Jolene, Jolene

The two questions I've gotten most from people after reading this blog are:
1)  What can I do to help?
2)  How big are you going?

As to the first question, my first reaction is usually to say, "Nothing, but thanks for asking."  I started thinking about it, and there are several things that I could use.  Since I'm in the mood for lists tonight, here they are, in no particular order.

1)  Book and Movie Recommendations.  I will be home for a very long time, and would like to hear from you regarding books or movies that you love.  Keep in mind that I will be reading/watching in a drug-induced haze, so keep the reading material light and the movies non-psychedelic as I will be adding the hallucinations and swirling colors on my own thanks to some strong pain meds.  I love Southern Lit and English period pieces, so generally you can't go wrong 
with any of those suggestions.  Please do not suggest that I read "The Secret" or "The Promise."  If you insist on me reading a book of this nature, please drop off a book by L. Ron Hubbard as I've always wondered just what exactly Tom Cruise thinks is going to happen when the aliens return.


2)  Take my Mom out to lunch.  If you are related to me and live in Fayetteville, yes, I'm talking to you, Russell, Liz, Sarah, Eric and Paige, please rescue my mother for at least an hour every now and then and take her to lunch or a movie.  I'm sure that she will never complain about taking care of me, but that she will probably need to escape the house, especially if I'm giving her newly-learned facts about Scientology and/or watching "The Wizard of Oz" on repeat.


3)  Pray for me, please.  And my family.  I need these most of all.  I have the most ferocious prayer warrior in Heaven right now, my great-grandma Grace, who is probably following Jesus around right now reminding Him that I'm her granddaughter and her granddaughter is special and needs special looking after down here.  However, I'm sure she would appreciate some help from all of you in the prayer department.  (She was also the self-proclaimed "prettiest woman in the county" but that's a story for another day.)  My friend Renee, a newly minted Catholic, told me that she would throw a Hail Mary out there for me with her new Catholic powers.  So, whether you be Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Pentecostal, or simply spiritual, whether you are a silent prayer, a shouter, or a snake-handler, please send up a prayer for me.  (And if any of you really are snake-handlers, let's talk.)




Ok, as to the second question about sizes...I'll just leave you with the following image:

I think this picture speaks for itself.  :)