My Wishes for You

Peace within your heart

Love from family and friends

Faith to guide your way

Hope to to make it through each day

Sunshine to light the day

Heavenly Stars to wish upon

Rainbows to to let you know there is a tomorrow

A tear to show compassion

A heart to hold the love

But most of all I wish for you

to feel my hand in yours,

To know I am here if you stumble or fall.

To bring you cheer, to bring you love,

to return the love you always share with me.

Author Unknown

Blizzards - North Dakota Style!

Holy Cow!!  I'm sitting here in my warm toasting house darn glad that I'm not out in this howling wind.  It's got to be gusting over 50 mph out there right now!! 

I'm hoping that everyone is safe and sound at home, snuggled in, watching movies and drinking hot chocolate (with a little something something added in, know what I mean?!).

How the heck is everyone doing?  It's been sooo long since my last post.  When I took the last two weeks off from teaching yoga, it seems I took it off from everything - including my blogs! My bad!  I've been busy as all get out - not sure doing what, but I've been busy!!  :-)

Christmas was different for me this year.  It took me a long time to get in to the spirit of things; I'm not entirely sure why.  It really didn't find my heart to Christmas Eve day. When it did find my heart though, it filled it with warmth and love.   As is tradition, we spent Christmas Eve with my sister Peggy and her daughter Karen.  New to the mix was Blaine this year.  Terry and Marna traveled to Washington to be with Wendi over Christmas so Blaine was a bit of an orphan.  Their loss!  We had a BLAST with Blaine!!   He put a different spin on the night and we had a lot of fun. 

Of course, Blaine was loving every moment of attention that we were giving him...and we were loving him! 

Christmas Day was spent with Tom's family....a little more of a low-key affair, but certainly festive in it's own right!  We had a lovely dinner of Sirloin steaks prepared to perfection by Amy's boyfriend Jared...who also made this absolutely devine creation for dessert!  Oh my gosh!  I KNOW I gained 10 lbs.  Seriously... I KNOW I gained 10 lbs because I stepped on the scale on Sunday and had a heart attack.  Yikes!

Yes, my Christmas vacation (this week) has been spent at the gym.  That is, until yesterday.   See, over my festivities and eating, I broke my back molar on a piece of peanut brittle. Smooth move Sherry!  So, Monday they put a temporary crown on the tooth to get me through.  Yesterday they called and said it was ready and I could come in any time.  I went in as soon as they called cuz...guess what...I have an abcessed tooth (a DIFFERENT tooth!)  And boy does that puppy hurt like an S.O.B!!!!  I'm on antibiotics, but it's not kicking in as fast as I'd like it to!  I, unfortunately, didn't ask for pain killers ...but now I'm wishing that I had.  Owwww!!

So, here we are in the middle of a raging NoDak blizzard....my tooth (seems like ALL my teeth at this point) are hurting, I'm stuck at home, and decided that I should take advantage of the situation and do some things on the computer.  So far tonight I have 1) updated my FaceBook page, 2) uploaded pictures 3) updated both my blogs, and will 4) spend some time surfing.  

Now, I don't know if you all remember this or not...but last year, 2009,  my Christmas was interrupted by a three day storm.  My Christmas dinner was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  This year, it's New Years that's going to be interrupted.   I do NOT like this trend at all!  Yes, hubster is over at the main farm with the cattle, making sure that they are fed and watered....IF he can get the tractors and machinery started in this storm.  I do not envy him at all.   Sooo..poor little ole me is home, tormenting my cat Boris and playing around trying to occupy myself.  Actually, it hasn't been too bad...   My dinner was a bowl of Cheerios and my dessert is Hot Chocolate!  Yum!!

Given that this is a two day - maybe three day - blizzard, I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again.  For now, I'm going to sign off and go chase Boris (the cat) around the house!  (hehehehe)

Winter!

I’ve pretty much had enough of it already!

These days I’m bundled up in three layers of clothes just so I can stay warm!  It takes me 15 minutes to pile everything on just to head out the door so I can ride in a cold vehicle.  I know I can use my astro start and warm it up, but have you seen the price of gas lately?  Nope! I’ll pile on another layer of clothing, thank you very much.  I already walk like a stick man…what’s another layer! !

Oh, and while were driving in a cold vehicle, we might as well mention that the snow on my roads gives a whole new meaning to “four wheelin!”  Cripes!!  I lock it in, put the pedal to the metal and hope to hell I make it through and don’t get stuck!

My skin! I’m not EVEN going to mention what the cold weather is doing for my skin!  I own stock in Jergens lotion company right now.  I swear I go through a family size bottle every week!  My hubs won’t see the beauty of my ivory skin until the spring thaw! So I don’t know why I’m so worried about keeping it smooth and supple!

My toes are permanently frozen, I have frostbite on my nose, and if that isn’t enough – my tailbone is bruised (not to mention my ego!) from taking a nice little fall in the grocery store parking lot on Friday! 

Ya, I am NOT amused.  The only thing that is keeping me going today – a Monday of all days!- is the thought of going to the liquor store tonight for some Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Coconut Rum!  Yummmm!!!   If my outside is chilled, at least my innards will be toasty!!  (ha!)

And…have a nice day!!!

A whole month

…since my last blog post?!!  Scary!!! 

Have I been THAT busy?!  I guess the obvious answer to that is “yes!”  For the most part, life has been good.  Oh sure, there have been minor ups and downs, but in the grand scheme of things it’s all been good.

So what I have I been doing?  Good question!  It’s hard to remember back a month.  I  guess the safest answer would be yoga, yoga and more yoga.  I finished up my Saturday yoga classes at Tia Tanning and Well Being on November 13^th.  I miss them, but I have to say that I enjoy having my Saturdays off from yoga to enjoy housecleaning.  (Ok!  Who said that?!).  J  Seriously, although my house isn’t super clean (and probably never will), it has been nice to have the extra time on the weekend to do a few things.  

Thanksgiving came and went so darn fast I hardly had time to enjoy the pumpkin pie.  I did the obligatory cleaning the day before so all I had to focus on was the bird, stuffing and potatoes.  Hubster’s family arrived like clockwork at 11:55 and departed in record time 2:30pm!  No, I didn’t poison them or piss them off (at least I don’t think so).  It’s their normal way of doing things.  You see, when you have a large cattle operation such as ours – the cows need to be fed too, even on Thanksgiving Day!  We managed to have fun and eat tons of food in that time though.  AND, I was in my sweats drinking a glass (ok, two!) of wine by 4:00pm.  LOVE it when that happens.

Friday was a fun day.  I took the day off from work and I got to spend some quality time with a good friend.  Then hit the gym for a session with my trainer PJ, who promised “there won’t be any pumpkin pie on those hips when I’m done with you.”  He wasn’t far off the truth on that one!  Good Lord!  It’s all good though – it’s why I go to him! 

Christmas season is in full swing and, as usual, I’m a little bit behind the eight ball. I’m pretty sure things will pick up for me in the next week.  I guess it had better, huh?! ~L~ 

Other than that, it’s pretty much status quo!  Work, gym, yoga, home, sleep and get up and do it all over again.   Busy…but in a boring way! J 

OK Peeps…I’m outta here!