Boo!

I couldn't have asked for a nicer day. We had a really "fattening" Halloween Lunch at work. We have some really good cooks amongst us. Not I , however. Last week I gave a "goblin bag" anonymously to Amanda. What a sweetie!!! I gave her the Dove milk chocolate with carmal filling, Yum!! She then goblin'd Brenda, who goblin'd Gene, who goblin'd Juanita, who goblin'd Mandy. Then I totally lost track.

Dropped my swimmer off at practice at 3:30, an hour later, she was done.

Only about 2 hours early! What a nice coach to give them a bit of a break and let them have some Halloween fun. Of course, it was all because my swimmer picked a "treat" and it was a "get-out" swim. And the challenge was met!

Swimmers Take Your Mark

.....and she's off!!! First meet of the season, at home
thank goodness. She was able to sleep in her own bed, do her own thing and we saved travel and hotel expenses. She had a decent meet considering how brokendown she is from training. After 9 practices a week the child has no problem sleeping at night. It's back to school tomorrow morning after being off since the 17th for a little Fall Break.

Her High School is requiring try-outs for the swim team this year. So, add another activity on to her plate tomorrow.

Dennis Prager Happiness Hour

I 've had my RIO mp3 player for almost 3 yrs and I use it just about everyday. It's a great way for me to keep up with my favorite talk shows.

Dennis Prager (DP) has a Happiness Hour which is his 2nd hour every Friday. If you're able to listen live it would be at 1 pm EST.

This week DP talked about the Destructive Nature of Envy. You cannot be happy if you envy people. Envy is one of our most human of frailities. But we must fight it. He equates envy to the "missing tile" syndrome. Which is like having a thousand tiles on the ceiling and one is missing, we tend to focus on that missing tile. Failing to see that the other 999 tiles are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing and are what we wanted.

There is always something someone has that we don't. But we forget that we also have things that others will envy us for.

A lady, Juanita called up and said that when she was younger she was often jealous and envious of others. Girls that had nicer clothes, pretty barrettes, etc. Then in her 20's she realized that the pain of feeling envy was much worse than not having that material "something" that she wanted. So, she made a conscious effort to stop being envious. It just wasn't worth it.

I love Dennis Pragers' wisdom and insight. I get a real kick out of him. I don't agree with everything he has to say, but 95% of what he does say is just right on with me.

You can download his shows from the following website: http://www.patriotunderground.com/

Remember your Family & Friends

I stumbled upon this blog of Ray Blakes a while back. He calls it "working on me". I haven't commented on many blogs before but I felt compelled to comment on this one. He was writing about keeping in touch with others. He established a system where he will reming himself to
contact a person on his list by 1) phone call 2) letter 3) email 4) face-to-face. You can find what
he says here:
http://workingonme.squarespace.com/journal/a-system-to-keep-in-touch-with-people.html#comments

So, I need to figure out a few things:
1- Who will be on my list
2- Names of those I've lost touch with and ideas how to get their current addy's
3- How I will respond
4- What system will I use to record these actions

Hats

For the last 6 yrs I've been making these long tail hats. The fleece choices have been more fun then ever. I totally have a weakness for cute fleece. I would sell these at little church craft bazaars and people just loved them.

This is a batch of 89 hats. Ready to go. When I was a kid I swam AAU, that first winter I caught pneumonia because I wouldn't wear a hat. So, this if for all those kids/ adults who need that extra warmth on their heads so they don't get sick. When I started this, my daughter would hand these hats out to all her friends. She of course, had the pick of the litter. I believe one season she had 15 hats that she wore regularly. A mother of a friend of my daughters made her her first hat. She was 8 yrs old at the time. About 4 girls had these matching hats. Michelle wore her hat the entire Christmas break, even slept with it on. I then knew I had to learn how to make these hats.

Windsocks

Color!! We start with the primary colors and work our way out! I love color! It's all around us. I lean toward those very Primary colors (reds, yellows and blues).

These windsocks are the coolest, a local garden shop has these out and they are the prettiest site. I always think I'll stop by and purchase one someday. But I get overwhelmed, which one would I buy? Would I get tired of it after I bought it? I think not!

Be Brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the

place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave

the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your

intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work

and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing.

What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover will be yourself.

-Alan Alda, advice to his daughter

My Dog

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not

the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln

This is Gretchen. She's been with us since 1998, she was born in

August that same year. Which makes her 63 in dog-years. She's a

sweetie, most-of-the-time. But my family swears she can fake

an injury for attention and she definitely tries to get away with

things that she doesn't want to do. For instance, we'll let her

out at night before bed and she won't go do her business unless

we stand at the door and watch her walk off the deck. Otherwise,

she just turns around and waits at the door to be let back in.

What's in a Name?

Ok, so where have I been? I got my nails done today and there was an April issue of People out with Marcia Cross (from Desperate Housewives) on the front. She had twin girls in February. What really caught my eye was that she named one of her girls Eden, the other one is named Savannah. So, now I'll have to pay more attention to what's going on with the celebrities. But I tell you they are hard to keep up with. I don't even recognize half of them. Probably because I don't watch that much tv or see alot of new release movies. I'm the first one to change the channel if Brittany, Paris or Lindsey are mentioned.

There's got to be more to life...................

But really, if you know another Eden please comment. I've only known 2 other ones. One was a guy a yr older than me in High School and the other one was a daughter of a Dr I worked with.

People in the Crowd

Here are just a few of the fans sitting right behind us. Aren't they the cutest?

Go! Tigers! Go!

The St.Xavier Tigers beat Trinity Shamrocks on Friday Sep 28th 24-15 at the Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium where 37,750 fans watched this Catholic Superbowl. Last year the Rocks beat St. X, they scored early in the 1st quarter. An approaching thunderstorm had both teams go for cover in the 1st quarter and they never returned to the field.