He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:4
Mothers day, for many it will be a great day and for others a huge pain will weigh heavily on their hearts. I am specially thinking of my Aunt Elvira who lives in Minnesota and whose youngest child her beloved daughter is on her last days of life.
Carolyn at the start of her teens was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis a condition where many tumors just grow throughout the body with the biggest fear being that one day they will become cancerous. Carolyn has had many surgeries and some benign others were found to carry cancer and now being 21 the fight is almost over.
My heart breaks for all of her family and the pain and sickness she feels right now. My uncle has recently lost his sister(my cousin also) to cancer, she was in her fortys.
For my aunt its a bitter sweet Mothers day knowing it will be the last shared with her daughter on this earth, all the while wanting to erase her daughters plight. Carolyn has 2 brothers who love her dearly and the pain they feel these days could never be underestimated.
As tears stream down my face, I can't help but state that this world is a harsh and makes me long for Heaven where there will be no more tears. Oh, how I long for that...
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Here's Spotty
Hello my name is Spotty and I am the Hamster mentioned as one of the Dunsmores pets. Since the cats were top billing in the last post I decided that I better jump right in and introduce myself. All the talk in this house is 'Shadie and Dietrich" just makes me sick! Let me tell you what Shadie does to me! She sits outside my cage which sits on a small table in the kitchen and waits for me to go up to the bars and swats at me, so I won't take that sitting down I swat her back and back until I decide that the battle is over. Dietrich is much more of the gentle giant and if ever he watches me its more to see what Shadie will do and he cheers ME on.
I have heard Maria say that I am a spaz and that I Nip, what do they expect from a little guy like me? We'll see what you would all do you saw an object 10 times bigger than you approach you while you are nice and comfy in your home.
I do have a great pad with a maze attached. I heard the maze came from someone on the freecycle network so it was free and Maria really likes that word. She received a cage to go with it as well but since I am happy in mine she is trying to Freecyle it back to someone else.
My favourite thing to do of all time is to go in my ball outside of the cage and cruise around the house. I cruise in that ball for hours on end, unless I get stuck then I try and try to push on the sides until someone comes to rescue me. Even though cruising around the house is so much fun I still prefer to stick around in a room where one of the Dunsmores are.
Can you all do me a favour and tell Maria to stop changing my bedding. I have this shredded newspaper and I pile it up into a real cozy spot to hide out my days and sleep, but everyonce in a while I get to go in my ball and then when I get back... everything is new and my smell is gone and it takes me all the time to redo my den, the nerve of her.
I really like it here, I get all the food I could ever want to eat and also to store away and plenty of water from the hanging bottle, and my cruising times in the ball are the bomb. Pssst... Just between us, I have a secret, I would love to accomplish "something in my life" so I am trying to escape by eating through the bars. Its no easy task I tell you as the bars are hard, "Baring" complications I predict I am 1% on my way.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Anistens first blog post.
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Hi my name is Anisten. I just turned 9 . I have two cat's Shadie and Dietrich ( thats their names). And thats what I'm telling you about now. Shadie is my little kittykens( well that's at least what I call her ). Also Dietrich is really FAT and SLEEPS ALL DAY!! However he's REALLY SWEET!!!! The best part about having cats is they keep you company when you need it! Dietrich is deaf and shadie knows it but you can't tell by looking at him. Sometimes Dietrich will meow to call Shadie but she will never meow back to him to let him know thats shes coming knowing that he can't hear her.
Dietrich is white and Shadie is Black.
Anisten turned 9
Anisten just had her Birthday party so I thought you may all enjoy some pictures to look through. We had the party at our home (which means I had to clean... great!). The Snatangelos have a business (which I can't quite remember the name of so look for them to post that info on the comments listed with this post, I hope they realize this is a strong hint!) which Frank does the magic shows and Lisa the amazing face painting. Frank was very witty and kept the kids really entertained. So if you live in Orangeville or the G.T.A. I strongly recommend them. Pizza and Icecream cake were the finishing touches to a great party and most of the kids stayed for hours on end.
To Lie or not to lie
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I have a confession to make! I am a recovering habitual lier; when I was 13! I must give credit for my lieing demise to my dear best friend Denise Burma(Kowalchuk now). She busted me so by confronting me and embarrasing me so that it forever set a precedent in me. I am often now found to be ever careful not to lie that I even have to clarify my statements with a "as well as I can remember" or some other form of clarification. I have recently been told that I should embellish facts on my resume so it would get me in the door for an interview. To the surprised look of the advice giver, I told her I could never do so as that could put a seed of doubt on every word spoken from that moment on. Weeks later there was a situation of money thought to be missing from an account I had personally tallied. While the recounting took place I could sit in peace knowing that my integrity at the moment hopefully left no room for questioning. The money was found and I lost not a second of worry.
So today as I read the fact that Paul Martin(Canada's previous Prime Minister) came out of hiding in the House of Parliament and spoke his mind regarding the recent gov't budget, it makes me shudder. Mr. Martin piled on the lies so thick in his career I am sure it not only made my head spin but his as well. Another Headline that also made me shudder was the picture of MS. Heddy Fry announcing her entrance into the running for the leadership of the Liberal party(yes I know, it must be pretty clear by now my distaste for the Liberal Party). Ms. Frey was the one who years ago made comments about the burning of flags in BC insinuating the ever presence of white supremacists. There were other instances of tall telling as well from Ms. Frey. But the best politician to "somewhat" come clean once, the honour must be given to the right Honourable(shuder, uhhhhh) Jean Cretien as he stated "A politician cannot be held accountable for promises made in an election year" in response to a public outcry demanding the resignation of the MP Sheila Copps as the G.S.T. had not been scrapped and she ran on the platform that she would resign if not so. These politicians have many people who have called them to account, yet no change occurs? It's no wonder that Canadians in the last election were so disapointed and no longer held clout to any promises given, and the smear campaigns that contained half truths(lies... twisting the truth is no truth at all) resounded in many.
Bill has a motto in life and it is that "you only think what people are capable of, is indeed what you yourself are capable of doing". Do you have a problem trusting others? Is everyone out to get you? Maybe the problem is not them, but its the fact that you yourself know you are capable of the same!
In recollecting the beginings of my lieing history, I remeber it just being like a game or like a story written by your own will to say what you wanted it to say. Unfortunatly, you eventually get caught and are made to look like a fool. If I cannot honestly live every moment in truth then I am only fooling myself in that the lie becomes the truth to me and thereby I am a Fool.
I have a confession to make! I am a recovering habitual lier; when I was 13! I must give credit for my lieing demise to my dear best friend Denise Burma(Kowalchuk now). She busted me so by confronting me and embarrasing me so that it forever set a precedent in me. I am often now found to be ever careful not to lie that I even have to clarify my statements with a "as well as I can remember" or some other form of clarification. I have recently been told that I should embellish facts on my resume so it would get me in the door for an interview. To the surprised look of the advice giver, I told her I could never do so as that could put a seed of doubt on every word spoken from that moment on. Weeks later there was a situation of money thought to be missing from an account I had personally tallied. While the recounting took place I could sit in peace knowing that my integrity at the moment hopefully left no room for questioning. The money was found and I lost not a second of worry.
So today as I read the fact that Paul Martin(Canada's previous Prime Minister) came out of hiding in the House of Parliament and spoke his mind regarding the recent gov't budget, it makes me shudder. Mr. Martin piled on the lies so thick in his career I am sure it not only made my head spin but his as well. Another Headline that also made me shudder was the picture of MS. Heddy Fry announcing her entrance into the running for the leadership of the Liberal party(yes I know, it must be pretty clear by now my distaste for the Liberal Party). Ms. Frey was the one who years ago made comments about the burning of flags in BC insinuating the ever presence of white supremacists. There were other instances of tall telling as well from Ms. Frey. But the best politician to "somewhat" come clean once, the honour must be given to the right Honourable(shuder, uhhhhh) Jean Cretien as he stated "A politician cannot be held accountable for promises made in an election year" in response to a public outcry demanding the resignation of the MP Sheila Copps as the G.S.T. had not been scrapped and she ran on the platform that she would resign if not so. These politicians have many people who have called them to account, yet no change occurs? It's no wonder that Canadians in the last election were so disapointed and no longer held clout to any promises given, and the smear campaigns that contained half truths(lies... twisting the truth is no truth at all) resounded in many.
Bill has a motto in life and it is that "you only think what people are capable of, is indeed what you yourself are capable of doing". Do you have a problem trusting others? Is everyone out to get you? Maybe the problem is not them, but its the fact that you yourself know you are capable of the same!
In recollecting the beginings of my lieing history, I remeber it just being like a game or like a story written by your own will to say what you wanted it to say. Unfortunatly, you eventually get caught and are made to look like a fool. If I cannot honestly live every moment in truth then I am only fooling myself in that the lie becomes the truth to me and thereby I am a Fool.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Plant Sale!
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For all you garden enthusiasts who live in the GTA here is the information to the May 13 Charity plant sale.
Scottish money at work!
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I was wondering what I could do a next post on and while reading the paper this morning on the second page was this the article (I have pasted below). In case you don't have time to read/choose not to, it's about a new pamphlet being distributed in Scotland to doctors offices about the right way to deficate(the medical way to explain pooping!). This is all based on a research done on penguins(the research winning a Nobel prize), turns out slouching is wrong and opening the mouth is in.
How do penguins go without ever leaving?
Scottish health pamphlet offers tips on the art of doing your business
Joseph Brean
National Post
Thursday, May 04, 2006
LONDON - On a visit to Antarctica in 1993, two biologists hunkered down behind a Chinstrap penguin, placed a ruler by its rectum and measured how far it squirted its feces.
By testing several birds this way, they came to a rough estimate of the birds' defecation pressure, which at 60 kilopascals is considerably less than that of a fully inflated bicycle tire, but still high enough that, barring the effects of wind, a penguin can expel waste from its nest without actually leaving it.
That remarkable conclusion, which earned the scientists an Ig Nobel Prize when it was published last year, was back in the news this week when a National Health Service trust in Dundee, Scotland, endorsed the practice of defecating with an open mouth.
In a four-page pamphlet titled "Good Defecation Dynamics" and distributed to clinics and doctors' offices, the NHS trust describes the art of voidance, complete with diagrams.
In this delicate system, the mouth plays the role of abdominal pressure valve. To avoid hernias, the trust says, this valve should always be open.
The now-famous Antarctica experiment proved that penguins have developed a high-powered pressure-wash style of defecation (their feces have roughly the viscosity of olive oil) that succeeds in keeping their nests clean.
And humans? Sometimes we get a bit of reading done. But other than that, we usually just sit back and let gravity do the heavy lifting, giving no thought to our aim and trusting the plumbing to wash it away.
Even at the best of times, most humans couldn't hit the side of a barn with their feces, given that our normal abdominal pressure is about one-sixth that of a full-up penguin. Perhaps we do need some advice.
The Scottish approach is mostly uncontroversial -- feet apart, back straight, hands on the lower stomach for support.
"Do not slump down but keep the normal curve in your back," the pamphlet reads. It even suggests using a small stool as a footrest.
But the dictum to "Keep your mouth open as you bulge and widen" seemed to fly in the face of experience.
"Perhaps it is to guard against a potentially damaging build-up of pressure that might blow off one or other end of the digestive tract," The Times of London wondered, while suggesting the very need for such a pamphlet revealed "a gaping cultural black hole in a well-populated part of eastern Scotland."
Such wisecracks are unfair.
"One in three people suffers from bowel and bladder dysfunction, and this can be extremely debilitating and distressing for individuals," an NHS spokeswoman told the newspaper.
"These patient information leaflets contain advice for those people who suffer from this condition, and are based on national guidance from the Association for Continence Advice."
© National Post 2006
I was wondering what I could do a next post on and while reading the paper this morning on the second page was this the article (I have pasted below). In case you don't have time to read/choose not to, it's about a new pamphlet being distributed in Scotland to doctors offices about the right way to deficate(the medical way to explain pooping!). This is all based on a research done on penguins(the research winning a Nobel prize), turns out slouching is wrong and opening the mouth is in.
How do penguins go without ever leaving?
Scottish health pamphlet offers tips on the art of doing your business
Joseph Brean
National Post
Thursday, May 04, 2006
LONDON - On a visit to Antarctica in 1993, two biologists hunkered down behind a Chinstrap penguin, placed a ruler by its rectum and measured how far it squirted its feces.
By testing several birds this way, they came to a rough estimate of the birds' defecation pressure, which at 60 kilopascals is considerably less than that of a fully inflated bicycle tire, but still high enough that, barring the effects of wind, a penguin can expel waste from its nest without actually leaving it.
That remarkable conclusion, which earned the scientists an Ig Nobel Prize when it was published last year, was back in the news this week when a National Health Service trust in Dundee, Scotland, endorsed the practice of defecating with an open mouth.
In a four-page pamphlet titled "Good Defecation Dynamics" and distributed to clinics and doctors' offices, the NHS trust describes the art of voidance, complete with diagrams.
In this delicate system, the mouth plays the role of abdominal pressure valve. To avoid hernias, the trust says, this valve should always be open.
The now-famous Antarctica experiment proved that penguins have developed a high-powered pressure-wash style of defecation (their feces have roughly the viscosity of olive oil) that succeeds in keeping their nests clean.
And humans? Sometimes we get a bit of reading done. But other than that, we usually just sit back and let gravity do the heavy lifting, giving no thought to our aim and trusting the plumbing to wash it away.
Even at the best of times, most humans couldn't hit the side of a barn with their feces, given that our normal abdominal pressure is about one-sixth that of a full-up penguin. Perhaps we do need some advice.
The Scottish approach is mostly uncontroversial -- feet apart, back straight, hands on the lower stomach for support.
"Do not slump down but keep the normal curve in your back," the pamphlet reads. It even suggests using a small stool as a footrest.
But the dictum to "Keep your mouth open as you bulge and widen" seemed to fly in the face of experience.
"Perhaps it is to guard against a potentially damaging build-up of pressure that might blow off one or other end of the digestive tract," The Times of London wondered, while suggesting the very need for such a pamphlet revealed "a gaping cultural black hole in a well-populated part of eastern Scotland."
Such wisecracks are unfair.
"One in three people suffers from bowel and bladder dysfunction, and this can be extremely debilitating and distressing for individuals," an NHS spokeswoman told the newspaper.
"These patient information leaflets contain advice for those people who suffer from this condition, and are based on national guidance from the Association for Continence Advice."
© National Post 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Why Blog?
Just thought I needed something to do, and thought somehow this may be therapeudic... ok just cut the crap Maria and tell like it is, I just thought it may be nice to get on this blog bandwagon and test my writing skills. Nowadays the web seems to be a great place to not only stay connected but an incredible way to meet and discuss ones thoughts and ideas. Who knows maybe It may lead to reconnecting with some far off aquantaince or meeting new ones.
My first thought on a personal blog was fear and the need to use discretion. It was only months ago that I had a "no secrets, what you see is what you get!" attitude and motto in life, well that can sure BITE YOU IN THE BUTT. So now I think I am finally realizing that I was living in a dream world and discretion is a strong skill to learn, unfortunaltly I had to learn it the hard way.
Years ago Vanessa a friend used to joke about how if our child was lost (she was only 3 at the time) that the proffesionals would have to photo age enhance her baby pictures as I am not the sentimental take pictures at every moment kind of person, but we all know blogs are boring without pics so I may have to stretch myself and start shooting away. The picture on the right is of Anisten taken not too long ago as she is getting ready for bed. So stay tuned and soon those who don't see me regularly will see how "FAT I am", or maybe a more politically correct way would be to say "how much more of me there is to love" yah right!
So please don't be shy and post your replies and jump right in with me. Since this is called the 3 Dunsmores Anisten will probably at her young age will jump right in and share some of her comments and views. Bill on the other hand will probably never check this out unless someone posts something to his interest and let me tell you sports or politics are not it! Politics I love and so let me ask you all Canadians, What about that new Federal budget eh? Any suggestions for new blog entries?
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