January 4, 2006
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I have a short attention span; that’s about as much personal growth as I can take for a while. What I mean to say is, that much will keep me busy for a good long while.
But I have been rewarded. God has been good to me:) When I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing (1500 words a day) and thinking good thoughts (meditation) and walking my dog and just generally being on it, good things come.
I’m going up to the mountains this weekend with some or all of the kids. It will be our last annual ski trip because I’m not willing to pay for it anymore. New people bought it and the prices doubled a couple years back. Plus the older ones never come anymore. Twenty-one years we’ve been going there.
It always involves ham and Frangelica and a puzzle. I used to make Christmas cards while I was there, back when we’d go early in December. There is much trekking back and forth to the lodge and sledding and XCskiing. I need to start cooking. I want to make split pea soup and a big batch of spaghetti. I should get to the store RIGHT NOW.
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Oh how fun it sounds. Sad it is the last year. Perhaps not? Enjoy
I do hope you enjoy it.Hopefully as you think on things they will make more and more sense,
~stands in line for a bowl of homemade pea soup~
I am sure you will enjoy more because it is the last year.
Writing 1500 words , meditation, and walks with dog. All of them done everyday makes each day very fruitful. I am envious.
I also wanted to say that ‘having a short attention span’ is a great advantage sometimes.
“”"When I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing (1500 words a day) and thinking good thoughts (meditation) and walking my dog and just generally being on it, good things come.”"” (your words are wise today Prudy) You seem in such a good place and I am happy for you dear one. pea soup, spaghetti, plodding in the snow – a fine place to grow.
How many pages is 1500 wpd??? i tend to do a scene a day when it’s inspired, although now that i’m writing crap, i’m doing the perspiration thang
enjoy the time… may it be sweet and wonderful. i remember when you went last year. it sounded awesome then too!
could you bring me some ice cream since you’re gonna be at the store anyway?
looks like you’re on the right track for New Year’s revamping…have fun on your trip…split pea soup sounds wonderful…yummm…
be safe,
paulygrl
The mountains sound like heaven. Just the split pea soup and spaghetti sound like heaven.
I need a vacation, and I only worked a couple months. Geez.
T
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sounds great. have fun.
Pru, the picture that I had for the fish was just realllly baggy pants that I wear fishing but I did manage to shed 6 pounds this past summer and hopefully I will take at least that off this year..I added it in 5 and 6 lb incriments so I figure it is wise to hope it will come off the same way..Of course I really want it all to drop off at once but like they say It’s good to Want!! The wedding in the church:::not sure if I want that but if Dave reallllly does I shall partake, what will it hurt?? I believe in God just not sure I need to be in a church to do it.. I still say,,,runnnnn away…then a good honeymoon. Another sub said they make you take classes to get married in the church no matter of your age…crap I hate school, if they make me memorize anything I just might not do it…tehe…here rises my ugly,,,I hate Church crap…head….marilyn
and mmmm frangelica:)
RYC…unless you leave a comment &enter your Xanga-SN…NO
i don’t have the time, patience, or KNOW HOW to monitor any of my internet activities…this is just a TV set hooked up to my Royal manual as far as i’m concerned
ONE DAY i’ll rehash how my cousin got me into computers…but since HE died a week before xmas at the ripe auld age of 41…it won’t be anytime soon
[His mother, my FAVOURITE AUNT, died around the same age shortly after THIS season...and since a few more SIGNIFICANT people in my life chose THIS time of year to do their dying...i guess it's understandable WHY i may not be into the "holiday" spirits
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oh the snow lodge sounds so nice. We’d like something like that I think. I’ll try to catch up here, looks like much going on.
Happy New Year to you. … we had spaghetti last night, dh called it ‘sweet and spicy’. It was good. 
Sounds like a much needed break~ Enjoy yourself, let go of whatever stresses & worries, familial problems, and fly down those slopes! And don’t forget to meditate every day too
*hugs xo
Sounds like fun. Neither Hot Rod Man nor I ski, but I’d like to drag him up there to play in the snow. He doesn’t like the cold.
Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!
im confused about ur comment, but thanks for dropping by. uno….
It sounds relaxing and restorative, which is probably just what you need right now. I write morning pages every day now, and they make a tremendous difference – to my writing and my life.
Thank you for the wonderful comments you’ve been leaving lately.
Oh yum and so wonderful you are doing that…I have some news on my blog… check it out..Im actually happy about it at the moment…but life is crazy..
RYC—I realize hype and links and shit are what it’s all about if you want the hits. So do you do this page all by yourself?
i don’t know what you mean by hype…most of the ‘featured’ creatures get there by commenting all over the place, as for LINKS, i do those to credit people i cop stuff from, AND to give y’all a sense of what’s going on in my head
My page is just a collection of random thoughts sometimes put together coherently
IF there was more than one person thinking like this, the FBI would be wise to track me…well then it would be us…down a Waco “our” ass
Okay…been 45 minutes since my last comment,and the only reason you got the 8:59 slot was because i answered you first
i spend about 10 times more answering comments than i do writing a post…especially when someone touches on my pontificating areas of interest
Frangelico (are you talking about the hazelnut liquor? man, that’s good!) and pea soup and jigsaw puzzle. Man, I’m glad my husband has today off and I plan on doing something similar to that tonight (only we finished the Irish creme on New Year’s and will have stew instead of that thick green gooey goodness I’ve only recently come to love). Will miss you!
1500 words a day? i could do that if it didn’t have to make sense, but i’m sure your criteria is stickier than mine. that being said, in terms of MY story, i’m just trying to throw a little something new into the mix of my ranting. critiques are welcome; i never take offense, would appreciate it really, since most people are disobliged to hand out constructive criticism. Also, i’d like to mention somethin gfrom an earlier post, about the shift when daughters start taking care of their mothers… I love my mommy, still refer to her as such though i am 26 years of age. i can’t imagine what it’s like to be a parent. i often visualize my mother and father lying awake at night, discussing what they plan to do with us wayward children. so the next step seems more like a giant leap to me, to take over and treat them, to take them out, to cover the bill (which i’ve only done on special occasions), to act the grown up…. i’m not ready. so the whole notion stirs up crAZY IDEAS IN MY HEAD. i always said that if my mother died first, i’d take in my father, but i’d never take in my mother if my father died first. but now… i’d take in my mother into my own bedroom, but my father could have the cottage outlying in the back. the female to female bond grows stronger when you’re older, even if previouslyl you were always daddy’s girl.
okay, i’;m taking far too mach space in your comment box and my shrimps are burning, but be ruthl,ess or enjoy or whatever you please. the world is your own; so own it.
The problem with split pea soup is that it takes forever to split those little peas. That cartoon where the starving mice slice up that pea like a christmas ham– they just make it look easy.
21 years…that’s practically a tradition…maybe one of you will win the lottery and you can buy the place and…
Hope it’s a great time!
How wonderful to be going on a trip!
RYC: It’s about 372 words per page 8.5 x 11 doubled spaced. So you are probably looking at about 175 pages. Hey a book is finished when it’s finished.
If your manuscript is 65k words and you’ve told your story then it’s perfect!!! 
Yodel-ey-he-whoooo, where are you?