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April 16, 2007 - I have started walking to build up my strength. I was in the hospital 8 days for blood clots in both of my lungs. My lung doctor said my lungs were covered with them.

There was also some temporary damage to my heart and I was on Nitroglycerin for 3 days... but as of the last cat scan taken April 9th my heart is all normal again... the swelling is totally gone.

My clots are still not under control and some parts broke loose last week and were floating about again... but the great news is.... I no longer test positive for Lupux-anticoagulant... which means I will be able to come off the coumidin in 6 months to a year. It should take about 2 more months I was told to be safe with the blood clots. The Pulmonary doctor said at my last visit last week.

I am up to walking 2 miles and can slowly walk / tour speed for up to 4 hours now... Those of you who have been around me the past few years... know that was just not possible before.

This has been a blessing because we now know it has been the lungs making the heart bad... not the other way around. I not only can do all the physical activity I want... but I am encouraged emphatically to do so by my doctors... also a new thing in my life... since I have been 21!

I can tell you this whole thing has changed my life totally. If you thought you knew me before... know this... I am not that person any more. I love you all and wish you the best... Hugs and best wishes!

October 30, 2006 - The Red Shoes Nov. 7, & 11, 2006 only has two more Shows. I am very proud of this show the children in this play are very gifted. I did one HUGE backdrop on this show that is 12 feet by 17 feet long, and 4 drops that are 6 x 9 feet each.

Yes it is my first paintings in so very many years. I am glad they were for a childrens show to let me remember the smell of paint. My friend Amy Hodge helped me with hanging, stretching and painting these drops! Thank you Amy for helping me overcome my fear of the 12 foot ladder!

Alex Gillespie my son began learning how to manage the lights for a play with this show and he is in charge of lights for the Red Shoes. I am very proud of him and have enjoyed having him with me at practices. Alex also enjoys painting a doing set work with us.

Jake and Alex were indespensable to me for the last two paintings for Red Shoes.

Jacob, Alex, Joe and Charles were all wonderful in helping with sets and even painting with us on both Red Shoes and Nunsense. I could go on and on about all the things the boys are learning to do with theatre productions.

There were many people who helped but this is my family I am talking about here! Heeheheeheh

I am so glad that Glen Nadel talked (forced) me to go to the Big Top and take a chance on acting. Thank you Glen!

The next events in my life will be The God of Issac which will show on November 19 at TKE. There is possibly another showing of this play November 30th. Then on The weekend after Thanksgiving and running thru the last Saturday before Christmas I will be in the Littlest Angel at Big Top I get to be the Celestial Cook. (I bake chocolate chip cookies for the baby Jesus.)

Thursday night last week I went with some friends to the Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia. It is the State Theatre of Georgia and this is it's 135th year. We saw On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson. I had a great time and wish to thank those who made it possible for me to go there... as I am exceptionally greatful!

Friday night we went to see NETHERWORLD Haunted House with Karin and Alan. They had gone with Karis and Jean last year and made us promise we would go with them this year. Charles, Alex and I joined them and I have to tell you this place is definately somewhere you want to go if you LIKE being scared!

Saturday night we stayed in after Red Shoes and took a break... I bought this amazing dress for my part as Precious Trump in our murder mystery.

Sunday we went to Sal Grosso's for lunch and then to the Halloween murder mystery at Big Top Theatre. Thanks Bill and Gloria for all your work and wonderful food at the show last night!

Today I rest and go to play practice tonight... For tomarrow we begin working on the sets for Tuna Christmas and Littlest Angel.

September 22, 2006 - Well Carter left for college August 11. Amazing how much you miss one even more than you feared you would. She seems to be loving it down there and has even started a yoga club.

I spoke to her grandfather yesterday and he said he was at this literary fair and was speaking to an author that he, big Mama and miss Becky were enthralled with and he said he had to get back home and that he lived in Milledgeville GA.

They then told them that their grand daughter was a freshman there... He asked who might that be and they told him Carter Gillespie... and he said he knew her. In fact she was just in his office a few days earlier.... When ask what about, he told them that she was starting a yoga club and he was the instructor responsible...

That’s my baby girl.... the world is yours darling... I love you.... Create it in the image that will make you most happy!

September 17, 2006 - I have created a web page for Jacob's band. He is having a wonderful time and I promised my brother I would put this page up so he could see the videos I have made. I hope you will all go there and see more about Jacob.

March 10, 2006 - It sounds a lot like spring here today folks!!! I have to tell you I am really feeling like my old self again. The songbirds in the air and the smell of a second chance are all a flurry here. I may not have gotten my fill of winter... but a new life and world are out my window this morning and I feel alive! I have a table full of new bulbs to plant in my flower garden in the front yard and am going more towards the summer bulbs right now as it is too late to get my tulips and daffodils in the ground… I will get that done next year. I took out the middle wall and built up the outer wall a few higher… so will be laying down some newspaper to kill off all the old seeds from the previous years plantings… then will fill the dirt to the top and put my bulbs in… I am hoping Charles will have the time today to get my dirt. If not I will “get-er-done” tomorrow.

Carter has been accepted to the ONLY College she applied to and will be going to school this fall at Georgia College and State University. Her teachers recommended this college as the best in Georgia for her interests. I wish she would be closer to home… I think the first 2 years would go great here at Kennesaw U… but… oh well… She is excited and all ready to start packing.

Jacob is now taller than everyone but Charles including his father. He now likes to pick up his dad and cart him around… I think it is a rites of passage thing that boys do to let their dads gently know… I am the big man now, don’t make me hurt you!

Alex is even more Alex-ie than ever. I am just grateful with all that has happened to me in my lifetime, all the things that well drown me at times… with all that… I am grateful, to have been able to know these 3 kids… and to have been allowed to be their mother… well that has been a blessing worth all the other things I have had in my life. Thank you Jesus, Lord and Great Spirit for that!

If anyone ever asks you what is the only true joy in life… I would say … having your favorite people on the planet as your children. Blessed be.

P.S. Yes I know this one got way to mushy… please forgive me… IT IS SPRING!!!! Let the joy BEGIN!

December 22, 2005 - Ok so last night we had our first annual Winter Soltice Dinner. We had a great time. Food was PILED high and the mulled cider and alcohol flowed freely... Flames were reaching for the sky... and if there were angels last night they did fly!!! I don't know why but last night meant soo much to me... well I do... the friends who where here were so joyous and happy to be around the conversation was all positive and it was just GOOD FUN!!! IF you would like to see pictures click here...

December 6, 2005 - Ok I am really getting excited cuz this is the first year my mother has ever come to my house for Christmas. Her flight will arrive on Friday and she will stay until Tuesday. We are planning a quiet sit down dinner for this wonderful Christmas eve. Charles mother will be joining our family as well. I hope to put on a dinner that will keep them both warm and cozy for the full year to come... Love you MOM!!! I adore my mother-in-law. She has only the kindest things to say about others and has this amazingly HUGE number of long time friends to show for it. She is my inspiration. Love you Evelyn!!!

November 17, 2005 - Today would be my dads 65th birthday had he lived. I miss him so much... it breaks my heart when I think of the fact I can't see him or call him any more. All the things he held dear have changed so much in the short time since his death. I love you daddy... I hope you rest in peace.

October 2005 - I have recently started acting in some local plays. I am very excited as this is something I always dreamed of but never had the nerve to do before.

I guess you could say I have taken my online roleplaying to real life:

Plays I will be in thru the end of the year and dates:

Just Deserts by Pat Cook: One night only - November 12, 2005 at 7pm it is a dinner theater and the cost is $12.00. As it is a dinner theater we ask you to please order tickets early so they will assure everyone has plenty of food.

It's a wonderful life: Play begins November 18th and will run December 18, 2005. Shows will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Class Act Theater off Marietta Square.

Gossip

October 30, 2006 - Those that were not at the show last night at the Big Top missed a fun time. I hope those who came had as much fun as I did. I took a camera but it seems no one wanted to take photos. YES I should have done so... but I am used to Charles taking photos for me... however, this time HE was in it too and so was his mother and his brother-in-law John Cooper. We got to celebrate Aunt Bertha and John's 70th and 40th Birthdays today.

The show was a part of a fund raising event hosted by Night of Mystery who has several scenarios you can choose from. No one knows the outcome until after a murder has occured.

Precious Trump - (Played by me): Floor manager. Precious is aware that the profits from casino are dwindling…and they can’t be attributed to gambling losses. Her job may be on the line if she can’t find the thief.

Paul Piano - (John Cooper): Lounge Singer. Late nights in the lounge leave Paul singing a lonely tune. Trouble is Paul wants something his bankroll can’t afford.

Ace High - (Charles Kernachan): Gambler. Known for his high bets and his big money, whatever lucky lady lands him as her husband will have hit the jackpot. Will Ace’s past come back to haunt him?

Jamie Journalist - (Evelyn Kernachan): Reporter. Jamie needs to stay a step ahead of the rest if they hope to break the story that is about to happen tonight.

Alex Gillespie did the lights so we were shocked when we found a dead body! Click to see the three pics that didn't turn out too fuzzy!

September 22, 2006 - After a break from theatre for most of the summer. I seem to be back in the swing of it. Currently I am playing some small parts in a play called 'The God of Issac' I get to be a MAN in this one ehhehe... It is at the Temple again for the TKE players. I will be playing the parts of Henry Higgins from My fair lady, Ma Jode from Grapes of Wrath, and a Jewish Defense League member who encounters Issac and discusses the Nazis..

I was very hesitant to do this last one as I know my friend Paul who is jewish would roll over and fall into a grave or call me and really give me a yelling... He will freak out when he finds out... lucky me he never reads this. Glenn has no idea what being in these parts would mean. Paul... if you read this... please forgive me... I know your gonna be mad.

Also I am assistant stage manager for The Red Shoes at the Big Top Theatre and will be doing the drops for this show. My sweet friend Amy Hodges has agreed to be my assistant on the back drops so I am looking forward to working with her again as we met on the set of 'It's a wonderful life' last fall.

For more information on all that is going on at The Big Top this year please check out the website!

March 10, 2006 - I am playing WoW on Dethecus mainly now. I have so many of the people with me on that server that I adore and value. I still have Atheena on Bleeding Hollow but she is level 59 and 1/2 and I am not of the mood at this time to finish her... I don't understand the rules there and so get confused and guild members who call you a newb because you want to play the way you want to play.... well... frustration, thats me. I know many of you have ask me why I stay... I told you the answer. My friend ask me to come... but as you have shown me.... I don't actually PLAY with that friend when I am there.... soo.... IF I was going to do real basher pvp then I would go back to playing Atheena on Bleeding Hollow. However, I do not believe there is anything left to a game if bots are used to raise or maintain a persons honor ... very discouraged at this time. Very. I still have the stuff if you want a cup or something with basher inc on it at cafepress.

On Dethecus we do it the old fashioned way... We earn it. We stick together and we hang together. My real life friend Chiapet is the guild leader. His wife Karin is the guild mother... We are the War Bunnies! I am very proud to be there. No one will put you down in our guild or they will be gone. Very few people are i the guild that are not very close friends to us. That does not mean we do not welcome NEW friends. All are welcome. But do know... We have been gaming for longer than most of you have been alive. I will probably be setting up a forums for the guild there and have some very cute bunny stuff on cafepress.

I do have a new server I am also playing on some now... I play Horde on Bonechewer. Right now I have a girl named Hayho. Not sure how I feel about her... but there is my Bitzie as well. I do not get to play them much as I only play them in the evening. Again I play there to be with a very dear friend of mine in real life. Best wishes... and lots of hugs.

December 6, 2005 - Well Jean came to the play on Sunday night and some of the cast went to dinner with us. She met Patrick, Liz, Amy and Chris. After supper at Efies on the square where we all had a hard time not getting up and belly dancing, (Chris and Patrick beat on the table to the drums all night) we then went to Jeans house... unfortunately... Charles cut my night short at 11pm and made me go home... Pulling me out literally by the seat of my pants... Everyone stayed at Jean's house till after 3am. How could they resist???? She had this amazing Halloween tree and a full Halloween village set up that makes noises and makes you want to be 2 inches tall so you can go and walk around them... but then... I got scared and would not sleep in the room with them eheheheh.... you really missed it if you didn't see her decorations on her tree as she has chocolates hanging from the limbs and a daughter of a friend of hers helped her mold little ghosts from marshmellows. It was wonderful and so was the wine... Jean is always such a great hostess! Mean ole Charles... *pouts*

November 17, 2005 - Not sure what to put in as gossip so I will tell about myself. Noone can be upset over self inflicted gossip can they? Well folks it has been 3 weeks now since my surgery. I am still ummmm tick shaped. It was laparoscopic and they didn’t take back out the air. My liver is getting much better now and mom says the swelling and inflammation will be gone in 6 to 8 weeks. Until then… I’m 4 sizes larger from the bikini top area down. Anyone who knows me knows I am crying over this as since I started in plays… I am the walking tent and on stage… talk about HUMILIATION! This has been a heck of a year but all this should leave me with very healthy liver and kidneys… Some of you know I have struggled with the kidneys and liver for years now. But YIPEEEE…. I am no longer yellow ehehehe…

October 22, 2005 - Just finished having gall bladder surgery. I went into the hospital thinking one of my ribs was cutting into me. I have been swelling for the past while in my ribs and was wondering what was happening since I broke them and my tailbone a few weeks back. Been a bit depressed lately. They said my liver was very swollen and inflamed. So that was what was swelling under my ribs. The stones were totally blocking my liver. After this I have no tan… but I seem so PINK now!