Proud to be a Giant's Fan

And this is how San Francisco rolls.....

I love San Francisco's love for the Giants. And you should see how decked out everyone is this week in their black and orange. It's like we are all part of one big family and its awesome. :)  San Francisco has its own really fun culture, and when you live here you realize its really a cool one. It's way laid back, eclectic, and accepting....which can be good, and bad at the same time haha.  You definitely have your strange sights....someday I will take a picture of the bicycles covered in fur that I pass every time I go for a walk around the block near my work....Probably most definitely wont ever live in the city as far as settling down goes....I dont wanna be there when it falls in the ocean......

Go Giants!!!

Christamae....

From Facebook:  

Christamae Zimpel

5 hours ago

"won't take out my gallbladder-too high risk. Going home next week on hospice basically to pass away. tomorrow going to redo my gj tube and a biliary drain will be inserted for palliative measures. Just working out pain management @ transferring meds to i.v. still way too much edema. pain problems. looks like this may be the end. i am okay with that....more worried abou my family and finances since dad & grandma get paid for my care. already having issues because they don't pay when i am in the hospital.....prayers for my family appreciated."

We love you, Christamae!!  My other sister.  Hopefully this will pass......and hopefully it won't end the way it sounds.  

Recent Happenings

You know, I think I have outgrown my fetish for California....

It's a great place, don't get me wrong!  I do love being here.  When it comes down to it, though, I don't think I would want to raise my family here  The only thing is that my whole family is here!  And that to me is more important than anything else. 

On that note, please say prayers for my cousin Christamae! She has been admitted to UCSF again for Sepsis and they are making a lot of mistakes....poor thing. She's usually admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit because she is only 60 pounds and the staff know her there and know how to deal with her issues.  But they didn't have a bed so they put her in the regular ICU.  They gave her 10 times the amount of seizure med that she is supposed to have on accident which has made her short term memory horrible, they are continuously pumping her body full of water to get rid of the sepsis, which consequentially makes it difficult for her to breathe even with the vent on (it gets water into her lungs), and for whatever reason she isn't outputting enough urine to get rid of all the water they are putting in her body, so she's really edemic right now :(  She was in so much pain when she left.  :(

And here are some pictures of life at the moment...

OK, ok, just kidding.  I wish!

Have a beautiful Fall day!!!  

Emergency Preparedness--Water!

So lately I have been feeling a lot of interest in emergency preparation.  It doesn't mean something huge is going to happen, but if it does, I really want to be prepared!   I think its super important that everyone get some kind of emergency kit prepared just in case.  And something could happen tomorrow even, so what will you do??

 I was doing some research, and found this great website:

http://www.ready.gov/

It is a website our own government made to help us get prepared. Cool huh!  Who would know better about how to prepare for natural disasters in our own country than them?

Also, I was doing some research and it seems like one of the biggest things people forget about is water.  Did you know the average person needs to save a gallon a day of water for their emergency kits?  Yeah. That seems like a lot, but if you don't have water, you are in deep doo-doo....as my dad says. lol.  You can actually store water in those gallon milk jugs and just screw the lid in tightly...More info below:

http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/emergwatersuppl.html

Speaking of water, I also learned that you can use the water from your hot water heater:

http://www.palosverdes.com/RPV/emergency_preparedness/content/Water-Heater-Article.pdf

(that is a how-to....)  That thing holds about 50 gallons of water! Sweet.

And that is your Emergency Preparedness thought of the day. :)