~`_ The Spirit of the Eagle speaks into the soul _'~

So I am going to try my hand at using a capo once it comes in the mail. I have also ordered new strings for JUST IN CASE these ones decide they hate me. Hopefully all this will be in my mailbox by the end of next week.

 I guess the combination of old lightbulbs and cold weather makes for the perfect time to have to replace bulbs. We have had about 4 or 5 bulbs bust between our room and the two ceiling fans in the other rooms. I had to keep switching lights from the working sockets to cover each one that did not work. So, essentially, we had one bulb per fan still lit and waiting for us to get to the store for replacement bulbs. Anyone else experiencing this phenomena ?

These kids today! I tell you! You buy one major gaming system and they start harping on you for another... like the ps3. The boy wants me to set up a family room so that he can get all the major game systems and set them up in that room for him to play. I mean, I understand WHY but I am not in the position to be playing all those video games!

Camping=not for me. I am a cabin camper. Give me running water with an indoor bathroom or give me death! I am not beat for getting things together to take to the woods and rough it. There is no motorhome towing for us! The only way I would consider it is if we were traveling cross country with a motorhome with all the amenities included. I love nature, but not that much.

I am so tired of feeling like a stuffed sausage. I hate that my stomach has grown to epic proportions (compared to my 125 lb self). I am now a whopping 160 lbs (more or less) and it is all in my butt and belly! AUGH!!! I guess the butt part is ok but the belly thing has got. to. go. I did lose some weight while on the 21 day Daniel fast, but now I am looking to build muscle. I have restarted yoga and doing my crunch-style exercises. Pilates is a good ab fat killer, so I will be employing some of those methods as well. The major thing is to get the belly fat/back fat situation under control before I turn 30 in a few months. I hate that 30 is my deadline, but it is because I have to have SOME sort of order going on! As it stands now my 2 goals before I turn 30 are to lose this nasty fat and finish the last 59 pages of my 120 page book to submit it to my publisher for approval. That is all, but that is a lot at the same time!

I am still working out my novel ... mostly in my head. I am up to page 61 with at least 59 more pages to write. The fact that I have a page quota bugs me out. I know I have 120 pages worth of life to write about, but me being who I am, elaborating on that life with enough details to fill the 120 pages is a huge problem. I have already written the ending of the book!  It was quite unintentional, but the wrap up is done. Then, I got hemmed up with the organization of the chapters and whatnot ...which I probably should have saved for the very last, but when I got a mental block on the writing part, I started messing around with the order of the pages. Now I am at 61 pages with nothing left to write about. What in the world am I going to do?

We are going to a Christian concert tonight. There is something different about being at one of those as opposed to a secular concert. The ones we attend have music that may sound melodically much like that you would hear at a regular concert, but the spirit behind it is different. The air crackles with the Spirit of God. You know at any moment someone could be slain in the Spirit, changed to the heart, freed from addiction. There is healing and peace and love there. The joy that one feels at a Christian concert can only be explained in one word:

Who else is left to weigh in on this saga? I mean DANG. It's only been on tv for the last two weeks about the feud between NBC and all their light night hosts. It's crazy. How many breeches of contract will they have to pay millions for before it is all said and done? So far, I have only heard about 30-40 million dollars for Conan O'Brien. No one else has money coming, but we have not heard the whole story yet. It is going to be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I mean, to me, Conan and Jay are two of the funniest hosts on late night (other than Letterman and Craig Ferguson). 

Oh man, I am so glad it has been "warm" the last few days. Have to put that into quotes since "warm" really means about 40 or 50 degrees outside with minimal windchill. Surely wouldn't feel this way in panama city beach hotels. It is always a toss up to see exactly how the weather is going to treat you. This morning, it was a brisk 40 degrees, but this evening it is a chilly 28 with rain. Ick.

Man, I am so sick of getting my feelings hurt by people who I once considered friends, heck, even akin to BLOOD. Someone I named as my own sister has completely ignored me since I moved to NY. Mind you, she will be the first to run to me if she sees me somewhere. The first to hug up on me and tell me how much she misses me, yet she was IN NY and never took the time to try and see me. She didn't even let me know she was up here. I found out from someone else....NTM she has been on FB since at least 2008 and still has not friended me. It hurts... A FREAKING LOT.