A special thanks to Keith

To my dear friend Keith,



He lives only across the pond. Oh okay so its something like 4000 miles. Keith lives in England. We met a couple of years ago on a writing site called Helium. Helium was a great place where we quickly established neat friends and all became like family. Infact our main circle of friends belonged to the 7 worldly wonders. We all met throughout the days and kept in touch shared stories, even shared virtual goodies.



Well last week Keith posted a piece on his blog about my bday. I just want to say thank you so much for you kind words and nice piece on me. I love you and think you are such a sweet and special person.



Keith is a modest man who has a heart of gold. He is our cheffie, custom kitchen designer, car afficiando. Keith knows a lot about music, art, cooking, wining and dining. So stop by Keiths blog which is featured on my side bar. Keiths ramblings.

Become Aware

Hi to all my blogging friends, and family!!!

I just want to make everyone aware of Autism and want people to become more observant of what autism is and who is effected by autism.

Those of you who may not know my son who turned two in August began having seizures just twelve days before his 2nd bday. He was first thought to be epileptic, that quickly was changed to non epileptic then when he had some more seizures that again became the thought. Until late August when I said to one of the docs that I believed he was a high functioning child of autism. I explained what I knew and what I had observed with my son. After the doc observed him for a few minutes he too agreed and said, "I think your on to something mom."

So now I have a great company associated with Autism who comes in and works with him. Autism needs to be put in headlines more and people need to make a stand for this disorder. A lot of the insurance companies will not cover for the necessary testing to get a diagnosis so that you can recieve special services and appropiate materials and techniques for school. So come on and help solve the puzzle of Autism.

http://www.autismspeaks.org

My Style (Sunday Scribblings Post)

My Style is very simple.

My style is go with the flow and have some fun. Need I say more? Yes this is a short post but, for those of you who know me, know that I am a lot of fun, down to earth, caring, sympathetic, loving, and very open minded. When it comes to my wardrobe, I am a far cry from a high maintenance chick. I love jeans and sweatshirts. I hate heels, love my sneakers. I love make up but don't ask me to stand in the mirror all day. I like a natural look. I like light scents nothing too strong. Love to talk, love to have fun. What more could you ask for?

Breaking Point (Week 13 writing prompt for matinee muse)

We all get there, we all reach it at some point. You just can't take it anymore. No matter what, it happens to us all.

Ever feel like anything you did or do just isn't good enough? Ever feel like the world is out to get you? Ever just want to scream and you can't quite explain why but, you do know you are pissed.

Ever just get upset cause the person in front of you in the grocery store decides to (a) put back some of the items, (b)forgot to stop at the bank and now has to write a check or (c) has a coupon for every item on the list? It may be small things but it is all things that just builds up.

Yep they build up til we just can't take it anymore. We snap. We yell, we scream, we scream obsene words lol.

Why do we have this so called breaking point? Why do we let things build up. This creates stress. Stress will cause strokes or heart attacks. We know this but yet and still we all let it happen. The breaking point.

Why is it called the breaking point and not the yelling point? Ponder that one. In the meantime don't get mad cause I posed a question. If your mad or getting angry that you have to ponder that question you are already stressed lol.

The breaking point and unpleasant point one reaches due to the stupidity of others. Are there ways to prevent it? Sure and this does not include living in a bubble. There are simple steps. such as do not let it build up, stop it when it is happening, say what is on your mind to stop the craziness before it gets the better of you. Yes stop it before it gets you. Yes you may say things that will upset someone initially but you can always apologize if you need to at a later date. Why should you have the extra stress on your shoulders? Why should we reach this so called breaking point. The whole term breaking point to me is just well rather unpleasant. Think about it. Breaking is to destroy something or cause pain to something. Point is something sharp or getting your message across to someone in a stern yet very firm way.

So stop it before it happens and you won't have to have a breaking point.

A story I wrote for halloween of 2007 under another pen name on helium

The wind is whipping the leaves are whirling some are falling at my feet. The night air has a slight chill enough to give you just a hint of cold that runs up your arms, causing little goosebumps. Kids are all getting ready for the tradition of trick or treating. You can hear them laughing, all giddy as they ring the doorbells of the neighbors that on any other day would not so much as get a boo out of them. "Trick or Treat, give me something good to eat" is what I hear coming from a little girl standing in her Little Mermaid costume. She exits the door with a polite thankyou and off to the next house.
As I continue to stroll down the sidewalk, I think to myself what a wonderful time of year. I see cobwebs in the eaves of some of the houses, leaves all on the ground in an array of color, the smells of fall are pure delight.
Not too far into my walk out in the field I notice a large group of people standing around, they are looking at a smaller group that have formed a circle. As I walk closer I notice that there is a cauldron and there is a group of about eight to ten people. They have formed a circle around the cauldron. Someone is chanting then the others follow suit. I stand closer to watch as I am now totally enthralled in what is taken place.
A seance is taking place. I hear one little girl let out a scream of the witches are casting spell as she runs off dropping her bag of goodies. Another man yells this kind of activity should be banned your scaring the children. Not once did anyone in the circle take heed of what was being said about them, or for that matter seem to care that some of the onlookers had become disturbed.
So upon further observation I could see tears streaming down the face of one of the seance members faces. I thought I wonder if she had contacted someone that she wanted to or had they contacted her? I watched for a while longer and then decided to continue on my way.
For some reason the image of the tears flowing down the face of that person stuck with me throughout my walk. I recognize the face.
As I am heading to home I notice that really nobody seems to even notice that I am just here tonight observing them taken in all the sights and sounds. Something I guess I don't do on a normal basis. Maybe I did once but I don't recall doing it ever. So as I walk through the gate of what is now my home, I see that the moon is quite full, I am delighted with how well everyone looked in costumes and once again remembering the seance.
My mind now returns to the face the image of tears. Who was it? It has been many years that I have been laid to rest her in the hillside cemetary and still images of childhood things come to me every now and then. Hauntingly surprising perhaps I even gave you a fright to think that maybe that image was me in my early years just having some fun, in the middle of a field. Happy Halloween to all.

My recipe for pumpkin pie spice cookies featured on Helium

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Fall is a great time of year. I love all the smells and the great desserts that are associated with the fall. Nothing says Fall like pumpkins and apples.
I have a very easy recipe for pumpkin cookies. All you need to make these scrumptious cookies is a package of sugar cookie mix. Then follow the direction to make the sugar cookies, not the directions for the roll out cookies unless of course you want to cut them into cute shapes and decorate. You will add to this a table spoon of your choice of either vanilla extract or almond extract, 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. Mix it in real well.
You will need to have had your oven preheated to 350 degrees. Take out a cookie sheet and spray it with some nonstick cooking spray. Drop your cookies to whatever size you want or a rounded table spoon onto the baking sheet. You can use your fork to make the marking like on peanutbutter cookies. Here is a slight twist with that. Put your fork into some granulated sugar befor making the marks for a little something special on top that won't distract from the great pumpkin cookies.
The first batch will probably have to back for about 11 minutes. Each additional batch approximately 9 minutes. Remember cookies do carryover a cooking time when taken from the oven and placed to cool.
Another nice thing to do with these cookies is to let them cool down completely and get your favorite pumpkin icecream or vanilla icecream and put a scoop onto one of the cookies then top with another cookie roll the sides in some pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon sugar mixture and place in a ziploc bag in the freezer and enjoy a nice seasonal ice cream sandwich.

Against All Odds

" Dammit I have seen this time and time again. I have seen it done, I even dream of doing it. I should not be having all this trouble" he said, out loud.

"Why is it that when I need something now I can't have it?" "Why is it that I can never get anything to work the way it should?" "Why?"

As he lay his head down on the desk he could hear something. He wasn't really sure what was being said but, it was a voice. Was it someone trying to tell him how to get what he needed? He shook the thought off, he decided to just shut his eyes for a few minutes.
He was walking down a corridor, there was lots of light, bright lights. Voices some he knew, some he never had heard before. All knew him, all were trying to talk to him all at once. What was going on?

He could see it, there were tons and tons of tiny pieces. People staring at him. Questioning him about what these pieces were? How to get them assembled, and how to do it quickly?
He was familiar with the pieces, in fact he was familiar with exactly what to do. He knew the clock was racing. This was going to be a key element into the planets future.

He organized teams, he drew up sketches, he presented the idea to the room of people his colleagues. Some of the face very familiar others not even remotely recognizable. He showed them what it was going to take to make this object, and what materials he needed and he needed them now!

Time was of the essence and he wasn't going to blow it. His colleagues were impressed with his fast thinking, his knowledge of how this would work, and what it could do for the planet. What everyone did question was would he do it in time?

He awoke in a pool of sweat. He raced to the conference hall gathered what he needed. He knew he had exactly three hours, and he was determined. Against all odds he would complete this difficult task. In the end he did complete the assignment with time to spare. Against all odds he did the one thing he wasn't sure he could complete, today he is hailed as one of the most valuable people on his team at work.