Hello Friends!

Greenville Humane Society stopped by with another cuddly critter! Hazard! He and his sibling need a good home. Hazard and sibling are Terrier/Chihuahua mix, I believe. Definitely Chihuahua, not sure about the Terrier part. Too cute. Please visit the Greenville Hume Society’s website, or call 242-3626 for more information about Hazard and sibling and others that need adoption.

Hello All!

Coming up in October, Magic 98.9 will be partnering with the Greenville Hospital System’s Chidlren’s Miracle Network to benefit the Children’s Hospital on the GHS campus.  Everyone here at Magic is getting ready for this! 

In order to get a complete understanding of the Children’s Hopital, I took a tour today of the 5th and 6th floors.  Many of you, God bless, have not had to use the state of the art technology in those wings of the hospital.  Many of you have been blessed to not even enter those wings to visit little ones going through critical, life threatening health issues.  I was in awe of the technology that we have right here in the Upstate to take care of these children.  Just babies.  Babies that are born premature, born with cancer, born severely underdeveloped, 6 and 7 year olds with type II diabetes, lukemia… it’s heart breaking.  That these little people have to go through these battles at such a young age.   But what I saw today gave me confidence that these children are going to make it through!  Our doctors and nurses at GHS are incredible.  They will, and are, taking care of these precious little ones.

Thank you to McDonalds’ Ronald McDonald House and Bi-Lo Grocery for their grand donations.  Ronald McDonald House providing the family rooms through the Children’s wings, when parents and siblings just need a moment to step away from the hopital room.  Bi-Lo Chrities providing the funds for the Children’s Cancer Center.  Children from area schools donating art work to hang on the walls through the Children’s Hopsital.  Doug from Clemson who takes care of the beautiful fish tanks all throughout the hospital.  (When I first walked into the hopital today, I did in fact see all those smudges across the glass of the fish tank that everyone told me about.  Those smudges and prints are from the kids.  Even they get tired of being in their room all day, so they venture down the hall to visit the fish!) 

I will share more with you come October, but please consider this now, support the ONLY PEDIATRIC ICU IN THE UPSTATE.  Greenville Hospital System’s, Children’s Hospital.

Oh, and Neil the Chaplain… captivating! 

Thank you for reading this and letting me share.

This is so cute!  You can take your dog to the Waterpark in Simpsonville!  Yes, they are reserving one day for your dogs to take in some fun at Discovery Island Waterpark.

People and pooches doggie paddlin together.  I love it! 

Waggin’ at the Waterpark will be Saturday SEPTEMBER 6th.  Small dogs swim 11:00-12:30pm, large dog swim 1:00-3:00pm.  The cost is $10 per dog (includes 1 person), $3 additional person.  There will be lots of vendors on site that Saturday to purchase your dog some doggie duds!

Click the link above for more information.  I hope to see you there!  My Tink and Daisy are going to have a blast!

Just amazing!  You have got to take the time to watch this video.  It’s only 5 to 10 minutes long.  Jack Pyles, you hear him on the weekends on Magic, sent it to me.  Talk about jaw dropping!  No other planet in our solar system is like this.  I just cannot fathom that after watching this video, still, there are people that do not believe in God. 

Click the link here to see the video.  AWESOME!!!
http://www.greatdanepro.com/Blue%20Bueaty/index.htm  

Hi Friends!

Now, I’m not gonna start singing Sarah McLachlan “Angel” here, but I do want to remind you that we have quite a few four-legged friends looking for new homes! Dogs, puppies, cats and kitties, they need your TLC. Let me tell you, my husband and I adopted one of our dogs, Tink, from the Greenville Humane Society, and dog-on-it, if she isn’t the greatest addition to our life! (Don’t tell Daisy, our other little one, she might get jealous We adopted her from a family friend who was moving.)

You want to go home to smiles and licks and sheer joy to see you every night? Get a dog! You want to go home to rubs, purrs and contentment every night? Get a cat! How can you resist?!?!

Gloria (L) is a Retriever/Lab mix 8 weeks old, Tracy (R) is a Dachshund 8 months old.  (She was named after our webmistress Tracy:)  And both these babies need a home!

I have no idea how I found this video on youtube, but it is quite interesting.  Our facial expressions.  What is the purpose of the facial expression change from seeing a little bunny bouncing across the lawn to a big ‘ole bumble bee flying right at us?  Our different facial expressions do have meanings, aside from the obvious, fear, love, contentment, etc. 

Please watch the video below to learn about facial expressions.  It’s only a minute or so long and it will strike up interesting conversation!  (Plus the voice guy on the video is an Aussie.  Ahh, I love the accent!)

Hi Everybody. Back in April, very sad news crossed the airwaves, as Steven Curtis Chapman’s family dealt with the tragic death of 5 year old daughter Maria. She was struck by a vehicle in the driveway of their home in Tennessee.

In that moment, the sorrow must have been consuming. I would imagine the first question asked would by why? Why God? I want an answer why my little 5 year old daughter was taken from our family when she was beginning to blossom? As humans, we try to come up with the most consolable words conceivable, but do they really comfort?

Our God is the Great Comforter. He knows exactly what we need, the moment we need it and where we need it. I admit, in bewildering moments it’s tough to trust and have faith and believe that God will take care of you. Especially when we are so accustomed to the “immediate” of today.

But when that day comes when God reveals to us that He is here with us, that He is real and He knows our sorrows, anguish and even our joys, when He shows His love and we feel it, how sweet a moment!

That moment was reavealed the Chapman family. The Great Comforter knew exactly what the Chapman family needed and He knew when and where they needed it. Please click the link below as Steven Curtis Chapman recounts that moment while sitting with Larry King on the set of Larry King Live.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/08/chapman.maria.message.cnn

I just ate a Bilo oatmeal raisin cookie and I can actually feel my waist line expanding.  Oye Vey!

Recently for Tips @ 6 I shared safety tips for using a cell phone.  These tips weren’t “don’t drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time,” no these tips went a little more in depth.  Talking about the electromagnetic fields of cell phones.  Tips like this: “Try to keep your cell phone away from the body as much as possible.  The amplitude of the electromagnetic field is one fourth the strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet.  Whenever possible, use the speaker-phone or wireless mode which has less than one one-hundredth of the electromagnetic emission of a normal cell phone.” 

Now, I don’t what all this is saying exactly, but it kinda freaks me out.  Is this tip strong enough to make you change your cell phone habits?  I am not sure that the tip is strong enough for me to change my habits, but the video below may be.

Can I get some butter with that?