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Some people look all their lives for the perfect love. Someone that?s more than a lover, more than a friend, more than a companion, more than a mate. I want to say, Salute to my Husband. I know how lucky I am. (I also know how lucky he is!) Because it truly does take, both people putting forth the extra effort to have a wonderful relationship.

It?s not a 50/50, give/take situation, often, it?s 60/40 or 75/25 or even 95/5. Life, nor love, is always fair and balanced, but it is great. There is nothing more wonderful than to be loved, to know for sure that you are loved, to know that another person would give up their life to protect you.

My husband has a quiet way of expressing his love. No matter how many people are around demanding his immediate attention, he touches me while he?s listening to them. Maybe he?ll hold my hand, or touch my knee or put his hand on my back. Just enough to say, even in this room full of people, you are the most important person to me.

It takes some effort to find the perfect person, you can?t settle or compromise. If you don?t love everything about that person from the beginning or if they don?t love everything about you from the beginning, it?ll just go downhill. You?re not going to change them and they aren?t going to change you, so find someone you really like, no find someone you really love and then get married.

Happy Valentine?s Day to my Perfect Love

http://www.123greetings.com/view/EU20212083952294

But if in the meantime, while you?re searching for that perfect person or after a bad relationship turn to my friend?s book for some comfort; The Break-up Diet by Annette Fix. http://www.thebreak-updiet.com/

When will I ever learn. Wrote a blog. Hit the wrong button. It's gone.

I updated my guestbook. Thought it was pretty cool. I'm now collecting signatures on my map.

When I sent emails to let people know about the change...I forgot to send the link. Grr.

Got another new website today too. It seems to be fun.

http://www.shoutlife.com/Cherley

The interview will post in a few weeks on The WOW Blog named The Muffin: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/2008/01/happy-families-are-dull.html

I read it as: The Lord has showed me, what is good and requires that I act justly, show kindness and walk humbly with Him.

I have one more link for you, but it's only for Christians. It's too deep for non-believers and some christians, so click with caution: http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1b5bd6e3e034d00b4f73

Makes me so mad. I've spent my free time for the past week recording old home movies onto a nice fresh DVD. Seems that one DVD can hold several VCR tapes. That's great.

At least I thought it was great. You may have had this happen. You are almost finished with the DVD disc and when you are done it needs to be finalized. All of a sudden you start getting error messages. Incompatable CD. You know it's not incompatable, you've already recorded 5 1/2 hours on it without a problem. So you try everything you can to fix this problem to no avail. So now what?

With a lot less enthusiam and even some dread, I'll start all over again. Seems like there should be a warning that comes with these things or better yet a way to fix the problem.  But I'm laying odds there is not.

I've lost dvd after dvd to this kind of problem, but they weren't important. These were valuable to me and to top it off, I already gave the old tapes away.

Not only did I lose the time it took to record the movies and the time I messed with the dvd recorder trying to get it to work,  I will lose the time it will take me to get the tapes back and the time to try it all over again. My time is already so limited this frustrates me to no end.

I hate to admit that I'm even tempted to threaten to throw the remote at the DVD player/recorder.

        I am in awe at the discernment my daughter has. As a mother, I'm always into wanting to teach, to train, to help.

        She has such a calming spirit and profound wisdom.

      We were talking about people being grumpy this time of year. It happens a lot, you know. Stress from buying and rushing and getting around people who are buying and rushing. I'm avoiding Walmart completely and going to some of the smaller stores to stay out of the heavy flow of people. In fact, I'm avoiding shopping all together. I've been finished with most of my shopping since April.

     Anyway, people get grumpy, maybe it's the stress or the short days of winter. She said, "People get grumpy and then before they know it they fall into the habit of being grumpy."

     She's right, so if you have a grumpy in your family, let them know how it makes you feel. Hopefully they will care enough about your feelings to curb their grumpiness and try to be jolly and helpful.

     Pray for each other, it's hard to be grumpy when you're saying God Bless this Person and God Bless this Season.

Finally we made it home. We've been trying to head this way for a couple of weeks. We'll be home until the end of March.

I'm hoping to finish my novel, finish the watercolor I started two springs ago, finish the oil painting I started 6 years ago, play the keyboard and visit family.

My daughter, her husband, their boys and my other grandson came out to visit as soon as we got home. Had some great hoagies and I fixed a giant pot of soup. You just can't buy home made soup out on the road. Mmm...it's good. I've eaten 3 bowls.

I also bought some old fashioned Christmas candy. The hard kind with the Christmas pictures in the middle. The kind we all hated as children.

It'll be so nice to go to our own church Sunday and see the rest of the family.

I'm going to finish chapter 14 tomorrow. Yeah, I'm getting there.  

I'm probably one of the few people who loves winter. I love the snow and the chill of being outside and then coming inside to warm up. I love  hot chocolate and fireplace flames.

My birthday is in December. December 4th and I love my birthday too, because it's a day to celebrate me. I love Christmas and the warm feelings of caring and sharing. The blessings from the Christ child and the advent into his death and resurrection. I love hope and joy. Oh yeah, and faith too.

When my husband and I went into the mountains in Blackwater Falls, WV for my birthday one year, years ago, I saw the biggest snowflakes I ever saw. I want to go there this year.

I also want to sit in the hottub with the snow falling around me. I haven't done that yet either.

Many people have been following my health and also where we're at in the country. We were in PA today. We delivered in VA and then headed on up there for another load.  My health is doing great. I start new tests the day after Christmas and the first week in January. Keep me in your Prayers.

Tell me a little about your chilly days.

I'm doing pretty well with NANO. Writing along on a secondary project. I'm doing good on my novel too. I'm on chapter 12. I get side tracked pretty easily. I think, hmmm...I should look this up and 3 hours later I close the laptop. So I have to be careful to write as much as possible before I research even a minor subject.

I requested prayer from as many people as I could contact about my great nephew Ethan. Praise the Lord, God heard all those prayer requests and he's much better now. He had that staff infection. He should be able to go home Monday or Tuesday.

I'm expecting to see my Grandkids tonight. We're going to have a decorating party. I'm so excited. Our oldest, Brad is almost 16, Andrew is 13, Ben is 13 and Rachel is almost 10. Of course they are all perfect.

I'm feeling well too, in case anyone has been following my illnesses. Sun's out bright today, but it looks cold.

I hope that someday I'll get better at this blogging stuff.

I hope and prayer today will be the last day for awhile that I'll have to wait for test results. We have been in limbo since the first of September.

The doctor found a polyp yesterday and removed it. My colon is swollen today. It was already sore from all the probbing the last couple of weeks.

I'm enjoying The Muse Online conference. The one thing it made me realize is that I need to finish my books. It's hard to talk books when you don't have yours finished. Even though I have one finished. I need to get busy on the others.

Sometimes, I find that all this writerly talk is like an alien language until you are actually doing the stuff yourself. Things like: editing, publishing, promoting, book signings, etc. So I need to hurry up and get busy. I'll keep learning and taking lessons as I continue my growth as a writer. My next Conference Chat is at 12 noon today.

I have a couple of other sites that would like for me to blog, but I'm still learning about blogging. Then I'll need to learn about promoting my blog.