100th Post!

Wahoo!!! I'm on my 100th post!!!! Yay me!

I'm using my very special 100th post to say that I am still alive! It seems like its been forever since I posted, but really- it's only been since the 25th. Hmmmm.

Life in the Saltzgiver household is FANTASTIC! For a lot of reasons, the biggest one being that things are really falling into place for us!

I'll write a little more about that later though! I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night! Fevers and Vomiting x 2 kids + all night = chelle is real real tired! So I'm gonna go back to sleep maybe. If I can!

Before I go can I just say a quick THANKS! Thank you all for your prayers and support! We've had a bit of a rough time for a while. We appreciate all your love and concern for us!!! Thanks!

ok thats all!

YAY for 100 posts!

work work work

I'm at work again! For some odd reason I'm the only secretary who still does 12 hour shifts at night. All the other secretaries have changed to 8 hr shifts but me . . . hmmmm. I wonder why??

anyway, I finished the background I made for mither- so go to her blog and see it!! It's cute! I made it for a 19" screen, although her's is bigger than that. But most people will still be able to see most of it if not all of it.

so, um, yeah. Thats all. I'm gonna go see if I can find a movie to watch! later all!

peace out!

YAY!

So, things are finally starting to work themselves out in my body!! I'm finally starting to feel a little better! WAHOO!!! I'm not taking my Zofran (anti-nausea) every meal like I was before, and I've stopped throwing up!! again I say WAHOOOO!!!! ("when was the last time you went wahoo??" -- what's it from???

anyway, thats all!

For Karla

Hello all!!

Karla wanted me to do a spring background and here it is!

Also, I'm thinking about starting a blog to show my backgrounds, and add instructions on how to use them (like alliebrownslayouts.blogspot.com) and my question is this- would you be inclined to use a layout I've designed?? (basically I'm asking if you like my layouts, but I don't really like asking out right like that cause I feel like I'm 'fishing' for compliment- which I totally am not trying to do- you don't have to tell me what you liked/didn't like- I just want to know IF you liked them.) I could do layouts for different size screens- 15", 17", 19" etc.

anyway, if you'd let me know that would be great!

mwah! (thats a kiss for those who didn't get it!)

Love your guts all!

7 years . . .

Once upon a time there was a cute little high school girl. She was head over heals for this boy, and he seemed to feel mutually for her! One day, this girl's piano teacher cleverly devised a plan to get them together. The piano teacher, lets call her . . . Debbie, decided to take this cute girl and some friends, and this boy to St. George on a road trip! Debbie invited her son and his friends to come along, so this boy wouldn't be the only boy among a bunch of girls!

This cute girl, who we will call . . . chelle, had been looking forward to this trip ALL summer. She spent quite a bit of time at her piano teacher's house when she was not playing the piano. One night a few weeks before the trip she and her friends decided to watch a movie at Debbie's house. Debbie's son wasn't home, but his friend, who shall be named Steve, decided to come and watch the movie with them. Chelle and Steve ended up sitting next to each other on the couch while they enjoyed Harrison Ford in "Air Force One" (the edited version of course). Steve kept making funny comments, and Chelle kept making funny come-backs.

Finally, at long last the much anticipated trip was here!! August 5th, they all packed up two cars and drove to St. George. When they finally got to St. George, Chelle was able to spend some time with the boy with whom she had waited so long to see! Unfortunately for this boy, Chelle's attention was elsewhere! **GASP**

Steve, whom Chelle hadn't spent much time with since the movie, was somehow taking all Chelle's attention! Chelle kept trying to convince herself that she still liked this other boy. She kept trying all night, but ALAS! It was to no avail!

The next morning, Chelle was helping the girls make breakfast. She was stirring eggs, getting ready to scramble them. All of a sudden she heard a cute voice in her ear. "What'cha doin'?" He asked. Chelle was elated! Steve was standing right behind her looking over her shoulder. She stuttered some inaudible response, and realized then that she was completely head over heels for this boy.

From that point on Chelle has been completely taken with Steve. They were married 3 years and a few months later. That was 7 years ago today.

The En . . . or rather the beginning of a wonderful journey through eternity!


Steve, I love you! And I've loved spending these last 7 years by your side! It has been an incredible journey. It's been harder than I ever thought life would be, but you've been amazing. I wouldn't have made it through anything if you hadn't been by my side- supporting me. I love you more than I can say, and I look forward to the eternities, and to never having to say goodbye!

I need your help!!!

ok, so once again I am playing with my background (oh my gosh, seriously I am so annoying!!!) but I finally figured out how to make the background different sizes, however since each computer is different, I need some info from each of you. I have the background set for a 17" screen. On my computer it looks great- perfect size and everything. I can read all the words without them running into the black on either side and there's no white around the edge (the background is the same size as my screen). I get on my Daddy's computer and, seeing as how they have a LARGE screen (I think its like 22" or something like that) I can see white around the background. The text is in the same place though. (I can still see all the text- it's not running into the black on the edges.)

So here's my question: what does this size background look like on your computer? can you see the grey ribbon/bow along the bottom? Can you see the buttons? Can you see the black on the right side with all the while swirlies??

If you could answer these questions for me that would be awesome!! And if any of you would like help designing your own background, I'd be happy to help! (Or, if you don't want to do it, but want a personalized background I can totally do that for you too!)

anywho, thanks in advance for your help! :)

Bug and a half.

So, sometimes people just bug me! They really get under my skin! They just do these things that really hit a nerve! Really stupid things for example. Here is a story that recently REALLY hit a nerve.

I know a woman who was having abdominal pain, and went to the ER 3 times here in Utah county, and then again in St. George where she lives. All 4 times the Dr.'s wouldn't do anything because they said she was just a drug seeker. Finally the 4th time the husband put his foot down. The Dr. flat out said to the husband that he wasn't going to do anything because she was a pill popper. The Dr. said "We can do thousand dollar test after thousand dollar test, but we're not going to find anything." The husband insisted that they do the tests anyway.

It turns out she had a massive infection- and here's the reader's digest version of what happened- she was waiting in her ER room to be admitted to the hospital when things turned really bad- she was life flighted to Intermountain Medical Center in SLC while her hubby was basically told to say goodbye, 'cause things were that bad. They told him there was a risky surgery they could try but she might not make it through the surgery. The did the surgery, and found 2 huge infections in her body. They emptied 4 liters of infected fluid. 4 LITERS!meanwhile her body started to die so now she has to have all her fingertips amputated, and one of her legs amputated (just below the knee). She may even loose the other leg too. And all this because the Dr. had a preconceived notion that she was a seeker. I'm thinking there's a lawsuit in the making here.

I'm not saying that the Dr's should give seekers drugs- definitely not. And I know they have to be careful because there are so many seekers out there. I'm saying that when a patient presents to the ER, don't just assume nothing is wrong and send them home. Do some actual TESTS.

I had this happen (on a MUCH smaller and less agonizing scale) to me recently. I was at the ER, and the Dr just assumed I was there for pain meds (which I hadn't even asked for, and wasn't going to ask for btw) so he didn't do any tests, consequently he totally missed the infection that was 'ravaging' my body as my PCP put it. And I spent even MORE time throwing up, in pain, and loosing more weight than was healthy. Did I feel good about that??? not so much.

My PCP said that he couldn't believe they didn't catch this, or put me on some kind of antibiotics. He now has me on 2 heavy-duty antibiotics for the next few weeks.

Yeah. Sometimes, people bug me. Thats all.

20 Questions . . . or maybe a few more . . .

so, I am bored at work again!! I thought I'd do another questionnaire thing, so I googled 'getting to know you' and 'random questions' and here are my two favorite results: (warning- there are almost 100 questions here! I was really bored! Oh, and a few of the questions were omitted because they were duplicates, but I didn't want to re-number all the rest of the questions, and I didn't want to look like I couldn't count but just deleting the question entirely!)

enjoy!

1. Where were you 3 hours ago? same place I am now- working.
2. Who are you in love with? my cutest hubby.
3. Have you ever eaten a crayon? of course! who hasn't??
4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you? um, let me check . . . yes- there's pink on my shoes.
5. When is the last time you went to the mall? Monday.
6. Are you wearing socks right now? yup. (but I'm usually not- I hate socks.)
7. Do you have a car worth over $2,000? depends on if the mechanic can fix it :( so far- it doesn't look good.
8. When was the last time you drove out of town? gosh, um . . . I don't remember. I think when I went to Vegas with Flee (October)
9. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days? no
10. Are you hot? no, I'm freezing!! (It's always cold at work.)
11. What was the last thing you had to drink? coke
12. What are you wearing right now? clothes!
13. Do you wash your car or let the car wash do it? neither- I let my husband do it.
14. Last food that you ate? nacho cheese dortidos
15. Where were you last week at this time? probably sleeping!
16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week? yes
17. When is the last time you ran? um, about 2 hours ago
18. What's the last sporting event you watched? the college football national championship.
19. What is your favorite animal? Kitties, but Steve is allergic- so puppies!
20. Your dream vacation? somewhere tropical with just Steve (ie, no kidlets)
21. Last person's house you were in? besides my own? Um, Steve's 'rents.
22. Worst injury you've ever had? Broken arm.
23. Have you been in love? seeing as how I'm married, I sure hope so!!
24. Do you miss anyone right now? my hubby.
25. Last play you saw? oh geez, it's been FOREVER since I saw a play. I think it was footloose last summer and the scera shell.
26. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex? since the only member of the opposite sex I try to 'lure' in is Steve, pretty much my secret weapon is my eyes!
27. What are your plans for tonight? work again. drat.
28. Who is the last person you sent a MySpace message or comment? I don't use MySpace, so I'll insert facebook here- and that would be Andy Burton and Flee(I can't remember which one was last)
29. Next trip you are going to take? somewhere with my hubby this weekend (7 years! ack!!)
30. Ever go to camp? yup- Camp Shalom.
31. Were you an honor roll student in school? that would be a great big NO. I was the kid whose parents had to bribe to get good grad(like with cash money- and yes mom, you most certainly did pay me for good grades)
32. What do you want to know about the future? lots and lots and lots
33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne? does deodorant count??
34. Are you due sometime this year for a doctor's visit? uh, have you met me?? when am I not due for a dr's visit??
35. Where is your best friend? probably sleeping!
36. How is your best friend? great I would assume! (She's always 'great' even when she's really not!)
37. Do you have a tan? negatory good buddy.
38. What are you listening to right now? 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White Tees.
39. Do you collect anything? yellow smiley stuff.
40. Who is the biggest gossiper you know? I'd rather not answer that!
41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over? last spring (twice in one day in fact- our car was WAY expired!)
42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw? almost every time I drink soda!
43. What does your last text message say? uh, let me check . . . I don't have my phone with me, but I think it was 'still up?' texted to Flee last night at about 10:30.
44. Do you like hot sauce? eew, no.
45. Last time you took a shower? Yesterday
46. Do you need to do laundry? always.
47. What is your heritage? my heritage??? what kind of question is that?? Probably my religion.
48. Are you someone's best friend? I hope so!
49. Are you rich? insanely so. I have so much money I don't know what to do with it!
50. What were you doing at 12AM last night? sleeping.

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? I was named after every single person born before December 23, 1981 at 4:38 pm.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? a few days ago.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? most of the time- when I'm not at work.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Ham or turkey
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? yup
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I hope so!
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? me, use sarcasm?? Never!
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yup.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Nope.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? it changes. Currently- brand flakes (Wheaties)
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? nope.
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? not particularly
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Cheese cake, and chocolate cake batter from Cold Stone.
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? I hate to admit it . . . but their size probably. ('cause thats the thing I think people notice about me first.)
15. RED OR PINK? Red. Hands down.
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I refuse to answer this question because I am trying to not talk negatively about myself!
17. ***question omited***
18. ***question omitted***
19. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? grey, white, and pink tennis shoes.20. ***question omitted***
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? 'Lucky' By Jason Mraz and Colbie Callait
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? duh, yellow!
23. FAVORITE SMELLS? cinnamon, sweat pea from Bath and Body Works, roses
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Amy in the nursery. (a girl at work)
25. MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY OR BEACH HOUSE? Beach House- most definitely.
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Football by a landslide.
27. HAIR COLOR? dirty blond/light brown
28. EYE COLOR? green/blue depending on what I'm wearing
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? nope
30. FAVORITE FOOD? something thats not yucky. (it changes. currently probably an Arby's Melt)
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Endings. I do not watch scary movies.
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Dark Night (hated it by the way)
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Silver
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Spring (but If thats not an option, summer or fall. I'm not a big fan of winter)
35. HUGS OR KISSES? depends on who they're coming from!!
36. FAVORITE DESSERT? cheesecake. mmmmmmmm
37. STRENGTH TRAINING OR CARDIO? cardio. but I need to do more strength training.
38. COMPUTER OR TELEVISION? Computer. (I may possibly have an addiction. I wonder if they have a 12 step program for computer addicts! Oh my glory! They have support groups for it!! They totally do!! google 'computer addiction' and you'll see what I mean!)
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Forgiving Yourself.
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? don't have a mouse pad. oh but my work computer has a Dell mouse pad.
42. FAVORITE SOUND? kids laughing, music, accapella men (especially accapella Sackett men)
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? NYC, or Calgary- which ever is farther.45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? music.
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? in a hospital!
47. WHERE ARE YOU LIVING NOW? Saratoga Springs with my cute 'rents
48. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HOUSE? um, beige
49. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR CAR? greenish blue
50. DO YOU LIKE ANSWERING 50 QUESTIONS? it passes the time at work!

chelle at work

Thats like 'men at work' except I'm not a man, so I did chelle at work. 'cause I'm at work. In case you didn't catch that.

I'm bored. Again. I'm going to go do some name cards in a bit, but I'm not feeling super creative at the moment, so I'm not sure how they're going to turn out. hmm.

um, yeah. I think thats about it. Maybe I'll do another tag post. hmmmm. I'd have to think of some random questions. hmmmmmmmm.

ok, I'm off to do name cards. have so much fun all!

chelle

BLAST!

yeah- so when I log onto my blog from MY computer, I can see all the cool fonts and everything, but then I get onto my blog from flee's 'puter and it's the boring blogger fonts.

BLAST.

ok, I'm going to change it again- deal with it.

looks a little different???

you are probably so sick of me changing my blog, but let me warn you- I don't think the changing will stop anytime soon!! I"m having too much fun!! (And it's really a GREAT way to occupy my time at work!!)

So, I don't know about any of you, but I don't think any of the fonts blogger offers are super cute. So, courtesy of my new friend (and favorite source of blogger info) sjhblogdesign.blogspot.com, I have figured out how to put the fonts I want into my blog! YAY!!

I'm telling you, this woman is a blog genius! I've learned so much from her!!! (pretty much everything I've done has stemmed from idea's I've found on her blog!) If you are unsatisfied with the appearance of your blog, check out her blog!! There are a bunch of different blog idea's on the right sidebar!! just play with it, and HAVE FUN!!!!!

anywho, I'm off to see what else I can do to my blog!!!!

clarification

so I was reading some of my comments, and I just happened to glance at one of my previous posts where I said "I know, flee, I know- but really, I'd been laying in bed for over 2 hours with nothing on, and I needed a distraction" When I read that the second time it came across as being . . . possibly taken the wrong way (um, it could sound crude depending on how you took it). I just needed to clarify that by 'nothing on' I meant no TV, no computer, no video game, no iPod, etc. (see, usually when I can't sleep I turn the TV or computer on, thereby causing myself to stay up even later because I wasn't trying to sleep. That seems to bug flee for some reason . . . although I can't imagine why!!)

I felt the need to clarify that (I wouldn't blog about having 'nothing on' in the other sense!)

anyway, almost time to go home!!! woo hoo!!!!!!!!! sleep, precious sleep! And even better- our ward doesn't start until 1!! (I think this is the first time in my life I've been excited about that!) so I get to have a good long sleep before church!!! sah-weet!!!

::) (that one's just for you flee!)

k, bye!

Hello cyber-sisters!

I say cyber-sisters because most, if not all, the people who read my blog are of the female variety. So hello cyber-sisters! (Yes, I do consider you sisters, after all- aren't we all brothers and sisters anyway??) I'm at work! woo hoo. Work is SO exciting!!

We started the day with 10 patients. 8 of those 10 patients are c-section deliveries!! I was floored!! I don't think we've ever had so many c-sections at once! craziness!!

Someone brought a newspaper article in that talked about how Dr's are saying c-sections are better for babies who are close to full term. I was surprised. It actually said that Dr's are starting to do elective c-sections! I find this interesting because when I was pregnant with Jenni I actually asked my Dr if I could have a c-section and he said no. (really, the idea of a normal vaginal delivery just never appealed to me. ever. The idea of something that big going through a hole that small . . . *shudder* . . . yeah, just doesn't appeal to me at all!!) As most of you know, I did end up getting my c-section after all!! My cervix felt it was too small for a normal delivery, so it refused to dilate! (one night here at work we were talking with one of the really funny Dr's and we started talking about our own birth stories [which happens often] and I said my cervix was retarded, and didn't dilate on its own, and he thought that was hilarious. He went of for at least 5 minutes about my 'dysfunctional cervix'. It was really funny! or maybe, it was 2 am and we were all really tired . . . either way- we laughed alot about that!!) When I was pregnant with Joe-joe my Dr said he didn't like the way my labor went and he wanted to do another c-section, unless I was greatly opposed it! needless to say, I wasn't!

um, yeah. It occurs to me just now that maybe I'm boring you, so hmmmm. I'm going to attempt to be 'not boring' now! One of the things I enjoy doing when I'm bored at work is look for good quotes. They can be anything from inspirational, funny, comforting . . . anything! I'm going to share some of my recent favorites:


I wish you were here, but you're not. You're there. And there doesn't know how lucky it is.

When life knocks you down to your knees, just remember that you are in the perfect position to pray. -- or phrased a little differently -- When life gets to hard to stand, kneel.

You never leave my mind- even when I have a million things to think about.

God is the DJ, Life is a dance floor, Love is the rhythm, We are the music

Love can survive almost any test- but it takes true love to survive deployment. (That ones for Flee and Dave!)


And my very favorite quote of the day (because I can SO relate to it right now)

Life is like an hourglass. Sooner or later, everything hits rock bottom. All you have to do is be patient and wait for someone to turn everything back around.

Obviously I know that I can't just 'wait', I know there will be work on my part, but I liked the quote because, to me it says "Yeah, sometimes life stinks, but it won't stay that way!"

anyway! I think thats all for now! I hope you enjoy some of the new songs on my playlist (and some of the old ones cause I just LOVE them!)

here's the link to the c-section story on desnews.com
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705275921,00.html?pg=1

to answer a few questions . . .

I had a whole bunch of comments from my last post (although, most of them were repeats) and I thought instead of trying to answer the questions in another comment, I'd just do another post. so here goes . . .

first off, Yes Jenn- you need to step up your prayers. Really, I can't believe you haven't yet. Obviously I'm still sick because you haven't stepped up your prayers yet. geez. I can't believe you're just now thinking of this. pshaw.

:)

and mom, no I'm not pregnant. Not only have I had a negative blood test but the body has it's own way of telling me I'm not pregnant, and its telling me that now (for the first time in about 3 years too by the way. I really didn't miss it.)

And Stace, I do have other symptoms, other than throwing up, but they're not super pleasant, and probably not stuff anyone would like to read about, so I won't post them here! I'm thinking I might have a bleeding ulcer (and no, I'm not cussing there- that is what it is called!) I'm going to go to the Dr today hopefully, and see what he says.

Em, I can't believe you don't remember our conversation about me being crude! Remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about my music being 'crude' meaning the recording wasn't very good (it was a crude recording- not done professionally) and you were surprised, and said you didn't think my music was crude . . . hee hee! good times! oh, and I got the cute things for my background at a bunch of places, but mostly scrapbookflair.com, and scrapblog.com. If you go to http://sjhblogdesign.blogspot.com/ she has a whole list of digital scrapbook websites that have cute stuff. I only got the free stuff, but there's a bunch of stuff you can get for cash money too!

and I really will fix my background at some point. really. I will.

um, I think thats all for now. I'm posting in the middle of the night cause I can't sleep (I know, flee, I know- but really, I'd been laying in bed for over 2 hours with nothing on, and I needed a distraction!) but I really should try and get some sleep! so good night all!!

I am still alive!!!

Yes, I am still alive- even though I haven't been very active on the blogger circuit lately! I was excited yesterday, cause I actually went 24 hours without throwing up (which was the longest I'd gone in about 3 weeks) I was hopeful!

It didn't last. :*(

I threw up last night, then again this morning. bummer.

anyway, I'm going to have to call the dr. I was hoping I could wait until we had insurance, but ALAS! I don't think I can wait anymore.

bummer.

Would you like to know . . .

want to know a really quick way to loose 25 pounds?? I have the solution! get really sick- so sick that you can't keep hardly anything down for 3 weeks. You'll loose that weight real quick!.

While I do like the weight loss, I must say I do NOT recommend this way of 'dieting'. It is not super fun. And then the doctors make you do some really uncomfy stuff- like drink 'golightly' (which is SO named badly) and have a colonoscopy. Really, I think I'd stick the the regular methods of losing weight if I had the choice.

anyway, I will fix my background at some point. If I can stop 'purging' as flee accuses me! (and no, I'm for sure not bulimic. just fyi. I don't think I could be if I tried.)

have a wonderful Sunday!!!