Mark my words on this one, folks.

In last week’s episode, Harper made a comment to Juliet along the lines of “Of course Ben likes you, you look just like her.”

Her. It’s been haunting people for a week now. Is it Annie, Ben’s long-lost love, or Emily Linus, his long-dead mother? I’m going to play the devil’s advocate here and say that it’s neither.

Here’s my theory. In an episode last season, while Jack was still locked in the Hydra Station, Ben himself made a remark about how Juliet resembled Jack’s ex-wife, Sarah. I don’t know what to think about this. Of course it’s most likely one of the first two and out of those it’s nearly got to be his mother. But I like this particular route, thinking that Ben could somehow have something to do with Sarah.

Thoughts?

i thank you God most for this amazing…
by e.e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

My life might have been saved today. And my wisdom teeth surgery has been rescheduled for the FOURTH time.

The first time it was a freak snow storm and we were already in the office, I was about to be prepped, when my dad called and told us to come home. So we did. After leaving I started thinking that the place looked a little shady. We rescheduled, but with a different oral surgeon. (Right off the bat I could see that he was a better surgeon, with a better staff.) I got to go see him a month later for a consult with the actual appointment scheduled one week after that. THAT appointment got canceled because the surgeon had to perform an emergency surgery on a small child. So we rescheduled it for the third time.

That appointment was today. As many of you know, I saw an endocrinologist last week who suspected that I have a problem with cortisol. The blood tests haven’t happened yet, so we don’t know. As I sat down to be prepped for surgery, the surgeon asked me if my medical situation had changed any and I mentioned the appointment and what I was being tested for. He turned around very slowly to face me and said, “Really?” Then he went on to explain a very, very scary situation.

Since I don’t have the tests done yet (getting them done tomorrow, March 12) we can’t know for sure, but here is why he would not perform the surgery today. It turns out that if I DO have this cortisol problem I am at a high risk for stroke or heart attack while under anesthesia 0_0 So I have to get the tests done and then schedule the surgery one more time.

I want to give thanks to God for blocking the road and closing doors each time I went in for this surgery. Every time I got mad, until the last time, when I had a sense of peace and decided, “God has some reason for this so I’m going to roll with the punches.” I am scared to think about what might have happened if I hadn’t seen the endocrinologist before this surgery or if I hadn’t had a perceptive and well-educated surgeon who wasn’t willing to take a chance on my life.

There’s a reason for everything!

• Puppy Mouthing
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Yesterday I visited an endocrinologist to try and determine the cause of some problems I have been having. While there are still tests to be run, one thing that he wanted me to do to get my weight down quickly (whatever this problem is has caused me to gain 20+ lbs) was start the Atkins diet. I am the biggest critic of this approach to weight loss. Yes, it’s quick, but it’s not a healthy way of living your life. I’m all about balanced meals. That, and I’m a carb queen. Give me a loaf of bread and I am happy. Anyway, I’m going to be doing this for 90 days and let me tell you, I wasn’t happy when he prescribed that. But he’s my doctor and that’s what he wants me to do right now, so I’m going to try it.

This morning while I was scanning through lists of things that I can eat, preparing a grocery list for later, I thought to myself, “Hmm, I wonder if avocados are legal on this thing? I mean, they’re full of fat, so they have to be!” And sure enough, they are. Not only can I have an avocado, I can have this: an Avocado Gazpacho Smoothie. Sign me up!

Look who I am going to see tonight.