October 30, 2012

• PatchWork Post!

  Good Morning.  It’s raining… AGAIN!!  Every morning this week, things got a little better, because the chicken pen got slightly drier.  Don’t laugh, my chickens were ankle-deep in mud.  It rained every day for two weeks, here – and not just a little rain, we’re talking TORRENTIAL downpour – so to say things were soggy is a massive understatement!  But tending critters was getting easier, as it dried up.  But it’s raining, again, today, and that’s just…  (((((sigh!)))))  A sympathy rain to the FrankenStorm hitting the east coast.  But I’d take our drizzly crap to a hurricane!  Better them than me.  I figure if you don’t want to get hit by a hurricane, don’t live by the coast.  ANY coast.  And you know how I feel about living ‘in His Hand’.  If Italy’s prophesied to ‘get the boot’, I figure the safest place is ‘in His hand’.  Michigan is still the best.  Particularly where I am – voted best place to raise a family (LINK).

  Costume Chat.  Well, I’ve got all of costumes done excepting for Isaac’s and Ethan’s, and Ethan’s will be done this morning, and hopefully Isaac’s, tonight.  And I’ve put that off, because it has scared the crap out of me.  When you see it, you’ll probably laugh, but it seriously has freaked me out.  But the others… while they had tricky bits, I had a handle on them.  It’ll be fun to show you the finished product on Wednesday.  Oh, and because Halloween isn’t until evening (of course!), I probably won’t be posting Wednesday until later at night!

  Tuesday Thankfuls.  Usually, Brian doesn’t call us on Tuesdays because he goes to lunch with his Dad.  ((They work five buildings away from each other.  They also stop in and chat occasionally with each other, because when his Dad’s shop gets slow, Brian’s shop sometimes gives them some work of theirs to do – a situation that came of Brian/his dad (and has worked good for the company).  Also, Brian and his dad both do side work at home for a different company – Brian does the CNC part, and his dad does the easier stuff, usually on the same jobs, so they do the drop-it-off-and-talk thing, too.))  That came from Brian having worked with a guy who now owns a shop toward Holland, who has times when he’s swamped and, out of chats that mentioned Brian/his Dad’s home machinery, started giving the extra to Brian and his Dad.  It’s all kind of funny… because Brian’s dad was an electrician, and somehow kinda ‘swapped’ over and is doing machinist work, now, like Brian… who is kinda teaching his dad as they go along.  Anyhow, this week they had to have lunch on Monday, because TODAY… Brian’s shop is having a pizza lunch, and it’s their quarterly meeting, too.  So that’s good on two counts for Brian – hello, pizza, and a meeting/down time.  ((Maybe even on three counts… he says they discuss profit sharing, so if things have been good for the shop, we might have a little bonus check, which would get us back on track after Frankenmuth!))

  Motherhood Musings.  I was talking with Brian the other day about our parenting technique.  It’s… well, it’s exactly the opposite of the way I was brought up.  I was raised to revere the church and believe everything I was taught.  My kids are taught to shun the church and question everything they’re taught.  I was raised to be so innocent – I didn’t know anything about anything.  I raise my children to know a little about everything (even the unpleasant things), and to want to learn more.  Brian says so many people in the world are disillusioned, and we don’t want that for our children.  I’ve concluded that disillusionment comes from thinking things are one way, when they’re really the opposite.  It’s betrayal.  So I’m raising my kids to expect betrayal as a norm and to realize that nothing is as it seems.  Is that wise?  I don’t know.  I just know that I believe I might not have turned out so cynical and jaded if I hadn’t been taught to just take everything at face value and ‘trust’ other people.  I’ve just been thinking more and more on this, considering the times…

  Silly Screw-Up.  I did it again.  I told you that 17 Cheshvan was ON the Day of the Dead this year, and then – being blonde – screwed up and in my mind equated that to Hallowe’en.  All Hallows is the day AFTER Hallowe’en.  So Ark Day (or Flood Day, or 17 Cheshvan) begins at the sunset in Israel AFTER Hallowe’en.  That means on All Hallow’s Day (or Day of the Dead).  So nevermind me.  I told you right, I just thunk it out wrong.  *wink!*

  Food, Glorious Food.  My mom came over to play cards on Friday night, and since it was our Shabbat, I made veggies and hashbrown/cheddar casserole, and she brought KFC and this sinfully fattening chocolate brownie with fudge icing and white chocolate chips with a layer of white glaze drizzled… anyhow, my diet was OUT the window.  Then of course we had snacks later while playing cards.  Then she left the dish of brownies… Then Lydia and I went to a midnight scrapbooking crop, and brought snacks, and… well, six hours of munching does something to a body.  And as if that weren’t enough?  Then we went out to Cabana’s after seeing ‘Ice Age 4′ (the last Flick’s Film this fall) on Sunday.  So my weight challenge?  It got challenged this weekend.  And was creamed, I do believe.  (((sigh!)))  I had a major set-back, and have to scramble back on the wagon.  But don’t expect good news on Thursday.

  Easel Ease(l).  We went last week to get the materials to build our easels, but first I had to stop at Hobby Lobby for costume bits (I needed glue sticks and a bow tie).  While there, we checked out their easels… and they had some for $7.99.  Brian said by the time we bought sturdy hinges and the wood and put the time in, we should just buy them.  I’m still full of wary trepidation (they have no BACKS), but we shall see what happens on Sunday.  Should we still be here.

  Speaking of Arks…  Did you see my new cover photo over at Facebook?  I wanted an ark picture (for 17 Cheshvan), and thought I’d have to download one, turn it blue, make it work… but when I did a search, THIS turned up, and it was perfect!  I love it!!  Better news?  Apparently the director of ‘Gladiator’ and ’300′ is making an epic film about the Great Flood.  WooooooT!!  Due to the theatres in Fall of 2013.  ((Should Earth exist, then.))  That. Sounds. AWESOME!!!!  When was the last time anything Biblical was on the big screen?  Okay, besides the ‘Matrix’ allegory?  I’m talking a REAL story!  It was Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’, no?  It’s been a while!!  And nobody’s touched the Old Testament since… Holy wha, I don’t remember!  I’m geeked!!
  
  Solana Stuff!  Oh, you remember Javier Solana.  The author of the 7-year covenant with many?  The High Representative of the Revived Roman Empire?  The most powerful man in the world?  (I believe he still is, too – just laying low for the interim.  He’s smart and got out before things could sully him, so that he’s only associated with prosperity and achievement… and he WILL be back.)  Anyhow, he’s written a piece about the state of the world, and there are some AMAZING things in this paper he wrote.  I highly recommend it – because 1) it’s astoundingly accurate, 2) it’s clear, concise, and revealing, and 3) hello, SOLANA.  The man knows things nobody else knows.  He’s the deepest insider there is.  He plays the ‘dark side’ of politics and economics.  He laughed in Putin’s face and got away with it.  He evades any trouble as if he’s merely holding the door for trouble to hit someone else in the face.  Even Hilary Clinton jumps when he tells her to – and only asks how high on the way down.  There is NO ONE like Solana.  He’s my prime suspect for the ‘Son of Perdition’, and has been since 2003.  And when he writes a paper?  The man WRITES a paper.  You can read it here (LINK).

  Speeding Up.  Have you noticed it?  I have.  Everything is getting insanely fast.  Movies, for example – we have to watch a movie three and four times to actually see everything that’s happening in the film.  And we’re not talking hidden things, but the things meant to be seen.  There’s just too much, too fast.  And I’m pretty fast.  Technology.  Lydia and I decided we should get mp3 players so we can listen to music while scrapbooking.  I wasn’t even sure they HAVE mp3 players, anymore, because everyone just listens to music on their phones or pads, anymore.  And mp3s have only been in use by the masses since 2003(ish).  That’s less than ten years, from groundbreaking ability to being nearly obsolete.  So fast!  When you consider that – until 1900 – we didn’t have cars on every road, electricity in every house, telephones for every family?  It’s only the last hundred years, and we’ve gotten SO fast.  And how much faster can we go?  Technology being obsolete in five years?  One?  If our brains can’t process all of the information now, how much further can it go?

  Deep Waters.  I just got pretty soberingly deep, there, for a moment.  Come to think of it, I’ve been going pretty soberingly deep for about a week, now, haven’t I?  It’s just that… well, things seem to be coming to a head.  I’m not talking about elections or the World Series or even Hurricane Sandy, I’m talking about… everything important.  And always at the forefront of my thoughts is the Six-Month Suggestion.  We’re two months from the end of the window.  Two days from 17 Cheshvan (the most likely day, IMO, at this point).  Whether the Mayans are right or not, I really do see big changes coming, and very, very soon.  I guess maybe that’s why He’s got me writing so much about the things that matter.  Anyhow, there it all is.

  Got’s t’go.  So I’ll see you later, okay?  I gotta go work on some costumes, finish up a lapbook, do some fingerprinting for our health unit, make some placards for our Book of Centuries.   In the meantime?  Have a great day!

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