Excerpts from the Last/Past Two Weeks...in photo's

 This by far was my most interesting experience of the past couple weeks.  This beautiful creature landed in a clients back yard where he and I made a very special connection.  I posted the picture x-large so you can see his eyes.  I do not have a $1000 camera but I sure wished I did at that moment.  His eyes were intense to say the least.  I believe in Animal Totems.  Check out the book by Ted Andrews and you may get hooked also.  We, all living things, are all connected on this earth and I believe we communicate when possible.  This owl was definitely looking into my soul I had no doubt. And weird as it sounds I was thanking him.  On the animal totem an owl represents the magical, mystical....Owl sees and knows the truth. It's ability to navigate through the darkest night and bring back nourishment for itself and others is the foundation of this essence. When you have lost your way, owl essence will guide you back to your proper path and wisdom. (taken from http://www.morningstar.net/) He stayed and conversed spiritually with me for twenty minutes.  I heard unspoken words from him that said, "If and when I  pass on to the next world, he would be there to soar with me, to lead me and guide me."  I could literally feel myself soaring with him.  Okay on to the next less intense photo of the weeks......

 Needs no explanation, right?  It's Halloween anyway so I got away with it.....

 Okay, is this maraguana growing in my clients living room??   I was going to eat a leaf and see....
  I cant spell it so I didn't eat it...

 My friend knits little hats, big hats, and so on.  This little mushroom hat is for a new clients baby

 A clients gorgeous chandelier of a hundred or more pieces of cut crystal. An orchid sits below it
I took the photo from below obviously....

Looking at a clients "secret" door to the garage through a window....  okay so its not secret but my imagination takes over sometimes.  Not with the owl no no no!  That was reality blog for sure.

Diane Sawyers Got Everything on Me....by Diane Ogden

I wish I could have said Diane Sawyer's got nothin' on me, but come on?  I have to be somewhat real sometimes on here.  This would be one of those times.  Sadly said.....life continues.  I bought a Toshiba Tablet today and have been enjoying it while lounging on my sofa.  I never sit on my sofa!  I am always in my office at my computer, so the tablet will get me out and about some.  At least one room out and about anyway. 

So...while I was playing with the new tablet Diane Sawyer was on the TV I rarely watch in front of the sofa I rarely sit on, in the l.r. I rarely visit.   She looked so darn pretty.  Her hair and her eyes. I noticed she had BLACK eyeliner on and a pale makeup and pink lips.  So .....I put the tablet down and headed for the bathroom.  I don't own any BLACK eyeliner so I dipped a small brush onto my sample thickening mascara the lady gave me at the Estee Lauder counter today....and I swabbed that stuff above my eyelashes.  Then I lined my lips wider than they are, so they would look like Sawyers when in reality they looked like I ate too much strawberry jelly too fast.  Then I walked to my old laptop and took some Diane Diane pics. You know, Sawyer-Me pics.  I don't think the black eyeliner or the jelly lips worked.  I don't look like her at all darnit.  But I look okay.  She couldn't do what I do and I couldn't do what she does.  It was all a joke anyway.  Wanna see? doi 

Old People Kissing! by Diane Ogden

Why do old people (over 50-55) look like they kiss WRONG?  I am serious.  I have been watching the same soap opera for something like thirty years....   they cut the main couple out, fired them!  Then brought them back a couple plus years later and omg.....  I have tried to be quiet about this.  I haven't even checked the blogs or the twitter and truthfully I don't need to.  All I have to do is watch the soap and say to self.....eewww.  Do not publicly try to have passionate sexual scenes when you are over 50.  'Cause you look WRONG is all it is.  Maybe not wrong, but not enticing sex thoughts for the viewers.  When I watch it think....oh oh you writers messed up.  The old folks forgot how to act or the wrinkles got in the way, I truly dunno what it is, just truly know i is fact.  If the viewers hang on you might figure it out and please not do those scenes anymore, okay?  P L E A S E....
Those actors are now the mame's and papa's of daytime TV.  And no one wants to see mame having sex scenes.  They rather see her in pearl earrings giving ad-vice to the tweens and teens and such.  Eewww on the petting on screen while the candles burn away.  Mr. DeMill I am ready for my head shot, not my thin lip lock.....omg

My New I Pad?? Or NOT My New I Pad!! by Diane Ogden

So I saved some cash!  And so then I went to the Best Buy (don't you wonder if it's really the best buy??

Then I went to my Toshiba laptop and did some comparisons. Then I went back to "Best Buy!"

I have chatted with two diff salesMEN!  One says to me, "Acer has finally come out with an outstanding product, that being the tablet."  It will ALLOW you to watch anything online that uses ADOBE FLASH! And I Pad does not.  Okay, so what uses Adobe Flash?  Netflix.  That's big in my book of brain.  Along with a few other things I cant remember.  Then two days later I go back to Best Buy and  another salesMAN tells me he prefers Apple I Pad...and they are NOT on commission.  But, he says, if I can only afford the Acer with the one year insurance plan, or the IPad with no insurance plan....then get the Acer.  Well chitski onya! As they said in Lion King!  I wandered over to a corner and pulled out my trusty red money bag, counted out the hundred's I had saved (my son fixed my $750 car repair for $116 so I had money coming out my...nevermind)  I counted $450.00.  I had more, but that was to go for new eye glasses I shouldn't need, but do.  You see I had cataract surgery, earlier than most of course, and it failed in the lasix area.  I am one of the 1% that failed in that area.  Terrific and even more terrific is I can still see, so I am fine!!  Except the eyes suddenly went coo-coo.  So I made an appointment and sure enough, coo-coo'sville....

New glasses in May and now lets do it again Fred!  Back to my point...cannot use the $300 put aside for spectacles of the eyes.  Do the math Myrtle....  That leaves me $100 plus the cover that holds up the IPad or Acer.....which puts me behinder the game of new gadgets.  That Acer Tablet is a dandy and real close to matching the I Pad2 for sure....

in fact the camera is better on the Acer and I am the pretend photo-grapher professional, not so much person.  So here I sit still graveling what to do.  I have never owned an Apple anything and I think that is affecting my decision making abilities.  My Grandchildren have apple products....and the guy just died that invented the darn thing.... if I died tomorrow .....and I didn't own ONE SINGLE APPLE gadget...

I'd be pissed off.   I mean come on...it signifies success now doesn't it really!  Bah humbug.  But I will probably get the I Pad because I need to feel and believe I am a successful person.  And if a little hunk of gadget "junk" does it for me, well then whalla....I am a piece of society after all.  Suppose now I have to join match.com again huh?  If you don't succeed first...try try again.   Three down, one to go!  Figure that one out and let me know.  The good news for today is I am upright and going to church tomorrow, with a bloody leg hanging out of my trunk. (Halloween gag I use every year)  Maybe I should remove that.  It's just that it belongs to the last x-husband and I like to show it off.  You know that he was the looser.....  

Is This Frog Pond Holler? Or Madison Wisconsin? by Diane Ogden

 Frog Pond Holler is in Kentucky I think.  It's a blog I read if you don't mind a tad of cussin'. (www.mahalla.com) 
But this is Madison Wisco and this is a site from one of my clients windows.  I decided long ago that I wanted to take a pic of this moldy mess of a wall, and today I finally did it.  And all the time I was holding the samsung at the "winder" I was a hopin' them there friendly neighbors weren't watchin'  me!  You git it right?  That was Frog Pond Holler language I was trying to relay. 
I mean come on....what is that mess?  If you believe in green and ecology and all natural, GREAT, but mold and raggy isn't shabby chic folks, or even close to green, its mean,  it's nasty!  This is the view from my clients eating table.  Eewww.  
Second pic below is the view from my clients nice sweet back yard.  ME, I would put up a 10 foot fence or whatever is the legal height is inside the city limits.  Or maybe I would shoot 'em.. Okay so that was a bad joke.....
All they are missing are the legally owned chickens.  God forbid even the chickens would have to live there.  Jeez I hope they didn't see me taking pics of their happy homestead!   Come on folks, at least put up a new curtain to hide the nasty junk!
Oh, but wait, look at the wonderful WILD flowers. And the WEEDS!
Sorry, I think some people hide the word LAZY behind Love of NATURE. Ya Think?

Aliens Arrive........by Diane Ogden

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Obviously this knitting pattern is not from an alien.  Rather it is all I could find on Google images that resembled what I saw in my dream last night.  The dream seemed fairly normal as dreams go which means it wasn't.  Yet it was until the end.  But then maybe this is how it is going to go in the end for all of us.  Usually I try to find humor to write about but this isn't humorous.  It is real.  At the end of my dream I sent my Granddaughter off with someone....her car had broken and she needed help.  I told her I would meet up with her down the way. (road, heaven, space?)  My dog Daisy was with me. Daisy passed away four years ago by the way.  In the dream I had been a little depressed and a man at a car dealership noticed this fact. He never said he noticed I was depressed, but mentally in the dream I knew that he knew. He started singing to me a funny song while he was working that waws all about me and making me laugh.  We ended up at a little diner having some food. Some strange things happened at the diner that were out of the ordinary. Then he left as he had a girlfriend to meet up with, and the dog and I were alone outside the diner where many others had gathered.  I started to become afraid and wished I had not sent my Granddaughter ahead of me because people said there was an electrical storm coming. What was the big deal I thought, yet somehow deep inside I knew it was something different than the usual storm. There was no lighting. Suddenly a large cloud of light similar to a cotton ball swirled in a circle in the sky and dove toward earth in the distance to my left .  It was as though that particular action opened up an invisible doorway to the universe and that is when I saw the first three HUGE lace blades come into view to the left, in the sky.  They looked like boat oars or more like windmill blades.  Three of them, two upside down and the middle one right side up.  The intricate lace pattern was something not of this world. I guess this dream reminds me of the patterns in the fields people say aliens make, "Crop Circles". Yet there were no round holes, all square. Similar to the photo I found above but much more in detail.  Then slowly more and more patterns started filling the entire sky until some of them formed two ships.  Oh yes, two alien ships similar to the huge round one in the movie "Close Encounters."  I recall saying to someone standing next to me, 'I wish I hadn't sent my Granddaughter ahead of me, I think I am afraid, and all I have is my dog Daisy with me."  (Who is deceased) 
I stood there waiting, thinking where was God in all these lace blades and lace spaceships.  Just standing there in awe of the out of this world vision/view.............................................. and then I woke up. 
I laid there thinking, "What was that?"  Holy Moly, Holy Cow, Holy what?  Any of the words I said seemed so hicksville, uneducated, worthless, compared to what I saw. I saw physics in action. Mathmatical equations in lace patterns. I saw inside the Universe.  And I did see this in my dream and I believe it to be real.  I do wonder why I got to see it!  And this is a truth blog, no fiction.

I Lost My Planner! OMG! by Diane Ogden

Seriously....and at a place almost as awful as WalMart.  Its called corporate Woodman's in Madison Wisco. A grocery store by the way.  I set the planner down after I took the CASH out of it to pay, what a fool I am! No one pays CASH and this proves why.  I remember (which is rare anymore) getting the change back from from the "cachew cachew" machine, taking the dollars and one five out and I think putting it in the planner. Yes I keep money in my planner. I also clip it in there with a clippy dealie doo. A serious clippy dealie doo which didn't seem to matter today because I lost the whole darn thingy doo dealie duh!  Listen, all my clients, my gas receipts for the year, phone #'s, when my dog was in heat last, when I was (just kidding), when my daughter speaks to me and when she has sabbaticals against me and doesn't speak to me, (sad but true).  All sorts of information in that little do da day booklet someone has there creepy hands on.  I say creepy because my mwah name and number is in the front of it.  Arsbutts who found my money should have called already, but hey they wont because that class of human being butt doesn't want me to know they took the lousy little $30-50 dollars. 
I have decided to beat them.  I will email all my people and explain the loss and believe they will be patient and wait until I remember when I last knew them!  LOL OMG How could this happen. But then I don't have cancer, I don't have lost limbs, I don't have hunger, I don't work in Afghanistan, (and probably cant even spell it correctly), and so on......I merely lost my planner and have ways to correct that.  And I have food (my comment when people discuss the loss of $), and I have gas in my car, and my pets are well, and so on and so on......  Heck maybe someone will call saying they found it. That is after I prove to the Universe I remembered all that was in it!  Eeeww. Don't hold thy breath on that one. I have been known to fail the three word test several times.  God knows me!  And he loves me anyway they say.  So there!  Wish he would bring my planner back. (It is not as big as the one in the borrowed photo)  I wish I may I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight. 
WILL LET CHA KNOW.....