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The past few weeks have been stressful I have ran the office I work at alone for two weeks while my boss was in Europe. I am a little jealous because I feel that because he is never their and I pretty much do everything I should have gone also he called twice and complained that things were not the way he wanted them: concerning that they had no T.V. when they were in Portugal and could not make dinner reservations until 8:00 P.M. I would give anything to go anywhere no matter weather, country etc... to be with Jamie alone so we could explore and have the opportunity to learn of another's culture. ( by the way it was paid for by one of our Insurance Companies.) I know wah, wah, wah. I am over it now, have accepted it and have moved on. I feel great that I do not hold any resentment or grudge, yeah!!!!

On the other hand Jamie and I found out that a very dear close friend actually one of our best friends has Leukemia it is in the bones, as of right now we do not know
the extent of it and we just sit and wait for answers. His name is Pete Butler he's 51 and is one of the best people I know, he was adopted while an infant so he has no
family background of health history, I do know that if he does need bone marrow I will be one of the first to see if I am a match. Pete is one of those worthy opponents that Jamie has wrote about.

I got a phone call tonight from Jamie's brother telling me that Jamie's mom more than likely had a mini-stroke, is in the hospital getting test run. If you knew her like me you would think , what? Kathy, Jamie's mom, walks every-day eats pretty healthy works at night, and would do anything for her family, she is loving, forgiving, honest, fun. by the way she is only 57. Jamie and I have a pretty good idea why she is stressed to the max . Her daughter who is my age (for those who don't know I am 38 but look 28 hee- hee) has moved back home again with her two daughters, one who is 17 and the other is 2. Her daughter Barb has put Jamie's mom through the wringer worse than me to mom and dad and for those who think Katie has put Debbie through the wringer. 100's time worse!!!!!!!!!! Kathy does not deserve this, she now needs people to do things for her, the unfortunate part of this is that only Jamie and I see it and are the only one's to tell her too bad were doing this for ya whether you want us to or not. That is so fun when you can tell a stubborn parent : to back off man!!! She is a awesome lady!!

Uncle George has to start dialysis, his one and only U shaped kidney is not working very well, he cannot be put on a kidney transplant until he starts it.
I gotta hand it to Margie, I saw her the other day and is holding up very well, at least on the outside. George is okay but gets uncomfortable when he is in one position too long. He still says smart-assy things so that says something.

Debbie is sick had a tooth pulled that was infected and still is infected, she sounds like @@*#&. sorry Debbie!

Jamie is forever working way too many hours he is way beyond stressed and I fear that he will have a heart attack. He cannot sleep and is starting to get the "tick in his eyes" not good people. The last 2 days he has calmed down maybe cuz I expressed my concern of his health and that I would kick his ass if he got sick.

Tyler, well what do I say, he has been so respectful, grown-up, more caring and more attentive since he has gotten home, but he still stresses me out.
ya know the teen-age thing, where are going blah blah blah. who is that girl, where are the raincoats? Maybe it is me because I always have in the back of my mind that he will be leaving again in less than a year and it only makes it closer for him to go to Afghanistan, or Iraq or something to that nature. I am okay with it because that is what Tyler wants, but it is still freaky.

So after the stressful couple of weeks and news I have gotten, I feel pretty level-headed, I don't quite know if it is because I have finally learned to deal or if I am sub-consciously not dealing with it. I will have to talk to dad he seems to always be able to calm me down. that's weird huh?

David if you could, please mention Pete, Kathy, Uncle George, Jamie and yeah Debbie's tooth in your next sermon. I would greatly appreciate it.
and to whoever else, throw some positive thoughts their way. For they deserve it.


Thanks for listening or rather reading

Lots Of Love

Jodi