Nablopomo: Pen or PC?

When you are writing, do you prefer to use a pen or a computer?

It depends. For writing in my journal, I always use a pen or colored pencils. But for almost everything else I use the computer.
Of course when blogging or whatever I am doing on the computer, I must use it, right? I used to write all my letters longhand, and still a few, but I type most of them on the computer, simply because I tend to type faster than I write and I can add photos and other things to my letters.

365 Project - Day 4

The trees here in Arkansas are just starting to change colors. I only wish I could see yellow leaves. They make it spectacular.

'Leaves'

Nablopomo: Music and Writing

Can you listen to music and write? What song did you hear today?

I do listen to music and write at the same time. I actually listen to music all the time. It makes me feel better and go faster. I guess each generation feels the same about their style of music. I grew up in the hippie generation. My teenage years were in the late 60's and early 70's, and the music of that generation, especially the Beatles, kind of started a new revolution of music for everybody else since.

I was one of those girls that was watching Ed Sullivan with my parents the night the Beatles appeared. Actually, I could not understand why everyone was screaming and crying. But another year passed and I grew a little older and was hooked.
I am lucky to have a great oldies radio station out here in the boonies where I live, and it stays on all day. Then hubby and I sleep to country at night. He can't sleep without it, but I sure could. I am a "must have a fan on" at night girl myself.
I am now listening to "That Peaceful Easy Feeling" by The Eagles.

What kind of music do you listen to?

365 project- Day 3

My hubby Robert and my dog Dexter give me so much "happiness".

NABOPLOMO: What would be your last meal?

Nablopomo:

If you knew that whatever you ate next would be your last meal, what would you want it to be?

That is a very easy question to answer. It would be at Garduno's in Las Vegas, NV.

They have the very best Mexican food I have ever eaten. I LOVE Mexican food. Robert and I lived in Las Vegas for three years with his job with Verizon Wireless Training, and we lived just a few blocks from Texas Station and Fiesta casinos. These are off-strip casinos and were side by side. gardunos was in Fiesta along with Panda Express. We ate their at least twice a week. But hands down it would be Gardunos. If you ever go to Vegas, try it. There is now one in Palms Resort casino as well.

The workers also treat you so nicely. One Thanksgiving I was way depressed because I was not with my family for the first time. Hubby and I went to eat and had left our stupid wallet at home. We explained it to the manager and since he had seen us there before, he allowed us to eat and return the next day and pay for our meal and tip our wonderful waiter. (And we did).

I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and the closest I ever got to Mexican food was when Taco Bell came to town after I had my own children. My brother Chuck who lives in CA married Claudia who grew up in Los Angeles but is from Encida, Mexico. Until I met her and even lived with them a while after my divorce from ex hubby, I did not know that Taco Bell and real Mexican food are not one and the same. She cooked great food every day, such as salsas, enchiladas, menudo, Spanish rice, fish tacos, all homemade. I learned to love it and it is still my fave food to this day.

What is your fave food?

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365 Project- day 2

Since today is "National Deviled Egg Day", I made deviled eggs this morning for dinner tonight. They look runy but they were still warm when I made this picture, and let's face it, I don't make the best looking ones in the world.

But they taste good!

Wordless Wednesday - Smile

I am sure that I am prejudiced when it come to my granddaughter Lily, but I think she has the most beautiful smile ever ( even with a tooth missing). She is 5 now.

365Project - day 1

A favorite Meal we are having tonight. My Southern grandmothers Recipe.

Chicken and Dumplins

1 whole chicken

1 1/2 t. salt

2 c. flour (self rising)

1/3 c oil

1/2 c milk

1 t pepper

Cover chicken with water, add salt and cook (simmering) for about 3 hours until meat is tender and just about falling off the bone. Remove chicken from the broth and set aside. Leave broth simmering. Debone the chicken.

Sift together flour, salt and pepper, and oil. Add milk to make a stiff dough. Roll onto a floured board and cut into 1 inch squares. drop squares into briskly boiling broth. Cook until dumplins are plump and tender (about 15 to 20 minutes.) Add chicken and serve.

Naplobomo : What is your favourite part about writing?

  I think I must have a creative soul. I have had a love for writing since I was a child. (Reading also). My mom would draw bunny villages and others things on her notepad and I would write a story about it on mine. Those are cherished memories.

  I have always been a letter writer and I still send out letters monthly to a few friends and family members. None of them write back. They will send me a tweet or a message on Facebook saying they got it. I just love to write. I am a little more technically inclined now. Even though I don't like email letters so much, I do type some of mine now on the pc and add pictures, etc. and print them out and mail them. With my not so great eyesight it is just easier these days to do it on the pc than to write it longhand.

 I wrote poetry, really bad poetry, as a teen and young adult.

I kept a journal for many years, probably age 16 to about 38. The man I was with at that time was very abusive. I had four boxes, yes boxes, of journals in the closet, and one day he was angry and while I was at work he destroyed them. Burnt them in the garbage. I was devastated, literally. In my head that was years of my life, just gone. Anyway until just recently, I did not write in a journal at all. I am just starting to do it again, but it doesn't have the same wonderful feeling it did before. I am 57 now and starting to feel it, lol. (and no I am no longer with him)

Writing is a way of expressing who I am on paper. It makes me remember things that I had otherwise forgotten. My favorite part of writing is to take a photo and write a story about it. I don't do it to get published or for others to read. I do because I love it, and it makes me stronger.

I am making a life change for myself. I figure at this age, it's now or never, and I have many things about myself I do not like. I think writing about it will help me get through it. Writing is the one area of my life that I have complete control over. It gives me freedom in a way nothing else can. Words have power, and my words give me power.

Bottom line, I just love to write!

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Firsts

Today is Nov 1st.
Today is also the first day of the rest of my life, so to speak.
Today I am starting several new projects today plus changing the way I eat. I am very excited about all of these. I hope I don't get overwhelmed.

Hubby and I have committed ourselves to change the way we eat and to walk at least five times a week. Yes, my name is Sandy and I am a fatty. The doctor says I need to lose 115 pounds. I need to lose a whole person ( my 15 year old granddaughter weighs 114). I cannot believe I let myself get back into this shape, but that is the past and today is a new start.

I need to lose the equivalent of Kelsi. It's hard carrying that much extra around every day.

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We are starting a spending fast today. Anna Newell Jones over at And Then She Saved

was on the Nate Berkus Show about a month ago and I have been following her blog since then. I have an exorbitant amount of medical debt due to my transplant. I want it paid and gone. So much of our money seems to go to medical bills. So I am trying the spending fast. The point is to spend what you only have to spend and pay off debt and save the rest. I am a compulsive spender, so I need lots of luck with this one.

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I am also starting a 365 project. I LOVE taking pictures and this will keep me busier and give me something to look forward to every day. So once a day for 365 days I will post a picture here on the blog. 365project.org

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And last but not least it is the first day of Naplobomo for November.

 All you need to do is promise to blog once a day for each day of the month. I have started this many times and am determined to do it this time! Why don't you join me?  Naplobomo is at BlogHer now.
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My granddaughters Halloween photo. Well 3 out of five aint bad!

An Indian, Cinderella, and Minnie Mouse. Can't get any better than this.

Hope they filled their bags with candy.