November 2, 2012

• (Tardy) Thursday Thankfuls

  • I’m grateful for the bigger than average bonus Brian got this week.  VERY nice… We’ve got money for X-mess, now!  And we finally got a check for all the work Brian’s done August thru October out in our barn, too, so… when/if he deposits that, that will be nice, too – we need to have the driveway grated before the ground freezes, and Brian would like a heater for his barn and new work boots, so that’ll take care of those big expenses!
  • Jupiter/Pleiades/Moon conjunction today.  EarthSky has the article (LINK), but – and I hate them for this – they NEVER tell you more than a few hours ahead of time, and NEVER give specific details (times/degrees).  Still… 17 Cheshvan isn’t over until tonight, and that Yehovah/His Chosen/The Earth are lining up so spectacularly at the tail end of it.  You know I geek over this stuff…!!!
  • There is THE MOST AWESOME free .pdf file this morning.  It’s even awesome for grown-ups… it’s how to tell what angle something is by eyeing it, using the face of a clock as reference.  I am SOOO impressed with this!!!  The link is here (LINK).  You have GOT to see this!!!
  • Sunshine!  It’s sunny this morning, and that is SO NICE after so much overcast weather.  Not that I don’t like overcast weather, but we need a few clear, bright days to get winterized around here.  We need to hang the rabbit tarp, put away kid toys, pull down the laundry lines, take the boat back over to grandpa’s, do one last mow (and a FIRST leaf clean up!), and pull up stakes/trellises in the garden.  I pray the sun lasts thru the weekend!
  • Birthday cake.  Did I mention my second littlest guy turned FIVE yesterday?!  ((Well… I did on FB, and posted a picture, but..))  He was so cute about it, too.  And Daddy took the day off yesterday, so that made his birthday EXTRA special!!
  • Honey Harvest!!  We’re in the middle of harvesting our honey!  It’s only the second time we’ve done it (blog about first time in 2009 HERE), but it’s going much more smoothly (but slightly messier) than last time.  So that’s good!
  • Costume Clean-up.  I’ve been in the throes of making costumes for two weeks straight – felt, styrofoam, hot glue sticks, markers, needle/thread, shears, RIT dye… it’s been everywhere.  So hey, guess what?  I’m grateful that I can put it all away, now!! LOL!!!
  • Aunt November!  I have been reading (for a few months now) a Finnish blog called ‘Badut’.  It’s not written in English, so I have to read it via Google Translate, but I really like this woman’s site… she’s whimical and interesting.  Anyhow, her post yesterday called ‘Welcome Aunt November’ was beautiful… it really stirred my love of this season!  The link is HERE.
  • This morning, I was sent by a friend to view a video that said if you don’t vote Romney (as in, writing in Ron Paul or not voting at all), it’s like you’re ‘standing by, watching a mugging’.  Um… no, IMHO voting for Romney is joining mugger group A, and voting for Obama is voting for mugger group B.  And it made me angry to see crap like that being touted.  Then my friend MountainMama said, ‘ If 5% of the population votes for Gary Johnson then the Libertarian Party will finally be considered a “major party” by the federal government and will receive federal funds next year…so, if you really truly want your vote to count, vote Libertarian/Gary Johnson’.  Now I hadn’t thought about Johnson much… I was going to write in Ron Paul.    But she has a point.  And while I don’t know Johnson, I do know the Libertarian viewpoint (thanks to Ron Paul)… so I may have to rethink my vote and cast it so that there AREN’T just two recognized parties. It’s a small change to fight for, but it’s a start.  So it appears I’m going to fight for Liberty by voting Libertarian.  Should we be here.
    
  • Going thru and getting rid of TWO boxes in our closet.  I was hoping to put away more maternity stuff, but mostly I just got rid of dumpy things and re-organized to make it more compact.  So that’s good.  Brian says I should get rid of ALL my maternity clothes, but… you just KNOW when I do that, there’d be a miracle baby, and I’m too prepper for that!  Anyhow, I found a bunch of stuff that I can wear that doesn’t float around me, so that’s good, news!
    
  • Lydia and I getting our mp3 players loaded.  I had dug in my heels SO LONG on getting anything like that (I don’t want my kids ‘plugged in’ all the time), but for scrapbooking, it’d be nice to have tunes during crop nites.  So I’ve spent a LONG time putting my CDs on my laptop so that I could download them to the mp3 players.  Whew!  All done, and now we have little gadgets!
  • Superhero teaching lessons.  We had a GREAT behavioral comparison this morning over my half cup of coffee.  I told them Captain America is a man of hope and trust – he’s a glass half full kind of guy.  And IronMan is on the same team, but he knows the world isn’t trustworthy and there’s not much hope of goodness manifesting around us, so he’s a glass half empty kind of a guy.  It’s not a bad thing – he was right: Nick Fury (symbolic of gov’t) was a bad dude making weapons the way he was supposedly keeping people from doing.  IronMan was like ‘DUH!’ and Cpt. America was like “GASP! The HORROR!”  Just two different ways to look at life.  Then there’s Black Widow, who doesn’t give a crap about the coffee cup, she’s going for the pot.  She’s crafty and thinks out of the box.  Then there’s Hawkeye, who doesn’t need coffee, he just watches to see what will happen, and makes sure if it’s bad, it doesn’t cause collateral damage.  Hulk?  Hulk doesn’t know what a coffee cup is – if it’s there, it’s gonna get smashed.  Period.  Then y’got Nick Fury, our friendly government liar, and Phil Coulson, the ‘sheeple’ representative, who simply does what he’s told, thinking he’s a good guy.  See?  Betcha didn’t know there was such a large spectrum of views/behaviors!  Superhero movies make for GREAT lessons…. LoL!!
  • I’m grateful for losing the weight I put on last weekend.  I was down 10 pounds to 190, then my mom… KFC… double chocolate brownies with fudge icing… Mexican & a Movie… and Monday I was up to 192 - egads!!  But I am happy to say I lost two more pounds this week, so I’m BACK to 190, again.  What sucks is that if I hadn’t indulged last weekend, it might’ve been two NEW pounds, not the same two I took off last week.  Still… I’m not gaining, I’m 10 lighter, and can move on from here… and I’m grateful for that!
  • Conditioner.  I’m thankful for conditioner, because you have NO idea what a MESS my hair is at the moment.  The curls… they’ve intertwined and become a labyrinth of knots so complex… I need conditioner.  If you hear squeaking that sounds like someone’s in pain?  That’ll be me, pulling tangles later this afternoon.
    
  • Is that all?  Can that be all?  Cuz today’s bill day, and I have to go get at the bills, and it feels like I should be done on-line now, for a while.  I’ll talk to you another time, k?
    

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