We don’t all have money to throw around to help, and we can’t all just pack up and head out. Perhaps all we can do is the best thing we can do…pray.

Maybe just a simple well wishing, or asking the creator of your belief to help those who need the help the most.

For all the good Moms who put the kids first…

For all the Moms who had to choose between selfish ego and doing the right thing, and always chose the later…

For all the Moms who were smart enough to know Dads should be just as important as they are…

May God smile upon you, and bless you with a love you never knew possible.

Happy mother’s day!!!!

Life gives us choices, and all these choices have consequences. There’s no doubt my divorce was ugly, but I can proudly say I NEVER put the girls in the middle. I purposely made this choice. My friends and family around me have told me I’m doing all the right things, but if Karma exists, at what point does it align and bring my girls home?

My ex-wife (bless her heart) has done everything possible to shine the worse spotlight possible on me in front of the girls. After 5 glorious years of being seperated from her, she still continues to grind an axe towards me. As an adult, it’s obvious (and almost comical) the extent she goes to in order to make stupid digs at me. I’d think it was laughable, except her antics keep me and my wife from being part of their lives. It’s not funny, and the whole fucking situation continues to turn my stomach 5 years after the fact.

My daughters don’t know the real me. They know the completely demonized me their mother has filled their heads with. I can give a flying rats ass until the sad facts iluminate…I am kept from knowing them.

Birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. My heart aches unbelievably when I think about what I am kept from sharing with them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LZzA1xWOM

My Shocking Story: I Woke Up in a Morgue Pt2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_YuOy-3gU

My Shocking Story: I Woke Up in a Morgue Pt3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtJJr5VEJk

My Shocking Story: I Woke Up in a Morgue Pt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNb16oqWZo

My Shocking Story: I Woke Up in a Morgue Pt5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-S8WVvmdMI

But now I gotta go get ready…heading off to the mini-conference in Albany, NY!

More later…I hope!

So I’m hoping to have the upgrade up and running by the mini-conference…April 11th. God willing, I’ll be there, and so should you! You should see me there, and say, “Stu! Why you are much goofier looking than I pictured!”

SO leave some comments here…tell me what you want in the board. Tell me what you DON’T want in the board! It’s our community, so don’t think your opinion won’t be heard…NOW IS THE TIME!

This is so important, I hope you help me get word out to others on the board asking them to visit this post!  We are a strong and growing community because of you!

Love and Prayers…

-Stu

It’s vitamins…it’s water…It’s something I could drink instead of water-water! Are you listening beautiful people at Glaceau? I salute you and your mighty-fine product. Today I’m proud to introduce one of my faves, “ENERGY”…It get’s the Stu Carpenter “Narcoleptic Approved” Rating of 6.5

5-hour Energy

So you pop in the local gas station for gas, a newspaper and a little somethingsomething to keep you awake for another 10 minutes or so. But what? There’s a whole slew of packaged vitamins and energt drinks? So many choices may make you want to find a comy section over by the corndog warmer to “sleep on it”.

Might I recomend 5-hour energy…These little 2 OZ containers pack a punch that doesn’t burn you out. When they say 5 hours, they mean it! It contains 2000% of your daily B6 and a whopping 8333% of your daily B12. If my insurance covered it, I’d gladly replace my provigil with it! There’s no goofy chemicals…just vitamins! Get a case of it…you’ll see!…It get’s the Stu Carpenter “Narcoleptic Approved” Rating of 9.5

Date: 03/03/2008

The majority of patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy experience a number of symptoms of eating disorders, with an irresistible craving for food and binge eating as the most prominent features, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.The study, authored by Hal Droogleever Fortuyn, MD, and Sebastiaan Overeem, MD, of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in The Netherlands, focused on 60 patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy who were recruited from specialised sleep centres and 120 healthy controls.

According to the results, 23.3 percent of the narcolepsy/cataplexy patients fulfilled the criteria for a clinical eating disorder, as opposed to none of the control subjects. Half of the patients reported a persistent craving for food, as well as binge eating. Twenty-five percent of patients even reported binging at least twice a week.

“These data make it clear that narcolepsy is not just a sleeping disorder, but a hypothalamic disease with a much broader symptom profile,” said Dr. Fortuyn. “Hypocretin, the neurotransmitter that is lost in narcolepsy, has been implicated in the regulation of feeding through animal studies. Earlier studies in narcolepsy found a clear increase in body weight. However, we did not find a correlation between binge eating and increased weight. Binge eating is apparently not the direct cause of the obesity in narcolepsy, and this suggests that metabolic alterations may be involved. Nevertheless, our study shows that the loss of hypocretin function makes narcolepsy patients not only struggle with staying awake, but also destabilises their eating pattern, which makes it harder to stay away from the candy jar.”

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes people to fall asleep uncontrollably during the day. It also includes features of dreaming that occur while awake. Other common symptoms include sleep paralysis, hallucinations and cataplexy. About one out of every 2,000 people is known to have narcolepsy. It affects the same number of men and women.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) offers the following tips on how to get a good night’s sleep:

* Follow a consistent bedtime routine.

* Establish a relaxing setting at bedtime.

* Get a full night’s sleep every night.

* Avoid foods or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime.

* Do not bring your worries to bed with you.

* Do not go to bed hungry, but don’t eat a big meal before bedtime either.

* Avoid any rigorous exercise within six hours of your bedtime.

* Make your bedroom quiet, dark and a little bit cool.

Get up at the same time every morning.