Astrology & The New Year

When I was in my teens and early 20's I was obsessed with Horoscopes. Anytime I would read a description of a Taurus is was amazingly accurate. I could never quite understand how a printed book could explain me so well. I of course assumed that each sign was described very vague to where it would partially explain most people, but it wasn't true! It would describe parts of me that no one really knew. In ways it helped me understand myself and my flaws a little better!



Going through life, I have let astrology aid me in understanding people. I know it sounds strange, but it's true. Knowing about different signs made me understand people more and even connect with them. I guess having a better understand of what makes people who they are helps me be more tolerable! My child for instance, is definitely a Gemini through and through! Gemini is the twin sign. And Regan without a doubt has two very absolute personalities! And knowing this has helped me with a lot of my dealings with her! Now Bub on the other hand is really nothing like his sign! Funny, right?! I guess with anything you have to take it as it for what it's worth! lol

But, if you want know about me I really don't have to tell you! All you'll ever need to know can be found on any Taurus description::

TAURUS

The Bull
April 21 to May 21
Ruling Planet : Venus
Starstone : Emerald
Colour : Pink
Lucky Numbers: 1 10 11 17 28 29 46 71


The second sign of the zodiac is concerned with money, true love, trustworthiness and security.

ELEMENTAL QUALITY : taurus is fixed earth sign of the zodiac and represents loyalty.
SPIRITUAL GOAL : in each incarnation the true goal of taurus is to find their soul mate.
PERSONALITY : POSITIVE : conservative, dependable, calm and loving. NEGATIVE : stubborn, and be warned - never betray a taurus!
SECRET TAURUS : takes the long term view.
RULING PLANET : venus.
APPEARANCE : sturdy body, face often rounded.
TAURUS AT HOME : enjoys comfort and luxury
AS A PARENT : of all the star signs taurus makes the best parent.
WORK : hard worker, prepared to work long hours, usually self employed.
LOVE : lucky is the star sign that finds a taurus partner, but be warned - a taurus will never forgive a betrayal.
FRIENDS : will expect absolute loyalty.
INTERESTS : painting, horse riding and collecting things.
HEALTH : watch your kidneys and thyroid.
FAMOUS TAUREANS : Barbra Streisand, Cher and Sigmund Freud.

Borrowed from Paraluman Astrology

I couldn't explain it better myself and anyone who knows me can attest to pretty much everything listed! I can explain most all of these things....with stories actually! lol


I am really not "into" astrology anymore. I do not regularly read up on anything or check my horoscope! I usually reflect on what I already know and can usually, based on someone's attitude can guess their sign. Today however, when signing into my Yahoo there was an article about Your Yearly Astrological Overview for 2009 I was curious so I went to mine. I must say I was surprised to find many of the things that I blogged about previously, my "resolutions" for 2009 were plainly written out for the Taurus for 2009. From my desire to slow down and enjoy life, to partaking more in my creative outlets.........I really am excited for all the things that will no doubt be happening this year! I just found it interesting that it was sort of written out already!!

Little Things!

I have always been a lover of music! I truly cannot live without it! If I'm in the car, something good is playing! If I am cleaning the stereo MUST be on! When we moved into the new house, the stereo wasn't hooked up and I started putting the TV on the 900 stations so I could get my music fix!

Here lately, I find myself sitting at the computer or cleaning in silence. Ahhh silence, I rarely say that, nor do I get to "hear" it! For some reason quiet is so nice! It has been so quiet at times in our house that I can hear the tick-tap-tick-tap of my cat's nails as they walk through the house! My favorite thing to do when I wake up is open up the shades and sit at the kitchen table and get on my laptop. Regan is usually in her room watching a movie. Just the stillness and the quiet really starts my day off right!

I really never imagined I would enjoy such a simple little thing!

A New Year!! A Fresh Start & A New Outlook!

First, I am pleased to say that I indeed made it a whole year of blogging! I truly assumed I'd make good attempt to keep it up, but by George, I actually found things to write about!! Interesting enough, my intention for my blog was to write about the oddities in my life. The funny stories, the strange stuff that is in my head, realizations and even things I ponder and/or cannot seem to figure out at all. For 2008, my blog turned out to be a diary of sorts. Which, I guess is what I was needing it for at the time! So all in all I am quite proud of myself!

I am very excited about the new year! I have so many ideas and interests and I think I will finally be able to slow down enough to make them all happen! Now that we are in the new house and mostly settled - I will finally be able to start dedicated time to volunteering! I have been wanting this for so long, but living in Jeanerette made so many things so inconvenient! Not to mention that by Fall Regan will be in school 5 days a week and I will need something extracurricular to make me feel useful! Now the task of where my time is needed and where I will be useful is next!

I am not one to make resolutions! The way I look at it, I don't need a new year to set goals. And too, who really sees these things out?? No one really ever resolves to do something easy! It's always quitting smoking, losing weight or something else they have been unable to do over the previous year(s). Why does one think that a new year and a resolution will finally trigger something? I just don't get it!

At the beginning of each year what I usually do is reflect over the past year. In doing this I usually say stuff like "I wish we would have spent more time with the family" or "I wish we did more around the house or in the yard" or "Why didn't we find the time to take a family vacation this year?". The things that I wish I had done or said or whatever is what becomes my "Plan" for the new year! If you wish to call it a resolution, so be it!

So here it is:

In 2009 I resolve to...........

• Spend more time doing those little family things (going on walks, playing games, reading, going to the movies, etc) each day. She will be grown before I know it!
  
• Take the time to go visit Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents and Greats. Family is important.
  
• Send cards letting people know I think of them often and they are important to me
• Spend time doing the creative things I enjoy - crocheting, painting, taking photos
• Revel in every moment spent with Bub and Regan and those I love! Life is short!
• Continue being the best wife and mom I can be! Bub and Regan deserve that!
  
• Slow down! Live each day the best way I can and have no regrets!

As you can tell my hopes for the new year are just to enjoy it. Spend all the time I can doing the things I love with the people I love! At the end of the day, and at the end of a lifetime it is who you touched and who you loved that really counts! How hard you worked or how much money you made isn't what will matter then!

AS far as my blogging is concerned, I hope my life will slow down enough to be less of a diary and more of a place for my thoughts and such! But, since I can never know what the year will have in store - I guess we will just have to see!

I hope those who read will continue to do so! Please subscribe if you are an avid reader and I hope to hear from you from time to time! It's nice to know what I put on here is being read! I hope you like the new look! I am finally going to take the time to start prettying up my blog and hopefully will even add a signature soon! See, I am already starting to slow down and take time for me! :o)

Happy New Year!!!

Goodbye 2008

In less than 5 hours, the year 2008 will come to a close! Every year at this time I am not sure how to feel! Most get excited to see the current year end and a new one to start. I guess I see the bigger picture - being that with each year that passes we are all getting older! My baby is less of a baby, I am getting older, which means so are my parents and grandparents. And ultimately we all know what happens with age! Sigh! Thankfully I only get sadden once a year like this, but time passing just troubles me, what can I say!?

Well, before the year comes to an end I feel it necessary to reflect on my life in 2008!

Mid January I lost someone very special! The matriarch of our family, a beautiful person and someone I really, really miss! Mamaw, you are not forgotten and you are so missed by so many!



Life didn't quickly get back to normal after Mamaw's death, but I am happy to report my Papaw and the rest of the family is staying strong and taking it day by day!

In March Bub quick his job with Baker after being screwed over for so long. He found a great job with Tetra Technologies out of Belle Chasse. This has turned out to be the best thing he could have done for us! I was so scared when it was all happening, but we were blessed with this opportunity and with a great company!

In May I turned thirty!! Yikes! I was very afraid of this milestone - but in truth, 30 rocks! I never understood what people meant when they said you never really know who you are until you are in your 30's. But really, I get it now! I feel more comfortable in my skin now. I have embraced and welcomed leaving my 20's behind and life is good! I have always been very much my own person, but something just switched over! It was nice!!



By the end of May Bub and I decided we were going to put our home in Jeanerette up for sale and look for a home in the Broussard area. After searching quite a bit of looking we weren't finding anything we were in love with, and for prices that were pretty high. We then found that we could build a new house for about $10K more than these older homes we were in love with! So, we found a subdivision, a lot, a floor plan and put down a deposit.



June came and Regan had her 4th birthday! It is so hard to believe she is already 4! It really seems like not long ago we were bringing home a little girl from the hospital! Regan is a smart little thing! She learns things so quickly and just surpasses what a kid her age should be doing! Right after she turned 4 she learned to tie her shoes. And tie them tight and well, double knot and all!! A few weeks ago, she learned to add all by herself. She got flashcards as a Christmas gift from her daycare and by the end of the day she was looking at the numbers, setting out blocks for each number then adding them up.



By the end of August we were boarding up windows and preparing for a visit from Hurricane Gustav. September 1st, Gustav came and turned everything upside down. Thankfully Bub was in for everything so we weren't alone! We stayed for Gustav, but after 2 days of no electricity and an approximation of it being turned on withing 7 days, we packed our stuff and headed North. We ended up staying a few nights in Lake Charles and headed home when we found our power was restored!

Our home in Broussard was done at the end of October. We signed papers on the 31st and started the long task of moving! Before we could finish getting settled it was time to start decorating for Christmas. The holidays this year weren't the best! Our family is fighting so in addition to being without Mamaw for the first Christmas, half of the family was MIA! It was very upsetting! Bub turned 31 on Christmas Day! Awww, I love my OLD man! LOL



This year has all in all been pretty good to our family! The three of us are healthy and happy and together! Bub has now been home for 4 months because of the hurricane crap! It has been a treat for us to be able to spend time together!



No doubt 2009 will be more firsts for us! One huge one will be that our little girl will be starting kindergarten. I hope we are all (mainly me) are ready for that big step when it comes!

Here's to another full and blessed year! I have a few hopes for 2009 - I will let you know if they come to pass!!

Rain = Lazy!!

Oh my goodness, do I miss being lazy!!!! lol

Before Regan, Bub and I would stay up till dawn playing games with friends or watching movies. We'd follow the night up by sleeping well until noon or after. And depending on the day, we might wake up and do the same thing all over the next day!!

Nowadays, I am lucky if I even get to sleep past 7 am and if I can stay in the house all day! You know - no shower, wearing PJs all day and no BRA! woo hoo! This happens to me maybe once every 4 or 5 months! Don't get me wrong, I love being on the go! Hell, I purposely stay busy, as busy as I can be actually! When Bub is off shore, it makes the time pass quickly and before I know it he is home again!

Here lately though I have been burning my candle at both ends! And every now and then there has been a glimmer that we would be able to stay home and do nothing! Well, today it finally happened! Of course there was definitely a few things I could have done, but it rained on and off all day and it was nice to just stay in! And we did and I LOVED every minute of it!! (you cannot see it, but that statement was followed my a huge cheesy grin!)

I did not clean anything except for the dishes made by lunch and supper. Actually the house was already clean, but I do have some laundry I should have tended to. Hell, there seems to ALWAYS be laundry that needs tending to! LMAO! We have watched countless hours of NCIS and CSI and House, recorded over the last few days. I love those holiday rerun-fests. It lets us see any we may have missed! Sounds boring right? Well, sometimes boring is a nice change from on the go and overstimulated! :)

Well, I will soon bake some huge chocolate chip cookies and do a little more couch potato cuddling with Bub and Regan and the critters! Here's to a well deserved relaxing, lazy day!!! Cheers!!

Starting New Traditions

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I do hope everyone is having a blessed day! I hope you are spending this day with those that you love and are making great memories!!

This year we have done things a little different. Since we did our "family" Christmas early, Bub and I decided to do something we've talked about and wanted to do for a while! After we woke up and opened presents, we took showers and got ready and headed to the Acadiana Outreach Center. I found out that they serve a big Christmas Dinner and pass out gifts to those that are homeless and down on their luck.

When I signed us up to volunteer, they asked that we be there for 9:45 am and bring a dessert large enough to feed 10 people. I am happy to report that the amount of volunteers was so much so they actually have to turn down some help! That alone just warms my heart!

I know there were well over 400 people served and the food was terrific! And the desserts was plenty! The three of us helped where we could, from cutting desserts to be served, to bringing drinks to people, to delivering plates, to welcoming people as they came in while Regan yelled "Merry Christmas" to everyone she saw! She really worked her little hiney off!

There was a choir there that sang to those eating for the duration of the meal. Everyone worked so hard and I think there were a lot of people who really needed today to lift their spirits!

As for the three of us, we really had a great time and it felt great to get up on Christmas and make use of our time! I really think we have found a new tradition to continue each year!

Well, it's 3:45 and Regan just woke from her nap! We have a 4:30 date at the movies to see the new Adam Sandler movie that opens today! I hope that everyone, everywhere is exactly where they want to be with who they want to be! I know I am!

The Real Meaning - Christmas!

I have really began to find that the meaning of Christmas seems to get more and more lost each passing year!

While I am not an overly religious person, I do know the purpose of Christmas. I also have adapted my own expectation of what the Christmas season should be about and what people so easily forget!

I find it so strange that everyone claims to know that "Jesus is the reason for the season", but in the fight to get to that sale or to get everything on the list of a child who already has everything, we somehow forget what really matters! I find that this time of year people are rushed and rude and intolerable of others. The focus is on the wrong things and I think people are acting in ways they normally would not! When did Christmas become like this? About 2 weeks into December, I find myself - while fighting traffic all over town, wishing December was already here!

Besides the celebration of the birth of Christ, Christmas is about FAMILY and CHARITY and COMMUNITY and REJOICING about life! Obviously these are things that should be celebrated daily - but I am a little more realistic! lol To me the Holidays are an extra excuse to take those you hold dear and make them spend time with you! Enjoy the little things, makes memories and do things for others!!

I miss the daily hospitality that is Southern Louisiana! I am tired of looking at something at the grocery store and having someone reach in from of me to grab something without even a word! I am tired of the ignorance of drivers on the road! Everyone is either running up your butt, or piddling around with 5 car lengths in between while making people sit through lights 4 or 5 times! I am SO tired of a 15 minute drive to my daughter's dance class taking 30 - 45 minutes! I know it will soon pass, and I am definitely ready! lol

Another thing I want to discuss is the vicious cycle of gift giving! I am sure you know what I mean. At the beginning of season you make a list of those you'll be buying for! This is so you can get your shopping done in the least trips possible and be done with the shopping and crowds! Then your friend says "I bought you a present" or " So-n-so bought me a present, so I have to buy her a present. And if I buy her a present I need to buy you one too!" Well, there are two more people to buy for! LOL It's a vicious cycle I tell you!! And see, I don't need a thing - so I was just gonna buy for a few of my friend's kids! Oh well, like I said, soon it will be all over and life can return to normal!! :o)

The moral to this blog is not a bah-humbug sort of point! It's just my frustrations with the hussle and bussle and I'm just ready for it to all be over! Only 3 more days.........THREE DAYS and counting! Heheee!