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Much Better

This is an update to all of the articles about being sick. Thank you so much for your prayers. Tomorrow, I’ll get to go back to attending sessions (yay!). Lydia has felt better since Monday (although, we didn’t send her to class until Tuesday). Cyndi was well enough to attend sessions today.

Praise God for making us well!

Just a little information for everyone out there that I didn’t know until yesterday. When they gave Lydia a perscription for Tamiflu we could have also gotten a prescription and taken it as a preventative. If we had only known. Oh well, the last time we actually had the flu was about 5 or 8 years ago when there was no such drug you could get for the flu.

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Healthy Food…or Is it?

I saw this on Men’s Health today and thought it was interesting. Most of these things contain over 1,000 calories. That is just nuts. Not that I eat all healthy…if I want to indulge on cheese fries on a free day, that shouldn’t hurt things too much….just don’t make a steady diet of it.

In reverse order, the 20 worst foods in America are:

20. Worst Fast-Food Chicken Meal (Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonald’s (5 pieces) with creamy ranch sauce)

19. Worst Drink (Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 fl oz))

18. Worst Supermarket Meal (Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie (whole pie))

17. Worst “Healthy” Burger (Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger)

16. Worst Mexican Entree (Chipotle Mexican Grilled Chicken Burrito)

15. Worst Kids’ Meal (Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n’ Cheese)

14. Worst Sandwich (Quizno’s Chicken Carbonara (large))

13. Worst Salad (On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef)

12. Worst Burger (Carl’s Jr. Double Six Dollar Burger)

11. Worst Steak (Lonestar 20 oz T-bone)

10. Worst Breakfast (Bob Evans Caramel Banana Pecan Cream Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes)

9. Worst Dessert (Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream)

8. Worst Chinese Entree (P.F. Chang’s Pork Lo Mein)

7. Worst Chicken Entree (Chili’s Honey Chipotle Crispers with Chipotle Sauce)

6. Worst Fish Entree (On the Border Dos XX Fish Tacos with Rice and Beans)

5. Worst Pizza (Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza)

4. Worst Pasta (Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce)

3. Worst Nachos (On the Border Stacked Border Nachos)

2. Worst Starter (Chili’s Awesome Blossom)

1. The Worst Food in America ( Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing)

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More information on Training

This is an update to this very short very brief article I wrote several days ago.

DSC04961The past three weeks feels like a whirlwind. We took three weeks of vacation to travel around and visit friends and family before we move overseas, and it was hard. Don’t get me wrong, we had great times with friends and family, but we felt homeless for that time. We didn’t have any place to call our own. It finally feels good to be somewhere (even a little somewhere because we are sharing a place with several other people) to call our own.

On Monday, we moved into our training facility and started training sessions Wednesday. This training is to help prepare us to live overseas and covers things like disease, immunizations, how to handle culture shock, ideas on how we can meet people overseas, and the like. Like I said earlier, there are other families with us here, and we have gotten to know several. I think in our time here, we’ll come to make some great friends.

Lydia had a first birthday on Monday, but I’ll wait and let Cyndi talk about that. By that time, we should have some pictures up to share with everyone too.

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Sickness

Well, Cyndi is feeling better (and Lydia has been better all weekend) but I’m sick now. Please pray for me that I’ll get better and can attend sessions again.

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Lydia is sick

Please join us in prayer as Lydia has come down with the flu. This isn’t a great time as we are in the middle of our orientation to prepare ourselves to live overseas. There are some rules about what we have to do so other people don’t get sick too. This means one of us needs to stay at home with her while the other goes to class.

We are going to trade off (one watch her in the morning while the other watches her in the afternoon) while she gets better.

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We are here

Or are we there? Well, the good thing is we are somewhere! We’ll post some more information later; however, we moved into our training facility on Monday (today is Tuesday, I know….) We begin the sessions tomorrow. Basically, this training is to teach us a bit about culture shock, moving overseas, legal matters, how to adjust, etc….

Oh, Lydia’s first birthday was Monday. We’ll get a post about that (and her 1 year doctor visit) up, hopefully by the end of this week.

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Serbian Music

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Just to give everyone a taste of Serbian music, we’ll put this mp3 on our podcast.  I don’t have a clue what the song is about…I just know the artist (Goran Bregovic) is a big guy in Serbia.  While we were there several years ago, he put on a performance in the center of town that we went to see part of.  (for more on that, see our writings on the 29th of September 2006 )