How To Have Good Luck In The New Year!!!

I am superstitious. That is one thing to know about me. So this is important.

We had an okay year. There have been some struggles and some good things to come. I am very nervous yet excited about the new year. So I went on line and found these items. Hopefully it will bring great luck to us all.

Another one that is not on here is to eat only pork on New Years Eve and New Years Day. No chicken at all!!!! The pork is also pushing ahead where the chicken is scratching back into the previous year.

Suffice it to say, these will all be used. In some form or another.

Read what I have found on YAHOO below:

Traditionally, with the New Year’s Day approaching, people become more superstitious when it comes to luck. All around the globe there are so many traditions and customs that are supposed to bring good luck to folks. Many persons believe strongly in these good luck-bringing customs and they never forget to repeat them year after year. Here are some of these actualized good luck traditions. Hope to bring you good luck!

Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Things You'll Need
to be superstitious
optimism
to be open minded

Steps

Step One - An interesting good luck custom is to eat fish specialties at the New Year’s Eve Party! It is said that you’ll swim through the New Year like a fish. You will be able to move smoothly and easily and go beyond obstacles with facility in the New Year.

Step Two - At midnight, between the year ready to conclude and the one to follow, make sure you have some money in your pocket or purse. If the New Year finds you with money in your pocket, you’ll not miss them in the year to come.

Step Three - Another good luck custom is to wear something new on New Year’s Eve. You don’t have to buy the entire outfit for the New Year’s Eve Party; it’s enough to have one new item. The proper way to welcome the New Year is by wearing something new.

Step Four - The Dutch are eating donuts on New Year’s Day. They say donuts bring fortune because they have the shape of the ring, which symbolizes the full circle, the year’s cycle. If you don’t want donuts as New Year treat, you can try any ring-shaped food, like onion rings for example.

Step Five - Make sure you have a bell in your proximity, to announce the New Year. It’s a proper way to welcome the New Year and, guess what, it will bring you fortune.

Step Six - Be aware at the first visitor on New Year’s Day! He or she would bring either good luck or bad luck. It is said that if the first person who visit is a tall, dark-haired man, he will bring good luck to the house and hosts.

Step Seven - It’s a very well-known New Year’s custom to make a lot of noise by organizing fireworks, confetti showers and striking crackers on the night between years. This way, it is said that the old year is getting scared and runs away, making room for the new one. So, be noisy on New Year’s Eve, scare away the concluded year and prepare yourself for the beginning of a lucky one!

"I am a Ken Doll. I am just hidden in a Homer Simpson body!!"

This was honest to God a comment that my husband made to me.

We were talking about what people immediately think when they see a person. Usually whenever I mention that I am married they expect that my mate would look like a Ken doll. Then they are surprised when they see my husband. Mind you E takes very good care of himself. He is just a bigger guy. And that can throw people off.

We are looking to remedy that by the beginning of the new year. We have stockpiled healthy dinners for him and we are looking for the best food and exercise plan for him. I will be working along with him on that and will hopefully drop about 20 pounds too. I am not necessarily heavy mind you but I would like to be a little leaner or more toned. I am not sure what to do yet but it will be good.

Any suggestions????

The 12 Days of Christmas

I received this e-mail from my aunt who is also my godmother and thought it was interesting. For all of you fellow Catholics out there it may help you to truly understand the song. At least it made sense to me.

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?
Today, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each
element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.

- The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

- Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

- Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

- The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

- The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

- The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

- Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit -- Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

- The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

- Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit -- Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.

- The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

- The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

- The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish."

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone.....

Power Of Prayer

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PRAYER!!!

I have been going through a lot lately personally and emotionally. It has been way too much on my plate and I needed relief to happen soon before having a nervous breakdown. Very important not to have one of those.

So last Sunday I decided I needed to go to church. Not a want but a definite need. I went to church by myself and prayed. Just let God know that I could not handle this much and I needed his help. In church I even teared up a bit because the pain was too much to handle.

I know that everything comes in due time. This was one of those days that it actually happened. My phone started ringing for business again and I received a call that made my life a little easier.

I am blessed and I am thankful. Now to pay it forward to someone else who needs the help like I did. It is all that I can do to say Thanks!!!

Sadness........

I have no idea why but lately I have been feeling a lot of sadness.

No particular reason why but just feel sad. Maybe just that business is slow and that I have more time to think. Maybe for people that I feel sorry for because of hard situations that they may be in. Maybe because we are still having a hard time conceiving another child that we so desparately want. Maybe because good people that we know are being screwed over in various ways. Maybe because finances suck and due to slow times it hurts even more. Maybe because sometimes no matter how hard I try to fit in I just do not.

Who truly knows?

I have a lot to be grateful for and I know this. I just cannot help how I feel inside. And truthfully, it scares me to the core.

Hopefully my mood will improve and get much better. I have a little kid that needs my spirits to be up for the holiday.

And The Pageant Controversies Continue

This would be an absolute nightmare to happen to a person. I have been asked this question before in a pageant but to have it happen to someone can be devastating.

The question is: "If you were to win the title tonight and then found out later that you were not actually the winner, what would you do?"

My answer has always been and will always be to give the title to its rightful owner. My time would come and it would not be fair to the person who won that night. This scenario happened to a former competitor of mine and the girl who had the title did not give it up. Completely not fair for my friend because she lost her shot to compete at Miss Ohio.

Here is the article:

Miss California loses crown to rightful winner after mix-up

5th December 2007, 13:45 WST



An accounting mix-up led to the wrong woman being crowned Miss California USA, and she has relinquished her crown to the rightful winner, organisers say.

Christina Silva, 24, was declared the winner of the annual state beauty pageant, but she gave up the title to Raquel Beezley, who was originally named the second runner-up.

Beezley, 21, will represent the state at the Miss USA pageant next April.

The pageant’s state director, Keith Lewis, said several judges questioned the results of the November 25 competition at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Lewis said the error was discovered the next day after the ballots were opened and recounted.

“It was a simple human error,” Lewis said.

Silva has hired a lawyer and is weighing her legal options, according to her manager, Tony Brewster.

In a news release, Silva said she felt pressured to step down.

“They never could explain their accounting error, but told me that if I didn’t give up my crown to Miss Barstow, my personal integrity could be questioned, and my career could potentially suffer,” she said.

The contestants were scored by five celebrity judges who independently ranked them.

The mix-up occurred when the points were reversed, with the lowest point given to the winner and the highest to the fourth runner-up, Lewis said.

Roger Neal, who represents the Miss California USA pageant, said Beezley was the rightful winner.

The pageant allowed Silva to keep her crown, sash and necklace and returned her $US1,500 ($A1,700) entry fee after the error was discovered, Neal said. Duplicates were being made for Beezley.

LOS ANGELES

Happy 300th Blog

Wow!! I have hit my 300th blog. I am so cool ;)

I know that a lot of my friends have far surpassed that but I am happy with what I have.

Till the next blog!!!

A Great Night for Miss Day

By Shawn Tyree
PDT Feature Writer

On Saturday evening, the 2008 Miss Ohio USA crown went to Miss Greater Columbus USA, Monica Day. The decision was the end result of a weekend full of interviews, swimsuit and evening gown presentations.

Day expressed a sense of premonition about her emotional experience throughout the pageant.

“It's been amazing. I got here and they talk about feeling like you're going to win, or feeling the crown on your head, and that is so true,” she said. “Every minute this weekend I tried to present and show people that I already felt it, in hope that they would catch on. It worked, luckily.”

Day said she benefited from her experience in previous Miss Ohio USA pageants.

“I've been in the top 15 before and I've never gotten any further,” she said. “So when I got in the top 15, I said (to myself), ‘OK, I've made it this far, they like me. Let's keep doing what we're doing, and push a little bit further and make it to the top five.'”

Her strategy paid off. When Day continued to progress, she was able to retain a winning attitude through the elimination stages.

“Standing there in the top five it was like, they're going to ask you a question and all they want to know is who you are and what you think,” Day said. “With that, I was not nervous at all.”

Day approached the judges with straightforward answers.

“I expected to be myself and hope that the judges liked that,” she said. “I'm a reporter in Columbus, I'm on television, where I cover traffic and entertainment.”

The newly-crowned 2008 Miss Ohio USA expressed positive personal and pageants representative goals.

“Obviously, I've competed in the pageant a few times. I really want to use this pageant to promote myself and take my career to the next level, and also promote this system. It is a great system, there are a lot of wonderful things for people,” Day said. “Through this, I can really inspire and feel like I'm making a difference. We all want to make a difference, and this is a great way to do it.”

If the published schedule for last year's winner, Anna Melomud, is an indicator of the road ahead, then Day will receive many opportunities to make a difference in 2008.

Monica Day Is The New Miss Ohio USA 2008

I am absolutely elated to announce that my friend, Monica Day, is the new Miss Ohio USA 2008!!!

I have known Monica now for almost 10 years and she is an incredible young woman. Very bright, very beautiful and extremely funny!!! She can always manage to make me laugh. She is usually in the company of her grandmother, Diana. They have both been wonderful to our family and they are very well known for sending the best photo cards.

Monica can be seen on NBC 4 in Columbus as the Traffic Reporter. Tune in to watch her bright and early in the mornings.

I cannot believe that for the second year in a row I will actually know someone who is gracing the Miss USA stage. Last year, Rachel Epperly was on the Miss Teen USA stage. Although she did Ohio proud she did not crack the Top Fifteen.

Best of luck this year Monica!! We are very proud of you!!!!