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This has been an interesting week [politically speaking]…

On Monday

Project Veritas exposed Gain of Function research

– Military documents that contradict Fauci’s testimony.

On Tuesday

Biden delivered a divisive speech from GA where he called on the Senate to  strike a “filibuster” for the right to vote.  He referred to the millions of Americans who oppose the federal takeover of elections as “internal enemies.  The Resident reminded us that he is estupidez when he exclaimed repeatedly that it isn’t the vote that counts, its who gets to count the vote.  Maybe I’m the dummy, but I don’t even know what that means.

Biden then went on to call on social media to censor Americans.  He said, “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows”

Also on Tuesday Prince Andrew received some bad news:This whole thing makes me sad.  I started ‘following’ the Royal Family back in the eighties and I always thought they were such a lovely and romantic group.  Since my teenage years I’ve learned that they aren’t all that I once thought.  Very Sad.

Andrew will face charges as a private citizen, much like his friend Guislaine.  Good luck to him.

On Tuesday and Wednesday

we saw clip after clip of Senators Paul and Marshall grill Dr. Flip Flop Fauci.

Fauci needs to pay for his part in creating and releasing the China virus, which resulted in the deaths of many people worldwide, and for the lies he has told over the past 2 years.

On Thursday

the Supreme Court ruled on Biden’s medical mandates. They ALMOST made us proud.  Fortunately they blocked Biden’s federal mandate of the “Vaccine or Test” for large businesses.  However, they did not block the block the mandate to vaccinate medical workers of institutions receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds.

Today

Saturday, January 15th

President Trump will hold a “Save America Rally” in Florence, AZ.  He most likely won’t speak until about 9PM.  You can watch it on Newsmax, OANN or RSBN. President Trump has continued to advance the MAGA agenda by energizing VOTERS and endorsing America First candidates and causes.  His speeches are all the same… and I’m looking forward to it anyway!

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Friday Favorites

Christmas gift giving can get very expensive… so we draw names in my family.  Using the website drawnames.com, each is assigned a secret Santa with a $50 limit.  This year some people did not follow the rules.  One person in particular bought presents for EVERYONE.  It was a nice gesture, but defeated the whole point of drawing names!

Throughout the year, LB and I will go shopping.  Sometimes he will buy me something, typically an item of clothing that I like, and save it for Christmas.  It is amazing how quickly I forget about these things.  I’m always surprised on Christmas morning when I open gifts from him, but I soon remember picking the item and the the fun memory of shopping on that noteworthy day.

If I never bought another item of clothing again, or received another gift, I would still have too much.

One particular gift comes to mind.  It is a box of teas.

One box, containing nine small boxes, each containing ten bags of tea.  Yes, I now have ninety bags of tea.

I’m trying out each of them, because that’s just what I do.

And if you get a hankering for flavored tea, please stop by and I’ll share a cup with you.

A few other gifts stand out as well.  I’m going to call these my

Friday Favorites

Favorite # ONE

I LOVE THIS TOP!

It was on my Amazon wishlist for a long time and 2 different people noticed it.  Now I have 2 of them!

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Favorite # TWO

This top was a Christmas gift and also part of my New Years Eve 2021 outfit.  It too was on my Amazon wishlist and I also received 2.  You can’t have too much of a good thing!

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Favorite # THREE

This is a tiny little eyeshadow pallete.  It used to be on my Amazon wishlist.  I received 3 LOL.

 

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Favorite # FOUR

This one REALLY surprised me!

Thank you LB!

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Favorite # FIVE

ALL The People

in my family…

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in my family.

You are the best family anyone could ever ask for!

I love each and every one of you and the Christmas morning chaos we enjoy every year!

 

 

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Oh HAPPY Day!

Since September 2021 I have been struggling to manage anger.  My anger management trouble was triggered on August 30th when the rules changed at work.  My 4-person team was awarded the opportunity to handle a new category of complaint for the entire center.  This gave us ownership of the type of issue that is un-resolvable and leaves a customer frustrated and proficient in their ability to express rage.

I understand why the company made the decision to change process and that is because we are the best of the best 😊  but that doesn’t make it any easier.  It has been an exhausting effort.

Due to fried brain syndrome, after I log off in the afternoon, typically I will have a seat on the sofa and fall asleep.

But today management announced another change.  It went something like this:

After data review and much consideration we have decided to pause the *** cases starting close of business today. I will be sending out the notification to others shortly. This means that starting tomorrow we will not accept *** submissions at this time until further review and possible revamp.  The reason… process as it stands is not the initial intention and has slightly morphed leaving you all overwhelmed.

I couldn’t have described “the process as it stands” more beautifully if I tried.

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Happy Friday!

I do actually have some favorites for today.  They go back a few weeks, but thats because I have some catching up to do!

Favorite # ONE

Christmas 2021

5 days before Christmas and I am DONE!  [This is a positive not a negative].

I have the house decorated and gifts wrapped.

LB has erected his new GRINCH in the front yard.  I’ve engaged in some crafting of Christmas goodies: Almond Roca, Dark chocolate fudge, Magic cookie bars, and of course, Christmas cookies!  The girls will be over later this week to make divinity.

LB and I have celebrated the SEASON by attending a Christmas event at Promiseland Baptist Church, attending a showing of  Bruce Allen Scudder’s “Christmas Carol” at the Alhambraand spending an evening with the Family decorating Christmas cookies and gingerbread houses.

And that is as far as I got.

I began this Christmas 2021 blog post, but never got around to finishing…   one of 43 unfinished in my Prettyis drafts folder.

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Favorite # TWO

A Clean Bill of Health

Which came with a $500+ medical bill.

It was just a tiny procedure, but I had never experienced it and did not like the sound of it, or the reason it was necessary.  I waited for the appointment from mid-November until a few days after Christmas.  It was a nerve-racking few weeks.

Fortunately all is well.  Good health is truly a blessing.

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Favorite # THREE

New Year Mini Vacay

I was one of the lucky few who were able to be off New Years Eve.  LB and I left home and headed for Jekyll Island (one of LB’s favorite places).  We stayed in a new hotel and attended an event at the Jekyll Island Club Resort.  There was a band and many people took to the dance floor (not me).  There was A LOT of food and quite a few guests.  I didn’t make it to midnight; We went back to the hotel and watched Andy Cohen’s excellent rant to bring in the new year.  It was great.  I’d love to link it, but I can’t find a good recording.  Also I don’t want to promote liberals.

I do, however, want to promote conservatives.

This is what our favorite President said today on Telegram:

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Favorite # FOUR

A Message from Donald J. Trump

What we witnessed yesterday was the last gasps of a corrupt and discredited left-wing political and media establishment that has, for decades, driven our country into the ground—shipping away our jobs, surrendering our strength, sacrificing our sovereignty, attacking our history and values, and trying to turn America into a country that our people can barely recognize.

These radical leftists in Washington care NOTHING for American Democracy. All they care about is control over you, and wealth and riches for themselves.

But they are failing. No one believes them anymore. And the day is quicky coming when they will be overwhelmingly voted out of power.

Joe Biden’s voice is now the voice of desperation and despair.

His handlers gave him that speech to read yesterday because they know the unprecedented failures of his presidency and the left-wing extremism of the Pelosi-Schumer Congress have destroyed the Democrat Party.

Part of their panic is motivated by the realization that, just like the Russia Collusion Hoax, they cannot sustain the preposterous fabrications about January 6 much longer. The truth is coming out.

But for them, the worst part of it all is the knowledge that the American People are seeing right through their phony media event—which despicably compared a Pelosi-led security failure at the Capitol to the darkest days in American history and the deaths of 3,000 Americans.

The people see right through that sham. They see a cynical politician who ran for office promising unity who is now doing the most divisive thing possible—slandering his political opponents as domestic terrorists, just like insecure dictators do in communist countries.

The American People also see that January 6 has become the Democrats’ excuse and pretext for the most chilling assault on the civil liberties of American citizens in generations. It is being used to justify outrageous attacks on free speech, widespread censorship, de-platforming, calls for increased domestic surveillance, appalling abuse of political prisoners, labeling opponents of COVID lockdowns and mandates as national security threats, and even ordering the FBI to target parents who object to the radical indoctrination of their children in school. And this week, January 6 is also the Democrats’ excuse for trying to pass a radical Federal takeover of state election law. They are trying to BAN voter ID and other basic measures that can ensure the sacred integrity of the vote.

The reason the Democrats are doing all of this is not because they believe they will win a fair and honest election. It’s because they know they will overwhelmingly LOSE one.

Remember, I am not the one trying to undermine American Democracy—I am the one trying to SAVE American Democracy.

Today, I am more confident than ever in the strength and common sense of the American People. They are counting the days until we will no longer have to be constantly lectured, lied to, and dictated to by corrupt politicians and their media partners. When we will no longer have to put up with this broken establishment’s hoaxes and its manufactured media narratives—And as Biden and his radical handlers know, that day is coming fast. Because in the months and years ahead, the American People are going to speak up, take action, and VOTE in massive numbers, and we are going to TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY.

From the very beginning, all that Americans have wanted is great jobs, safe neighborhoods, strong borders, good schools, a proud nation, and a government that LISTENS to the American People. That is what our movement has always been about—and that is what we are focused on to this day.

Joe Biden and the Radical Democrats have failed on every front. But do not lose hope. America WILL be Great Again.

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Favorite # FIVE

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I’ve been sick for a month

YES…

I’ve been sick for a month!

The Tuesday after our Saturday date night at the Alhambra, which I posted about here, I came down with… something.

I thought it was a sinus infection, complete with headache and congestion.  But no matter what I took [or how much] I could not get rid of the headache.  It lasted for two days.  Then the fever came, and the coughing, and the inability to sit down without falling asleep.  I had no energy and was unbelievably tired.  My cough was so bad that I thought “maybe I have bronchitis”.

I’ve made it this far in life and have never had the flu, so I was thinking “there is no way I can have the flu”.  Since I have been a successful social distancer, I couldn’t imagine what or WHOM I could have come in contact with that would have given me COVID.  Maybe it was the Alhambra photographer who got strangely close when showing LB and I our photo on Saturday night.  But I still don’t know.

 On the following weekend I slept.  I SLEPT all weekend. I was still sick… headache, coughing, lethargy.  On Monday LB started to feel bad.  On Wednesday he decided we needed to be tested for COVID.  He went alone to Walgreens and submitted a sample.  Since it wouldn’t reveal results for THREE DAYS, he went to CVS and bought a home test kit.  It was a 2fer so we both tested.

And we were both POSITIVE

The next day we drove to the Downtown Public Library and partook of the Monoclonal Antibodies treatment courtesy of our honorable Governor Ron DeSantis.  Four shots… 2 in the back of the arm, 2 in the lower abdomen.

Thank you Governor DeSantis.  You are a hero!

LB started to get better right away.  I [on the other hand] had to call the doctor, who prescribed an antibiotic for 5 days to help with my congestion and cough.  On day six I was thinking it didn’t work.  But today, I’m not coughing much, and my voice is almost back to normal.  It seems to take forever for the symptoms to subside.

Let me quote my sister: “Covid is no joke”

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I started doing research and found this site with a lot of good information.  That information was derived from this site which has even more amazing information.

Also there is a Covid defense Box (a Physician-Recommended COVID First Aid Kit) you can request from this site.

It includes…

  • Budesonide nasal spray to fight the cytokine storm
  • A pulse oximeter to monitor blood oxygen levels
  • Vitamins C & D3, Zinc, and Quercetin to strengthen immunity
  • N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) to promote bronchial, respiratory, and immune health
  • Claritin (Loratadine) H1 histamine blocker to dry up secretions
  • Pepcid (Famotadine) H2 histamine block to lessen secretions
  • Mouthwash to lessen viral replication in mouth
  • Low dose aspirin to prevent blood clots
  • Melatonin to fortify immune systems, and prevent blood clots

I hope this helps someone!

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The Sound of Music

I was introduced to the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s masterpiece as a little girl.

One of my aunts, I think it was Sharon,  took me to the theater where I watched the longest movie I had ever seen in my little life.  I’m not sure why I think it was Sharon because it seems like it was typically Linda or Vicki that would take me to the movies.

[Maybe someone can help me out with this?]

I wish my memory wasn’t so bad 🤪

But I do remember that the movie was great.  I’ve seen it more than a dozen times.  I loved it so much that I had the album.

I couldn’t remember what happened to that album.  As a matter of fact, I don’t remember if it belonged to me or my sister. Surely it was too wholesome to become victim to the back-masking record burning event that took place around the late 70’s.  Gina reminded me that it was on her stereo and stolen during one of the many home break-ins we experienced as kids.  But we had it in our possession long enough that I memorized EVERY SINGLE song from the movie.  It is amazing what your brain will allow you to remember.  For me, it is lyrics.

I think my favorite song is probably

“The Lonely Goatherd”

[Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo].

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Right now the Alhambra Theater and Dining is showing a production of The Sound of Music.  LB has been watching for an opportunity to purchase weekend tickets.  On Friday night he got lucky.  Two seats had become available and he grabbed them.

So on Saturday night we did something that has become out of the norm during the plandemic, we went out on a date.

The show was great.  It was considerably shorter than the movie, some of the songs were a little out of place, but the story was the same.

We loved it.

If you get the opportunity to go, I highly recommend it!

Just as info, the menu is a little strange.  Bear in mind that pork schnitzel is merely a breaded (and probably fried)  pork chop and Sacher torte is just a piece of chocolate cake.  Both are delicious!

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You talkin’ to Me?

Occasionally I will pick something apart.  LB does it too.  We’re funny like that, but at least we can relate to one another.  That said…

There was recently a Facebook post circulating and it begins with

“The end is near. So why am I smiling?”

You’ve probably seen it.
The writer introduces herself as a “3rd generation pastor’s kid” and goes on to give a brief synopsis of her early experience in an end-times-obsessed religious environment.  Her overwhelming fear that she would miss the Rapture of the Church was debilitating and followed her into adulthood.  However, thanks to ‘awesome mentors and logic’, the fruitless narrative [that she could be left behind] finally began to crumble.
I cannot deny that she does have a gift for exhortation.
Then she changes lanes and reminds the reader “you shall know it by its fruit” and goes on to address those who are not speaking words that are beneficial to anyone but…
 ‘darkness’.
Reading this makes me go
Conviction?
Maybe.
I’ve come across the post 25 times at least, so I decided to give it some thought.
I can identify with the writer because I too [at an early age] was exposed to end-time prophecy: the rapture, the tribulation, mark of the beast and many horrifying events that you can read about in THE BIBLE.
In 1972, a movie dramatizing some of those events was released.  I saw it in the auditorium/sanctuary of the church where I grew up.
The name of the movie was…

A Thief in the Night.

Along with the movie came the song “I Wish We’d All Been Ready“.  The lyrics reiterated the message in the movie.
Other movies followed: A Distant Thunder, Image of the Beast...

does anyone else remember these?

(side note: all are available to watch on IMDb TV)

Back to my story: At the time, I was only 6 years old, but it was probably a couple of years later that I was able to view the first of this series.  No doubt, the message of that movie would leave a child with a sense of dread and if you believe the Bible to be truth, it was a wake up call.  Nobody wanted to miss the rapture and find themselves facing the tribulation, along with the government police who would arrest and imprison those who rejected the narrative.  I was truly concerned about missing the rapture when I was a little girl, but now I understand that it isn’t me that should be concerned (John 10:24-30).

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As the writer of the considerably shared post tells us, “those of us who are alive” have the privilege of seeing what ‘prophets dreamed’.  To me, that would be…

the beginning of the end.

For example: The Biden regime is currently experimenting with control, and is testing the people to see if all that they propose will be accepted.  The complicit CDC is now setting up internment camps for you and me.
At some point a leader will mandate a mark in the right hand or forehead (Revelation 13:15-18).  Those who accept this mark will be damned (Revelation 20:4).
This may be information that is considered beneficial only to ‘darkness’, by someone’s standards, but I think it should be known.

 

Just as info, I am not a conspiracy theorist, obsessed with, immersed in, or focused on the evil that I have been awakened to, but I am concerned.

However, I know the end of the story…

God wins.

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Has it been TEN YEARS?

Unlike my Daddy, who only worked for one company all his life, and eventually advanced to the top, I have worked at many places.  Thanks to him, my first job was at

First Guaranty Bank

as a proof operator and later a teller.  I worked there from 1984 until 1985.

First Guaranty hired me again in 1989 and I eventually moved from the teller department to the loan department.  I stayed with that bank until 1998 when I took an offer from another bank.

I didn’t know how good I had it.

I worked a few months at Bank of America and then took another offer from SouthTrust, at the Gulf life tower. It was official… I was a banker just like my daddy, except different.  I was with SouthTrust until 2000.

After this I became a home school

Teacher

I think it was 2002 when I figured out that I couldn’t teach Algebra and needed help.  I enrolled in a class at FCCJ which lead me down the road to finishing college.  There was absolutely nothing I wanted “to be when I grew up”, but interior design sounded fun, so I enrolled in the program.  It was during this time that I accepted an internship with Liberty Furniture.  I was there until the Obama economic decline impacted the company in 2010.

In 2011 I was hired by a communications company.  I’ll typically refer to it as

“the company”

in my blog posts.

I started by assisting customers in the call center.  In 2016 I was invited to become a member of the customer advocacy group [CAG] working hard-to-resolve issues, and assisting customers who had reached out to the company’s office of the president.  And that is what I am currently doing.

In 2020 the company made the decision to have my department begin working from home.  I published several blog posts about that adventure here and here.

Although today is Sunday, and I’m not at “the office” it is my work anniversary.  I have actually made it to ten years with the company.  It is unbelievable that I have held out so long and it has NOT BEEN EASY!

If you know me, you know what company I’m referring to.  If you don’t know me well, I can tell you that it is a well-known communications company whose name I do not mention in my blog, just in case I happen to inadvertently say the wrong thing.  Who knows when a Google search may reveal my little blog, and someone may take offense at something I say.  I’ll make the announcement some day, but not yet.

 

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