WOKE TO NO SNOW. Only gray skies and chilly temps of 19 degrees. Am I disappointed? A little. Last night I psyched myself up before going to sleep about waking to a fresh layer of powdery snow covering everything within sight. No such luck. I'll get over it. Surely, I will. It will be rather cold today, all day. Bah-hum-bug.
Yesterday, I forgot to pay the utility bill. Completely zoned out about it. So, it'll get paid today with a late fee attached. I was trying to recall how I could forget. What was I doing that would occupy all my brain cells to where I wouldn't even think about it? I'm either getting really good at A) relaxing to the point that the bills don't bother me in the least or B) I'm slipping.
B) Slipping.
In an attempt to make LIFE more care-free, I forgot. I had no recall about this bill until this morning when I read it is the 17th. Oops...yesterday was the 16th. Bill overdue.
I need to NOT FORGET certain things without anxiety about them. I'll always have expenses as long as I'm alive. We all will. Still, I have to do better than to forget/forgetting. Not earth shattering or life threatening...I'll write the check out and deliver it today. I can slip it in the mail slot and they will receive payment with a late fee.
There was a time that I was never late on any of my bills. Always early or on time. To completely forget makes me wonder if I'm entering into a phase of life where I am more forgetful? I must sit down and write all the checks out in one setting at the beginning of the month and have them ready to go. I believe I must do this. I just haven't gotten to where I am doing this.
No worries. Forge ahead and accept that I must do business matters in a different way. Continue on old woman and be more diligent. Reviewing how my day went yesterday.
HEALTH JOURNEY. DAY ONE on a food program different than what I'm use to. NEW DIET! Another attempt to lower my weight. Very restricted and easy menu. I got through day one alright, but could tell at bedtime that I wanted to pop food in my mouth. I talked myself out of it, drank some water and went to sleep. Slept like a rock. I successfully had a very low cal day! Pat myself on ze back.
After tallying up what I had eaten since Sunday, I needed to have a very low cal day. I was victorious in having that kind of day.
DAY TWO started and I slowly ate three organic soy-free scrambled eggs made without oil or butter along with a mug full of hot Matcha Green Tea to drink for Breakfast. Meal number one in my tummy
Lunch will be in the afternoon. 3 hard boiled eggs, an organic apple, and Matcha Tea.
Snack: Carrots and cucumbers.
Supper: A bowl of Stoneground Scottish cooked oatmeal sprinkled with Ceylon Cinnamon, 1/4 cup of walnuts and a handful of strawberries and blueberries. No tea. Water.
Tonight's Supper will be similar to last night's Supper:
Evening snack: Apple and Hot Matcha Green Tea.
Tomorrow I will rearrange my menu having cooked carrots with cucumbers to the side for my Lunch. Two days in a row I have not been able to eat as often or as much as the diet suggest. Today, I didn't work in the veggies of carrots and cucumbers in between the meals for snacks. I also doubt that I will have my second apple this evening as I am full from Supper. Shall see. Another victorious low cal day.
The incredible edible egg, organic apples, carrots, cucumbers, oatmeal and Matcha Tea are the staples in these 10 days. Simple and easy to do. The hard bit is actually doing it. 10 days will go by rather quickly and then I will step on the scales and see if the magic took place.
Onto a DANIEL DIET also the COLOR WHEEL FOOD PLAN. This is when I will flood my body with a variety of vegetables and fruits. It has been eye opening to me eating a variety of vegetables and fruits that I seldom ate when growing up. I have to say, this is a healthy way to dine. I can eat simple and stay entertained at the same time.
Slowly and throughly chewing each morsel from a small plate. This is an unhurried time that I have deliberately orchestrated to eat in slow-mo laying my utensil down more than not. Actually not continuously eating one bite after another until the meal is gone is a conscious choice to not shovel in. I make the decision to eat slow. Taking my dear sweet time when eating doesn't come natural to me. I have to work at slowing down.
Reclaiming order at our estate and entertainment.
I continue sleeving paper in sheet protectors so as to make some notebooks to have on the shelf about inventory. No walk today. Movie tonight.
I watched the 4th episode of The Gilded Age, A Long Ladder. The scenes in this series are so short, I cannot drink in all there is to see while in the highly decorated rooms or what the fine upstanding people are wearing. I can only imagine how many hours of labor went into each clothing article. With the scenes being so short, there has been a great deal of time and expense that was put into each scene. This technique of short scenes is suppose to keep ones interest where the mind doesn't wonder. Instead, I cannot soak up all the details that interest me and I become flustered. Moves too quickly for me.
Perhaps this is intentional in the minds of the creators to keep me on edge and flustered knowing that I will more than likely rewatch the episode.
There is nudity in this episode. If the scene where the hired hand gets into bed with Mr. Randall unannounced to him as he is sleeping, were shot from a different angle, the same message could have been conveyed to the viewer without frontal shots revealing so much skin. I suppose the producers are appealing to the masses that want to see flesh. An adult themed series where young children should not be viewing.
Also watched THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. A 2021 Drama/Romance movie.
In the 1970s, Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband, Jim, rise from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park. Tammy Faye becomes legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, financial improprieties, scheming rivals and a scandal soon threaten to topple their carefully constructed empire.
This movie has a pretty good portrayal of Jim and Tammy through the years with their costuming and their impersonations being spot on. The Actress Jessica Chastain imitates Tammy Faye's singing style and personality very well as Andrew Garfield has Jim Bakker's voice down pat. Both were very convincing to lil 'ole me.
There were a few things in the movie that I question happened such as when they implied that a very pregnant Tammy Faye at 8 months was sexually active with another man other than her husband...I wasn't sure what to think.
I don't question that at one time she interviewed a HIV homosexual man. She did. This man is still alive today, but she passed away in July 2007.
Did Tammy Faye do a program about sexual dysfunction and pumps? We'd check about this and she did indeed do such a program.
When I lived in Texas, I watched in real time on television the true drama unfold when a crying Jim is escorted to a car with handcuffed hands hidden under his jacket. I'd read about this PTL dilemma when it fell apart.
In the movie, there is a scene where Jim interviews Colonel Harland Sanders who was a member of the Table Mountain Masonic Lodge #124. A few years back I watched this 1979 interview on YouTube. Still there to watch.
After the movie, I tuned in to the YouTube video where Jerry Falwell talks to the PTL audience. Noticing a multitude of hand signals by JF surprised me. Was Jerry Falwell a player in the world of a secret society or freemasonry? I wondered. So I checked it. He was indeed a freemason.
I was curious why so many churches say nothing about the evils of Freemasonry...I think I know why. Now I get it. Because a church says it's a christian church, it isn't necessarily one. So many Freemasons have infiltrated the churches filling high level positions like they have been encouraged to do by the freemason's teachings. It is easier to deceive people when the leadership is on a agenda different than from the teachings of Jesus. There is a push to not focus on being born again and many churches leave out that Jesus is the way to the Father. There's a concentrated effort to support that all religions lead to heaven when it is through the Lord Jesus, the only begotten son of God that saves us, gives us salvation and eternal life when we accept Him as our savior.
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John 8:12 - Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Ephesians 5:8 - For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1 John 1:5 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.1 Peter 2:9 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Psalms 27:1 - (A Psalm of David.) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
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