December 2009
22 posts
A BLUE MOON NEW YEAR'S EVE
Today, I’m going to let MY personal astrologer, June Collier, have the ‘floor’ so to speak and let her inform about the energies of tonight’s SECOND Full Moon of the month, a Blue Moon that helps us to welcome in this next New Year.
Here’s what I want you to do TODAY….pay down ANY debt you have. You don’t have to pay it off and you certainly should...
TICK TOCK...Countdown to 2010
Up at the crack of dawn, well actually even earlier than that, to go and pay a visit to FOX 43 for some live on air sharin’ of the secrets and fab fortune and luck for the New Year.
Now, because I’m soooo behind on writing content for my January newsletter I’ll have to make today’s post super quick……oh shut up with your sighs of relief will ya?
First, the...
Eight Ways to Ring in a WONDERFUL New Year!
Last night my son went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie and came home absolutely raving about it. Of course, I never know whether that’s because the girl he likes was part of this crowd that went to the mall or if the movie really was as good as he made it out to be. But for someone who wants to be a filmmaker and as somewhat of a kiddie movie connoisseur, well, I trust that he knows...
HAPPY (!!!!) New Year
The last couple of days (and weeks too if truth be told) I’ve been barraged by emails and messages regarding what the next year/decade/millenia will hold and, well, most of the messages sort of say the same thing:
“Last year sucked so bad”
OR
“Nothing’s gone right since the 90’s and is that what we can expect for the 10’s?”
I get it, really I...
Betcha didn't get a MAGIC SQUARE! Well, you got...
I decided that this year I was going to let the Universe decide what sort of oh la la magical fa la la la la la I was going to gift myself. I’d already told my son to get me a new pedometer (I actually lost the other one….but can tell you this…I was soooooo in the habit of doing the extra walking that even without all that mute guilt hanging off my wrist I still parked waaaaay...
The True Meaning of Christmas?????
Okay, so, remember when I mentioned earlier in the week how the whole of last weekend was filled with the word “miracle” and how much I had heard it mentioned from Friday straight through to Monday? And then the Carolina Panthers beat a team that should have been able to best those cats while still flying on their team plane? Enough said.
Towards that same sort of my paying...
PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO MEN
Now, if you’re not really feeling ‘it’ (the spirit of the holiday season that is) then you might want to try a little rhodiola…that herb that I take to keep a lid on the anxiety, which, btw, seems to be a bit higher than usual this year. And, of course, since they were so delightfully generous and sent me another beautiful box of all same, a hearty THANK YOU and some...
My Feng Shui Angel and Me....and, now, YOURS too!
Okay, since I know you are all waiting with baited breath to hear about the Solstice miracle we/I experienced………………….
So, alright, here goes; we decided to join the new upstart lacrosse team/coaches/endeavors because, as my son says, ‘no risk/no reward.’ We committed and then……………….
Wha???? That...
Super Stellar Winter Solstice
Oh my goodness…..all those poor people stranded in airports and bus stations and train depots all around the country. And here’s the weird thing…we were supposed to go to New York for a family Christmas party on Thursday and were set to return last night as well. Had the tickets and the seats and had cleared the work decks here.
But from the time I first mentioned that we...
A Funny Thing Happened on My Way To The Solstice..
So remember a while back when I was discouraging everyone from decorating their homes too early with all kinds of holiday hooplah and decor because I said that when/if you splashed decos all over your space too far ahead of the holiday itself that it can drain and depress you? Not to mention exhaust you too! Well, I’m here to say that having too much dressing around is probably not...
The Bluebird of Happiness...........Flying Right...
In the interest of brevity and also because that tooth surgery (OWWWWW!) put me back a day or more and I have too much to catch up on now, I am going to do two things with this post today:
The first thing is remind that today is THE day to get out and about and party like it’s the holiday season or something. And towards that same end, I promised a couple of readers the whole COME TO ME...
He Ain't Heavy....He's My Brother
OMG, if I could only tell you about the big lacrosse drama happening around here these days…but who has the time? Suffice to say, it’s ‘D’rama with a cap ‘D’ and only by a simple twist of fate am I not dead sqaure in the middle of it. Well, fate and a twisty broken tooth that’s now my excuse for absolutely everything….still don’t have the...
You're Makin a List and Checkin it THRICE!
Last night I wanted to make my son what he calls a ‘real’ dinner, that usually means something that I cook “from scratch” (i.e. take off the wrapper from the steak and throw in some tater tots) and don’t order and/or pick up. I wanted to do that since tomorrow is not only basketball but is also D-Day! That’s right….DENTIST Day…. when I get that...
Come Dance and .... Drill?
Quite a weekend and quite a Monday as well. I was so excited about ‘Julia and Julie’ (or is it the other way around?) coming out and being available for my weekend’s entertainment until Friday ended up being a whole impromptu decorating extravanganza here at Shui Cottage. EXCEPT that as I write this I’m almost no closer to being in the spirit (a la decorated) than I was...
Challah at your girl!
A warm and blessed Hannukah to all of our friends celebrating that holiday!
I was going to post a challah recipe for our Magically Delicious Friday entry/entree but, I never ever post a recipe unless I’ve cooked it first and, in this case, although I had ALL good intentions of baking some bread yesterday, all of a sudden it was Christmas chaos around here. Tammy came over to lend a...
Break Ins and Break Ups
I swear that I’m gonna have to break up with Top Chef! Look, I liked Kevin. Alot. I got the whole ‘homey’ schtick that Bravo saddled him with with his pig tatoos and his pulled pork. But, honestly, with his garden to garcon style of eating locally/drinking globally I think he had a hand more on the zeitgeist of trend cuisine than the two stuck in the 90’s nuvelle...
Good Morning, um, I mean, Good Bye America! Where...
So, now, it seems that ‘Good Morning America’ has made everything official. George I can’t spell his Greek last name will be taking Diane Sawyer’s place on GMA and JuJu Chang will be stepping in to take over the morning news spot from Chris Cuomo. But where will HE be going? All that spin that ABC and Disney has done to bring Sawyer to the dinosaur evening news...
Orange You Glad You Stopped By? And many...
Uh oh…another ambulence was called to Tiger’s house early this morning and it looks like Elin might have been the one headed hospital way this time. I mean, it’s all so terribly intrusive. But NOT FOR ONE SECOND does she need to be embarrassed. HE SHOULD. I’m going to share a little story here that I think I might have told in this same space before but, I don’t...
Magically Delicious Mea Culpa Monday!
So, the emails have finally slowed to a trickle regarding not being able to find those last two signs on the Shuistrology page (they were behind the Jurrasic Park icon, but, Sarah is changing that link to read something like… MORE SIGNS HERE …or something like that) AND I guess that if you’re reading this now you’ve finally found us over here at Tumblr. Gosh, what a week...
So Long Chef Jennifer..Now You Too Have Time to...
OMG could ‘Top Chef’ have come down to any more of a nail biter last night? But, that said, I think we ALL always knew that it would be Cain and Abel, um, I mean, the smoking hot Voltaggio brothers going up against Kevin in the finale. I LOVE Kevin, but I loves me telly even more so would advise one so am already setting up camp for next Wednesday night. I’d also advise...
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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright & Why Red and Green...
Oh Tiger, say it ain’t so. Another round of tabloid headlines. Another round of women coming out of the woodwork. Another round…..should have been the next time we all watched you on tour, not on Twitter.
I do scratch my head and wonder what causes someone to implode this way? It just cannot be for sex. It just cannot. But, then, what? He’s got all the fame and money and...
Decoration Schmecoration!
Oh where oh where is Tammy when I really need her? See, she was really great at ALL things decorating. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve got the ‘eye’ (and just in case you’re reading this from your offices at The American Society of Interior Designers don’t throw me out, okay?) but Tammy was so much better at, well, everything. She could hang a string of...
