A Little Late....

Right before Thanksgiving Jessie and I decided we were sick of our bathroom.
Floor to ceiling light blue was getting really old, especially since the matching duck decor we used to have was replaced by a modge-podge of other decor.

So we went to the store and decided to redo.
We went with a dark purple. My dad said it would look like a dungeon...and I've had enough Interior Design 101 experience to know that if we did floor to ceiling dark color it WOULD make it feel like a dungeon.

So we went with a barely off-white ceiling and door trim and dark purple everything else.
(our bathtub takes up one whole side of our bathroom so that wall is basically the same color as the ceiling.)
This is what we ended up with.
I really like it.

Don't look too close at our paint job... we are the most amateur of amateurs.

Now if we could just convince our dad to let us paint an accent wall in the kitchen.
Our kitchen/dining room/living room have 100% white walls.
It's disgusting.

A Little Early....

I probably won't get around to this tomorrow so...

This Christmas season has been amazing for me! I've loved having Katy home and me being home and just being able to relax and enjoy everything.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas tomorrow,
I know I will!

You Win Some You Lose Some

I'm not sure how weak the stomachs of my readers are. The picture isn't bad but if you have a really weak stomach then I'm sorry.

I'm home!
I had my surgery on Tuesday the 15th. They spent 5 hours operating and came to the conclusion that my nerves are damaged beyond repair. So basically the surgery was pointless and I'll never be able to feel my arm BUT if we hadn't done surgery we never would have known the extend of my nerve damage.
But not all hopes are lost!
In my Tuesday surgery they were trying to repair my nerves so that everything would work again. Since that didn't work they are now going to hook up one of my muscles that isn't attached to my dead nerves and hook it up to a muscle hooked up to my dead nerves so that I can move my arm...even if I can't feel it.

So I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.
Here is a picture of my incision (12 inches long). Luckily there was a plastic surgeon in the OR so my scaring shouldn't bee too much. They mostly glued it shut with only a few stitches.
OH YEAH! And there was a very special doctor in the OR with me too! I met him on Monday during my doctor visit before surgery.
His name is Dr. Osama and he is visiting from Baghdad! Oddly enough when I very first met him all he did was smile at me and it was oddly comforting. He seemed like a really really nice guy!

Snip Snip Here...Snip Snip There

Well it's finally here...
(i'm not sure if I should end that in an exclamation point or not so I leaned on the good ole' ellipses)

After my EMG today (the 4th in 4 months) the doctors finally decided that indeed my nerves aren't coming back on their own and they are going to go ahead with surgery.

They will make an incision on the backside of my left arm that will run from my shoulder to my elbow and they'll attempt to find the nerves (overtime nerves retract so there is a possibility the surgery might not even work) and they'll hook nerves from my tricep to the unresponsive nerves.

My surgery is tomorrow (the 15th) at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Wish Me Luck!!

(the most annoying thing is that even if the surgery works it might take a year to kick in...blah)

(: Smile :)

I was reading through my journal the other day and I came across a whole page I had dedicated to smiling and laughter. At the end of the page I had resolved that I was going to allow myself to be more happy and to do that I'd smile and laugh more often.

Really, if you think about it, smiling is so easy and can do so much good.

I challenge everyone to smile and laugh more often! Here are a few facts that should encourage my point:

it takes 10 Minutes on a rowing machine to get your heart up to the same rate as after 1 minute of hearty laughter.

15 minutes of laughter a day will result in 1-4 lbs of weight loss per year

50 calories are burned during 10-15 minutes of laughter

Endorphins and HGH (an anti-aging hormone) are increased 27% when laughing

People in the 1950's laughed an average of 18 minutes per day.
Today people laugh an average of 5 minutes per day.

Young children laugh 112 times during the day.
The average 42 year old will laugh approximately 6 times a day.

facts found in jan/feb 2009 issue of LDSLiving

Allow Me To Introduce...

Lydia!

My friend Jamie started this tag a while ago and I thought I'd pick it back up!

I'll introduce everyone to someone who I think you should get acquainted with. Then that person will post a blog introducing us to someone he or she thinks we should get to know!

Meet my friend Lydia! I met Lydia ummm....I'm going to say about four or five years ago. We met through my friend Amanda at BYU-Idaho. We finally became roommates in Jan of 2009 and we had lots of fun!

Lydia is AMAZING! She dances, she has an amazing eye for design, she has the best laugh, she ran a marathon, she bikes....the list could go on and on!

Lydia can do anything she puts her mind to. Actually, to me this seems like an understatement. Lydia DOES do everything she puts her mind to. She wanted to start running and (like I said) she ran a MARATHON! She put her mind to it and trained and did it. Just read this blog, it proves my point.

Lydia is ALWAYS smiling! She doesn't believe in not being happy. She laughs and smiles all the time and I love it! When we were roommates we were two bedrooms down from each other and I could always here Lydia laughing at a random youtube video. Which reminds me... Lydia is basically the Queen of youTube. I think she's seen every youtube video worth seeing.

Lydia has the best taste in music. I can't even begin to name all the artists she's introduced me to. I can always count on Lydia for a great song.

Lydia is a regular blogger, which these days seems rare. She doesn't just blog nonsense blogs either, her blogs always have a meaning and always make me think. They are great!

Well there is a very brief introduction to Lydia. I feel like I'm not doing her justice with this introduction! To really get to know Lydia you'll have to meet her, BUT because not everyone can do that you should just become regular readers & commenters on her blog:

Me, myself, and who knows what!