Just found out about this “picture” of The Last Supper that is made out of 4,050 Rubik’s Cube cubes! Took the two artists 2 months to put this together…. Pretty amazing!

Here is a quick 30-second video showing some upclose shots of Jesus and his Disciples during The Last Supper…

The Steinkamp-Chamblin-Carlson-Johnson families are celebrating the life of Sally Louise (Chamblin) Steinkamp today…

Today, October 4th is the 10th anniversary since she passed away.

Sally’s parents, Keith & Louise Chamblin had lived in retirement up in central California residing in Templeton, Mt. Hermon, and Cambria, California.
Beside her parents, Sally had 2 brothers, Terry and Dion. Keith passed away December 2002 and Louise passed away November 2008.

Married to James Steinkamp for 33 years and the mother of two wonderful daughters, Lesley Louise and Lynn Catherine.
Grandmother of 5: Brian James, Nicholas James, Claire Louise, Mitchell Dale and Garrett Noah (who was born 3 years after she had passed).

Jim and Sally lived in southern Orange County for most of their lives between Irvine and then San Clemente. As a local resident Sally was involved in the daily lives of her family, her church and volunteering at the local hospital in San Clemente for many years. One of her many accomplishments was the restarting of the “Candy Stripping” program at San Clemente Hospital and of which Lynn started her “medical career” under.

Sally also showed a great love of flowers and creativity that she was able to express through her work at a local flower shop. Of course she made all the center pieces for Lynn & Jerold’s wedding–a cute plant with ceramic angel and a wicker heart display, wrapped in our colors.

Ray & Anne Ortlund, Ray & Nancy Otis, Glenn & Audrey Johnson, and Russ & Janet Landreth were among Jim & Sally’s closest group of friends. Friends that shared in the triumphs and trials of life together.

After many years of stuggling with lung disease and other health issues Sally passed away at home with her husband and daughter by her side. She went calmly and with peace into the presence of Jesus on October 4th, 1999. Shortly after she passed she was cremated and her ashes were spread with rose petals out on the Pacific Ocean not far from their home in San Clemente.

Its with loving memories that we remember our mother, wife, daughter, aunt, grandmother, and beloved friend!

Okay, so HERE is a fun update kids… I had gall bladder surgery today!

I started having a central pain in my upper stomach on Wednesday evening, but it was mild off and on so didn’t think anything of it. Then on Thursday I noticed it was a bit more accute but I had to leave work early to go to Court to follow-up & protest a traffic ticket from April (Unfortunately the Deputy Sheriff showed for court so my case was NOT dismissed and I elected to do Traffic School! Booo..!) Anyhow, when I got home in the afternoon, I was still feeling this growing pain in my upper stomach so basically stayed in bed the rest of the evening. Trying chicken noodle soup and saltine crackers didn’t help any.

Due to the growing pain by Thursday night I attempted several rounds to the bathroom in the hopes of just being able to throw up would relieve all the “pressure” I was feeling… but no, nothing. Getting worse and tossing and turning for another 6 hours lead me to call off sick on Friday before eventually falling asleep for about two hours before waking up, still in pain and agreeing that Lynn should take me to the Pomona Valley Hospital ER.

Well after about 3 hours in the ER and doing some ultrasounds and xrays they found gall stones. After consulting with the surgeon on duty I could be admitted to the hospital and he would arrange his schedule to have me bumped up for surgery at 7:30am on Saturday morning–which got bumped to about 9am but still better than being the last “in line”! Seeing this as the better alternative to coming home and still suffering all weekend and into next week till I could confirm a different surgeon’s availability, I got checked in from the ER about 8:30pm Friday night.

Sooooo… obviously I home and the surgery went fine. I guess I can now say I am one with the “original” Johnson clan as my dad, mom and sister ALREADY have had their gall bladders removed as well!!

Since I went through this whole process I thought it would be “F-U-N” to show what a gall bladder removal surgery looks like! Gee you really CAN find almost anything on YouTube nowadays, can’t you?!? LOL

Here is a “Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy” video from YouTube!
FYI – Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy means in layman’s terms: Removal of the gall bladder using keyhole surgery.

Here are some links to some gall bladder illustrations I found on Google:
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic Surgery Series
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

So this is MY weekend and into the upcoming work week? How YOU doin’?!? LOL