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If you have some time and want to share your thoughts about Eyes for Lies here, I’d be thrilled. You can then automatically twitter your thoughts. How cool is that?
Thanks! ~Eyes
Thanks for all the well wishes for my cousin, Carol, and for us with the carbon monoxide! We have installers here now working on the furnace, and because we are moving it, we won’t likely have heat until tomorrow, but I am not complaining. I feel blessed 🙂
My dogs were acting strange today. One of them, actually, was having trouble standing upright, and couldn’t walk this morning. She acted drunk. At first I thought she might be going into liver failure (as she has hepatitis and is 16 years old), but when I added up the pieces and her symptoms, it didn’t add up. Both dogs slept in super late, but I wrote it off on the fact it was a gloomy, dark day outside–even though it was exceptionally unusual for them to do this. They usually ask for breakfast, and one demands it, but not today.
Read moreAs I sat comforting my woozy dog, petting her and crying, I got this nagging feeling about our furnace, which I’ve had for weeks. Just last week, I asked my husband to test it, but he ignored me.
When I realized it could be carbon monoxide (though our two wall detectors didn’t go off), I turned off the heat, opened all the windows, and got a new hand-held tester we bought last year after we found out we had three dangerous gas leaks. Sure enough, when I put over the heat register, it alerted to a leak. I smelled no gas, so the likely culprit was carbon monoxide.
I put my doggies on the porch and called a gas guy. Sure enough, we had a leak. Our heat exchanger is cracked and from my reading, that is serious business. So tonight we sit in a cold house, trying to decide which furnace to buy tomorrow.
And my dog, who was most affected, popped back out of it after a half hour on the front porch. She started walking normally and asked for a walk within no time. I was wondering why she was weak and didn’t want to walk this week. Now I know why. Tonight she is her old self again.
I am so grateful that I figure this one out before my dogs succumbed to this deadly gas. We’ve been having headaches, and have been extra tired. Both dogs seemed to slow down a lot in the past two to three weeks. I wondered if it was old age at times. I should have listened to my gut instinct a week ago and demanded my husband spend 10 minutes to do a simple test, or I should have done it myself. I didn’t think I could operate that little beast of a thing, but I learned today.
Tonight, I am grateful for the simple blessings, the love of my dogs and my husband, even if we don’t have heat. We are safe.
Update 4:30 PM: Thanks for all the thoughts. My cousin has come out of surgery, and the news looks encouraging 🙂
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My cousin was just diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago, and she has just gone into surgery in the past half hour. It would really be comforting for me and my family to know that there are people out there sending her positive thoughts and wishes to her for a good outcome and a speedy recovery. She won’t know the extent of her illness until after surgery and after the pathology is returned next week. I’m on pins and needles.
She will be in surgery for four hours. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. If you want to leave a message for Carol, you can do so here, and when she feels up to it, I will share it with her.
Eyes
ABC’s Chris Cuomo interviewed Thomas Morphey a few weeks back, and many of you have asked for my opinion. Thomas Morphey is Drew Peterson’s stepbrother.
Is Morphey being honest with us? You can watch him speak here.
When I watch Morphey speak, I see a man who is casual and relaxed. He is not uptight, stressed or worried, which matches his demeanor when I look at his face. I suspect, by looking at Morphey, that he is an easy-going guy in real life and isn’t demanding, nor is he highly driven. He is likely very accepting of people, and it would not surprise me that Peterson knew this, picked up on it and knew that Morphey was the perfect candidate to assist him, because he was easily malleable.
Read moreIn the interview, we learn that Morphey was diagnosed with bi-polar several years ago, and that he suffered from abuse and addiction issues. Furthermore, we find out that Morphey was drinking the night he talks about meeting up with Drew Peterson, but according to Cuomo, he still remembers that night. And we all know that Morphey ended up trying to commit suicide after he helped Peterson move a blue barrel.
With that, it is not surprising that Cuomo talks about how Morphey has not been called to testify in front of a grand jury. There is no doubt that Morphey has credibility issues which Morphey, himself admits to. However, when I watch Morphey speak, I believe he is being honest with us about what transpired between himself and Peterson.
Morphey says a few odd things, but they don’t alert me that he is lying. He says that when Peterson asked him how much he (Morphey) loved Peterson, Morphy didn’t say how much, he just said “I do.” He doesn’t answer the question. That could be because he doesn’t want to admit exactly what he said on TV for fear he’ll be ridiculed, or maybe it was just a slip of the tongue, since he is on camera. Either way, while it is odd, it doesn’t mean terribly much to me.
Cuomo also tells us that Morphey said he was afraid of Peterson, yet in another sentence, Morphey said that he trusted Peterson. We typically don’t trust people we are afraid of, yet when I look closely at the second statement Morphy said about trusting Peterson, he says it off the top of his tongue, without giving it much thought. Often times when we are put on the spot, like Morphey was here, we say things, that if we had given it thought, we wouldn’t have said, so I don’t put too much into this, either.
What would be Morphey’s motivation to lie at this point? I think that is key.
Morphey doesn’t hit me as a vengeful person, first and foremost, so I feel confident discounting that. Second, I don’t think it would gain Morphey anything to come out publicly, and accuse Peterson, when at the same time, he is admitting to all of his own issues. Going public with all of Morphey’s issues won’t help him any, that’s for sure.
Morphey, in my opinion, is actually being quite brave to go on television, to admit to all of his credibility issues and furthermore to admit that he thinks he helped Peterson move a dead body. You have to admire the guy at this point for being so frank. Just sadly, I don’t think Morphey will be called as witness in Peterson’s trial, should it ever make it that far.
NOTE: Regarding the other story suggestions, the video link that was supplied for the Crystal Sheffield request is not the right video. Also the other link is unavailable now for days. For me to do that story, I need updated video links. Just post them in the comment section. Thanks!
