I officially feel grown up after going to Macy’s tonight.  The only other woman I saw who dressed up to go shopping was probably twelve years older than I am and her roots were showing, but she looked great otherwise.  Most of the people I saw were really young and a lot were couples without shopping bags.  I even saw people buying gold and I just can not even imagine why buy gold now when the price is so high, but perhaps they think the price of gold will never come down, and maybe they are right.  One bangle I saw was 1278.0 and it was small.

Anyway, one woman was going on about getting out of here-- going to Florida to get away and I asked if she was going to eat the fish and she looked at me like I was crazy and said why not? just as if she worked for BP and I was confounded that she might pretend that Florida’s fish might not be coming from the Gulf of Mexico and then she huffed and said, “that fish has been tested more than any fish ought to be” and I didn’t retort:  “Yes, but what were the results??” because I could tell she was in denial.  She showed me her lofty eyes.  I really did see her trying to look down at me.

I think it’s great to go support Florida, but I think I might frequent vegan establishments for the next decade or two in that region of the country.  Hawaii, of course, is another lovely place to visit for sun and balmy weather.

Then I met Alma in a smaller boutique and she is on day 16 of a 28 day juice fast and she was really beaming-- what a beautiful spirit and I’m so glad we met.  She is very curious and alive and I like her a lot.  Call me, Alma!

After that my feet started hurting a bit.  It’s the first time in those shoes.

My good friend Pam emailed and asked if I was done with-- no no, ready for Christmas? and I’m thinking, done? I just started!!  I have to start late, otherwise, I do too much.  I really try to buy just a little, spend just a bit, eat very little; but I have natural tendencies to shop too much, spend too much, EAT way too much! and not just anything- cookies! chocolate! oh my!!

Mostly, I am super glad Jesus was born- and I’m glad I was born too! and my Mom and my baby!  To me that seems like enough to be ready; I just have to get through one day, well, maybe two or three days, happily.  I only have to be happy, and not get sad.

Holidays can be sad for many people.  I know it is true.  So to be ready, I just have to focus on how glad I am about Jesus and try to have a clean and golden beautiful pure heart of love and kindness, forgiveness, acceptance and vast appreciation for life on earth and for eternal life.  But I don’t know what we are having for dinner.  I didn’t buy a goose or anything yet.  I am not sure how much time we are going to have to cook or if we will still be sick and needing to keep it plain and simple.

I would love to have seaweed and congee, salad and borscht, but we are having Christmas at my Mom’s again this year, and so she gets to decide and it’s hard to all vegetables and rice when she’s on the Adkins diet.  LOL

So when I go shopping, I try to be looking for ways to be nice, to be safe in traffic, to be courteous to people who might be stressed or unhappy, and to stay out of the way of those in a big hurry to get ‘er done!  I sure hope all ya’ll will be safe out there too, and to be aware that a large percent of our population does not realize that everything hasn’t always been made in china.  really.

PS

Eartha’s baby blue weighs 5.0 today

Mistletoe  11.0

Clyde  13.09

Rebecca  13.13 

so it looks like Clyde made weight! and Rebecca will certainly make weight by January, her eighth month-- very exciting!

I also have a couple rabbits off feed- opal buck, torte doe (also has weepy eye :(,  and a fairly young opal doe.  Several rabbits need grooming NOW! 

Tomorrow I have a hire feeding and watering, and then Tuesday, I will try taking NaUa back outside into the weather.  We are still so coughing.  ugh

okay goodnight