Hello! My name is… Imelda Bettinger

wife, mom, computer geek, photographer talking about total randomness

Archives for October, 2006

Happy Halloween!

Build your own jack-o-lantern!
http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf

10/31/2006 | This and That | No Comments

Danielle in San Antonio, Texas

I caught her off guard for this one. She hates it but I like it.

10/30/2006 | This and That | No Comments

Depression and one skeptics story

Chris Rose of the Times-Picayune, never believed in depression. He thought you could just snap out of the blues. Until he suffered from it himself. Read a very moving account of one persons story to accept depression and most of all get help. Without antidepressants, he wouldn’t be alive.

Before I continue this story, I should make a confession. For all of my adult life, when I gave it thought — which wasn’t very often — I regarded the concepts of depression and anxiety as pretty much a load of hooey.

I never accorded any credibility to the idea that such conditions were medical in nature. Nothing scientific about it. You get sick, get fired, fall in love, get laid, buy a new pair of shoes, join a gym, get religion, seasons change — whatever; you go with the flow, dust yourself off, get back in the game. I thought anti-depressants were for desperate housewives and fragile poets.

I no longer feel that way. Not since I fell down the rabbit hole myself and enough hands reached down to pull me out.

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10/27/2006 | This and That | No Comments

Introducing J Henri Francisco

My friends Martha and Mark had a baby boy Oct. 16th. Mr. J Henri (like Matisse, my favorite artist) Francisco! Congratulations Mark, Martha and big sister Olivia!

J Henri Francisco
born 10/16/06
7 lbs, 15.7 oz, 19 inches

10/27/2006 | This and That | No Comments

My photoblog

I started a pixelpost photoblog at the begining of October. I only posted 5 photos though. There isn’t an easy way to post a photo from flickr, directly to pixelpost so I don’t think I am going to keep it up.

You can visit it anyway if you want.

10/24/2006 | This and That | No Comments