The other day, one of Karen’s clients came over to meet me. I was so happy to finally see her in person. We have been chatting online for a long time. Karen G Clemenson and I moved a month ago, so we are very close to the gym, and I finally was able to meet her. She wasn’t here for long because she didn’t have a lot of time to share. I am hoping she comes again; maybe for dinner and brings her family. She brought some food she had made for her family, and she made sure she let me know that she had removed the veins and seeds from the peppers since Karen “doesn’t like spicy food.”
The next day Karen came in with gorgeous flowers from another client’s garden. This gift was the perfect gift. I love fresh flowers, but they are never in our budget. Plus, she grew them with her own two paws. I know the time and energy it takes when I crochet or cook something, so I really appreciate gifts like this.
If you want to buy Karen and I things you will find some interesting things on My Amazon Wish List that you will find a link to on the lower right-hand side of this site. There are items at all different price ranges and all kinds of interests. If you order something, it will come directly to our home so you don’t have to worry about if we will get it. It has been tested. I maintain it. Because I buy things off it and add things to it.
The Wish List wasn’t my idea. Jamie Holloway needed to have her site updated. There was a link to PayPal for donations, however it was a link to Living Ministries, and I need to update our banking information and so for the time being, I needed to take it down. In several years, no one has ever made a money donation to Jamie’s site. But people randomly send her things. Jamie suggested that I create a link to Jamie’s Amazon Wish List. I thought it was a great idea, and I did it that day. After thinking about it, I decided to do it for myself as well.
The gifts Karen and I would love the most, are an invitation to your house. I can bring something safe for me to eat, if I need to. If we are doing pizza, I can even bring my own, or even my own take out, if that is what we are doing. Or I can just bring my own leftovers; we can also do a potluck kind of thing. I totally love that idea. If you don’t want to cook, but you want to eat with us, invite yourself over. I love to cook. I have a dining room table with 6 chairs. I tend to have cookies in the freezer and left overs in the fridge. I like relationship more than food. Maybe we will just make big bowls of popcorn and watch a movie…There are many ways to fill bellies!
When Karen tells you she doesn’t like spicy food, it is true, but in reality, my body does not digest specific peppers. They literally just rot in my stomach until my body decides to eliminate them. That can be a painful week. I have a lot of food sensitivities. I have a lot of rules about food because I have GERD and I have to listen to my body. It is not because I am picky (I love and miss spicy food!). I projectile vomit acid sometimes. I don’t like doing that. But it is not as bad as when my intestines just shut down for a week. I don’t know when that will happen, but if I am strict about food it doesn’t happen. If I choose to eat foods that are not on my safe list, I have to prepare myself for before and after. It’s a process. I have to plan for it.
If you want to buy gift certificates, we tend to buy most of our groceries and gas at Safeway. We also shop at Grocery Outlet, Fred Meyers, Walmart, Amazon, Ebay (we get most of our clothes on Ebay, also our CDs and Books). We sometimes like Etsy. We like Red Leaf Coffee, Cafe Guse’s, and Crafty Works, LLC.
I am not telling you all this because I want you to go out and buy us gifts. What we really like is to see you. The best way to reach me initially is on Facebook Messenger, we can see where it goes from there. Karen is next to impossible to reach unless you can get an appointment at the gym and that is probably not going to change; she is just wired to be a workaholic, I have known her for 23 years and she has always been this way. I am struggling a lot with the pain management I am undergoing right now, but I am trying to be as normal as I can, however I am in a lot of pain from the cancer, my memory is a challenge, and I am very emotional a lot of the time. I hope when you interact with me, I am at my best.
For the 12 years we have been married we never really had a place we could invite people to. It was either too small or not the kind of place you invite people to. I am excited that we have a beautiful home we can invite you to now. My whole life, I have been collecting beautiful things to set up a beautiful home, and I want to show it off. You, my friend, are the perfect gift.
I hope you are doing well. I love you. Be blessed.
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My name is Summer. That is how you can call me. I hope that I am a blessing to you. I am not perfect. I will fall again. But I am forgiven. For anyone reading this that isn’t a Christian, unapologetically, I am a Jesus Follower, but I believe there is room for lots of beliefs and religions in the world. It is not my intent to offend people with different beliefs than I have and I would be open to open-minded conversations with no goals of changing anyone’s mind, but sharing information. If you are interested in becoming a Jesus Follower…Do you know Jesus? Do want the Holy Spirit to fill you and give you understanding and salvation? Ask Him. Want someone to pray with you? Contact me.
If you would like to know Jesus as your friend, but want to make this amazing commitment by yourself please pray something like this: Thank you Jesus that You are the Son of God, the God that created heaven and earth. Thank you Jesus that You came to earth in the form of a man so that You would be able to empathize with my humanity. Thank You that You did this in order to fulfill the promises You made at the foundation of the world. I realize that I am a sinner and do things that hurt myself and keep myself away from you. Thank You that You died for my sins so that You could defeat death and bring me into Your life. Please forgive me. I ask You to be Lord of my life. I ask you to heal my hurts and show me what my new life, empowered by You looks like. Thank You for Your mercy.
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