Wow, what a great looking day!!!

Today we have the World card in the tarot. We have the Dagaz rune and we have No. 55 the "abundance and properity" hexagram. Bring it on!!!

Here is some information I found on-line for the I Ching. As I stated yesterday, the hexagrams are made up of two trigrams which are place on top of each of other. They combine to make the hexagrams and the different meanings. This is a very old, I mean thousands of years old system.

The following is a decription of each of the Pa Kua symbols:
1. Sky
Three solid lines were used to symbolize sky. The sky is strong and has divine power to provide infinite space to accommodate all. Using three solid lines to represent the sky is very the appropriate for its supreme being.
2.Earth
Three broken lines are used to symbolize earth. The earth is a gigantic object. It is a supporting body for human life and a burial ground for death. It is considered soft and receptive, because it can take a lot of punishments with tolerance.
3. Thunder
Two broken lines on top a solid line symbolize thunder. The two broken lines on top have the image of lighting and the bottom solid line symbolizes elevation. Thus, the image is lighting striking on the top of a mountain.
4.Wind
Two solid lines on top a broken line symbolize wind. The two solid lines represent the sky and energy. The broken line represents earth. Thus, this image is the sky and energy approaching earth. The wind is invisible and we can only justify its existence by observing the moving tree tops.
5. Water (Moon)
A solid line in between two broken lines symbolize water. The two broken lines represent the depression of earth (river banks). The solid line in the middle represents motion. This creates the image of water flowing in a river. In addition, this kua also represents the moon.
6. Fire (Sun)
A broken line inbetween two solid lines symbolize fire. The two solid lines indicate the movement of fire. The broken line is the center of the fire which is still. In addition, this kua also represents the Sun.
7. Mountain
A solid line on top of two broken lines symbolize mountain. The solid line represents elevation and the bottom two broken lines represent earth. Thus this image is a mountain elevated above the earth.
8. Marsh
A broken line on top of two solid lines symbolize marsh. The top broken line is water and the bottom two solid lines is sky. If we are looking down at a body of water anywhere on earth, we will see the reflected sky below the water surface. This seems to be a logical way to symbolize the Marsh Kua.

As you can see today's symbol is made up of Thunder over Fire or Sun.

So like the fates say, Have a really great day!!!

New things to look at

As you can see I have added some things to this blog. From now on you should be able to come here any day you wish or even everyday if you wish and look at the Tarot card of the day, the Rune of the day, and the I Ching symbol of the day.

I have always loved the Tarot and even took some classes in how to read the cards. I will happily do readings for anyone who asks, BTW. I really like the Runes also, but have never been able to learn them very well. So this will help me also. And the I Ching is a totally new interest for me, but interesting it certainly is. Each Hexagram is made up of two trigrams, the three line groups. I will post more explanations in the future.

As you can see for today they all three indicate some travel and contemplation. The Meditation hexagram, the Three of Wands tarot card and the Ehwaz rune.

Again, I will post more explanations in the future, for the time being, Enjoy!!

Bright blessings to all!!!

Girlfriends week!

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"

Sister Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

So love the people who treat you right.
Love the ones who don't just because you can.
Believe everything happens for a reason.

If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.

Kiss slowly. Forgive quickly.

God never said life would be easy. He just promised it would be worth it.


Today is sister's day, Happy Sister's Day!

April Showers bring May flowers!!

I wish I lived near this bench. Although my allergies are giving me fits lately, I would still like to sit here.

Actually the allergies are not as bad as they use to be. I'm glad too. I think they were bad before because of where I lived. Alex's house was not in good condition. Old, run down, and in need of condemning really, but he still calls it home.

It's a rainy day today, but the temperature here is warm.

Going thru some revelations lately. Thinking about getting back into the game again too. It must be the Spring temperatures. I'm feeling restless and shut in, or boxed in. Just the basic, run of the mill, spring fever. I don't have anything holding me back either, just myself. Not wanting to face the aftermath of cutting loose.

I don't know.

Be Blessed!!

Tatting for Valentine's Day!!

Last week I started tatting hearts for Valentine cards. Now you know I don't have a sweetheart so these Valentine cards are for friends and family.

The yellow heart with purple buttons is for Ms. Sarah.
The pink heart is my daughter Mary.
And the purple heart with the red buttons is for Fran.

I just bought some blank cards at the craft store and decorated them with some cute stickers that I found and the tatted hearts.

The patterns with the buttons are Abby's Heart and can be found here. This is the first pattern I have ever worked with that has buttons, and I like it. I like buttons anyway and this is a very cute pattern. The pink heart is Rosmarie Peels pattern without the handle and it can be found here. Both of these are just great patterns and I highly recommend them.

I think the best part is that I have finally figured out how to upload photos from digital camera. Yeeehhhh!! Woooohoooo! Finally this blog can have more crafts and stuff of interest. So check back soon and see how it's going.

Bright Blessings to all!!

Getting Ready for Christmas

Someone sent me an e-mail asking me to update my blog, so I thought I'd take a minute to comply.

I have found a new place to live. It is closer to work, so I'm saving money on gas and putting less miles on my car, which is good. I'm living in a relatively new house, just a few years old. I'm secluded in my little room of the house and share the house with two men. Not that happy with that really, but as you know I desperately needed a place. And you know what they say about deperate measures. The house is set in lovely neighborhood in Summerville.

As far as Alex goes, he moved Dana in right after I left, probably the same day. One of my co-workers called him cold-hearted. I would agree if I thought Alex had a heart, but I lived with him and know differently. Darling Dana actually tried to get in touch with me, she wanted to send me pictures of my dogs. That's right MY Dogs!! I bought the dogs, I fed them, I bathed them, I cleaned up after them, and loved them and spent more time with them than anyone else there, so they are mine!! But she thought it was funny to try and send me pictures. What she would probably send is pictures of her and Alex and my dogs. The sorry B%^*&^*&%*& still thinks she took something worth having from me. Hasn't realized that I never, not once tried to keep it.

So basically, things are different and still not to my liking. I could like my new place just fine except I live with men. Loud, obnoxious, lazy, messy, rude, self righteous men. I can't even use the kitchen to fix myself something to eat unless I clean up the mess made by the previous user. The same with the laundry, if I want to use the washer or the dryer I have to pull the clothes in there out of the way. One of them has some kind of hearing problem and yells everything and lies more than he could tell the truth. Does things for himself only and expects me to thank him for it. The other one would rather spend money on beer than pay his bills, he of course reminds me very much of Alex. Yea, it's just been great. I was looking forward to Christmas, not because I get to go home, but because both of them were suppose to be leaving home. Not the case now. The Beer guy has a very young daughter who will be coming to spend Christmas with him.

I know that this sounds all negative. And while it is mostly, I am thankful for a few things. I am thankful that I don't live with Alex. I'm thankful that I don't have to spend all my money on him and his bills or wants or whatever. But the reality there are that things are not that different, just closer to work and a little more lonely. I no longer have the dogs to keep me company. And that feeling is the same as when my marriage broke up and my ex took my daughter to live in NC. I feel like I have lost three children now, a fate I would wish on no one, including Darling Dana. Chihuahuas are the size of babies. So having Ace and Bailey was like have two perpetual babies. It was great for me, I never had to worry about them growing into teenagers. Teenagers are horrible monsters that torture their family members. Spielburg had a cartoon about that once, it was too funny. I think teenagers inspire the horror movies. They are written by the family members they torture.

When I said I wanted to change this blog, I meant that I wanted to change from these little horror stories that mark my existence, and put more work into my crafts. I have been tatting a little lately, getting ready for Christmas. But I have NO Christmas spirit. I should be tatting and crocheting and making presents, but I don't feel like it. This has been a hard year for me, and I am just bone weiry now. I have a little money to get some gifts with, for immediate family only, and the heck with the rest.

If I could have a few Christmas wishes, I would wish for..
1.) A place of my own.
2.) A dog of my own, no one elses, just mine!!
3.) More work for everyone!!!
4.) Christmas parties with a lot of friends and family.
5.) More smiling, laughing, and looking forward to a greater time in life!!

So I wish everyone a happy, healthy and a very Merry Christmas!!!

Bright blessings!!

Changes coming soon!!!

You want me to ride on what? What's wrong with the car?

It's just too funny!!

Hello Darling!!

Compliments of his mother.

So I did survive my bad luck day, which means it is still my bad luck day. This year I did not want to survive it. Everyday now is a new experience in pressure and stress.

I'm still have trouble finding a place to live. I have been saving money, basically by not eating. I'm depressed enough to end it all as is, and then there was this sign.

You may ask what this sign has to do with me. This sign is on the church across the street from Alex's house. This is the church that Alex's mother Sara goes to, as well as his Sister-in-law, Tammy and her two daughters, Sierra and Hannah. Also about all of Alex' s family goes to this church. Sara is in charge of the sign. She picks the sayings and puts the letters on the sign. I guess she feels that I have been staying too long also. Because living with her cruel son hasn't been enough punishment, she needs to let me know that I need to go too. Now no one here has offered me the least little bit of help, let alone any true friendship or support, but I guess they don't want me to mistake their indifference for kindness somehow. So let it be known to all, that I KNOW THAT I AM NOT WANTED!!

I do wish that they would consider my feelings a little, and understand that I do not want to stay either. And that I am doing the best I can.

Does this bother anyone else? This is a church sign. Church, which is suppose to be a home of Christians, yet none of them, not even one, has offered any help. I have never been that fond of the church. The people who attend look like they are going to work, rather than going to worship. I don't agree with their beliefs either. They once let there children's group hold a walk-a-thon to raise money to go to Myrtle Beach. They let them use a charity fund raiser to raise money for their own selfish purposes. I have never been able to respect that, and I didn't agree with them being allowed to do it. The kids could have sold candy, or had a bake sale, or raised the money in more responsible manner, but instead all they did was walk around a circle and people gave them money for it. I thought it was an insult to the true charities that do these types of fundraisers to raise money, not for themselves, but mostly for other people who suffering from a deadly disease, or have family members suffering. They are not out there raising money for themselves to go to the movies, or go on vacation. I did not agree, and although I tried to explain how I felt about, they held it anyway, and did not appreciate the fact that I refused to give them money for it.

When I first came to live with Alex, I thought these were some of the best people, not for how they treated me, which has always been with no small amount of indifference, but for how they treated others. They were at that time helping to rebuild a woman's house for her because she had no place to live. The woman is Tammy's mother, and she has 5 children of her own, none of which, with the exception of Tammy to a small degree, would even help her or give her a place to stay. But this family of people, Alex's family, got together and rebuilt this woman's house. And it may be that this is the reason they won't offer any help to me. Maybe they don't feel they received enough gratitude from her. Maybe they have fulfilled their charity quota and they feel the rest can fin for themselves. I don't know. I have always felt very alone there, at least until Alex got the puppies, which he gets to keep, and I have to leave behind, never to see again.

So the issues are my own. Everything is my fault. And I am the one who deserves to suffer and am doing so, very much. I hope this will satisfy everyone.

I would ask you to pray for me, but it is my experience that Christians don't pray for others and do not need to be bothered with the sufferings of the others. So feel free to do what they do, and ignore this post.

Bright blessings to everyone, anyway.

Bad Luck Day!!!

Here we go!!!

Well tomorrow is my bad luck day. But with everything going on, I wonder if it will be bad luck if I don't survive it. I'm not thinking it will.

July 9th. This day was orginally significant to me because this was my parents wedding anniversary. Tomorrow they would have been married for forty years, easily remembered as I was a prom night accident. My parents married in July and I was born the following January. Now back then this day wasn't really that bad for me. But my father died when I was 19, and since then the day isn't that lucky for me. I have been in two major car accidents on this date, totalling cars and creating those type of injuries that manage to stay around for a long time. What does that mean? My spine may never be straight again, some joints still moan and groan at different times. I have gotten tickets on this date at least once, but I think twice. Damn Nazis!!!! This date is also the date that my divorce for my one and only marriage was finalized. Actually, I feel quite confident in saying that the date on my head stone will read July 9. What year? Can't say yet, but with everything going on right now, tomorrow would not be that bad for me. I am so tired of this crap anyway.

What is also a possiblity, and this may lead to the head stone, is that something even worse could happen, and I will be expected to survive it. This is where you should be hearing wicked laughter, something like the late Vincent Price would do. Ahh well, I guess we'll wait and see. Just for shits and giggles though, I bought a lottery ticket for tomorrow night at lunch today. Isn't that funny? And with a few simple numbers this could just easily become the luckiest day of my life.

Yeah, right.

I do hope that all of you have a very blessed day and that only happy and wonderful things come your way!!

Blessed be!!

Happy July 4th to Everyone!!!

Here's some fireworks for ya!!!

I don't have a lot to write right now. I'm in the middle of some nasty stuff. My now ex-boyfriend Charles Alex Russell, went and found himself a new girlfriend. A nasty bit of work known as Dana. Now I don't have any money, but I have to find a place to live. She and he think it is funny and I have been enduring a great amount of cruelty from the two of them.

The really amazing thing to me is how stupid she is. I mean all she has to do is open her eyes and see how he treats the people and things that he loves so much. For instance, in a pen that is right up next to the house, he has a lab, dog. His name is Cotton, he is all white. This dog is in pen where the grass is all grown up to the point that you can hardly see the dog. He won't clean out this pen, he won't cut the grass down, he won't even clean out the water bucket for the dog. But she thinks this guy is going to treat her better.

And then there is the house itself. Now I don't know about you folks, but if my parents gave me a house, I would fix it up, clean it up and make it very comfortable for myself. All she has to do is walk thru, and I know that she has been in there, to see what needs to be done, and what could have been done by now. He has lived there for three years now.

Yes, but love is blind. Maybe, but it must be incapable of smell also, because Alex works in a land field and only showers once a week. He does no house cleaning, he doesn't pay his own bills either. He can't have a cell phone in his name because he owes every cell phone company there is money. He even had a pay as you go plan at one time that was only thirty dollars a month and would not pay that. He goes around creating debt, but not taking any responsibility for it later. Leaves it the loves of his life. His girlfriend before me, MI can attest to that also. I know now that he did do and tried to do that to her also, but she took him to court and now he has to pay two hundred dollars a month to Dorchester county or she can take his boat away. Yes, Alex does very well for himself, not by hisself, usually thru the efforts and work of the women he is involved with. But I did not do to her what Darling Dana is doing to me. Ahh, but Dana is going to get what is coming to her. I know for a fact that all Alex sees in her is $$$$ Dollar signs. How you ask, the only thing he has said about Dana is that she has two jobs!! Sound like true love to you?

But Darling Dana is enjoying her little cruelties also. All of the sudden, she is best friends with Alex's Mother Sara and Alex's sister-in-law, Tammy, both of which live right next door to us. So she just loves coming over, parking in our driveway and spending time with her best friends. The idiot doesn't realize how Alex is already using her. Alex, who is a severe alcoholic, & is partially afraid of getting a DUI, not really enough to keep from driving around with a little buzz and an open container, so he has Darling Dana come and get him. I wonder if he gives her gas money? Probably does right now, got to seem to be the great guy he is lying thru his teeth to get her to believe he is right now. Enjoy it while it last Darling Dana, cause it doesn't last long. If you want a real idea of what he is like, say something to him about his drinking in front of other people and see what happens.

The sad part is that this only proves how little loyalty there is in this world. Men have no loyalty to the women they get involved with, and women have no loyalty to other women. I would never do these things to another women, for what goes around comes around and I would not want this coming back on me. When are we going to stop doing these things to other people? And how much longer are we women going to allow men to get away with crap like this?!!!

IN the meantime, I'm practically homeless and have to spend all my time packing and looking for another place to live. Congratulations, Darling Dana on contributing to the homeless population!! And don't worry about the Karma, I'm sure that what he is doing to me right now, he will never do to you!!

ROFL!!!

Happy Fourth Everyone, and please say a little prayer for a happy independence for me.

Blessed be!!

It's so depressing, you just gotta laugh!!

I just thought this was a funny picture. I have been depressed lately with the way things are going. My positive attitude is being impossible to hold onto. But I am going to get thru this stupid crap and keep smiling!!

POSITIVE THINKING :-s !

Since my last post, I have been working hard at thinking positive and trying to change my attitude. I have to say, it really hasn't been easy. At first, it seemed like it would take some doing but was not impossible. But lately, is seems to be getting harder. It just feels like a lot of outside influences are weighing in on the negative side lately, and I am finding it harder and harder to drop the load and leave it lay.

For one thing, this wonky weather is wrecking havoc with my sinuses. I have been taking allergy medicine morning and night for over a year, and frankly the stuff should be so embedded in my system, I shouldn't be able to sneeze at all. That, however, is not the case. In fact, I can rarely do anything else. I wake up in the middle of the night with my head full of junk, and my nose running to the extremes. I literally use a whole box of tissue in one of these late night sessions. So finely this week, so tired of it, and just plain tired, I called the doctor and went in to see him that after noon. He gave me a different medicine, two more in fact, that will probably cost me more money than the last ones did. Not to mention, our insurance company change this year, that meant paying more for the doctor visit. Honestly, I hate going to doctors. The whole thing is a pain in the ass. I have to take time off from work, which means money coming out of my pocket, I have to pay for the doctor visit, which means more money coming out of my pocket, and I will of course have to pay for the prescriptions that the afore mentioned doctor visit will no doubt bring about. And of course those co-pays, which are fucking joke to begin with, went up too, so I will be paying more.

Then there is Alex. I've got to tell you, this guy is world champion caliber is selfishness!!! Yes sir, if there was a gold medal given out to the most selfish man, this man would be a top contender!! He is trying to get the motor right now for a car that he spends every single night in working on or just looking at for hours. And I, in the meantime, am suppose to be cleaning house, cooking meals, and paying all the bills. He pays one bill in the house, the electric bill, which because the electric company saw the price of everything else going up and did not want to be left out, the electric bill that was 75 dollars last year is not 11o dollars. Now he doesn't realize that the cable bill also went up, which I have to pay, by myself, and the cost of the gas to heat and cook with has doubled in the past year, which I also have to pay for, and the cost of gas for the car, which I drive three times farther than he does to get to work. And then there is the grocery bill. We use to do pretty well with about 50 dollars a week for groceries. Now before you say anything realize that it is just the two of us and two chihuahuas. But now we spend about 100 dollars a week in groceries.

I mean, what am suppose to think positive about? The fact that I haven't gone completely nuts and tried to kill myself, or him. Well good for me!! Yes, I see that lovely silver lining now. He is still alive to aggravate me, harass me, use me up and spit me out.

Yes, it is harder to think positive lately.
But I will not give up!!
Frankly, I have nothing else.

Thinking Positive!!!

About two weeks ago, I was flipping thru the channels on TV and came across and episode of Oprah. I don't usually watch her show, as I can't usually get that channel at this location. But the forces of nature were at work that day, in my favor, as it turns out. These ladies were discussing "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, and how thinking positive attracts positive things into your life. And this was all kinda funny, because as I stated we don't usually get that channel, and just as I found this show, my daughter calls me out of the blue and ask me if I am watching this show. (More evidence of the cosmic forces at work) So I tell her that I am and how I just found. So we both watch a little while and chat a little while. The next day on the way to work, I stopped and bought the book and the latest issue of Oprah magazine. This is the first issue of this magazine that I have ever even looked at, and I gotta say this is a really cool magazine. I like the look of it and the contents. Its not the usual or run of the mill jargon, but some very interesting information and large variety of issues. And while I don't usually subscribe to magazines, basically because I hate all that extra mail that comes encouraging you to subscribe more or to other magazines, I am considering a subscription to this magazine.

Now, I have not finished the book yet, but already I highly recommend it. It has already been a great influence in changing the way I think. Frankly, I didn't even realize how negative I am, and how easily being negative comes to me. But when you are trying to think positive and feel postive, you do realize. It is difficult to change that mind frame too. It takes a lot of stopping your thoughts and analyzing how you are feeling. And I never really understood why you should meditate before, but now I do. You need to stop and clear your head, because sometimes the negative can build up to phenomial proportions. It does go away either, you have to shove it away and replace it with the opposite, more positive aspect, or it stays and grows.

The magazine I purchased was for an article it had about making list. Now I like making list really, I weird that way. If I'm going on a trip, I make a packing list. If I am going to shopping, I make shopping list. If I don't, I over spend and spend needlessly, not that everything I buy I need, but it could be worse. So this list thing was intriguing. I talked about a lady who went to see a pyschic and she told her that the Universe wanted her to be happy, she just needed to decide on what she wanted. Then the pyschic told her to go home and a list of 100 qualities she wanted in a man. (The lady was lonely and wanted to know if she was going to be alone for the rest of her life.) By the way, 100 qualities is a lot. I have been working on my list now for two weeks. I up to about 50. I really wonder what she had on hers, just a peek maybe. Anyway, about three months after she made this list, she met a man. He was about 98% of her list, and they eventually got married, and are very happy together. But this list writing doesn't just apply to relationships, it can apply to anything. Me, personnally, I would like a new relationship that was way better than this one, but even more I would like a new home of my own. So another list I am working on is everything I want in my new house. I really love the place that is in my mind, I just have to concentrate and focus on being more positive and lot less negative!! Wish me luck!!

Bright Blessings to everyone!!!!

HAVE A HAPPY AND BLESSED IMBOLC!!

Happy Imbolc to all my sisters and brothers!!

Remember to light some candles and say a prayer to Brighid for a fruitful and abundant growing season!!!

This weekend I will be doing some crocheting and working on a pattern that I think I have designed in my mind. I hope to add it to this site and few of my other haunts.

To the mortals who see this, Happy Groundhog day!!

Bright blessings to all!!!

Politics is in the Air, or is that the paper mill?!

So now we have the delightful process of deciding who will be the next president. For several months now we have had commercial after commercial, advertising billboards, street signs, e-mails, and other crap swearing from one candidate or another that they will make the greatest differences to this country crammed down our throats. It has been slapped in our faces, interuppted our usually scheduled programming, and taken up most of our local newspapers.

You are all stupid, fat-headed, egotistical liars!!!!! And none of you are saying anything about how you plan to do these great deeds. Positive proof that you are liars. You claim that you will raise educational standards; claim that you will fix the health care problems, you claim a lot of crap. The really funny thing is, and it's not really one damn bit funny, but you couldn't do one damn thing in the politcal positions that you already hold, and yes I mean you Senators and House Representatives and former Presidents wives, but we are suppose to believe that you will do something as president.

Hillary Clinton in particular is a joke. She claims that she should be the first woman president. Has this been medically proven? If we are going to have a woman president, I want a real woman. One that doesn't take the bullshit that Bill put her thru, which I for one still remember even if the rest of the world has forgotten. If she had stepped up, and said no woman should have to take this treatment, divorced him, sued him for everything, now that is the woman that would get my vote. In fact, I would probably be standing outside in these freezing temperatures somewhere passing out fliers for her. But no, not her, she couldn't stand up to one man, we are suppose to believe that she will stand up for a whole country. We are suppose to believe that she would stand up against the real powers that be, and make the positive changes that are needed. No, I don't believe that for one minute, and anyone who does is a damn fool!!!!!

Speaking of changes, do these idiots even realize the changes that are really needed. I don't know about you, but I am damn tired of 1/3 of my paycheck going to government that is has only ever done one thing where I am concerned and that is take my money!!! Where are the voices saying that they are going to give me my money that I go to work for everyday, that I sit in traffic in this stupid city, Charleston, SC, twice a day to get to work and back home again. And I don't mean that slite of hand trick, well here, we will give you a bigger income tax return check at the end of the year. That is nothing better that one of those street side scams that are suppose to be against the law!!! I want more money put back in my weekly check!!! I want my grocery bill lowered, not raised, and not lowered at the cost of the hard working farmer. I want my gas prices to go down to something that resembles resonable so that if I want to take short road trip to visit my family, I can with out having to take out some kind of loan to get it done!!! Oh man, do I hate you people!!! There is just no damn reason to make life this damn hard for the common working man. I hate you and I curse to the lowest level of hell!! May you feel exactly what it is like for all eternity!!

Do I want the educational standards around here raised? Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. But the only way you are going to accomplish this little feet, is if you fix the economy enough to where the working parents can still afford to be PARENTS!! It is, and has been the government that has been taking that away from the people, not the people!!! Do you know that about the only time a parent can afford to buy their own child a book is at the holidays, and not really even then? Did you know that? NO, because you don't have a clue. As politicians the only thing you know about money, is how to suck it up and blow it. The millions of dollars that you people are spewing out on stupid stuff, advertising, luncheons, signs, plane trips, etc. You have no idea what it is like to have to put off one thing that needs paying so you can afford to get the most desperate thing. You have no idea what it is like to have only $10 dollars for food that has to last you the whole week. YOU JUST HAVE NO IDEA!! And I for one, hate you for it. And you stand up in public in your suits that would pay my bills for about two months, lying and telling people that you understand, and that you will make a change. You won't do shit, and it is about time that the rest of us, wise up and realize it.

Voting does no good. The people don't really have a say, because the elections are rigged!!! The President has already been chosen by the powers that be, the rest of this crap is just a show. The rich people have been paying for that decision already. Don't tell me, how the people get to decide, the only PEOPLE that count are the rich ones in power and close to the top. It's really pointless to even care, because the next idiot has already been chosen, the next messes will be made, and the little people with not much left, will pay what they have for that mess. Because eventually, the little people will all be homeless, and without jobs, begging for scraps and hoping that someone working for the IRS will drop some money out to us, since they are the only ones that will have access to any money.

May you politcians feel the pain that you have caused for all eternity!! May you burn in hell.

Blessed to be to rest us!!!

Maybe we will really be allowed to live on the otherside, of course that's only if you have paid your tides in this one. So much for that thought!!

New Crocheted Projects!!!

Look what I made:

These are water bottle coaches. They are crocheted with worsted weight cotton and you put your cold or frozen water bottle in them to take on walks or when going to the gym, or whatever!! I made one for my daughter Mary and one for my mom, Fran. The one in the middle was a prototype, aka, mine now!!

The bright pink one is Mary's.

And the purple one is Fran's:

Fran's birthday is the day after mine, which means that it is today and I also crocheted here a purple afghan.

Yesterday was mine birthday. I became 39 years old. Forty is banging on my door. I use to hope that I would be dead by 40. No, I can't say that that has changed. I talk more on this later.

Hugs to everyone!!

Bright blessings to all!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! ***2008***

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

AND MAY THIS NEW YEAR BRING YOU LOVE, PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROPERITY!!!

****2008 IS GONNA BE GREAT***

HUGS AND KISSES TO ALL,

CHRISTINA HARPER

Thank Heavens it's over!!!

So, I'm thinking that it is time for a good long nap.

Christmas is over, now we have New Years Eve in a week and then the very next week is my birthday, ugh!! I use to consider myself rather important because my birthday falls in this holiday succession, now I know I'm just a contributor to the mayhem. No hate mail, please!!

As for Christmas, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. The one major problem that I have with Alex's family is that they are very dry. They don't laugh, they don't joke, they don't even seem to want to have fun. At Thanksgiving in North Carolina, we laughed a lot and that memory is very fond one for me now. This Christmas will just pass by, most likely forgotten by next week. I really wish they would change a bit. I know I have no right to think that, but this Christmas was really no different then the one they had last year. I suppose I should think about it economically. When asked what their Christmas was like, they don't have to remember a specific Christmas because they are just all the same.

While I know that Christmas is over, I still feel like I have things to do. I have been making gifts for the past two months. Every weekend crocheting something to be a gift for someone. Then suddenly there is nothing that HAS to be done. I'm lost. Can't seem to get the stress to wind down. And I am thinking about my Birthday too. Birthday's stopped being easy for me when I turn 30. This January the 8th, I will be 39. Forty is banging very loudly at my door. Honestly, I always hoped I'd be dead by forty. Lately, I've come to reconsider that notion, and am now considering 50 to be just too damn old. Got to be gone by then, rrrrr, maybe sixty, but definitely by sixty!!

I hope you all have a very Happy and Blessed New Year!!!

Blessed Be!!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

Well it is Christmas time again!!!


I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I ate really good food, laughed and talked with family. I did not get to meet my niece though. I had hopes of doing this, but my brother, the police officer was working the whole time. So I am a little upset about that. But I did get to visit with Fran and Mary. It's taken me this long to get thru with withdraw. I got a lot of crocheting done also. I have now finished Tammy's, Sierra's, and Hannah's hat, scarf and mitten set. I made Rex's afgan and another afgan for Adam. I made the two afgans that weekend. They look really good too. I think I might make myself one after Christmas. Now I have to finish Sara's set and something for Naomi, and I will be done with Alex's family, YeaHHHHHHH!!

Lately I have been looking for doll patterns to crochet. I want to make my own designs for characters from some of my favorite books. I really want to do a Harry Potter doll. I have seen patterns for him, but none of them have green eyes. I do not understand how these people can say that they just love Harry Potter, then design a doll that doesn't even have green eyes. Read the books people!!! It is not Harry, if he doesn't have green eyes. I did find a really cute pattern for a snitch. Now that designer has talent. It has wings and everything. I can't wait to make it. It will make a great gift for Mary!!!

Now I have to shop for Mary and Fran. I have to do that next week, because I have already spent this weeks check on bills. I know what Fran wants, but I am playing the devil finding it. Mary, I don't have clue. But I am playing with a few Ideas!!

The traffic here in Charleston is just getting Stupider this time of year!!! Idiots, idiots everywhere, oh my!! Stopping in the middle of the road to talk to the car next to them, or just to look at a car going the other way. Inconsiderate stupid people!!! Yesterday, some cow with fake red hair and a lot tattoos, cuts me off going into a restaurant. I am on my lunch break, just wanted to order one little sandwich, I mean, I don't have a lot of money, so I just wanted one little sandwich. The cow, cuts in front of me, places an order for about 10 people. I just left. Stupid inconsiderate people!!! I really don't know when these idiots are going to learn, but I hope the selfish cow choked on her sandwiches!!! This town is just so stupid. The people are selfish and inconsiderate. I mean these people that stop in the middle of the road, they don't not take the people sitting behind into any consideration. Those people just want to go home, or to where ever they may be heading, but oh-no, the idiot has to stop in the road for nothing. If anyone out there is considering moving to Charleston, South Carolina, save yourself the trouble and move to someplace less stupid. Maybe Iraq.

Happy Yule Tidings to you and yours!!!!!

Getting Ready for Thanksgiving!!

So the Holidays are here. Next week will be Thanksgiving, then closing in, like that axe murderer in the closet waiting for you to change your shoes, is Christmas. I have been crocheting for Christmas and most of my loved ones are getting a Winter Ensemble which includes a hat, mittens and scarf. I have asked each one of them there favorite colors, because I believe that if you are going to give someone a gift, it should be something that they will like or use, or at least somewhat appreciate. And I am not doing those toboggen caps either. I hate those. My mother use to make me wear them when I was a kid and I still hate them. The squish your hair down, make your head sweat, and look tacky and just plain ugly on women. Men can wear them, and I think men should wear them, but women look ugly in them. So as of now, I have completed a blue set, a red set, and I have the yarn for a green set, a pink set, and I need a yellow set and another color or three for some others. And I need the time to finish this crocheting!!!!

Speaking of time, I will be in North Carolina next week visiting family. I will take my crocheting there, and well... we will see. Anyhow, I'm going to visit my daughter Mary, and my mother, honorary title, Fran. Fran has been going thru a bad time lately. Her brother died last week, a nephew of hers died about a month ago. And as these things seem to go in three's, she is understandably worried about who the third will be. Not to mention all that dividing of personal items. That alone can stress a person to the breaking point. And my own family, I just found out my brother has been in the hospital. He has not been taking care of diabetes like he should, and his blood sugar was well beyond what the doctors consider to diabetic coma stage. My brother is like the rest of us who just hate doctors and hospitals, so he has not been an overly friendly patient, which is obivously wearing on my SIL nerves. The poor thing sounds like she is just wore out, and stressed a little past breaking point, but still hanging in there just for spite!! Of course she would need to be tough to deal with this family.

Ahhh family!! And it just might be that I may get to meet for the first time, my niece, Deanna Renee Harper. I have been wanting to meet her for years now, and there has always been something to come up and stop me going in that direction. But now, at least I may get to see her. I bet she looks just like my sister and brother, who are twins. I wonder if I can steal her away. I may have to think up a plan :-P !!

I really am looking forward to going to Fran's for Thanksgiving. I will be able to laugh, eat good food and have a much better time of it then I have in my everyday life with Alex. At least I would have if it hadn't been for all the other stuff. With him and his family, everything is morbid, taste like salt and pepper, and no one laughs or does anything fun. They go to church, or they drink, and they are not even fun drunks, in fact, Alex has been growing more and more nasty. When he starts in lately, I just go in the other room and forget to answer or respond to whatever he is trying to start. He keeps going though. If you ignore one thing, he switches tracks fast and starts another. He pushes buttons just to get some response. What he doesn't realize is that when he starts this lately, I just picture him sitting in the white room with Madeline from Le Femme Nikita. Then I picture that scary couple, you have to be familiar with the show to know who I mean, coming in with their torture equipment!!! Trouble is, it takes effort not to smile with this thought. I have to keep my face impassive, so he doesn't take my smile as some response to his goading. Sometimes I even go in the bedroom and put a DVD of the show in the player and watch it. He doesn't realize how much I wish it was him sitting strapped in that chair. Ha!! I'll get around you somehow, and one day, I'll even get you back!!!

I do hope that everyone has a healthy, happy, and pleasant memory making, Thanksgiving!! And remember to be thankful for not being me!!

Bright blessings to all!!!