Pardon me…in my head I heard Jimi Hendrix but of course I changed the words…OR maybe that’s how the song originated in his head but he changed it for the general audience to be Excuse me while I kiss the sky!
Huh?  Betcha never considered that, huh?   

Anyway, this is me .  Yes, I’ve got the boo-boo face!!

My husband was on the couch all weekend with the flu.  I’ve never seen him that bad before!  And now it appears as though I may be getting a pinch of it from him but I had the flu shot and I’m hoping it covers this strain and I don’t get the full-blown flu. 

But, that’s not why I’m whining.  When I was a kid I had 5 broken collar bones…I KNOW…and apparently I coughed in my sleep last night and the pain that is in my shoulder was only 2 rungs down from the excruciating pain like when I actually broke them!  It’s horrible!!!  They told me that I’d experience some arthritis but this isn’t that…this is like when the spine gets out of alignment but it’s in my shoulder…like my shoulder bones aren’t aligned…you know?
I’ll give it a few days to heal and I’ll be all better.  Maybe check it out on WebMD…and piss and whine…

So, like I said, hubby was on the couch whining all weekend getting waited on hand and foot and the day I get sick, he had to go back to work.  Poor guy.  I feel bad for him.  I know he feels worse than I do but he doesn’t have the luxury of staying home.

I actually feel so bad that I sat on the couch and watched TV which I never do!  I often wish for a world without TV…how nice it would be when missing children got equal treatment regardless of what they looked like and people getting addicted to sitting with the remote in their hand changing the station repeatedly for hours at a time and exclaiming “I’m Bored!” wouldn’t happen, which, I’ve gotta tell you that they have to be the most annoying 2 words in the history of man!  I do not understand how anyone can be bored down here!  I really don’t!!  And I’d be happy to never hear those 2 words muttered in my presence.

So, I’m sitting here with a heating pad on my shoulder after running a few errands and I decided to give soap operas another try, I really did but I just can’t get into all of the fancy drama.  And then I caught Sylvia Browne on the Montel Williams Show….<shudder>….  I don’t like talking about her but I do feel somewhat responsible in educating people about her seeing as I took so much responsibility in getting people involved in her work.  Gotta balance things out, you know?

My blog gets a lot of hits from people searching for information about why Sylvia won’t be on Montel anymore and some other very interesting search terms like “Sylvia Browne con artist” and “Sylvia Browne properties” which is an interesting search, I must say. 

But, anyway…in all of my years of dealing with her work I never watched her on Montel.  I caught a few minutes of it now and then but I knew what a fake person she is and I couldn’t stand how heartless she seems.  How she preys on people who are down and out and counts on our gullibility at such a time that our guard is down.  And she counts on the fact that many of us are lazy and want to be spoon fed our religion rather than figuring out who we are and who Jesus and Muhammad and God are on our own…if we even choose to believe in a higher power, we’d rather it be spoon-fed which is why myself and many others are/were attracted to her work.  BUT, WE LEARNED and WE DO OUR BEST TO PROTECT OUR FELLOW MAN BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.  The Sylvia that I see on Montel is certainly nobody I’d idolize!  I’ve changed my seat at diners before because of people half as offensive as  her!! 

I just can’t imagine people believing in her every word and modifying their lives in order to see it through…to make her prophecies come to fruition or to actually have faith that she knows what she’s talking about or who your past relatives are and why this or that happened to you!  I understand it but I can’t imagine it…or I try not to.

Seriously…all she’s missing is the crystal ball and you’ve got Miss Cleo.  And let’s hope that Sylvia Browne’s deceptive trade practices find her in the same place as Miss Cleo, huh?  That is the goal…justice.

So, for those of you who piss and moan that Montel is canceled and Sylvia Browne’s crystal ball is fizzling out, go to StopSylviaBrowne.com and see why that’s a good thing.  It’s like the TV is doing you a favor and getting you to find better resources for your spirituality and your quest for knowledge and answers in life.

Peace

Mitch Hedberg
Feb. 24, 1968 - March 29, 2005

Thanks to Mitch’s Mom and Dad for making him!  
We appreciate you!

I bought my first computer back in 1994.  A Gateway PC.  The darn thing worked for about 10 years!!  They don’t build stuff like they used to, you know?

Eventually I had to replace the tower about 4 years ago with a Compaq Presario which I love.  I’m an HP Girl…
and I have found that if you have trouble and you’re out of the range of your warranty, they’ll still help you out for certain issues kind under their breath!  The tech support department has always been very good to me.

But, the little frugal one I am, I held onto that huge (and I mean huge, like, I can’t pick it up huge) Gateway monitor until yesterday when I just couldn’t stand it any longer.  I had the brightness turned all the way up and I still couldn’t see pictures well and I thought that web pages with a black background and white writing were just poorly designed!  LOL  I had to highlight the pages to read what was on them and I’m thinking “why would anyone choose this style?”.  Silly me!  Duh!

So, I did about 3 hours of research on the net to see how much this was gonna cost me.  I read pages of reviews, or those that I could actually read and found that HP products typically got the highest ratings <yay> and since I don’t plan (I said plan) on buying another monitor for a long time, I figured a few extra dollars would pay off in the end.

Then I spent about 2 hours trying to talk myself into spending money on myself  !  The only things I really buy myself are usually $10 and under although, I admit that I rarely do without because I am a brilliant bargain hunter (or so I think).  Plus, I have a husband who is always needing tools for work that few of them come in under $200 but he has to have them in order to feed us (figuratively speaking…we don’t eat tools), so I have to make sure that the money’s there. 
And, I have an 18 year old which even though she’s now pulling in good paychecks, I still get snookered into giving her gas money! 

Rather than spending the gold that makes my car go which is over $3 a gallon, I called around to my favorite shops to see who could give me the best deal.  I found this one deal I couldn’t pass up on CompUSA’s website and tried to call them to verify that they still had it but the line was busy so I just got in the car ONLY to find out the CompUSA has gone out of business!!!  Their website gives no mention of this and their phone’s aren’t disconnected, just busy!!  I am 30 minutes North, South, East or West from civilization and I drive all the way there and the store’s abandoned!!  Had I gotten the “this number has been disconnected“, I wouldn’t have fallen for it so easily.

Thankfully, I was in the maze that sits behind the Moorestown Mall here in New Jersey.  Nixon Drive which had to have been designed by some guys on really good dope who were never questioned until after the area was developed!  I have never seen such idiocy in store location and parking design BUT because it’s such a huge maze, I did had about 5 other stores who werestill in business to choose from right there…if I could only figure out how to get from one parking lot to the next without winding up on 295 by accident!!  Duh!  By this time and 40 miles of driving, I had my hopes up to have the monitor TODAY and not in a few days like if I ordered it online and I wasn’t gonna let some crazy maneuvering make me go home empty-handed! 

Because Best Buy has always done us right as far as honoring warranties a few days after they’ve expired and such, I decided to give them my money and I got a HP w17e for $200 bucks!!  I might have been able to save $20 somewhere else, like online but eventually you get to the point that you’d burn that $20 just as soon as give in!!
And, being old-school, I wanted a square screen but I wound up getting the wide screen which was a little of a shock in the beginning but after a few tweeks I got used to it pretty quick. 

I never knew that this was really how web pages looked!!  I didn’t even know how my own blog really looked!! 
I never thought that the monitor was that bad but it was!!  
Through the years I have saved hundreds of photos to my computer and I had to make them all bright and washed out in order to see them because of the monitor.  I had to go through them all and restore them to the original view and now they’re beautiful but I wonder what people thought when I sent them a picture!!  “She’s a really bad photographer!” 

So, I’m pretty happy. 
I swore that I was going to ease up on extravagances for a little bit and get ahead on my bills but a computer isn’t an extravagance…it’s a necessity!!

I have naturally long nails that are usually very strong but it seems that every time I use one of those buffers that makes your nails look all clean and stuff they wind up getting so thin that they peel away!

I had to cut them all off and now I have to wait for the nail to grow out!!

Do you think that it’s a conspiracy to get us to buy more nail products and visit nail salons?  If we use their products our once healthy nails become dry and brittle and we’ll spend more money to get our fingertips back in shape?
Hmm…

Previously, I had written about when Sylvia Browne called me about an email that I had sent to the webmaster of the first ever “endorsed by Sylvia Browne” (or even acknowled) discussion group pertaining the second paragraph of their home page.  

The paragraph read, “After spending a lot of time researching Sylvia on the Internet, I have found that there is not a single resource enabling Sylvia fans to unite. Sure, there are a few blogs and forums, but no real home out there for folks who wish to share stories and connect with one another. I hope this can be that place.”

I felt that saying that there is not a single resource enabling Sylvia fans to unite was a slap in the face to the people like me who’ve spent the last decade selflessly promoted Sylvia’s books, lectures and study group cash cow and who’ve never gotten the acknowledgement they deserved from the woman who was reaping the rewards of their work.  Along comes this one who’s supposedly not affiliated with Sylvia Browne or The Society of Novus Spiritus but the second the webmaster’s offended by an email, Sylvia Browne’s on the phone to set them straight.  Turns out it’s run by Sylvia’s son Paul’s girlfriend Heather.  Also turns out that I’m stronger than I thought because I refused to say my email was offensive BUT I did ask her to relay the message that I apologize if the webmaster took it wrong.

Well, I am thrilled to see that the paragraph has been re-written to read, “After spending a lot of time researching Sylvia on the Internet, I have found that there is not a single “all-encompassing” resource enabling Sylvia fans to unite. There are many wonderful user-groups and websites dedicated to Sylvia and her philosophy. But as of this moment, I have not seen an online community that incorporates user participation the way I visualize this site becoming in the near future.”

I think that’s much fairer even though many of the discussion groups that once brought us all together are gone, there are still a few out there and although I wish they’d choose a different resource for their spiritual journey rather than supporting Sylvia Browne, I’m glad they’ve found a way to be together.  I know that the comraderie is important.

GoSylviaBrowne was active when it first started but has been kind of in limbo although I hear they’re stepping things up.  Rumor had it that Paul broke up with Heather but I figure it’s gotta be cheaper to keep her!
Sorry, that’s not nice.  I’m not usually like that…

Maybe now they could accept the hundreds who’ve applied to the group and haven’t been accepted (at least the ones that aren’t obvious asses) and give the fans that remain a place to go but, one step at a time, huh?
Anyway…Good first step!

The pickings are slim at Blockbuster these days but here are a few that we checked out last week.

“I Am Legend” with Will Smith, Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan

I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague.
It was good…I love Will Smith…but it felt incomplete and I thought that the concept could have been shown on a deeper level.
I am looking forward to reading the book.

“Enchanted” with Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden

It looked really good on the previews but I think that the previews showed us all we wanted to see of this movie.
It is probably GREAT if you have little ones but we don’t so it got ejected early on practically because of the singing alone.

“August Rush” with Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Kinda corny but still really good.  Robin Williams was really good in this as a pied-piper of sorts to young orphans who choose to be on their own.  He uses their musical gifts to pan-handle and seems like a bad guy…but is he? 
The guitar playing in this movie was worth it regardless of what you thought of it.  My husband said he thought of Stanley Jordan who is an American jazz / jazz fusion guitarist , best known for his development of the touch technique for playing guitar. 

“Revolver” with Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore and Andre Benjamin

Directed by Guy Ritchie.
After learning the secrets of manipulation, graft, and deceit while incarcerated, a recently released ex-convict sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars.
This movie was really good!  It’s full of twist so be sure to pause instead of walking away for a minute or two…you might miss something vital to the story.
I was a little put off by Ray Liotta’s face (he should be aging but he doesn’t have the “typical” plastic surgery look…it’s weird) but I LOVE Andre Benjamin so he balanced it out.

“Kill Your Darlings” with Lolita Davidovich, Andreas Wilson, Alexander Skarsgård and “Southland Tales” with Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar didn’t make it past the 30 minute mark in our DVD before we had to hit the eject button so it’s not fair to give them any further review than that…they didn’t make it past us.

So that’s all for this weeks folks!

Peace

I don’t believe in the biblical/religious background for the holiday but I do like Easter baskets filled with candy and having brunch with my husband’s family.

So, Happy Easter Everyone!!

I had noticed on my blogs stats that people were searching the net for Sylvia Browne’s Life Themes.  I felt the need to clear the air seeing as I had spent nearly a decade trying to help people understand and learn the material in Sylvia Browne’s books and I believe that people trusted me then and I hope they’ll trust me now.  I have no problem admitting that I was wrong because I am human…that’s how I roll.

The life themes in Sylvia’s book are: Activator, Aesthetic Pursuits, Analyzer, Banner Carrier, Builder, Catalyst, Cause Fighter, Controller, Emotionality, Experiencer, Fallibility, Follower, Harmony, Healer, Humanitarian, Infallibility, Intellectuality, Irritant, Justice, Lawfulness, Leader, Loner, Loser, Manipulator, Passivity, Patience, Pawn, Peacemaker, Performance, Persecution, Persecutor, Poverty, Psychic, Rejection, Rescuer, Responsibility, Spirituality, Survival, Temperance, Tolerance, Victim, Victimizer, Warrior, and Winner.
Later Sylvia added Wealth to make it Sylvia Browne’s 45 Life Themes…

If you are living life, which you are if you’re reading this, you will experience ALL of these emotions and events in your lifetime!!  You will experience every one of the life themes in one way or another if you are alive!  You will experience wealth (or lack thereof), loner, loser, activator, healer, humanitarian, etc.!!

Sylvia claims we have a primary theme and a secondary theme which was in a way forcing people to choose from the list.  Of course people had trouble figuring out what their particular life theme is!! 
Brilliant marketing strategy Sylvia!!  

They didn’t have trouble figuring it out because they weren’t connected to their spiritual side and they didn’t have trouble figuring out their themes because they were a supposed dark entity which has no life themes other than to destroy the light of good souls. 
(another Sylvia Browne invention) 
They couldn’t decide because their consciousness was telling them that it was all hooey!!

I believe that Sylvia uses this tool to hook people because in the near-decade that I discussed her books on the Internet, what a person’s life theme is was in the top 3 questions asked.  Others were “who is my spirit guide” and “do suicides go Home”.

BTW…Sylvia has been caught giving people different names at different times for who their spirit guide is.  She can wiggle out of that though by saying that we have more than one but in her books she clearly states that we have one main one and that is the one that people want to know.
Sylvia has also been caught flip-flopping depending on her audience as to whether or not suicides go Home.

People will pay $750 for a 20 minute with Sylvia or $500 for one with her son Paul just to find out what their life theme is!!!  I’ve seen some discussion group participants go berserk to find out their themes and some would actually drop out because they couldn’t figure out what their life themes were so they felt discouraged!

Relax!!  I just saved you money and frustration!!

It’s no problem…it’s what good-natured spiritual people do for one another! 

Robert Lancaster’s been busy lately but then again, he’s got so much material to choose from when it comes to exposing Sylvia Browne for who she really is!

Today’s article is one where Sylvia pretends to be a doctor, just as she often pretends she’s a psychic, a spiritual teacher (or as some call her, the Pope of Novus Spiritus), and philanthropist to name just a few.

In Montel: Susan and the MRI, Robert exposes just how dangerous taking Sylvia Browne’s advice can be!  She throws around these readings knowing damned well that there are some people who will take her word as gospel!
That’s extremely irresponsible!  There is no excuse!  Not even a knowledgeable doctor who actually knows what they’re talking about would throw out medical advice like Sylvia does!!

I really can’t imagine going to my doctor and saying, “I know you’ve checked my thyroid several times but Sylvia Browne says to have “the other” thyroid test and it’ll show us why I feel so poorly!”  Can you?

Or, as in Susan’s case, “I can prove that I have a surgical instrument left inside of me because Sylvia Browne said so!! And she said that if you stick me in that big MRI Magnetic machine it will show it!!”

Yikes, indeed!!!

If you are the Susan who is shown on this particular episode of Montel, or if you know Susan, please ask her to contact either myself or Robert Lancaster (one of the nicest guys I know) at webmaster@StopSylviaBrowne.com and let us know if you are okay. 
There are many people concerned with your well-being.

Peace

I’m really hooked on buying the frozen veggies rather than canned mostly because they say the benefits sometimes gets lost in the processing, but because they taste SO MUCH BETTER!!

Anyway…I see that they’re advertising “special steaming bags” probably at an escalated price for it’s ingenuity when in reality, you have probably have steam bags right next to you tin foil.

All you need to do is pop your veggies in a Zip-Loc type bag that you already have and add a dash of water.  Seal it shut and cut 2 or 3 small holes in the top and microwave!!   Make sure to place whatever it is in a microwave safe plate because it will be hot!  You can season your veggies before or after steaming.

Less money!
Less time!
Less Clean-up!
Healthier veggies!

What more can I say except if you’re trying to make ends meet, don’t fall for gimmicks.  Instead, use your head.