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happyNow Playing: Day 2685-Next GP Chapter... Turning Lemons Into Lemonade :)
Crisp cool temperatures, clear skies and lots of beautiful sunshine!
LOVE~SPRING 
Today was a perfect day to get out and enjoy the great outdoors before the heat and humidity return early next week!
I have just started a new treatment. Although, it's completely different than my other treatments that I have tried over this past year. I still remain to do my best to get out and enjoy life.
My new motto? Seize the day, hour, minute & second!
That includes our entire little family. Even our fur children who have an absolute blast playing with their human parents in the lush green grass. Our new site for YOLO has lots of land for us to enjoy some family time. There is also plenty of places to go fishing, hiking, biking and even golf! Yep, that's in the making! Who knows what this summer will bring as far as the weather. I sure won't dare to predict, but in the meantime we are going to enjoy this beautiful day and perfect weather!
A little football, a nice walk along the river trails and ending the evening watching the sun slowly disappear out on the open land...
A picturesque end to a most beautiful day in God's country
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When life feels of nothing, but complete hopeless, helpless darkness. Yet still finding the light is what keeps me going.
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I used to sleep like a vampire. Living like a true night owl. Life after dark. Now I am far from a night owl. Life sometimes let's you know that the early bird does get the worm. Sometimes... Also a very early morning wake up call with it~ 
Rise N' Shine!
There are days, however, when a swift reality check is in order for why I still have a ways to go before my doctors will allow me to try going back to work. One cell, is all it takes for things to go from bad to worse. No one can predict what happens after radiation therapy. We were told to expect things to come full circle because the treatments didn't work. Today was a lesson to the golden rule that one can not predict what happens after radiation or any other type of oncology treatment. All you can do sometimes. Is do your best to roll with the punches. Continue living life to the fullest!
theshando Moments. They happen.
Have you ever dealt with those who don't know how to communicate in life? 
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Surprised, shocked, jaw-dropping facial expressions of those who work behind the service department. When myself and Eric made an unannounced visit after finally getting through to customer service. Only to be told, "I have no idea about your camper." Sure... They don't. That's why once we showed up and demanded answers. We found out that YOLO was still sitting there at the same Camping World location with FURTHER damage. Yes, now not only do we have damage from faulty slide mechanics. But now there was visible damage to the outside of the slider and on the opposite end from either the company towing it from YOLO's new site or while sitting there at the dealership. We were told Thursday that everything was being squared away to be sent back up to Heartland Corporation. Sure... It WAS!
They tried to tell me that it was condensation. No way in **** is it condensation, the water is 5 inches wide and runs from the ceiling to the floor. It did soak the mattress, about a 8 inch spot on both bunks in one night. Look at the pics and tell me what you think. 
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Cuddles is one out of our beloved 6 rescue fur children that has beaten more than the odds. She has outlived all of her siblings at 19 years young. That is a LOT of 9 lives isn't it?! 
LOVE
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If you are looking to buy an RV, per my own personal experience. Do not buy from Camping World. Do not as well buy anything built by Heartland Corporation. 
I have finally mastered the art of... Change. Changing for the better! That includes how I handle all of life's little unforeseen and most of the time. Completely PREVENTABLE situations. If you screw up, mess up, then by all means... OWN UP to your mistakes. Bask like the best Thanksgiving day turkey one can find in your mistakes. Hahahaha! OK, that WAS FUNNY! Maturity means owning up when you mess up. This gal has come a very long way! If I mess up, by golly, I will be owning up to my mistakes. You don't need to ask me for an apology. I am a far more wiser, bigger person now for the life lessons I have learned along the way.
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"Life can change in an instant." 
This isn't bad luck by any means. These are just life lessons in the making. Life lessons that make one far wiser. It's not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you. All in a mere instant. 
One push of the button on what should had been a completely fine, brand new electrical slide system. The loud sounds of a faulty slide pulley system sent screws flying out of the wall and across the living room. It happened so fast that we didn't know what the heck was going on?. That was until we noticed part of the slide wall laying across the living room floor. A mere 6-week old, brand new Heartland Mallard. $31,000 later... Now heading back to the Heartland Corporation. Status? Unknown. Tis seems there is a great lesson to be learned by Heartland Corporation in what happened to a major part of their mechanical system. A recall in the making. 
There are far worse things that could had transpired amidst taking front row and center of a major recall in the making. The pulley system screws could had caused great harm to anyone in the way. We were lucky to had been on the other side of the slide when the system ricocheted out of the wall. Same for the other 2 slides that we, as well the RV technicians found just as faulty. Ready to pull out of the wall. A disaster in the making, but not to worry. Life happens. Yes, indeed life can change in an instant, but it's how you handle what happens. That's what truly makes the difference!
Learned!
It's been nothing but, rain, rain and more rain for us folks here in the country. So much for having our moving sale this coming weekend. It was a great idea, but once again, the weather is in control right now of our plans and destination.
then warm, then cold weather. If it wasn't for having such an unsafe, unstable foundation. We would had still had the moving sale over this upcoming weekend. For liability reasons, moving sale customers must come through the downstairs garage and into the basement. With so many flash floods that our home has endured, in such a short amount of time, we must now wait once again until next weekend. If anything, at least we have officially been able to catch a little bit of a break. R&R for our little family!
It would be oh-so-super-nice to head off for a wonderful, relaxing spring vacation. What a super cute couple of friends who enjoyed a very nice, most definitely earned Hawaiian vacation. Such a great photo of two happily smiling faces! Even my dear friend in the country, just a mere distance away, turned a rainy day into a very productive one! I can't wait to see the final product of one super creative and quite country-chic living room, divider wall! 
As for us? We are continuing to educate ourselves on how to live a much more simpler kind of way. Less is more in our own special and quite unique way! I sure won't miss the constant cleaning nor wondering which part of the house is now settling. We won't miss the quite costly added expenses either! I would much rather spend life being happy, in a far smaller space. Than to worry about the constant unknowns in a place that is anything, but safe. Our very first steps of a life changed forever, happened late last year. One giant leap of faith from one state to another. The first step is the hardest, but I promise you... Things can only get better from here! 
MORE. 
Can you believe it? 
The fight might be far from over, but today? Tis most certainly is a reason to celebrate the gift of life!