For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends...
Just got the 3g mobile internet service installed and am checking it out...so far, so good, here at the house. I will be leaving to take care of some errands shortly and will be taking my laptop with me and checking it at various locations. 
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Hubby and I are to get the Christmas tree decorated hopefully tonite. The tree is up and looks pretty, though bare. 
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Update: At a different location checking connectivity, etc. Appears to be doing well with the 3g mobile internet. 
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Evening update: 3g mobile internet doing real well. Checked it out at 3 different locations while out and about in my vehicle this afternoon and it did real well. While out, I visited Mom a little while this afternoon. She was doing pretty well. However, her new roommate hasn't been well at all and the EMS came and got her while I was visiting Mom to take her to the hospital. Please pray for her. From what I'm told she is a good Christian woman who taught Sunday School in her church in her younger years. She's been in a LOT of agony and Mom told me she spoke up for her to get some help and believes they listened to her why she was taken to the hospital. After they left with her, Mom told me she's already lost 2 roommates who occupied her new roommate's bed and she hopes she doesn't lose her new roommate.
On a different note, Mom asked me today how much do I weigh? To which I tried to dodge her question, as she is highly competitive, and has already put herself on a lose-weight diet by refusing her meals and making do with little snack s/w's. When I wouldn't tell her, she asked again, "How much do you weigh? 140?" (Close, hehe.) I answered, "No, Mom, I weigh more than that." (Though not much more, hehe.) I am glad she is feeling well enough to be wanting to be a healthier weight.
Oh, lest I forget to tell you, the Christmas tree is not only up, it is now DECORATED!!!
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends...
It is a pretty, sunny, COLD (20's F) morning here in S.C.
I visited Mom for about 2 hours yesterday afternoon. We had a good visit. She told me she'd changed her mind about the eye makeup. (Thank you for your suggestions regarding the eye makeup.) I didn't get her any, either, cause I didn't think she could apply it safely without risking getting it into her eye and she only wanted eyeliner pencil. She said that when washing her face, the corner of her washcloth had accidentally gotten into her eye and irritated it and she decided she didn't want to chance any eye makeup doing the same. So that was the beginning and the end of that conversation about the eyeliner. 
I took her a hamburger with lettuce and tomato on it and divided the meat into tiny little pieces with lots of ketcup on top to make it easy for her to eat and she ate that after earlier she'd refused to eat her lunch that was brought her on a tray to her room. She told a caregiver that came in and saw she'd not eaten her lunch that she didn't eat her lunch because she was on a diet (she put herself on) to try to lose some weight. She told me when they last weighed her (probably within the past month) she weighed 179. At one time years ago she was very heavy and told me at that time that she weighed 315. I didn't doubt it. She started replacing some meals with Slimfast and she lost about 100 pounds in about a year doing that. Eventually she decided that her goalweight was to be 175. She reached and passed that, going down to about 149 from losing her appetite and eating extremely little after she first went into a nursing home in early 2008, but she was very, very weak from malnourishment as well as extremely poor care at the first nursing home she was in. After she transferred to the nice nursing home she is in now about a year and a half ago, she put back on weight up to about 180. I reminded her that her original goalweight was 175 and that she's just a few pounds over that (so no need for a strict diet) when I was visiting her yesterday and she didn't comment.
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Christmas Cantata (a program of Christmas songs describing the Christmas story of Jesus' Birth being sung in church or at other location by a group of people) practice is again tonite. 
I am very happy over it and looking forward to it!
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Hubby and I finally got the Christmas tree put up last nite, was quite a job, only to realize we needed new lights, so off to the store we went and Hubby purchased new lights for it, but since it was late when we got back, we decided to wait to decorate the tree either today or tomorrow. It feels like time we get it up, it will be about time to take it back down, since we are running late putting it up.
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I decided to give the 3g mobile internet a try, so will be keeping the wifi internet we currently have now at the house while trying that out before deciding which one of the two to keep. The 3g card should be arriving tomorrow or Friday, I was told after ordering the service (which will be the same price we are paying now for wifi here at home, which the wifi is soon to go up almost double if we decide to keep it). With the 3g mobile internet, my understanding is that it will work ANYWHERE, including but not limited to only here at home. Thank you for your advice about it.
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Your mom sounds like a pretty awesome lady!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends...
It is a pretty, sunny, COLD (20's F) morning here in S.C. I've had breakfast and will soon be out and about, taking care of some business as well as possibly having lunch with a friend.
Christmas Cantata (a program of Christmas songs describing the Christmas story of Jesus' Birth being sung in church or at other location by a group of people) practice is early tonite, so probably will not get the Christmas tree up today, as would have to wait on Hubby to get home from work this evening for us to move furniture to make room for the tree to be put up and then not have time to decorate it tonite... But, that's okay. I LOVE going to church and I LOVE playing the piano, especially playing Christmas songs!
It is looking more and more like Hubby and I will not be doing the big change of the dining room to another room off the kitchen anytime soon, so I've come up with a 'plan B'...which is simply keep the dining room where it is for now and decorate the table and 'MAKE ROOM!' for the tree in the living room by moving the piano from it's current position to another position in the living room, as well as moving furniture, too. 
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Question: (totally unrelated to the above) Have any of you tried 3g laptop card internet service for laptop computers versus having used wifi or other at home service? I currently am using wifi at home, which is really good and very fast, but the price is going up soon, almost double, and I've been offered 3g mobile internet with a free 3g card for laptops for the price I am currently paying for wifi. Not to mention, this is something I wanted when I first got my laptop computer but it was about 3 times the amount currently offered per month at that time. My understanding (please enlighten me if I'm wrong) is that with the 3g laptop card service, I could access internet on my laptop computer anywhere versus having the wifi internet only at home. As for speed, what I've researched so far appears to be FAST. There is no 4g in our area yet but we do have 3g according to an online map furnished by the company offering it, which is the same company I currently have wifi with. Anyone know anything about 3g speed versus wifi speed or anything else about using 3g on a laptop? Any experience with this, anyone???
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Have a good one!
I can't help you with the computer question, although I do use a broadband internet card from work for my laptop on occasion. I love it because I can go anywhere with it. Good luck with your technology decisions.
No help on the laptop issue. I've never used on of those cards. Good luck!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Hubby and I just got back home from church and visiting Mom at her nursing home. Mom was on the 'warpath' today! I gave her a pretty new tube of pink-red lipstick that I bought for her, identical to the one I bought for myself at the same time. She loves makeup. She was very happy over the lipstick because she'd complimented me on the shade I was wearing and I told her I'd bought her a tube identical to my lipstick that I was wearing. Then upon noticing my wearing a little eye makeup, which she also liked, she told me that she wanted me to buy her some eye makeup and when I told her no, because she (sometimes) shakes and she might get an eye infection if she accidentally puts eye makeup into her eye, she announced to Hubby and me that she was "not going to be happy until I get it!". She refused to listen to reason, saying she doesn't shake anymore (Parkinson's), which I have to admit, she hasn't been shaking for a while over the past recent visits, but I still don't trust her coordination to try to apply eye makeup without sticking the wand into her eye(s). Trying to change the subject didn't help, she was STUCK on having her way, like a 2 year old toddler refusing the answer no. Finally, Hubby and I told her we had to go and upon leaving, I told her I love her and she said, "I love you, too and bring me that eyeliner when you come back!!!" loudly and clearly, to which I didn't answer as I left. 
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Soon it will be time this afternoon to go to piano and singing practice at church.
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Weighed in this morning at 144.0. Okay with that.
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Hope you're having a good day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Merry Christmas, Friends!
Hubby and I put the outside decorations up yesterday afternoon. They were so pretty lit up in the dark last nite. We set the timer for them to come on and go off after a few hours in the evenings.
I've been having a mug of coffee this morning with my breakfast of turkey sausage and grits...
The Christmas tree is not up yet in the house, but maybe soon... Hubby and I are trying to decide whether to do some big moving of furniture and changing around or not...
Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Merry Christmas, Friends!
This will be short...I've got things to do which include: DECORATING THE HOUSE!!!!
I've got a HUGE TREE to put up and decorate!
I'm fixing to get busy!
Update: No tree put up yet in the house but Hubby and I did get the outside decorations put up and they are lit up beautifully.
Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
We'll get our tree this weekend, I think. I love the smell of a fresh Christmas tree (yum!), the whole house smells wonderful for a whole month! The drawback is the price, nothing below $100 around this area for a decent size tree! Enjoy decorating!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Merry Christmas, Friends!
I have had a busy day today...first cleaned and straightened the house, then took off the trash, then paid a bill, then went shopping at a thrift store. I found a size 8 very long 100% cotten (I love 100% cotton for jeans and jean-skirts) blue jean skirt in like-new condition for a little over $2.00 and got it. Also I bought a $2.00 aqua-green (especially for Christmas) v-neck pullover mostly acrylic sweater in a size too large which will have to be altered to fit smaller (easily done). The skirt will be altered as well, to change the design as it has the split in the front and I don't like that, I preferr that in the back, so the front split will be changed to a back split instead.
I spent about an hour and a half visiting Mom in her room at the nursing home this afternoon and I took down all the autumn decorations on her side of her room (she has a new roommate who is improving from a bad fall, thank you for your prayers for her) and I put up Christmas decorations, which included her Christmas stocking with her name on it, also some of her little stuffed Christmasy-looking toys taped around her large mirror, and I also took her little Christmas tree and re-decorated it, which is about 2 feet tall and put that on her dresser in front of her large mirror (which is over her dresser at the foot of her bed in front of her to see). The little miniature tree has a big red bow on it with streamers, with lots of colorful ornaments, red and gold beads wrapping around it, and an angel at the very top of the little tree. Mom was very happy with the new Christmas decor to look at! She and I had a banana each together before I began on the project. Sooo...it is done now.
I'm back home now, looking at the fire in the fireplace off and on as I key to you...
Well...as for the Christmas decorations here at home, I have decided to decorate, however, in moderation (so far)...I loved ALL of your suggestions...and carefully considered each one...they were ALL GOOD and I thank you for them. To make a long story short, today I've put up the big Christmas wreath on the front door and also some little doorknob Christmas bells, which Hubby objected to the bells as it is hard to close the door, so I put them on the inside but then realized I only need to bend back part of the material on them and the door 'should' shut easily.
The neighbors' already have their FULL FRONT YARD ATTIRE set out and LIT UP at nite. We're talking A LOT OF STUFF.
A week ago I was excited about Christmas decorating and now that it is time to do it, it seems like the time has SPEEDED up and there's not enough time to do it....???
I think I just feel SO RELIEVED about the large volume of autumn decor being put away and not having to see all of that every day that that's what has me cautious about Christmas decorating this year. Not to mention so much work and then the work to take it all back down and put it back away in just a few weeks. Noooooo...I can't blame it on that...It is more than that. To put up the giant Christmas tree in the living room means moving ALL the furniture around in the living room to make room for it ( a LOT OF WORK!). Top it off, I've been thinking of changing the dining room into the piano room and an unused bedroom off the kitchen into a new dining room that would be larger than the dining room we have now. How does this relate to Christmas decorating??? Once the ball is rolling and that huge tree is out of the closet (btw, it is one of the kinds that has different colors of paint on the limbs and they have to fit into like-paint-colored-grooves as well as be fluffed up, a lot of work also).
Of course, I can always put up a pretty nativity scene on the dining room table or a small ceramic Christmas tree on the table and 'let it go'...but then, I WAS wanting to invite some friends over for a Christmas get-together and how would it be with the house not heavily decorated throughout?
So...you see what I mean? Thus the wishy-washy I think I will, I think I won't....
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Merry Christmas, Friends!
I thank you for your votes re: Christmas decorating and still haven't made up my mind yet, so thought I would try it out here first on my journal today and see how I feel about it. My house (since the autumn decorations have been put away and everything cleared and wiped clean) still has the 'cleared, cleaned, plain' look to it...that says 'very peaceful' and I know it is TIME to start decorating for Christmas and especially if I follow through with maybe having some friends over for a Christmas party later this month before Christmas (that's the reason for the beautiful picture above)...which that is a 'maybe, maybe not', to do that, too...
V, Moogy, and I had a very fun time last nite (that is, Wednesday morning for you, Moogy) teasing each other back and forth in our comments. This place (DD) is so much fun!
Anyway, thank the Lord for His protection on us, the tv-announced 'bad storms' played out before the front came through after midnite early this morning before daylight (while I stayed AWAKE reading the weather warnings for SC) and yours truly had comforted herself with an extra 700 calories OVER maintain calories for the day, so that's my today's confession. (And Moogy and V, no I did NOT get into the fruitcake nor banana pudding.......but I did get in the the pb, donuts, and sunflower seeds...) Needless to say after falling asleep around 2 a.m. or so this morning after having kept a watch on the oncoming weather radar and after just a few hours of sleep, being awakened by Hubby early this morning around 6 a.m., I am still very, very DROWSY and am having a mug of coffee with caffeine which is NOT doing the job to get me woke up and going...so I am still lying on the bed with the computer beside me keying to you...
So if I sound a little 'off' (like I don't usually, hehehe), please just overlook it...yes, the Christmas tree is 'UP' on this entry but it is hiding in the closet of my study in this house... The reason it is UP on here is so I can get my eyes accustomed to seeing it brightly blink and decide if I can contend with the same in an 8 foot version in our living room...
Actually, do you ever feel like this day would be a good day for sailing away.....???
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Update: Went to church tonite, played Christmas carols on the piano that we sang. Back home now. Have a little headache. Finished the sunflower seeds.
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
I definitely feel like sailing away sometimes, too. You are not alone.
Hope you're having a good one!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
It is a partly sunny/partly cloudy morning here in SC, USA. The weather channel on tv is announcing we may get storms later today and tonite and that our high is to be mid-70's fahrenheit today, changing to 50's beginning tomorrow for highs (that's COLD to me).
Our Daughter came over the other day and helped me 'undecorate' for autumn and right now, the house is CLEARED of seasonal decorations and looks so PEACEFUL this way that I'm tempted to let it alone and NOT DECORATE for Christmas (who, me???)...The fireplace mantle is cleared and wiped clean and fresh with NOTHING on it and so is the large dining room table... (except for a small Thomas Kinkade victorian-decor plate in the middle of the table) which bestowed many autumn decor items on each of them ...So...what's your vote??? Out with autumn, in with Christmas! Or....Out with autumn and let everything stay PLAIN-looking through Christmas? I'll be awaiting your comments...
On the weightfront news....I weighed this morning and the scale read 143.2, which I am happy with...although I haven't lost any weight in a few days, at least I'm still at 143.2 today and that's A-OK with me!
Not sure about plans for today...as I key it is very cloudy outside now but since it is supposed to be VERY WARM today, it may be a good time to be 'out and about'...
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
I usually don't do anything except for decorating the tree (which we usually get just a few days before Christmas)but I love looking at other people's houses full of light and pretty things!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Been a busy day here...Did some house-cleaning this morning, followed by piano-music practice (mostly Christmas carols) here at the house, then this afternoon, I made a 'Christmas Gift Basket' to give to a person whose name I drew at the last church-ladies' outing, to give a Christmas gift to at our next monthly meeting, which will be our Christmas outing week after next that I am very much excited about and looking forward to attending. After this, I visited Mom at her nursing home for a while. After losing her second roommate (please pray for the family) recently, Mom now has a new roommate who is very sick (please pray for her as well...she had a serious bad fall and is recovering from that)... I took Mom a sweet potato I cooked in the microwave and put a little margerine, cinnamon, and sugar (not much) on but she was not hungry for that and said she'd been wanting "m and m's" (chocolate candy)...so I went to the canteen and got her that and I also got a diet coke and a couple of cups of ice and straws and we shared the diet coke. I sat with her a while and we had a nice visit. Came home and been spending time with my wonderful, handsome Hubby this evening.
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
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Enjoy decorating the tree, glad your new internet is working out good for you =) Have a great day!
moogy on 12/09/2010:
I hope that you are enjoying your day Maria. It is an unusually short entry for you, I am crossing my fingers that you are busy and not feeling down. I will be thinking of you:) Glad you enjoyed the Kookaburra's, I am lucky to have them living around me!
Umpqua on 12/09/2010:
Have a great evening, Maria!
V on 12/09/2010:
Love you Maria! I know the tree will look beautiful!!! ;)
hopingforhealth on 12/09/2010:
I'm glad the internet is working out. Have a great evening!
V on 12/09/2010:
How pretty!!!Your mom is one sharp cookie ;) So are you for dodging the question and telling the truth at the same time ;)
moogy on 12/09/2010:
I am glad to return and read about your day, your mom sounds as if she is being a little fiesty with you. That's wonderful. I am also glad that the tree is decorated. Yay!!
V on 12/09/2010:
Yes!!! :) My mom kept her internet service for when I go home for visits and she doesn't have a computer!!! LOl I don't think they pay much for it..Internet is part of her cable package so I am safe...If I stay at my bf's she has internet access as well :) I don't know what i would do without you wonderful girls here so full reports every day!!! :)
chidogs on 12/09/2010:
Love it that your Mom is very mentally active like that and in touch. Very good. Glad you got your tree done. We do ours this weekend. And it is great that your new computer 3g thingy is working out.
V on 12/09/2010:
Oh i leave in 1 week and 3 days, but who's counting??? ME LOL
selina on 12/10/2010:
so glad to hear about your mom! sounds like your tree is beautiful! Enjoy!
hopingforhealth on 12/10/2010:
I hope you are enjoying the tree!
I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's roommate. I'm sure it is hard on her to keep forming connections to these people and then losing then. I will keep them in my thoughts.