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Name: Karla
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Interests: i like cooking, playing guitar, singing, i like things that are funny, i like american idol b/c it has things that are singing and things that are funny and sometimes both at once. i'd say kirk, but he's more than an interest (if you know what i mean)
Expertise: well, i don't want to brag...alright, i'll brag. let's see...i'm pretty good with the bowstaff. i also make good cheesecake, and i'm good at laughing when i should not.
Occupation: Military
Industry: Art
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/3/2005
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| i've known for awhile now that my blog location is fairly lame. it inspires me to not post very often, so i'm going to try to fix that. i've moved over here and i'm hoping that i will post more often. even if i don't, it's past time to get out of here!
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| here's what we've been doing recently:
on thursday, we had kirk's family and the lozada family over for an ecuadorian meal.
here's malia, happy to see her aunt and uncle again (i know, she's cute!)
and kai, who was obsessed with my hotpads that evening
kirk did a stupendous job grilling the carne asada
and angelita did a stupendous job making...well, everything else
it's hard to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time
the next evening kenton, karissa, and the kids came over to swim in aunt karla's NEW POOL...
i'm pretty sure the deal is sealed: i'm noah's new favorite aunt! (sorry, kristin, karla, kendra and kayleen!)
such a cutie...
and then it was time to leave and he was so sad to leave aunt karla...or was it the pool?
but you can always come back the next day to play in my pool! (ahhh, i just love being an aunt)
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| yesterday for my birthday i got a rose for every year of my short, young (ish) life.  that's a lot of roses! kirk was very creative; he gave me two roses every hour throughout the day, starting when he brought me breakfast in bed. we have a group here, though, and he couldn't always be the one to deliver them to me, so he recruited the staff to take turns giving them to me as well. anyway, it was very sweet, and made the day very special. in the evening kirk and i went to mozart's piano cafe and had tiramisu and coffee. it was great! apparently, the thing he was trying to buy me as a gift could not be found, so we'll resume birthday celebrations once the group is gone.
my mom is doing well, by the way. as far as i know, she's still adjusting to the meds they put her on which make her tired.
here are some pictures of my roses.
i may not look that impressed, but i am!
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| as i like to say: there's only one way to find out.
first of all, my mom is doing well, and did not have a stent put in yesterday. the good news is that there is no damage to her heart from the heart attack, there's no cholesterol build-up, and her blood pressure is fine. the bad news is that there's some strange never-seen-before-by-this-doctor dissection (a split, i guess) in a blood vessel that was the blockage that caused the heart attack. so, they don't know what to do with that just yet. apparently it is genetic, but not hereditary. so now we're praying for wisdom for the doctor to know what to do with this. they can't put a stent in there, by the way. keep in mind that this is my understanding of everything and may possibly not be the best or most accurate description. thanks again for your comments and for praying.
on a lighter side...does anyone find this as entertaining as i do? you may have to read it several times just to soak it all in. it just makes me want to go and meet her and eat some sausage and help her push this truck with no engine out of the way. i don't really want the freezer though.
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| on saturday i was very surprised to get a phone call from my dad, saying that he had taken my mom into the ER a couple of hours before for severe chest pain. totally out of the blue, let me tell you. by the next morning i found out that she had had a mild heart attack. she just turned 56 and she's never had heart problems before, so it was a pretty big shock. anyway, she's been in the hospital ever since to be monitored and medicated, etc. early this morning she was flown to winnipeg to see a cardiologist. she had an angiogram this morning, and was supposed to have a stent put in. i'm just sitting here waiting for a phone call to find out how everything went. supposedly a straight forward procedure, and she may even be taken back home today. besides praying about that, i've been praying that my dad was able to go along on the flight with her. he emailed at 4:30 this morning, saying that he still wasn't sure if they would have room on the flight for him. he was pretty sure they would though. so, i'm kind of curious about that too. i would just use my cell phone to call his cell phone, but there are certain disadvantages to living in different countries. so, i will just wait.
there's nothing like your mother having a heart attack to make you think. on saturday afternoon, while i was waiting for the second phone call to see what the result of all the testing would show, i was doing things like making lasagna, baking shortcake, chopping strawberries, cleaning up the house (we had guests for supper, btw). i wasn't looking for nostalgic feelings or anything, but i automatically thought with every little thing i did how mom has affected the way i do things, and how i do things because she did them. i really felt a lot of gratitude for all the things she's passed down to me without me even realizing it. also, i was a pretty scared during that time, but not sure if it would turn out to be something serious or not.
my sister just called and said that mom is just now going into surgery right now (it was delayed for some reason), and that my dad did get to go along! good news, but i was hoping it would be over by now.
ok, i'm kind of losing my train of thought now. probably b/c i'm trying to multitask...
last night kirk and i went down to the basement from about midnight to 12:30ish to wait out a tornado warning. the sirens were going off, there was a lot of thunder and lightning, and kirk went upstairs at one point and said it looked like a hurricane outside. anyway, we survived it without any damage, and apparently no tornadoes touched down anywhere in the area. so, thank God for that.
wow, exciting times, these days! i could use a little less of all this kind of excitement, but that's ok. i hate things that sound cliche, but i will say that i can feel that God is in control. in a very loving way, i must say. it's funny that when i'm in control it usually doesn't come across so loving to people. hmm...interesting.
anyway, that's all for now. thanks for your prayers for my mom and dad and our family.
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