Other blogger's talk about their blogs "going dark" (hi, Bou!), but my blog is going grey. I am posting here and there, but the umph is gone.

For now.

I am now on round three for me feet. During the first round, he gave me some anti-inflamitory steriods. I took that for 5 days with out any other pain relief. Three of those days the pain was pretty bad, the last two a little better.

Second round: A cortisone shot in my right foot. It felt better that evening. And a prescription of Celebrex. Typically given to arthritis sufferers, it deals with inflammation and pain. The pain is now manageable.

Third Round: A night splint and recommended weight loss. The night splint does not work. After wearing it for four hours, my toes become numb. I have tried it all different ways, but no luck. I think it is because of the Morton’s Neuroma. Geez! But I am going back in January. If I still have pain then, which I do now, I hope he can do something else.

What is most frustrating about this is there is not a set way to fix it. It is not like breaking an arm. Each person is different; there are many methods of treatment, but none very successful for most.

I have some mild (very mild) turmoil in other areas of my life, but for now they will stay grey.

This year the girls had to memorize a story or a poem for school. I used my webcam to record them. Can you see the different personalities come through?

Youngest made a 100, but she just could not get serious in front of the camera.

During my travels in October, I saw a few soldiers. I felt a strong urge to say thank you and even tried to buy one a book. But it was awkward for us both. From a post on Rofasix's website, I found a way. I think it will work.

Check out the Gratitude Campaign.

WOW!!!!

From Grunt Doc who got it from Dr. Schwab. Check out more on the group's website.

The rest of the football season was not very good and not really worth posting. I guess I should have posted anyway, but it is not as fun.

The final straw was losing to A&M. We should not have lost to them and it was an embarasment. Since that game, we have not spoken of the team. We have been on sports media blackout. The season is over for us and we will start fresh next year.

A guy at work was walking down the hall and had a funny thought as he passed my office.

No, that is not the joke.

He stopped to tell me that his wife loves to watch Reality shows about little people. And because of these shows the little people are becoming famous and having hip clothing designed for them. The are all decked out and modern. So that makes them metro-knomes.

How do we get that term to catch on?

My memory works with visualization. I try to picture where something is and then I find it. But tonight as I was sorting gifts, I could not picture where I put my husband's present. But I could picture myself throwing the bag it came in away.

So I dug through the trash. Four bags. I call that true love.

I guess I did not take a "picture" when I put the gift in the closet. In a bag-blendable spot. Darn it. But thankfully I did find it since it would have not been fun to get the replacement.

Pictures from the girl's Christmas Show.

For their first song they used tissue boxes wrapped like presents. Then put them over their hands and did motions. Once they were done, they passed them all over to the end of the row and had a little of a jam and a lot of fun.

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An idea from a bygone blogger named Dana. Almost every song I listen to for the first time is considered for this. It has been some time since I found a song that would work.

Oldest turned 8 on the 22nd. We had a small family celebration with sandwiches, cake, ice cream and went to see the movie "Enchanted". All was good.

Tomorrow is the kid party at Build-A-Bear. We are keeping the group small. A good friends family that has kids both the girls age and two more. Then Oldest picked two friends from school.

Do you think I would be childish to want to make a bear myself? I am such a kid at heart!

The girls received cameras from their Granny for Christmas. She came to the same conclusion as I did. The kids cameras are not worth the money. So she bought them low end digital cameras. They were given a "lecture" on care and use.

They have already taken pictures and enjoy it. So to encourage them, I revived a blog I had at Blogger to use as a Photo Blog. They even picked out fake names and approved the color scheme. I toyed with the idea of participating in Project 365. You are to take a picture each day. I think that would be to demanding on all of us, so we will aim for it, but not hold ourselves to it.

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