“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale Text & image source: Whispers For The Soul https://web.facebook.com/Whispers-For-The-Soul-133932740081059/
I made my wedding bouquet as some of you know, using latex Cali Lilly, leaf vines and other things, in a teardrop swag style. 
So then the question was how do I keep it dust free , ready Incase I decide to use it again or simply because I want to keep it.
In all the websites it talks about fresh flowers or says just hang in sight to be dusted regularly. Dust??? Nope. Now I looked for a bag big enough and clear that I could use but didn’t find one. I needed to move it for Xmas so I got a little creative. I could and should have waited for help instead of trying to do it all one handed but I took out my kitchen Saran Wrap and started wrapping , trying not to get it to tight to squish anything. My son said it looks like a mummy.
Ignore the mess in the background, my duster on the floor, I tend to do three or four things at once.
I have posted before about my best friend and her struggle with mental illness and how it effects us all, but this time was different. Her bipolar has been a struggle for her in the past year more than she even let on to me. She has been in and out of the hospital many times , last I told you about her just getting better when her baby daddy died unexpectedly. They shocked her and she was gone, nothing like my best friend, her memory was mush and she was a zombie. Since then she has been up and down but I thought doing better. Today I got a call, she was back in the hospital and it was bad. The kids had been suffering with knowing it was happening, she was doing so much and I had no idea. I noticed by her Facebook posts that she was not right but pushed it away. She has been keeping so much from me and I had no idea. I know if I was around and has seen her or the kids and house I would have known but I haven’t been and now I feel like I let her down. The kids are good now with her ex roommate there with them and can be there as long as needed. They say at the hospital she’s better today but they have no beds and her dr won’t be available till Monday. She just got a new job as in a week or so ago and has to work Monday and Tuesday but won’t be out and I can’t do the FAML(family and medical leave) papers for her. She was so good for ten years , her dad died a few years ago and it was hard on her but then when her baby daddy died she’s been manic since. I feel so helpless.
Some of you may remember awhile ago I talked about my friend with bipolar and her bad spell. She hadn’t fully recovered from that when we were all struck by the sudden death of her baby daddy. They had been split for a little while now but proved his love when she went manic in making sure things that needed to be done along with me, got done. He always looked out for her and even then I saw a new side to him. Now she’s trying to get back up and was seeming to do great when she unexpectedly got fired from her job as a cna. She worked so hard getting totally off social security and providing for her and her boys all by herself. She had never even had a job , she had always been on ss and I for one was right by her side the whole way.
She had not one complaint, not one warning or bad Mark anywhere in her work file, was the one cna that everyone loved and wanted to work with because she did the job and she did it good. She said that there was some paperwork that they didn’t get in, whether it was from the Dr or something she was supposed to fill out I’m not sure but just like that, done. We figure since the place was owned by maine general, and the people who treat her and help in monitoring her, all work for maine general. She said she’s to much of a liability, she could go manic at any time. Usually she catches it and gets help but this time it was from being to happy, not to sad. The disability advocates place can not help because they to, are maine general.
She worked for about a year, and in one second it was gone and I’m not sure how to help her. I have suggested a smaller business or maybe go a different way and do home help or something but not to just quit. She has given up. She is going down fast and I don’t know what to do. I am always the one her and a few others come to for advice or insight, but, this is the first time I don’t know what to say….
Some of you may have followed enough to know my health, my financial issues, my seemingly bad luck! Lol Well u may also have read my recent post about the new man I recently met.
It’s been three weeks since we started dated, 7 weeks since we started talking all together. He has been staying at my place with me most every other night. Once 3 nights in a row.
Since its the beginning of course I’m at that Google-eyed state and think he’s soo perfect. Lol. We do enjoy all the same types of things, have the same sense of humor, and both have been abused by past loved ones.
So, here’s the problem, I have been noticing I’m not able to sleep when he is NOT here. Most of my adult life I couldn’t sleep if someone was there. When the storm came and I new he wouldn’t be able to come , he lives about half hour away, I instantly got a headache. I CRIED after I spent the 3 nights and a whole day and half with him and he had to go back to work. The next couple days he had a meeting and then his kids were coming so I new he wouldn’t be back for three days.
I don’t understand how it is possible I am having physical issues when I can’t see him. That doesn’t seem normal!!!!!!!!! I wasn’t like this w my husband and I thought he was my soul mate. Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Help me!!!
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Oh the ways I could go on, I have realized my life needs change, organization, newer people in my life, to learn how to say no, to be much healthier with out putting myself into a crisis, to get away from all the narcissist people I seem to be magnetically attracted to.
So. I have a lot of times that I realize I need change. I also realize a lot of these things are going to be hard to obtain. I know one day at a time. One thing a day, bla bla bla bla……..
Just saying it doesn’t make it happen and sometimes it seems very much out of reach.
I have a younger brother who is getting married on Oct 8. They are both big time gamers and computer know it all. I saw something like this and thought I could make them one for a wedding gift. I am panicking, is it dumb? If I do how should I word it? I was thinking a mixed media thing. I made the paddles from perler beads. I have the font, acylics, an actual controller wire. So, help me please, I need advice. Is is dumb? How should I word it? Should the heart go around everything or under?????
Please anyone I am in real need of advice!!!!
Tracey in Maine 