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My Thoughts on the New Year

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  • First off, I have always felt a special bond with January, because we share the same shortened nickname.  
  • I felt a little sadness when I watched the news the other day and saw more violent and bad news.  Can't people leave the new year untarnished, just for a little bit?  
  • I have a great love for new calendars.  It is fun for me to mark future dates.  I went through my new calendar (with beautiful nature scenes) and marked all of our family members and loved ones birthdays.  I'm not the best at sending birthday cards.  (However, I'm pretty good at sending birthday facebook messages.)  Just know family and friends that on your birthday, you are on my mind. 
  • Danny and I have planned our first vacation for 2012.  It isn't too far away and it won't be a long vacation, but it does involve sand, water and my sister Michele and her husband Dan.  We are very excited!
  • Today I used my first sick day of the year.  Only 5 days into 2012 and I have already come down with some type of bug.  Luckily I have a nice husband who will get me pain reliever, glasses of water and back rubs when I need them.  Now for a weird story...I could feel this illness coming on yesterday.  I woke up with a sore throat and by the afternoon I had a fever.  I had already set up an appointment with my chiropractor to fix my crooked neck for that afternoon.  (Did you know I had a crooked neck from whiplash a long time ago?  The chiropractor really has straightened it out.  It actually has made me about a quarter inch taller.)  So I went to the chiropractor and told him I was coming down with something.  His response was that adjustments can help the immune system, which is what I would expect a chiropractor to say.  So he cracked my neck and back (which still kind of freaks me out) and now for the strange part, but the time I left the chiropractor my fever was gone.  Crazy, huh.  This chiropractor is making a believer out of me.
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  1. ErinJanuary 6, 2012 at 9:50 PM

    That is cool that the chiropractor helped. I hope you feel well soon. I like your New Year's resolutions!

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  2. grammawoodJanuary 18, 2012 at 8:56 PM

    I hope you will plan a vacation to Natchitoches before too long!

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