So I am just going to blog my usual stuff for awhile and ignore the “end of days” feel around here. LOL

Last week my sweet niece Morgie graduated from high school and her mom threw a party on Saturday.

She is planning to attend the community college downstate where she lives. I am so glad she has plans. She wants to become a physical therapist. She is a tall strong girl so I think it is perfect for her. She is a beauty too.

Here she is with her boyfriend. She isn’t a biological niece but is adopted by my brother though she is her mothers natural daughter. We have know her since age 2 and she grew up with my own kids so it feels like she is family. The adoption makes not difference she is family regardless but I am glad my brother adopted her. It was interesting to see her last name on the banner like my maiden one. It is a very unique last name only held by my kin from my fathers side.

Here is her half sister Jet who is also with her boyfriend. LOL Her mom asked what is up with her and I liking redheads? I just smile and said it is the heart that counts not the color of hair.

My kids doing their phone thing.

Sigh* Techy zombies!

We had a nice group photo.

My youngest sister Malissa is on the left with her husband Big B.

Morgie in the middle with my family on the right. Moi in purple if you didn’t know me.

Aaron is soaking wet and didn’t want to stay still because they were having a water balloon fight. Well he at least put down his phone to have a little fun.

I am so proud of her for going forward and making her family proud.

I have been following the news about all  the huge storms out west and in OK. A famous Native American Indian artist I follow on facebook lost his home and showed pictures of the wreckage. Just devastating… So many people homeless and picking up the remnants of their lives.  

I have a hard time imagining that as my own home. I shudder to think. Why this whole xanga thing keeps my perspective in check. So many really bad things in the world, me having to change a blog venue is Not A Big Deal!

Have a great blessed day today. Thanking the Great Spirit I have a good life.

I am not sure that my plans are solid for anywhere else but I plan to stay on xanga as long as possible. I have had blogs elsewhere but always came back to my first love, Xanga.   The whole community has been great here and I enjoyed reading up on all of you subscriptions even if I didn’t always comment. Sad to see a good thing go but I understand when I had so much trouble in recent history.

I am on Facebook if anyone wants to be my friend there.  Judith Martin is my real name and I post there the most out of all other sites. I post a lot there since most of my family is on facebook. That is one of the only ways I can keep in contact with my brothers. It will be opening a door more into my private life but I think you all have seen my divulging on here enough to get that pass ticket I believe.  I act like I am rockstar or something, LOL NOT!

I joined wordpress a few years ago and am going to starting over again there since blogging is not a facebook thing. It is going to take me awhile to learn all the new stuff but I think it will be a positive move for me. Plus I can’t complain about my Mother-in-law on facebook at all LOL! All the inlaws aka outlaws are there too. 

I don’t want to bring my archive anywhere else. I think it will be a fresh new start like being on a new planet LOL. IF you do join over there I want to still be friends with you all, I am neegee on wordpress.

My Sister-in-law is on twitter and has bashed me a couple times there so I refuse to keep using that site. Yeah I am that sensitive but she is a matriarch of that family. I hate abuses and rather avoid her in real life too. Why WordPress is going to be great.

I also have an Instagram account. judimartin43  and  I tried in the past not to use my full name here but it is so easy to get info anymore I can’t keep protected forever. I will have to try other ways. Anyway Judith Martin is a common name it is my maiden name no one else in the world has.

OH and I was reading on WordPress that Google reader is shutting down too. HMMM. Coincidence?? So maybe WordPress is going to become the new xanga? I hate that they keep trying to integrate my google plus with blogger. 

Sorry to sound like I am bailing out but come to think of it, the interface here sucks and I don’t see how they will change it without changing everything I loved about it and we know that is going to cost mucho bucks, more than they have predicted to stay compatible and comparable with other sites.   It is going to be a paid for website with advertisements only after raising a ton of money. Why have they not done that sooner to give people more time To adjust with small updates? Argh! 

I know good things cost money but so many of my friends are leaving bc they cannot afford it.

Update: I am now on Blogger as Ikwa. Seems I found a few boat jumping xangians there too. yay!

Love ya all. Judi

second time shame on me.

I did something in a heart of sweetness I wish I hadn’t. I re-friended my Mother-in-law on Facebook because she kept asking and been really nice to me for so long I agreed.

SIGH* Now she is bugging the crap out of me.

Shame on me for being so soft hearted.

Not only that, now Husband thinks we are peachy keen and arranged a trip south to visit her. I cannot say I am excited but he sure is happy.

Is this a thing to do for loved ones and Family? To laydown all differences and just struggle to bites ones tongue?

Oh well it gives me great blogging material HUH? LOL

A picture from one of my walks this week. It looks like lilies floating on a pond but it really is a tree branch.   

Pretty huh?

My new baby since my boys won’t let me take pictures of them anymore.

Memow was looking at a toy mouse I was holding behind my iphone LOL

Well Just a short update of nothing much but I hope you have a good rest of the week.

Hope this post doesn’t go wonky on me. Xanga has had some issues with pictures loading for me. Probably doesn’t like my firewalls. :OP

I made Black bread from my new favorite cook book, A Feast of Ice and Fire.

You can see their website for the book here and get some free recipes from the site. LINK>>>>The Official Game of Thrones companion cook book A feast of Ice and Fire.

Here is what I made. It is so dense and think but soft and chewy with a crisp crust. Tastes like a strong beer but nonalcoholic since you cook the alcohol out of it when you bake the bread.

My husband and my boys loved it.

I want to try some honeyeyed chicken too.

Anyway I love G.O.T. too much I think it boarders obsession. LOL I want to make a dress now for renaissance fair that is how crazy I ma getting

Oh But I must make my powwow regalia first, so many irons on the fire right now in my mind.

I had a lovely day yesterday thanks to my boys and hubby. Made me lazy this morning but its back to the grind.

One of my plans today are to make Black Bread from my official Game of Thrones cookbook called, “A feast of Ice and fire.” If you didn’t know I am a huge fan of that series from George R.R. Martin. The cookbook has many of the recipes that are in the book series. Black bread is made with rye flour and stout beer. Needless to say my husband is excited I am planning to make this recipe. He loves both rye and stout.  

So what are your plans today? 

I also plan to play with my new expansion to my sims 3 game I got for Mothers day. Think I might be the only mom who wanted a computer game for Mothers day. Lol

I am up at 1 am and cannot sleep. I think it is because I ate way to much chocolate today. Perfect time to update the ole blog eh?

I hope everyone has a happy mothers day. My family and I had a early mothers day celebrating today. 

 We went to Philadelphia today and stopped at the Reading Terminal Market to buy honey and other things. The chocolates shop there is famous for their anatomically correct shaped chocolate hearts. But today we bought fudge. Ewey gooey sticky sweet chocolate fudge that I ate this past evening and wish I hadn’t. MyFitnessPal data banks didn’t even have it on file. I guess most strict dieters don’t eat fudge? LOL! We walked so much today so even with the calories I stayed in my goal. The counter deducts the exercise you do for the calories you eat. I really like that. Sometimes if I want to eat something yummy I work out so I can. LoL hey maybe I will become addicted to working out? It is a thought. Ha i wish. But I doubt it since this week they learned that people are born couch potatoes. Yes the news stated that certian peoples DNA is more likely to exercise than others. I knew it! The universe wants me fat! Ha ! 

I didn’t tell you my “allergy” to exercise yet. Well here it goes, I have Exercise Asthma! I learned about it a year ago from the pulmonologist but thought I would get better with my weight loss. I lost 60 lbs last year but Nope! The asthma still kicks up if I exercise too long. I got an inhaler a couple weeks ago to from my Doctor. They want to do a lung function test soon but honestly it is fine as long as i don’t do too much aerobic activity. Another clue to my life of exercise avoidance. Lol 

But on the posative side I can do strength exercise and small weight lifting if I am careful. I lost weight with doing some pilates and weights faster than walking everyday. I am glad about that.

This mom is excited to get her breakfast in bed so I better go and take some melatonin.

Have a good day!

FYI I really cannot stand Glen Beck. That being said I approve this message.

LOL This cracked me up good!

I hate that automatically it is about us vs. them when it comes to immigration thoughts. Hey we are all humans needing a place that is safe and secure to raise our babies. The Human condition is what unites us all.

Anyway I hate that people like Glen are so racist. HE needs to get over himself.

Trying to work on my negative attitudes here lately. I have some mental exercises to release some of them.

Happiness is not a place but a way of thinking I have learned and I am working on that concept.

Things I am working on are…

….listening to more uplifting music and enjoying natures beauty…

….not letting social media upset me and put my mind in a negative train of thought….

…seeing myself as an inspiration not a mistake to the world, that I have something valuable to contribute even if it’s just a smile…

…seeing in my minds eye that I have a bright future not a doomed one. That sometimes things just happen. I can work my future but not the past. I need to let some of it go and heal…

 and not holding myself up to impossible perfections and learning acceptance of who I am. Learning to like myself.

BElieving in Yourself is BE YOU!

Realizing, I am who I am and that is going to be good enough. Not saying I cannot work on being better but seeing myself in a new light in stead of my old negative one.

Happiness is not the impossible dream it is within my power to obtain.

“Happiness is a mental or emotional state of  well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment  to intense joy” ~Wiki

I hope you can find some happiness today.