WONDERFUL DAY

Waking early and determined to be successful in getting lots done, I got up, got groomed and dressed.  Loaded myself up in the car and off I went.  Rainy and cool, AUTUMN is behaving like WINTER.  

HUBBY was HOME to greet the air duct cleaners.  We'd waited a couple of years and finally booked them to clean our HOME's duct work.  They needed the heat on and when Hubs made an appointment with them I thought it was too early in the year to have the heater on which would make the house so HOT, but we had a cold snap.  Everything worked out.  

FIRST I made my way to the THRIFT STORE and of course I hit it big by finding these pretty frilly glass dishes that match a couple I have at HOME.  

They will be used to eat pretty salads out of.  Delicate and adding charm to a salad meal for a group of LADIES or some other willing victim!  We'll be styling as we eat.  

I'm beginning to THINK more about CHRISTMAS.  This beautiful season will be decorated with cheery colors on the tree.  RETRO is what I'm calling it this year.  This color grouping has never been used before on our large CHRISTMAS TREE.  Something for a change big time.  Looking forward to this.

I don't have to fear as Jesus is my Reason for the Season and why I can live a LIFE worth living.  

  
NEXT CAME THE LAUNDRY!!!!!
The laundromat was empty.  Not a soul in sight and so I had the pick of which ever machine I wanted.  I loaded 4 machines and watched the weather on the television.  Cold weather is on her way.
A woman at the laundromat said she heard the weather was going to be colder with snow.  Finished up the four loads and went for an AUTUMN DRIVE.  

Went for a leisurely drive and spied yellow irises in someones yard.  These must have been double bloomers that I just learned about when Irises have two blooming cycles.  We planted some just this Summer and look forward to them in 2020.  

Library time.  Quiet at the Library.  Spent time looking thru some magazines and took time on the computer.  Drove to the Park and parked the car so I could read.  Thumbed through the newest cookbook I bought about Amish and Mennonite Cooking.  Twas peaceful and very enjoyable.  

By the time I went HOME, the duct work was complete.  Mark this off the TO DO LIST.  Knowing that colder weather is on her way, I needed to turn the heater on over at the Cottage.  Hubby and I did this then had a meal at the local Mexican Restaurant.  He had some work to do at WORK, so I played on a computer.

HOME at a late hour.  A very full day for me.  
I'll rest tomorrow and I did.  
I am blessed to be able to rest in my own HOME,
d

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TRIFTY FINDS

~THRIFTy THURSDAYS~

Part of my HAPPY gene make-up

is partaking in THRIFT HUNTS.

So I am HAPPY

with the results made while hunting.

Victorian print of Children.

A different decorative frame will be used.

Will hang pic in what I call the Victorian room.

Antique Covered Vegetable Dish.

Two pair of costume jewelry earrings.

Charming sparkles.

Salt 'n Pepper Shakers.

One of the fun things in my LIFE 
is going THRIFTING.  Also called JUNKIN'

Something about spending little on these finds 

goes a loooooooong ways.

DO you go JUNKIN?

d

That Condition

At this stage of the GAME, information in my head gets overlooked before something else comes to mind that I'm thinking about.  It's taking some discipline on my part to keep things straight and nicely flowing out and carried out so that I don't get scattered brained.  Forgetfulness is increasing.  The name of the game is called LIFE with challenges.

Maturing in age continues and with it comes challenges that are new to me.  Staying focused is more difficult.  

Things I have been researching and reading about are many.  Today is Yom Kippur.  I am not a full blooded Jewish person and have never participated in it.  I did start FASTING yesterday evening after supper.  Think I will do my best to not eat until sundown today.  Last night I noticed that I wanted to eat oh so badly before going to bed.  Had to keep talking to myself to not eat.

This morning I took my meds with little water and have been struggling at not eating.  I don't usually eat much breakfast but it seems when I do something like this I want food more than ever.  When I'm told NO CAN HAVE I have a struggle and want it even more.  Psychological, emotional handicap or is it the demons whispering in my ear to EAT EAT EAT???

I shared with my husband that I am fasting because I wanted to do this because it's Yom Kippur.  No sooner than I said this as he was walking out the door to go to work, I asked if he wanted to do LUNCH!  After he left then it hit me....you are fasting.  I had to email him and tell him I had already forgotten.  

At any rate, I plan to not eat until tonight after the sun goes down and pray throughout the day.  This will be a huge accomplishment that tells me YES, you are disciplined and can do this.

THINGS ON MY MIND:
YOM KIPPUR
PLANTAR FASCIITIS
ORGANIC FOODS
LOSING WEIGHT
THYROID MANAGEMENT
DECORATING
RUNNING ERRANDS
PAYING THE MORTGAGE

FIRST LET ME THINK ABOUT Yom Kippur.

The traditions are as follows on the day of YOM KIPPUR:

1. No eating and drinking
2. No wearing of leather shoes
3. No bathing or washing
4. No anointing oneself with perfumes or lotions
5. No marital relations

According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend their behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God (bein adam leMakom) and against other human beings (bein adam lechavero). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of Yom Kippur, one hopes that they have been forgiven by God.

THANK YOU WIKIPEDIA~

Leviticus 16:29 mandates establishment of this holy day on the 10th day of the 7th month as the day of atonement for sins. It calls it the Sabbath of Sabbaths and a day upon which one must afflict one's soul.

Leviticus 23:27 decrees that Yom Kippur is a strict day of rest.

Five additional prohibitions are traditionally observed, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition (Mishnah tractate Yoma 8:1).

The number five is a set number, relating to:

1. In the Yom Kippur section of the Torah, the word soul appears five times.
2. The soul is known by five separate names: soul, wind, spirit, living one and unique one.
3. Unlike regular days, which have three prayer services, Yom Kippur has five- Maariv, Shacharit, Mussaf, Minchah and Neilah
4. The Kohen Gadol rinsed himself in the mikveh (ritual bath) five times on Yom Kippur.^[7]

The traditions are as follows:

1. No eating and drinking
2. No wearing of leather shoes
3. No bathing or washing
4. No anointing oneself with perfumes or lotions
5. No marital relations

A parallel has been drawn between these activities and the human condition according to the Biblical account of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.^[8] Refraining from these symbolically represents a return to a pristine state, which is the theme of the day. By refraining from these activities, the body is uncomfortable but can still survive. The soul is considered to be the life force in a body. Therefore, by making one’s body uncomfortable, one’s soul is uncomfortable.^[8] By feeling pain one can feel how others feel when they are in pain.^[9] This is the purpose of the prohibitions.

Total abstention from food and drink as well as keeping the other traditions begins at sundown, and ends after nightfall the following day. One should add a few minutes to the beginning and end of the day, called tosefet Yom Kippur, lit. "addition to Yom Kippur". Although the fast is required of all healthy men over 13 or women over 12, it is waived in the case of certain medical conditions.

Virtually all Jewish holidays involve meals, but since Yom Kippur involves fasting, Jewish law requires one to eat a large and festive meal on the afternoon before Yom Kippur, after the Mincha(afternoon) prayer. This meal is meant to make up for the inability to eat a large meal on the day of Yom Kippur instead, due to the prohibition from eating or drinking. 

Wearing white clothing (or a kittel for Ashkenazi Jews), is traditional to symbolize one's purity on this day. Many Orthodox men immerse themselves in a mikveh on the day before Yom Kippur.^[10]

In order to gain atonement from God, one must:^[7]

1. Pray
2. Repent of one's sins
3. Give to charity

SHALL SEE HOW IT GOES.

d

LINKING TO:

http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2019/10/wise-woman-linkup.html

BLINKING

I BLINKED...and it's the 8th day of OCTOBER.
Can't hardly believe it as the days are flying.  This past year has flown.

We made our way to our LIFELINE SCREENING appointment.  Nothing glamorous about the location this go round.  Sparse creature comforts unlike the spas of modern day medical facilities.  
Pray it's worth the hype.  Test results in 2 to 3 weeks.

https://www.lifelinescreening.com/

Had a nice LUNCH afterwards at The Chef.  Tried their special that was an omelette with bacon, chicken and spinach.
Went to MENARDS to get some vinyl storage boxes.  Picked up a gorgeous PUMPKIN for a great price.
Stopped at DOLLAR GENERAL.
BANK stop for quarters.  Will be doing some laundry later.
Drove through the City Park on this pleasant AUTUMN DAY.
HOME drive pleasant.
NAP
RESTED
Supper.
Computer time.

FUTURE GOALS:  With the temps cooling, I can walk around Manhattan's City Park.
Go to PAXICO to the Antique Mall.  Look at their turquoise.

OCTOBER STUFF:
Halloween candy is bought and ready for the young Trick or Treaters.  SPOOKS.
Don't have skin cancer!  Praise the Lord.
Living room rearranged and tidied.
KITCHEN coming along.
Decisions made on OFFICE/MEDIA room.
Christmas shopping began.
Yearly Hallmark ornaments are bought.  Chunk of change.
Grand children's Christmas ornaments are bought.
Christmas Pickles for KIDS.
Moving Geraniums indoors.  Will be saved and protected from frost.
Inching my way to knowing what to do for Husband's retirement.
Medical test.  LifeLine Screening completed.
House cleaning continues.
Laundry caught up.
New Master Bedroom bedding purchased.
Bible Study started.
Writing book.
Singing Opera.

Tadaaah tis OCTOBER and frost is on her way,
d


Fun FACT:
Scientists have shown that the average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. That's up to 1,200 times per hour and a whopping 28,800 times in a day—much more often than we need to keep our eyeballs lubricated. In fact, we spend about 10 percent of our waking hours with our eyes closed.

TIS BLURRY

WELL HELLO THERE!

SELFIES 

and making memories!

2 of our Children and a GRAND came to visit today.

Twas wonderful to see them.

Think my camera is on it's last leg.

Maybe I had something to do with that.

Blurry.

LUNCH was a large salad, hard boiled eggs and a few chips for guacamole.  Just a little of a very good thing.  Spring water to drink.  Dessert was coffee with cream 

along with some ginger snaps.

SUPPER was pizza and water.

 Lord HELP me to lose weight.  
This thyroid thing is getting the best of me.  

Mo' SALADS and greens.
Mo' veggies, fruit and lean meats.
Water, water, water.
Slow stretches and riding a stationary bike.
Vitamins and minerals.
Prayers and relaxation.

The Office will become a media room with a television and a couple of recliners.  Hubby and I sat in the sunny room deciding how to arrange this space.  It was very pleasant sitting and talking about this room.  Right now the room is full of boxes and clutter that need gone through.  Will work a little everyday on getting organized and making a dream come true.  Slow and steady.  My house shall be my playground.  Enjoy RECESS.

BETTER health will be a goal to work toward from this day forward.  More health articles to read and research along with eating more plant based meals.  Veggies veggies veggies.....baked and steamed and raw vegetables.  Exercise and water.  A different attitude.  A different pace.  No eating after 8 o'clock in the evenings.  Maybe some organic milk with bedtime medicines.  

Shut down by midnight and rest.
Dear SELF, Remember to do this stuff.

Blessings,

d

WHAT WOULD JESUS EAT?

Sample Diet Plan

Breakfast 4 oz fresh-squeezed fruit juice or a small piece of fruit Oatmeal with walnuts and berries

Lunch Tuna salad Tomato, cucumber, romaine lettuce Balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing

Dinner Lentil soup 1 slice whole grain bread with hummus 4 ounces grilled salmon Steamed broccoli with parmesan cheese and brown rice Salad with lettuce, carrot, tomato and cucumber Balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing 4 oz red wine

Did Jesus Exercise?

Jesus spent a large part of his days walking and this is the recommended form of exercise. Dieters are encouraged to engage in walking every day.

SHALL SEE

HAD A ROUGH TIME getting started Saturday as I guess the day before was just too demanding for me.  Staying in my housecoat and messy do most of the day seemed less glamorous than I wanted.  Ate a McDonald's Salad for lunch and mustard up the energy to go out for SUPPER.  An evening of watching movies on the big screen tv.

During the day I worked on tidying some on the Living room and vacuuming the Dining room.  Very slow paced day as my foot and neck continue to bother me.  I pray I get much better.  

Sunday is to be a day of rest.  Not sure I'll get that as company is coming to visit.  Trying to figure out what to fix for LUNCH.  Salad for sure.  There's a frozen pizza in the freezer.  Maybe if I fix a HUGE salad and slice the pizza in really narrow strips I could get away with this plus fix something that has hamburger in it.  It'll be a big surprise.  Maybe tacos!  We have shredded cheese in the fridge, lettuce, tomatoes.  Just need some taco shells.  I'll figure something out.  There's apples that I could fix an apple salad with celery...hum.  Coming together. 

Shall see.

The week coming will be interesting as we have someone coming to clean the house's duct work.  I will be happy when this is over.  I've waited a while knowing this needed to be done.  This is a very dusty house and the dust bunnies are bountiful.  Praying that this cleaning does the trick and the house stays cleaner than it has been.

I'll continue to thin out things and be better organized.  My poor KITCHEN is still a big mess.  After I organized the cabinets, I didn't like the pantry where I had moved it so I placed all the goods back in the bookshelf in the area leading to the basement.  Still I have to figure out where to go with the potato chips and bagged popcorn.  What a problem to have huh.

The way of the relocating the dishes has been easy to adjust to.  This is good.  Now to just clear off the countertops and make it look like a designer house.  ha

I have some coleus plants that I would like to repot into smaller pots so they can winter in the garden window.  The cooler weather seems to be coming faster than I can manage.  The pumpkin I bought will be placed in an oversize urn that I have.  

My lovely geraniums will have to be moved indoors if I'm to keep them.  Too pretty to throw away.  Healthy sizes and still blooming.  I might put the large pots in the entryway where they would stay in their pots and get sunlight.  The entryway is colder than the rest of the house, but perhaps they'd winter alright there.  Will give it some thought.  


The smaller ones might be taken out of the smaller urns I have and placed in pots.  The urns would then hold pumpkins to enjoy and then when Christmas comes, the urns will hold miniature Christmas trees.  Perhaps the boogie man will not vandalize them this year.  

October has been the month to get the yard ready for cooler weather.  The upstairs office will morph into a tv room.  The large brown recliners will make their way upstairs along with the television.  Later the new wood floor will be laid.  Much later as I had hoped we'd get the Dining room painted before Christmas.  Curtains will be hung.  I have this month and the month of November to make this morph happen.  

We have so much more shuffling to do, it's overwhelming.  Then I have a ton of pictures to go through.  Paperwork still to thin through and file.  Nothing earth shattering, but very time consuming.  Preparing for my HUSBAND to retire.  This will be a huge adjustment in itself.

I am so slow with an energy level that makes me want to cry.  Staying on target, focused and actually getting the work done isn't happening very fast.  This is hard to take.  One day at a time.  Pace myself.  

Blogging helps me get it together what needs done and how to do it.

Blog a way,

d

DOIN' THE SHUFFLE

Little by little we're getting settled into this PRAIRE HOUSE 
making it our HOME.  

I still have so much to do...it hurts,

d

ALMOND JOY!

A DAY OF  RE*JOY*ING!!!

The Living room was rearranged, I ate some Almond Joy candy 

and I do not have skin  cancer.

Rejoice.  Again I say rejoice.

The JOY of it all!  Popped a miniature ALMOND JOY candy bar in my mouth.  Coconut on my palate.  Sitting to rest my neck with a heated sock of rice wrapped around it.  Not sure what is ailing me, but this heat helps alleviate the pain.  A pain in the neck for a fact.  

Here I sit with a sock resting on the back of my neck and the backs of my elevated feet are being iced by cloth covered frozen peas.  I have a thing going on.  I was out of the house most of the day so resting now at HOME with my feet elevated in my recliner is relaxing after a day out and about in this chilly weather.  53 degrees.  A nice temp for AUTUMN.  

I had a doctor's appointment that I had been waiting for several months so I was in Topeka today.  It seems like it was forever that this appointment was made and now tis over.  Back up some and recall the day.

Got around this morning to wake to HUBBY rearranging the Living room!  We had talked about this arrangement and he went ahead and did it.  I was very HAPPY about this for I could not muscle it.  He moved the two wing chairs to where they sit on either side of the fireplace as they had been in front of the front window with a dumb waiter table between the two.  The two love seats had been on the other end of the Living room so they were split up.  One faces the fireplace and the other is where the wing chairs were.  Our two grey recliners are now at the end of the room where the sofas were.  LOVE this arrangement!

Temporarily the love seat is where we will seat to watch the television until the tv goes upstairs to the new MEDIA Room where the brown leather recliners will go when we get the room organized to house them and the tele.  Mercy sakes we are still moving about working for a fit just right room.  

AFTER I rejoiced that the furniture was rearranged, I got ready for the day.  A trip to St. Mary's for a SUGAR CREEK LUNCH and on to TOPEKA to go to GOD's STOREHOUSE and SAMs plus my Doctor's appointment.

On the way to LUNCH we saw a walker pushing a cart.  SHE WALKS THE EARTH.  Angela Marie Maxwell is walking across the U.S. and we saw her walking.  When we got home we looked her up because I did not have my camera out fast enough to snap a pic as we drove past her.  

https://www.shewalkstheearth.com/who--why.html

Checked her out on facebook, Angela Marie Maxwell.

Lunch was Tuna fish on croissants, root beer, bacon maple potato salad.  Purchased some new cotton dish clothes, Zimmerman's Natural Creamy Peanut Butter without sugar and OLD FASHIONED mild Salsa.  It started to rain.  Off to the car we went.

HALLMARK stores are getting fewer and fewer in between.  Went to the nearest one to my HOME which is in Topeka.  WENT CHRISTMAS shopping and bought HALLMARK 2019 CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS.  Try to buy this train series every year.   

Choo choo. 

  

MY NOSTALGIC HOUSE AND SHoP SERIES:

ADDED A NEW ONE THIS YEAR:

2019 Clara in the Nutcracker, Madame Alexander #24

Onto STOREHOUSE where we had hot coffee and a homemade peanut butter cookie.  Picked up a VICTORIAN PRINT with three playful children in the image.  The print is a repo and I will want to put it into a different frame.  This will be a sweet print to hang in the Victorian room.  

Bought some costume jewelry, antique covered vegetable dish, some salt 'n pepper sets and a metal Home Expandable Bathtub Caddy.  From here we went to my doctor's appointment to see if a bump on my eyelid is cancer or not.  Relieved to be told this is a cyst.  Watch and wait.  Later I'll have it removed.

~REJOICING IN THE RAIN~  

Rejoicing and very thankful that this is not cancer.

Waited three months to see this doctor because he only comes to Topeka the first Friday of each month.

It was quick encounter, but a very good one.

SAMs afterwards to get our organic coffee pods, organic free range eggs, organic salad greens, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, more Halloween candy.  Boxed up items and out the door.  They no longer had the huge mums I waited to buy.  If only....Onto ALDI for a few more items.  HOME we go.


Meals planned are Pot Roast with carrots, onions and potatoes.
Enchiladas, rice and salad.
Baked chicken and green beans.
Salad with croutons.
Meatloaf and more veggies.
Pizza and salad.
Asparagus and chicken breasts.
Chili Nachos.  
Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers.

Overall pleasant day. HOME SWEET HOME and back to heating my neck and icing my heels.  Enjoying the rearranged Living room.  Enjoying this long awaited change.
d  

LIFELINE SCREENING

The word did not get out to me that the CROSS COUNTRY MEET had been canceled due to possible bad weather and being in a flash flood warning so I drove the distance to the location.  No runners.  No course.  Phoned my Sweetheart to find out where he was and he told me he had tried to catch me to tell me the meet was canceled.  I just laughed and said well I'm out of the house and saw beautiful scenery plus rock houses.

I enjoyed the country roads where I saw quite a few stone houses.  Made my heart sing a little as they sure were so very cute.  The weather was in the 90s with a high heat index, so it was for the best that the meet wasn't.  Since I was so close to Manhattan I drove on into town to go to GOODWILL.  Tuesday is Senior Discount Day.  Then walked over to TUESDAY MORNING and overheated.

I know that I am not in the best of health these days.  Tis awful.  Difficult for me to admit that I am not in good health.  Pretending it's not so does not make it vanish into thin air.  I will be better off if I admit this is happening and seek medical attention.  HELP.

As the weather cools off I will still be challenged as walking doesn't come easily to me.  The inside of the store was warm which didn't help.  Found some BLUE WILLOW Bowls with handles on them called A JUMBO MUG.  6 of them for soup, pudding, salad, chips or ice cream.  So cute I couldn't help rejoice that the store had them for such a discounted price.  Bought them.  I don't have any such bowls for my collection, so this was a find.

TRUE TO IT'S NAME there is only a little bit of honey in this product.  A small bag of BIT O HONEY candy caught my eye as these were some of my childhood favorites.  HUBBY had caught up with me and took over at the check out so I could go to the car and sit with the air conditioner on.  This helped.  I drove the back roads HOME.  Lovely drive HOME.

A forceful storm passed us in the evening as a tornado warning was in effect in a nearby county.  We were blessed to not be threatened by tornadoes and had a pleasant SUPPER then watched PBS POLDARK.  We have binged watched the last SEASON and saw the ending which ends well.  No spoiler alerts.  Well done Poldark.    

The scenes are way too short and choppy.  Don't like this technique.  I'll have to go to the first episodes in Season One and see if these were as choppy.  I don't think they were.  I'll have to contact the producers of the show and complain.  I know they'll listen to lil ole me.  ha grins.

This afternoon I opened the backdoor to let some fresh air inside as it is raining.  Presently the temperature is 65.  Lovely day to sit in screened in porch and listen to it rain.  No thunder or wild wind.  Peaceful rain. 

My middle of the week day has not gone as I had planned.  Much time has been spent sitting going through paperwork, icing my heels and heating my neck.  Many phone calls were made about medical appointments.  The one that I choked on was by Ascension Via Christi HOSPITAL where the woman on the other end was informing me that a Vascular ultrasound is scheduled and I will be charged $1122.oo toward the insurance company and out of pocket expense will be $502.oo

This phone call was actually a blessing to receive as it caused me to remember the LIFELINE SCREENING test.  This phone call prevented spending of $502.oo out of pocket for one test.  ONE TEST.  

I'm already up to my neck with medical bills to pay.  Trying like heck to not owe anyone anything.  It has been hard to pay on medical bills for so long.  Slow and steady but still draining.  Soon we will be retirement age and I'm wondering how this will go for medical bills.  

www.lifelinescreening.com

At the Hospital payment for ultrasound is expected ON DAY of test.  
I put two and two together and recalled an offer by LIFELINE SCREENING that gives 5 tests for $139.oo. that's $27.8o a test.  This is very doable wouldn't you say?

CAROTID ARTERY SCREENING (Same as the Vascular Ultrasound is the Carotid Artery Scan by theHospital)
PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
OSTEOPOROSIS RISK (Bone Density) 

I made arrangements for my Husband and I both to have LIFELINE SCREENING give us these 5 tests next week.  I rescheduled my Vascular Ultrasound and will have this done if I'm not pleased with LIFELINE's.  

12 years ago we did LIFELINE.  If these results do not please us then we'll go this other route and see what they say.  

When having Health Insurance causes some test to be higher priced then if you don't have health insurance makes me frown.  Prices are elevated for insured peeps.  Humpf.  I heard of some medicines being higher with insurance.  This is a racket folks.  Hello?

So my evening will be spent going through more papers, feet up icing the heels and heating the neck.  Lovely way to spend an evening pleasantly at HOME.

Blessings,

d

OCTOBER ARRIVES

WAITING FOR THE MIDNIGHT HOUR I was awake as OCTOBER arrived quietly in the night.  No storm or winds blowing.  Peacefully in the dark she crept in to my life so I went to bed to cover up my head.  Autumn present.  

Cooler temps late into the evening and early morning hours are welcomed as the long hot Summer symptoms wear on into AUTUMN and now OCTOBER.  Leaves have baked by being overheated from the sun's rays and humidity baking crunchy curls that fall to the ground.  AUTUMN is falling.  

Late Summer blended into early Autumn on the calendar as well as in the out of doors.  AUTUMN arrived and marched into the beginning of October.  Here she be.

My OVER CROWDED calendar has many commitments that I wish I could ignore, but need to be realistic with medical appointments and doctor's visits.  Makes my head spin how crowded the calendar is becoming.  This first week of the month is no exception.  I just phoned my doctor's nurse in which I got a recorded message.  I am in hopes to have a prescription refilled without having to return to the physical building where a brief encounter would take place and a prescription faxed into the pharmacy.  I left my info and will see if the nurse phones me back before I head out the door.

I have sat in my recliner this morning icing my aching heels with cloth covered tea towels.  Both heels are in discomfort.  Heating the back of my neck with a rice filled sock that was nuked in the microwave for two minutes gives some relief to whatever is going on there.  A week ago I finished a round of strong antibiotics for a sinus infection, but have a slight temperature today with the base of my skull aching and a tell tale sign of discolored snot as I blew my nose.  Headache time.  So I believe my infection doesn't want to go away.

This is the pits.  When I have an infection in my body, I have signs of irritation and sometimes blah ness.  With as old as I am, paying attention to the symptoms shouldn't be ignored.  I have a problem with not wanting to admit that I wear down so easily and frequently.

Is it that my immune system is worn the heck out?  Is it what I'm eating?  I will be writing down some blood test that I'd like to have done.  Can I get to the bottom of this?  Should I be checked for food allergies?  Give up gluten?  Be checked for MTHFR gene mutation?  Is my body not absorbing the nutrients needed?  Too much stress?  Adrenaline Fatigue?  Cortisol?  

I believe I need to study the word of God and read what a person is to eat or not eat.  The way our food is produced these days, the soil not having the nutrients it needs because of farming practices these days, the fertilizers that are being used, the crops being molested by GMOs, the chemicals being used....makes a person wonder.  The water isn't pure.  Chemicals overflow into the aquifer.  I fear we are KILLING ourselves by what and how our food chain is being treated along with what's in the water.

SO I ask myself....SELF, DO YOU KNOW more then you are letting on?  Are you behaving like a half wit even though you know more than the average bear?

You can believe that you are eating and drinking healthily and when push comes to shove, hidden info is revealed and you actually are not eating and drinking healthily.  Take nutrients, take vitamins and minerals.  Think you're doing a healthy thing to find out that the synthetic vitamins do not absorb the same as natural.  

Eat organic.  You find out the organic chickens you are eating are not fed healthy food, but junk.  They need to be free range not caged and fed healthy grains.  Grains that are not GMO grains.  So the chicken you are eating came from chickens that ate GMO grains.  

Gluten free yourself?

You're told to drink more water.  So you decide to drink more water just to find out that fluorides added to the water are a monster that you have been brain washed to accept and believe is alright for you.  

What's an endocrine disruptors?  Derailing what?  

The plastic the bottled spring water is stored in isn't a great thing cause the plastics leach chemicals into the water contaminating the water with chemicals that you drink.  Will fluoride calcify your pineal gland?  My what?  

Does a calcified pineal gland cause dementia, Alzheimers?  Health issues that turn you into a cash cow for the illuminati?  Is Lucifer your god?  

Fake food, chemically loaded food, pesticides galore, GMO altered food, polluted drinking water, synthetic vitamins.....pesticides laced fabrics that you wear.  Radio frequencies...the better to fry you with. 

Overload.  Overload.  Too much information.  Deanna, you sound like a nut case.  Debbie Downer here with Susie Sunshine.  There has to be a happy medium. 

Susie Sunshine, What do you have to say about all this?

Do you have a ray of HOPE for me?  

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