END IS NEAR????

I think we are all counting the hours now, not days when this election will be over, the adds are killing me......however, he could be talking about December 21st, 2012 and the end of the world! WHATEVER.
I say live your life fully while you're here. Experience everything.  Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun and be crazy, be weird, go out and screw up!  You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.  Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes; Find the cause of your problem and eliminate it.  Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being Human!
Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
Forgot to set my clocks back last night, but when you don't have a schedule it doesn't matter anyway.  At my age, rolling out of bed in the morning is easy......Getting up off the floor is another story!

LUCK IN LEFTOVERS.......

"Luck exists in Leftovers".......Japanese proverb
I have a darling niece-in-law who has made this statement and shown many the way. I quote a wonderful piece she wrote that made me stop and think about my life.  I felt when I got married at 24, to what I thought was a nice man, had three beautiful daughters, lots of friends and a good life, it would be "forever", but if there is no "forever".....what is "forever" for? I was 54 and had been married 30 years when I suddenly found myself standing alone with all the leftovers of my life.   "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity....you can make your 'luck out of leftovers' your left with. With preparation the life you have lived, everything you have learned and know, the talents you have been blessed with, a lot of hard work and endurance, and opportunity and the unexpected life you have been handed you can create a happy ever after in your life.  I have created just that life the last 26 years, a warm comfortable home, children educated, raised, married and giving me the gift of 9 wonderful grandchildren.  I got a fun job as a Concierge, took many classes, learned Spanish, traveled completely around the world, volunteered some and have a loving, supportive family and many good friends. It would have been fun to have someone to grow old with as I had originally planned, but I have a life I never imagined for myself, one that I would not originally have chosen if given a chance and one I never saw coming, but thank you God and I have learned in my 80 years....."THING HAPPEN FOR A REASON.....JUST BELIEVE."

FOUR MORE DAYS.....

At the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell yourself..."I CAN."                                      The chant out there today is four more days.....Can you imagine what is going through the Obama's minds .......and the Romney's minds.  Michelle, Oh no, no more fabulous trips around the world....free.  Obama's hair will be white for sure when he finds out the sad new...."HE IS NOT GOD", he just thought he was.  I will take my dull, quiet little life and not complain thank you.  It is still very sad news back east as those poor people try to bail out, clean up and put their lives together again....yep, Mr. President had his photo opt yesterday and now he is off campaigning today, and there are a lot of mad people!  It is a beautiful sunny day here, cool, but that is OK as it is November 2nd.  I am thankful today for a warm house, good health and enough to eat. My heart goes out  to so many less fortunate.

VOTING......

Five more days and many are trying to decide which answer to give the voting machine.......I think how our world will change in five days if Obama gets in for another four years....BUT I have to think of the positive things in my life after that terrible storm hit America and many are without a home, food, gas to get to work or a job to go back to.
I have an ever-growing number of blessings to count.  Love and friendship, better-than-ever health, big and small joys, plus prosperity, adventure and peace of mind----each day will bring me another ripple of opportunities that lead to all goodness that life has to offer......It was a quiet and uneventful Halloween, no one comes back into our gated community. I did enjoy the pictures of my grandchildren, Tiff, Scottie and Ollie all dressed up. Off to daily chores of mailing bills, grocery store and Christmas shopping, starting to count down on Christmas now. Happy November the First..

HAPPY HALLOWEEN......

Happy Halloween 2012.......Brayden with his gory pumpkin and Ken working on his.  We are so lucky we have a beautiful warm sunny day.  We all have our homes, lights, heat and enough to eat. I feel so sorry for the people in  the East who are just happy to be alive after this last storm, call "SANDY". Some day as my great-grandchildren read this they will probably learn of this in their history classes. Super storm outline ; Connecticut, roads are flooded, trees and power lines toppled, 594,000 without power; Delaware many coastal communities flooded 45,000 without power. Illinois high wind warning, lakeside flood warnings.  Kentucky a winter storm warning of foot of snow ..  Maine 60 mph wind gusts shut down the port of Portland, knock out power to 25,000.  Maryland Ocean City swamped, 2 ft of snow in the west; power outages to 145,000. Massachusetts many coastal communities evacuated power outage 400,000.  Michigan waves reach 20 ft on the Great Lakes, cargo shipping stopped 150,000 without power.  New Hampshire a power outages 210,000.  New Jersey storm hit Atlantic City 2.3 million no power.  New York 2 million lost power after huge storm surge, A Queens fire burned 80 homes. The Stock Market closed two days first time since blizzard in 1888. The shutdown of mass transit crippled a city where more than 8.3 million bus, subway and local rail trips are taken each day. It will take months and billions of dollars to rebuild everything.......and we are 6 days until the election of a new President!!!!  Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!

WHITE HOUSE.....

The symbol of the United States along with the flag and the eagle.....I feel the last four years slowly a big black cloud....black? Can I use that word?--- has been getting bigger and bigger over this building.  Since John Adams moved in Nov 1, 1800, the White House has been the residence of every sitting president except George Washington.  
It's occupants are subject to change every four years, the stately stone structure at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington D.C., remains the permanent symbol of the U.S. presidency----and most famous home in America.  It was burned by the British during the war of 1812.The home's sq. footage is about 55,000 ft.  It features six levels, eight staircases, three elevators, 28 fireplaces, and 132 rooms, including 35 bathrooms. The fence includes 18 acres of land.  It has a tennis court, bowling alley, movie theater, beauty salon, a physician's office, a florist's shop and a swimming pool. I say, 'PUT THE WHITE BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE'!.....we have been patient and it didn't work out switching colors.  Nice man, lousy President. Took a nice ride up to Park City yesterday with the Panniers, visited Will at work and back to lunch at the Porcupine Restaurant.  Weather beautiful.
"Every day I beat my own record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive."

OH YES...........

This is absolutely one of the prettiest pictures I have ever seen with my own two eyes.......This is when Leslie and I were in the north-west, I want to say Vermont! We just drove by and there it was.  Zipped up to Park City this afternoon with Pam and Rob to do a little shopping at the out-lets.  Ended up at the Polo store where William was working.  I bought him a cute navy plaid shirt and Pam got him the yellow cords for his birthday. William turns 22 on the 5th of December....wow, my first grandson is that old? Pam got a jacket and I ended up with a shirt......why not .......we got a discount? Then home and a stop at the Porcupine restaurant for lunch.....or was it an early dinner? They let me in on the latest with my "X" so it wouldn't happen to me.......He fell for the old scam of  'I am in jail in Mexico and I need $3,000.00 but don't tell my folks." from a grandchild.  He sent the money and the next day when they doubled  the request, the banker got suspicious and decided to do some checking.....well no one was out of the country, but how would he know he doesn't  know most of his grand children's names.......just beware you elders out there.10 days and counting till election day.....with the worst storm on record over the northeast!!!!!