WE STAYED UP LATE BINGE WATCHING PBS. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. Went to bed after 1. That's late for my HUSBAND. He usually falls asleep in his chair or on the sofa. I'm the one that stays up later than late.
After watching so many movies and series the last couple of months that are filled with foul language, CREATURES is a relief. It is a very decent series. I'd highly recommend it along with CALL THE MIDWIFE, DOWNTON ABBEY, THE GILDED AGE, MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE. Better TV than regular TV.
If a person were brought up on what is being shown in most movies and television series in this day and age, I would go so far as to say, it will warp the minds leading to foul living. I don't usually watch award shows, but see snippets on youtube and yahoo which highlights their revealing costumes while on the red carpet. I cringe at the excessive skin exposure being displayed. Though many of these women are extremely wealthy with finances, the morality and character of these figures is vulgar and impoverished. Sad and alarming that people of all ages are seeing so much skin.
Subject matter is as bad. A tool for moral destruction.
We are to dress modestly. I don't believe the cloth remnants these celebrities are wearing are modest. Plastered images of certain women reveal the total package with nothing left to the imagination. The mutilation many are doing to their faces to have the fountain of youth splashed across their bodies is disturbing. They begin to have no upper lip. Smiles disappear because the muscles are stretched too tight. Collagen squirted into their lips and cheekbones are plumping up their features. Then their breasts appear like small soccer balls in the chest. Fake tans and Rapunzel length hair extensions that fall way below the waist. Fingernails to claw for. Tattoos galore. Eye lashes so thick it looks like they are wearing small paint brushes.
What does all of this do to the actual human body?
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When the Dining room lamp comes on about 6:15 in the mornings, it usually wakes me up. There are mornings that I wake long before the lamp comes on. This is a blessing to wake before the sun comes up as I for the longest time was a heavy sleeper and wouldn't wake until much later. It has been a prayer of mine to wake around 6. Answered prayer.
It is my Husband who sleeps later now. RETIREMENT going on 4 years. Deserving some extra sleep. He was constantly getting up so early to get ready for work and making a long drive to the place of employment. He has been so very faithful in his career.
As we work at getting settled into the COTTAGE, he is still a very hard worker.
About three weeks ago, he dropped some canned goods outside the car as he was unloading from a shopping trip when the roads were snow packed. Somehow one of the cans wasn't noticed as he picked up the other cans and he stepped on one causing a foot injury. Bruising the underside of the foot. He is still limping from this. I suggested that he ice it 4 times a day with a bag of frozen green peas.
He ignored the advice until recently as he has suffered with foot and knee pain. Hard headed. It makes for a frustration to me at times.
He has now started icing his foot and knee. Answered prayer.
Tis a beautiful SUNDAY MORNING. After we get better settled, we will begin our search for a different CHURCH. In prayer about this. I know the day will come when answered prayer has taken place. For now, I do devotionals, read scripture from the BIBLE, meditate and think about God's word, pray, and have deep discussions with HUBBY. I have given up on streamed in services for now.
When I was a young girl growing up in Liberal, Kansas, the local radio would broadcast our church services. On those Sundays that MOM didn't go to church, the radio would be on tuned in to the church service. I remember there were times, I'd walk the long distance to church all by my lonesome. The walk was long, but I enjoyed what I was doing. Going by myself was an adventure. I was safe in this small town at the time. Not so much now as I revisited my old stomping grounds and it was scary. Most the people I knew when I was growing up have left the community or passed away.
Making plans for a destination vacation where Hubby and I go from place to place where we have lived through the years. We'll start out at the place we first met and go from there. I want it to be well planned so I can reminisce our life together as Husband and Wife and I think it is appropriate as we will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary in August.
ANSWERED PRAYER.
Plans for today...preparing for the week to come. A couple of medical appointments with hopes of milder weather while out and about. THE WORK CONTINUES with clearing out the DINING ROOM as to make it a real dining room again instead of a storage warehouse. By the end of February, the table should be in place. Catching up on laundry. Making important phone calls. Thinning out old papers and greeting cards. Watching more videos about HOMEMAKING. AND Walking!
This past week, I did watch a couple old videos of JACK LA LANNE exercising. He had an infectious personality about exercising and health. I did very little while watching him, but have every intention of getting more physical along with his instructions as I continue to watch him. He will become my personal trainer this week. PERSONAL TRAINER! He lived to be 96 passing in 2011. He would have turned 109 this year. My goodness. He may have lived longer if he'd been treated for pneumonia. I wish he had been treated.
HIS LIFE STORY IS SUCH AN INSPIRATION and so is Elaine's.
Elaine, his wife is still very active at 97. She admits to eating lots of fresh vegetables. Breakfast of yogurt with berries and protein drinks with bananas and berries. Lunches of baked potatoes with tuna, chicken or fish. Exercises everyday.
"Keep moving, keep those muscles moving, move your arms, move your legs, just keep that body moving and keep the brain moving," LaLanne said. "It takes the cobwebs right out of your brain!"
FOUR TIPS TO LIVE BY:
1) Moving regularly.
2) Eating lots of fresh vegetables.
3) Always having a project.
4) Thinking positively.
MID AFTERNOON SNACK is a small chocolate bar.
