Whats in a name?

Saw this on Rachel Grieg's blog and thought it was a bit of fun:

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car).
Tracy Falcon Rock on dude!!!

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie).
Chocolate TimTam - Scary huh?!?!

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name).
T-Lat - The t-lat is in da house!!?!? Hmmmmm.....???

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal).
Pink Elephant - Yep the very elusive pink elephant! PMSL!

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born).
Yolanda Brisbane - I knew one day I would find a good use for my middle name!! Maybe Yolanda Brisvegas sounds better?!?!

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 3 letters of your first).
LatTri - thats pretty crappy....

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink).
The Blue Diet Coke - getting better...although would you really shriek in distress, help me Blue Diet Coke?!?! What about the Blue Southern Comfort?!!?

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers).
Dick Colin or Colin Dick - Hmmm...probably better suited to the next question...

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy).
Summer Rain Chocolate - Oooh, how exotic!!

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ).
Christine Maurice - If I ever have to go into witness protection I can guarantee I won't be using THAT!!

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter).
McArdle Miami - and now we're crossing to McArdle Miami for our weather?!?!

12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).
Spring Iris - moonlighting as The Pink Elephant??

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”).
Orange Panties - exactly what kind of cartoon????

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree).
Coffee Fig - only tree I can think of!!

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”).[/quote]
The Scrapbooking Rain Tour - Yep that'll drag the crowds in!!!

Looks like I better stick with my real name!!

Keep smiling!
Trish

Really, really quick post

Some fabulous news regarding my friend, Kate....its not cancer after all...God love that 1%!!!!! LOL! She has autoimmune pancreatitis. Now I still have to look that up to see what it actually is. She still had some pretty intense surgery too and I'm guessing the diagnosis is still not the best news to get but it's not cancer and THAT is fantastic!!! Thanks big guy upstairs!! ;)

Quick layout share: Havne't scrapped in AGES and just felt the need on the weekend so I did, should have been studying but I just needed to chill out a bit!

Anyway, not sure if I like the "This Look" one but love the pic and story behind it. Love the circle one though if you don't mind me saying so! LOL!




Celebrated another trip around the sun....33 times now! Isn't that a very cool number! I think so but I may just be trying to look at my aging in a positive light LOL!!

I'm cheating here and copying my post from my happy birthday wishes from the girls at Scrapbook City.......

I had a great day. Had all my family over here which was nice, had Thai for dinner (which my kids and DH don't eat so big treat for me, the things that excite me these days LOL!)

Kids all chose their pressies for me which was sweet and quite funny. When the kids had asked what I wanted I said I really needed a new wallet, also told Steve and explained that I really needed one with more room for cards. Anyway, he took the kids shopping and Emily found one that she insisted I would love. Steve tried to talk her into something else but she told him "It's my present to Mummy and I pick this one" So I now have a bright pink wallet with 3 butterfly, flower and heart charms hanging off it with 3 card slots.

Then Sarah sent Steve on a wild goose chase. For Emily's birthday about a month ago Steve built her a cubby. So what did Sarah want to get Mummy? Yep a cubby!! "A little cubby!" So from her I have the cutest little carry along doll house "cubby".

And then Matthew....he knows his mother well...he got me the biggest box of Maltesers I have ever seen because "Mum loves chocolate and if we get a really big box we can have some too"

DH got me a new mobile phone and one of the new Basic Grey magnetic mats. Can't wait to use it!!

I had a great day, found a few more grey hairs but life's good!!

Anyway, gotta fly, assignment due this arvo....argh!!!!!!!!

Keep stressing, I mean, keep smiling!
Trish

So I don't forget....

I'm currently doing some research about Conductive Hearing Loss for an assignment and also heard something about our neighbours son today that has reminded me of something that I wanted to record so I didn't forget....

When Sarah was a few months old I started to notice that she wasn't reacting to the noise that Matthew and Emily would make when playing, fighting etc. Often she would be asleep in the lounge room and one or both of them would come into the lounge room laughing and yelling and making a lot of noise and she'd sleep through it, without stirring at all. OK so she is a deep sleeper I thought. But then I started to notice that when she was awake and they came running in she wouldn't react either. So I started "testing" her. I mentioned it to Mum too and she started "testing" her with me. We'd stand behind her and call her name, clap our hands, make noise etc to see how she reacted. Sometimes she'd hear, other times she wouldn't.

Her hearing test from birth had come back normal but still I was starting to get a little worried. Then one day, she was asleep in the lounge room and the front door slammed shut. It scared her and she woke screaming. Still I wasn't completely comforted as I have a friend whose mother is quite deaf and can hear certain sounds, slamming doors being one of them. But then someone came to the front door and when this stranger spoke, Sarah woke and reacted and had obviously heard them.

Suddently it dawned on me. Her hearing was fine!!! What she wasn't hearing was always Matthew and Emily and their noise. She had obviously trained herself to block out their noises. I mean let's face it if she hadn't she would never have slept would she?!?! :D

I can't tell you though the panic I felt. I did think "what if she is deaf? What will life be like for her if she can't hear" I worried about it .. a LOT! I prayed that her hearing was OK and thankfully it was/is.

Then today, Steve was next door talking with our neighbours and learnt that their 40-something year old son started losing his hearing at 8 years of age and was deaf from 12 years of age. About a year ago he had a cochlear implant and for the first time was able to speak to his parents on the telephone. How amazing is that!!! Ken was telling Steve that the first time he phoned and spoke to his mum on the phone, she broke down in tears. Technology truly is amazing!!!

On a really sad note though, I heard some bad news today about a friend of mine from high school, one that I have only recently got back in contact with (thanks to Facebook!) anyway, this friend has recently found out that she more than likely has Cancer (apparently 99% sure). The prognosis is not the best apparently as it is in her pancreas and surrounding area. She is going into hospital on Wednesday for surgery.

Please talk to the big man upstairs and ask him to help her out. She's only 32 for goodness sake. She has a LOT to live for and a LOT left to do. This girl made me laugh every single day in Grade 12, (geez we had some laughs) She and her boyfriend and family doesn't deserve this kind of news. Well no-one does but...well you know what I mean. So pray, pray, pray that technology IS amazing and that in a year from now she'll be looking back on this as simply a distant bad dream!

And on that note......
try to keep smiling :)
Trish

Happy Birthday Kelley!

I'm in the middle of frantically trying to finish an assignment that is due in today but I wanted to wish Kelley a HUGE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you have the best day, you deserve it.

If there is anyone out there reading this, make sure you pop over to her blog (link in sidebar----->) and leave her a big Happy Birthday comment.

Love ya heaps, Hugs,
Trish