In loving memory of Hedy A. Moffitt Dec 16, 2005

In the picture you see my adoptive mom and dad. James C. Moffitt SR is pictured to the right standing next to my mom and his wife Hedy A. Moffitt. This picture was probably taken sometime between the years of 1982 and 1990 when my dad, James Moffitt Sr lost his battle with cancer. My dad was 60 years old when he passed away and had a successful career in the US Army where he retired and went back to school at East Texas State University and went to work as the TV Man at Terrell State University.
My mom, Hedy Auer Moffitt, died on December 16, 2005 as she too lost her battle with cancer. My dad was a native of Quinlan Texas and when he retired from the US Army in 1969 he moved his family back to his home town of Quinlan Texas. My dad met my mom in Frankfurt Germany at a bingo game. My mother is a native of Austria and was a translator for the Austrian embassy and spoke 20+ languages. My parents met, fell in love and married. After several unsuccessful pregnancies my parents decided to adopt my sister and I from an orphanage in Aschofenburg Germany. My sister Tanya was adopted first and then after the paperwork was signed a year later my dad said the nuns told him about me which peaked his interest. When my dad walked over to the crib and picked me up I supposedly took the hat off of his head and threw it across the room and laughed at him. From what I was told that stole his heart and he adopted me too. I am so thankful that I had my parents and that they brought us out of that environment and provided us with the medical care that we both desperately needed.
Tanya was blind in one eye and was not supposed to ever be able to drive and I had my right leg in a cast up to my knee and was never supposed to walk. Thanks to a lot of love, surgeries and therapy my sister was able to take her first eye exam without glasses and pass it and I was able to walk and play basketball for 6 years.
My parents, James and Hedy Moffitt are survived by their adopted children James C. Moffitt Jr and Tanya Lynn Moffitt who live in Charleston South Carolina and Canton Ohio. My parents are also survived by several brothers and sisters who still live in the Dallas Ft Worth area and several grand children.





James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net

One day at a time

We can do this... :) One meal at a time. One snack at a time. It is all about making the right decision every time we decide to put something in our mouth. Is it good for us? How many calories does it contain? Will it help me lose weight ? How will it make me feel physically, mentally or emotionally?

Monday and Tuesday I ate less than 2000 calories and walked a 1.2 miles with a friend of mine. So far today I have had 120 calories and need to start drinking my water. Hope you have a good day and good luck on your weight loss activities. We can do it !!




James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.blogharbor.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net

Google Talk Plugins

(image placeholder)Coming to you live from my couch as I listen to the rumblings of my stomach and the garbage truck outside.  I am home today thanks to mother nature waking me up at 3 am to make some visits to the great white throne.  No, I am not talking about the great white throne that we will see when we go see God, I am talking about the throne that we all visit from time to time.  Need I say more here?  Anyway, I had so much fun with mother nature this morning that I was worn out when gizmo woke me up at 6:30 am.  There is no way I was going to go to work and make trips to the restroom all morning there so I just decided to stay home with Justin and be sick together.  Fun stuff, let me tell ya.  

One of the things that I love to do on the Internet is to chat with my friends and family via IM also known as Internet Messaging.  There are tons of clients out there, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and my favorite , Google Talk.  It used to be that Google was just a well known search engine but it appears that they are just going crazy with all sorts of cool applications that are giving Microsoft a run for their money.  GO GOOGLE!!!!

I love Google Talk because its simplicity of use.  I like it because it is not loaded down with all sort of CRAP that makes it BLOATWARE that eats up half of your memory resources.  Not all of us have 2gb of ram on our computers (giggle) so it is nice to know that the Google programmers are being mindful of everyone else when they write the code to this app.  The ONLY complaint that I have about Gtalk is that up until now I have been unable to make the FONT size larger.  I must have larger fonts than the default fonts in Google Talk.  Well, thanks to my having to be in close proximity to the restroom this morning I was able to spend some time researching HOW to do this.  Most of the time I find myself working on the Internet researching technical problems but today I was able to actually research something that was going to be directly beneficial to little ole me and of course you, if you have the same problem with the font size.  

Check out the following link and download the “extended talk” plugin and that will allow you to zoom in on your conversations withink Google talk and thereby make the fonts LARGER.  Cool stuff I tell you.  There are other cool plugins you can try as well.

http://esnips.com/web/google-talk-add-ons