YOUR DAILY JOURNAL (page 57)

summer

A guy could get lonely ............................

Lonely???

Don't you have to water your rose???

Or perhaps move your chair and watch all those sunsets???

Or tame a fox???

SO many things to do!!!

*summer*

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Yes, *summer* ! tu as raison ... thanx for the reminder. I am suffering "jet lag" after a rather abrupt jettison around the sun before hitting terra firma.

Tame a fox, water a vain rose, dig up a baobab ...

No time to be lonely!

The very best to you!

CoCo

Happy Harvester

I cleaned my desk off and found the papers I need to do my taxes, to apply for financial aid, social services, and have avoided suicide and homicide this week.

I'm working two days a week, going to therapy, looking for a job, thinking about going back to school. My damn period started. I kinda' hate my life.

I'm turning into a bitter, old haggy nag, something I never wanted to do. I didn't get called into work tonight, as I thought I would be, and so my budget's f@cked again this week.

Well, at least I'm a good bitcher, huh?

Oh yeah, I saw a cute movie with my daughter and her bf last night called Enchanted. We all loved it. It was a pleasant break from reality, which seriously stinks lately. Thanks for reading.

Namaste

Today was my son's 4th Birthday AND his party.

Can I just say how much I love throwing parties for him? I was kind of reluctant to do so even for his first birthday until some friends talked me into it. After that I haven't looked back!

We had a great time despite a few hiccups. His theme this year (which he held to no matter how many times I tried to offer other suggestions) was Diego from Go, Diego, Go! Also known as the Cousin to Dora from Dora The Explorer!

I stayed up WAY too late last night (I'm a terrible procrastinator - a nasty habit that I'm constantly working on) getting things ready. I had Christmas decorating to finish a PLUS party decorations to put up. My house looks very funny right now with Xmas everywhere (even in the bathroom) and then there is this little island of orange and blue and all things Diego in the dining room.

I hung streamers all across my son's bedroom door so when he walked out of his room as a big 4 year old this morning he would have to kind of paw his way through. It worked! I even got it all on video :)

He only had two guests this year and one of them had to leave within 20 minutes of arriving! The mom thought her daughter might be sick and called me beforehand but I told them to come anyway as she is the type to call and warn me if her kids have a sniffle. After they arrived, we ended up taking the little one's temp only to discover it was at 101.4. Yikes! The parents scooped up the kids and were out the door like it was an emergency evacuation!

The other guest and parent were an hour and 10 minutes late! So we kind of twiddled our thumbs until they arrived. Major note to self...invite at least 4 kids next year!

We made it through the phone call from the JW grandparents. It was comical listening to them skirt around the "happy birthday" stuff, just telling him how great it was that he was four and he is a big boy now. I do appreciate them calling and hope he understands when he is older that they love him very much despite some of their "weird beliefs!"

But we had a blast in the end. I made pancakes with a "toppings bar" and let everyone doctor up their "cakes" with their choice of syrups, whip cream, walnuts, chocolate chips, blueberries, bananas, etc. We all played "Pin the Spot on the Jaguar", the kids wore Jaguar masks and chased each other around for awhile, we opened presents and checked them all out.

We sang Happy Birthday and let my son blow out 4 candles plus one more for good luck. I figure you can always use some good luck in the following year PLUS your wish!

We ended the day with a trip to see the Bee Movie as a family and completely enjoyed it. Although I think I'm putting us all on a cleansing program tomorrow to purge our systems of all the sugar and other stuff we usually do not consume in such quantities!

And finally I successfully made it through the day without any major issues, unlike my post-Thanksgiving emotional meltdown. I definitely had some twinges of sadness here and there throughout the day but stayed focused on creating a happy and wonderful day for my son and keeping hope that someday my parents will see the light.

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Hectic couple of weeks for me! I'm just catching up with myself now!

I stayed up all night on Wednesday/Thursday finishing an essay so I'm tired and my sleep pattern is a bit out of line, I have two days off work now though which should help fix that.

I'm getting a Christmas tree for Christmas!! Can't wait! This year I just had this sudden desire for a tree that I can decorate. I think I'm getting some happy memories back from my childhood - it was one of the things I loved doing with my sister.

Finally the bright spots are beginning to break through the cold, dark cloud of bad memories. I remember starting a thread a while ago wondering where all my good memories went, and some promised me that they'd come back sometime. Time to pass on the promise to someone else who might be in the same situation and reading this :-)

Have a good day everyone

Love

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ESTEE

Happy Harvester wrote:

avoided suicide and homicide this week. . . . I'm working two days a week, going to therapy, looking for a job, thinking about going back to school. My damn period started. I kinda' hate my life. . . . I'm turning into a bitter, old haggy nag, something I never wanted to do.

(((((((Hugs to you, Happy Harvester))))))) Trusting life just gets better, one step at a time

Thanks for sharing your son’s fourth birthday bash with us, Namaste. Sounds
wonderful --- your giving your son a chance to be like other kids and have a life and friends. Great work, darlin'!

I put up our Christmas tree last weekend, and we send out gifts and cards this weekend. I love Christmas. It helps us keep in touch with people who matter to us.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Love you all,

ESTEE

summer

I am only too happy that today is a brand new day, and that yesterday is well behind me.

Love and Blessings to all...

*summer*

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Love and blessings to you, too, *summer*, and all our friends.

CoCo

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Dear Friends,

I'm reading Thomas Paine's THE AGE OF REASON. I feel another wave of shattered faith coming on. He discloses why Moses and Joshua, et al, could not have written the books ascribed to them. Contradictions abound re: time, place and circumstance. Events far future are recorded by so-and-so when he, of course, would not have been there to witness said events. And here I always took at face value The Society's assurances that all contradictions in the Bible are "seeming" and quite easily reconciled to fact. I cannot believe what I am reading.

I think I need to sit down.

CoCo

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How good it was to get out and walk! We're in between storms and need a breather. I met two lovely ladies on my walk and instructed the one carrying a downed gumtree branch on how to root it. We talked about the Southwest and The City whence we hale and where kith and kin continue to reside.

It's getting dark and cold. I just had to have the front door open for a bit and freshen up the joint. Close it now I must.

Whatever the night and JWD lay at my feet shall be anticipated with no little pleasure.

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