Three Word Thursday

I so wanted to take part in Three Word Thursday this week. I started to write the story and fell asleep. I was just about to log off so Reba could do a post and found this still sitting here.... drat! Oh well, guess I'll try again next week.

scaevity n 1623 -1658
unluckiness; left-handedness

She attributed her failure to evil forces, but her family felt it was a matter of scaevity.

gnathonize v 1619 -1727
to flatter
I can tell that you’re just trying to gnathonize me, you sycophantic buffoon!

roblet v 1674 -1755
to lead astray
He roblets his intended victims in the old part of the city before mugging them.

He had lived a life of abject scaevity, a life where whatever he did, things just didn't work out for him, not the way he wanted anyway. He had tried to bully his way through life, had tried to gnathonize to when the bullying didn't work, and that didn't work either. He had done his best to roblet several people over the years and even when he succeeded with that it didn't make him happy. He had had several women in his life and none of them made him happy... things just never worked out for him no matter what he did. That is, until he left the bike gang and moved west. Oh, leaving the gang and moving would not have made him happy either except that he also made several other changes in his life. For the first time ever he actually got an honest job.

What Is Above Your Bed?????

WHAT IS ABOVE YOUR BED?????

Just for the fun of it, I decided to throw a new game out for every one. Seems we haven't played anything lately, or at least nothing I've heard of. So...

- Post a photo(s) of what is above your bed.
- Tell us about it.
- Of course, put a link back to I Was Born2Cree8.
- Let all your friends know to come play.
- Post these 'rules'
- Post a comment on my post when you put your post up
so I can add links to every blog that is playing along.
... I think that about covers it.

This is what is above my bed. I made this beaded dream catcher some years ago now. I saw a drawing in a book & copied it, putting it on black leather, then beaded it with seed beads. I cut the leather in the shape of a heart which is also the shape of the beaded Bald Headed Eagle, also cut a second leather heart & glued it to the back of the first to hide threaded back. I punched holes into the leather. I took a metal hoop & covered it with strips of leather wrapped around and around it. I used the fake sinew to weave the dream catcher which also catches the hearth trough the small holes in the leather. Native friends had given me the feathers, picked up off the ground in the woods. I hung them & heart shaped pony beads on strips of leather, the one in the center bottom is braided sinew holding the pony beads.

I entered this into the Interior Provincial Exhibition that year and won... forget if it was 1st or 2nd, think maybe 2nd.

Click on the photos if you would like to see a larger view.

Have a wonderful day.

Thanks to all who play along... and to those who just leave a comment.

Links to others playing this game:
1 - Thom's Place 4 Well Whatever...
2 - Jim's Little Blog
3 - Melli at Insanity Prevails
4 -

Trike News Update

When I got home a few hours ago, I listened to my answering machine and found a rather disturbing message there. It was the welder who is working on my trike. He did not say who it was though I did recognize the voice and to be sure I checked my 'call display' and saw that indeed he had called here. The message was something about I am now paying double. I have no idea what this is about, though it does not sound good. I hired Tuggy to convert my bike into a trike, he hired Ron to do the welding part of the job... now Ron calls to say I'm not paying double. Did he & Tuggy have an argument and I'm getting stiffed because of it? Sounds like a good possibility that this is what is afoot. I do know that Tuggy was not happy with what Ron was doing as Tuggy designed the unit & told Ron what he wanted done, then Ron went ahead and did it differently than what he was told to do.

I sent Tuggy and email as it was too late to call. I told him of the message & requested (or was that more like demanded) that he call me in the morning.

At first I went automatically to thinking 'bad' thoughts about Ron... and now I have changed that and choose to think 'good' and 'nice' thoughts about him, to send him Love. This, I believe, is the way to resolve conflict and to have this turn out in my favor. If/when you read this, please know that all is resolved with love & joy, all works out the way I desire it to. Visualize me riding my trike and smiling big.

Now I lay my head upon my pillow... and go into dreamland.

Great News!!!

Three Word Thursday Returns!

Posted By Quilly on January 20, 2010

Your next 3WT is due January 28th. The wonderful words were provided by our own, wordful Dr. John.

scaevity n 1623 -1658
unluckiness; left-handedness

She attributed her failure to evil forces, but her family felt it was a matter of scaevity.

gnathonize v 1619 -1727
to flatter
I can tell that you’re just trying to gnathonize me, you sycophantic buffoon!

roblet v 1674 -1755
to lead astray
He roblets his intended victims in the old part of the city before mugging them.

I copied the above from Quilly's blog... had to share the good news as well as bring the words into 'my world' to work on them for Thursday.

January 20, 2010

Today was a good day, as usual. I went to town to the gynecologist, as I mentioned in a previous post, then to the Centre for Spiritual Living and did my usual Wednesday volunteer work creating & printing the programs for Sunday. Lorraine joined me as she usually does, and put all the programs together. We then went and got a few groceries & I drove her home. I had planned to go walk Reba at the Dog Park today, though by the time I did these other things I was in so much pain I couldn't face a walk. The last few days the fibromyalgia has been in flair up mode and this can really hurt. I do my best to just live with it and not take anything for it, though today I came home & took 2 Alieve pills, then off to bed to nap while they kicked in. Wendy phoned to wake me up in time to go join her & Nancy at the ANAF club for our usual Wednesday evening outing which was fun as usual.

Yesterday, Jan. 19, I went to town to Aqua Therapy, then soaked in the hot tub... ahhh, felt heavenly. In the evening I went to Toastmasters where I gave the Inspiration as well as performed a Speech. I had writer's block all week and only was able to write the speech yesterday, printing it off on my computer just in time to dash out the door to the meeting, so I didn't get to practice it at all. I know I could have done a LOT better if I had had more time to work on it. I have done this kind of thing way too many times, just 'winging it'. Yes, I do get good evaluations as I am pretty much the only one that knows I could do better & I do always meet the objectives of the project I am working on from the manuals, and yes I do want to do a better job than I have been. I have signed up to do another speech in about 3 weeks, or was that 4? Anyway, I plan to start work on it right away.... or at least very soon.

I need to take time to write out some goals for TOPS & my weight loss program as well as for my life over the next year or two. I want to clean up my home, inside and out. I never seem to have enough time to do all the things I want to do and I want to change that. I used to do a lot of native style bead work as well as spinning & weaving and haven't done any of this in 3 years and more. I think my life has a lot of stress in it. I've heard that stress is what causes hair loss and over the years I have lost a fair bit of my hair. My sister who is a Realtor has lost even more than I have. I want to reduce the stress in my life, even if it's "good stress" and I want to take more time to do things that will help me be more healthy. Yup, time for a "Life Make Over".

Rambling on...

One of the things I love about the internet is all the research I get to do from the comfort of my own home. A friend recently told me to check out the Zeitgeist movement, very interesting from what I've had the chance to read so far. I also have recently done some reading about birds & breeding them & better ways of feeding them. I've read about thermotox, about raw food from animals, about what the weather is expected to be like over the next several days (not that they ever get it right). I've researched things form my trike, including a windshield & a helmet for me. I also get to chat with my friend Mark several nights each week as well as other friends. Yes, I like the internet and I spend a lot of time on it every day. Too much time many days and too much time playing games. Ah yes, pros & cons... part of every day life.

Health Issues

As I work at dropping pounds, I guess it would be wise to take some good multivitamins, and with the poor quality of food now days I think we don't get the proper nutrition out of many of them. I tend to take some vitamins and often multivitamins, though at this time I am taking a B75 complex, C and some oil capsules every morning. I guess I should say almost every morning. I tend to have a problem with forgetting to take my pills, be they vitamin supplements or meds from my Dr. I don't know why I'm so bad this way, just don't seem, even after years of taking them, to remember to take them. Ah well, life goes on and so will I.

Today I finally got the results to the tests I had done back in November sometime. I was referred to a gynecologist who I saw today. He did an exam and said he does see a red patch 'in there' and he doesn't think it's anything to worry about, though he is sending me for more testing where they will look at that spot with a microscope & possibly take a sample to do tests on. Apparently the tests I had done previously came back 'inconclusive' or something like that. 'Spotting' 8 years after having a hysterectomy is not normal and they don't know why it happened. I may never know, but even to be sure that everything is okay will be good.

Dropping Pounds

My weight loss continues.... and I am very grateful about that. Yesterday & today both, I put on "fresh from the dryer" jeans and was expecting them to be uncomfortably tight for the first while. Both times I was pleasantly surprised that they were not tight or uncomfortable, though the ones tonight were a bit snug. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!! or at least as good as getting thin again feels, or as good as getting into jeans feels. For many years I wore jeans pretty much most if not all of the time and I looked & felt "hot" in them, then when I put on all those pounds I won't wear jeans anymore as I felt they looked horrible on me.... fat girls should not wear jeans. I wore slacks with long shirts over them to cover the fat. Now, as I am dropping the pounds, I feel good about wearing jeans again and they are feeling comfortable again where for all that time they felt so uncomfortable and restricting.

I have been watching what I eat, learning through TOPS better eating choices, as well as being more physically active. I have to be in order to control the blood sugars since I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and I have to in order to loose the unhealthy pounds so I can look & feel good again. Men always tend to loose weight faster than women... this is because muscles are good fat burners for men. Exercise can also build good muscles for women and I am very fortunate that I've always had lots of muscle.

What's the best kind of exercise?? Doing push-ups away from the table! haha. Seriously though, doing exercises in the pool is really good and fun too.

An Apology!

In a comment on my last post, quilly said...

Your comment to Dr. John -- Hi Dr. J!! Just for the fun of it, I decided to throw a new game out for every one. It's called: WHAT IS ABOVE YOUR BED????? Thom showed what's on the ceiling ... guess I could have been more specific, lol. What I was getting at was "What is on the wall above your bed?" Ah well... either way is good!! Hope you come visit and bring your friends along.

There was nothing in your comment at all to even indicate you read his blog post. Dr. John was calling YOU a spammer, Alice.

I know just how he feels. There are two people who often come to my blog and leave their own agenda behind without bothering to comment on the post I worked so hard to write. I find it extremely rude. Apparently Dr. John does, too.

I am shocked!!! Stunned!!

I guess maybe I'm one of the stupid people!! To me, spamming is when the person has something to gain monetarily, or even in some other way, by posting the comment, just wanting to get their link out on as many blogs as possible. (See my previous post for more on this) That was not my intent.

I have often visited Dr. John's blog and left comments on his wonderful writings, though I must confess I have not done so recently. I was thinking of Dr. John as an internet friend who might like to join in some fun as we have played so many internet games together. I have nothing to gain by his playing this game or anything to loose by his not playing this game so I didn't see it as spamming to leave a message saying that I was hosting a new internet game. It didn't even enter my mind, to be honest, that it was anything other than the fun idea I meant it to be. It's not that I didn't read... it's that I just don't always say something when I visit someones blog & read their posts, just as I know people come here & read without always saying what they think of my posts. This is an explanation, not an excuse....

I apologize Dr. John. I am deeply sorry for my faux pas! It will not happen again. I am so sorry that you took my message as spam and rudeness. It was not meant that way. Never would I intentionally be rude.... dense maybe though not rude.

Thank you Quilly for pointing out this issue. I admit it went totally over my head. I am still having some trouble wrapping my head around the concept that what I did was spamming. I trust I am not one of the people you speak of that you are upset with?? To the best of my knowledge I usually post comments/compliments, or read and leave, saying nothing due to shortage of time.

Again... I apologize for being so dense!!

Spam/Spammers

In a comment on my post What Is Above Your Bed???, Dr. John said: I don't have the time right now. I am trying to figure out how to handle spam. Spam! You know comments from people who want you to do something but don't bother to comment on the content of your blog. I find that so rude.

I so agree with Dr. J about it being RUDE! to say the least.

I wonder about the intelligence of some of these people. Do they really think they we're stupid enough to think they're fooling us? They post comments that they think we will let through. Knowing that I moderate the comments on my blogs, that I check them out before they get posted or rejected, these people still waste their time posting things here. Some of them copy parts of what I posted.... some copy comments other people have left... then they paste it into my comments. Some paste generic comments and think I am stupid enough to think it's genuine... stupid people think others are stupid too. Sad.

Here is an example: Thanks for the informative information - I enjoyed reading it! I always enjoy this blog. :) Cheers, www.video-clips-of-women-giving-birth (and I removed the rest of the address as well as the link to this web site). This was left on Meet Trike, on old post. That's another sign that it's probably a spam comment... they are usually, or very often, done on old posts. I guess they think if it's on an old post the blogger won't even notice it's there. Guess again folks!!

On Reba's Run I not only moderate the comments, I also have put Word Verification on and still I get spammers leaving their crap... tho not as much, it has cut down on them a lot. Unfortunately, it may also have cut down on good visitors leaving comments.

Spammers are RUDE!
Spammers are WASTING THEIR TIME!
Spammers give the internet a BAD TASTE!!!

Working on Dropping Pounds

At Toastmasters this evening, I got some major compliments. Sheila commented on how much weight I've lost. Benita was there & she also has lost a lot of weight which is really awesome as she really needs it. Then later on, Pat was also commenting on how much I've lost. She thinks I'm close to my 'goal weight', and I know I'm not. I joined TOPS on January 15, 2009 & since then I lost 18 pounds, tho did gain 3 back in December. I am now working on getting that off again and some more too. My goal weight required me to drop 49 pounds. Pat thinks I need to rethink that goal weight, that it's unrealistic and I don't need to loose another 30+ pounds. She may be right, though I know my body and I know that I still have lots to shed yet and will continue to work on it. I do this all with diet & exercise, not with the use of weight loss supplements. While they may work for some people, that is not the route I choose to use. Also, the diet & exercise are needed to keep my blood sugars in healthy levels and to bring down my cholesterol levels.

Tuesday January 12th

Today it was Aqua Therapy again. In the morning, before going to town, I did get a bit of housework done here... just the tip of the ice burg is cleaner now. I was later thinking I might do a "You Might Be A Hoarder If...." series of posts.

After Aqua Therapy, hot tub & shower, I went to my Dr. appointment. About a month and a half ago, I had some 'spotting'. Having had a hysterectomy some years ago this is not as it should be. I couldn't get in to see my Dr., so went to a Walk-In Clinic (we have 3 or 4 of them in town). The Dr. there took a scraping and sent it to the lab. It took about a month to hear back, then almost 2 weeks ago (on a Friday I believe it was) I got a phone call from them saying "Don't panic but..." Apparently there was some kind of problem though she wouldn't tell me much over the phone, just told me to go see my own Dr., assuring me that a copy of my visit records & the lab tests had been sent to him. I phoned to make an appointment & found out that my Dr.'s office was closed for several days, until the following Wednesday, due to them moving to a new location. I had to wait to make the appointment, then nearly another week to go in today to see him. Well.... after sitting there for nearly an hour while he ran around with a repair man, talking about things that need fixing, he finally gets around to talking to me... only problem was, he couldn't find anything about this in my files. Did they loose the papers that were sent to him?? Were the papers ever really sent?? No way of knowing. So now what? He is having his receptionist call the Walk-In Clinic to have them fax it over, then once he looks it over she will call me to let me know if I need to get in there right away or at my convenience. Oh hell, it's been a month and a half now, guess it's a bit late for 'right away'.

Tonight I went to Toastmasters. I was the Chair & the Toastmaster this evening. In my 'old' club we did one or the other, though in this club we do both in the same night. I didn't do the greatest job, not as good as I know I can, so didn't get a good evaluation at all, and on top of it all I was late getting there. It's a good thing we don't pass or fail these things, after tonight I wouldn't soon be handing out graduation announcements. Oh well, guess I could have done a lot worse too. I learned lots anyway.

Monday January 10th

I went to my Aqua Therapy, soaked in the hot tub afterward, then after my shower & went to my chiropractor for a treatment. All felt good. One the way home I bought a few groceries. Spent the evening at home.

Roger had said he wanted to cook for me and Saturday evening when talking on the phone he said he'd come to my place on Monday to cook some deer for me. He also said he'd call Monday. Before I left for Aqua Therapy I sent him a text message: Hi Rog. We still on 4 2nite? Or would U prefer to "do coffee" 2day n cook another time? His reply: Wrkng next few days call u tonite I texted: K. Have a good day. Talk to u later. Since then I've not heard a word from him. I don't get it. Why do guys do this kind of thing? Why make plans if you don't want to keep them? Why say you'll so something then not do it? Even women that use the best eye cream for wrinkles aren't any more wonderful than I am... why take a chance of loosing me? Fool. (haha)

Mark wasn't around last night or tonight for our near nightly internet chats. Not sure what's up with that, but he did leave me a note today wishing me a good day. That was nice. I'm kinda glad to have some time off from talking... after all, "absence makes the heart grow fonder", lol.

So much for the awesome romantic life I seemed to have a few short days ago.

Breaking News

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I'm a Kite!!

You Are a Kite

You've always been a dreamer, and you started dreaming at a very early age. You can get lost in a fantasy. As a kid, you were happy to let your imagination go wild. The smallest things can spark the biggest ideas. You can get lost in your own inner world simply by flying a kite. As a kid, you didn't even really want toys. You would much rather play make believe than play with an expensive toy.

What Childhood Toy Are You?

Yup, I've always been a bit flighty, lol.

Light Mail

Daily Inspiration: Although some marriages are made in heaven, they ALL have to be maintained on earth. ~Unknown

Today’s Affirmation: I remember the love today where it matters; in me.

Today's Spiritual Contemplation: There is only one bit of work absolutely essential to a lasting marriage. Remember the love! Most marriages die because the trivia of our daily dramas becomes more important to us than our real work; being a living witness to the love that brought us together and actively communicating from that love.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Light Mail

Daily Inspiration: It's not what you look at that matters it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau

Today’s Affirmation: I see only the nectar of love illuminating all the forms of the universe.

Today's Spiritual Contemplation: For many years now society has appreciated the incredible photos from the Hubble Space Telescope; these photos are adjusted into a visible light spectrum. For generations we have been treated to Kirlian photography showing the light emitted by living organisms. Is it really such a stretch to imagine that all we look upon emanates such a light? And is it really such a stretch to imagine being able to see it with the naked eye? This light of love is all around and visible when we choose to see it.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.