this is my closest thing to a prayer chain, so i'm employing it as such.  i know you read this.

recently, my youngest aunt (kim) has been having problems in her leg (they think it has to do with her circulation), but when getting preliminary tests done for her up-and-coming leg procedure, she failed an EKG and a stress test.  :(

now those french family members of mine (of which she is one) have some serious heart-disease in the history (but never really with women), so there is some cause for concern.  she's going in thursday to see a cardiologist and get a blockage removed (if they can find one).

please pray for her!  she's got three little kids (one is the cousin made-famous-by-my-blogspot), and is really stressed out about this...  i'm not sure if she's a believer, so pray for that, too (probably more vigorously, that's the really important thing!)!  thanks, folks!

i think, on the whole, i am not very impressed with xanga.  really, the only reason i ever got one was because my secret livejournal is, in fact, a secret, and i wanted a public avenue to post my public thoughts.  and everyone else has xanga, whereas nobody else seems to have livejournal (except my sister and scott).

today i rediscovered why i don't like xanga--the banner ads really are very crappy indeed, and (also) other blog sites are so much more aesthetically pleasing!  a girl i was friends with in high school added me as her facebook friend today, and just to make an effort, i hit up her blogspot.  whoa.  i found myself wanting to trash xanga altogether and hop on the blogspot train.  i mean, even if it is only two cars long as far as i know (yes, in addition to sara, emily has one). 

i'm seriously considering the move, but then comes reality, like a very ugly and nasty locomotive with many a car filled with coal or something dirty that will fill up our air with disgustingness (yes, it's now a word).  i've built up my xanga empire (or something like that), and the question i ponder is simply, could i just walk away from it all after i've toiled to build it?  ok, it's not like the windmill in animal farm, but nonetheless, it's still something that has taken time.  and that's the only reason i remain.  bllaaaaarrrrgggg. 

i wish i didn't think this way so frequently.

in other news...

i like making facebook friends.  i never really got into that while i was a college student (basically, if people didn't request me, i didn't want to be their friend anyway), but it's a lot more exciting when i don't see these people often and now can cyber-stalk them from a small world they've created about themselves.  uber-fun, and also very encouraging when randoms want to re-befriend you (or befriend you for the first time).  another good thing, too, is that revoking facebook friendship privileges is a good way to get your roommate to be nice to you.  (yes, i have employed that one already...hahaha!)