The Gypsy on Adventure

Big Ooops!

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought T$7.9 billion ($251 million) worth of shares with a mis-stroke of her computer, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job..."There is a paper loss of more than T$400 million," said the executive."However, with a good outlook for stocks in the second half, there are no plans to sell the shares in the near term."

That would be like something I would accidently do! Essh!

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Gypsy's Daily Cancer Forecast

Keep a close watch on that heart of yours. It's a very valuable object, and doesn't appreciate being tossed around lightly. So if you're thinking of leaping into something (or someone) on a mad impulse or because it seems like a good idea at the time, why not ask the thing you're risking how it feels about the whole enterprise? That's right -- get quiet and check in with your heart about what to do next. What you hear might surprise you.

I will take this advise...

Kinda Reeling...

I received an email from the uncle who raised me just now:

Just wanted to let you know that your uncle Bobby just passed away at 11:30 this morning. Yesterday was his last day on dialysis because he decided to give up and the cancer was getting worse. They gave him about two weeks, but he only lasted the night. Deanna and I saw him yesterday and I believe your mother came down. I talked to Marty and he is making arrangements for some kind of service. I'll let you know when and where.

Wow...my head is spinning! I didn't even know that he was sick...go figure when you have a dysfunctional family and decide to leave one fraction...unfortunately it means you leave behind others you don't intend to.  You can pretty much bank on the fact that if my biological mother is going I won't be. I will send fleurs and cards...but I refuse to put myself any where near that woman.

That is two in such a short time...what do they say? It comes in three's?  Now here is the weird thing, the cousins I mentioned in my earlier post, was HIS kids! Yikes!

He was so fun when I was a kid...always called me brat...when driving my grandmother and I home he would RACE the Train on the two laned road that would take us home, before seat belts were in the back of the 50s Chevy's! His was black and white, with tuck and leather inside! AND my cousin Annette and I would ALWAYS want HIM to spank us, because he pretended...as opposed to my aunt who would really smack us hard!! Yes, we deserved it...but it was much easier if Bobby did it! : ) grin

Since I was an OC with my grandmother and uncle, Bobbie's kids were like my brother's and sister growing up, they kept me from being unbearably lonely as a kid. So I have TONS of memories at their house...we spent at least 2 or 3 days a week for YEARS together...I just realized I don't think I have a photo of him...

The best memories of him are of the kitchen, with him cooking, he should have been a chef! He was the BEST cook! And he would come up with meals when there was no money for a huge family...he would feed his 4 kids...me, my grandmother and my uncle Richard along with him and his wife! Lots of times we would have Ox tail soup...which I thought was just a name until I realized YEARS later it REALLY was an Ox tail. Then there was lots of potato peeling soup. We would save the peelings in the freezer and then he would make soup! The BEST soup ever!

Bobbie was a large man, but boy could he dance, I used to LOVE to watch him dance. And I think he is the one that looks most like my grandmother, I could look at his face and see her right there...of course a little more male...but it was my grandmother all over him. He was funny too...he had a great sense of humor...while they drank and played parlor games you could hear him bellowing his great laugh and giggle.

I am going to miss knowing he is in the world...

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.  ~Gloria Steinem

Fascinated

Why ARE we fascinated with this story? It is one as kids, my cousins and I would take our wagons out with 3 or 4 kids sitting in each one, while it got dark outside on hot summer nights, and take a tour of our play area, telling the kids in the wagons horrors of horrors about Jack the Ripper!

Some of us would jump out from bushes and such and JUST torture each other!

...But one, Amanda C, found his arguments convincing. Betraying what may be the real reason for such vehement skepticism from the sleuth community, she asked: "What will we all do if the mystery is solved?"

Indeed, what will we do with the solved horror case of old?

Happiest of Birthdays!

I can NOT believe that my son is TWENTY-SIX years old! Oh my gawd! I am officially old! Giggle That is just too weird for me to wrap around my brain! Where did THAT little boy go? And I can't believe that he is not a baby anymore! Time flew by...in fact it is starting to freak me out a little.

Looking at that photo, (that I kept in my purple leather wallet for YEARS) I find it hard to believe that that teenager is me, and that he was EVER 3 months old! And that I didn't actually screw him up so badly that he is a complete failure of a person and that he made it to adult hood!

The insecurities of that teenager in the photo was so EXTREME that I thought for sure I would ruin his life...he was the reason I changed my life...made a difference...and hung on...I figured I would be dead by the time I was 18...with me holding him there at 17, all I saw was a new hope...and FEAR of screwing him up! LOL

Here is a quote I sent him in a card today:

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ~Sheila Graham

To Change One's Life
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.
~William James

With ALL the changes he is going through right now...these were so good for him!  AND not so bad for me to remember either!

The Universe Said:

Isn't it cool how when your thoughts become things, Gypsy, and your dreams start coming true, they invariably bring along with them totally unexpected life-changing manifestations that just blow your mind?

Say, "Yes!!!!!"

Just my way of doing a little extra -
     The Universe

PS: That's just so you understand, Gypsy, that once you receive your Home, it won't be the only thing you'll be celebrating. Ha!

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! © www.tut.com ®

(Well...that is a good way to put it!)

A new one!

  Giggle...I saw this at Hedgehogs place...Made me really giggle!

Quotes

Life is not the way it's supposed to be.  It's the way it is.  The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
~Virginia Satir

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~Desiderius Erasmus

Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described and it cannot be explained.  Do not try to look beyond yourself for truth, for truth can only be within you.
~Course in Miracles

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~John Lilly

I am trying to get my son to understand that what you think can become your reality. And that you have to believe in yourself and take the steps to make things happen and the doors start to open up ~ just like he is experiencing right now!

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Gypsy's Daily Cancer Forecast
	Quickie: Dispense with the details. Follow your bliss on this pleasantly day-dreamy day. (I did, I watched DVDs and did art all day!)
	Overview: Had a tough few days? At last, some excellent energy comes your way direct from the stars. Flashes of inspiration could come so fast and furious, it's like your own personal paparazzi.

There is a reason this moment is called the present ~ because every opportunity you get to pay attention to what's going on is truly a gift. So if a circumstance is intense or feelings are running high, learn to focus on the reality going on in front of you rather than running away or trying to soften it with some illusion of your own making. Comprehending the totality of an experience is invaluable beyond words.

I really liked what this said today! Had to mark it down to remember!

Fun Mail!

Clapping hands! I received Collage Cat Zine today from Carla Naron!!! It is bittersweet getting her zine today! It is her final one ... at least for awhile. She announced that she needed a break, and as much as I would love to have her continue, I think it is good to step back once in awhile and do your own art without worries of deadlines! So I encourage her to find her voice in her art and then come back when she is ready because I will be here waiting for her!

AND Soul Vision by Lori Shields, who lives very close to me, AND one of my other favorites...Artitude!!!!

So it is time to sit on my couch all curled up and read the new zines with ooooh and ahhhs! And have my inspiration blown out of my brain! : )   Yummy mail today!