I’ve had ATT cell phone service way back from when it was Cingular.  I never had a problem with service or dropped calls.  I’ve been out of contract for years.  I just switched to Virgin Mobile for cost and am stoked they offer the option of porting my current ATT phone number to the new phone.  Over the years, I’ve connected with many authors and speakers and publicists and they all have the old number.  I usually hear from them when we all happen to be at an event together out of town and we’re after hours looking to see who else might be there to goof off with.  No one has the old number that I want to avoid, like a bill collector or anyone I’m hiding from. Those days are long gone.  So, it was easier to just take the number with me.   If I gave you the new cell phone number, toss it.  If you have my old cell number, that’s the current number.  Also, I love the voice to text feature on this phone, so I no longer bite your head off if you text me 😉

I wrote on Facebook tonight, “So if I buy a new computer now, Microsoft Office (with Microsoft Word for Windows) is no longer included? Is there any typing program included with basic new computers?”  Dave Fulton reminded me that Wordpad, a very basic word processor, comes with Windows.   Stan Lewis told us, “Try Open Office – http://www.openoffice.org/ – The Free, Open Source Office Suite.  Completely compatible with MS Office, WordPerfect, etc. and free.” Good to know!

My across the street neighbor has been driving out early each day and when he’s gone, I open my office window and blinds and let the morning sun stream onto my desk. This is the window that if I have the lights on at night and the blinds open, it is like I am on a tv screen for everyone on the street to see.  In the daytime, I have more privacy though, since the eleagnus bush at the street line hides me.  You literally have to stand at a certain spot on the driveway or in the yard to see into my office window and you have to know where to look.  So when the neighbor drives out for his early errands, I open my blinds all up and feel like I have a giant picture window onto my street as the sun comes over the treeline. Continue reading →

My friend Domino has for 30 years made Christmas cookies for her hubby from Halloween through New Year’s.  There were a dozen types he liked and she was such a good cook.  She denied him nothing.   Two years ago, he had some health problems that necessitated a change in his eating habits.  He still loved his treats.  Domino realized it was up to her to take charge of his health as long as she was the one who cooked for him.  If she wanted to keep him around, that is.  She decided she did.

Fruit and Berry Kabobs

She put away the flour, butter and sugar and began making protein, vegetable and relish trays for him each evening, including chunks of grilled chicken tossed in buffalo sauce, cubes of low fat cheeses, or his favorite celery sticks with lowfat peanut butter.  She bought fresh and canned fruit and made him banana, berry and fruit kabobs.   She’d mix him light and healthy drinks with sparkling water, lemon slices and fruit, as well as fragrant and relaxing teas and lowfat cocoas and cappuchinos for after dinner.  It’s such an elevated way to honor your beloved, to feed him only what keeps him healthy and whole.  And if you know it is his habit to munch in front of the tv, have something good for him.

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I just saw a lower number on the scale than I’ve seen in 20 years, and I’m neither dehydrated nor nude. I rock! My cheat food this week was vanilla Chobani — I love its creamy, custardy, tartness plus it’s zero fat.  Yogurt gives me hot flashes like a motherbear but only if I eat too much at one sitting.  I’ve changed my eating habits drastically since my previous carcass eating lifetime of  processed and fast food.  I tied cause to effect and, one by one, stopped eating the foods that my body couldn’t handle — for me, that was fats and processed foods. Now, each year since 2005,  I find myself being led to more healthful food and lifestyle choices, and working out a little more each year.  I’m younger and healthier now than I was 10 years ago.   I feel my diet has sent me back 20 years.  Continue reading →

1. They’re not dead.
2. They’re sorry for any pain they caused.
3. There’s no such thing as a devil or hell.
4. They were ready to go when they went.
5. You’re not ready.
6. They finally understand what they were missing.
7. Nothing can prepare you for the beauty of the moment you arrive.
8. Don’t try to understand this now, but life is exceedingly fair.
9. Your pets are as crazy, brilliant and loving, here, as they were there.
10. Life really is all about love, but not just loving those who love you…

In their own words,
The Universe

Sign 1: Your sleep patterns change.  You feel restless but seem to have more energy. Get used to it and don’t worry. Your body will adjust in time.

Sign 2:  Shivers, crawling sensations, tingles on your scalp. Feeling pressure on the crown, like someone is pushing down with a finger.  Flashes of great inspiration, creativity, thoughts.  Feeling vibration around the head and ears.  Don’t worry. This is the opening of the crown chakra and divine energy flowing in. Continue reading →

Symptom 1: Your sleep patterns change.  Get used to it. Your body will adjust to these changes in time.

Symptom 2:  Activity at the crown of your head.  Tingling, itching sensations running over your scalp.  Feelings like someone is applying pressure to the top of your head.  This is the crown chakra opening.  You are receiving divine energy/inspirations thr0ugh the crown. Continue reading →

Sometimes I feel like a marshmallow on a stick at the edge of the flame.  I am cooked faster by some people and events than by others, depending on how close to the situation I want to get, and how much I allow it to touch me.

Why we’re cooked faster by some people than others