It’s almost Thanksgiving, but I usually start out my day by listing everything in my life that I’m grateful for anyhow, but during holidays it reminds me of family and how dysfunctional mine actually are. I tend to remember back when we were young before life became so harsh after our parents died and often wonder how things might have been had they lived. I have 2 sisters and 1 brother left, but none of the sisters talk now and the sad part is we’re old.
I get along great with my brother however and see him often. At one time I was close to the middle sister and always took up for her because we were the most alike or at least I thought we were way back then. I’m not sure what happened to cause the separation, but it’s been like that for 20 years now. I thought when my oldest brother died a few years back that we were going to cross that bridge and become united again, but it didn’t happen.
I remember a lot of the fun times I had with my sister, of us giggling together and brushing each others hair, of sneaking my daddy’s cigarettes and smoking them, climbing trees and getting into trouble with Mama. It seems like what ever happened to me happened to Glenda, but worse. She was the only person with me when my baby was born and I was with her every day when she had uterine cancer and at one point I knew I could always count on her and she me.
She’s 3 years older than I am and when she became a teenager she had a really bad case of acne. I was lucky that I escaped that problem, I had the occasional pimple. She had acne so bad that she would try one acne treatment after another and nothing seemed to help her. Her face always looked so painful and I always felt sorry for her. People or rather kids were always saying ugly things to her and called her names which always ticked me off and I was always ready to fight for her.
I always wanted a close family because when it comes right down to living in this world family are the most important people because they’re the ones that know you and love you anyhow. I was reading a post that Patricia wrote over at Communication Exchange about communicating with your family during the holidays. Now that’s a great idea at any time, but sometimes it’s just not possible.
I consider myself very lucky though because Bill has a close family that I get to be a part of. I hope everyone has a lovely holiday with their family and friends.
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My dog is an American Eskimo and of course they have an undercoat and a longer coat and if you don’t groom them often they can get matted up pretty quick, they also shed like crazy. You should never have them clipped because they don’t grow back right. I knew this from reading the book I bought when I got him, but decided to have him clipped anyhow a few years back because it was so hot.
He loved it and pranced around like a little puppy, but like the book said his fur has never been the same since. It looks like corn rows all down his back and it doesn’t matter how often I brush him it still separates. I’ve mentioned my dogs several times in other posts and I always use a small bitmap image of Shadow as my icon in the address bar encase you ever wondered what that was. I actually use the same image on all of my blogs.
My Shadow recently had an ear infection and the vet gave me a cleaning solution and an antibiotic which cost 33 dollars and recently I was checking to see if there are any home remedy solutions and found that you can use vinegar to clean the ears, but make sure you thoroughly dry them afterwards. If there is an infection marigold or a small amount of tea tree oil can effectively kill the bacteria, rosemary extracts will also help build up immunity of the ear.
I always have a problem with his nails so I bought one of those pedi paws which I like, but if you still clip them and happen to cut it and make it bleed be sure to put some baby powder on it to help stop the bleeding and help prevent infection from entering the nail. I actually tried having him clipped at the vets and there were several people trying to hold him and even they couldn’t trim them. I still have a problem holding him when I try using the pedi paw, but I’m hoping it will get easier with each use.
Some dogs simply have a weird odor when they’ve been outside and come back in. I know that always happens with Sadie and it’s horrible. I bought some dog perfume oil at the pet store and if you put a drop at the base of their neck between the shoulder blades it’s suppose to penetrate the body and help mask those odors, but yuck it’s so strong and if you have asthma it can trigger an attack so I’ve found that if I take a used fabric softener sheet and run that over her it works just as well.
If you have home remedies that you use for your pets I’d love to hear about them.
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What exactly does hardcore mean? If you do a search on the web you’ll find this: Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity; diehard; Resistant to change; Obscene or explicit. Of course I know about the obscene and explicit doesn’t everyone? And I know about the diehards = stubbornly resisting change or clinging to a seemingly hopeless or outdated cause, but never really understood using hardcore attached to product names.
Everyone is weight conscious and most of the blogs I visit have at least a few diet tricks even if they aren’t devoted to food or diet or health. I guess depending on your metabolism something might work for you and not someone else. Everyone wants to lose weight, but no one wants to diet or exercise. We always look for an easy way or at least I do, but my metabolism is so low that I just look at food and I’m heavier.
Ephedrasil hardcore, what the heck is that? I thought it was something pornographic until I did a search and found out it was a diet pill that’s suppose to give you energy and make you feel good. At my age I need all the energy I can get and I certainly want to feel good, but I don’t know, can a diet pill do all of that? I looked it up and found this supplemental chart, but I’m not sure what all that stuff is except the b12 and caffeine.
I guess in this instance it means for those that are really serious about losing weight, but I could be wrong. I read mixed reviews, but I don’t know any of those people so how in the world would I know unless I know someone that has actually tried something. We mostly depend on word of mouth and we really take it serious when we actually see something work for someone. Has anyone used this?
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When it comes to buying anything for me I always have anything computer related on my list because I wear very little jewelry and clothes are hard to buy for me because everything has to be loose around my neck otherwise I feel like I’m choking. It’s not that I’m picky and I really do appreciate anything anyone wants to buy for me.
However I prefer something that I will use like ink cartridges because I print out pictures and other documents. Extra memory is always nice and any type of useful programs for my computer. I bought myself an external drive awhile back so I could back up my computer and remove a lot of junk so I would have more room.
Bill was going to buy me a laptop when I came back from Kentucky because I didn’t have access while I was away and when I go back to visit I’ll have it so I can work when I’m not visiting or helping out. I had told him that I needed a portable flash drive for documents that I needed to work on while I was away, but since I didn’t have access it didn’t really matter.
So I’m pretty sure I’m going to get my laptop for Christmas and then he can learn to use a computer because he’s afraid to touch mine, he’s afraid he’ll mess something up that I’m working on. He can then pull up all the motorcycle information that he wants and I’ll have my important stuff on the flash so I’ll be able to work on trips.
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I have read many things about personal magnetism and how some people have the power to inspire and convince other people to bend to their will. I could never understand how one person could have so much power and influence yet we’ve seen it numerous times in many of our charismatic leaders. The power that some leaders have exhibited has been extremely evil like Hitler, Jim Jones, and Manson just to name a few, but was that magnetism or hypnotism? People actually followed them blindly until it was too late.
This has always scared me and fascinated at the same time because I have always wondered if they were born with this ability or developed this power by reading and developing their mind. When you can use this power for good and not evil then I can see how everyone would benefit. I have known many people in my life that have had small influences, but I could never give up my total will or even bend it except in one extreme case where I was married to an abuser and that was out of fear.
Mastery of Self by Frank Channing Haddock, M. S., Ph. D you can read part one and two free online encase you’ve never seen this and would like some excellent insight. The site where I found this is Full Books and they have thousands of full text free books. So if you’ve been looking for a particular book and haven’t been able to find it I would suggest looking there. I’m sure many of these are older books maybe some out of print even, but the above book was what I was looking for. Below is a passage about dealing with others.
“Let us finally understand. In applied magnetism, you simply harmonize the etheric states of others with those of yourself, and convey to them through the ethereal medium the purpose of your will. The FIRST condition of success here is agreeableness, the SECOND consists in tact and perseverance, the THIRD is will-power –not brutal will-force, but magnetic power of will.” I think I will take the time to print this out so I can read the whole thing off line because I need all the magnetism I can get.
Also from the book “The “SPIRIT”–not to refine on philosophy–is the real self which
builds body and may unfold mind. The highest state of the individual, therefore, is religious at the top. This is spirituality. But the only conceivable essential to spirituality is a belief in, and an intelligent (truth-using) surrender to, the White Life–conceived in one’s own way–for harmony and oneness therewith.”
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Bill and I love when they have car shows and he usually knows what most of them are whereas I have never been good at telling one car from another except a station wagon from a Volkswagen Beetle, Jeep or a Mustang, but I love looking at them. I love when the street rods come to town they’re awesome and I also love the look of sports cars, but can’t tell one from the other.
I have never really seen any really expensive cars up close except when I was in Las Vegas I did get to see the DeLorean which was so cool. I’m amazed that people like Jay Leno and other celebrities own all of those expensive cars and can actually maintain them. Bill keeps talking about getting a Corvette and I always say why not a Ferrari if your going to dream it might as well be big.
Who wouldn’t love to own a Ferrari? I think that’s something most men dream about and I’m quite sure I’d love to ride in one, but I know that’s something that’s not likely to happen. I’m sure Bill could afford one of the Ferrari parts, but not the car and that would be as close as I’d ever get to one. I don’t think Leno has one, but I’m not sure what all he owns, probably a Lamborghini, must be nice to be rich.
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Party@Christinaswwworld iGive 4 LifeInAfrica challenge has a contest going on for her fellow bloggers and asks for help to get the word out and to enter this contest, you can visit that link directly to find out more about the contest and all of the great prizes she has put together for the winners of this challenge.
You can see from her post that she cares deeply for this cause and if I can help by sending participants her way then that will make me feel good. I know everyone tries to help others in any way they can by praying or donating what they can here and there, but they have a program set up with IGive.com which you can read more about at her blog.
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