another fun thing to do...

then:

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family photos - Vintage pictures

now:

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family tree search - Ancestory

this is kind of funny because EVERYONE thinks katherine looks just like john and not me at all; they ALWAYS have.

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

eminence front...

(the who)

RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag at least 10 friends.
5. Everyone tagged (anyone who would like to do this) has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun!

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
A Change Is Gonna Come

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
I Got You (I Feel Good)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
My Generation (bahahahahahahaaaa!!!!) NOT!

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Help!

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Bridge Over Troubled Water

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Sunshine of Your Love

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Superstition

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Go Your Own Way

WHAT IS 2+2?
Eleanor Rigby

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Rock Lobster

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Proud Mary

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I Hate This Part

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Love Story (taylor swift)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
imagine

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Don't Stop Believin'

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Smells Like Teen Spirit

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Dream On

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
A Day In The Life

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
All Along The Watchtower

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
What's Going On

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Eminence Front

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

for today's "lent in my belly button",
click HERE.

for fun...

now...


then...


upload your photo and see which celebs you look most like:)
and tell me!!!

love and GOD's blessings,
dani xx

for today's "lent in my belly button",
click HERE.

lent...

for the lenten season, i have set up a new blog site!!!


"lent in my belly button"

this is a blog that will contain:
daily scripture,
a few questions about the scripture,
a memory made each day on the lane
and...
a prayer.

you may also make a prayer request
and/or
offer up praise for prayer answered.

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

mosses monday XIX...

(mosses and his "angel")

after i returned home from the rest home that day, i couldn't help but wonder how things were going to change (i'm selfish like that and don't like change at all). we treasured both of the mosses. but, with mrs. moss in the nursing home, i didn't know if mr. moss would want to continue with the traditions mrs. moss had started.
i just didn't know...

would mr. moss want me to go on calling in the early evenings, or would it be awkward?
would this be the end of our sunday afternoons of toddies and "do-dads" on the court
followed by lunch at ralph's???
would there be any more Christmases spent on the court???
(would he even put up their tree with the angels mrs. moss had made by hand???)
was this chapter of our lives closed???

that was one long afternoon filled with tears, nostalgia, and wondering.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

despite the long afternoon,
my worries were quickly put to rest...
(i love immediate gratification;)
when at 6 pm that very evening the phone rang.

IT.WAS.MR.MOSS!!!

(i had called them nearly every night for years. however, after making small talk with mr. moss, he had always passed the phone to mrs. moss. i had even carried on conversation with her for months after she was no longer able to really converse.)

anyway, i intended to continue to call and check on mr. moss, but he beat me to it that first night:D not only that night, he called EVERY night from then on... always at 6 pm sharp!!!

"now then," he said, "have you had a good day?"...
"well bless your heart."...
"how's john?"...
"well, golly muggins, are you two minding 'the angel'?"
"we love you, mosses!!!" i would say before hanging up the phone.
"we love you guys, too, dani..." (mr. moss always said "we" even after mrs. moss had died... so.sweet!)

further, many sundays were spent first on the court for after church refreshments followed by lunch at ralph's, and we celebrated every Christmas with mosses... tree et. al.:D


though the conversations were quite similar day-in-day-out, mosses was truly interested in us and we in him. he REALLY wanted to know how we were, if john was working too much, if katherine was happy and what funny things she was saying and doing, what kind of work i was doing, how we were feeling, etc...
and, at the end of every conversation, we both REALLY meant our "i love yous".

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

though the link was missing (and was VERY missed), it seemed as though mrs. moss had soldered us to mr. moss and mr. moss to us.
for, he was ours, and we were his!!!

thus, our mosses love story continued...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(to be continued...)

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

ps you will find earlier entries in ascending order on my side bar entitled, "our love story":)

snapshot saturday...

(disney world, 2002)

looks like tigger's a little too close for comfort, huh???

actually, waaaay toooooo close for me. as the notorious d snapped this photo, the guy was hugging me so tightly that i was feeling body parts of his that i shouldn't have been feeling!!!

d was not left out of the action, however, he *hugged* her, too.

not to worry though, he was fired a year later after a huge law suit.
click here for more of the story.

BAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

(me, sam, katherine, d, and will)

now, this is a little more "(swiss) family (robinson)oriented"
photo of us that day...
there was NO groping in the tree house:P

have you ever been to disney???
do you have any disney stories???

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

update...

thank you for your sweet thoughts and prayers!!!



i saw my dermatologist yesterday; she could tell by looking that i had (not two but) three pre-cancers on my face. tonight i will start treating them with a topical "chemo" cream, carac.

while i was there i also showed her a place on my arm and one on my lower back. (i wasn't really all that worried about either one of those because i had shown them to another doctor not long ago). she agreed the one on my arm was nothing and then looked at my back.

when she looked at the one on my back, she asked me a few questions (how long had it been there??? had it changed in size or color??? etc...). after i answered her questions, she told me the slightly raised, discolored area needed to be excised and be biopsied.



so, i should know something about that in a couple of weeks. presently??? i'm just very grateful that my face can be treated with an ointment. i'll be concerned with the one on my back when and if i need to be.

this would probably be as good a place
as any to include that that these
places were not caused by using sun-
screen... quite the opposite, they
were more than likely caused from
lying for hours and hours, for years
and years in the sun donning baby oil
and iodine.

USE SUNSCREEN!!!

thank you ALL, again. you are such wonderful friends:)

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

skin cancer???

i have an appointment with the dermatologist today, and i'm really dreading it. i have a couple of places on my cheek that need to be biopsied.

actually, i have HAD a couple of places on my cheek that should have been checked months ago, but i neglected to make an appointment.

then i came across this:

(joseph p. gaines)

this is a photo of my granddad years ago after he'd had skin cancer removed. when i found this photo, i happened to think that my mom had said something several years ago about having a place on her face on which she needed to have her doctor check.
genetics!!!

hence, i called her and asked if she had ever done so. yes, she had; and, yes, it was skin cancer. i told her i had a couple of small scabbed places, which had not healedbut had remained on my face for months. she told me that hers were more like flat moles... for a moment, i thought, whew, maybe mine are not cancerous at all!!!

then, she said, "but, daddy's were scabbed like yours. i remember him saying that he pulled the scabs off but that they kept returning."

my granddad ended up with a scar nearly the size of the bandage in the above photo. i asked mom why his scar was so large. she told me that his doctor ended up having to do a skin graft because the cancer had spread...

whimper!!!

will you all say a prayer that i don't have skin cancer... but that if i do, that it is contained to just the two little spots, please???

i will let you know what the doctor says:/

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

wordless wednesday...

(we 3 in 1997)

love and GOd's blessings,
dani xx

tagged by two...

i was tagged by heidi and amanda to play what i will call a round of bloggergories (scattergories for the blogger;).

rules: it's harder than it looks! copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and randomly tag some people (including me). use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. they have to be real. . .nothing made up! if the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. you cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.have fun!!


1. What is your name: dani denise (drury) berrong (do i get extra points for alliteration???;)
2. A four Letter Word: dang
3. A boy's Name: daniel
4. A girl's Name: dawn
5. An occupation: dentist
6. A color: daffodil
7. Something you wear: dungarees
8. A food: DONUTS
9. Something found in the bathroom: deodorant
10. A place: denmark
11. A reason for being late: dead deer in the middle of the drive
12. Something you shout: dammit!!!
13. A movie title: dr. zhivago
14. Something you drink: duh, diet coke
15. A musical group: duran duran
16. An animal: dingo
17. A street name: doubletree drive (where i lived for 7 years)
18. A type of car: dodge durango
19 Something Scary: dinosaurs
20. Ice cream flavor: dove's delicious dark chocolate

there are lots of "d's" in my life, hmm??!!?!

love and God's blessings,
dani xx