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Mar 31 2009

A New Store

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Yup! You read correctly! I have a new online store.

Most of these products are also customizable. If you want to put your image/design on these products or if you would like some other design on them, just email me and let me know what you want, I’ll do my best to make it to your satisfaction.

I’ve heard that the secrets of the millionaires is to have multiple streams of income.  This is what I am attempting to achieve. Now all I need to learn is to market my wares.

If anyone has any ideas for me, all are welcome. I am involved in several network marketing websites. I’m sending pictures of some of my wares to friends and family. Do you have any more ideas? Continue Reading »

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Mar 25 2009

Rant - Mona’s lap

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Mona (my 15 yr. young feline roomie) is standing on my…errr.. her lap and keeps walking around and around in circles. It is very frustrating for me to type or do anything on the computer. I truly love her dearly and she IS my angel! However, she gets my goat when she walks around in circles on MY lap. I keep telling her ‘Either lay down or get down’! But, I don’t think she understands. But, I do know she understood my frustrated tone! Also, it seems that she is ALWAYS on my/her lap! There are time, however, that I do not let her up. Like when I am in a hurry or I’m just going to be online for a little bit or when I am just too tired for her to be on me.

Here is a picture of my angel…

This is Mona, my angel! I have other pics, but this one is the best I have of her. She was about 13 years young here. She still runs around with Max (my 4 year old) chasing each other. I think that’s what she does to keep her girlish figure! I’ve never had very much medical problems with her. She sure gives me SO much joy and unconditional love! I think with the very little frustrations she gives me, that’s why I can forgive her of them.

I got my blood test results today. I have just a little bit high cholesterol count, about 14 above the normal. And my other counts are just on the border of being normal and high. The doc has recommended me to eat less fat, red meat (I don’t eat at all, anyway) and more fiber. In other words More Fruits and Veggies! Also, to do 20-30 mins. of aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week, which I already do anyway, too. I walk to and from Safeway/Wal-Mart/the library at least 3-4 times a week. That makes about 15-20 minutes one way.

That’s all to report for today! Still looking for that ever elusive job!

Ciao for now!

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Mar 23 2009

Rave - Spring has Sprung

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You can find my most current Easter designs on the blog panel to your lower left. How do you like them? I’ve also made some Mother’s Day ones. I realize that Easter is coming up shortly, so I thought I better get going. Since, my computer was sick for so long, it really made me fall behind.

Yes, it’s back! My baby is home!! SO, good to have her home! I am making up for lost time by spending a lot of time with her. She is running like a brand new computer! Wow! More speed, brighter colors, more memory! They found a few virus’s! It’s really funny, I was sick with the cold the same week my computer was sick! Amazing! 

I saw my first robin a couple of weeks ago. Recently, I read that there is a flock of male robins that fly in from the north, heading south. Than a flock of females and babies come in a few weeks later. So, those male robins are the first sign of Spring!

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Photo is thanks to http://www.coffeecreekwc.org/pages/showgallery_birds.asp

I really like Spring! Everything looks new and refreshed! Nature comes alive with bright colors! The trees grow new leaves, lawns begin to grow again and flowers begin to bloom. Even people seem a bit nicer! Perhaps it’s because the weather is warmer and they come out of their homes from being hibernated from the snowy outdoors.

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Mar 20 2009

Happy Favorites Friday

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I’m writing today’s blog from a computer at the local library! Yes, my beloved computer is in the computer hospital. It is due home sometime tomorrow, baring no complications. <crossing fingers, toes, eyes> That is why I haven’t written anything this whole loong week!!

My favorite comfort food(s)- A dear friend of mine asked me that recently and I had to think a bit. I know Fig Newton cookies and Oatmeal/Raisin cookies are in the top 2 of my favorite comfort foods. Mac n’ Cheese with catsup is one, but I’m not sure if its on the top of the list or not. spaghetti is up there too. GooGoo Cluster ice cream in the summer is another and for a summer drink PINK lemonade NOT that white one. Bush’s Chili, ohhh yeahhh Lentil Soup!! Yummy!! My mom used to make the BEST homemade Lentil Soup!! She made it with ham hock!! I have been trying to make that same flavor in mine, but alas no such luck!! I guess there’s nothing like Mom’s Homecookin! I sure miss her! She’s been gone for 25 years or so, now!! She is and will always be with me in spirit, in fact, I feel her sometimes and I do talk to her as if she was with me, because she is!! Perhaps not in body but always in spirit.

Well, I digress, and my time is almost up here at the library computer (one hour only, per day) :(  I’m so glad I was able to have this time to share with you! While you’r here, please leave me a note on what your favorite comfort foods are. What foods make you feel really good?? One I forgot is that new food group (well it should be) is dear ol’ chocolate, especially Dark Chocolate!! Yummm!!

Oh and one more thing… Not only my dear computer was sick, I have been as well, with what, you ask?! Yes, you guessed correctly.. a bug/a virus just like my computer! Go figure!!

Till next time, take good care of yourself!

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Mar 13 2009

Friday - Favorites Day

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I am incorporating Fridays to be ‘Favorites Day’ here at Rant Raves and Reviews!

Since today is Friday, it is ‘Favorites Day’! On Fridays I will be sharing one of my favorites of my life.

Today will be my Favorite place to live!

Here is a picture of my favorite place to live. It’s up in the mountains by a small man-made river, with 2 dogs, 4 cats, a garden in the back, a horse in a stall next to the garden and small shed for storage of food. The 2 dogs would be rottweilers. the 4 cats would be the two I already have and a tortoiseshell and an orange one, not long-hair. In the garden I would have fresh veggies and herbs.  I’d also have a boat and a small pier. I’d have full water rights and live with propane for lights. Yes, no computers, no phones, no tvs. But, I would have an emergency line to the nearest fire & police station.

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This is my DREAM HOME!! What are your thoughts? What is your most favorite place to live?

I saw this picture at a Tacoma Fair and HAD to have it! You know how that is!!

Thanks for your time! Please leave me a comment, question or suggestions! See you next time!

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Mar 08 2009

My newest Designs and a Review

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As I have promised you earlier, here are my latest designs and images at ‘Miller Creations’ at Zazzle.

Graphic ColorsGraphic Rainbow

Icy Tree Sap

Hodge Podge

Irish Couple

Irish Village

The Luck of the Irish

Happy St. Patrick's Day

You are My Pot of Gold

The images are thanks to ‘950,000 ClickArt’ software program I have.  All of these are copyrighted.

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Review - ‘Past Lives and Death’

by Jenny Cockell

Today I will review a fascinating book I finished last night, ‘Across Time and Death: A Mother’s Search for her Past Life Children’ by Jenny Cockell. I’ve been interested in Reincarnation and Past Lives for a long time now. I found this book in the library and had to check it out. I don’t find a book that consistently keeps my attention, thus not reading it all the way through. This one, however, did!

It’s a true story of Jenny Cockell who lives in Northamptonshire, England, whom since childhood has had dreams and visions of another life.  A life of a young Irish woman who died 21 years before Jenny was born, Mary. It tells of the many nights of waking up in terror, sweats, shaking and of her fear of telling her mother. Eventually, she does tell her and started to accept them as a part of herself. It tells of her long and persistent journey of finding Mary’s  8 children, where later she found that two had died, one in childbirth (wherein caused Mary’s death) and one later in life. 

As a child Jenny had drawn a map of the town where Mary lived and died. As an adult, after much research, Jenny was finally  able to physically go to Mary’s town in Ireland to see it for herself. To her astonishment, but not surprise, the layout of the town was a carbon copy her childhood map. She walked the streets that Mary walked, she went to the shops Mary shopped, even the church she and her children worshiped at. Her dream/visions did not include much of Mary’s husband. All she felt when she did think of  him, was fear and terror. So, she decided to focus on Mary and her children. The persistent feeling she had throughout this journey was that she HAD to find out about her/Mary’s children. For she did not know their welfare upon her death. Where in fact, the boys and girls were separated and where taken to separate orphanages.

The one thing throughout this story that I was so amazed at was the love and support of her husband. A man living with his wife who was having these dreams and visions of ‘another life?’ ‘How can this be?’ But, he still supported her! You don’t see that kind of love to much anymore.
 I won’t tell you the ending and spoil it for you. I just hope I have whet your curiosity enough for you to go out and read it for yourself! Warning: have some tissue handy! You will love it!! 

  

Here is a picture of the cover of this amazing book.  across-time-death.jpg

I see that she has a new book out now describing not only her past lives but about life ahead, ‘Past Lives Future Lives’.

So in closing, if you are at all interested in Reincarnation or Past Life’s stories, this will capture your attention from beginning to end as it did to me.

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Mar 06 2009

Rave - Good News in the News

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I absolutely love it when I hear good news in the news! Don’t you? For an example, when I first heard about that plane crashing in the Hudson a few weeks ago, the very first thought I had was, ‘Oh no, not another terrorist attack!’ Did you think that too? We are so flooded with bad news, in the news, that the first thing we think of is bad news! To my relief it wasn’t a terrorist attack. It was a bunch of angels, Captain Sully and his magnificent crew landing and saving lives by making a 3. landing on a river in New York. Wasn’t that Good News?!! I love what a reporter called it, ‘Miracle on the Hudson’!

I Googled ‘Good News in the news’ and found four(4) web sites dedicated to just good news on the first page.

I found this story about a 15 lb., 7′ wing span of a golden eagle that flew into the windshield of a big truck in Nevada and survived. 

090305-eagle-crash-bcol-240astandard.jpg(Lance Dean / NNWRC) Pete Bradley, a biologist from the Nevada Dept. of Wildlife, holds the injured golden eagle as wildlife rehabilitator Jo Dean looks on in Springs Creek, Nev. on Wednesday.

The eagle landed in the passenger side floor. And he is recovering very well. I love these animal rescues stories that end on a positive note. 

The above story was found at:   http://www.happynews.com/news/352009/eagle%20survives%20crash%20truck%20windshield.htm

Stories like these gives me good feelings that there are good things happening out there worth reporting to the public. However, I’ve heard somewhere that ‘Good news does not sell. Bad news does.’ What is wrong with this picture? It’s saying that the media has conditioned us to accept bad news over good news!

What are your opinions on ‘Good news vs. Bad news’ in the media?


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Mar 04 2009

Rant - Tabloid Magazines

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You know those rag magazines like Star, National Inquirer,  Globe? I call them ‘Adult Comic books’!

I went to www.nationalinquirer.com today and found that Michelle Obama hates Oprah’s guts! Michelle is the kindest most loving person we know. She is a very secure and confident woman! I don’t see her hating anyone! She is secure in her marriage, in herself as a wife, mother and woman that nothing, in my opinion, could threaten her! It is my opinion that the ‘insider’ who told the NI this trumped up story, was just getting publicity. And it’s probably the ‘insiders’ perspective of what was going on at thie interview. You can read the article at…

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_why_michelle_obama_hates_oprah_winfreys_guts_fake_affair_gayle_king/celebrity/66267

It really gets my gord when I read or hear about a celebrity stubbing their toe or going to visit their parents or even faints from the stress the tabloid reporter themselves cause. Heck, they can’t even scratch their butt without being photographed. They have NO respect for anyone famous and probably not even their own people, as well!

And at  ‘Starmagazine.com’ that Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green had a sleepover! BIG FRECKIN DEAL!! They have the right to do what they want WITHOUT the public knowing about it! They ARE PEOPLE, NOT IDOLS!! OHhhhhhh! Those tabloids should be banned and burnt like the way books where way back when.

I’d sure like to hear of your thoughts about Tabloids and how they treat celebrities.

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Mar 03 2009

Welcome to Rants Raves and Reviews

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As you can tell there has been some changes here. First the name, second the theme (no longer Mental Health - Depression). I choose to focus my life on more positive issues and some that I want to rant about. I tried to add a new blog here at Today, but I don’t have more than one email address. So, I decided to change this one. It was a good choice, in my opinion! My third reason was that my former topic was not getting the traffic I want. So, I’m hoping this will bring more  people to it. 


 

As with all changes, it will take me time to adjust to it. So for my first post on this topic will be “Time it takes to Change”

Change for me, as I’ve already stated, takes me time to adjust. Some changes take more time for me to adjust to than others.   For instance,  the change of moving to a different residence takes me more time than it does when I change the arrangements of my furniture or getting a new pet. However, the real biggies (Divorce, death in the family, etc..) takes me much more time to adjust to!! Along with the mental, physical and spiritual changes that come with it. The positive changes, like a new job with higher pay doesn’t take me long to adjust to, except for the time management and schedule rearrangements. Also, a changing relationship, either losing or gaining one, for me takes some time to adjust. When a friend of mine decided to sever our relationship, I went through a period of grieving. That toke about a year or so.

How do you cope with changes and how long does it take you to adjust?

Let me know by clicking the comments link below.

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