Happy New Year

The time is tick-tick-ticking away.... slowly heading towards midnight. The year

is coming to an end along with this day.

The clock on my computer says it is 11:11pm, a special time to be sure, and it tells me just how close we are getting to that moment in time when this year will end and the new year will begin, filled with hope and promise for a better, happier, healthier, slimmer, trimmer, more love filled and joy filled year of greater prosperity. Yes, we all pin our hopes on the new year, wanting it to be better than the old one. There is a way to insure that it is better... change the way we think and we change our experiences in life.

One sure way of changing our lives and making them better, happier, richer, etc. is to practice gratitude.

Just take a moment here and there to count your blessings.


For everything, great and small, give thanks.


I have so very much to be grateful for and I take time each day to thank God for the many many things I have to be thankful for. Some are as simple as:

- I am grateful for my eyes as they allow me to see the beauty that surrounds me.
- I am grateful for my ears, for with them I get to hear music, laughter, birds singing, and all other things that I can enjoy &/or learn from.
- I am grateful for my feet and for my legs as they make it possible for me to stand and to walk, to drive my truck and my trike.
- I am grateful for my hands and my wrists and my arms. They make it possible for me to care for myself and others, to pick up my food and feed myself, to pet my animals and to take care of them all.

Having been in a crash this year, I am even more thankful now than I was before for my hands & wrists. Having had the left wrist shattered and the right one sprained I have come to really appreciate just how much we depend on the use of our hands for great and small things every day. Just for a day try not using your hands, or even think of each little thing you use your hands for and notice just how wonderful a creation they really are.... be grateful for them. Slowly I am getting the use of my left hand back, but it is still unknown if I will ever get full use of it back. I am so grateful that I can again type with it.

I also think of the 'outside' things for which I am grateful, such as though not limited to:

- I am grateful for my home. It is cold outside tonight and I am blessed to have a home to live in and a fire going in the stove to keep my home warm and comfortable for me and my animals.
- I am grateful for each and every one of my animals: Mewsic (cat); Grace Hawk (rabbit); Sheri, Daisy, Smudge & Charlie (chinchillas); DW (Indian Ringneck Parrot/Parakeet; Friday & Miracle (Pacific Parrotlets); Angel, Stud Muffin, Tiki & Billy Bob (Cockatiels). They give me a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and to come home again each time I leave.
- I am grateful for my computers... for oh so many reasons.
- I am grateful for the food I eat as it nourishes my body.
- I am grateful for the clothes I wear.

And I can go on and on and on... but I won`t just now.

I had many sad times in 2010, and I also had many happy times, many things to be grateful for. I know that I am truly blessed in many ways. I look forward to the coming year, knowing that it too is filled with many things I will be grateful for. It is filled with much excitement, joy, love, prosperity, abundance, friendship and.... more.

As the last second of 2010 and the first second of 2011 approach, I wish you all much to be grateful for. I wish you all the very best of everything in this wonderful year and beyond.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I look forward to seeing you again throughout the coming year.

What's in a Hospital?

What are some of the things you would find in a hospital? Well, I guess other than the regular equipment for x-rays, mammograms, blood tests, and stuff like that you find lots of beds, nurses, doctors, orderlies, and other people that help us when we are injured, sick, or having babies. There is the gift shop where you can buy baptism gifts for children, books & magazines, ornaments, flowers, etc. to give to your friend or family member that is in the hospital, or even for yourself while you are there visiting.

So, you might be wondering why I would be thinking about the hospital. Well, because of one other thing that is in our local hospital... my dear & valued friend Donna Jean. I got a phone call from her husband Rolland yesterday saying that DJ had a minor heart attack. Today I called the hospital and found out that she is in CCU (Cardiac Care Unit) so only immediate family members can visit her. This makes it all seem rather more serious than 'minor heart attack' sounded. I sure hope she will soon be well again.

I also have another, longer time friend, Wanda, whom I value very highly and who is also in hospital, though not here. Wanda had a brain aneurysm earlier this month and is very lucky to still be alive. Fortunately, she was in the Vancouver area at the time she had the aneurysm and was close to the big hospitals there and the specialists in that field. My former husband, Everett, had a brain aneurysm in 1999 and was not so lucky. He passed away at age 44, just a few days after 'the event'.

Good Wishes for YOU!!

I send you love and wishes for a most Merry Christmas and a 2011 filled with Joy, Peace and Love for you and your loved ones.

I also send a 'Christmas Gift'. It's a free download that could well help your 2011 be a lot more prosperous. I've downloaded it before but didn't get around to reading it... sigh, so just downloaded it again and am finding it very interesting whenever I find a few moments to read. I look forward to a quieter time soon, lol.

Well, I think I am about as ready for Christmas as I will be this year. Much of it is already over and much left to come. December 2nd was my TOPS group party... full turkey dinner for lunch, games to play, gift exchange where I was fortunate to get what I felt was the best gift, a hand quilted wall hanging of snowmen. December 18 was a turkey dinner at my sister Marcy's in Enderby including a gift exchange before M & her husband left for Whiterock, Las Vegas, & 4 months in Arizona/California. Tomorrow, Christmas Day, I go to Mom's in Enderby in the morning for gift exchange and to spend the day with her, we'll go to a church dinner later in the day. Monday is another family dinner at Mom's. My 2 brothers and their families will be there, one from Langley and one north of Edmonton. I'm making my 'famous' bread pudding for desert.

And now... off to dreamland or Santa won't stop by. Well, okay, so he refuses to stop here anyway ever since the crash... sigh. He tried to park on my roof which is metal and very steep. It was a nasty mess. Ah well, maybe some day Santa & the reindeer will get over it and stop in again. In the meantime, they drop my gifts at Mom's so I have to get there early to open them. Night night, and may your morning bring you lots of good stuff under the tree.

Merry Christmas and a Joy, Peace and Love filled 2011!!

A Christmas Surprise

This evening the phone rang and I had just sat down on my armchair with dinner, tv and laptop, so was not feeling happy about someone calling. However, I got up and went across the room to answer the noisy thing. "Merry Christmas Eve!!" I cheerfully said into the receiver. That's when I got the surprise!! My friend Art moved away earlier this fall, out of the country to Thailand and he phoned to wish me a Merry Christmas!!! This is the FIRST time I've ever gotten a phone call from THAILAND!! How is that for totally COOL!!! It was good to hear from him and to hear he's doing very well.

I also got a 'pre-Christmas gift' about a week ago. I was at my chiropractor's office and in walked a man I spent part of my life with 2o some years ago.... (hmmm, what year was that?) We worked together at the glass plant and fell in love. One day he walked up to me at work and asked "England or Hawaii?" Huh?? I had to ask what he was talking about. "Where do you want to get married? England or Hawaii?" he asked. He was from England and I've always wanted to visit both of those places, so I told him "England. It's where your family is and I'm sure they'll want to be there." The wedding never happened. He went back to his former wife. I've never known for sure if he went back out of love for her, guilt, duty, or a mixture of the above. I never doubted that he did love me which is odd as I had never felt that certain of a man's love for me before. I haven't seen JR for more years than I can clearly remember now... but it sure was good to see him last week. He appeared very happy to see me too. We had a great chat, though short as he was called in and I had just come out from my treatment. He stood and gave me a really nice big hug. It's weird, but after all these years I can honestly say I still love JR... and I think he still has fond memories, maybe even some love feelings for me. I wish him all the joy in the world and I am grateful for the time we spent together, even if it was no where near long enough. He did what he had to do and that is what makes it right.

Christmas Eve

I used to be out dancing most nights of the week. It was a passion with me for a long time, to be out 2 Stepping and Line Dancing. I especially loved the 2 Step especially when I had a good dance partner. I was very slim and trim back then with all the exercise I got on the dance floor, and I could eat anything I wanted pretty much. Now, I never go out and dance, I'm overweight and I can't eat the way I used to. Now the only kind of 2 Stepping I do is getting up to the kitchen cupboards on two step stools or 2 step ladder. I make sure I always have my little ladder handy in all rooms of my home.

Tonight is Christmas Eve, a Friday night, and I sit home alone with my computer and my cat both on my lap as I watch TV. Currently I am watching Oliver Twist. On the small table beside my armchair sits a pot of tea and my cup. The pellet stove heats my home with the beautiful fire burning inside of it, I can see the pretty orange flames through the window in the door of the stove. Not only does this warm my home, it also warms my heart as do the Christmas Lights and Fibre Optic Tree here in my living room. I am cozy and content, and I am very grateful for so many things in my life.

Happy Christmas Eve everyone.

Merry Christmas

Feliz Navidad Prospero Año y Felicidad

Merry Christmas Prosperous New Year and Happiness

I wanted to share an exact translation, so went to igoogle and entered the Spanish phrase to translate to English. Now, breaking it down so I can learn from the experience:

Feliz - 1.happy 2.felicitous 3.lucky 4.blest 5.blessed 6.blissful
Navidad - 1.Christmas 2.Xmas 3.Yule 4.Nativity 5.Noel
Prospero - 1.prosperity 2.prosperous 3.success 4.welfare
Año y - year and
Felicidad - 1.blessedness 2.happiness 3.felicity 4.bliss 5.keif 6.kaif

Only 3 sleeps to go....

Dreamer

I often daydream about things I would like to change in my home, about renovations I'd like to do here. I mean, if you're going to stay in a place for a long time you may as well make it what you want and I've lived in this place for 20 years now. I've done some renovations: 1997 built on a 10x32 addition, a new roof over top the mobile home and both additions, a carport, changed all the windows, cut 3 doors through the mobile wall into the additions, a divider wall and new ceiling in old addition. 1998 a mosaic ceramic til floor in my bathroom. 2008 laminate floors in living room, kitchen, loom room, bedroom & hallway. Some of the things I still dream of doing include: large deck out back overlooking the lake, new kitchen counters/cupboards, enlarge bathroom & put in larger tub. I think it would be great for the bathroom to do part of the outside wall with those clear glass blocks and do the tub surround with glass tile work. I think it would go well with my floor as well as adding more natural light in the room. I think closing in the carport for another room and building the carport in a different place would be good too. Yup, I am a dreamer.

NCIS

I'm sitting here in my big armchair with my cat Mewsic curled up by my side. She is sleeping while I am watching TV and playing Solitaire on my laptop. I'm watching NCIS on TV. I love this show, especially Abby. She's so cool and so cute in her funny little way. That girl is so stoked, always an abundance of energy to burn. She was just doing the Turkey Dance when Gibbs walked in to her lab and she showed him a bunch of stuff on the computer that she'd just been researching about turkey DNA... all to do with the case they are working on. Abby doesn't need to take diet pills with ephedra, she hasn't an ounce of fat on her and as I said she has energy to burn.... but the energy comes from all the mega huge soda pops she drinks all the time, hahaha. Yes, I know that it's not real, just acting, and it just happens to be not only entertaining, but sadly more exciting than my life is at this point in time. Advertisements are over and the show is back on... gotta go.

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Thinking of my Trike... s

I like saving money whenever possible so would like to find good yet cheap insurance companies for all of my insurance needs. Since I found out I have to get my trike appraised (when the new one is built and ready to go on the road) then insured through ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) and a second, private insurance company I especially want to cut costs if & when possible... and yet I still want it to be a good company that if anything ever happens again, I will have good insurance coverage that will actually pay me what I need to get in order to replace my machine.

Anyway, I am looking forward to having a new trike. With all the heavy snowfall we got yesterday it is not exactly trike weather, but I still love to think of being out on the highways riding in the sunshine. Plans are coming together for the new one, and the physio therapist said my wrist should be healed enough to ride by spring so as long as the winter months will feel, they will be good as I need the time to heal more.

My Exciting News

I am really excited to tell you that I have started my own business. It is one that will help a lot of people to reduce their pain, heal their bodies, and for some even improve their financial situation. Following is an email I sent to friends and family to let them know my exciting news:

I just wanted to tell you I have started a new business that I am very excited about. As many of you know, I was in an accident in September where, among a few other things, I got a badly broken wrist. A friend in one of my 'bike' groups offered to 'wand' it for me, then I have been getting together with people for wanding ever since. I have found that wanding reduces my pain as well as improves the movement in my wrist as it heals.

Having seen the improvements I was experiencing, my friend Joyce asked me to take her along to a wanding and of course I did. She had a very badly broken ankle in January 2006 which, like my wrist, required a metal plate and many screws to hold it together. Joyce has had a bad limp ever since, unable to walk without shoes, and unable to 'tap her toes' (move the foot up and down). Since her second wanding she has been walking without the limp and has been able to flex the foot & tap her toes. To say the least, she is thrilled! Tonight was her 4th wanding and she now can walk without her shoes on. Wednesday Joyce joined me at my physiotherapy treatment and while there, her former physiotherapist came out of a back room and said hi. When she showed him the movement in her ankle he was very impressed and said that whatever she's doing just keep doing it as it is working for her.

This morning my new wand arrived on my doorstep by courier, until now I was dependent on other people's wands and am thrilled to have my own to use daily. I later went out for lunch with my TOPS group at a restaurant in Armstrong & the owner, Marg, was in a lot of pain, you could see it in her face as well as the way she walked. She was over at our table and I asked her where she was hurting, she showed me the place on her back and I began to wand. No, the wand doesn't touch the person, though it can, it is usually held a couple inches out and always turned in a clockwise circle. In just minutes Marg was saying she felt like it was pulling the pain from her and that the area felt hot. It was not long before we all could see the change in her face and the way she held her body. She was no longer hurting!!

Check out the links below and watch the videos. Send this on to anyone you know that is in pain or just wants to improve their health.

This is my web site:
http://www.eamega.com/wanderfullwell

You will find great information on this web site which belongs to a friend of mine. If you decide you would like to order something, please get in touch with me or go to my web site above.
http://www.wandtheworld.com/?go=AWAY-WITH-PAIN

Feel free to contact me with any questions you have.

Insurance Woes

I am sad to say that I have been having problems with my vehicle insurance company. I paid my insurance for my trike, then rode happily all summer until September 10 when I was hit by a car. One would think that I would be covered by insurance... right? Well, I was but certainly not well as it turns out. We have not yet gotten to the injury portion of it, but ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) will only give me $1500 for my trike which I just had built at a cost much higher than what they are offering. It would seem I will have to take them to court if I have any hope at all of getting enough to rebuild my trike. It turns out that what one needs to do when insuring a 'unique' vehicle like this is get it appraised, then insure it through ICBC (we have not choice in BC, we have to insure our vehicles through ICBC) AND also insure it through a private insurance company. Yup, double insurance in order to have any hopes of getting paid if in a crash.... even when it's the other persons fault. I think I'll check out Wholesaleinsurance.net and see if they insure here in my area or just in the US.

Personalize it

I have been most remiss in my blogging lately. I have been most busy lately with loads of stuff in life and most of that is therapy for injuries sustained in 'the crash'. It is a challenge to type with only partial use of my left hand, yet I am very happy to say that things are improving a lot... less pain, more movement.

As always in December, it is a busy time getting ready for Christmas. I like the idea of personal gifts, like personalized basketballs, cups, mouse pads and a whole lot more. I usually hand make my gifts though this year it is just not possible due to the broken wrist, so I am purchasing all my gifts this year.... just like everyone else.