Welcome to A Prairie View. I am a 50 year old Christian wife, mom and grandma, living her life out on the great plains of Kansas. You will find me at our church in the mornings (I am the secretary), and by my husband's side in the afternoon (he dispatches 15 trucks for a trucking company).
I love to read, write, blog, do Bible studies, and search for the meaning of my life and why I am here. I am glad you stopped by. Please leave me a comment if you would and let me know you are were here.
Granted, when you go to Cahuengapethospital.com then it probably would be helpful if you live in the Los Angeles area. They are a los angeles veterinary website. Their goal is to provide the best and most up to date medical treatment for your pet. They are constantly learning and improving on all areas of animal health care. Their medical staff attends veterinary conferences and meetings which allows them to find new better ways to practice veterinary medicine. Their hospital is a member of AVMA (American Veterinary Hospital Association), CVMA (California Veterinary Medical Association) and AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association).
But, as a pet owner who lives in Kansas, I still found this to be a useful and informative website. Besides giving detailed information at their Los Angeles based clinic, they have also including a “News Update” section, with informative and interesting articles about pets and pet care.
Go back 10 years ago. What would you undo?
This is an easy one to answer. I would undo the awful things I did with our finances. It would start with just one little purchase, or one little mistake in the checkbook…but before I would know it, we would be in major trouble. Or what seemed like major trouble to me. If I would have just told David about the single overdraft at the time, yes, he probably would have been mad, but not as mad as he was several months later, when things had escaladed out of control, and we were several thousand dollars in debt, and to me, know way out. Of course he had the answers, and the fixes.
Ampraisinghim is a fairly new blogger, and will soon reach her 100th post. For that special post, she wants to do something for others. Here’s what she has to say…
Anyways, for my 100th post, I want to do something for others. I really don’t know how many readers I have. But for the small amount of readers that I do have, I wanted to reach out to you. I want to create a list of at least 100 unsaved family or friends that you care about. Now here are the rules, they don’t have to have their real names listed. I’m setting up another email just for this. Please email me your name or screen name with the names of those you want prayed for. You can list pseudo names if you want, or even initials, or simply the word unspoken.
So, if you know someone that is not saved, please email her at: pastorswife504 at yahoo .com (take out spaces, and change the word at to the symbol) and add their name to the list. Here is the direct entry where you can ask her questions or leave her a comment —> Ampraisinghim’s blog
“A successful move requires teamwork”. That is the motto of Orlando-Buyers Agent.com. Looking outside a the awful Kansas weather right now, moving to Orlando sounds like a wonderful thing to do right about now. If I were to carry this fantasy out of moving, searching for Orlando Luxury Real Estate would be a grand idea. Buyer-Broker of Florida specializes in relocating, and they help to make your dream home search a smooth going transition. They have the most up to date tools of the trade, and this efficiency allows you to see many homes in a short amount of time. What makes them unique is that they only represent the buyer, not the seller. As full time agents, they understand every little detail involved in the buying of real estate — the contracts, house values, options, and negotiations. Throw in a bit of creative thinking, and you have the a great company there on your side to negotiate the most favorable terms for you the buyer. Orlando Weather Current Conditions: Partly Cloudy, and 79 ° F. Burlington Weather Current Contions: Blizzard conditions, and 15° F. I must be crazy to stay here. Orlando sounds like my kind of town!
For just being on the “fringe” of things, it still is a winter wonderful outside. This is a view out of my front door, looking across the street. Ethan wanted me to take the 2nd picture … the tree is “His” tree. We got it at an Arbor Day ceremony that he had to attend as a cub scout. He was probably 8 or 9 at the time. We planted it, and it has survived, and grown taller than him. At any rate, yes, it IS as cold as it looks out there. Low teens, and that doesn’t include the wind chill factor. There is snow, and then there is snow. This is NOT fun snow. Fun snow is when it is kinda sunny out, no wind, big fat flakes just coming down slowly, quietly. This is not fun, nor is it quiet. The wind is blowing, and it is just dangerously cold cold cold out there.
This is the substitute blogger here. I am Prarierose’s son. I am very happy, yet sad because we don’t have school today. I am happy because what kid in there right mind wants to go to school. The sadness comes from the fact that we were going on a field trip today to KC (for those of you who aren’t from Kansas, that’s Kansas City). Our French class was going to meet up with Pleasanton High School’s French class up in KC. The way our school works for foreign language classes is the teacher teaches it to 2 classes at the same time. How’s that possible you may ask. Well it is all possible through the miracle of IDL which stands for Inter-Distance-Learning, I think. Anyways our French teacher, Mme Vannocker, teaches the 7 people in our class and the 6 or 7 people in Pleasanton. We were going to KC to eat at a French restaurant called Andre’s. It’s good food, too. It had better be for $13.60 a plate. After eating we were going to go to the Nelson Art Gallery. Then it would have been off to see the Plaza Lights. We would have gotten home at about 8:30 tonite.
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…is definately nipping at our noses. The first winter weather has moved in and I’m not liking it. Its cold. Its scary driving on it. I don’t like it one little bit, no sir-ee. They let school out early. I was smart. And mean. I called the school and told them to give Ethan a message…that he was to ride the bus home, that he was not to drive home. She told me that I wasn’t the first mom to call and say the exact same thing. Ethan not experienced enough yet to be driving on ice. By himself. Now we wait — to see if they have school tomorrow. Ethan can’t decide if he wants school or not. Either way, he doesn’t “have school”. They are scheduled to go to Kansas City for a “French day”. His Friend class has resevations at Andres’ (or something like that — a French restraunt in KC. And then they will be going to a museum, and to MacDonald’s :) — and finally to the Plaza to see the Christmas lights. A full day. The permission slip said they wouldn’t be home until 8:45 or 9:00 tomorrow night. So, there are alot of things to be considered to whether or not they go tomorrow. Not only our weather here, but what the weather is like in KC. Last I heard it was supposed to start snowing in the night.
I soooo love winter. Not. (only in pictures and mouse drawn graphics.) Pass me a cup of hot chocolate. Thats the only good thing about winter (and yes, I do have a hot chocolate supplement that I can have. Soup mixes too, so thats nice, to be able to have hot things like that to warm from the inside out).
A few years ago, the most medicine I had to take was aspirin. And not very often at that. And then my world changed, in the blink of an eye. The discovery of my heart being out of rhythm. So, now, it is a life of prescription drugs, watching for interactions, informing the doctor of said prescriptions, when he is treating you for something else. Epocrates Online is a premium drug reference that provides premium web-based drug and formulary references with patient education materials and additional clinical tools.
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Usually envy is portrayed as a purely negative emotion. Do you believe it is possible to harness the power of envy as a positive motivator?
Ok, the first thing I need to do is look up the defination. My first thought to this question was yes, I do believe it is possible to harness the power of envy as a positive motivator. I thing that is the mode that I am in. I am envious of thin people. I want to be like them. I want to possess what they have — a thin body, the will power to eat what is right for them and no more. To make good choices and be rewarded by it with a thin, healthy body.
And this desire, this feeling envious of not being like them, has motivated me to do something about it.
However. By defination….
Defination:
n 1: a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another [syn: enviousness, the green-eyed monster] 2: spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: invidia] v 1: feel envious towards; admire enviously 2: be envious of; set one’s heart on [syn: begrudge]
envy does have a negative shadow hanging over it. I don’t begrudge those that are thin. I don’t feel or act on spite. And I don’t resent them because they are thin.
1. Was I going to show a loss at my weigh in. Mentally, I knew everything had been in place that I should have; but physically, I just wasn’t feeling it, so it worried me that it could be a weigh-in with not so good results.
2. What to eat, where to eat it. I was faced with 2 Thanksgiving supper and a birthday meal. I worried I would “blow” it. Out of the 3, only one of them were there choices made that probably shouldn’t have been made. But, I made my choices, I did the “right’ thing at the 2 Thanksgiving meals, and hopefully, what I did for my birthday meal won’t cause a break down in the journey.
3. How I would handle the family Thanksgiving gathering, and my son and his girlfriend. It was an ackward situation and I’m not sure I handled all of it just right, and I worry (still!) about that. I worry about my grandson and his mother, and what effect all this c*** is having on them. Its all so pointless and unfounded, and so very unlogical. We shouldn’t have to be going through this, and yet we are. This is one worry that isn’t going away for awhile, unfortunately.
I would like to introduce you to my newest grandson. Alexander David Strawder. He was born at 8:31 pm last night (November 27). He weighed 6 lbs. 5 oz, and 19 inches long. And he’s the sweetest little thing. Like all babies, he gets mad when you mess with him, washing him, poking him with sharp objects. But then he just lets it go. Very calm, very sweet natured. And such a cutie. He is literally just hours old or less in these pictures. Matter of fact, in some of these, he’s just minutes old. Isn’t technology wonderful?
As a young girl, I had one of those 5 year diaries that you could lock. I would write down what I did that day, and as I got older, I would put thoughts and feelings to those events. I kept it hid between my bed’s box springs and mattress. As I got older, I turned to pen pals, and even had a few where we kept “journal letters” — writing extremely long letters, in books. From that love of writing, evolved computer friends, and then blogging. I love to blog. I do it — just. because.
But now … a new added twist. I can make money online — Blogging. Blogative is a website dedicated to helping me, as a blogger, make money. I know it sounds like a “if it sounds too good to be true” scenerio, but I promise you, its not. I’ve been involved in another “get paid to blog” site, and have accumulated almost $500 in real, US dollars (paid to Paypal) since mid-October. I am new to Blogative, but there are things I really like about them, and will continue doing reviews and link opportunities for them as long as they are there to do.
Blogitive will be offering other services in the near future for us to make money online, such as NewsNerve. NewsNerve is a service that you can utilize on your Blog or website that will display relevant syndicated news headlines and allow you to earn money from every click that your visitors make. Ghost Writing will also be launching soon and that service will allow you to just make money for writing in general. How cool is that??
I’m really excited to be a part of the Blogative network. As the younger generation would say ….they rock!
That I have I taken a “too little too late” path. I know I am doing well on my diet plan, and I know for every pound that I lose, it has got to be helping me towards a more healthier, more active life. But, my biggest fear is it could be too little too late. That I should have done it, stuck to it, and accomplished this many years ago. I’m afraid that I might die before I reach my goal. I’m afraid that I won’t get to enjoy my life as a thin person.
These are all real fears for me; but I don’t — will not - allow myself to use them as excuses. I have to keep my eye on the goal, and even if I don’t reach it because it has been an effort in “too little too late”, I still help can’t feel that I have expanded my life, even if it is only for a day or two, or month or two, by walking this path of losing weight and making the right choices.
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Prompt from JournalSparks
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” – Unknown
People who know me, even though I work full time in the cloaks of 2 partime jobs, so there has to be a bit of planning there — to get to work on time, to leave work and on to job #2 … yes, there is “planning” involved in just living everyday life. But, on the scale of planners, I rank kinda low. I have lots of good intentions, but actually following through, alot of times doesn’t happen. I just kinda let life happen.
But, as I have commented recently, I’m more at peace these days, feeling better, having a diet plan and sticking to it (ok, ok, don’t count last night), I am learning some life lessons (some good ones, not the “hard knocks” kind), and its a good feeling. I’m not hitting every “buy now” button I see and want. I continue to go to these sights (they are graphic, sigtag, blog templates, and even book sites, like Barnes and Noble), but I look, and then think “No”, not now. This is a real revelation for me.
Meals are another thing that I don’t really plan out. However…as we speak…. I have a turkey cooking, and its not for a feast. Its for meals this upcoming week. I also have a pot of chili on the stove. Again, for meals for the upcoming week. Half the battle of “What’s for supper” is elimanated for this week. And like tomorrow night, when I usually end up working late because it the billing day at the trucking company, Ethan is all set to do whatever he needs to do for supper before going to Scholar’s bowl.
I will never have my life totally in order, totally planned out, t’s crossed, i’s dotted…but it does feel good to actually be riding the “planning” train for a moment here.
Oops — looks like I need to change “my age” in profile section of this blog. I am no longer 47. The years rush by. 50 is just around the corner for me. Does. Not. Seem Possible. We started celebrating last night. David took me to Outback, and allow it to be an “anything goes” meal — and that just exactly what I did. We threw the diet out the window, temporarily, and I enjoyed each and every bite. Yes — including the Blooming Onion. I’m not going to feel guilty, and I’m not going to beat myself up about it. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. And I told David we are going to do the exact same thing again next year — the only difference will be, sitting at a booth, instead of a table. I’m still at the — when they ask “Smoking or Non Smoking” — I don’t care about smoking preference, its a “Table or Booth” choice I need; and I’ve gotten to where I just ask for a table. We pay enough when we go to these places, that comfort should be part of the package, and squeezing someone like me into a booth is like putting a size 28 person in a size 22 part of pants. You can do it, but it will be a tight squeeze. And I realize that I have more room to sit in a booth than I did 3 months ago, but still… I wanted a table. And thats what we got. The meal was wonderful, and I’m glad we did it. Today I have a turkey cooking, and we will be having REAL turkey all week. Turkey is on my “allowed” foods to eat, but so far, I’ve only eaten turkey lunch meat…which is OK, but it just doesn’t taste like a “real” home baked turkey.
After eating, we went to my favorite Hallmark store, and David bought the letters “LBS LOST” for my bracelet. And we even got a free Christmas ornament for spending over $25.00. How cool was that? :) I made it really easy for David this year for our anniversary and birthday. I was very specific to what I wanted. An Italian bracelet. With the amount of lbs. lost to change each weigh in. And then for my birthday, I wanted to add the words “LBS LOST” to it, which is exactly what we did.
And, I’ve gotten numerous cards, and ecards from friends and family. And the afternoon all to myself. With a cinammon scented candle on the candle burner here in the office, and a turkey cooking in the background. It doesn’t get any better than this.
When you work full time, and try to balance family, job, church, and other life essentials, the time is a precious commodity. Even living in a small town like we do, it takes time to go from one insurance company to another, getting the best quote for that newly purchased vehicle. I can’t even imagine what it would be like in a larger town or city.
However, running all over town to find get auto insurance is a thing of the past. Car Insurance.com offers cheap auto insurance quotes with a few clicks of the keyboard. Just enter your zip code, and CarInsurance.com has partnered with car insurance leaders to offer me the best rates available. Its as simple as that. Find quotes online also gives me, the consumer, time to go over all the quotes, taking as much time as needed and I’m not being pressured by a high pressured salesman. When I typed in my zip code, the insurance companies that came up are ones that I am familiar with, such as Progressive and Geico. So, I feel confident that Car Insurance.com isn’t sending me to insurance companies that are here today, and gone tomorrow.
Since my town is proclaimed as the Catfish Capital of the World, I had to go take a look-see at this Catfish Impressionist at PayPerPost. Antonio is ah….hmmmmm…. unique, I must say that. And he does do s suberb impression of a catfish. A word of advice to him. If he is traveling through southeast Kansas, and is close to John Remond Resevoir, doing this impression might not be the smartest thing in the world to do. He might find himself hooked, caught and served for supper around here. We love our catfish! Seriously, though, his impression is just another example of what PayPerPost does to keep us posties entertained, impressed, and definately not bored. I loved Antonio’s impression, and looking forward to seeing more of his impressions!
List 10 Challenges You Have Had In The Last 3 Months
1. Living with the knowledge that the aunt that I loved and cared for (both physically and emotionally) would die soon.
2. Planning the funeral when she did die.
3. Dealing with regrets and “I should have’s” after she died — and coming to the realization that I did the best that I could. Maybe it wasn’t it enough, but under “my” circumstances (both physical and emotional), I gave all I could give.
4. Living within my physical self and meeting the challenge head on to do something about it.
5. Living every day with the weigh loss plan in place.
6. Teenager in the house. Need I say more?
7. Working 2 part time jobs, and keeping everything in balance. Throw in these opportunities I have found to get paid for blogging, it almost becomes a third job. Its a challenge, but one I’m up to.
8. Being patient with the new church building progress, and to keep my mouth shut when others are vocal about it, complaining, and things just are not as harmonious as they should be.
9. Not spending the money that is building in Paypal. I’m a shop-a-holic. Its not been easy.
10. Keeping my emotions in check as the situation between my son and The Bubble (my ex-DIL, who I love dearly) unfolds.
Even though I truly love my “day jobs” — church secretary by day, billing administrator by night (ok, by afternoon), and I don’t find my jobs mediocre, I do have to admit that I am intrigued by the book Quit Your Day Job.com. I haven’t read it, but I would like to, and will be contacting Jeremy Palmer for a copy.
However, no matter how much I like what I do, there is always room for financial improvement. Yes, we are finally at a place in our lives where we are not scrambling from paycheck to paycheck just to make things work. And I don’t work 2 jobs because “I have to” — I do it because I love what I do. As well as, esp. with the afternoon job, working with my husband, I am needed out there to take up the slack, and if it helps him, then I want to do it.
This e-book — Quit Your Day Job.com is a a “how-to” guide focusing on how you can make money online as an affiliate. In this e-book, you can learn how to have a better looking website for little or no money, how to create good landing pages, achieve top search engine rankings, pay less money for more traffic — to just mention a few. I definately think this is some worth checking into.
If you were “reinventing” yourself, what five things would you do differently?
1. I would be more disciplined, in eating, in time management, in my walk with God, with the house, with family.
2. I would be more outgoing and forthcoming. To be able to say things outloud, in a crowd of more than one. I would express more opinions.
3. I would be thin — and happy!
4. I would be a better friend. I have let so many friendships slip through my fingers, and alot of it was due to taking taking the time to care for them, to nuture them, to put them first sometimes.
5. I wouldn’t accept status quo if the circumstances are right. So many times in my life, I have just “accepted and gone on”. And yes, in some instances, it was the right thing to do. How many times we were ready to give up on the marriage? but, we changed a few things, a few attitudes along the way, and the 25 year mark is close at hand. But there are other things in my life, that should not have been “accepted”. I found my own solutions to those things, and things did not always work out for the best. I would definately tweak this “accept it and go on” ability I seem to have.
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Prompt from Scrapabilty
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What Things Do You Love? Name the first 10 things that pop into your head.
1. God
2. David
3. My Children (I won’t “cheat” here and list ALL 5 of them as seperate things I love)
4. My Grandchildren (again…. all of them)
5. My extended family — aunts (*waving — Hi Aunt Ida Mae and Aunt June….), uncles, and cousins
6. The smell of spice scented candles
7. Handbags (and how!)
8. Scrapbooking
9. Watching the scales go down…down…down
10. Mexican Food!
Its now the day after. We didn’t join the crowds of shoppers in the pre-Christmas sales … we just enjoyed the day home, and delight in the idea that I get an identical day like today — tomorrow. Sunday will probably be busy; but I like these 4 day holidays.
How did I do with the Thanksgiving feast? We feasted out to David’s sister’s house. Lots and lots of family there. Lots and lots of food. But, I took all the “tips’ to heart, made sure I had eaten a few of my supplements in the morning, so I wasn’t “starving” when we were actually ready to eat. I also kept my water bottle near and stayed well hydrated. That seemed to make a difference as well.
On my plate … a healthy portion of turkey. A large tablespoon of stuffing, the same of mashed potatoes. No gravy. And a generous portion of raw veggies. And, I did partake in dessert this time around. Having talked to my “nurse/counselor” person at my appointment, this is why you stay on the “straight and narrow’ for the most part, so when these occasions do roll around, its OK to be a part of the festivities. Again, I am sooo thankful for the additional “real” food I have to eat this time around. It has made all the difference in the world. I ate yesterday, I’m OK, and not ready to fall off the wagon. If I had done nothing but supplements since September, I honestly think yesterday (and Sunday!) would have done me in. But, these two “special’ meals blended right in nicely with my program, and I was able to participate without missing a beat.
I know, you’re thinking…she slipped that reference of dessert in there, but didn’t elaborate. For eating dessert, I still think I did excellent in that department as well. I took a regular size piece of pumpkin pike, and a regular size piece of apple pie. AND THEN…. I cut a sliver off of each, gave David the bigger pieces, and slowly savoured the taste of the pie. Even with small bites, there couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4 bites in each.
And I was stuffed. I didn’t overeat to overeat — I really thought I made excellent choices with everything I did. But, I still felt overly full when I was done. But thats a good thing too. I wasn’t tempted to go for seconds or go in and nibble because it was there.
Again, I have to say … I did well. This is getting to be a comfortable place to be, and I”m liking it!
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