Happy Birthday Moooranda!!!!!!!!!!!!

Autumn is here and it is still blazing hot.  I wonder if it will ever cool off.  October is not suppose to be in the high 90's.  I went to visit my darling grandchildren today and they are just so adorable.  Did you know that I have the best grandkids in the world and they are the cutest.  I also have some pretty great children and I am so happy that I have them all close at hand now.   I am one lucky lady and very thank-ful for all my blessings.
 
Peace to all. 

Summertime and the living is Hell...hot and humid and bugs, not a pretty picture.  Mooranda where are you?  I miss your posts.  I worry about you when  I don't see any posts.  Come back to us moo.

I'm still here,  I know I haven't posted in a very long time.  I thought perhaps I should in case they think I'm dead and "they" (whoever they are) take my livejournal account away from me and I would never get to read my friends page any longer.  I would be so sad if I no longer had this account because I do check on my friends even when I'm not posting anything.   So with that I would officially like to thank whoever " they" are that started this journal page and continue to run it...Thank-You!

Hello everyone! I am updating thanks to Moo inspiring me to do so. Thank-you Moo. My life is really pretty exciting and I stay busy everyday doing something, either with friends, or granchildren, or in my garden. Today I babysat for my darling little grandson Charlie. He is so cute, and he has red hair. He just started crawling a few weeks ago, he's eight months old. He snarls his little nose up when he gets excited, it's so funny. My beautiful granddaughter Riley is almost 3. She went with her Mom and Dad on an adventure today so I didn't babysit her. They went to Williamsburg and rode the ferry, she loved it.

Tomorrow I am going shopping with Msbubbles. We always have a great time and always go for lunch, which is one of our favorite things to do. We also love to shop for clothes and flowers.

Tomorrow is also a very sad day for me and my best friend in Indiana. Her father is being buried. He was 84 years old and had been very ill for several months before he died on Sunday. He was the nicest man. I grew up at their house and her parents always made me feel like part of the family. I called them Mom and Dad always. They were very loving and taught me a lot about life and loving others. The family is having a very hard time with his death and I have felt an emptiness that leaves me feeling very depressed. I hate death, not for him or those who have gone on before, but for those of us left behind. However, we must keep our chins up and go on, since that's all we can do.

Don't worry, Be Happy.

It's 11-11 .......make a wish, but be careful what you wish for.....you just might get it.

Cool weather is upon us, yea!

Merry Christmas, yes it that time of year!

What happended to Thanksgiving! And who cares!

Baby Boy Charlie is being baptised this Sunday.

Beware! How many of you out there know that there are demons lurking, seeking whom they may devour? It's true. For once it's not a figment of my imagination. Has anyone seen that show on the Discovery station called the real Exorcist? Scarry Stuff!!

The world is a very scarry place. Be brave, shine with light, and think WWJD. It's not easy, but no one ever said it would be easy.

Momma said there be days like this there would be days like this my momma said. Momma said Momma said.

As a matter of fact my mother is very smart in these kind of matters. She has taught me a lot about life, but much of it I have learned the hard way.

I even have a hard time shinning my light when so much negative is going on around me. I can't control the negative, but wait a minute...light bulb moment...I can control the positive...woo whoo. I'm in control!!!!

It's up to me to add the sugar when life sends me lemons :)

Wish me luck and sweetness and lots of sugar for the rest of my day, Thus I say unto me and to all those who witness me and those who should see. Amen.

Hello world.....love to all.....and plant a tree for me. Well it's been ages since I have wrote in my journal....has anyone missed me? Is there anybody out there? Or is life just a big black hole in the whole expanse of the body and the universe only to suck all the life out of you until you turn inside out and then become another creature to slither your molecules of life on other such creatures in unknown lands and then what? What is life, why are we here? Who are we anyway? Does anybody have any real answers? I would like to know.....I just don't get it most of the time and only plug along to live in La La Land with dear msbubbles...are you there msbubbles?

She joins me in La La Land, a place of sheer beauty; lovely harmonic music, gentle cool breezes, beautiful butterflies, talking birds, crystals with rainbow sparkles everywhere, vibrant colored flowers, bubbles, fairies, elves, nymps, and other such friends. It's were you find real happiness. It's not easy to get there for I have only been a few times in my life. I want to live there forever.

Crazy......Crazy.....someone tell me the answers to my questions, no one can because no one knows....crazy...crazy...crazy...life.

Love to all.

My Little bird that I am bird sitting is leaving me in the next day or so and it saddens me to see him go, but believe me you I don't mind seeing the mess go home with him. Birds are really messy creatures but they are so cute and wonderful little things. I Love Birds.

Today the temp. is nice and in the low sixties, now that's my kind of weather. Yesterday was like that too. I went to the Park with Amber and Riley after going to the Baby Doctor with them.

I got to see my new little peanut on the Sona Gram and he or she was moving around quite a bit, it was so neat to see. I have never seen a sonagram in person before, it was very exciting. It made me feel close to my new grandbaby. I love him or her already and Riley is so very special. I highly recommend Grandchildren, they are the greatest!

We had the best time at the Park yesterday. We found a pretty rock that sparkled and Riley carried it around for a long time before losing interest. We also played much on the merry go round thing spinning around till we could take it no more, also we swang on the swings and slid on the slide. It was much fun and the joy of being outside in nature is undenieably the best thing in the world. Thank You Mother Nature!

I Love Flowers.....Flower Power...Spring is on the way....Yea


Here Here to Nature

I made a promise to try and update on my journal for someone very special. She is very homesick and needs extra support people. It's very difficult to leave behind all family and friends that Loves one unconditionally for better or worse. It's lonely and no fun :( Just imagine how it must feel, it hurts to think that my baby is feeling that. I've never had to feel that way. At least when I moved to Virginia I still had my father, but my Mom and Sisters were still in Indiana, so I know how that felt....yucky. I was very homesick. I wanted to go back to Indiana so bad, but I made it through, and you couldn't pay me to go back to Indiana now. So hang in there sweetheart, it's one of those bumps in life that you can get through...you haven't lost us we are still here. We can talk any time on the phone. It will get better as time goes on. I Love You!!!!!!

Hello cruel world.....ok so it's not really that cruel, and after all it's only a few who will even see this entry. I never know what I'm going to write about when I do these journal entries. I never have been one to really write down my true feelings. I suppose I should try it sometime, but I guess I would be afraid of what I might see. Oh the world is a scary place I tell you.

I have night terrors and they are very scary. I wake up from a blood curdeling scream with heart pounding and sore throat. Often times I see things such as dark shadows, and people, but in the beginning I would see spiders and web like designs. I know they call them night terrors but I really wonder what they really are, anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else been tortured in the night?

I miss my baby girl, she left one week ago today, and things have been terribly quiet around here, except for these weird noises not unfamilar to me. My mate who is about as entertining as a Mushroom...translation bump on a log, sits next to me in the chair with eyes half open, and gurgling noises coming from his nose and mouth. It's not a pretty sight and I'm constantly yelling at him to go to bed if he wants to sleep.

Oh I could go on and on but no I won't for everyones sake. Well that's it for me, maybe next journal entry will be something profound, hehehe.

Go forth with Peace and Love and power to the people.

Well it's been ages since I have done a journal entry, I suppose I could try more often to do this, especially now that my little precious has spread her wings and flown cross country.

It's hard to describe my feelings as I'm excited for her, and at the same time sad for myself. I too have been in a bit of denial in facing the reality that she was leaving, after all I do like to live in lala land, but now the reality is she's gone and I miss her.

I know that she will have great success in her life and that this is a wonderful opportunity for her to make it happen, along with the fact she is with great people which will only help to inspire her to do so is some consolation to my grief.

Her vibrant personality will be missed greatly amoung all of us who love her, but new adventures must always be explored and we must not be afraid of change.

Someday I may even take my own advice, probably not this life time but who knows, one can only hope. Happy Trails ;)

That is in Virginia the living is Hell because of the tremendous heat factor. A daily heat index of over 100 degrees everyday for months on end sucks!

Yes, today is suppose to be cooler, only a 65 degree dewpoint verses a 77 degree dewpoint. It's still hot outside no matter how you look at it.

You can forget about outdoor activities, unless you have a swimming pool, and even then it's too hot at times. You feel like you are in a pot of water boiling, what fun!

I am looking forward to fall and cooler weather. We had no spring to speak of this year, 90 degree temps started in April, and will last till who knows when, if usual it will be well into October.

Does anyone like the summertime weather in Virginia? Oh yes, there are those of you who do, a word of advice.....Get your heads examined, you're nuts.

Give me Artic Air!!!!!!

I haven't updated in a while but today June 23rd is a very special day and worthy of an entry in the old journal. There is a very special girl named Miranda that is having a birthday today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRANDA. For those of you who don't know she is very sweet and like a daughter to me and I miss her very much. I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you are to all of us! I love you sweetie.

Another very special girl is having a birthday on Friday, and that would be my favorite girl in the whole wide world. She will be turning 24 years old. Happy Birthday special, wonderful, favorite girl in the whole wide world and you know who you are, now don't you my little monkey baby. I Love You!!!

And one more very special girl will be having a birthday here very soon, now won't you cute cuddly Katie? She has become a very important young lady in our family and one who is very much Loved by everyone. She is so popular and very much deserves it, because of her sparkling personality, quick wit, smarts, and artistic nature not to mention her beauty, she is so pretty!!! I Love You too Katie bug.

The Birthday girls Rule!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to all.

Temperatures are warming, flowers are blooming and birds are singing. With spring right around the corner it can only mean one thing, that summer is just down the block. Spring is one of my favorite times of the year, only to give way to my least favorite time of the year, summer: heat, bugs, and humidity! Yuck!

Why can't it just stay spring time all year long? However, Fall is a nice time too. I just want cool temperatures. I don't see anything good about Summer. Winter is better, at least you can get outside without melting, or feeling deathly ill, or being bugged to death.

In cold temperatures there is always something you can do to warm up, but hot temperatures not so much can be done to get cool; sweating as a means of cooling off the body is not my idea of fun. I hate to sweat, stinky madness, no way.

Just give me a cool breeze, shade, and a pina colada' then all is well with the world.

Well it's been ages since I have entered a journal entry, and one might ask Why? I don't really know, except that I didn't think anyone really gave a rats ass about what I had to say.

Does anyone really give a rats ass about anything other than what is happening with oneself? Is this what the world has come to? No compassion beyond our own little selfish corner of the world. Oh poor me, that seems to have been the sentiment for 2003. Now that 2004 is here all around, are things any different one says with a frown.

Yes, life is a big suckfest, in fact in my opinion Heaven and Hell exist right here on Earth. Of course we all have been sentenced to different life circumstances to wallow our sufferings in, but ultimately it is up to us to search out the peaceful surroundings of Heaven.

There you have it, we are living in Hell and Heaven at the same time. It's what we make of life that determines which fraction of the universe we happen to inhabit at any given time. The fundamentals we have all heard are true, give and it will be given to you, dream and your dreams will come true.

For example, let's take a stroll in La La Land a place where I have been many times, and it is beautiful. There are many smiling faces all greeting one another, saying hello, how are you, no one meets a stranger. People seem to shine and glow with good health. There on a rock sits the most beautiful crystal shard spreading rainbows of color over the green hills which are sprinkled with colorful flowers and weeping willow trees everywhere. Butterflies, dragonflies, and birds flutter about on a gentle breeze as if to say, no care or worries do we have here for freedom abounds for one and all to share if only you care to absorb the beauty that nature has to share.

Then in a blink of the eye, the world has turned dark. People are frowning, hunched over and stark. Their eyes are all cold and blank with a stare, they see not so far, nor do they care. What they feel is the numb of a cold and cruel world, not knowing it's you who creates the surroundings you call Earth, yes your own Heaven or Hell.

Which do you choose? I for myself try to be a becon of light to shine for lost souls who have a fright in the night. I've been on both sides of the fence, and the grass in not greener, unless you plant the seed and nourish it to be better.

Being in Hell or being in Heaven is a matter of changing ones own mind for I chose the better.

Hello Wonderful World.

Yesterday was a fun day down in the little ghost town that we often visit on Week-ends. I wore my hair in pig tails with puffy spider poms to them in place. I felt like such a kid, my friend msbubbles pulled out her colored chalk for us to draw on the road with.

We all did out part. Msbubbles wrote about her love for trees, drawing a weeping willow to show her sadness about all the trees that were lost during the hurricane. I made a hopscotch and a jack-o-lantern. I even played hopscotch to the tune of a couple of jumps, msbubbles also tried it. At out age it wasn't easy.

The men contributed also by drawing a black widow spider in a web and a wizard wishing all a Happy Halloween. Later the neighborhood kids came by and enjoyed the art work.

Everyone write back and tell me about your latest adventure in letting your inner child out to play. Would love to hear some stories and finally get a comment or two on my journal, I need love!

The aftermath of a hurricane leaves much destruction. Two weeks later and we know people who still have no electricity. Many people are getting by with generators and cold showers. The red cross has stepped in and provided much need supplies.

My beloved beach has been destoyed. Many people are without homes, they are just gone, wiped off the face of the earth. I have not seen the destruction yet, but the echo's in my heart burn with dread to actual see the sight itself.

Trees are lost, many plowed down, their dead brown leaves hanging on fallen branches like an advertisement for death. A message that only the strong survive.

Everything changes....sometimes I just wish things stayed the same....I love consistancy, knowing and trusting all is well because it is the same as the day before when all was well.

When things change we are forced into another realm of reality, sometimes good, and sometimes bad. Everything that happens is a part of the renewal process. The circle of life.

We are born, we die, and we are born again.....over and over, the process continues. Just as the seed drops from the tree and new life begins, we too carry on.

Carry on all you wayward souls....go in peace and love soldiers of life, shine bright for all to see.

Don't worry be happy!

Today is my Mother's Birthday, she is 69. The very next day in the year 1960 God gave her a beautiful baby girl. What a birthday present, her last baby which joined three other daughters. She Loved her girls, and would do anything for them.

The years went by, and 7 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild later she still has a shinning glow all about her. It's more than the silver white curly locks framing her face like a Halo, or the fact that people always want to be around her.

It's a lot more, she could charm anyone with her beautiful deep set hazel eyes that gleam with a flirty mischieviousness. She has a tongue of gold that shines in the midst of cherry red lips that accents a perfect smile.

She says all the right things, and holds the knowledge of the universe with her bewitching sense of the world around her. She feels empathy for all of Gods creatures and brings peace and comfort to those who are lucky enough to cross her path. She is a sensational woman, and to know her is to love her.

I've been very blessed to have had such a wonderful person for my Mother. She has set an example for me that has helped me to cope with life's difficulties, and she taught me how to defend myself against the cruelties of life. I was one of the lucky ones.

Why was I lucky? Because that's the way I choose to see it. Not that I haven't been unlucky as well, and I have had a lot of shit happen, but who hasn't? That's life.

I would rather see the good and let the past bad slip away to the dark recesses of my mind. I wish it there to stay, so light only shines on the good and this is all I see, only good.

Yes, and as good create such shadows over the dark corners where nothing can be seen nor found there ever, forever keeping it buried in the darkness. It will be then I am protected from the evil darkness that seeks to destroy.

My advice for creating your own Luck: Always look to the light for peace in the heart, and stay away from dark corners.