In another 41 days I will turn 77. God, no matter what you say, that is old! But I am fighting the old age status by purchasing Dr. Perricone's facial products designed to reduce, not eliminate, wrinkles on the face. Now if that sounds vain, it is. My vanity for my looks is very strong enough to work at this for two years for a given rate of $37 per product in this special package. It is on its way and I can hardly wait to test it out. I have had wrinkles all my life, because some are inborn. One comes out of the womb wearing a wrinkle, believe it or not. So I do not believe for a minute that anything can be done except to hopefully give the skin more collagen and elasticity to appear smoother. I know how wrinkles become set, and my hands alone demonstrate that. In truth, the fatter one is, the less likely one is to have so many wrinkles cut deep marks into the skin.
I do not want the absence or elimination of wrinkles. I tried a freeze method that did actually work to remove my wrinkles, and I could see how I would look without them for about 8 hours. It does wear off but it is like novocaine in that the face is paralyzed; and I did not like the feeling at all, nor did I like the removal of my wrinkles. I learned that I wanted them after all. That youthful face at my age is totally ridiculous to me.
I am also going to try to lose some weight as my ice cream eating binge totally put too many pounds on me since I did not exercise enough to burn it off. No more ice cream, flour, and excess sugar for me for this year. I hope that this time next year I will have achieved some weight loss, not an extraordinary amount but a reasonable amount.
But back to wrinkles. I do not expect much from this product but I am willing to give it a try since I would be a real challenge for any cosmetic firm to prove that the usage of their product does work. All I can do is try. But I have always liked wrinkles to be honest. To me, it shows that you laughed, you expressed yourself, and you led a good life! But I want to see just how much this product will do to change any deepset wrinkles that I have had for years. I will be honest at least!
Why saving face is so important! Because it is that which we see first in anybody we meet, and our impressions of them is in their eyes, their appearance, or lack of it, and their smile. My smile needs help but it is too costly at this time. I will have to have cataracts removed one of these years, not sure when yet. I probably need new eyewear but
I am doing with what I have for the present. They work fine so far.
Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home
Friday, January 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Christmas Day
Many ways in which to be grateful!
1. Friends near and far help to make life endurable. A good friend who is ever ready to lend you a hand is the best gift anyone can know.
2. Health is foremost in my mid now that I am aging so rapidly. I accidentally stumbled to fall on my front steps last night while staring at the new moon, and fortunately, was a short fall so that it did not tear the skin but I went down to cry out and blame that full moon. Good health is key to good living.
3. Family is naturally our closest long term friends and allies. At my age, my family is now far away and some have passed into the great beyond.
4. Faith in our friends, family, neighbors, and yes, even enemies keeps us on a solid foundation of wellbeing. We can always hope to change an enemy into a friend through negotiation or acts of love from one to the other. I am not being too optimistic about turning ISIS into a friend at all, but both Germany and Japan did change to become friends after WWII.
5. Pets are both friends and family when we are fortunate enough to own any, no matter whether cat, dog, turtle, fish, birds, or neighborhood wandering alone seeking food or friendship.
6. Books, which enrich our lives, both fiction and nonfiction, are the most solitary voice we have when alone with our thoughts. Books can become our friends, sources of knowledge, entertainment, amusement, fantasy, anything that we want since they come in so many varieties. An author may be able to awaken something inside yourself to learn a new lesson or make a new friend.
7. Recreation whether actively involved in sports or just riding a bike, bowling, skating, skiing, playing board games, using fitness center programs, exercising, dancing, or skateboarding.
8. Creative arts: hobbies, arts and crafts, musical talents exploited, painting, sculpting, reading, writing a novel, a short story, a poem, making videos, photography, knitting, crocheting, and all types of skills in quilting and sewing.
9. Knowledge found through schooling, education in college and university, online tutoring, local library, and self teaching.
10. Finally, meditation, or the art of listening to one's inner self, to explore one's own inner being, and being able to share with trusted friends your feelings and intuition as well as listen to theirs.
Much to think about, and certainly many more reasons to be grateful! Just a reminder that life can be good when you try to make it good for others and for yourself.
1. Friends near and far help to make life endurable. A good friend who is ever ready to lend you a hand is the best gift anyone can know.
2. Health is foremost in my mid now that I am aging so rapidly. I accidentally stumbled to fall on my front steps last night while staring at the new moon, and fortunately, was a short fall so that it did not tear the skin but I went down to cry out and blame that full moon. Good health is key to good living.
3. Family is naturally our closest long term friends and allies. At my age, my family is now far away and some have passed into the great beyond.
4. Faith in our friends, family, neighbors, and yes, even enemies keeps us on a solid foundation of wellbeing. We can always hope to change an enemy into a friend through negotiation or acts of love from one to the other. I am not being too optimistic about turning ISIS into a friend at all, but both Germany and Japan did change to become friends after WWII.
5. Pets are both friends and family when we are fortunate enough to own any, no matter whether cat, dog, turtle, fish, birds, or neighborhood wandering alone seeking food or friendship.
6. Books, which enrich our lives, both fiction and nonfiction, are the most solitary voice we have when alone with our thoughts. Books can become our friends, sources of knowledge, entertainment, amusement, fantasy, anything that we want since they come in so many varieties. An author may be able to awaken something inside yourself to learn a new lesson or make a new friend.
7. Recreation whether actively involved in sports or just riding a bike, bowling, skating, skiing, playing board games, using fitness center programs, exercising, dancing, or skateboarding.
8. Creative arts: hobbies, arts and crafts, musical talents exploited, painting, sculpting, reading, writing a novel, a short story, a poem, making videos, photography, knitting, crocheting, and all types of skills in quilting and sewing.
9. Knowledge found through schooling, education in college and university, online tutoring, local library, and self teaching.
10. Finally, meditation, or the art of listening to one's inner self, to explore one's own inner being, and being able to share with trusted friends your feelings and intuition as well as listen to theirs.
Much to think about, and certainly many more reasons to be grateful! Just a reminder that life can be good when you try to make it good for others and for yourself.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Christmas Eve Day
It is the 24th and I am doing laundry right now. I am trying to clear out some of the stuff I have acquired over the years, but I make a tortoise, a snail, and molasses look fast. It is not procrastination! It is just that I am very slow to move. I make headway one thing at a time very slowly it seems but I am getting there.
Today has a story of a tornado that has broken all records if it proves to be true. The longest single tornado ever to hit the south on a time when most families had hoped to have a great Christmas. A town in Mississippi has lost everything. It is the saddest, sorriest thing to see that town totally destroyed except for a few houses that did not feel the effects. A single house stood in one video today while the entire region around it was totally cleaned out, looking like a tornado hit it, which in fact it did. Wow!
I did not take out all my Christmas stuff this year. Some things are still in the boxes and I refuse to open them. I will keep the tree up until New Years Day but most will be packed away long before the week is up, I am hoping.
I know it is age that makes me feel so tired all the time. Probably my fat does hurt me so I am trying to lose weight but have broken that rule several times this holiday season. I did buy some Sees candy and some cinnamon bread. Otherwise, I am abstaining from most of the too sweet, too sugary, too high carbs stuff. I fought many minor illnesses the past months. Am hoping that 2016 will be a GOOD year instead of the wretched year that 2015 has been.
I admit that this housing unit is better than the previous I had lived in, but it is a long way from Phoenix or Scottsdale. However, I actually like it in this area now that I am learning it. It is growing so rapidly that most everything is new and recently built. I just hate to see this amount of growth though. It is sad to watch agriculture die while housing developments take over. Wrong! Wrong!
Resolving to stay positive thinking until the New Year comes. Too much negativity in the news is really very exasperating and depressing. Americans are annoying me no end these days. The election is a farce and I am so opposed to the candidates who do not know how to get elected without acting like idiots that it infuriates me. But what can you do? We have a really screwed up system in this so called advanced nation. Both parties should be abolished, the sooner the better.
So on that note, I will close. It got negative again, and I don't want that but I just read about the ambassador who suffered dreadfully because of Obama and Hillary Clinton's wrong doing. Liars all, and should be punished for it. Am more than angry about it.
The news media is ugly too. So again, ending this now.
Today has a story of a tornado that has broken all records if it proves to be true. The longest single tornado ever to hit the south on a time when most families had hoped to have a great Christmas. A town in Mississippi has lost everything. It is the saddest, sorriest thing to see that town totally destroyed except for a few houses that did not feel the effects. A single house stood in one video today while the entire region around it was totally cleaned out, looking like a tornado hit it, which in fact it did. Wow!
I did not take out all my Christmas stuff this year. Some things are still in the boxes and I refuse to open them. I will keep the tree up until New Years Day but most will be packed away long before the week is up, I am hoping.
I know it is age that makes me feel so tired all the time. Probably my fat does hurt me so I am trying to lose weight but have broken that rule several times this holiday season. I did buy some Sees candy and some cinnamon bread. Otherwise, I am abstaining from most of the too sweet, too sugary, too high carbs stuff. I fought many minor illnesses the past months. Am hoping that 2016 will be a GOOD year instead of the wretched year that 2015 has been.
I admit that this housing unit is better than the previous I had lived in, but it is a long way from Phoenix or Scottsdale. However, I actually like it in this area now that I am learning it. It is growing so rapidly that most everything is new and recently built. I just hate to see this amount of growth though. It is sad to watch agriculture die while housing developments take over. Wrong! Wrong!
Resolving to stay positive thinking until the New Year comes. Too much negativity in the news is really very exasperating and depressing. Americans are annoying me no end these days. The election is a farce and I am so opposed to the candidates who do not know how to get elected without acting like idiots that it infuriates me. But what can you do? We have a really screwed up system in this so called advanced nation. Both parties should be abolished, the sooner the better.
So on that note, I will close. It got negative again, and I don't want that but I just read about the ambassador who suffered dreadfully because of Obama and Hillary Clinton's wrong doing. Liars all, and should be punished for it. Am more than angry about it.
The news media is ugly too. So again, ending this now.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Reorganizing
Since i moved here six months ago, I have not known whether I would stay here or not for another year. I had a bit of a poor beginning that more or less made me feel as though I might decide to find a more permanent place to live. I will admit that if I come into the kind of winning jackpot that I would like I would attempt to purchase a more permanent home whether a mobile home or a condominium or small house even. And on that note, I am trying to achieve that goal but since I am also a realist I am having to face the fact that I may be here for another year if the lease terms are suitable for me.
I finally have dragged out into the front room some of my belongings that I have let go unopened and unattended for the past six months. I just had worked too hard in the moving process to really care about anything but the basic essentials so that many things are still unpacked and will remain so until I am ready to open them. However, some loose type boxed items I am finally sorting out to realize what it is that I have done. I surprised myself by being a whole lot smarter and wiser than I remembered being. I really am happy with myself tonight since I found many things put in freezer bags that kept them separate and safe so that when the time came I would be able to identify and sort them easily. You do not know how that makes me feel! My care in moving things turned out to be the best thing I did for myself under the circumstances.
To be honest, life has been unbearable for me many times in the past years. I am actually realizing now how much I endured during my time spent with my parents. Being with Sandra and Kyrion for a short time reminded me of how life had been with my parents, and I am amazed that I actually survived it as well as I did. You have no idea what it was like unless I go into detail, and that I will not do. I will not give my parents illnesses away but it did take a toll on me that I only now fully appreciate. Watching Sandra deal with Kyrion does concern me a lot as I know how poorly at times I dealt with my parents problems. I cannot honestly say which one I think was the more ill of the two. They both suffered so many problems that it amazes me even yet at how long they both lived under the circumstances.
I am more amazing than either of them though but again I will not betray myself on paper or a computer to explain why. But in the end, I always believe in the idea that God within is what keeps us healthy and helps us get through times of illness. For me, it works. My belief is sound and firm.
I have to go through a few serious changes in my life yet...One will be cataract removal, and so far, I have not found the right physician to perform this operation. I am inclined to go to Tempe to a man who gave me a very thorough eye exam. He told me he did cataract surgery, and I have not forgotten him. I will see about it.
There are a few other things that I must accomplish yet health wise, but I will try to accomplish my goals slowly and carefully. I am ever aware of how age robs us of our vitality, and I try to stay as free from problems as I can. Whether health problems are more mental than physical is debatable, but it sometimes seems to me that mind over matter does work far better than pills or ointments.
Well, I am staying up to watch HSN describe their TSV in a few minutes. I am seriously interested in it but need a full presentation instead of the brief that I have been hearing. I did check it out on the search engines. So I want to see all that it has going for it. It is a very expensive item at half price now. An android tablet by HP which has a quad processor and is in high definition. Must see it first!
Night Night.
I finally have dragged out into the front room some of my belongings that I have let go unopened and unattended for the past six months. I just had worked too hard in the moving process to really care about anything but the basic essentials so that many things are still unpacked and will remain so until I am ready to open them. However, some loose type boxed items I am finally sorting out to realize what it is that I have done. I surprised myself by being a whole lot smarter and wiser than I remembered being. I really am happy with myself tonight since I found many things put in freezer bags that kept them separate and safe so that when the time came I would be able to identify and sort them easily. You do not know how that makes me feel! My care in moving things turned out to be the best thing I did for myself under the circumstances.
To be honest, life has been unbearable for me many times in the past years. I am actually realizing now how much I endured during my time spent with my parents. Being with Sandra and Kyrion for a short time reminded me of how life had been with my parents, and I am amazed that I actually survived it as well as I did. You have no idea what it was like unless I go into detail, and that I will not do. I will not give my parents illnesses away but it did take a toll on me that I only now fully appreciate. Watching Sandra deal with Kyrion does concern me a lot as I know how poorly at times I dealt with my parents problems. I cannot honestly say which one I think was the more ill of the two. They both suffered so many problems that it amazes me even yet at how long they both lived under the circumstances.
I am more amazing than either of them though but again I will not betray myself on paper or a computer to explain why. But in the end, I always believe in the idea that God within is what keeps us healthy and helps us get through times of illness. For me, it works. My belief is sound and firm.
I have to go through a few serious changes in my life yet...One will be cataract removal, and so far, I have not found the right physician to perform this operation. I am inclined to go to Tempe to a man who gave me a very thorough eye exam. He told me he did cataract surgery, and I have not forgotten him. I will see about it.
There are a few other things that I must accomplish yet health wise, but I will try to accomplish my goals slowly and carefully. I am ever aware of how age robs us of our vitality, and I try to stay as free from problems as I can. Whether health problems are more mental than physical is debatable, but it sometimes seems to me that mind over matter does work far better than pills or ointments.
Well, I am staying up to watch HSN describe their TSV in a few minutes. I am seriously interested in it but need a full presentation instead of the brief that I have been hearing. I did check it out on the search engines. So I want to see all that it has going for it. It is a very expensive item at half price now. An android tablet by HP which has a quad processor and is in high definition. Must see it first!
Night Night.
Friday, December 18, 2015
The Nitty Gritty about politics
While I mentioned in my previous post the fact that the Republicans had a debate about security, and then that Donald Trump made an appearance in Mesa before running to California to appear on the Jimmy Kimmel show, I did not discuss any of the politics that were raging all this week.
The Democrats have a debate if you can call a monologue a debate this coming Saturday night in New Hampshire. I have not listened to any of their debates since they are literally a joke. Either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton will dominate and the guy from Maryland whose name has not yet clicked in for me to recall may put in an appearance for all I know.
This is what the politics is about: 1. Should Clinton who broke the law by having taken home business on her own personal server instead of using the government's server be eligible for the candidacy for president or not? Who in the Democratic party will charge her for her inexcusable conduct? Supposedly, the FBI is investigating to see how many documents could have been placing the security of the nation in jeopardy. Classified or declassified information is the cause for the search into her old files. The point is that she exercised poor judgement in feeling that she could use her own personal server to conduct government business. She should be found negligent and culpable for wrongdoing regardless.
So for all practical purposes, her run for the office of presidency may become another Nixon Watergate story. Only, if elected of course, but it will not ever be put to rest by the Republicans as they will not let the Benghazi affair be forgotten.
But obscuring all of Hillary's problems is the rise of Donald Trump who has developed a very strong following from people who like his strong, sound leadership. In his followers opinions who are are quite vocal and firm in their decision, he can do no wrong.
Polls are not always to be trusted, but crowds often are. Most people will not stand in line to see a candidate unless they are supporting him all the way to the White House. Donald draws crowds better than a circus can. People are really taken in by his sincere appearing politically incorrect statements.
More on this later....
The Democrats have a debate if you can call a monologue a debate this coming Saturday night in New Hampshire. I have not listened to any of their debates since they are literally a joke. Either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton will dominate and the guy from Maryland whose name has not yet clicked in for me to recall may put in an appearance for all I know.
This is what the politics is about: 1. Should Clinton who broke the law by having taken home business on her own personal server instead of using the government's server be eligible for the candidacy for president or not? Who in the Democratic party will charge her for her inexcusable conduct? Supposedly, the FBI is investigating to see how many documents could have been placing the security of the nation in jeopardy. Classified or declassified information is the cause for the search into her old files. The point is that she exercised poor judgement in feeling that she could use her own personal server to conduct government business. She should be found negligent and culpable for wrongdoing regardless.
So for all practical purposes, her run for the office of presidency may become another Nixon Watergate story. Only, if elected of course, but it will not ever be put to rest by the Republicans as they will not let the Benghazi affair be forgotten.
But obscuring all of Hillary's problems is the rise of Donald Trump who has developed a very strong following from people who like his strong, sound leadership. In his followers opinions who are are quite vocal and firm in their decision, he can do no wrong.
Polls are not always to be trusted, but crowds often are. Most people will not stand in line to see a candidate unless they are supporting him all the way to the White House. Donald draws crowds better than a circus can. People are really taken in by his sincere appearing politically incorrect statements.
More on this later....
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