C-PAP

Well, it seems that I do need a C-Pap (snorkel). The clinic called a little while ago and said that the doctor said that I do need a C-Pap and that he wants me to come in for another night at the clinic so that they can observe me wearing it before I bring one home. They had an opening for tonight, but with the unpredictable weather we are having I asked for the next available date which will be Thursday night. Just as long as I don't have to miss Big Brother 6!!

Well here I am. At the sleep clinic, all wired up and ready for the night.
Vickie

My Night at the Sleep Clinic!

I got to the clinic about 5 minutes till 8 last night and had to wait till someone got there to let me in. I beat the tech there. There was only me and one other lady there for the clinic. The tech showed me to my room, which was very nice. Double bed, comfortable chair, ceiling fan, cable tv and a really nice big bath. I could stay a week if they'd let me.
She told me to get my pj's on and watch tv or read until she got through with the other patient and she would be back to wire me up for the night. She came in around 9:30pm and by 10 I was in bed, had my Ambien and it was lights out. When that Ambien kicked in , I was out. I woke up once a couple hours later needing to go to the little girls room, so she came and unhooked me and I made a quick trip and right back into bed. The next thing I remember she was waking me up to go home. I thought I had just gone to sleep.
I was home by 5:30am. I had to wash my hair as soon as I got here to get all that gooey stuff that they attach those electrobes to your head with out of my hair.
Well, it is now a little after 7 and I thought I would go ahead and post my evening before I hit the sack. Gotta go finish sleeping off that Ambien. GOOD NIGHT!!!! (MORNING)whatever!!

Sleep Clinic

I called the Sleep Clinic this afternoon to see if maybe they had a cancellation and the woman told me that she just got off the phone with someone cancelling for Sunday night. She said that she hadn't even had time to see who to call for a reschedule. I said, "Well, I want it!" She said well ok. So now instead of having to wait till Sept 6th, I am now going this Sunday night. YIPEE!! I'm getting closer and closer.

I bet ya'll can't tell that Na-Na was mad at me.
Vickie

Don't ya'll just LOVE my hair-do?
Vickie

I love this picture of Momma and Daddy. They were newlyweds.
Vickie

Scrub-a-Dub-Dub!!
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My two little sisters! This was probably in 1962.
Vickie

Can you guys guess who this baby is?
Vickie

Me and Crystal. She was about 6 weeks old here.
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AWE!! It's Crystal Dawn!

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MY MOMMA!!

She was one crazy lady. I sure do miss her too. Really bad!!!!
Vickie

And yet another step!!

Today went really good. All I had to do was fill out a pile of paperwork ank to do Doc. Now my Sleep Clinic is set for Tuesday, Sept. 6th unless they have another cancellation. The nurse/receptionist has my name on the cancellation list. Very nice lady. Her name was Vickie. Good name.
The day of the clinic, I will show up a little after 8pm. By 10pm they will have me all wired up and tucked in bed. They wake you between 5:30 and 6am to leave. I wonder if they'll have a Sushi Bar! HHMM!!
My thing is, I don't normally go to bed till anywhere between 3 and 5 am and sleep till 1 and 2 pm. I'm totally a night person. Hope they have plenty of Ambien.

ONE DAY CLOSER !!

After tomorrow I will be one step closer to having my surgery. YIPEE!!!! My appointment for me to see the Sleep Apnea Doctor was set for Sept. 13th. I had called several times to see if they had any cancellations and they had me on the cancellation list. I called again this morning to see if they had any cancellations and as of then they didn't but informed me that if they did they would call me. Well, at 5:15 pm I got a call saying they had a cancellation for in the morning at 9:30 and could I come in. YES, YES. YES!!!
So I will be there in the morning and then they will set me up for the clinic. That's where you go in a spend the night all wired up to see how many times you stop breathing while you're asleep.
Have you ever seen anyone so excited about going to a Sleep Apnea Clinic before? That just goes to show you how boring my life is. LOL

Hurry Up FALL!!!

Man, I am so ready for FALL!! I hate the hot weather. I LOVE the fall. The cool crispness of the air, sleeping with the fan in the window under a quilt, wearing sweats and socks, hot chocolate, the smell of the falling leaves. Nothing like it.

YUMMO!!!

Today, Crystal and I went to Stix and I ate my very first Sushi. I have also always wanted to try some caviar and my sushi was rolled in the tiny orange caviar and MMMMMMMMMM, oh so good. The next time I go, all I'm eating is Sushi. I love cold foods and Sushi is served cold. YUMMO!!! We also had their Shrimp LoMein. It was delicious, but I loved the Sushi. I wish they would deliver, I would call them right now.
I am most definately going there for my last big meal before my surgery. I guess Danny won't be going with me. Today I told him that I ate my first caviar and my first sushi. He asked where I got the sushi. I said that I got it in Hoover. He said, "You went ALL THE WAY to Hoover to eat Sushi?" I said, "Yes! I drove 7 miles to eat Sushi. I guess the next time I go, I'll just pack me a suitcase and spend the night in a hotel since I'm so far from home." He said, "Oh Shut-up!"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAZZLE-DAZZLE!!!

Vickie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BON-BON!!!!

Vickie

STAND IN AGREEMENT WITH ME FOR JOSIAH!!!

"Father, in the name of Jesus, we confess Your Word concerning healing. As we do this, we believe and say that Your Word will not return to you void, but will accomplish what it says it will. Therefore, we believe in the name of Jesus that DANIEL JOSIAH ATCHISON is healed according to I Peter 2:24. It is written in Your Word that Jesus himself took his infirmities and bore his sicknesses. (Matt. 8:17). Therefore, with great boldness and confidence we say on the authority of that written Word that JOSIAH is redeemed from the curse of sickness and JOSIAH refuses to tolerate its symptoms.

"SATAN, WE SPEAK TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND SAY THAT YOUR PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, YOUR MASTER SPIRITS WHO RULE THE PRESENT DARKNESS, AND YOUR SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HEAVENLY PLACES ARE BOUND FROM OPERATING AGAINST JOSIAH IN ANY WAY. JOSIAH IS LOOSED FROM YOUR ASSIGNMENT. JOSIAH IS THE PROPERTY OF ALMIGHTY GOD AND WE GIVE YOU NO PLACE IN JOSIAH. JOSIAH DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD; JOSIAH ABIDES, REMAINS STABLE AND FIXED UNDER THE ALMIGHTY, WHOSE POWER NO FOE CAN WITHSTAND."

Now, Father, because we reverence and worship You, we have the assurance of Your Word that the angel of the Lord encamps around about Josiah and delivers Josiah from every evil work. No evil shall befall Josiah, no plaque or calamity shall come near his dwelling. We confess the Word of God abides in Josiah and delivers to him perfect soundness of mind and wholeness in body and spirit from the deepest parts of his nature in his immortal spirit even to the joints and marrow of his bones. That Word is medication and life to his flesh for the law of the Spirit of life operates in Josiah and makes him free from the law of sin and death.

"We and Josiah have on the whole armor of God and the shield of faith that protects us from all the fiery darts of the wicked. Jesus is the High Priest of our confession, and we hold fast to our confession of faith in Your Word. We stand immovable and fixed in full assurance that Josiah has health and healing NOW in the name of Jesus."

Vickie

BEAUTIFUL BABY!!!
Vickie

This is probably one of the snapshots that will be put to music on a DVD to be shown at Ashtyn's wedding while playing the song, "You are the wind beneath my wings"!
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Amber & Ashtyn at the beach.
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Aunt Vickie told my Mom that she hopes that Mom gets sand in her panties while at the beach. Well I'm not gonna. Yulk!!
Vickie

This is for my two sisters, Diane and Renee. Do you two have any fond memories of this place?
Vickie

FACTS

According to this book I have the name Calera is Spanish for 'lime'!! Cool, huh!!

Sweet Home Alabama

Alabama, the name of our beautiful state means: "Here we rest"! It was named by the Indians. Don't know what tribe, but the Alabama Indians included the Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws and the Creeks. Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819, with a population of 127,000 people.

Little Bandit!!

Danny and I have a little visitor that loves to come ride Danny's riding lawnmower. I don't know if you can tell or not but it's a raccoon. He is so cute!! Click on the picture and it will come full screen so you can get a better look.
Vickie

Famous Motivational Quote

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron

Old Dog New Tricks!!

Don't tell me you can't teach this old dog new tricks.
My PC has been running very slow lately and even freezin' up on me some. I know that she's pretty dusty and I'm sure the little fans in there are pretty coated with all kinds of fuzz because my PC is in my sewing room. There's always fuzz flying in here. So, I talk to Nathan Acton, because he's so stinkin' computer smart and he's my PC buddy, and asked him if it's ok if I take the cover off my tower and get me some canned air and clean her out. He says sure, but to PLEASE be sure and unplug her. Okie dokie!! So I go to Staples and I get me a twin pk of 2-10 oz. cans of air and I'll ready to roll.
I get home, unplug her, take her to the living room and set her up on my ottoman in front of my chair and I proceed to take the cover off. I look it over real good and the only screw I see that I can take out, I do. But, the cover won't budge. I tug and pry with my trusty little screw driver and she ain't budging and I know that if you are having to force something, you ain't doing it right. So I call Daniel, my-son-in-law, (he's my favorite son-in-law), and got him to run over to see if he can figure it out. He's pretty computer savvy, but he can't figure it out either.
He leaves and I call Deb Acton. She pretty computer savvy also. She even built her own but she doesn't know how mine comes off. I finally decide to do what I should have done in the first place; get out the manual, DUH!!!
Oh well, that was a old trick that this old girl forgot to use, which should have been the first thing I should have done. Piece of cake. Unscrew that onelittle screw, press the little black button and she slides right off. I blew the garbage out of her. I had dust in my mouth, up my nose, in my eyes, my hair and all over me and my chair.
I get her all cleaned out, put her cover back on, plug everything back in, turn her on and she runs like a new one. YEAH!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud of myself.
See what you can do if you read the manual first.

A Complex!!!

I'm beginning to wonder if anybody ever reads my blog anymore. I'm about to get a complex. Yes, I'm having a pity party. If you read my blog, how about giving a shout out to little ole' me, PLEASE!!!!!

DISCOVERY

WOW!! How amazing that was to watch; the shuttle, Discovery, coming in for a landing. Whwn I went to bed, I set my clock for 6:30am so I could be up to see the shuttle land on live coverage. I tried my best to go to sleep, but at 6:25, I was still awake so I went ahead and got up. It is now 8:42 am and I'm still up. But, WOW, to be able to see that was awesome!!!!!!!

I have to brag on my little man, Danny. This is a picture of a truck that he just finished building. AWESOME job!!!!
Vickie

Peter Jennings

My heart and prayers go out to the Jennings family in the loss of such a great man that I will miss and have missed for the past several months on the news. Peter Jennings passed away Sunday, August 7, 2005 from complications of lung cancer. He was 67.
Vickie

Spoiling Grand-baby Time!!

While Keith and Lindy are in Bay Minette, Mercy is staying the week-end and all next week here in town with her three sets of Grand-parents. She will spend several days and nights with each of us. Danny and I will have her Tuesday am till sometime Thursday. That will probably be enough for me because she is so active. She is so much like Keith. She has a very high metabolism and a very short attention span. I love having her though. She's so beautiful. She knows how to play her Pappa too. Danny would stand on his head over hot-coals if thats what she wanted. SAD isn't it? LOL!!!

A Very Pleasant Evening!

Keith and Lindy are now in Bay Minette for a interview and to check out a church in Bay Minette. They came in last night. Lindy had a migrane and it was past Mercy's bedtime so Keith dropped them off at Lindy's parents house and he came over to visit with us for awhile. He got here about 8:30 and Danny and I hadn't eat supper yet. Danny was re-heating some peas and cornbread and I had thawed out a couple T-Bone steaks. Danny had rather have peas. So Keith and I had T-Bones. Yummo!! I love my Foreman Grill. While we were eating Crystal walked over and we just sat around and talked. It was a really nice evening.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!!!!

Mama at my and Danny's wedding being goofey as always. I miss that so much!!
Vickie

This is me, Betty Morrison, Shirley Gatlin, Crystal and Nancy Stone in the back-ground. This is the very first year that we put on The Gospel According To Scrooge. I think it was one of the best years we had for scrooge. We had so much fun. Wish in some ways we could turn back the clock.
Vickie

My little man and I at a Valentine Banquet at church. It was really nice. I LOVE my glasses!
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HMMM!! I bet ya'll didn't know I was famous. Well here I am with Governor Guy Hunt shaking my hand. We had a banquet at the old Alabaster First Assembly of God, now Kingwood, for him, and I was one of the greeters. How about that hair-do and them glasses. Nothin' but CLASS!!!!
Vickie