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  • Facebook

    Hey you! Yes YOU! Be sure to add me as a Friend on Facebook!

    Brian Volpone

    Good job!

  • Mom

    I’m missing my Mom a lot these days. I wish we could talk and I could ask her advice. Or just hang out with her. My schedule is always so busy that sometimes while she was here I didn’t appreciate those opportunities, but now that she’s gone …

    Sigh. Maybe I’m just feeling stress from other things, but I wish I could still talk to her once in a while.

  • Make a new friend

    I’ve got a friend you should check out. This woman from our church posts once a week, and writes a nice blog. It started as a correspondence that she’d send to prisoners, old friends and anyone else whom she could encourage. From there, she added email (the same letter as the hard copy, still once a week). I suggested she also post as a Xanga blog since she does a good job and more people should see her stuff.

    Her topics are interesting, sometimes book reviews or even just the goings on on her farm. Darlene will sometimes post helpful hints or interesting anecdotes. All in all, it’s worth your read. And since she only posts once a week, she won’t overwhelm your inbox!

    So make a new friend in 2009. Do yourself a favor and check out Darlene at:

  • Happy 2009, everyone!

    I hope this new year brings you many blessings. May this be your best year ever.

    Btw, what was the biggest event that happened to you in 2008? (Yes, you may choose more than one.)

  • Earthquake

    Wow! We just had an earthquake. Very freaky! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008bcah.php

    I think that’s the first one I remember experiencing.

  • This isn’t really funny …

    One of the cool things that’s happened this year is that Bev and I now work together in the same office. She’s become our company’s full time receptionist.

    Unfortunately, she has no vacation time and I’ve got off until January 5th, so we don’t have this vacation time together. Sigh. Maybe next year.

  • Hannah

    Edit: I’m updating the timestamp so everyone gets a chance to see this. Would you mind recommending this post? Maybe we can get it featured and then more people can get involved. Thanks!

    This is not a hoax nor an urban legend. Hannah lives in my town, and her situation has been in the news around here.

    I’m going to paste some information below, then give you a few websites where you can get more details about Hannah. If the Lord leads, would you take a few minutes to share love with this family?

    From www.snopes.com

    Many of you may remember my dear friend, Chris Garman, who lost her battle with breast cancer 2 years ago. When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she was pregnant with her third child. Her doctors didn’t think Chris would live through her pregnancy without treatment, so they took a chance & gave her chemo while she was pregnant. Chris survived her pregnancy & had a beautiful, healthy little girl named Hannah Faith.

    Chris died when Hannah was three.

    Hannah is almost five, and this breaks my heart all over again, but In October, Hannah has been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and incurable brain tumor. She was given about 12 weeks to live. She was going to be the flower girl in a wedding in May, but was diagnosed A week after she was asked.

    Right now she has lost most of her motor skills. She is confined to bed And cannot really do anything or play with the gifts she is getting from people, but she LOVES getting cards – she has gotten so many from people she does not know and just loves to have grandma read about the people who send them and see their pictures and is so proud of all her cards. Her room is just filled with cards.

    When asked what she wants for Christmas she said she wants to see how Many Christmas cards she can get. Many people have passed this wish along to their churches, prayer groups, friends and family. There are school groups where children are making her cards. People are including pictures so she can see who it is that is sending her the card.


    From www.caringbridge.org

    Hannah is 4 yrs old and was diagnosed in late October 2008 with a rare and aggressive cancerous brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme. To date (November 20) she has had 2 surgeries to remove the tumors. She is in therapy to work on her walking, which has been effected by the tumor. She has frequent headaches from the pressure on the brain. She is on steroids to help with the inflammation, which is causing her to gain weight rapidly.

    The doctors have given Hannah 2-3 months to live without treatment and approximately 11 months with radiation. She needs a miracle! Hannah’s father’s name is Darin and she has two older siblings – Brittany and Jordan. She has 3 sets of grandparents, 2 sets of great-grandparents and a large extended family and supportive church family.

    Her mother, Chris, passed away several years ago from cancer. Please pray for the family as they deal with cancer in the family once again. [emphasis mine]


    Here are a few websites with information about Hannah:

    Would you at least say a prayer for this little girl and her family. If the Lord leads, you can also send her a Christmas card at the following address:

    Hannah Garman
    704 Orchard Rd
    Lititz, PA 17543

    Thanks for caring!

  • What would be the first thing you would do if you were trapped in a mall?

    Look for guns and other weapons to fight off the upcoming zombie invasion (duh!).
       

    I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!

  • My car was totaled over the weekend

    My car was totaled over the weekend. It was a hit-and-run in Lancaster. The car was parked and empty so to my knowledge no one was hurt, but it’s majorly inconvenient. Sigh.

  • Should I de-friend this guy on Facebook

    Yesterday I was contacted by an old friend via Facebook. I’d gone to school with her in 9th grade, and we’d known each other after that time too.

    While looking through her friends and her friends’ friends looking for people I know, I found the name of another guy I’d gone to school with. He didn’t have a profile picture, so he must have just recently set up his site, because he has one there now. So I sent him a friend invitation which he accepted today.

    So now that I see his picture, he looks a lot older than I. Well, maybe I look older than I think I do, right? I looked at his info page and he is thirty years older than me, which means there’s at least a pretty good chance that he’s not the same guy with whom I went to school!

    So now what do I do? I invited him, so do I send him a note and say, “Whoops! Sorry, wrong guy.” and send him on his virtual way? Do I just keep him as a friend (can’t have too many, right?).

    I’m friends with gobs of people on Xanga that I’ve never met in real life. Most people reading this are like that. But Facebook seems more like a place to keep in touch with people you know, not people that you’ve come to know online.

    So what’s the proper etiquette in this situation?

    Just to be clear, I’m not stressing about this thing, but I do wonder if there’s some sort of proper way to handle this.