The book of Jude

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.

Even as Sodom and Gomoroha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Yet Michael the arcangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

But these speak evil of those things which they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their shame; wandering stars. to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, Behold, the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his saints,

To execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against them.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men;s persons in admiration because of advantage.

But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

And of some have compassion, making a difference:

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

PURRfect tree decorations

Click on the title of this post to find the cutest website around! If you are a cat lover, this website is for you!


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new haircut

Here is my new haircut. Since my hair is falling out and its dry and tangly, and oily. To me it looks gross and I finally got tired of dealing with it! SO last week I made an appointment to get it chopped off and here it is! I've had it like this before when I was first joined the Army. I have a few cow licks. One right at the hair line above my forehead, and the other right on the crown on my head. Plus its curly so with that combination and after a few days of having this hair style, I think it is a bit too short on top. I like the look in the back, but will definately let it grow out for a few months and play around with it to see what shape is going to be best to suit my hair's weirdness.

My mountain of pills

I have a mountain of pills I have to take. Actually its more a barrage of vitamins that I must take thrice daily. I took a picture of the mountain a few weeks ago that I had been intending to post here, but never got around to it. For whatever reason I am unable to post it here now. But I have double the amount to take now, so it seems the old picture is obsolete.

I have increased my adrenal glandular to 6 capsules daily, and also my vitamin C has been increased to "bowel tolelrance" so I'm taking about 25,000 mg of that per day. I also added 100 mg of zinc as my hair is falling out rapidly and it is seriously disturbing me. I heard that zinc helps it to grow faster, so hoping that by my taking more zinc it will help it grow IN faster than it has been.

Barely 25 years old, my body is deteriorating at a fast rate. I believe a lot of it has to do with poor food choices. Had I ever been given the choice of eating a few carrot sticks or an entire pizza, I have always chosen pizza. Naughty, naughty me. Until a year ago I knew squat about nutrition, at least, I never cared about it. I was one of those twiggy kids who could eat a horse into the ground and never think twice. Even as a teen,when my body was giving signs of duress and adding on a few unwanted pounds every now and then, it was always easy to shed them. All I would do was continue to eat those pizzas and exercise even longer, or harder. I reasoned with myself that its okay to not change my eating habbits. After all, I enjoy exercising so what if I spent an extra hour at the gym? At least it wasn't unpleasant.

Then I met my husband. He has just as bad, if not worse eating habits than I do. He could eat pizza and burgers every day and not think twice. We married very quickly after we began dating. 6 months to be exact. I was away doing training with the Army for 3 of those months. We were essentially strangers when we married. And within 3 months I was pregnant! Yipee!!!Food freedom here I come!

There is an old saying about mother's eating for two when they are pregnant. I fully embraced that old saying. Oh yes I made good food choices and bad ones right along with them. I would eat a big salad with low fat dressing and in the same sitting (or within the next two hours) I would eat a big mac and large fry and head over to TCBY for a large frozen yogurt. Its amazing how much I ate while pregnant. I still worked out, but there was no way my body was able to handle the stress of an unstable marriage (the stranger factor), a pregnancy and way too many calories for one person to possibly be able to handle.

I balooned up like a beached whale and by the time I gave birth was tipping the scales and inching my way nearer and nearer to 300 lbs. Many people didn't even know I was pregnant, I looked that bad. But fortunately within one week of birthing my daughter I had lost about 60+ lbs of water weight. Leaving me at about 220 and utterly exhausted. I'm extremely glad now that I have the knowledge and medical aide to get me back to my appropriate weight. This time doing all the right things, and not just some of them. ;)

The other day when we pulled out all the Christmas stuff. I decided it was time to torture the kitty with our annual tradition of dressing him up and taking pictures. He usually gets very tense and refuses to move. Its rather comical. It took me about 19 shots to get a good expression for the camera. Say hello to Joey. He's our version of Garfield.

This is Piper. Our heirloom stuffed animal eater. She is 12 months and will be lucky if she makes it to 13 months! ARG!!!






I did go for a drive the other day but it was too dark for any good scenic pictures, but I think this one from the car is kinda cool.






And finally here is a levely picture of our neighbor's infamous snow man. Candy cane drooping and all.

SNOW!!!!

Ah, its December and we are in the process of recieving the perfect Colorado snowfall! The wind is not blowing at all and the snow is ever so lightly falling. Sybil and I went out just before dark and played. Well she played and I shoveled the driveway. ;) Our neighbors have an inflatable snowman they put up right next door and every few minutes one of them would step outside and shake the snow off of him. It was weighing him down and causing him to droop. Too cute really!


In other news:


I had another appointment with my wonderful Dr this past Monday. Silly me, though, I missunderstood her directions for taking my adrenal glandular and its delaying my thyroid medication a few weeks. Our initial appointment was a really long time and we talked about a myriad of things, so I ended up taking only one capsule of the glandular per day and I was supposed to gradually increase to taking 6 capsules per day. But that enabled us to get a better clue of where my adrenals are because at first the one glandular per day gave me such a boost in energy that I had a natural desire to exercise. (And it didn't hurt to be watching the program Last One Standing on the Discovery Channel either. Something about seeing all those guys pushing themselves in their competitions brings back nostalgic feelings for me, from my Army days.)


Since Monday I have been increasing my adrenal glandular. Today is the first day to increase to the 6 capsule recomendation. I haven't been as tired today and I think its helping. In previous years I would get sooo tired shoveling the driveway that I wouldn't be able to even finish, it would take me hours, or I would stop and not get the sidewalk finished. Then I would have to go inside and lie down for the rest of the day. But today I was able to work quickly and finish both the driveway and sidewalk. And I had enough energy to fix dinner for Sybil and THEN I even shoveled the back deck so the dogs wouldn't track in the six inches of snow that have fallen.

My Dr. wants me to report back to her how I'm doing and also chart my temperatures and blood pressure for the next two weeks. She has called in a Perscription for my thyroid and also for some Cortisol (she believes that I may need more than just the adrenal glandular). I am seriously getting impatient waiting to begin taking my thyroid medication. I'm really excited to see how I can improve! Especially since I've been doing so much better on just vitamins.


Tomorrow I will take some pictures of the snowman next door and the snow. If I am feeling adventerous I may even venture out and go for a hike, and post those pictures as well.

Vegetable Orchestra

Okay so someone posted this on a message board I visit and at first I thought it was pretty strange but I watched it for a few seconds more and found that it actually was pretty cool :) Click on the title (Vegetable Orchestra) to see the video.


I just can't believe how much free time some people have on their hands.


Enjoy :D