Cheryl Beckham

Have you ever had a tarot reading? Last time we were in New Orleans we came across an older lady on the sidewalk in front of Jackson Square, with a lap table and deck of tarot cards. She only asked $10 for a reading, so I gave it a whirl.The positions of the 9-card life cycle tarot card spread take advantage of the properties of the magic number ‘9.’ That’s what I chose for her reading.

A reading of the 9-card spread provides a view of your past, present, and future at three depths

the body (unconscious)
mind (personality, ego) and
soul (higher power)
It was fun to watch the whole presentation and added some extra magical qualities to our evening in the French Quarter.

It is so great that there has been such an outcry and that that outcry was heard and that action was finally taken on the need for a whole lot more plus size clothing styles and options for today’s curvy female population. And I guess for the male gender as well, I certainly can’t leave that whole species out of the situation. I have always been a plus size and most likely will be for the remainder of my life. I’ve dieted, worked out, taken all kinds of wait loss products and have realized that it just is what it is!

I think society has been more tolerant towards the male population and their weight and body style issues, since it has always been acceptable for the man to get married and put on the weight from his new brides cooking and of course her sweet love. But women are pretty much been expected to maintain a low weight and a certain body weight no matter what she endures in her life and her various life style choices that women find themselves in.

I’d like to see even more plus size clothing in the stores, but I’m just glad to see that things are really progressing as well as more people taking their weight and health issues seriously.

My ex husband’s sister Beth and I have always been close and continue to be close long after the divorce was finalized so many years ago, she is a great gal that I am glad to have in my life as well as my daughter’s. She is so good with kids, rightfully so since she works at the local pediatricians office, the same one that I take my daughter to when needed. She always seems to be in a cheerful mood and makes all the kids that come to that office feel so much better about coming to what they must consider a very scary place.

I love that our medical professionals are now wearing such colorful and cool “medical uniforms” instead of the old fashioned starch white and very sterile looking white uniforms of days gone by. Beth always seems to find the best of the nursing uniforms scrubs to wear that really make a difference in the way that all of these kids see her during their time of need that brought them into there to her and the doctor.

So I have decided to try and find her something in that line to give to her for Christmas this year. I found a cool site at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/ that I’m exploring and I thought that I would pass the link along to others here today.

It’s not Halloween yet but the stores are putting out Christmas toys and decorations already. I hate that. I think most people think the same way. Yet the retailers persist in putting the Christmas things out too early in the season.

That’s probably a good indication of why retail is losing their asses and have been in trouble for the past several years. They don’t listen to what the general public thinks or wants.

I like to shop at Sam’s Club because most of the items in the discount warehouse are a good price. But you can’t count on finding the size and color that you want. You can’t count on the same thing being there next time you go to get it. You can’t check out quickly with just a few items in the basket – there are no express lanes. And you can’t use a VISA card to pay for your purchases.

But I found a nice little daily calendar for under $10 that would be a great Christmas gift for my mother, so I bought it. So I have reluctantly but officially begun my Christmas shopping for this year.

Well my daughter never seems to stop surprising me, but I guess that is sorta normal for a pre teen, right? It was a beautiful day out today and she asked if we could go to the park/playground that we used to go to all the time back when she was much younger and really enjoyed playing on the playground equipment there. But has been several years since she has shown any interest in going there with me. For that matter she hasn’t really wanted to go any where with me, sigh. . .

Of course I jumped at the chance to go out and enjoy the nice weather day, there will not be that many more I fear. What I didn’t expect was to see all the changes that they have made to this particular park. They have replaced the old playground equipment with all new equipment. They even replaced the old Park Benches and the Picnic Tables that always seemed to give us a splinter or two each time we sat at them. They even put in a drinking water fountain and redid and cleaned up the restrooms. Now how cool is that? It’s about time that my tax dollars where spent on something that I approve of!