Sun...Sagittarius
Moon...Cancer (have people been more sensitive than normal?)
Phase...FULL oh yeh!
Time...2am (never done a post at 2am, this should be interesting!)
Mood... and a bit tipsy!
Sound...repeat of Oprah
Weather...25 degrees and partly cloudy. Last year it was snowing here but I was in FL so I missed it!
BirthdayShoutOuts to: bad girl Sinead O'Conner (#40!) ....Terri Hatcher (#42) Jim Morrison, Sammy Davis Jr. and Flip Wilson!
QuoteDiva sez: "There is nothing to writing; all you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -anon.

SabianChallenge: LIBRA 12
MINERS ARE EMERGING FROM A DEEP COAL MINE

There has been a need to delve deep within to find the answers to your situation. But it is not enough to just find the message, you need to bring what you've learnt into the light of day so that you can benefit from this passage and breathe more freely. It's time to stop operating in the dark and working so hard.

Release from arduous labor, revealing the rewards. Coming into the light transformed. Caves, mines, miners. Deep subconscious healing. Messages emerging.

The Caution: Having a gloomy outlook on life. Not seeing the light of the potential of one's self.

...just today...er, yesterday, I was telling Mary Elizabeth (Restoration of ME) to believe in miracles, that miracles happen. For the past five years, while living on my own, I knew deep down that I needed to keep believing that only good would happen to me. Even during those times when the car was pooping out, when there was no food in the fridge, when I felt very alone, I knew that better times were ahead of me. I told her on her blog today via a comment that you really need to expect miracles. You need to be in a perpetual state of expectation! You ask for your miracles and you believe that they will come. You have to act on the belief.

You also have to believe in YOURSELF! If you have read some of my previous posts, you'll know that I too have a struggle with that one point! I have insecurities and fears. All I can say is that writing about them, expressing such fears is definitely helping me! Writing about it keeps it in the forefront and getting your positive feedback and wisdom definitely helps!!!

We know these things, deep down, intrinsically but we have to remember to apply these concepts through practical application!

BELIEVE friends, believe that you are worthy of better circumstances and situations. And let's do what I suggested to ME earlier yesterday...

say right now,..outloud..."I EXPECT MIRACLES, MIRACLES HAPPEN!!! I will spend the next 24 hours in constant state of EXPECTATION!!!" Believe it friends! And in the next couple of days tell me of YOUR MIRACLES!!!!! They will happen!!!! B.E.L.I.E.V.E. it, to the the core of your being! Remember,..."Affirmation without ACTION is simply DELUSION!!!!" Affirm that great things will happen,...ACT on those beliefs and THANK GOD for the good things He has brought to you in the past and the ones he WILL bring you into your future. DO NOT GIVE UP.

I am expecting some wonderous stories from you awesome and EXTREME (exSTREAM) friends!!!!

In the past two and a half months I have read an endless string of blogs and posts about strangers who have gotten to know each other, strangers who have become friends. When any of us have problems, crisis, questions, we come to the stream and we get wisdom, answers and emotional as well as spiritual support. Many of us wish we could do more for each other but at the same time, we understand, or at least we hope in our heart of hearts that it's at least some small consolation that our mutual support could act as prayer and there is NO distance in prayer.

Have a fantastic weekend all! And remember...tell me of your weekend miracles!!! And remember, the more expectant you are, the more miracles you'll notice!

Sun...Sagittarius
Moon...Cancer (good day for crying and baking or both!)
Phase...FULL...dear God, shall we just not go out to shop today!)
Weather...48 and sunny in DC
Mood...annoyed.
Sound..."Christmastime in Washington." some local sappy horrid song!!
Time...1:30pm
BirthdayShoutOuts To: "Amadeus" actor, Tom Hulce (#53), Ira Gershwin and Dave Brubeck (Jazz great) (#86)

QuoteDiva sez: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his mind." -william james

SabianChallenge:
TAURUS 30
A PEACOCK PARADING ITS SPLENDOR ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE

Behavior and presentation of form is of vital importance. The situation is well established, but could be slowly breaking apart. There is a need to maintain your grace and pride while also maintaining the center of attention. Peacocks, because of the many 'eyes' on their feathers are said to be the 'watchers' - they watch for intrusion and deception. Be wary, but enjoy the beauty and elegance that surrounds you.

Tradition feeding ego-centered attraction. Splendor. Etiquette. Gardening and enjoying the environment for its beauty and its nature. Wealth..

The Caution: Risking one's integrity to display success. Strutting one's stuff may invite envy from others. Noisy displays.

hmm... Apparently in this fancy neighborhood, there's this HOA rule (home owners association) that says WHITE LIGHTS ONLY!!! The majority of homes are decked out in those boring, albeit sophisticated-looking white lights. No offense to you out there who use ONLY white lights but well fiance is a born and bred Florida boy (Tallahassee) and I came from a similar background. We were both very middle class and we look around at how fancy some of our hoity toity neighbors are decorating and we doubt our tacky, big ass, multi-colored, retro-like lights will fit in! We came from neighborhoods where there WERE those dreaded plastic nativity scenes (life size no less!) and Santas and reindeer and the whole house was done up a la Chevy Chase-Christmas Vacation!

We thought, should we go white as well? We don't want to stand out like a sore thumb on our street here! "What would the neighbors think."

We thought about it for like 4.5 seconds and decided to go COLORS!! And while everybody else has a very Martha Stewart look to their wreaths on their doors, ours is simpler.

Now granted, we will not do the Nativity scenes or those blasted snowglobes (which neither of us can stand!!!!! Can I hear an amen out there!) But we will also not be pressured to join the WHITE LIGHT ONLY army! So our home looks a little different. We don't care! We are in tune with our middle class, Florida roots! Were two down home kids who happen through destiny and hard work find ourselves in a big, fancy home (minus a lot of the furniture but by God, we are slowly pulling together a livingroom!) and we will NOT turn our backs on our old ways of decorating our homes!

No offense to those who use only white lights! But come on...white Christmas trees??? Aw hell nah!!! Those went out with aluminum trees-didn't they!

Our house may look a bit overdone but it refuses to back down! It sits on the hill looking like a really lit up PEACOCK! The other white light homes may look at it in disdain but it doesn't care! It has it's pride!!

~pr~

Sun...Sagittarius
Moon...Full Moon in Gemini (time to multi task!)
Time...1:20pm
Sound...Geraldo
Mood...rested.

BirthdayShoutOuts to: Walt Disney, Frankie Muniz (#21) and Little Richard (#74!!??)

QuoteDiva sez: "Life Is A Dance if you take the steps: one step, then another." -anonymous

To Dr. Dreww Thank you so much for your concern...you are right, around here someone can disappear for awhile and since we are a tight group, you wonder what happened to them! Especially if they are fairly consistent in their commenting on other blogs or posts daily themselves.

But not to worry about Rubble here! The Rubble outpost simply had severe computer/internet problems that needed to be fixed by some tech from Verizon.

But I also am not on as regularly as I'd like due to the obvious hub bub and hilarity of the holidays and it's only the 5th!

And no sooner had I blogged a post about taking it slow and easy for the holidays and we get smacked with all kinds of financial "hiccups" and pesky burps and farts. So Pretty Rubble, you gotta' practice what you preach! No matter how annoying and aggravating the $$ problems are right now,....bottom line, I have my health, my fiance and kids are feeling good (although poor fiance needs a week or two off to recoup and rest his weary brain ) and we are all going to be together for Christmas

No matter how bad it gets, how tough (HOW COLD!!!???)...let's look for camaraderie here in the stream, help each other to smile and laugh and let's remember to b-r-e-a-t-h-e and s--m--i--l--e!

My comments and posts might be hit and miss but between the gifts, cookies, parties, tv specials, usual daily chores, financial humps and bumps....I'll be here to catch a blog or two and sprinkle my quips and quotes around like so much RubbleFairy Dust!

OH GOOD LAWD!!! Remember me, FL girl who wants to see snow? I couldn't even handle ten minutes of helping my fiance put lights up last night! I was wearing gloves but after a bit of time, my finger tips felt like they were burning. I had to come in and put them under some warm weather!!!

Namaste everybody and 'member,... about 20 more days!??

~pr~

Sun...Sag
Moon...Aries (headaches anyone?)
Weather...blustery, 70 degrees and overcast (about to get COOLLDD) in DC
Time...2:15pm
Sound...Judge Hatchett on TV
Mood...irritated, internet keeps going down.
BirthdayShoutOuts To: Charlene Tilton (#47), Bette Midler (#61) and Woody Allen (#71)

QuoteDiva sez: "Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." -confucius

SabianSymbolChallenge: AQUARIUS 27
AN ANCIENT POTTERY BOWL FILLED WITH FRESH VIOLETS

There is a feeling here of purity of motive and content. The simpler, more natural responses to problems and society can often bring us a sense of refreshment and realignment with what is beautiful. Complications are much more easily solved if a fresh and simple approach is taken, rather than the more complicated, intellectual or highly charged emotional responses.

Returning to ancient sources. Flower and herbal remedies. Beauty. Setting standards for society. The mortar and pestle. Dainty, small and lacy things. Pottery bowls.

The Caution: A lack of subtlety. Insensitivity.

...In this time of Christmas Chaos and Holiday Hoopla we often lose sight of what this time of the year should be reminding us of...peace, gentleness, kindness, love, sharing etc.. We do get so wrapped up in...hah! Wrapping paper! We get tied up in ribbon and we find ourselves stressing over the steamroller that IS the season! It's December 1st and I'm making a resolution, I'm going to do things different this year, I'm going to take it slow, remember to breathe my way through the next 25 days.

An hour ago I was sitting on the floor, wrapping my daughter's IPOD and thinking,...dear God, that was $200 and were not made of money! How will we afford the other things on the list and what to get the other two kids. Then I remembered we needed more wrapping paper (I was using bit from last year to do her IPOD) and what about the wreath and the lights, this year we want to decorate like neither fiance or I have ever done in our other lives, other years...

Then this big gust of wind came through the window (it's very windy and getting cooler here!) It made paper stuff go flying across the room. What a mess! But it made me stop and laugh. I got distracted, if only momentarily. But it gave me time to think,...REthink.

It made me sllooww down and redirect my thoughts to nature! I stood up and looked out the window. I saw the bare branches swaying, the door of a construction site port-o-let fling open (toilets, always a nice visual on our street!) And I saw a little kid with her hair going in 20 different directions and she was chasing this piece of paper across the sidewalk. She was giggling.

Slow down Rubble. Breathe and don't forget to take the time to admire nature, listen to the lyrics of Christmas songs, smell the different aromas that come this time of year, absorb the pretty lights, taste the wonderful flavors, hug your loved ones, appreciate your friends and thank God/the Universe for it's goodness.

If things aren't the way you want them to be, remember the law of attraction (you attract to yourself what you think.) So focus on what it is you want, not what you don't!)

Law of Gestation: It takes time for a seed to flourish. We need to remember to give the universe time to work with us.

Law of action: "Affirmation without ACTION is delusion"

God/The Universe helps those who help themselves after all!

I will do my best to take things slower this holiday time and remember to live in each moment. I will attempt to keep things simple and more real.

~pr~