Thru the Valley of fat... lead astray by husband...

Forgive me for I have sinned...

I have walked the thin line between Christmas and New Years day.
But I have fell in the alley between, pulled in by my sinful husband..

and lead to the unspeakable of cheeseburgers, he has tempted me with his store bought candy (like we needed more)
Ah, but we will repent next week as we go in to the deep depth of limited food.

For nothing of sugar will reach our mouths.. No pasta, no potatoes, shall tempt out souls... Yea though the valley of sweetness will surely call our names, we shall walk no further. 

For our lettuce shall sustain us.

As well as our broccoli and cauliflower, shall hold us up out of the murky
valley of fat.  May water and black coffee aid us in our journey of the thin bodies we desire.  

And the King and I wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.. may

2016 treat us all kinder..

This season, this year...is hard

The season is hard when death knocks on the door

once again...  

We are pretty much on overload... A nephew in August.

A dear friend loses her son to a heart attack during

a day of hunting out of state...

A sister dies, (of ours), 2 days later...

And mother of my son in law Sunday early am....

So we are going to wish you all a Merry Christmas and

a Happy New Year to all of you...  Be sure to hug your

family members... enjoy your time with them.. make

lots of memories, enjoy lots of laughter...  and be blessed

by our Lord...

May the year 2016, be kinder to all of us....

Be back hopefully on the 4th of January...  

The more I watch the less I know....

I gave up on watching the debates... while rile

up the system, over some one who may not even

be around next year... Lot of them are like a firecracker..

the fuse is bound to burn out... and the fickle

public will forget who they are.. So why bother

now..  Easier on your heart as well.. after all

why get upset over them and their outlandish

claims?

But I digress... the more I watch the less

I know, about modern music.  Never been

a big fan of rap or  Iron metal Rock, I

think it is called..  And then there are the

different artist.  There is the arrogant

Keena West, I think his name is.. but

tell me.. do tell me .. what the heck is

THE WEEKEND....   No,  I am not talking

about Friday,  Saturday and Sunday.. But

a singer, who I think is male.. with the

most wicked hair do, I have ever seen.

I couldn't tell you if he is a good singer,

as his head is so distracting. I don't know

if his/her hair is pulled to side and wrapped

or what.. or is the head partly shaved? 

My attention span is bad, when it come

to the music of today.. For one reason is,

why do they scream when they are singing(?),

that question mark is for, is that singing?

I remember the day when the singer sang

a story.. some times sad, some times happy,

some times of love that is gone.. But you

could understand the words.

I guess I am just an old fuddle duddle...

Not with it. Remember I am from the

first Rock and Roll generation.. Elvis,

Lit Richard, Fats Domino and such.

And I  am sure it baffled my grandfather

as he was a fan of Lawrence Welk..

Ah, one, ah two... etc.   But I don't think

he was as baffled as I am at the way the

stars are not. 

Boy, talk about bad timing...

As you all have seen in the past blog post, we lost one of

our family members....  She passed on Monday, December 7th.

So Pearl Harbor Day will have a more mourning day for us.

On Wednesday, in our mail... we got a letter from the local

funeral home... not the one we used.  Telling us of their

services...  talk about bad timing...  I am sure they didn't

know, as the obituary didn't come out until Wednesday

paper.   We know they had no way of knowing.. but it

sure does hit hard... and yet, you end up laughing... release

I guess...

We had something similar happen to us when the King's

mother passed away 14 years ago... it was an ad for

life insurance... about 3 months after she passed... by

that time I had gotten a sense of humor... And wrote

that I didn't think Mary would be interested in their

insurance, but they could contact her at the cemetery

and gave the plot number..and ask her.

Telling how she had passed 3 months prior.

Got the most apologetic letter back.    Then 5 years

later we got two different letters selling something..

My guess is someone sold her name to some companies.

Wrote to them and told them to remove her name as

she had passed away 5 years prior.   Nothing back

from them..

It where you want to say.. boy did you get the wrong

number... luckily we can laugh about it now. 

Christmas isn't fun any more...

I have said that Christmas is for kids.. and it is..

Nothing brings out the brightness and sparkle of

Christmas than thru the eyes of a child.

But as an adult, with no little ones in my life

local... Christmas pretty much sucks.  It is

just another day, with lots of commercial hype.

Buy this.. buy that...

It isn't just because this year Christmas has gotten

knocked out by tragedy in our family and also

our friend who lost a son 2 weeks ago.. We just

don't do well at this time of the year.

The King and I kind of ruin it for those who want

to do for us at Christmas time.. but when we have

needs, we go out and buy it.  So trying to figure out

how to surprise us with something..  it is hard.. even

with the King and I with each other.  Like this year.

During Black Friday, they had tablets on sale.. so

he told me to go get it.. he needed a tool.. go get it.

What we really like to do.. and maybe in 2016 we

can do it.. as he will be retired.. but go way from

Christmas.. go to the beach.. even if it is cold and

windy... it is still cool to see. and even bundled up

and walk it..   Maybe next year.. 

Death Be Damned....

Death affects us differently.   And a lot of it depends on

how that person died.

Those who suffer greatly, like with cancer.. or such...

we get to the point where we can't take our love ones

painful ordeal, that we welcome death for them.  Even

though it tears our heart out that they are gone.  Yet we

get to say good bye to them and have closure. 

Then there are the sudden ones... the car accident or the

out of nowhere heart attack or such.  It is a rip of an

emotional band aid off of your mind.  No good byes. 

There are reasons, sometimes, that you can adjust to 

and understand...  even though it still tears your heart

out.

And then there is suicide.  This time, a rip of your

heart out. Your mind going through it over and over.

The "If only"... the bottomless pit ... the useless pit, of

if only I had said...if only had done this, or if only I

could have been there.... the if only... is a deep,

helpless pit.  

Then comes the next phase of it.... the handling of

the affairs.  Finding out the information you need

to take care of their affairs.. as there is no warning,

there is no list to follow, there is no will, there is

no nothing... So you blindly, thru tears and anger,

go thru papers, try to find all the papers.  Going

down the funeral home and face reality of cost,

which you didn't save for.. but find the money

anyway.  Then going thru the rest of the person's

personal things...and decide how to get rid of them.

And you play the hurry up and wait came of the

legal system.  And you wonder, if life will ever

return to what you thought was normal again.

Depression.. we hear a lot about it in the news media.

Robin Williams and such.  You feel bad for the family.

The articles on depression, you read everyone if you

have a family member who suffers from it.  Trying

to understand it.  So you will know how to help.

Some times you can... some times it take others...

and some times the black hole of depression grabs

our love ones, and you lose the battle.  You both do.

Once again.. this death .. has no good byes.. if there

is.. it is one sided.  

We need better laws to address depression... we need

better approaches... we need help... Hopefully the program

and building in the town south of us.. will have some

of those for the others.   

Good bye, our smiley pixie girl.   

Very sad day.....

We have a death in our family.. so taking the rest of the week off..

R.I. P.     K.M.G.    may you be a peace finally

Pearl Harbor

The younger generation has read about this.

My generation lived part of it as we were

just small children.. I, personally was only

a year and half old.  My father worked

for the government.. as a torpedo assembler. 

So he did not go overseas.

But there were a lot of children's fathers that did

go over to fight the World War II fight. Some

never return.  Never getting to know their father's

just as it is happening now, as our young troops

are over in the Mid-East fighting or policing the

areas.

War is hell.  I know that was said a long time ago.

And this one, the WWII, was suppose to be the

last war.. We learn nothing. The world has seen

the pictures, video's, films of Pearl Harbor.. they

have seen the video's/film and pictures of the Japanese

cities that we bombed, yet each country signs up

for settling the differences by ammo.  The only

difference of the two wars, is the WWII bunch

valued life.  Yes, they killed each other, but bottom

line they valued life. The ones we have now, do not.

The only good human of other faiths or countries,

to these people, are a dead human.. no matter what

country they come from .

Sad as we look back at Pearl Harbor, and then the

end of the war in 1945... that it was not the end of

all wars.

To all those who fought the World War II, and there

are a few still around.. more than you think... to all of

you.. Thank you for your service.  My generation still

remembers the price you paid. 

What is wrong with God's model?

We have had in the past, clone sheep. I think

even a baby in England.. That has to be at

least 20 years ago... haven't heard how all

that turn out.. From what I understand the

baby is still alive and well (who must be

a teen or young 20's by now) but have not

hear about anymore of them.  Neither child

or sheep wise.

The other thing of great protest is Monsanto's

insistent of doing gene changing of our food.

There are about 30 countries who have banned

it. Hawaii has banned it.. Why in heaven's name

the rest of our country has not, blows my mind.

I know when they tried to at least have it marked

so we customers could make a choice, there was

a great push out of state interest to put it down

and it did not pass. Some times voters are crazy.

I don't understand the want of this program.

It is like us neutering all males. How not having

a seed or plant with seeds not be able to have

them used again... is beyond me. What happens

when every USA plant does not reseed?  Then

I guess we will have to look at the countries

who were smart enough to ban GMO.  The

fact that the government is behind or protecting

GMO, really baffles me.  It isn't just the idea

of no reseeding... but it is coming to light that

there are health issues to it.

But that isn't enough for those who like this. Changing

of God's plan... now we have interest and studies of

Gene editing... So the scientist can do some editing

to get rid of a bad health gene out of children.  And

of course, then they will go further trying to get the

perfect child.  This is a very dangerous idea in my

book..   To me God has perfected everything he

has created.  Yes, there are flaws.. but those flaws

are part of life.   I suppose there are those who

want the perfect life.. in every form, but I am not

one of them.. Life is humbling.. something I see as

a good trait.

In my humble opinion... God's model has been doing

just fine for over thousands and thousands of years.

Why mess with it. 

The Lists.... checking them twice of more

The count down.....

Just 23 more days to Christmas....

Are you making list.. I am.. a list

of those I already sent Christmas cards

to.. so I don't send doubles...

A list of baskets that I am making up

and what to put in each one.

A list of what books go to which child.

A list of the different food I still need

to make for those baskets.

A list of who do I need to get a gift for yet.

So much to do and so little time.. as this

is the time of the year.. December,  that

flies by us, faster than the rest of the year.

On January 2, 2016, we can breathe a

sign of relief and endure the rest of the

winter. 

The Kindness Season

Here we are.. the 1st of December. Heading

into the holidays, called Christmas and New

Years Eve.. and New Years day.

Most people get the "Christmas spirit"

which is where everyone is nice to everyone.

At least they try to be.

So what is it about Christmas that makes

people think they should be nice to people,

but not the rest of the year.  Why are they

even nice during this holiday season?  Is

it because Jesus was born?  Because Jesus

is with us year around.. so why not be nice

year around.. after all, this is the "Christian"

thing to do..

Which brings me to the politically correct

question.. are Jewish people, Muslins, and

etc.  nicer during December?

Personally, if you are going to be nice to

people, it should be year around and have

nothing to do with religious reasons.