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Good vibes winging their way to thy sis, Wildfire!!!!! :goodvibes:
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Hello, darling Wildfire.
Thinking about your sister very much this weekend. All this hubbub and she can't possibly be having much fun. Here's hoping that things calm down and that everybody, especially Mom and Junior, hang in there for just a bit longer. |
All sorts of loving vibes to you, your sis and the wee one, Wildfire. Sounds so difficult.
And good job vibes going out for the Empress. Sounds like a good use of yesterday's time even if it kills today. Grindstone being delivered by the A1 towelboy (they're multifaceted). Whew, I'm glad to know other :queen:s have affection for their vehicles. Thought maybe it was senility rampant. Should be a good day here in Central PA, she says with fingers crossed. Looking like a good yard sale day so perhaps Kaylets is already scampering. |
Wow, so many great inspiring, profound, thoughtful posts I don't know how to catch up with everyone. I'm quite literally awestruck! And we thought things were going quiet here! Hah!
Okay, now it can be told---nay, MUST be told! A couple of weeks ago Garry and I finished this "project" that changed our lives. We wanted to do something because we were feeling stagnant, and quite by accident [yeah, right! :lol: ] I found this book called "Soul Coaching" by Denise Linn. I didn't want anything that I had to struggle with, I wanted something easy;I admit it. It's a 28-day program--week 1 deals with air and clearing mental debris, and physically decluttering your home! Week 2 deals with water and emotional stuff, cleaning your house, and drinking lots of water! Week 3 is about fire and creativity and week 4's about earth and strengthening your physical body. I don't know what is was about this program but it really got to me. Cerise, please give this book to yourself for your birthday! It's a wild ride, because one day you're decluttering your closet and the next day you're being asked the purpose of your life. And somehow it all works! Very profound---I've become much more courageous with my life and it's inspired me [and Garry] to start with another book. Right now, we're working on "The Alchemist's Path"; its a book of spitual exercises inspired by alchemy. We're loving that one too! I love it when one find the spirtitual in everyday life stuff. Hey, maybe that's the purpose of my life! :D I have a quote I'd like to share, so listen up, Queens! "BE BOLD....AND MIGHTY FORCES WILL COME TO YOUR AID"-----Goethe Ain't it the truth! ;) |
Yo, just to inform thou mighty :queen: s that I posted this on the 21-day challenge thread in case anyone be interested. Anyone can win no matter when they join the "club" because it's kind of hard to do 21 consecutive days, so people will be restarting. Apologize if I seem to be recruiting here, I'm not, just wanted to share an idea to perk us up, if we need perking:
HEAR YE, HEAR YE!!! The 21-Day Challenge Club Prize Committee hath announced that a small NON-VIRTUAL AWARD OF HONOR will be snail mailed to the first challenger to complete their 21-consecutive days! This prize program is a one-time offering and will be administered by Amarantha, who is not eligible to win the prize (since obviously she intends to be first and she started first!!! :D )!!! The eligibility caveats are thusly: The prize winner must complete 21-consecutive days of their challenge and be regularly reporting in on their progress to this thread (at least twice a week) because we need to support each other. The winner must notify Amarantha by email or pm of a snail mail address to send the prize (could be a PO box to preserve anonymity, the prize will be small, although the committee doesn't know what it is yet! :coffee: ). Amarantha hath promised to purchase said prize in a real store, not weave, bead, crochet, knit, carve or otherwise craft it herself! She warns, however, that said prize will be veeeery inexpensive and a mere token of honor for the stalwart 21-day winner!!! (So don't get too excited, challengers)! In the event a snail mail address is not received from the winner or the winner doesn't want the award or in the event no one wins before July (say, we all give up because we ain't got the stuff), no prize will be awarded. If Amarantha hath already purchased the award she will have sole discretion as to what to do with it! :yes: Huzzah! Bye all! ;) |
Thanks for the good thought/vibes, girls! I'm going to be an auntie any day to a very wee one, and I want both Sis and baby to get through this healthy!
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Happy Saturday
Good morning, queens.
Eydie, thanks a million for the book idea. It does indeed sound like a wild ride. I'm looking forward to trying it out. So, that's your big happy secret, huh? Good for you! And thanks for not recommending Tony Robbins. :lol: So, Wildfire, your sister's got about a month and a half, right? Oof. Keep updating us, OK? That's a long time for a pregnant lady, I'll betcha. I wouldn't really know. Amarantha, you are officially attracting royals from other lands with the 21-day challenge. We now have a Michigander on board. Huzzah! Sending out good vibes that your Packet will fall into the exactly right hands. And the front desk people never know anything, by the way. I know. :rolleyes: You know, Anagram, I could be facing senility, but it'd be setting in REALLY bloody early. I think I'll always be quirky, whatever age I acheive. Geez. It's better than "normal", whatever that is. Thank you for sharing St. Therese's prayer, my dear. I hadn't heard it before. It's wonderful, isn't it? All right, ladies. I'm off to make plans for the day. Ramon's at work and the apartment has not quite sunk into squalor, but it's a near thing. Must do something about it. Love, |
Ungodly hot here today. Ran an ad for free hostas, daylillies, etc. Had 15 calls by 11:oo a.m. Gal showed up at 1:00. Took lots of those plus 3 forsythia and a few other things. But now I have to call the next person on my list and hopefully have someone dig those out tomorrow. Am trying to cut back a bit on the yard work required here. This year I really think I'm going to make it = if I keep my promises to myself anyway.
I'd never seen the St. T. Thing either but some of it seemed to hit my goals for now. A teeny weeny is right Wildfire but they can catch up fast. Recently a woman near here gave birth to SIX babies at, I think, the 29th week. She had been in the hospital since March but was able to hold on long enough to make it work. All were a good survival weight and were off ventilators within a day or two and seem to be doing well. Amazing what can be done these days. Can't wait to share your auntiehood. I'm tired from watching that gal dig so I'm done for the day. |
Holy Mackeral!
How long have I been gone?? Ok... Here they come...the royal minstrels... and the royal buglers.... Ta da ! TA DA! TA DA! Are you ready--- GOOD VIBES - to the East, West, North, South...... To the SouthWest... " WE MUST HAVE THE EMPRESS! WE MUST HAVE THE EMPRESS!" To the Northwest " Cerise will realize she can be as amazing as her vocal teacher thinks... Cerise will realize she can be as amazing as her vocal teacher thinks.." And a little bit more Northwest: "Punkin will be able to come and visit, Punkin will be able to come and visit" To the North " Wildfire's sister and baby will be fine! Wildfire's sister and baby will be fine!" And North again " Arabella and son will succeed. Arabella and son will succeed.' And again, " Zadie will see her dreams come true, Zadie will see her dreams come true" To the East " All the Plants will be taken away....all the plants will be taken away!" And a little bit farther East " WE MUST HAVE KAYLETS! WE MUST HAVE KAYLETS!" and to the Southeast ..." WSW will feel energetic and cheerful! WSW will feel energetic and cheerful" And on a mountain... "Eydie and Garry will enjoy their new book! Eydie and Garry will enjoy their new book!" .... The Royal Minstrels apologize if they have not mentioned someone. Even if they have, GOOD VIBES ABOUND!! so... let me go see what the Empress has posted on the 21 day thread. |
Gosh this thread is jumping, sorry for the brevity mode again here. I love all the posts and am reading, it's just that the connection between my brain and fingers is a little loose right now. Too many council stories and school boreds, methinks.
Eydie, I need that book, it's right in line with the self-improvement projects I'm embarked upon, one of which is the 21-day challenge, which I blew today, but will be back on with bells on the morrow. I believe my weigh-in will be high again, but I know the 21-dayer will save me, if I could just complete it!!! Yowza! Not IF, WHEN!! Was lurking, as is sometimes my wont, in our neighbor's pasture here at Miscellaneous Clubs and saw a post by someone (name escapes me at the moment) to the effect that they'd been told that when one has worked out intensely with weights there is sometimes a water weight gain because, I guess, the muscle fibers are swollen (or something). Since I've been working with much higher weights lately and feeling kind of swollen and gaining weight, I wonder if that's part of the reason (besides eating too much). Anyway, I like the idea of easing off on the weights for awhile, even though in the long run I want to gain more muscle (eats calories, makes it easy to walk around the world and lift stuff, keeps your arms from sagging). Good vibes to all. I love your vibe list, :queen: K! Mayhap we should institute a weekly vibe request (like churches do for prayer requests). Everyone can post their vibe needs on a certain day and we can all dispatch the vibes during the week. Ok, bye. Braindead! :doh: |
Sunny Sunday
Bonjour.
Lordy. Yesterday was cloudy and it rained all bloody day (in Seattle?!? you say), prompting a day of lazy sitting-and-reading, eating (all the wrong things, naturally), and NO HOUSEWORK. It was delicious, of course, but a whole day of it makes me headachy and fretful. The day was saved by the arrival of Ramon (as usual) from work,then a laugh-filled supper with my brother and SIL at Applebee's, where I gratefully munched on their lovely steamed veggie platter and a side of fries. Ah, funny me. :p Eydie, that book sounds like just what I need. It's written down in my lovely ideas notebook. Ramon likes the sound of it, too. Thanks so much for sharing it! And now I will share (ruthlessly plug is what I really mean) a CD idea for you all. It's an acquaintance of mine, a jazz vocalist/arranger. I just discovered that she made a CD in 2000 and demanded that she hand it over at once. It's really lovely - her vocals are achingly beautiful, and the album has solid jazz musicians to back her. It's just...damned good jazz. And she wrote some of it herself. I listened critically the first few times, since I'm above all things a vocalist/jazz musician myself and the first thing musicians do to other people's albums is listen critically, but then I was able to turn the Diva off and just let it wash over me. It's a good album to sip tea and really listen to, and it's also a good ambient background music CD. Buy it, love it at www.deninemonet.com. Oh, I'm so gonna get booted with this one...but I wouldn't recommend it to you if I didn't really believe that it would bless your souls. OK, shameless plug over. Amarantha, I'm all for sharing vibes/good thoughts/prayers requests. If we really wanted to, we could do a separate thread for it... AND, since we've found out that you lost weight instead of gained (huzzah!!!), I say full throttle on the weights! That's just me, though, and I have a preoccupation with muscular women, so... Kaylets, thank you thank you for the vibes to the Northwest. Oh, I'm in the Northwest! I get it. It never fails to astound me how much we believe in each other when we've never met or even conversed in RT. But it's real, that belief, and powerful. And I sometimes feel like I couldn't get by without it. Thank you. Wildfire, still thinking hard about your sister and little niece/nephew. Say, your bruises must be getting to that lovely yellowy-green stage now, huh? Hope they don't hurt too much. Is DH giving you proper sympathy and horror at your suffering? He sounded suspiciously unsympathetic... Lord, is that the time? Ew, 11:22. So much for taking the morning by the balls. Er, sorry for that... :lol: But I never consider time with you ill-spent. Gotta go, ladies. Time to put on a bra and do the dishes. Love, |
Yo! I will check that website, Cerise. I love jazz, but mostly the old, old acoustic stuff with vocals (Billie H, et al) ... thanks for the suggestion.
Dunno if anyone's going to start a vibe thread but I'm asking for career vibes again this whole week. I think I'd really like that in-town job (if it's actually a job and not an independent contractor thing designed to take advantage of reporters yet again). :queen: K, where beist thou ... sending career vibes to thee ... thou must have :queen: K, though must have :queen: K, thou must have ... Vibes to Wildfire's sis and tiny arrival (if that's happened yet) Vibes to Arabella and son (and all Arabella relatives) Vibes to Eydie and dh as they pursue self improvement Vibes to Cerise and thanks for putting me in the vege mood in the 21-dayer Vibes to Ceara, who beareth the sword and careth for the heathen! Vibes to Wsw, 'cause I KNOW you're out there and that makes me happy Vibes to Punkin, who's doubtless planning on being here Monday morning on the dot! Vibes to Wildfire, just because she's so wild and fun! Vibes to Zadie who hath dreamed big dreams and hath a great legal career ahead and probably doesn't need any career vibes! Vibes to Anagramatic, who I haven't seen in a few days on the journal thread but sure miss a lot whenever she's gone for even one day. Vibes to Frogger, Dollar, Hotsplashes, Seattle Jo and all other missing :queen: s, wherever the heck they are! :) Ok, bye! If I forgot anyone on the vibe list, it's only because I'm not very smart! But vibes to any and all forgotten :queen: s! I have shopped, now must lie on sofa and read! |
No news on the sis front, so I'm assuming that's good. 38-40 weeks is normal pregnancy gestation, so the little one will be about 2 months early if it happens very soon. Normal weight of a 30-week old fetus is just 3 lbs, and they are just opening their eyes and may have hair. Amazing that these little babies can be born so early and survive. Every day longer is better.
Cerise, no, DH is not sympathetic to my sports injuries at all. The bruises are still a lovely bright red with some blue and purple mixed in. The one on my leg is so large and ugly DH told me to wear long pants when I had shorts on two days ago. He said, "Cover that up! That's just not RIGHT!" So I've taken to flashing my bruised leg at him when I want him to go away. Cerise, sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday. I've been doing much the same around here, watching movies, reading, sipping tea, wine last night, DH and I went out for coffee to the Coco Cat Cafe (don't you love the name?) and went for a drive. I'm avoiding the stack of dishes in the sink. I'll have a listen to your friend's music later when I have the patience to download the tracks. Amarantha, what is this job you are hoping to land? :goodvibes: I have decided to get back into weight training. I'm still done with diets and trying to use common sense and mix in some principles of the South Beach diet (good carbs vs. bad carbs). Thinking back over the last few years, even when I followed a diet to the letter, I only lost a few pounds before it stopped working. So I truly believe that exercise (much as I hate it some days) is going to be key for me. I was quite buff ten - twelve years ago when I did weight training, so I'm going to ease back into that and see what happens. :wave: Hello to all our lovely ladies! |
Wildfire, it's just a reporter job on a new project close to my home. Not sure if it's going to be what I want or need or if I'm what they want or need. We'll see.
That is good news about things being on hold for thy sis' delivery ... the more time, the better, methinks. Sending more good vibes. Sending more good vibes for thy exercise program ... here's to buffdom! :cheers: |
hello dear royal ones!
amarantha-i smiled when i read what you wrote. i am so grateful you are here! great career vibes going out to you, empress! congrats on the weight loss! wildfire-i am sending strong good health vibes to your sister and the wee one. those bruises don't sound fun. you have my sympathy for them, believe me. hi anagram- i am thinking about you and hope your weekend has been pleasant. kaylets-good career vibes from me to you! i loved reading the good vibes list. it really is true that all this good karma being sent out from here helps---no doubt about it! cerise-will check out the website you mentioned. i love jazz. glad to hear that you like your new voice teacher. at this moment, as i am writing, i am sipping tea and listening to jazz, in fact. i would love to hear you sing some day. hi arabella! thinking of you. hello ceara! eydie-the book you mentioned sounds interesting to me too. i plan to check it out when i can next get to the library or bookstore. hi also to punkin, zadie k., frogger, and to all the rest of the royal court. you are all in my thoughts even when i am unable to check in or post. i am back on the stick more consistently now with food and exercise. i have been feeling so crummy physically for so long now and have been using that as an excuse to not be diligent with a food plan and all that accomplishes is make feel even worse, so enough of that. i am declaring this re-committment time. kaylets-the cheerful and energetic vibes you sent me are working, methinks! even if i can't do anything about this stupid old ms, i can at least make positive strides with weight loss and eating healthy, so i am declaring officially that i am back in the saddle again! all of you are so inspiring and i can do my part too. i am very grateful all of you are here! all the best to each of you, wsw |
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