These are my most incredible, beautiful, best friends from my good ole Delta High days! These three wonderful ladies found out that I was in the hospital and came to see me several times during my 3 hospital stays. They live in very different places and came a very long way. Lollie is in Nevada, Becky lives in Northern Utah and Kathie lives in beautiful Central Utah.
I kind of ruined a girls trip that we had planned because of this pesky cancer thing! So because I couldn't go with them they brought the party to me and trust me...THEY ARE A PARTY! They made me laugh and cry. They sang me a song they had made up, brought me little rabbit figurines with their names printed in their own handwriting...(get it? Delta Rabbits!) Lollie came to see me once wearing a rabbit suit and sang another lovely, self-composition!
These ladies have been there through it all! Robes, pumpkins, songs, yarn, birthday shopping for Channing when I couldn't go myself, text messages of love and support, visits, milkshakes, and lots and lots of hugs!!! I am forever grateful for these sisters from other misters of mine!
Today I took a trip to St. George. I went to the temple and spent most of the day there. What a peaceful place. St George is lovely and warm. I spent a year there in my childhood. I didn't think of myself as a child then. I was a big 13 years old! Hello!!!! We lived in the little town of Middleton before there was a golf course, the community living developments and the businesses that have now connected Middleton to Washington and St. George. It has changed so much that the first time my husband and I tried to find the house I thought it had been torn down! It was nowhere to be found! When we figured out where the house was seeing it brought back a lot of really good memories. I wish we could have lived there longer.
I found a guitar to use for a while. A friend of mine let me borrow it until I decided if I want to pursue playing. As I lovingly tuned the guitar, OH so carefully BOOOOIIIINNNNGGG! One of the strings broke! I hadn't had the guitar for 24 hours and I broke a string. It is a good thing I went to St. George today so that I could get the string fixed! I was going to start learning chords yesterday so that I could let you know how uncoordinated I felt when I tried to put my fingers around the neck of the guitar to place and press each of the strings shown on the chart. Honestly, I tried a little bit Monday night. That is how I know that I am all thumbs trying to get the chords right. This is tougher than I thought! I'll give er' heck though!
Tomorrow I am going to paint. I'm not sure what to paint...It will come to me in my dreams tonight although I don't know if I want to paint what has been in my dreams! My dreams have been pretty traumatic lately!
If any of you have ideas for me to paint I would love some ideas. I would also love to see some of the things you create! What can you teach me to do! I am open to suggestions! I love learning new things these days! If you have an idea please comment! I would love to hear suggestions!
Back to true friends...I know I'm jumping around a bit!
Another dear friend of mine magically took my mullet and gave it a girl shape and now I feel like a new woman! My perspective has changed quite a bit in the area of physical appearance.
I used to spend too much time worrying about my physical appearance! It got to the point that I was incapacitated at times. I had a hard time being in public because I was so worried about what other people thought! The new pimple on my face, the extra 30 pounds, my frizzy hair, my crooked smile, my crooked teeth in my crooked smile, the indentation at the tip of my nose, my large forehead, my pagoda shoulders (I really worried about this because I have broad shoulders and they kind of turn up at the broadest point like the pagoda temples in Asia! :/), my varicose veins, scars, hips, belly skin after having babies, etc. I think you get the idea! You know...I wish I could take back all the time I wasted worrying about these body issues! I wish I would have spent more of that time loving and serving people, learning new things, visiting my family members, reading to my children when they were little, dating my husband...anything would have been more productive and less damaging than my devotion to hating the way I look! I can truly say now that we are all beautiful! There are many things I can find to smile about now that I am not obsessed with my physical appearance. Old habits die hard and every once in a while I hear a belittling thought begin to form in my head. I don't let it stay long! Those thoughts are not welcome anymore! We are much more than what shows on the outside! So much more! Let's explore!!!!!
Love you all,
Lisa
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