I just thought I would post my favorite painting by my favorite artist.
Not sure of the exact title, it is his bedroom in Arles but of course we all know that it is painted by Vincent Van Gogh when he was in Arles, one of his most colorful periods as he slowly lost his mind.
Hope you enjoy my choice for the day
Susan
Watching some of my business fall by the way side as the economy in the states hits the fan. The government has decided that it will now help shore up the money markets so that banks will start lending out the money they are holding back in case people start disolving their money market accounts. This would certainly help as I was watching on tv last night that large retail companiers are dropping like flies. If not closing completely they are closing many of their stores. Many of these businesses depend on bank to lend them money during hard time to like pay their employees and to buy things to sell, no money no can do this, and in the end it all trickles down onto guess who, me. I have already lost the clients I had in the housing business and people in this town are now starting to lose other jobs. Who wants a massage when you are broke. Thankfully I deal in fixing people. Most need worked on all the time. I am glad I have my own practice and am not working in a spa. Those poor people are in the unemployement office as I type. Here's hoping that things get better.
Susan
For hours my mother and I had been arguing about what I should wear OVER my oh so beautiful Halloween costume as I went into the dark wet night to trick or treat.
Of course Mother wanted the rain coat to cover me " you don't want to catch pnemonia, do you" says my mother. Well of course not but I sure do want to have all my friends see my beautiful princess costume that my mother and I had worked so hard on. All you could see of it now was the tiara on my head.
That's no fun.
" oh Mom, I will be fine, it's not raining that hard and the other kids won't have rain coats" I pleaded. Well of course right at this very moment my other friends were having this same discussion with their mothers. Actually I was still wondering what I was going to carry my loot in. I don't think we had plastic bags back then.
"Maybe I could just carry an umbrella"
"NO" shouted my mother.
"You will wear a raincoat"
So I relented and as soon as I was outside in the rain, open came the coat and by the time I got home, of course after having a fantastic time, I was drenched from head to foot.
The next morning as I lay sick in bed with a terrible cold I thought maybe it might not be such a bad idea to listen to your mother when she tells you to wear a rain coat when stepping into a dark and stormy night.
Susan
ooking for Halloween treats. As scary as some of their costumes might be, the true horror this holiday will actually be the M&Ms, Snickers, or Skittles candies that lie in your child's candy bag. All these candies, along with many other candies sold under household names, are manufactured by Mars Inc., a company responsible for the deaths of numerous animals in unnecessary animal tests. 
PETA is hoping to raise $92,533 before the end of the month to reach our goal of $250,000 toward ending animal tests like those conducted on behalf of Mars. Won't you please support this challenge today?
The experiments funded by Mars, including the following examples, are truly the stuff of Halloween nightmares:
And these are only a few of the tests that Mars has funded. Perhaps most disturbingly of all, not one of Mars' experiments on animals is required by law.
Thanks to PETA's hard work and pressure, many of the world's major food corporations—including Mars' chief rival, Hershey's, and Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Co—have pledged not to fund or conduct experiments on animals.
But we cannot stop the torture of animals in laboratories without your immediate help. By giving online in this challenge today, your gift will be doubled to help stop Mars and other cruel corporations from conducting unnecessary tests on animals.
You know how crucial our work in behalf of animals in laboratories is, and so do the vivisectors, corporate researchers, and government officials PETA confronts with the hard facts about flawed and useless animal tests. Our success in stopping these tests and saving animals' lives dates back to PETA's very first case more than 25 years ago, and with your help during this special online challenge, we can add Mars and many others to that list.
But that success now depends on your caring and generosity. Please help us end the needless suffering of animals in tests for Mars and other companies by making a special online gift towards this challenge!
Thank you for all that you do for animals.
Kind regards,
I do have a very current picture of my Jake doggie and the babe Spike to pass along thought. My friend Sheila took them on Friday.
Enjoy
Susan
It has not bee a good year. Starting in June I think ( it all became blur) my most wonderful Wannabe passed away after a sickness and a grand walk about that he took. Breezed out the front door when I wasn't looking and was gone for 2 days. By the time he came back it had all been too much for him and even thought the doctor tried to pull him through his ordeal we lost him. He was 14 and it was just too soon.
Well then at the beginning of July my wonderful new adoptee, Charlie the Dalmation succumbed to his battle with the tick fever he had caught. He just stopped eating couldn't help him at all. He wasn't a young dog, he was 12, so it was hard for him to fight off the disease and we had to have him put down ( I do so hate that expression) over 4th of July weekend.
Before the month was out I was finding myself having to do the same thing to my most precious Goldie dog. You have all known Goldie since she came to live with us two years ago. She was 16 and a half when she passed away basically from old age. I had always hoped that she would just pass away in her sleep, but she had so much insticnt still going that even though she couldn't see, hear, smell and barely stand up she kept trying. Finally had to have the doctor come to the house and well you know. I really loved that old girl and miss her very much.
In the mean time Jake Dog is still hanging in there. He can't really get around much at all but the doctor says that he is very motivated, has a lot of feeling left in his body and his quality of life is good. So if I want to continue taking care of him, she see's nothing wrong. She did give me some parameters to go by to know when enough is enough, so I will live with what she says.
As you can see in the previous blog we have the new babe to help keep us smiling. There is nothing better than having a kitten around the house. We did find a new furry friend last Christmas, Mikey. I may have a pic of him in my albums, not sure. He is doing well and that makes six cats and one crippled old dog and of course me, one slightly old woman.
I am now going to be another year older, 62, oh my god (I hate abbreviations)....I actually will start collecting my social security in February, I can't wait, nice extra money to go traveling. Might even see some of you all. I am doing well. Keep my self nice and healtly with my veggie diet. As much as I hate to say it I have started to eat some fish. Mostly salmon because the doctor told me it would be a good idea to lay off of the soy. In case you all don't know soy contains a great deal of estrogen and is not good for women in menopause of men even. So any way I am healtly and working my fat butt off as usual. Have lost a few clients because of the economy but the come and they go.
Hard to believe that I started blogging on 360 three years ago this coming November and here I am still blogging, maybe not in the same place but still here none the less with most of my old friends.
And now I think I will actually try most wickedly's writting challange.
It was a dark and stormy night.....
To be continued.
Susan
I am trying to get in touch with all my friends which really looks like I will be every where. What can one do. I have even gotten my My Space page going again because some of the friends have gone there. Since winter is coming and I will be in the house most of the time I thought I would make my voice heard again.
So how are you all that I haven't seen for a while. Good I hope. Drop me some comments and you will see I will be out there also.
My biggest thing in life right now is my new baby kitty Spike you I will post a picture of and the economy here in the states. Oh please, it is time like this that I am glad I am poor. Looks like the recession is really kicking in. The last time this happened I was on unemployment three times. This time I just hope that my clients will be able to afford me. I have lost a few because of the housing market crashing, because they were in the business. Seems that the rest are holding on. The whole problem in a nutshell as I see it is the usual, my favorite three words. MONEY GRUBBING SCUM. Which is one of the reasons the stock market is all over the place. It's hard to even notice that we have a presidential election going on. What a mess.
So that's that for now. Hope you all haven't given up on me.
Be well
Susan
When you open this web sitewww.humanecalifornia.org You will wonder why I have posted this, Of course unless you live in California, since it is about a proposition that is on the ballot in California, but you should read what it is all about and understand where your food comes from. Animal abuse in food stock is rampant, and sooooo horrible. Animals in cages so small they can't move even turn around. Chickens having their becks pulled off so they can't peck each other in these tiny cages. And I am talking cages with 20-26 chickens stuffed in them. Nursing pigs who can't turn around or stand up in there pens. Cattle ( you know cow and baby cows other wise know as veal) being shocked and tormented as they are lead to slaughter. You know guys it ain't pretty. Now most of you out there eat these poor creatures so maybe you could in your own area fight for protection from abuse for them until they get to your table. Buy organic so that you will know that you dinner had a decent life before it gave it up so you can eat.
Think before you buy.
Susan
