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Top Headlines: I am so close I will Finish on Time?

I just finished hand writing my novel called The Whispering Path. I have about 50 or so pages that I have to get on the computer. Then I have print out my story and edit it before the end of June or I don’t get my free published copy.

I have dishes to do and a living room to straighten up, but tonight I dedicating most of my time (besides this blog) into my story.

Top Headline: It’s Friday the 13th

Most people have superstitions with the number thirteen. . . I was born on December 13th, so this number is lucky for me. So I am just saying Happy Friday the 13th!

Health News

For the last week, I have been nauseated (usually between 8pm and 11pm). Tom and I have been rushing around with his friends and their family. Their drama and stress has really paid a toll on my health. . . I hate being nauseated over someone else’s house.

I have been dizzy, and have cramps and backaches . . . I hope to feel better soon.

Sorry if I sound moodier than usual, but these damn hormones . . . the more list all of my symptoms, the more people keep telling me I am pregnant. . . I am really torn. I have been nauseated for weeks, cramps, moody (bitchy and I feel like all I want to do is cry), I keep having weird smells. . . I was sleeping last night and all I could smell was urine, which made me more nauseated. I have been craving ice cream. However I think I am still having my period as well . . . so I am torn, because there is a part of me that wants a baby girl like now, there is a part of me that is trying to figure out why I am going through all of these symptoms if I am not pregnant, a part of me in says I can't be pregnant since I think I am on period. I am trying not to focus on this, but it's hard. Tom wants a kid so bad, he wants a boy and I want a girl. . . I have twins (both identical and fraternal) in the family so I would love just to have one of each and be done with it.

Last night I had a dream, but I kept waking up nauseated to the smell of urine, but it wasn’t Tom or me. .

It was a nice yesterday and I took time to smell the lilacs. . . one of my favorite flowers.

By June I also hope to have my Ab-lounge and my MP3 player to start my summer work out. I want to lose my double chin, thin out my ab and that flab under the arms. . . the rest of my body I just want to keep in shape.

Writing and Arts

I am almost done with this story, but I am just lacking motivation and discipline.

I have several other projects that keep flooding my brain lately. . . I have to keep telling myself no . . . Not until I get this NaNoWriMo 2010 project on the computer and mostly edited. I am so close I have about 50 hand-written pages to get on the computer. . . I hope to finish it over the weekend.

I have also enjoyed chatting online lately. . . However I am really annoyed with the picky guys, they do decent role-play, but damn are they picky. I have had a few good ideas for some short stories.

Local Fun

Today (May 13th) is my brother 16th birthday so Tom and I have been looking what to get a 16 year old kid. . . I am thinking of getting him his very first sword. (It was Tom’s idea.) Next year he gets to earn his own sword with Royal Rangers which is like Eagle scouts (actually I think Royal Rangers are more extreme with their element camping.)

We went to the mall several weeks ago and priced the swords at the local store and it is just easier pricing them on amazon.com.

Tom and I have been hanging out with his cousin and her family a lot lately. . . we had BBQ ribs and steaks on the grill.

Dear Me

Dear Me;

You are so confused right  . . . Take some time and forget everything. . . if something or someone is confusing you grab a crayon, note pad, some music and drown it all out.  Things will work out . . . take a mental vacation. . . we all need it sometimes.

Work on your novel!

Sincerely

Myself and I

Laughter is the best medicine

Sunday was Mother Day. . . Jokes about or with mothers

ER

I am five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly plump. After I had a minor accident, my mother accompanied me to the emergency room. The ER nurse asked for my height and weight, and I blurted out, "Five-foot-eight, 125 pounds."

While the nurse pondered over this information, my mother leaned over to me. "Sweetheart," she gently chided, "this is not the Internet."

Brownie Recipe

Here's a recipe to make Mom's famous brownies!

Remove teddy bear from oven and preheat oven to 375.

Melt 1 cup margarine in saucepan.

Remove teddy bear from oven and tell Jr "no, no."

Add margarine to 2 cups sugar.

Take shortening can away from Jr and clean cupboards.

Measure 1/3 cup cocoa.

Take shortening can away from Billy again and bathe cat.

Apply antiseptic and bandages to scratches sustained while removing shortening from cat's tail.

Assemble 4 eggs, 2 tsp. vanilla, and 1-1/2 cups sifted flour.

Take smoldering teddy bear from oven and open all doors and windows for ventilation.

Take telephone away from Jr. and assure party on the line the call was a mistake. Call operator and attempt to have direct dialed call removed from bill.

Measure 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 cup nuts and beat all ingredients well.

Let cat out of refrigerator.

Pour mixture into well-greased 9x13 inch pan. Bake 25 minutes.

Rescue cat and take razor away from Billy.

Explain to kids that you have no idea if shaved cats will sunburn.

Throw cat outside while there's still time and he's still able to run away.

Frosting--Mix the following in saucepan: 1 cup sugar 1 oz unsweetened chocolate 1/4 cup margarine.

Take the %$$&#&% teddy bear out of the @#$% broiler and throw it away -- far away.

Answer the door and meekly explain to nice policeman that you didn't know Jr had slipped out of the house and was heading for the street.

Put Jr. in playpen.

Add 1/3 cup milk, dash of salt, and boil, stirring constantly for 2 minutes.

Answer door and apologize to neighbor for Billy having stuck a garden hose in man's front door mail slot. Promise to pay for ruined carpet.

Tie Billy to clothesline.

Remove burned brownies from oven.

Things Your Mother Will NOT say. . .

"Be good and for your birthday I'll buy you a motorcycle!"

"How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?"

"Don't bother wearing a jacket--it's quite warm out."

"Let me smell that shirt--yeah, it's good for another week."

"I think a cluttered bedroom is a sign of creativity."

"Yeah, I used to skip school, too."

"Just leave all the lights on...it makes the house more cheery."

"Could you turn the music up louder so I can enjoy it, too?"

"Run and bring me the scissors! Hurry!"

"Aw, just turn these undies inside out. No one will ever know."

"I don't have a tissue with me--just use your sleeve."

"Well, if Timmy's Mom says it's okay, that's good enough for me."

"Of course you should walk to school and back. What's the big deal about having to cross a few main streets?"

"My meeting won't be over till later tonight. You kids don't mind if we skip dinner?

You know you’re a Mom when. . .

1. Your feet stick to the kitchen floor.....and you don't care.

2. When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someone's bleeding.

3. You can't find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you, and you run around the house madly, following the sound until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.

4. You spend an entire week wearing sweats.

5. Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.

6. Popsicles become a food staple.

7. Your favorite television show is a cartoon.

8. Peanut butter and jelly is eaten at least in one meal a day.

9. You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of where it is.

10. Your baby's pacifier falls on the floor and you give it back to her, after you suck the dirt off of it because your too busy to wash it off.

11. Your kids make jokes about flatulence, burping, pooping, etc. and you think it's funny.

12. You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!

13. Spit is your number one cleaning agent.

14. You're up each night until 10 PM vacuuming, dusting, wiping, washing, drying, loading, unloading, shopping, cooking, driving, flushing, ironing, sweeping, picking up, changing sheets, changing diapers, bathing, helping with homework, paying bills, budgeting, clipping coupons, folding clothes, putting to bed, dragging out of bed, brushing, chasing, buckling, feeding (them, not you), PLUS swinging, playing baseball, bike riding, pushing trucks, cuddling dolls, roller balding, basketball, football, catch, bubbles, sprinklers, slides, nature walks, coloring, crafts, jumping rope, PLUS raking, trimming, planting, edging, mowing, gardening, painting, and walking the dog. You get up at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet...you still managed to gain 10 pounds.

15. In your bathroom there is toothpaste on the light fixtures, water all over the floor, a dog drinking out of the toilet and body hair forming a union to protest unsafe working conditions.

16. You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.

17. The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making rice crispies bars.

Soap Operas

Well, I am trying my best to avoid stress, drama and any negativity right now. . . It doesn’t mean that I don’t hear about it . . .

Tom and I were over his cousin house as he works out with his best friend and her fiancées. (Her fiancées wants to be a wrestler. . . I hope he gets his dream.) Anyway there are times I go and visit and most of last week she had something going on. . . BBQ ribs on Tuesday, Steaks on the grill on Wednesday . . . she complains about not having enough money for the bills, but she shopping to expensive on clothes and food.

Spiritual Edge

Hope. . .

Synonyms: ambition, anticipation, aspiration, belief, confidence, dream, desire, encourage, endurance, expectation, faith, fancy, fortune, gain, goal, hunger, longing, love, miracle, optimism, passion, pray, promise, security, spirit, strive, thirst, trust, wish, yearn, zeal

Quotes:

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.”

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to never stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.” -Josh Hartnett

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”-Albert Einstein

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.  ~Emily Dickinson

You've gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is grief's best music.  ~Author Unknown

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” --Maya Angelou

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.” --John Lennon

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Rebekah’s News © May 2011