FRIDAY IS A FAVORITE DAY.......

     TO MOST PEOPLE FRIDAY IS A FAVOARITE DAY.......END OF A SCHOOL WEEK, A JOB WEEK AND A COUPLE OF DAYS AHEAD TO SLEEP, PARTY OR JUST VEG OUT!  BUT, TO THOSE WHO ARE ON VACATION AND NOT READY TO COME HOME THE END OF THE WEEK......MAYBE FRIDAY NOT SO FAVORITE?  A WEEK AGO SHERRIE AND DARREN HEADED TO ST. MAARTIN FOR A WEEK IN THE SUN AND NOW IT IS TIME TO HEAD BACK TO THE COLD AND OLD ROUTINE OF LIVING.......A COUPLE MORE NIGHTS AND I WILL BE BACK IN MY OWN LITTLE BED.......
      I HAVE ENJOYED MY STAY AT THE "FARM".......COWS, HORSES, CHICKENS ETC AND CHORES TO DO EVERY DAY.......BUT I REMEMBER MY DAYS ON THE FARM GROWING UP AND NEVER WANTED TO GO BACK TO IT........SUCH HARD WORK.   THE FARMER I KNEW GROWING UP WERE ALL POOR......NEVER HUNGRY......BUT POOR.  I WAS VERY HAPPY TO MOVE TO TOWN.....BACK TO INDOOR PLUMBING, ELECTRIC LIGHTS ETC.  LOTS OF GOOD MEMORIES OF GROWING UP......
      WHEN I WAS GROWING UP WE NEVER HAD THE BEST HOUSE, THE BEST CAR OR THE MOST MONEY, BUT ONE THING I HAD WAS ....."THE BEST MOM AND DAD".....LOOKING BACK I GUESS

I WAS THE RICHEST KID IN MY TOWN AFTER ALL.
    

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.....

 

I like what Steve Jobs says...."Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become......everything else is secondary." He was his own man......and Peanuts has some good advice also.  My favorite presupposition is:  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE.....ONLY FEED BACK!

Kennedy told me three more days and his mother would be home, I think he is starting to get a little lonesome for her.  He has taken very good care of me and as long as we follow her list of "to dos" ....no problem.  It is a little warmer in Vernal today and the  sun is shinning brightly. Pam said Salt Lake had been cold also......was going to take Ken out to eat tonight but he got an invite to go to a movie with friends ......so will do it tomorrow night.......I hate going out in the cold anyway.

ZERO DEGREES IN VERNAL........

           I FEEL LIKE I AM ON THE EDGE OF THE ARTIC........VERNAL IS ALWAYS COLDER THAN SALT LAKE, SO WHY AM I FREEZING?  I JUST WANT TO HIBERNATE IN MY NICE WARM BED AFTER I GET KENNEDY OFF TO SCHOOL......BUT I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN.......DOGS IN....DOGS OUT ETC.  AT LEAST THE SUN IS SHINNING TODAY AND THAT MAKES IT FEEL WARMER.
           ARIANNA HUFFINGTON SAYS THERE IS A PURPOSE TO OUR LIVES.....EVEN IF IT IS SOMTIMES HIDDEN FROM US AND EVEN IF THE BIGGEST TURNING POINTS AND HEARTBREAKS ONLY MAKE SENSE AS WE LOOK BACK, NOT AS WE ARE EXPERIENCING THEM. SO WE MIGHT AS WELL LIVE LIFE AS IF, AS THE POET RUMI PUT IT, "EVERYTHING IS RIGGED IN OUR FAVO

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ON GRANDMA DUTY...........

      Well it is that time of year again when I spend a week in Vernal, Utah with my Christenson boys while their parents lay in the sun in some tropic place......this time in St. Maartins.......I look forward to bonding and catching up....Ken off to school everyday so pretty quiet.  Alex came and spent an hour with me....he is so special.....and such a hard worker.  It is very cold here and has been snowing off and on all morning so didn't even take off to shop.
      As I get older I realize shopping in the cold isn't worth it, unless I really need something badly......and when your old there are very few things you are needing.  In fact as I get older I have discovered some odd things about me........like putting things in a secret place and forgetting where the secret place is???  I also talk to myself, because some times I need expert advice!!!  The biggest lie I tell myself is "I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it!"  I remember when I was a child I thought nap time was punishment......now it's like a mini-vacation........Wouldn't it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for 10 minutes and come out wrinkle free and two sizes smaller??? And.....getting lucky is finding your car in the parking lot or walking into a room and remembering why I'm there???.......But getting old is better than the alternative!

THANK YOU GOD.....

Another weekend and another snow storm......I woke up to my sweet son-in-law snow blowing my driveway this morning. I am really blessed......if he hadn't done it my sweet neighbor would have.......so thanks to many wonderful people. Sherrie is dropping Ken off tonight on their way to the airport ......they stay at the Hilton and leave the car there and take the shuttle to the airport early in the morning......Alex and Lindsay will be staying over night also and then we all will go to Vernal tomorrow for a week while the kids are on vacation.......Just Ken and Gram and the dogs.
        So today I say thank you God as I looked around and saw not what I wanted to get, but what I already have.....I sometimes forget that I have been blessed indeed, not always with the things I thought I had to have, but with the things that you knew I would really need.  Health, family, friends.....the important things in life......aren't things!
        

12 DAILY REMINDERS......

I don't know if it's just a new year starting and realizing you better make what time you have left count......maybe its' the season and gloomy weather.....who knows but the following list of reminders kinda pushes your buttons....

1. The past cannot be changed......I don't know what I have done....but it must be pretty bad that one of my daughters has quit speaking to me!  I keep asking myself if I am a bad mother.

2.  Opinions don't define your reality......I surely hope not.

3.  Everyone's journey is different......I know that .....and try to stick to my own.

4.  Things always get better with time.....Yes, it took me 30 years to able to spend time with my X and not want to kill him.

5..Over thinking will lead to sadness......I realize anything you give power to grows bigger so I must move on with my hurts.

6. Happiness is found within.....THINK POSITIVE, BE POSITIVE. (positive thoughts create positive things)......you must have faith with this one.

7.  Smiles are contagious....Kindness is free....You only fail if you quit!

8.What goes round.....comes round~  Oh yes, I have seen this in action and know it is very true if only people would realize this before they make a decision.We have a fair and even God watching over all.....and how you treat others will come home to roost some day.

YOUR LIFE IS A RESULT OF YOUR CHOICES....IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR LIFE IT IS TIME TO MAKE SOME BETTER CHOICES.

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NOT A GOOD START......

WELL.....HAPPY NEW YEAR I GUESS???

Here it is the 5th of January 2016 already and I have not written a word because I can't get my blog printed and have the programs to work since my friend helped me update this dumb computer to Windows 10!!!!!  I really don't ask much from THIS THING.......a little email, Face book and my blog......but it can get so frustrating when it doesn't all come together I could throw it out. 

The Holidays are over thank goodness, it is cold and the stupid inversion we get every year has set in so it is very cold.  I do have my Christmas decorations all tucked away until next year.......or dear.....don't even think about getting them all out again next year.  It was a quiet Christmas, went to the Panniers Christmas Eve for dinner,  home alone all day Christmas......Sher did call to wish me Merry Christmas and Leslie.  Then New Year's afternoon lunch and games with Shirley and Bonnie......home by 6:30 and slept through the NEW YEAR on TV......and  home alone all day and........here we are the 5th  busy paying bills and cleaning up.

This weekend........ off to Vernal to stay with Ken a week while his folks and Bains are off to St Maartin.  Hoping I can get on top of this computer and settle in for a couple of months of cold and snow.