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Searching again, for blogs which love/display magical thinking and whimsey and faeries, etc.  Really the only one I have found, which balances out all these things...  Is Cielo's.  I first found her "The House In The Roses" blog, and loved it.  She has moved and now writes in "The Here And Now" blog. 

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 Her way of blogging is the best example, of this.  And hers, seems to be about the only example of what I love.  -sigh-  Am I the only one, who just loves her blog(s)? 

No, because people comment in her blogs.  But does anyone else, want to write/picture a blog, in a (somewhat) similar way?

Yes, I do.  But I'm not nearly so talented.    I try.  Without anywhere near her success.  But, I do try.

Are there others out there, like me?  Who love these aspects of blogging?  And if so, why haven't I found them?

 Are there any others, who would love to even try, but don't? 

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Reading... For wishing... For courage to do... What we wish for... :-)

Commenting in a friend's blog, I was reminded of the book "Unplug The Christmas Machine."  I've had it for years, and think it's marvelous.  It helps one be *brave* enough to buck-the-trend, of this Holiday Season.

The trend which is constantly being pushed on us, in adds, and tv, and in magazines, and news papers, and in stores, and in the Mall, and even the radio...  Buy, buy, buy!  Do, do, do!  Run, run, run!  Bake, bake, bake!  Plan, plan, plan!

 

Bucking-the-trend is hard to do, this time of year.  -sigh-

A similar book, which I've also had for years is "Simplify Your Christmas," by Elaine St. James.  (Click-able links to these books, are at the end of this post...)  Way back when I first bought and read this little book...  Doing such things, was only a dream. 

 

I'm happy to say, that over the years, I have done more and more, to simplify my Christmas.  !!!!!!!!   What were sort of dream-books, for me...  Have become more real.   Yessss....  :-)

Do you long to simplify your Christmas, or whatever Holiday you celebrate, at this time of the year?  If so,  have you found any reading, which has been helpful, for you?  Would you please share these books, etc. with the rest of us?

As I said earlier in this post, I share click-able links to the books I mentioned...  Below.

LINKS to BOOKS

"Unplug The Christmas Machine"

"Simplify Your Christmas"

 

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"If you didn't know how old you are, how old would you be?"

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I love Doris Roberts!

I want to be this active, and this feisty, when I'm 88!

Wow!

Please read more about Doris Roberts by clicking here...

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Isn't that lovely?  It's called "The Lady Of The Snows" by George Henry Boughton.   It is the cover art, on the latest 'Victorian Trading Co.' catalog.  They know how to gently get someone "in the mood" of the Season.  :-)

  I say "gently," because they simply display beautiful items.  Mostly old fashioned looking items.  Not the glitzy need-batteries-items, which are everywhere else.

And I'm taking these fun, old, Christmas themed CD's out of the library, before they become in demand.  :-)

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NCIS  Spoiler Alert 

If you are an NCIS fan, and you did not see the Nov. 19th program, and do not want to "be spoiled,"  please don't read any farther.  

If you did watch, and would like to chat about it...   Please continue reading below...

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Did you like the new Character?  Did you like how she was introduced?  Do you expect to like her, being part of the ongoing shows?

We say Yes, to all of those questions.  But many fans may have different views.  I'd love to hear your own....  Please share....  If you are an NCIS fan.   :-)

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"Tasha Tudor Time"...

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It's "Tasha Tudor Time"...  Yet again... 

When "the exsecramentum hits the rotating wind device," in one's neck of the woods, it really helps to delve into "Tasha Tudor Time," or "Tasha Tudor Mode."

Who is Tasha Tudor, some might ask...?  Please click on this link-->  Who is Tasha Tudor?

Please click on this link-->Tasha Tudor and Family

And on this one-->To purchase items...

Tasha was many things.  All of which, she chose to be.  She lived her life, as she wished.  Hard at times, yes.  But.......  As she wished.   To me, that is her most wonderful legacy.
  

When "the exsecramentum hits the rotating wind device," in one's neck of the woods........  What do I mean, by this??????????   Well, I wrote a post, first thing, but decided not to post it, on the front of my blog.  I put it in "Pages," which can be found by looking down, to the bottom of my Side Bar.  ("Sometimes I rant")  If you wonder, what "had my knickers in a twist", you can find out there.  Or not.  Your choice. 

Today...

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This and that, and the other thing... :-)))

Toy Dump Truck, my husband made, for a silent auction.  For the annual Rotary Scholarship Foundation Brunch.  All made from pieces of various woods, he had left over, from previous wood working projects.

What a Full Harvest Moon we had, hu???????  :-)

I've been doing less Cozy Mystery book reading...  And more books on nutrition and How To Eat And Live.  These above, are a couple of them.

But my favorite is "The French Don't Diet Plan."  Basically it says to: 

*Eat real food.  

*Do not eat processed foods.  

*Take time to enjoy your meals, so you won't overeat.  

*Have a glass of wine.  

*Stay active.  

*Slow our hectic American lifestyle down enough, to enjoy your life.

:-)

 

Examples of real food.  Organic fruit.  Real cream.  (See, no long table of contents on any of those things...)

 

  

Home made Eggplant Parm.

Whatcha' think...????????????

The rest of the year, I grumble about...

The rest of the year, I grumble about all the junk growth, which neighbor's boyfriend allowed to grow in her yard, just over the fence from us.  But come Autumn, I have to be loving it....  Those *evil* scrub bushes and vines, do turn lovely colors.............  

But I still want my neighborhood view back!!!  -pout- 

Saw this interesting picture, somewhere...  Perhaps on Tumbler...  Anyway, it caught my eye.

Now I am "olden" and do not have all the latest "techie toys," which come out.  I can't even text!  I don't want to be tied to data!

But!  Data is not just, being plugged into alllllllll the technology.  Data is also, being very tied, to some.  A computer certainly deals in data.  If you are reading this, and are a blogger, you too are loving your data.

-sigh-  So now you can see why that little saying on that picture, fits me.  After all.  Nope, don't want to be tied to and loving data, data, data.  But I am.  And I am sorry about this fact.  It kind of shocks me, in fact.

Where are you, on this "Being Tied To Technology" business?  In all the way, and loving it?  Not wanting to be in too far?  But realizing that you too, are loving Data more, than you intended to?

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Fire-pit... Goat products... Fasting BS...

Sunday evening, son and family (next door) had a fire in the fire-pit.

 Granddaughter's boyfriend was over.  Fun times.  "S'mores" were made, of course.  And just roasted marshmallows, too.

It's a beautiful-fun time of year.

Why am I not paying more attention to the now?

And less attention to the computer?

Trying to cut back on sugar.   I know... I need to go "cold turkey."  But wonder if I can????

My blood sugar numbers are fine...  According to the present medical info.

But a book (by a doctor) I'm reading, wants fasting blood sugar to be no higher than 88.........
 

 It seems as if, any cutback in sugar use, would have to be helpful...  Needless to say, this doc wants us to dump sugar, under all its different, sneaky names.

Yesterday, I ate some plain goat yogurt and felt so virtuous.  -grin-  All processed yogurt has "stuff" like forms of sugar, added to it.  Not this!!! 

Need the goat cheese/yogurt, etc., because I can tolerate that.  But my bod can't tolerate dairy, any more.

Day 4... "Feeling better" creeps over the windowsill... :-)

The cover art, on a Vermont Country Store catalogue...  Awwwwww, I just love old-fashioned looking art like this.  Especially in the Autumn time.  The mom answering the door, looks like a 40's or 50's era mom.  The children's costumes, look to be from those era's too.  No *super heroes* or etc.  Just a simple old fashioned clown and witch.  

 

Wearing white socks with *saddle shoes.*   

 

(Anyone remember, shoes being called *saddle shoes*???) 

 

Day 4 of this cold...  It continues to go through various creepy, icky, miserable, *ughy* phases, as colds do.  But this morning, I did feel better.  Actually got out of my flannel-granny-night-gown and put on my big-girl-clothes.  And felt like doing something.  Nothing big, but something.  

 

 

NOT quite ready to dance.  Nope, not yet.  But better....

 

 And even if I'm not yet dancing...

 

I do like that Nietzsche quote above.  For me, it speaks to... Not dismissing ideas/views/choices of others, just because we didn't think of them, ourselves. 

I think I would dance, if I had these shoes, though...   :-)

Never... But...

Never forget

But do not dwell on...

Just going shopping....

This poor woman.  She can't just go shopping, without causing a media frenzy.  

"Oh look, how tiny she is, so soon after giving birth!!!"

"Oh wow!"

"Oh wow!"

"Oh wow!"

I do not want to be influenced by the media's message, that all women must be thin.

But I looked at this pic.  -sigh-  Yes, I did.  

I happen to like Kate.  Not in a cult-following way.  In a...  This-couple-seems-to-be-trying-to-live-as-normal-a-life,- as-is-possible,-in-their-life-situation way. 

So, if I applaud their down-to-earth-ness, "should" I have followed this story? 

Oh what a mass of contradictions, are we humans.  One moment, we espouse one view.  A couple of moments later, we espouse another.  

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