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Hello to you all.  Just a quickie update.  If you have been following my other blog at myheartvoice.com , then you probably know that I have begun a new journey.  I have started back to college to get my degree in Business Administration!  Yes, at my age!  For this reason, since I am just getting accustomed to my new schedule and trying to make time for school and homework, I have not had much time to blog.  So thank you for your loyalty and for stopping by. I promise that as soon as I get my schedule under control, I will be back with some interesting content for you. In the meantime,  Happy blogging!

Hello All.  Just an FYI, I will be removing my EC widget on Friday, April 24.  If you would like to be added to my blogroll, please leave a comment on this post and I will add you.  It’s been a fun ride while it lasted. I hope I will still see you all around. Take care and Cheers!!

I  know this is off topic, but it made me so mad and I thought it was just dumb enough to be hilarious that I had to share it here.  Some of you may or may not know that my husband is a German national, he immigrated here to the United States in 2001 to be with me.  His family and friends are still in Germany and they often send us his favorite things, anything from magazines to chocolate.  My 3 year old granddaughter loves these special chocolate eggs called Kinder  Uebarraschungs Eier (Childrens Suprise Eggs), they are hollow chocolate, shaped like an egg with a plastic capsule inside (about the size of a small egg) with a small toy that usually requires assembly.   We tell her that her great grandparents from germany have a chocolate delivery bird who brings them (we do this because we get about a dozen at a time and don’t want her to know that because she will want them all at once), she loves this, every day she asks if the “Chocolate bird” came LOL!  Ah the innocence of children. 

Anyway, I digress. Well one of my husband’s friends sent my him some of his favorite german television shows on dvd and along with that, a small Easter package with Kinder chocolate, which included a chocolate bunny, some small chocolates and 2 of the Kinder chocolate surprise eggs–the kinder chocolate is great for small children because it does not melt as fast as regular chocolate and is a little firmer, not hard, but almost chewy.  Well… I guess U.S. Customs decided to open this package of chocolate goodies and investigate them.  We noticed that it had been cut open with a box cutter (the childrens package) and it was obvious that a few things were missing.  Later in the day we recieved a certified letter from customs telling us that they had confiscated the Kinder Surprise Eggs because they were a “threat” to the United States!!! Are you kidding me?? Chocolate eggs???  There was no other explaination except that the value of the eggs was assessed to be $2.00 american.  I am assuming it was the small toys inside that may have small parts, I can’t figure any other reason these would be confiscate but all the other chocolates, including some of my favorite german chocolate bars were ok to send.  I guess you could put a small explosive device in an egg sized chocolate.. do you think??  Anyway, after we got over the surprise and the anger at the stupidity of it, we had a good laugh.  Have any of you had any similar experiences?  What do you think, could these innocent looking chocolate candies be a threat to US Security??  LOL!! Go Figure.

Happy Easter to you all. I understand that some of you don’t celebrate easter, either for your own religious  or non-religious reasons, and I respect that.  In our household, we celebrate with the Easter Bunny bringing easter baskets full of jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and other goodies to delight any child.  While this may seem sacreligious to some of you, it is how I was raised.  On that note, we also celebrate the reason for the season, which is the day that a very special man rose from the dead after being persecuted and crucified for our sins.  Jesus traveled a very long road with both faithful followers and enemies alike, spreading the word of his lord and father.  His doctrine is the number one best seller for many many years, you may have heard of it, it is called “The Bible”.  He died for our sins, only to rise again to sit at his father’s right hand to rule the kingdom of heaven.  I have done some reading to understand how Easter is celebrated in some other countries because my husband is from Germany and we live in America.  Since I was not raised Catholic as my husband was, I wanted to understand the way that his family celebrates and compare it to how we celebrate.  The source for the following is from wikipedia.  You can follow the link and learn more about how Easter is celebrated in other countries.  I hope you find this as interesting as I did.

“Western Christianity

In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days (not counting Sundays).

The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus’ entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for “Three Days”). In some countries, Easter lasts two days, with the second called “Easter Monday.” The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with “Easter”, e.g. Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, etc. Easter Saturday is therefore the Saturday after Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called Holy Saturday. Many churches begin celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the Easter Vigil.

Eastertide, or Paschaltide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later.

 English Speaking World

Coloured Easter eggs in the United States.Throughout North America, the British Isles, New Zealand and Australia the Easter holiday has been partially secularized, so that somefamilies participate only in the attendant revelry, central to which is (traditionally) decorating Easter eggs on Saturday evening and hunting for them Sunday morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and garden. Chocolate eggs have largely supplanted decorated eggs in New Zealand and Australia.

In North America, Australia and New Zealand, parents often tell their children that eggs and other treats have been delivered and hidden by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket which children find waiting for them when they wake up. Many families in America will attend Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participate in a feast or party in the afternoon; the food cooked for the feast and the customs practiced at the feast may be influenced by Jewish cuisine and the Jewish holiday of Passover.In the UK children still decorate eggs, but most British people simply exchange chocolate eggs on the Sunday. Chocolate Easter Bunnies can be found in shops. Many families have a traditional Sunday roast, particularly roast lamb, and some eat Easter foods such as Simnel cake, a fruit cake with eleven marzipan balls representing the eleven faithful apostles. Hot cross buns, spiced buns with a cross on top, are traditionally associated with Good Friday, but today are often eaten well before and after. In Scotland, the north of England, and Northern Ireland, the traditions of rolling decorated eggs down steep hills and pace egging are still adhered to.

In the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, the most notable feature of the Easter celebration is the flying of kites to symbolize Christ’s ascent.^[48] Traditional Bermuda kites are constructed by Bermudians of all ages as Easter approaches, and are normally only flown at Easter. In addition to hot cross buns and Easter eggs, fish cakes are traditionally eaten in Bermuda at this time.

Belgium and France

Flemish-speaking Belgium shares many of the same traditions as North America but sometimes it’s said that the Bells of Rome bring the Easter eggs together with the Easter Bunny. The story goes that the bells of every church leave for Rome on Holy Saturday, called “Stille Zaterdag” (literally “Silent Saturday”) in Dutch. So, because the bells are in Rome, the bells don’t ring anywhere.

Similarly, in French-speaking Belgium and France, “Easter bells” (« les cloches de Pâques ») also bring Easter eggs. However, bells in churches are silent beginning Maundy Thursday, the first day of the Paschal Triduum, as a sign of mourning. It is said that all of the bells depart for Rome and return on Easter Day bringing eggs with them to drop during their passage.

Netherlands and Northern Germany

People watching the Easter fire in ‘De Achterhoek’ in eastern Netherlands

In the northern and eastern parts of the Netherlands (Twente and Achterhoek), Easter Fires (in Dutch: “Paasvuur”) are lit on Easter Day at sunset. Easter Fires also take place on the same day in large portions of Northern Germany (”Osterfeuer”).“

If you would like information pertaining to the history of Easter, and more on how it is celebrated in different countries, head on over to Wikipedia via this link.  It is filled with more information than you  probably ever wanted to know!

Have a blessed day!

I will turn 52 in December and the amount of time I spend thinking about the fact that I am almost a senior citizen is unbelievable.  I have even gone to a few restaurants and been given the discount senior menu.  I had to laugh, and feel sorry for the poor wait person when I tell them that I’m quite there.  Not that I would have minded a discount but….

I find myself thinking about when I was younger and all the things I did.  I used to go camping, didn’t like sleeping on the ground so much, but the comaraderie of it was fun.  I used to love just walking around the mall and window shopping, Christmas at the mall was especially fun.  I miss my children being small, but I am reliving that with my granddaughter to some extent, let me tell you, being a grandparent rocks!

We really need a vacation, but aside from not having the money for it, most of the places we would go,requires a lot of walking, and the prospect of that hurts just thinking about it.  We can walk, but the pain in the back gets so bad after awhile, it’s impossible to enjoy the sights you are looking at.

I was a hairstylist for 2 years and I really miss that, I miss the family atmosphere of the salon I worked in for 16 years, I even owned that salon for 3 years, that’s how much I liked it there!  I can no longer do hair because with Rheumatoid Arthritis, it is hard to stand for long periods of time and to hold my arms up.  My hands often hurt so bad, I can barely grip my hair brush for my own hair so it would be difficult for me to be reliable as a hairstylist, so I now work as an administrative assistant (when I actually have a job).

The hardest part of getting older and being very overweight, is that I don’t feel pretty anymore.  I look in the mirror and to be honest, I see my mother.  I do my hair and put on my make up and try to wear stylish clothes and jewelry, but I just don’t think I am even “a nice looking woman for my size” as I used to be told.  Don’t get me wrong, my husband tells me daily that he loves me and that he thinks I am beautiful, but love is blind as they say.  Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know.

My husband went in for his orientation for  gastric bypass surgery last week and I went with him.  He has his first consultation with the doctor on the 17th ( I think).  I am very excited to see how he does with this.  I will be having my surgery probably in 2010 because I want him to be all healed and well on his way to weight loss by then.  I think losing a bunch of weight will make me feel prettier and possibly not so old.  I know it’s not a magical cure and I know it won’t be easy.  Some thin, Ignorant people have said that surgery is the easy way out, but it really isn’t.  You have to give up actual food for a while and opt for protien shakes in a thimble sized cup at first.  I don’t know how long a person go without actually chewing before gnawing off his own hand, but I guess it works because many people have had good results, we’ll see.  My hardest part will be giving up diet soda, I’m pretty much an addict of that. Oh well time will tell.

I guess that’s enough whining for now.  I’ll see ya on the flipside!  Happy Blogging!

Well not exactly, but we have been offered a reprieve.  We can keep our widgets if we want to, as long as we don’t allow affiliate ads on them AND EC traffic will not count towards our unique views in the traffic reports.  I suppose it’s a good compromise.  I am still debating whether or not to remove the widgets.  On the one hand, I might still get some new readers and find some wonderful blogs I would not otherwise find, but I can do that from my other blog.  I will be extending the date when and if I remove it though. I will give it until the end of April and make the decision. Thank you all so much for commenting and adding me to your blog rolls. I’ve got a great blog roll of my own made now too, so I am armed and ready for the day I do decide to part ways with Entrecard, we’ll see how it goes.  In the mean time, I wish you all well and Happy Blogging!!!

Today is a sad day. Today I bid farewell to a good friend who has supported me in good times and bad.  This friend was very special to me, she was always there to offer me tight hugs and lifted me up when I was down.  I don’t think I will ever be able to replace her loving support, she was a good friend who fit me to a tee.  She made me feel better when I looked in the mirror and saw how old I had become, she never left me feeling flat or low.  All good things must end I suppose, so I am off to The “Avenue” to find a new friend, since this one is now going on to a better place.  Yes my friends, I am saying good bye to my favorite old bra, the one that is now  tattered and torn, whose left strap is now in 2 pieces as I lay her gently in her final resting place.  She fit me so well, but now I must break in a new one, allow her to caress me until she forms to my body and lifts me up and offers me support without causing me too much pain or chafing in the process.  Yes, I have other bras that  I can wear, but this one was special, no underwires to poke me, stretched out just enough so that I could move around, but still keeps me from sagging to my naval! :D  Wish me luck as I go out on this adventure for a new… friend.

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Boy, things have really changed since the 60’s haven’t they!?  This is an actual ad from a magazine back when a voluptuous  woman was appreciated and considered beautiful.  A little padding was the fashion from the days of renaissance era, and probably before that, so why do we strive to be as thin as possible now a days?  Admittedly, obesity is not the healthiest of lifestyles, but really, even women I know who are 10, 20, 30 pounds over what the fashion magazines say they should weigh complain about their weight.  My daughter has about 20 pounds, along with a  little belly, and all she does is worry about her weight!  I think me need to pay less attention to the bathroom scale, and more attention to living our lives without fear something so trivial.  The most important thing is to feel good, and live a healthy, happy life.  So what are you waiting for?? Stop worrying about whether or not you’ll fit in to that tiny bikins, Go have some fun!