant's ambiance. Biff's was fun for an oyster feast at a low price but I don't like the corporate feel of the place. I like the more casual atmosphere at Oyster Boy and it's close to home.
Oyster Boy
(I have not tried Diana's)
Anytime I have had oysters at any other restaurant in Toronto, they are never as fresh or "crisp" to taste as they are at the above. I love Zee Grill, but the oysters are always not "crisp" tasting. I don;t know how else to describe it.
Anyway, I have given up eating oysters at any other restaurant in Toronto other than the ones above.


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The Illustrated History of Videogames by: Simon Parkin
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More than any other entertainment medium, video games offer the chance for us to actively participate in a world beyond the ordinary. Whether you are playing as a supersonic hedgehog, an abnormally athletic archeologist, a moustachioed Italian plumber, or any number of gravel-voiced space marines, video games allow their players to inhabit spaces where the usual parameters of existence do not apply. This book celebrates all of the things that make video games - the world's most popular pastime - unique.
The medium's history is chronicled here through the individual stories of 151 of the most iconic, groundbreaking and important video games yet conceived. Beginning in the early 1970s, when formative titles such as Computer Space and Pong brought video games into our streets and homes, the book charts five decades of the pixel revolution that saw a burgeoning industry flourish into a behemothic force at the heart of the cultural mainstream.
The story of each game is accompanied by trivia and memorable quotations, and illustrated with photographs, screenshots and artwork - as well as key information on where the game can be played today. There are also dedicated features on the systems that fire these games, with a look at the development of consoles from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360 and beyond.
Examining key titles across all platforms, this celebratory and nostalgic reference, and up-to-date history, will enthral any video games aficionado.
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Condo, 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, sleeps up to 7
Walleye and Perch fishing on Lake Erie. Minutes to Port Clinton. Go jet skiing or catch the ferry to Put in Bay. Close to Camp Perry for the gun matches. Enjoy the tennis or basketball courts or take the kids fishing at the catch and release pond. Enjoy bird watching at The Ottawa County Nature Reserve or Magee Marsh, look for bald eagles while hiking the trails. Relax in the screened in patio room or take a dip in our beautiful pool. Full kitchen with microwave, washer and dryer, cable TV with DVD,internet access and video. Close to golf courses and shopping. Thirty minute drive to Marblehead or Cedar Point.Condo is clean and well kept.
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Sullivan High School does an outstanding job of preparing our children for college and has a wonderful A+ program.
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Aisha's Adventures: A story of inspiration and transformation; homelessness didn't stop entrepreneurial missionary Aisha Okudi from pursuing her goals
If you're looking for a pick-me-up story to lift you out of the self=pity blues or doldrums then you'd be hard-pressed to top the story of Aisha Okudi, an Omaha woman who has not let anything stop her, including homelessness, from pursuing her entrepreneurial missionary purpose and dream. This is my new cover story about her for The Reader (www.thereader.com). I did a previous story about Aisha and her path of inspiration and transformation which you can find on this blog.
Aisha's Adventures: A story of inspiration and transformation; homelessness didn't stop entrepreneurial missionary Aisha Okudi from pursuing her goals
Her Sha Luminous by Esha Jewelfire line of beauty products serves African missions dream
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Now appearing in The Reader (www.thereader.com)
Entrepreneurial African missionary Aisha Okudi, 37, laid the foundation for her thriving business and ambitious humanitarian work during a period when she and her children were sometimes homeless. She'd been through worse.
Regardless of how bad things have gotten, she's remained focused on her mission because she considers her story of transformation a testimony to her faith in a Higher Power she serves for the greater good. The Omaha visionary is proud of how far she's come with her Sha Luminous line of organic shea butter skin rejuvenation and beauty products. Sha Luminous is available at HyVee supermarkets in six states as well as Akins Natural Food Stores, No Name Nutrition, Jane's Health Market and select salons. She's working to get in Whole Foods.
She's humble about her success because she's following a plan she feels called to. She views everything about her journey, even the dark side, as a conduit for the missionary work that is her real passion.
The base of her hand-crafted products is butter extracted from the shea nut, a natural plant indigenous to the same rural African provinces she serves. After years helping poor African children by sending supplies and making donations, she visited Niger in 2010 through the auspices of the international NGO, Children in Christ. She made connections with villagers, tribal leaders, fellow missionaries, government representatives and American embassy officials. She purchased a missionary house to accommodate more evangelists.
She says she's tried getting Omaha churches on board with her work but has been rebuked. She suspects being a woman of little means and not having a church or title explains it. Undaunted, she works closely with CIC Niger national director, Festus Haba, who calls her work "a blessing." In addition to Niger, where she once considered moving, she also visited Togo on that 2010 trip.
She visited Ghana in 2012. She's returning to Africa in August, this time to Mali. With the help of Haba and CIC she'll explore growing her business there to create import-export streams. At one time she weighed developing holistic herbal health clinics in West Africa.
"I want to create job opportunities for people because this business is about helping people who come out of poverty just like me."
She wants more Africans enjoying the fruits of the shea nut grown there by employing locals in its production and sale and by making her products affordable so more locals can enjoy their health benefits.
It's a far cry from the self-centered, destructive path she was on from the early-1990s through 2004. Growing up in Omaha and Des Moines she long headed for a hard fall. Her family often moved. Finances were always tight. She was a head-strong girl who didn't listen to her restless mother and alcoholic father. She got in trouble at school.
"There were issues at home. I was always told no coming up and I got sick of hearing that. I felt I was a burden, so I was like, 'I'm going to get out and get my own stuff.'"
At 15 she left home and began stripping. A year later she got pregnant. She gave birth to the first of her four children at 17.
"I found myself moving around a lot. I really didn't know what stability was. I never had stability, whether having a stable home or just being stable, period, in life. I was young and doing my thing. My dad walked in the club where I was stripping. My sister told on me."
The ensuing confrontation only drew her and her parents farther apart.
"I was trying to live that life. I wanted to have whatever I wanted to have. I danced, I sold my body and I made lots of money from it. I did it for about 12 years. I wanted to have it all, but it was not the right way."
She got caught up in the alcohol, drug abuse and theft that accompany life on the streets.
"I was in and out of prison a lot. I used to steal to make money."
In 1997 she served time in the Douglas Country Correctional Center for theft by receiving stolen property.
In 2004 she was crying in an Iowa jail cell after her second Operating While Intoxicated offense. Her arrest came after she left the strip club where she performed, bombed out of her head.
"I had to get drunk so I could let these men touch me all night," says Okudi, who drove her car atop a railroad embankment, straddling the tracks, poised to head for a drop-off that led straight into a river.
That night in jail a decade ago is when it all came to a head. "I just sat there and I thought about my kids and what I just did," she says. She felt sure she'd messed up one too many times and was going to lose her children and any chance of salvaging her life, "I was crying out and begging to God. I had begged before but this time it was a beg of mercy. I was at my bottom. I surrendered fully."
To her relief the judge didn't give her prison time at her sentencing hearing. "I told the judge, 'I will never do this.' He said, 'If I ever see you in my courtroom again it will be the last time.' I burnt my strip clothes when I got out, and I didn't turn back. I got myself into treatment." She'd been in treatment before but "this time," she says, "it was serious, it wasn't a game. I enrolled in school."
Ten years later she has her own business and a higher calling and, she says, "I'm so proud that I write the judge and tell him how I'm doing." Okudi's learned how to live a healthy lifestyle and not surround herself with negative influences and enablers.
Her life has turned many more times yet since getting straight and sober. In 2006 she seemingly found her soulmate in George Okudi, an ordained Ugandan minister and award-winning gospel artist. They began a new life in Washington DC and had two children together. Then she discovered he was still married to another woman in Africa. The couple is separated, awaiting a divorce.
She's learned to forgive, but she's only human. "Even though I've grown sometimes it feels like, When is it going to end? But to much is given, much is required. You've just gotta consistently stay on track. No matter what it is, stay focused."
Even as recently as 2012 and 2013 there were tests and setbacks, including bouts of homelessness. The difference then and now is that when adversity strikes she doesn't get too high or too low, she doesn't feel entitled to act out. She claims she experienced an epiphany in which God spoke to her and set her on her Esha Jewelfire mission.
"When I had that vision and dream I was pregnant with my youngest son. I was living with my grandmother. I was newly separated from my husband. I said to my grandmother, 'I don't know if I'm going crazy or what, but the Lord said I will build like King Solomon and go and help my people in Africa.'"
Since childhood this Africaphile has expressed a desire to help alleviate poverty overseas. Her visit to Niger and the overwhelming reception she received confirmed she's meant to serve there.
"It was immediate. I was able to blend in wherever I went. I know that's where my calling is. I cook African, my children are African, my friends are African. It's just a natural thing for me."
She even speaks some native dialects.
She's long made a habit of sending clothes and other needed items to Africa. But a call to build was something else again.
"Where am I going to get the money from to help these people in Africa?" she asked her grandma. "I didn't know."
Then by accident or fate or divine providence a friend introduced her to shea butter, an oil used in countless bath and beauty products. "And that's how the idea for my business came up," Okudi says.
Shea is gritty in its natural state and only transforms with love. Sound familiar? "I researched it and found that it moisturizes, it cleanses, it refreshens, it heals, it brightens, it just makes you shine. It's naturally rich in vitamins A, E and F. So I figured out what I needed to do with it."
Her experiments led to lightly fragranced shea butter-based products, including lotions, creams and scrubs. She began marketing them.
She gets raw shea in big blocks she breaks down by chopping and melting. She incorporates into her products natural oats and grains as well as fruit and herb oils to lend pleasing textures and scents. The fresh fruit and herbs are pressed by hand. Nothing's processed. "All this stuff comes from God's green earth — oils, spices, herbs, organic cane sugar," she says. Nothing's written down either. "I have it all in my head. I know every ingredient in everything I make. Everything is made fresh to order and customized. Everything is hand-packaged, too."
Selling at trade shows, house parties, off the Internet, the small business "started really growing and taking off for me," she says. With her products now in chain stores, she contracts workers to act as sales demo reps where her products are carried. She also has a contract with a hand-mass manufacturing firm in Nashville, Tenn. She's in discussions with a majo beauty products manufacturer-distributor.
She says besides her line being "bomb diggity," retailers and customers alike respond to "the mission purpose behind it," adding, "It's purposeful, its meaningful, there's life to my company."
Her business has been based at various sites, including the Omaha Small Business Network. Production's unfolded in her mother's kitchen, in a friend's attic, in her house, wherever she can find usable space. "My business is simple, it doesn't really need a big plant or office."
Having a store of her own though was a dream. A few years ago "an angel" came into her life in the form of Robert Wolsmann, who within short order of meeting Okudi wrote her a check for $10,000 – as a loan – to help her open her own shop.
Wolsmann is not in the habit of lending such amounts to near total strangers but something in Okudi struck him. Besides, he says, "I could see she needed help. She showed me what she made and I was so impressed I presented her with that money. I couldn't resist investing."
"He's an awesome person," Aisha says of Wolsmann. "We've become great friends."
She says her dynamic personality attracts people to her. She feels what Wolsmann did is evidence "things work in mysterious ways – you don't know what's going to happen, you've just got to be prepared."
Her Organically Sweet Shea Butter Body Butter Store opened in 2010. The labor of love proved star-crossed when after two months her landlord evicted her. Okudi's opened and closed two more stores to pursue new opportunities .
"Entrepreneurs go where they have to go to get things done."
Evictions from two rental homes found to be uninhabitable took their toll. "I asked God, "What is going on? Why does this keep happening to me?' I didn't have nowhere to go. I was seeing myself back living from place to place like I've always been, still trying to take care of my kids and do my business." Stripping's fast money lured her back for a short time. She and her kids stayed at the transitional housing program, Restored Hope, but when things didn't work out there they went back to couch surfing before finding stability at the Salvation Army Shelter.
"It kept me focused on my mission. I've been called to be that missionary, so I'm not so upset anymore about why I've been bounced around or why things have happened the way they have. There's a way bigger purpose. If you just be really humble and wait and be patient to see what God's doing, He'll turn things around."
It's why she no longer dwells on the past or worries about what she doesn't have right now.
"Nothing matters when it comes to material things. The only thing that matters to me is my health and just doing what I know is right in my heart to do. Even though I lived the way I lived, basically homeless, I realized I am very blessed and I remained grateful.
"God only gives you what you can handle. He obviously knew I was equipped to do it. You just do it, but there's preparation to everything. Nothing goes to waste. Everything I've been through I've actually used as a powerful testimony to either encourage someone else or to inspire myself to move forward."
For the past year she's earned enough money to find stable living in her own downtown condo.
Often asked to share her story before church congregations and community groups, her message is simple:
"To persevere, period. I don't care what your situation is you've got to keep going. The world doesn't stop, time doesn't stop, problems never cease. You have to go through them. I go through my trials and tribulations and I never ask God to remove me out of them because it builds character, strength and perseverance for you to move on. I always tell people, 'Don't stop, just keep going.' The fight is not easy, the fight ain't no joke, it's a war, it's a battle. You've got to put full armor on and fight. God don't have punks in his army.
"You've got to be a soldier for everything you put hour hands to."
She's aware her success amid myriad struggles inspires others.
"It reminds me who I am and that when I don't think people are watching me they are. I've always been a happy, giving, loving person. Even when going through something, I pick myself up. Even my father said, 'If you can be changed from where you came from, I know there's a God.' Now, he's stopped drinking. He's reborn."
She realizes her own rebirth may be hard for some to swallow. "People who knew me in my past might say, 'Oh no, not Aisha, with what she used to do?'" She acknowledges she couldn't transform without help.
"When I got the call to start my business to support the Africa missions I had no business training or education, I just did it. I've learned as much as I can from experts and entrepreneurs who've already been there and done it. I've seen what not to do and what to do. I've learned to listen more, to be more patient, to look at all options instead of just what I know, because it's not about what I know it's about what I need to know. This has been a very humbling and hard faith thing for me."
In 2011 she graduated from Creighton University's Financial Success Program for low income single mothers.
"I learned how to be very resourceful working within my means, how to budget and how to cut out unnecessary costs."
She was introduced to EcoScents owner Chad Kampschneider, who became a mentor and ended up picking up her product line.
After being accepted to tape an episode of Shark Tank she decided to pass on the opportunity rather than risk gaining partners who would wrest control of her vision.
"I've gotten this far with my mission and purpose and I don't want to get detoured on another path. I figure one day I'll be a shark myself helping people grow their businesses and realize their dreams. If I continue to follow the path I've been following I'll get there. I see myself global helping in poverty areas through my company."
She's determined to complete her mission.
"I just get up knowing I gotta do what I gotta do, and I live one day at a time. I don't let my financial and emotional path haunt me. There's nothing you can do but do what you need to do every day and be a part of hope. Too many people are hopeless. There's no light in them. I'm not about that, I'm about life and living to the fullest and being happy with what I have and where I'm at because I know greatness will come some day for me. I'm a very favored woman in all things I do.
"I haven't been at a standstill. I've come a long way and I continue to grow. I'm still transforming, I'm still moving forward. I still reach out for help in areas I need help in."
She suspects she's always had it in her to be the "apostolic entrepreneur" she brands herself today. "Sometimes you don't discover it until things happen to you. I think I had it but I didn't embrace it then. I heard so much negative in my life coming up that it turned me away…I said, 'I'll show you,' and I made wrong decisions. What the devil meant for bad, God turned it for good.
"I'm a natural born hustler but I hustle in the right way now."
This month Okudi will be at select Walmarts and No-Frills stores seeking donations for her African missions.
For more about her products, visit her Facebook page, Sha-Luminous-by-Esha-Jewelfire.
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Patique Collins Finds the Right Fit
Patique Collins has got it going on. She is a high achieving African American woman with an alluring combination of physical besuty, spiritual enlightenment, business savvy, and passion for her life's calling. The Omaha, Neb. fitness trainer loves empowering people to positively chnage their lives. In the short time between leaving a successful corporate career to starting her own buisness, she's expertly branded her Right Fit company to grow its client base and to garner media attention. I discovered her through her heady, consistent use of Facebook as a social media marketing platform that gets her name and face and brand out there, not just through the usual promotional methods but through inspiring before and after pictorials and testimonials that demonstrate the difference that Right Fit workouts make and through affirmations she writes and shares to offer encouraging life lessons. My profile of Patique is for Omaha Magazine.
Patique Collins Finds the Right Fit
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally published in Omaha Magazine
In 2011 Patique Collins left a two-decade corporate career to open a fitness gym. Two-and-a-half years later her Right Fit at 11067 West Maple Rd. jumps with clients.
Under her watchful eye and upbeat instruction, members do various aerobic and anaerobic exercises, kickboxing and Zumba included, all to pulsating music, sometimes supplied by DJ Mista Soul. She helps clients tone their bodies and build cardio, strength and flexibility.
The sculpted Omaha native is a longtime fitness convert. Nine years ago she added weight training to her running regimen and got serious about nutrition. She'd seen too many loved ones suffer health problems from poor diet and little exercise. The raw vegan describes her own workouts as "intense" and "extreme."
She pushes clients hard.
"I really want to help every single person that comes in reach their maximum potential, and that is a big responsibility," she says. "if you don't give up on you, I won't. I will do whatever I can to help you earn your goals if you're ready to."
She's known to show up at your job if you skip class.
"There's accountability here at Right Fit. I'm very passionate about my clients."
She believes the relationships she builds with clients keeps them coming back.
"People will tend to stay if you develop a relationship and work towards results."
Her gym. like her Facebook page, is filled with affirmations about following dreams. being persistent and never quitting.
"I think positivity is a part of my DNA."
She keeps things fun with theme workouts, sometimes dressing as a superhero.
A huge influence in her life was her late maternal grandmother, Faye Jackson, who raised her after Collins and her siblings were thrown into the foster care system. "My grandmother told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and made me believe it." Collins went on to attain multiple college degrees.
Motivated to help others, she made human resources her career. She and her then-husband Anthony Collins formed the Nothing But Foundation to assist at-risk youth. While working as a SilverStone Group senior consultant and as Human Resources Recruitment Administrator for the Omaha Public Schools she began "testing the waters" as a trainer conducting weekend fitness boot camps..
Stepping out from the corporate arena to open her own gym took a leap of faith for this now divorced mother of two small children..
"This is a lot of work. I am truly a one-woman show. Sometimes that can be challenging.
She's proud to be a successful female African-American small business owner and humbled by awards she's received for her business and community achievements.
Right Fit is her living but she works hard maintaining the right balance. Family and faith are er top priorities.
This former model, who's emceed events and trained celebrities (Usher and LL Cool J), wants to franchise her business, produce workout videos and be a mind-body fitness national presenter.
She believes opportunities continue coming her way because of her genuine spirit.
"There's some things you can't fake and being authentic is one of them. I'm doing what I want to do, I think it's my ministry. Everybody has their gifts, and this is mine.
I'm able to influence people not just physically but mentally."
Parenting the Second Time Around Holds Challenges and Delights for Senior Kinship Caregiver Theresa Glass Union, Who Always Puts Family First
Parenting the Second Time Around Holds Challenges and Delights for Senior Kinship Caregiver Theresa Glass Union, Who Always Puts Family First
©by Leo Adam Biga
Soon to appear as the cover story in the December issue of the New Horizons
After raising three daughters in the 1970s-1980s and nearing retirement in the early 2000s, Theresa Glass Union thought she knew what her later years would look like. Even though still working, she envisioned socializing and traveling with friends and family. When she could finally retire it'd mean free time like she hadn't known in ages.
The Omaha native had just moved back here after more than 20 years in Calif. She was divorced, eager to start a new life and catch up with old mates and haunts. Then a family crisis erupted and her selfless response led her to join the growing ranks of kinship caregivers raising young children.
Reports indicate that upwards of 6 million children in America live with grandparents identified as the head of household. Nearly half of these children are being raised by someone other than the parents or grandparents. The number of children being parented by non-birth parents has increased 18 percent since 2000, according to a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Some kinship caregivers do it informally, others through the state child welfare-foster care system. Being informed of rights, regulations and benefits takes work.
Theresa is a kinship caregiver to children of a niece who's long battled drug addiction. The niece is the mother of six children by different fathers, The three oldest variously live with their fathers or their fathers' people. When the niece got pregnant with each of her three youngest children, now ages 5, 4 and 2, they came to live with Theresa shortly after their births.
It's not the first time Theresa's dealt with tough circumstances inside and outside her family. She has a younger sister with a criminal past who happens to be the mother of the niece whose children Theresa is raising. Years spent in social service jobs dealing with clients living on the edge have given Theresa a window into the bad decisions that desperate, addicted persons make and the hard consequences those wrong choices bring.
At age 65 and two-and-a-half decades removed from raising three grown daughters, one of whom is film-television star Gabrielle Union, Theresa's doing a parenting redux. She never thought she'd be in charge of three pre-school-aged kids again, but she is. She's since legally adopted the two older siblings, both girls, and is awaiting an adoption ruling on their "baby" brother.
As the babies came to her one by one she found herself knee deep again in diapers and baby bottles, awakened in the middle of the night by crying infants, figuring out formulas and worrying about fevers, sniffles, coughs and tummy aches. Now that the kids are a little older, there's daycare, pre-school and managing a household of activity.
It's not what she imagined retirement to be, but how could she not be there for the kids? They were going to be removed from their birth mother and placed in a system not always conducive to happy outcomes. Child welfare officials generally agree that childcare fare better in kinship care settings than in regular foster care.
Kinship caregivers may get involved when the parents are incarcerated, on drugs or deceased. In the case of Theresa, drugs were found in the systems of the two oldest children she's adopted, Keira and Miyonna. Theresa felt they needed unconditional family love. The girls are doing fine today under the care of Theresa and her brother James Glass. The girls' brother, Amari, was born drug-free.
With so much stacked against the children to start life, Theresa wasn't about to turn her back on them. Family is everything to her. She's the oldest of seven siblings, all raised Catholic – churched and schooled at St. Benedict the Moor, the historic African-American parish in northeast Omaha. It's where she received all her sacraments, including marrying her ex-husband Sylvester Union.
"The church is central to my family here."
She graduated from Sacred Heart High School.
She and Union moved to San Francisco during the Summer of Love in 1967 and they returned to Omaha a year later. They both ended up working at Western Electric. Like other black couples then they ran into discriminatory real estate practices that flat out denied them access to many neighborhoods or steered them away from white areas into black sections of North Omaha. Their first home was in northeast Omaha but they eventually moved into a house in the northwest part of the city, where their three daughters went to school.
In the 1970s Theresa, who studied social work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, worked for Omaha nonprofit social service agencies, including CETA (Comprehensive Employment & Training Agency) and GOCA (Greater Omaha Community Action). After a long stint in corporate America she returned to the non-profit field.
The family left here in 1981 for Pleasanton, Calif., where they lived the sun-dappled Southern Calif. suburban life. She worked for Pacific Bell and completed her bachelor's degree in human relations and organizational behavior at the University of San Francisco. After her divorce she and her brother James Glass returned to Omaha in 2003. A few years passed before Theresa's troubled niece came for help. At various times the family tried interventions, once even getting the niece into rehab, but each time she fled and resumed her drug habit.
As a former field worker with Douglas County Health and Human Services and as a one-time Child Protection Service Worker with Nebraska Health and Human Services, Theresa's seen the despair and chaos that result when siblings are separated from each other and extended family. It's why when her niece kept getting pregnant while hooked on drugs and unable to take care of herself, much less children, Theresa intervened to ensure the kids would go to her.
"Some of the things children said to me when I was a social worker have just stayed with me," she says.
On one call she visited three young siblings in a foster home.
"I was like the fifth social worker since they'd been brought into the system. The 8-year old boy said, 'Please don't take us away, we get fed three times a day here. 'Well. that told me they'd been staying with some people (before) who weren't feeding them regularly. Who does that? The foster parent let him walk me around the home and this little boy was just adamant he be with his brothers."
In another case several siblings were divided up among different foster families.
"One of the siblings got to see her sisters at school but she no longer got to see her brothers, and she asked me, 'Can I see my brothers?'Her foster parent had made the request but nothing had happened, so I looked into it and found that each sibling had a different social worker and had been placed at a separate time. I got it worked out that the siblings got to visit each other."
System shortfalls and breakdowns like these were enough to make Theresa bound and determined to arrange in advance with hospital social workers for her to be the foster placement parent for her niece's three youngest kids. When Keira and Miyonna tested positive for drugs the state, by law, detained them and they were put in Theresa's care two days after their births. She did the same with their brother. She simply wouldn't let them fall outside the family or be separated.
"After Keira was born I was already a resident foster placement and I'd already contacted everybody involved to let them know if there was another baby that ends up in the detention system I want to be the foster parent of choice because I didn't want these kids to go into the system. My idea is that the kids all need to be raised together. They deserve to have their siblings .
"I was working for Child Protective Service, so I knew all the ins and outs of what was going to happen. I knew how many times we were going to have to go to the doctor before the baby's cleared. I knew that babies wake up in the middle of the night and children with drugs in them can find it more difficult sleeping, eating. I was prepared for all that. It didn't happen, I was thanking God that Keira's and Miyonna's little withdrawal things were just a few days. The biggest problem we had was figuring out formula."
Daughter Kelly Union, a senior analyst with US Airways, admires her mother's by-any-means-necessary fortitude.
"My mom always looks for more solutions, other options, different ways to climb a mountain. That determination helps me when I hit a brick wall at work, in my marriage, with my kids. My mom also sees all glasses as half full. There is a positive in everything and we just need to find it. My mom's best attribute, however, is being strong against all odds—she finds the strength to hold up everything and everyone, including herself despite what she is up against. I get my strength from her."
The way Theresa sees it she did what she did in order to "preserve the continuity of the children's lives, so that they know their family members, the cousins, the aunts and uncles, the lineage back, like my grandma Ora Glass and my grandma Myrtle Fisher Davis, and the head of our family today, Aunt Patricia Moss."
Theresa hails from one of the largest and oldest African-American families in the region, the Bryant-Fishers, whose annual picnic is 95 years strong.
Her bigger-than-life late grandmother, Ora, the longtime matriarch, lived to 110. Ora gained celebrity as a shining example of successful aging, even appearing on Phil Donahue's show and running her fingers through the host's hair. In her younger years Ora was a housekeeper and nanny for some of Omaha's elite families. One packinghouse owner family even brought her out to Calif. to continue her duties when they moved there. She survived the Red Summer of 1919, when blacks were targeted by racists in riots that wreaked havoc from coast to coast, including Omaha and Orange County, Calif..
"My grandmother had a whole lot of stories," says Theresa.
In her 70s and 80s Ora "reinvented" herself from a very strict, prim and proper lady with politics tending toward the conservative" to loosening up on things like relationships and social issues, notes Theresa. "She told me, 'I'm losing so many old friends that I have to make new friends and I have to use new opinions and I have to make new decisions.' She began reaching out and making new friends and gathering new family to her. She started trying different things. She went to political science classes at UNO. She learned ceramics."
Even when she had to use a walker, Theresa says. Ora maintained her independence, riding the bus downtown for Mass at St Mary Magdalene's Church, a repast at Bishop's Cafeteria and taking in all the sights.
Ora was then and is now an inspiration to Theresa. She carries her grandmother's boundless curiosity, determination and affirmation inside her.
"She always persevered. She said, 'Whatever you do you always do it to the best of your ability.' She said, 'You can always make more family' and she always did generate more and more family for herself."
Ora was godmother to Omaha native Cathy Hughes, founder of the Radio One and TV One media empires, and played a big role in the mogul's early life.
Ageless Ora ended up a resident at the Thomas Fitzgerald Veterans Home (the military service of her late husband Aaron Glass entitled her to stay there) and Theresa says her grandmother "recruited families from St. Vincent dePaul parish to visit residents there. There were a couple of families she adopted. The kids came and they called her grandma and they brought her gifts."
It's figures and stories like these that Theresa didn't want her three new children to miss out on. The family takes great pains to maintain its ties, celebrate its history and record the additions and losses as well as the triumphs and tragedies among their family trees. Help abounds from loved ones she says because "there's so many of us. There's like 1,500 of us (dispersed around the country)."
She values the traditions and events that bind them and their rich legacy and she wouldn't want the children now in her care to be deprived of any of it.
"We're called the Dozens of Cousins. Yeah, I do take a lot of pride in that. I get that a lot from my aunt Patricia Moss because she wants there to be the continuity. We do have continuity."
Regarding the big August reunion, when hundreds gather at Levi Carter Park, she says, "I try to always make it. Since coming back home in 2003 I haven't missed any, and when I was younger it wasn't an option, you were there. We have the family picnic, we have family birthdays, we have that kind of continuity and I think children need that to grow in their own maturity and emotional strength," she says. "It can give them that stability. You're not going to get that from strangers. And knowing at some point there's going to be questions about who mom is, I have all those baby pictures and all that stuff. I can give them a sense of who she is if she doesn't care to come around."
Having a large family around gives Theresa a ready-made support network.
"I have a supportive family around me. I have everybody lined up that's going to keep this continuity. My brother James wouldn't say it before that he's helping raise the kids, but he's saying it now. My sister and cousins call and make sure I have break times. My granddaughter Chelsea came from Arizona recently to watch the kids so I could have a break time. When my daughter Tracy has breaks from work she comes in and helps out.
"So I have a support system around me and they're all kin to these children, so they're never outside of family."
Kelly Union says even if there wasn't all that family support her mother would have done the same thing.
"Without a doubt, she would have been that beacon without all of us supporting her. That is her character, that is the legacy she inherited and the legacy she is passing on to all of us. We have all been known to help someone else, even when it isn't easy or comfortable and that is a direct reflection of her."
The respite family provides Theresa has proven vital as she's realized she's not capable of doing everything like she was the first time she raised kids. She's much more prone now to ask for help. Another difference between then and now is that her older daughters were spaced out three or four years, whereas the kids she's raising today are all just a year or two apart.
"My oldest was 4 before I had my second and then my second was 7 before I had my third. It's a different experience when you can devote your time to the one child at a time. And then by the time I had the second child the oldest child had more of her own things she was doing that she didn't need me while I was taking care of this other one. And then the two of them did not need me as much when I was taking care of the third one, so every kid got to be like an only child."
Things stated out different the second time around.
"'I found I was now taking care of two kids at the same time, so if I'm changing a diaper the other one's right there fussing and attention grabbing. and boy that's more wearing on me. The energy for two young ones is just wearing.
"When I first got Keira and Miyonna I was working, so I got to take them to day care. But I could not keep my mind going well enough during the day to do a social work job. I could not keep up and my caseload was falling farther and farther behind. I even asked for more training, but I just couldn't manage it. I thought I was super lady but my energy level is not the same as it was, trust me."
The two girls don't need quite the attention they did before, which is good because their little brother needs it now.
"We got through that and Keira and Miyonna started doing real good together. I even have them sleeping together in a big double bed. They sleep all night."
In terms of parenting, she says she's learned to "let some things go" that she would have stressed over before. For example she doesn't worry whether the kids' clothes or hair or bedrooms are perfect. "You do the best with what you have and you gotta innovate," she says.
Her adult daughters may be the best gauge for what kind of mother Theresa is. The oldest, Kelly, wrote in an email:
"My mother was always the "you can do it", "give it a try" type of parent. She supported all our whims—Girl Scouts, musical instruments, sports, school plays, dance class. Whatever struck our fancy at the moment, she backed our efforts. No is not a big word in her vocabulary. Not that she was a permissive parent who let us get away with things. But more in the way that she was willing to let us try and learn our own likes, dislikes, pleasure and pain first hand.
"My mom was never really a yelling, scolding type of mom and that worked well for us. Life lessons taught with logic, love and support goes a long way to shaping a child the right way."
Kelly doesn't see any marked difference in her how mom parents now than before.
"No, the core is very much the same. My mom is home more with them but the attention, the opportunities, the lessons are all still the same."
Theresa would like for the children's birth mother to be involved in their lives but thus far she says her niece has shown little interest. In fact, Theresa's lost most contact with her niece, whose exact whereabouts she's unsure of.
"She actually did visitation with Miyonna for the first three weeks of her life and then she back slid all the way and did a disappearance act. We didn't know where she was."
The instability and unreliability of the mother were huge factors in Theresa taking charge and getting the kids in a safe home surrounded by family. She says she never wanted to have happen to these children what she's seen happen to others, such as when kids age out of the system never having been reunited with family, much less visited by them. With their biological mother out of the picture, Theresa saw no option but to step up.
"It's hard to forge your own identity when your identity has been connected with state administrators," she says of foster children.
It's not the first time she's taken in loved ones in need. When her uncle Joe Glass lived in a Milwaukee nursing home and was going to be transferred to a veterans home near the Canadian border, far from any family, Theresa and her brother James brought him to Omaha.
Growing up, she saw the example of her family take in childhood friend Cathy Hughes when Cathy's musician mother Helen Jones Woods was on the road. Hughes said growing up she and Theresa thought they were "blood sisters."
Theresa's three birth daughters have embraced her returning to parenting young kids again all these years later. She says they've all accepted and bonded with their new siblings and go out of their way in spoiling them. "They don't want for anything," she says of her little ones.
Kelly speaks for her sisters when she says they all admire and support their mother in assuming this new responsibility at her age but that it doesn't surprise them.
"That is just my mom. I don't think she thought of it as parenting at her age, she just saw a need and filled it. Age really didn't play into it, although she did discuss it with us because doing the right thing would impact all of us. My mom always does the 'right thing,' and right doesn't mean easy and she accepts that whenever she takes on a task, a role, a responsibility.
"My grandmother raised her and this is what my grandmother did and would have done if she was alive. Her opting to raise the kids did not surprise any of us in the least. It is the one characteristic both my parents had and handed down to us: Do what you can, when you can and share of yourself, your home, your belongings and your wealth (regardless of how much money you have or don't have). It's the right thing to do to help someone else, especially family."
Kelly and her sister Gabrielle have each assumed similar super-nurturing roles as their mother. Kelly, who has three children of her own, has acted as a surrogate mom to athletes coached by her husband. Gabrielle is now the adult female figure in the home of her equally famous boyfriend, NBA superstar Dwyane Wade, whose two sons and a nephew live with him in Miami.
Theresa's justifiably proud of her three grown children, each a successful, independent woman in her own right. Kelly's a corporate executive. Tracy's a facilities coordinator at Arizona State University and Gabrielle's the movie star. Just as she feels she well prepared her older girls for life she hopes to do the same for their young siblings.
"I got my three grown daughters there healthy and educated and then they had to travel it on themselves. Hopefully I can do this another time and the three young ones will be healthy and educated and they'll be able to move on and enjoy their lives. Nobody has to be famous but you have to be able enjoy and sustain your life. I think my girls have done really well and I hope the next ones do, too.
"This time it's a different experience and we're working it out."
She says most of her parenting the first time happened in the suburbs compared to the inner city, where she, her brother and the kids live today. She's struck by the stark difference between the two environments and their impact on children.
Gun violence and street gangs were foreign to west Omaha and Pleasanton but the northeast Omaha she's come back to is rife with criminal activity. Where Pleasanton lacked for no amenities North Omaha has major gaps.
"It's interesting that this neighborhood doesn't have the things that we had when we were young. The (black) population has been dispersed throughout the city. Things you take for granted, conveniences you have right there in the suburbs, are not so readily available in the inner city. It's a lack of resources, lack of everything right in this neighborhood for raising children. So I had to start looking for the village (the proverbial village that helps raise a child). My village is right here. I have Kellom School and I have Educare."
Gabrielle says the way her mother intentionally seeks out educational and cultural opportunities for the young kids she's raising now reminds her of how she did the same thing when she and her sisters were coming up. She says her mom's always been about expanding children's minds through enriching experiences.
Theresa says the dearth of programs for young kids in northeast Omaha "is what prompted me to join the board of the Bryant Center Association – so we could add things (like recreation activities and counseling services)."
The nonprofit association operates the Bryant Center, a community oasis at 24th and Grant Streets that aims to improve the lives of youth, young adults and seniors. Administrators are looking to expand programming. Theresa recently prevailed upon Cathy Hughes to co-chair the association's capital fundraising campaign.
In the final analysis Theresa doesn't consider rearing young children at her age as anything heroic or out of the ordinary. It all comes back to family and doing the right thing. "I don't call it being a saint," she says. "You always take care of your own."
She wants others to know they can do what she's doing. An aunt or a grandmother or another relation can be the parent when Mom and Dad cannot.
"It is a doable process, especially in Omaha, because there is other help available. There are families out there that could do this with their own because there is support for you in the community. Sometimes you have to really search for it depending on what your needs are. But even if there's a problem where the natural parents aren't available to participate, you can raise the children so they are still a part of a family."
Helping navigate the experience is ENOA's Grandparent Resource Center. It offers free monthly support group meetings, crisis phone intervention, transportation assistance, access to legal advice and referrals to other services and programs. Participants need only be age 55 or above.
Center coordinator Debra Scott, who is raising her granddaughter, says caregivers need to know they don't have to do it alone. "Don't be afraid to ask for help," she says. "I'm learning I can't be everything to everybody, I need to ask for help and that's where this program comes in."
Call 402-444-6536, ext. 297 to inquire how the center may be able to help you or a senior caregiver you know.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - You shared with us your five favorite dive sites in Southwest Florida and WINK News is taking you to each one.
Last month, we showed you a reef named for the famous inventor Thomas Edison. Now, we're diving your fourth favorite spot, a reef not created by man but by nature.
21 miles into the Gulf, you'll find one of nature's unique creations: the 240 ledge.
Named for the 240 degree heading from the Sanibel Lighthouse, the ledge starts and stops; it's full length not even known.
It's vast size means more to see and more fish.
"The ledge is really popular for its sportfish there. So your groupers and snappers are always found there," says Mike Campbell, Environmental Specialist with Lee County Department of Natural Resources.
Along with the big sport fish, you'll find plenty of smaller tropical fish. Marine-life on the ledge reminds me of what it might be like to swim in a saltwater aquarium. The ledge's low profile attracts smaller animals, but larger fish still make their presence known.
For instance, the "king" of the ledge is a Goliath Grouper. Weighing about 600 pounds, with an entourage of bait fish and even a remora in tow, the "king" can barely fit his massive body under the five foot ledge.
Campbell describes natural ledges like these as swiss cheese.
"You've got all these fish going into this crevice, this ledge on the bottom. Then you'll see them pop up out of these holes ten feet away," Campbell says. "It's pretty funny, all the cracks and crevices. It's a very complex ecosystem."
On our ascent, translucent saucers bob around us, dozens of moon jellies, some a foot in diameter. Their graceful demeanor disguises their ability to sting. I leave them floating effortlessly and depart the care-free underwater world.
Next month, we continue our dive series with Captiva Blue Hole, a massive sinkhole off Lee County's coast the descends nearly 200 feet! It's an underwater adventure you won't want to miss.


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I don't know how I feel about New Year's Resolutions for me this year. Last year I wanted my motto to be "Will this make you happy?" and the intent was for me to ask myself that question every time I was faced with a cookie, some ice cream, or a desire to skip the gym. Well, I forgot about that question. I just remembered now because I'm thinking about the New Year.
Right now I can't think of anything I really want to change about my life... at least nothing big enough to make into a resolution. I guess I could always go with the "I want to lose these last 15 pounds," and while it sounds good, I've been Sparking long enough to know that my lifestyle (with which I am currently happy) keeps me from losing more than a few ounces a month.
And I *could* make "track all my food" a resolution, but that implies that i didn't do it enough in 2010. And I did. I mean, I did enough for me. Sometimes I just didn't feel like tracking and sometimes I did. So maybe "more consistent tracking" can be a goal for me.
The other issue I have with resolutions is that they are a whole year thing! Some of you are very good at sticking to long-term goals and seeing far into the future. I am not. I have trouble seeing past next week.
So I thought about my "resolutions" today while I was sweating it up at the gym, and I decided that I'm going to stick to weekly goals. But to get into the spirit, I *am* going to make some relatively big changes. Not this week, though, because I'm still on vacation...
Here goes.
This week:
I will drink four Siggs of water a day.
I will write down in my journal everything I ate each day, and I will enter it into Spark on Friday. I enjoy the physical act of writing, so I think this is totally do-able for me. I think that I haven't been tracking my food consistently because it's such a tedious task for me. I like the idea of taking one evening and getting it all done.
I will write down all my workouts in my journal and enter them into Spark on a Friday. Same reason as nutrition.
I will take my calcium twice a day.
Since this week is a vacation week for me, I'm not going to set the alarm. I love sleeping in until I wake up and being able to decide when things get done. But after this week, I am going to spend more time at the gym in the morning and more time at night getting stuff ready for the following day. I get up really early, and there is no reason I shouldn't be able to get in a good hour-long workout before school.
The chicken is done roasting... it just needs to rest a little bit before dinner. I think I'll have a little veggie with it and a big glass of water. Some kind of fruit for dessert - I am cookie-d and pastry-ed out for the season. And while I could easily eat more cookies, I have to get my body back into craving fruits and veggies and other good stuff.
Cookie pudge, no more!
I Am Fit, I Am Fit, I Am Fit!
(Sung to the tune of - you guessed it - "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!")
Oh the tummy roll is so frightful,
but the gym is so delightful!
I get to work up a sweat...
I am fit, I am fit, I am fit!
The cookies, they were delicious.
But not so much nutritious.
I washed them all down with water,
I am fit, I am fit I am fit!
When the post-Christmas days are here...
I'll still fit in my new size 4 coat.
I'll pass up excess holiday cheer...
And then I will just have to gloat!
I didn't drink too much egg nog,
or chow down on the chocolate.
I'm headed out for a run,
I am fit, I am fit, I am fit!
That's what my alarm read this morning. There's nothing like a little typed guilt to make me get up and go to the gym. But more than the guilt, I think it's more that the cookie-eating just happened. Right now, I don't know that "bikini!" on my phone would work, seeing as it's barely 20 degrees out right now. That would almost certainly inspire me to curl up under the covers even more.
"You ate too much last week!" wouldn't have worked - I already forgot what I even did last week, let alone what I ate.
So at this point on my journey, I am focusing on goals that are more short-term. I think it's important that we are flexible enough to change our goals, or at least the manner in which we attain them, when our mind and body want us to. There was a point where I looked far ahead - losing 25 pounds. That's no small feat! And it doesn't happen in a week, or even a month. I was able to see that far ahead. And it worked for me. I tracked my food every single day for every single morsel I put in my mouth. I planned out my workouts for a month in advance. I loved it!
But lately, my goals are more short-term. "Make it to the gym this morning. Run two miles." For good or for bad that's how it is for me. It's hard for me to see "losing another 15 pounds," because losing these last *two* has taken me forever. And honestly (I'm going to use the holidays here), I don't feel like focusing on weight-loss during the holidays. This is the first year in a long time where I have really felt the holiday spirit... not that I don't like Christmas, but this year I've been especially thankful and jolly and peace-ful and joy-ful. And for me, that means going to parties and having dessert and wine.
I have been consistent about going to the gym in the morning, and it's helped me stay in my "Very Skinny Pants" that I bought in the fall. So I guess in a way, "morning gym 4-5 times a week" is kind of like a goal that I meet each day and week. But I don't think of it that way. Just like I no longer think of "eat a healthy lunch" as a goal... I just do it. The healthy lunch is just who I am. And right now, the morning gym person is just who I am.
So anyway, I guess I'm saying that it's kind of funny how our goals evolve. Things we do now... maybe we never imagined doing those things as part of our every day. Things we will do... things we never in a million years thought we'd try to do, and things that we don't even know we'll do yet!
Off to heat up the car... Happy Winter Solstice!
I love to bake my Christmas gifts. I love to bake, and I'm pretty good at it. I just bought a cookie scoop - the cookies look wonderful this year. So I spent all day baking!
The original plan was to bake tomorrow - a friend was going to come up and bake, but she canceled on me. I knew that would happen - she cancels on me a lot. I was really bummed out, though. It turns out that she was staying up at her boyfriend's family's house to watch the football game tomorrow. But what ticked me off even more than her leaving me hanging was that she didn't even bother to tell me about it. I texted her this afternoon- "I have the cookie stuff ready!" and she *then* informed me that she was staying away all day tomorrow. Well when the heck were you going to tell me???
And then if that wasn't bad enough, she wrote "I'm really sorry... but I have a Christmas gift for you." And I love gifts, but a while back we agreed not to get each other presents because she has no money. Which is fine, I like to spend time with my friends. But now I have to go out and get something for her, which I don't even really want to do because I'm ticked off about this weekend. ARGH And how did she magically get money? Did she borrow it from her boyfriend? Did she get me something just because she feels bad about this weekend?
I HATE feeling like I don't matter. Like baking cookies with me is the last resort... if something better doesn't come up, I'll bake cookies with you.
Well you know what? It worked out for the best anyway. After wallowing in my self pity, I cranked up the Christmas music, opened the bottle of wine (yes, it was 1:00 in the afternoon, but hey...), got the oven going, and busted out some Christmas cookies. Today is Bake Cookies Day anyway, so it was like I HAD to bake today. They look great. And tomorrow, I am heading out to buy some containers so I can wrap them up. I have lots of cookies, so lots of people are getting delicious gifts from me.
And another good thing is that Brad has a day off tomorrow. So instead of spending it baking cookies, I am going to spend my day having quality honey time. I'll take it. He has some Christmas shopping to do online, so I plan to go to the gym while he does some click-and-ship.
And despite having about 150 cookies in the house, I only ate four. I had one peanut butter, one lemon drop, and two chocolate chip-oatmeal. Quality control, people, quality control. Tomorrow I have to make (well not *have* to make, but want to make) molasses cakes. They are perfect for the holidays - full of yummy spices.
For the rest of the night I think I will make some tags for my hot chocolate gifts, labels for my cookies, and get my list of lucky cookie recipients together.
So my parting question - what do I do about a Christmas gift for the friend? I don't want to spite her and not get her anything, but I haven't even thought about it since I thought we weren't shopping for each other...
While December has not been a bad month for eating or working out (I'm quite pleased with it, all things considered), it hasn't been the greatest for goal setting. It's not good or bad, it just *is*. But I know that once the craziness of the season is over, I should get back to more of a routine so I can kick this layer of fat to the curb.
I've been staying up late with Brad the last few weeks. And while it's wonderful to spend time with him, my sleep time has been sacrificed. And I LOVE to sleep. This is this time of year when I wake up at 5:00 to get to the gym (I can't even think about going after school), so going to bed at 10 or 11 doesn't give me enough sleep time.
So post-holidays, back to a regulated sleep schedule it is. Eight hours is ideal. And while it's going to be a little strange going to bed so early again, I did it before - I can do it again. Not only will it keep me from getting so tired during the day, it will be a big part of my weight-loss efforts.
So there it is - 2011 goal #1.


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Recovery from what? Drug addiction. RADE is situate in the OLV Building very close to St. Patrick's Cathedral right in the heart of historic Dublin where the eight programme participants from the locality have been rehearsing five days a week since early August. When I saw them a week ago there were twelve more working days before the first public performance of their piece entitled Source which is an interaction between dance, theatre and film and will preview on September 16th 2014 in South Studios as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe.
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MAPLE PARK (WIFR) -- After many weeks of losing battles with Mother Nature, Sycamore Speedway was finally able to open for the 2013 season. Attached are the details of the first night of racing.
The guys & girls of racing showed up all revved up and ready to race. The buzz in the pits carried through to the fans in the stands that spent a good part of the evening on their feet cheering for their favorite driver. It was hard to not be excited with 3 wide racing & several leader changes in many of the races.
Next week they hit the big track with "The Spring Shootout".
General Manager, Tiffany Gerace says "I can't wait to see the racers test their skills on the big track. They started the season very determined and I feel we will have many more nights of action packed racing. We hope you all can make it out."
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