List of Famous People Who Went To SHS

Here are the list of famous people who went to my high school, Seabreeze:

Sebastian Janikowski, Oakland Raiders kicker, class of 1997
Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band, class of 1965
Walter McCoy, Gold Medalist (4x400 meter relay) at the 1984 Olympics, class of 1977
Rich Gibbs, keyboardist for Oingo Boingo, class of 1974
Bill France Jr., president of NASCAR from 1972 to 2000, deceased.
Kerry Healey, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, class of 1978
Jane Morgan, American popular singer during the 1950s and 1960s
J.R. House, Professional baseball player.
Ron Rice, Founder, Hawaiian Tropic.
Kelley Estes, Actress, Class of 2000
Marie Fajardo Ragghianti real-life character played by Sissy Spacek in the movie Marie, class of 1960
Laurie Davison, Emmy Award winning television news reporter, class of 1983
Jon Shook, Co-Star of 2 Dudes Catering on the Food Network, class of 1999
Xavier Lee, quarterback for Florida State University. Class of 2004
Rance Winn, Founder, Blue Moon Rising Kennels.

Not to mention John Tanner, a state attorney, (HINT:  J.T. in one of my SHS blogs.  I finally met him at a picnic table outside the gym) above.  Not yet to be posted in the Wikipedia about him.

I figured I saw Walter McCoy at a 100th class reunion party last Sat.  It must him as he was chatting with other people when they came up to meet him unexpectedly but I did not meet him in a person.  McCoy gave them an autograph.  I noticed he was wearing an Olympics Gold medalist necklace.  He's also a black.

Did u know about a man named Ron Rice, a suntan lotion company founder?  I met him at his manison on the beachside for a party one night several years ago.  His manison looks huge.  I didn't know Ron graduated from there until I saw his name have been mentioning on the list few days ago.  No sign of Ron Rice there.  Sorry.

When I went to look up in the website of Wikipedia for Seabreeze High School, there are no mention of "disability" in it cuz I was the first multi-handicapped to be graduated from there in 1989.  I guess no disabled students attending there before 1986-1987, that first year I was a sophomore when I entered Seabreeze High.  I was transferred there from Ormond Beach Middle School when I finished the freshmen year but actually I went to Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine for 6 months.  FSDB is where Ray Charles attended.  I was surprised and figured out why.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 8

I’ve decided it’s time for me to leave the gym cuz my bus would come to pick me up at 3 pm.  I waited in the front of high school outside longer.  My bus was late.  I waited and waited.  I told a high school staff that I was waiting for the bus and I don’t have a cell phone or a pager when he came up with a golf chart.  He made his cell phone to my bus service, Votran.  He got someone on the phone and informed him or her about me.  After he hung up the cell phone, he informed me that my bus would be there in 10 minutes.  I hope so.  And finally, it arrived several minutes later!  It turned out a mini-van, not a bus.  And then a black female driver took me back to my parents’ house. 

I had wonderful time at 100^th anniversary party for SHS.  I will never forget that weekend.  The weather was so nice.  Will there be a 20^th high school class reunion next year?  I hope someone will send an invitation to us in the mail about it.  I did attending 5^th and 10^th high school reunions in the past.  I’ll do it again.

The End

See a slideshow of SHS 100th Celebration below:

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 7

When I saw Lisa again on the way to gym, her first baby, I think, will be due in September.  Lisa asked me if I signed the yearbook at the table.  I replied I did.  Then I saw Mr. J again as he was about leaving.  I asked Lisa if she remembers him.  Lisa had seen him during our high school days together.  After I chatted with Lisa, I went back to the timeline table to find any more pictures of my father as a young boy.  I found one yearbook, 1949, and there is a picture of Dad with his 8^th grade class (see the pic of it on the right).  That school picture was taken at the bandshell.  I wondered how he and his class got there.  I guess they walked to the beachfront.  And then I spotted Patti again as she was looking at the yearbook on another table.  We chatted.  Afterwards, I had an idea about David, my youngest brother.  David did go to Seabreeze in one year but he wanted to be transferring to Mainland High School and then later on to Flagler Palm Coast High School and then later returned to Seabreeze but David did not graduating from there.  I saw a senior photo of David in the 1997 yearbook (see a pic of him on the right).  He looked cute in it back then but troublemaker.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 6

After I took a picture of the fence that leads to McDonald’s, I saw Mrs. L. chatting with some people outside on the way back to gym.  What I learned from Mrs. L is that the building of old cafeteria turning in an auditorium (see pic of it on the right).  The cafeteria had moved to east of it, a new additional one story building.  Wow!  I noticed next to an old cafeteria I recall is that there are stairs and roof, but now they are all gone!  I also recall there was an old auditorium on the south, next to the gym.  I saw there is a new addition, an elevator.  It could be used for disabled student or staff. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 5

At the rear of high school, the fence along with some trees is where many students walk to McDonald’s and mini-food store on their lunch break for years since the new school opened in 1962.  I guess it closed on weekends but I don’t know.  That is where I rode in scooter to McDonald’s on lunch break few times when I was a student there.  I do remember there was ramp, a wooden or sand pavement, but no more.  It turned out new steps.  I recall one of few times, I had to meet my then boyfriend, Todd, at McDonald’s on lunch break a day before my Senior Prom and a day after he flew in to see me from California.  My mother brought him there.  He was waiting for me.  We had a nice lunch together at McDonald’s.  And then it was time for me go back to school for my next class.  I will never forget I had good times at McDonald’s.  McDonald’s is still there today. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 4

On the way to the food court, I recognized Lisa, another classmate of mine again since I saw her at Wal-Mart few months ago.  She’s pregnant with her first child.  We talked little bit.  And then I ordered a cheeseburger and a package of potato chips for my lunch.  And a can of coke at the other food court.  As I was eating it at the picnic table outside the gym, I got a unexpected visitor, a famous state attorney, J. T., who was graduated from SHS in 1957.  I couldn’t do talking to him cuz I am chewing the food at the same time.  He knew my Dad.  I shook a hand with him and then he left.  After I finished eating lunch, I ran into a woman named Patti again since the last time I saw her was at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Daytona Beach last year.  Patti was graduated of 1988 Class.  She brought her son along.  He’s wearing a pair of sports eyeglasses.  LOL!  After I chatted with Patti, I went on to explore the high school.  Oh, wow, my high school is transformed into new additional places.  Some roofs above the hallway outside disappeared (see a pic of it below).  New steps and gardens were added up.  New picnic tables and benches. 

To be continued...

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 3

After that, I went back inside the gym, I saw Mr. J (see a pic of him below) there.  He came up to hug me.  Mr. J. was an administrative assistant at the time I attended Seabreeze as a student.  I already know Mr. J was transferred to another high school for his new job years ago.  Mr. J took care of my old scooter during my high school years.  He picked it up from the storage room when I arrived at high school every morning.  Every afternoon, Mr. J put my scooter away into the storage room when I go home.  I gave him an award on the night of Senior Awards (that is the pic on the right).  That was few days before I graduated.  It was late May.  I didn’t know what’s going on until someone calling my name and wanted me to come up to the stage that night.  It was an unexpected surprise to me and him.  I made a statement about him.  And then I received a hall of fame award along with a huge framed Senior photograph of me (see a pic of me on the right).  I will never forget that night of Senior Awards.  Unbelievable!  Fast forward to the present, after I talked with Mr. J., I signed the yearbook at the table with a crowd of other graduates outside the gym.  I mean inside the building.  That was for time capsule I guess.  When I finished signing it, I went to get my lunch at the food court on the football field outside.  I felt hungry. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 2

I was looking around at the audience and then I spotted few of my hearing classmates in the crowd.  I recognized them.  Then I sped up going over to where women were standing in.  I hugged Selena and was glad to see her again.  And Tara, too.  Selena informed me that she saw me riding in a scooter and pointed at our old high school principal, Mr. S. (see a pic of him on the right).  Mr. S. walked up to hug me.  He was glad to see me again.  I noticed and can tell that Mr. S is about crying emotionally but he’s wearing a pair of sunglasses.  I met his wife.  She’s pretty. And then they went back to their seat and watch the ceremony.  I told Selena Mr. S. looks changing alot.  He’s retiring since 1990.  I didn’t know Mr. S. came back there that Sat morning.  I was surprised to see him again and glad. I do remember Mr. S. rode my scooter #1 few times, not much, when I was a high school student back then.  LOL!  I saw a picture of him in it in the yearbook.  As I was watching the ceremony, I was surrounded by few classmates of mine.  Those ladies brought their own children along.  Selena has 3 girls.  She married to a high school sweetheart, Scott.   Selena was a homecoming queen and cheerleader.  Tara has a toddler son and is pregnant with 2^nd child.  Tara was also a cheerleader and Miss Seabreeze Contestant.  One of Selena’s girls was playing with my scooter.  She’s cute.  That little girl thinks my scooter is a toy.  I laughed.  We were leaving the football field when the ceremony is over.  I guess Dad already left there before us.  I went over to the stage and hugged Mrs. L   I was glad to see her again.  We were chatted little bit.  And then I was heading for the gym where historical display is located.  When I got inside the building of gym, wow, the gym looks changing from old to new and bright.  Beautiful.  I can’t believe it.  There was a timeline on both sides of the long table, from 1908 to 2008.  I found some pictures of my uncle in each yearbook.  And Dad’s, too.  A museum about this high school has a great information.  Interesting about it.  Afterwards, I went outside to look at my high school.  I heard some small planes flew over SHS.  I figured these small planes are honoring in the celebration of 100^th anniversary of SHS.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 1

Last Saturday morning, I went back to Seabreeze High School (SHS) in Daytona Beach for celebrating 100^th anniversary of Seabreeze.  I was the first multi-handicapped to be graduated from there.  I have wonderful memories of SHS days.  Dad picked me up at my place for taking me over to his house cuz I have to pick up my scooter from there so Votran, my bus service, is going over to my parents’ house for picking me up.  I didn’t want Votran coming over to my apt cuz the size of space doesn’t fitting in my apt and there’s a step in the doorway.  Votran got on time when it arrived at my parents’ house.  Votran bus driver was heading for the bridge and then onto the road of beachfront.  As the bus driver was about getting closer to my destination, I noticed my high school looks changing since I left there 19 years ago.  Wow!  I can’t believe what I saw.  I was speechless.  Votran bus driver dropped me off there.  Then I was heading for the football field where the ceremony was held.  I missed few parts of ceremony cuz I have had time to eat breakfast first at my apt and then went over to my parents’ house that morning.  The football field is south of SHS and looks huge.  A teenage girl handed me a program booklet as I was arriving at the football field in riding a scooter.  I had to find Dad there but can’t find him.  I was waiting for him to show up.  Minutes later, Dad did showing up when I spotted him.  I tried to wave him in the crowd with other attendees but he did not paying attention at me.  I guess Dad looking around to find me.  Few minutes later, Dad finally spotted me and then walked over to meet where I am at.  During the ceremony, I had to sign my name on the list of 1989 Class at a registration tent.  I recognized some women’s name on that list.  I was surprised to find out they are there.  I was excited.  Then I looked for them somewhere on the football field but I don’t know where they were.  There are so many old graduates and attendees crowding all over.  At the registration  tent, I chatted with a lady who knows Chuck, her ASL instructor at college and from my deaf club.  She’s nice.  The lady found out I am hard of hearing.  As I was watching the ceremony, I noticed Dad chatting with old classmates.  Dad went back to where he was from after he finished chatting with them.

Searching For Bathing Suit. Tomorrow Plans.

This afternoon, I went out with Mom in search for the right bathing suit.  First stop at JCPenney's in the mall in Daytona Beach, I tried some cute bathing suits out but they don't fitting me.  Couldn't find the right size of few bathing suits that supposed to be 4-6.  And then went to Beall's and tried another one out but it's a wrong size that my mother doesn't understand.  She doesn't understand fashion but I do cuz I took a fashion management class at college several years ago.  Also, couldn't find the right size of that same bathing suit.  Next time we will try at Macy's and Dillard's.  And then I went home.

Tomorrow Plans
That's the last time I saw differently below:


Tomorrow morning, I will return to my high school, Seabreeze, in Daytona Beach for celebrating 100th anniversary of Seabreeze with other graduates and students and old teachers.  There will be a party.  I will bring my digital camera with me.  I will show these future photos to u next week.  They will going to be a slideshow.  Anyways, my high school is getting bigger since I left there in 1989.  Wow!  It looks changing now.  Seabreeze High School have had 2 different other sites since 1908.  First, the building of high school looked a medium, like 3 floors house.  Several years later, it moved to a 2nd site on the corner of Grandview Avenue and Earl Street.  Earl Street is where my deceased paternal grandmother lived with my Dad and his brothers when those boys were young.  Dad and his brothers went there but 2 of them graduated from a different high school.  Seabreeze High School moved again to another site in 1962.  It's across the road from beach.  See a yesterday's online article about 100th anniversary of Seabreeze High School below:

April 24, 2008

Seabreeze plans 'huge homecoming' to celebrate 100 years

By RAY WEISS
Staff Writer

DAYTONA BEACH -- The yearbooks and memorabilia fill Ruth Labno's office at Seabreeze High School.
Inundate would be a better description.
"I started three years ago on this," she said, of planning Seabreeze High School's 100th anniversary. "It's going to be a huge homecoming."
The stacked and tattered early yearbooks, dating back to 1912, are small in size and content, filled with fresh-faced, well-dressed students starting out in life. They are now gone. Only their photographs remain.
Each yearbook captures a piece of history, a reflection of the styles and culture of a bygone era, from Rudy Vallee and Sinatra to Elvis and the Beatles to Gwen Stefani and T-Pain.
But on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m., all those students from all those years will be honored during a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a school. At least 1,000 graduates and their relatives are expected.
"We're getting 20 to 30 e-mails, and five calls a day," said Labno, an administrator and fixture at the school for 37 years. "Word's gotten out."
Bit by bit, Labno found former students from as far away as Seattle, and digging through decades of yearbooks, old photos and stories, the event came together with the help of others.
"But I haven't found the oldest surviving graduate," she said, somewhat disappointedly.
Labno did find an original 1908 diploma, though, like the three handed out to the original graduates of Seabreeze High School.
"There were about 18 to 20 students then, depending on reports," she said. "There aren't a whole lot of records."
This year, there are 1,865 at the latest of the school's three locations, built in 1962.
The 100th anniversary celebration will include a specially produced school play honoring Seabreeze's past, alumni marching bands and historic mementos, athletic uniforms and photos on display.
A time capsule will be buried at 2:30 p.m. and commemorative yearbooks will be on sale for $70.
Meagan Strasser, the 17-year-old senior editor, helped decide what would go into the historic yearbook, something she considers an honor.
"I'm so glad to have been part of it. It's been incredible for me to have gone through 100 years," said Strasser, whose father, two sisters and brother also graduated from Seabreeze. "I don't think I would have known as much about the school otherwise."
Gayleen Snead, class of 1951, is looking forward to the school's big anniversary party, and recounting a very different time at the Daytona Beach school with former classmates.
"It was so small and nice, and we'd have a lot of sock dances, and after-the-game parties," she recalled. "Everyone lived around the school. It was on Grandview then, behind where the Ocean Center is now. Everyone walked to school."
She paused and laughed: "My brother-in-law, Walter Snead, almost got expelled for riding a horse to school."
All five of her children, her late husband, Edwin, and his three siblings attended Seabreeze. So did Bill France Jr.
"He was a character," she recalled of the late NASCAR patriarch. "All I can think about is the country music he was playing all the time. Bill was a loner. He didn't talk a lot, unless he'd make a comment."
She said another graduate, Deanna Lund, found success in Hollywood, best known for her role in the popular late '60s TV series, "Land of the Giants."
"I don't think she's coming," Snead said.
Organizers said other notable graduates such as Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band, 1950s and '60s singer Jane Morgan, former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Murphy Healey and NFL place-kicker Sebastian Janikowski aren't expected to attend either.
But ultimately, it's the memories, not the memorable, that will take center stage.
"Looking back, I feel blessed we had so many years of camaraderie and fun at the school," Snead said. "We all were born and grew up here. This is a landmark that's important, to have people stop and think, 100 years have passed."
Family boasts 3 generations of Seabreeze graduates
Lorraine Lewis, Lorraine Miklos and Jaclyn Miklos have much more in common than three generations of family lineage.
Each woman attended Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach.
"We had a lot of fun. I remember Friday night dances at the pier," Lewis recalled, as she looked through a 1936 yearbook from the year she and 43 others received their diplomas. "I played piano on stage at graduation."
These days, Lewis, her daughter and granddaughter are looking forward to the 100th anniversary celebration of the school on Saturday at the beachside grounds where the school has stood since 1962. Nearly 1,000 graduates and their families from across the country are expected to attend.
Lorraine Micklos, a math teacher at Seabreeze and a 1973 alum, never questioned that she'd follow in her father and mother's footsteps, just like her daughter did after her.
"What we always talk about is how nice it is to have the history in the same place," she said, her mother and daughter sitting at her side. "We knew we were Sandcrabs before we hit school. I started going to the football games at age 5. So it was not a choice."
The family history wasn't lost on Jaclyn, 20, a 2006 graduate now attending Flagler College who finished at the same high school 70 years after her grandmother.
"Since I was in kindergarten, they said I was going to Seabreeze," she said, smiling. "It's amazing that my grandmother and mother went to the same high school."
Her brother attended Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange, which was OK with her mom.
"It wasn't Mainland," Lorraine Miklos said, laughing.
Lewis, 88, added: "It was just accepted that it was the way it would be for all four of my children who graduated from Seabreeze."
The three Seabreeze graduates are looking forward to the 100th anniversary celebration, where old stories and friendships will be rekindled with classmates from three very different eras.
"I think there's a sense of belonging when you come back to a place," Lorraine Miklos said. "What I remember about high school is all the administrators and teachers who knew my parents. I never left home, when I left home. I was just going to a different set of parents."
And in not too many more years, there should be a fourth generation of Seabreeze girls carrying on the family tradition.
"I have a granddaughter who lives in this zone," Lorraine Miklos said, smiling. "And she has no choice."  
Seabreeze High: 100 Years and Counting
· Seabreeze officially becomes a high school in 1908, with the graduation of its first senior class; formerly called the Memento School in the peninsula town of Seabreeze, starting in 1886 on the corner of Halifax Avenue and Ora Street.
· New concrete-and-steel building costing $58,000 opens in 1917 on the corner of Grandview Avenue and Earl Street.
· New building opens in 1962 at 270 N. Oleander Ave. on 23 acres. Construction cost: $1.25 million. The old school becomes Seabreeze Junior High School.
· Three-year school renovation and modernization completed in 2002 for almost $33 million.
Here is an aerophoto of huge Seabreeze High School below:

Dancing With The Stars Season 6 Day 7 - Marlee & Fabian

I can't believe Marlee is eliminated from "Dancing With The Stars" last Tuesday night. I was disappointed but I am okay. She worked hard.

However, I saw Marlee dancing with Fabian on "Live With Regis and Kelly" on TV this morning. Their dance on that TV morning show was wonderful. Marlee and Fabian wore a pair of jeans. She looks beautiful with a bright, highlight long hair.

Here is a video below:

Hallmark Hall Of Fame - "Sweet Nothing In My Ear" That Marlee Maltin Starred In

Did u watch "Sweet Nothing In My Ear" on TV movie last night? I did. Wow, that TV movie was so good. Marlee Maltin played a deaf teacher and mother and Jeff Daniels played a hearing father and an employee at a car shop office. This TV movie is story about both hearing husband and deaf wife making a hard decision on their son, Adam. They have been discussing an issue of cochlear implants but disagreeing about it each other.

If u missed watching this TV movie last night, DVD will be available for purchase after May 15 at ur local Hallmark Gold Crown store. Also, if u can't afford it, I am suggesting u would wanting to go to either the library or Blockbuster.

See the Link Tab of it on this page, please.

Dancing With The Stars Season 6 Day 6 - Marlee & Fabian

I am so glad that Marlee and Fabian are saved for another next week. Whew! Congratulations on them! The kind of their dance is Samba. Marlee said in a sign language that Samba is the hardest dance she've ever had with Fabian. I noticed that on TV show last Monday night. Whoa! I agreed with her. Here is a video below. Enjoy!

Trip to Wal-Mart. My Regular Camera. Submitted My Senior Prom Photo to "Live With Regis and Kelly"

I had a breakfast at home 2 hours before I left home for going to Wal-Mart.  I had to do food shopping there.  I bought binouculars and clipboard.  I also need batteries for my regular camera.  When I finished shopping, I went home.

Last weekend, I stay home.  I was working on a photo album for pictures of my deaf club all afternoon but not finishing yet.

The reason I had to buy new batteries for my regular camera is that I've left few films in it.  That film will going to be last cuz I always use a digital camera more than a regular one.  I am thinking about this regular camera that should be given away.  Maybe to Todd cuz his old one is not working and the film in his own camera is stuck in it.  Or to someone else.  Joe, my oldest brother, and I bought this regular camera together while we were on a vacation in Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1996.  But this camera is good.

When I returned home, I submitted my senior prom photograph to "Live With Regis and Kelly" online this early afternoon since it was announced.  There was a picture of me only and prom story.  I tried sending it to NYC studio but the size of my prom photo did not fitting.  It was unsuccessful.  So I fixed the resize of my prom photo in the photo program online.  I did submitting it along with my prom story successfully!  Hopefully, my prom photo will show up on the Live anytime.  Wish me a good luck.  I am sure TV staff will be surprised to find out my prom story.

Picture Perfect Friday: Hobby

Hobby?  I have few hobbies:  Beach, Travel, Reading and Swimming.  But I decided to pick out one of them:  Swimming.  I chose it cuz I love going to swimming very much when the weather turns warm and prefect.  I swim with my white bubble while I was growing up.  Bubble is a floater that keeps me out of drowning if u can't swim normally as being a disabled woman.  I started going to swim as I was little girl when I received my first white bubble.  I always brings a same bubble to the swimming pool since then.  Now my bubble worn out.  I need to get a new one by order.  Swimming is good for ur exericse.  I feel my legs improving.  I enjoyed swimming myself.  My father keeps an eye on me when he's there for me.  See a picture of me below:



This picture was taken at Ivanhoe Hotel in Ormond Beach, Florida during Summer 1992.  I have been going there since I moved to Florida with my family as 16 yrs old girl until I stopped it in about the year 2001 when my walking ability changes due to gain weight.  About Ivanhoe Hotel, the name of that hotel have been changed to current Best Western few years ago.  No more "Ivanhoe".  I felt sad when I saw the sign on the beachfront as one of my parents driving pass by.  That hotel looks different little bit now.  It added up a new ramp for disabled guests before "Ivanhoe" changed to a new name.

Otherwise, I have been still going to swimming pool at YMCA for few years.  I did not go there last summer cuz I was trapped staying home by too many trips to the bathroom in my apt, u know what I mean.  I felt bad at that time.  Hopefully, I will go back there next month or June seriously but first, I have to buy a new bathing suit.

Dancing With The Stars Season 6 Day 5 - Marlee & Fabian

Go, Marlee! Yay! Yay! The kind of dance is Viennese Waltz. Oh, what a beautiful dance! How romantic! Marlee's dress looks so stunning. Congratulations on Marlee & Fabian being saved for next week. Here is a video below:

An Appointment With Some Radiologists At The Hospital.

Went to the hospital for having an X-ray this early morning.  My mother drove me there.  It's nearby in my hometown.  5 minutes to get there.  I had on time.  I waited in the lobby of lab/radiology department until a radiologist called my name.  First, a radiologist wanted to ask me personally like my last name and birth date then she put me up on the table for taking a picture of my chest and bowel.  Afterwards, another radiologist/student, a male who looks like a Spanish, wanted me to drink the first of 2 special liquids right away.  But it tastes yucky!  I drank slowly, sip by sip.  It took me to drink for almost an hour cuz I drank too slow and felt my tongue uncomfortable.  Then the 2nd one repeatly.  Ugh!  At about almost done, I went back to do more picture of my chest bowel so the male radiologist/student wanted to make sure an X-ray picture looks good.  As I was figured out what the radiologist is doing, he noticed my intestines are not full completely yet but I think it looks about halfway.  I saw an X-ray picture of my chest and bowel on the computer.  And the mental screws inside both of my hip bones that I had a surgery when I was kid, too.  It's a long story.  Whoa, I could see white spots included my stomach inside my belly clearly.  I noticed the white liquid flowing downward from my stomach as it travels to my bowel.  Then the other female radiologist wanted me to drink the 3rd one.  I thought I finished drinking the last 2nd one.  I felt I am tired of drinking a weird liquid and I nearly vomited but it was just small.  Then she went to talk with my gas doctor on the phone.  Finally, that female radiologist wanted me to go to another X-ray room.  I stopped drinking halfway.  Thank God.  I hate it!  In another X-ray room, it looks different.  I saw a video of my chest and bowel in the computer.  It was an amazing by what I saw.  I could see my bowel is moving inside.  Wow!  But it looks weird.  I have never seen like that before.  The female radiologist put a thing on my belly and was looking at where the small bowel is located on the video.  She made a black circle on that spot where I have a problem with.  Also, I could see a mental nail inside my right hip bone.  At last, I am done with X-ray pictures.  Whew!  I went home afterwards.  I had to eat late breakfast right away.  I was relieved as I was eating 2 croissants and drinking my favorite coffee.  I am still drinking water to get rid of white liquid.

Trip to Wal-Mart. Updates On My Stomach.

I didn't do blogging yesterday cuz I was busy working on a photo album for many pictures of my deaf club, GDBAD and had written on the back of each photo all afternoon.  Then I organized those GDBAD photos altogether.  But I am not finished yet.
Yesterday morning, I went to Wal-Mart.  I was feeling good.  I had a breakfast at McDonald's there.  Afterwards, I continued to do shopping.  I bought a photo album for pictures of my deaf club, GDBAD.  Finally.  And few more personal items.  Then I went home.

Updates On My Stomach
Do u remember I told u I went to the hospital for having a blood test a week ago?  I was informed by my mother thru VRS (Video Relay Service) that there's something little bit in my blood when I called her earlier tonight about our tomorrow plans.  A nurse called my mother today about it.  Possible an inflammation.  That's why I was in a terrible pain after Valentine's Day.  Tomorrow early morning, I am going back to the hospital again for having an X-ray picture on my small bowel that's where I have a problem with now.  I was told that I will drink kind of milk before an X-ray.  I will not eat breakfast until after X-ray is done.  Next Thursday afternoon, I will have an appt with my gas doctor.  I am thinking I need an interpreter so I will contact DHHS (Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service) after I talk to Mom about it, u know.

Todd's Christmas Letter 1995 Regarding Charlton Heston

A Tribute To Charlton Heston, 1923-2008, An Oscar Winner

Yesterday early morning, I opened up Yahoo mail and checked the news in there.  As I was looking at Yahoo news and found out about the death of a movie star named Charlton Heston.  He passed away last Saturday night.  I can't believe what I found out.  We surely will miss him very much but he's still the legend and will never forget him.  When I found out about his death, I do remember my then boyfriend, Todd, told me in the letter that he met Charlton Heston in a person at the mall in San Diego for doing a book signing during Christmas 1995.  Todd sent Charlton's book to me as a Christmas present in the mailing package cuz he knows I like to read books about famous people.  He was very lucky!  See Charlton Heston's real signature in his autobiography book below:


And his Christmas letter to me below.  Todd put an envelope in the book to surprise me.

If u are having trouble reading this Christmas letter, go to a Photos Tab in this Multiply page for clicking to magnify it, please.  It works for me.

 Yeah, Todd wish I could be meeting Charlton Heston in a person at the book signing there.  Wow!  I will never forget that Christmas letter and book Todd sent to me in the mail.
I finished reading a book about Charlton after 1995 was over but I will return to read it again later this year.

Charlton played Moses in 1956 film, "The Ten Commandments".

Charlton played Judah Ben-Hur in 1959 film, "Ben-Hur".

Wal-Mart

I finally returned to Wal-Mart after a month of trapped staying at home due to illness last Wednesday afternoon.  I went back there right after I finished having a blood test at the hospital in my hometown.  I felt better when I returned there.  When I arrived at Wal-Mart that Wednesday afternoon, I had returned an item at the customer service cuz it made me uncomfortable and it doesn't work for me.  I got a refund from there and then I went ahead to do a shopping.  During shopping, I felt comfortable and kept moving around the supercenter until Mother found me and showed up unexpectedly.  She followed me.  Mom informed me she wanted to go home right away cuz she haven't eaten lunch!  She's supposed to have it on time before she came to pick me up at my place that afternoon.  I already had eaten lunch.  She looks tired.  I said okay.  At the counter, I felt uncomfortable again.  It's a gas inside me.  It bothered me.  And then I went home.

Special Drink: Pom Juice. Update On My Stomach.

Last week or so, I was given trying to drink a special juice by my mother.  She bought it at Wal-Mart.  My mother suggested I should drink it.  It would prevent me from having so much pains in my belly.  It works!  The name of special juice is Pomwonderful Pomgranate Juice.  The nickname I am still saying is Pom juice.  It's an easy for me to say that.  Last Wednesday, Mother recommands me to try another juice, a gel, that is coming from health food store.  The name of gel is Aloe Vera.  Aloe Vera comforts inside stomach gently after I drank it.  It works.  I felt it smoothy.  But I had a suggestion to Mom that Aloe Vera can be mixing in with Pom juice cuz I just found out Aloe Vera is a tasteless.  It was my idea.  Mom tried it out as test.  Both Pom juice and Aloe Vera mixing altogether at the same time tastes good.  I guess it makes u feeling hungry after u drink it.  Without the gel of Aloe Vera, Pom juice hurts my diaphragm but in few seconds, the pain is gone.  Don't worry about it but it tastes so good without the gel.  Go see a link of Pom juice in my home page.  That website have alot of information about the history of this delicious fruit juice.

Update On My Stomach
My stomach is okay.  I am trying to get better.  Sometimes I feel uncomfortable.  I am avoiding dairy products for awhile.  My mother knows I love cheese so much.  LOL!  Otherwise, I went back to the same hospital in my hometown last Wednesday afternoon to get a blood test.  I did it.  So, I am waiting to hear from my gas doctor in Deland about results.

Kitty's New Sorenson Video Phone 200

Last Thursday night, I received an e-mail from a man unexpectedly. His name is Tim. Tim informed me that Sorenson have my Video Phone (VP) 200. That's good news. Finally! I waited so long since I ordered it a year ago or 2. It's a free for deaf callers only. Then I IMed him right away for discussing Sat plans. Sat plans was a successful. It installed by him that some of my deaf friends knew. Tim replaced an old VP 100 with a new one that looks different I have now. He works for Sorenson and lives in my area. We discussed Sorenson VP 200. I am happy to receive it. I am learning how to use it. Thanks to Tim. A VP is using for deaf callers. A deaf receiver can chat with a deaf friend thru a video in their TV or computer and use a relay service in contact with a hearing person thru an interpreter. When a flasher in the Sorenson VP 200 singals a deaf receiver, he or she have to turn on with a remote control and finds out who is calling her or him. Thank God, I really need a flasher cuz I can't hear rings. Long before I received a new VP 200, I had difficult listening to rings and missed the overdue calls. I didn't know that until I've checked out the missed calls in VP 100.

Dancing With The Stars Season 6 Day 4 - Marlee & Fabian

The kind of dance that stars had to do a different last Monday night is a jive. So, I just found out Marlee and Fabian were first to do dancing on the show that night. Wonderful. I enjoyed watching it during the dancing segment. I am so proud of Marlee and Fabian. They worked hard and are overcome. Last Tuesday night on TV, I just learned both Marlee and Fabian are saved. It means they are going to stay at the dance show for another week. Yay, that's good news! I can't wait to see them again next Monday night!