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Inspiring nephew

I have a nephew who is in his second year of college at one of the top elite universities here on the east coast, so he is not too far away but is still not as close as we would like him to be. He is a great kid and is bond to make a name for himself and will definitely make a difference in this world in numerous ways in his life time. Can you tell that I am a proud aunt!

His mom really misses him and only gets to see him maybe 2 or 3 times a year, his Dad lives way up north and he is constantly trying to appease both parents when it comes to holiday visits and vacations. Of course my sister seems to be constantly getting the short end of the stick, but that is the same struggle that she was dealing with even before he left for college. It really sucks when a kid is bounced back and forth and is stuck trying to please both sets of parents.

When he does get a chance to visit, he spends most of his time sleeping, eating and doing homework, which leaves not enough time, as far as she is concerned, for them to just hang out and talk and to do things together, alas she cherishes every moment that she can get out of him when she can.

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Good Luck! – Part 2

LUCKY SEVEN.  Seven is the sum of three and four, the triangle and the square, which ancient Greeks considered the two “perfect figures.” The lunar cycle, which is 28 days, is divided into four seven-day quarters: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Third Quarter. It may also come from the game of craps, where rolling a seven wins the roll.

LUCKY HUNCHES.  Believe it or not, this is from the days when rubbing a hunchback’s hump was considered good luck. The ancient Egyptians worshipped a hunchbacked god named Bes, and the ancient Romans hired hunchbacks as servants because they thought it brought the household good luck.

AMAZING LUCK

“IN March 1997, the Sunday Oklahoman profiled Oklahoma City homemaker Mary Clamser, 44, whose deterioration with multiple sclerosis had been abruptly halted in 1994 when lightning struck her house while she was grasping metal objects with each hand and wearing her metal leg brace.

“Suddenly, she began walking easily, and though doctors told her the condition was probably only temporary, she still walks easily today. As if that weren’t enough good luck, Clamser, in order to fly to California for a TV interview in April 1995, was forced to cancel a local appointment she had made at the Oklahoma City federal building for 9 a.m. on April 19.”

“Taken from Uncle John’s Biggest Ever Bathroom Reader”

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Good Luck!

You’re familiar with these lucky customs. Here’s where they come from:

LUCKY STAR. Centuries ago, people believed that every time a person was born, a new star appeared in the sky. The star was tied to the person’s life: it would stay in the sky until the person died, and it rose or fell as the individual’s fortunes rose and fell (that’s where the expression “rising star” comes from). The Hebrew phrase mazel tov, which means “good luck,” also translates as “good constellation,” or “may the stars be good to you.”

LUCKY CHARM. “Charm” comes from the Latin word carmen, which means “song” or “incantation.” People once believed that certain words or phrases had magical powers when recited – some-thing which survives today in words like “abracadabra” and “open seasame.” In time, anything that brought luck, not just “magic words,” became known as charms.

STARTING OUT ON THE RIGHT FOOT. A term from the ancient Romans, who believed that entering a building with the left foot was bad luck. They took the belief to extremes, even stationing guards of “footmen” at the entrances of buildings to make sure every visitor “started out on the right foot.”

THIRD TIME’S A CHARM. Philip Waterman writes in The Story of Superstition, “Of all the numbers in the infinite scale, none has been more universally revered than three.” The Greek philosopher Pythagoras thought the number three was the “perfect number,” and many cultures have used triangles to ward off evil spirits. The reason it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder (aside from the obvious ones) is that you’re “breaking” the triangle that the ladder makes with the ground.

“Taken from Uncle John’s Biggest Ever Bathroom Reader“

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My Son is missing school more and more

My Son has been having stomach issues for the past year now, and has been missing way too many days of school. I honestly think that they will hold him back a year, but the doctor has told me he thinks it’s depression and it’s something that a pill wouldn’t solve.  Months later, there is no sign of him getting better, so I came to a conclusion that my son is not depressed, he is the happiest little boy ever. He just wakes up in the morning and has painful tummy aches that we can’t seem to figure out the reasoning for. I don’t know what to do, and hopefully the doctor we go to next week can help us out on this error of judgement from the other doctor.

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Chocolate for Mother’s Day!

Chocolate, I love chocolate, which is really strange, because for the last 20 years or so I had lost my taste for this wonderful treat that I can’t seem to get enough of this last year or so. I even like the sound of the word!

I was looking at some sites for Mother Day gift ideas, when I ran across this site www.gertrudehawkchocolates.com and not only did I see some great gift ideas for all of the mothers in my life, but I found some nice ideas that I will have to share with Hubby and the girls, so that they will have an idea of what I would like to receive this year, and Mother’s Day is coming quickly this year.

This really tastey site has not only great gift giving ideas, but corporate gifts,  plus I see that they also offer fundraising opportunities that my come in handy when my input is required for the many fundraising events that my girls are always getting me in to. 

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South Park is outrageously unacceptable

My daughter has been talking to Hubby about her favorite show South Park a lot lately and I honestly have never heard of it before until now. Well apparently my young son has been watching this show too, and seems to love it just as much as his older sister does. I had found that it was rated for mature audiences only, and I had heard some of the nasty things they were saying on the show accidentally, but I’m glade I caught it. They are now not allowed to watch it anymore, it’s unacceptable and I wont tolerate it in my house.

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Teenagers

My teenage daughter is quite the handful, but shes growing up and maturing faster then I expected her to. She is holding two jobs, still in school trying to get a good education, and has a steady boyfriend she has been with for years. Over all I think she is going to make it through life as happy as anyone would want to be. I just hope it stays this way, because I know how teenagers are, they always seem to change drastically on you when you least expect it.

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TravelHERO is so convenient

My family has been waiting all winter long to go to Disney World this coming summer, we needed to plan in advance what hotel we were going to stay at and how we were going to get there. Well after searching the Internet for a while I came across a website called Travelhero and had found that you can look up every hotel there and find cheap hotel reservations for any one of your choices. I had looked through a good amount of their options of hotels and had also found that they looked marvelous on the inside and out with great prices that I wasn’t at all expecting. We also reserved a car for us to rent for our transportation on TravelHERO, it was so quick and easy and I don’t have to worry about doing it later.

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NoBrainerBlinds – it’s a no brainer indeed

When we first moved into this house we are now in, we thought we needed to get rid of all the white paint that was everywhere. So we painted room room a different color to make it more comfortable for us to live in. We went nuts over all kinds of really nice piece’s of furniture with matching tables and curtains and and some nice blinds that just fit with the room. Well my husband and I were thinking about upgrading our window wear and try to make it unique as possible, so we got on to the computer in search for window blinds that have our style we were looking for. We came across a company called NoBrainerBlinds that sells unique window blinds, and we were so amazed on how fabulous these blinds were. Each and every one of them were very much unique. Not too long after ordering, we put up our new blinds and we were so happy with our choices, talk about great service, with wonderful options. 

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Out with the old, and in with the new

 For years I have been dying to upgrade every piece of technology I have in the house, and try to make it more comfortable to us, and more appealing to the eye. Well I have taken a lot of electronics and sold them at the flea market to get a little bit back for all of it, and I am now ready to go shopping for my 56′ Big screen TV that I have always wanted. I am so excited to think about when I see my family’s faces when I arrive home with a huge TV.