Secret Angel / Santa time again...

What is a Secret Angel / Santa?
It's where you give (virtual) gifts to someone else in the group... via me, the moderator. & Then someone will be providing me gifts to give to you as well! It's all done in SECRET! (Trust me it's much easier than you think!)

I've already had a few ask if we're going to do something this year. I was going to say no... but then this morning some ideas fluttered through my head & so, I wrote them down.. & I'll be posting a sign up blog on the group site, shortly! :)

So, if you're interested in participating this year & you're not already a member... hurry up & get & click this link ~~~> The Secret Angels & click "Join Group"!!! ;o)

Then watch for blogs from me in that group! :)

There are SIMPLE RULES / TIPS in the welcome box via the link above.

In the blog I will post shortly I'll give a bit of a description of what we'll be doing. It's going to be very much like the past couple years. And we'll be doing the 12 days of Christmas & a Reveal Blog Party.

So, hurry on over & join the group (if you're not already!)... because the deadline to sign up will be 11:59pm Thursday 12-10-09.

This blog is NOT the sign up... please wait until I post the blog about how to sign up... IN THE GROUP!! It's going to be a tad different!!! You can reply to this blog with questions or anything... but if you sign up here, it will NOT be counted!! (You'll see why when the sign up blog is posted over on the Secret Angels site!!!) :)

P.S. Feel free to pass the link to the group on to your friends. You can even link to this blog, if you wish! The more the merrier!! :o)

LAST CALL... Secret Santa sign up... HEADS UP...

Ok, this is it... THIS IS THE VERY LAST CALL for the Secret Santa 12 Days of Christmas edition!! (I'll give you about another hour, before I call the sign up closed... & start passing out names.)

CLICK HERE to sign up, if you've already join the group... The group is now open so that anyone can join right now... without delay!!

After you've joined the group, go to the blog (linked above) & leave a note that says, "YES, I WANT IN!"

Then sled on over to the to the home page & check out the welcome message, with the Simple Rules note.

This blog will NOT be open for comments, because I don't want to confuse anyone to think you can sign up here. Remember, click the above links to sign up!!

Be sure to tell all your friends about Secret Santa (aka: Secret Angels)... Link to this blog if you wish, or any on the site. THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!

(Those already joined... start looking for gifts!!... but do NOT send them yet! Remember TOMORROW is the FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS!!)

Hey, where are all my SECRET SANTA'S???

Yep, the Secret Santa (aka Secret Angels) site is finally back up & running... (at a new location!)

FRIDAY at 4:00 p.m. is the Sign up deadline.
Be sure to click the Join Group to get in on the fun & gift giving... virtual gifts that is!

Secret Angels are needed...

(Dad, you can ignore this one.) At this moment... I know of at least 4 or 5 different friends going through different things... all are heavy issues in their own right.

I just wanted you all to know my heart breaks for all... I know that each situation is rough... & a few are intertwined... And I know it feels like you just want to give up on friendships all together. But please do not do that! We need you just as much as you need us!!

I pray & hope that no matter if you're one of these friends of mine... or if you an acquaintance of mine or just someone happen past my blog... Please know that you have friends here! Some may be really close & other may just be a part of your distant network. ... But that doesn't mean we don't care...

I have found that Multiply is a great community of friends... and when one of us is down or is not feeling well, the rest of us are there to help pull you up!

Just wanted to let some of my friends know that I may not know exactly what's going on... but I care for you all! & For those who are just glancing through this & have their own troubles... I too care for you & pray for you!

So... with ALL that said... I'm going to go open the Secret Angels group now... It's way past time for this!!... & please click that link to join... I will try to send out invites to those who were contacts on the other site.

I guess that's my queue then to stop this blog & get started on the group! ALL ARE WELCOME... (It's set at the moment for "approval verification"... don't worry, that won't take long!!) :o)

Again... HUGS!!!

A break from writing to REMIND YOU....

Before I get to the reminder... Let me say I am THANKFUL for SLEEP!! Yes... I actually got to sleep last night... Yep, you heard me... AT NIGHT!! WOO HOO!! So, I'm raring to go! I have lots to do today, mainly here on the computer!

Also, this is the 1st of a couple (if not several blogs today!!)... that's a FAIR WARNING!! LOL

Anyway, the reminder is... IF you'd like to send my Grammy a (snail mail) birthday card for her 90th birthday... please be sure to send me a PM (as soon as possible!!) so I can give you an address! (FYI - It will NOT be her address!)

Also, I am thinking of doing a blog for her the day before the OPEN HOUSE we are having... so if you do not want to send a Snail Mail card... you can leave her a message. (Just a heads up... we will have to be reading these messages to her... so no graphics will be needed.) And I'll be doing it on Saturday Dec. 6th! (The party is Sunday Dec. 7th!)

Speaking of writing (as I did in the title)... Did you all see my word count on my front page?? Well, in case you missed it... I'm up to...... (DRUM ROLL......)

34162 words!!! WOO HOO!! I am 68.3% of the way done with 2 & 1/2 days left!!! I CAN MAKE IT!!! I KNOW I CAN!!!! (I'm going to try to get it done today!!!!)

So, that's my goal!! To have my 50,000 words by Midnight tonight (or whenever I go to bed!!) The novel may not end with that... so, we'll see what my final word count is on Sunday!!

Let's see... Oh, yeah... another thing I'm going to be doing today is changing my theme to a winter one... So, if you see bits & pieces of it... & it's clashing with the current one... that's just a heads up about it... but that will be later on!

Also, one of the other blogs today (or maybe a "review") I'll be doing will be to post the address to the Secret Angels / Santa Group!! If you're a part of that page... you may have seen a post... that it's going to be moving to it's own group page... (mainly to make it easier on me... so I don't have to sign out and back in and then back out again & so forth!) And so I can receive updates via my own inbox! ... I didn't know when I started that page.. that's how groups worked. So... I left it go... but it's grown & it's time to have it as a group now!!

So, this is another HEADS UP... Secret Santa (Angels) sign up with be starting MONDAY DECEMBER 1ST!!! (See other review shortly for location!!!)

Let's see... I have one more thing to mention before moving onto another blog... and it's just a little "preview" of the next one!

As you know, yesterday was Thanksgiving here in America... well, as tradition, I spent it with my family yesterday... It started off awful for me, for the fact I could not sleep the night before!! All that sleeping during the day & awake at night caught up with me... & through me off... and I didn't take my Ambien soon enough... & then it got so late that I did not want to take it in fear I would not wake in time!

So... I fought sleep from about 4:30 in the morning until 1:00 in the afternoon... when I finally dozed off upstairs ... but then it was only for about 10 minutes!!

Don't worry, it was not just a toss and turn all that time... I did get up several times to do stuff to try to get tired again... but each time I did & laid down to go to sleep... I could get my body to lie perfectly still & practically it all went to sleep... but my mind... GEESH.... IT WOULD NOT "TURN OFF!!!" ... Hence the reason I take Ambien CR to sleep!

It's nights (times) like that remind me that I will probably be stuck taking Ambien (or something like it) for the rest of my life!! Or until my mind gets so old it doesn't want to be in OverDrive all the time!! LOL.

I mean... at one point yesterday morning it got so bad... I decided to write down what I was thinking... and it went from one subject to the next to the next. Including a list of stuff I wanted to do for yesterday. (Which included making Harvest Loaf muffins, which I never ended up doing... because of the no sleep thing.)

Well, anyway... I just counted that list... 28 different ideas! And to think... that's just at one point... my mind was reeling all night long! ... I should have just started the computer back up & just typed away!!! I probably could have finished my novel then!! LOL.... NOW I THINK OF THAT!! LOL!!!



ANYWHOO... The reason I said all that was BECAUSE.... after dinner last night... we played Scrabble. It was my mom; Aloys (pronounced Aloe-weese) (my B.I.L.); a friend of the family, I'll call her P... and my hubby and I!! My hubby and I were teamed up together because well, we usually do... and because I wasn't sure I'd make it!

Well, not only did I make it... but WE WON!! And we won big time too!! So, in the next blog I'll tell you more about that!! (Because I have PICTURES!!!) Hee Hee!!

(Oh... sorry... no family pictures because I was too tired to think of it... It just now crossed my mind! Sorry about that.)

Anyway... it was a fantastic evening... there only 9 of us there... (which is the smallest Thanksgiving that my sister, Gina, has hosted in years!) It was so wonderful just the 9 of us!! Well, it would have been even better if we would have had my other sister Renee and her family... so it would have been 14 then... but they couldn't make it from Michigan. (Oh.. I wonder if Steve (my other B.I.L.) went to WV to go deer hunting?? That's HIS family's tradition!!)

Either way it was a great day after all!! OH & I didn't even take $hiba with me! For me... that's an IMPROVEMENT... well, actually it was just because I was so stinking tired I didn't want to bother... and it worked out for the best anyway!!

Then after I got home, I checked a few messages and then crashed sometime before 10:00 p.m.... & I didn't wake up until around... well, it was a little light out... & it was for only a moment as Coleman was wanting up on the couch at my feet. Then I fell back fast asleep again until shortly after 8:00 a.m. WOO HOO!!!! I slept through the night!! And I AM AWAKE DURING THE DAY!!

Sorry... you may just not know how happy that makes me feel!! I feel a bit more normal!! (Not that there really is a normal sleeping habits now a days!!)

Well, hubby is up and out of his shower... so, I best be getting up off this couch to put the Cinnamon Rolls in the oven like I promised I would do today! (That's my tradition for him & I... usually it's Thanksgiving morning or the day after!!!!) :)

See you all soon.. (This ride is NOT over yet!!) More stops coming up soon!!! :o)

Toodles for now!! :)

What it takes to become a Secret Angel...

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Ha! & You thought I was going to tell you?? Actually... I am, just not here... please go to the SECRET ANGEL site for more information!! :)

If you know about this already & want to join in on the fun... that is ALSO the link to sign up!! :)


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SA for May sign up...

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Do NOT sign up to this review... but rather go to this link...

http://secretsanta2.multiply.com/journal/item/38/No_SA_for_APRIL..._click_here_for_MAY_info...

What is SA? Stands for Secret Angel. You get a name of someone else participating & you send them "virtual gifts"... but to remain a Secret for the whole month, the gifts are sent to me (on the other site) & I do a blog posting all the gifts within a little message.

For more info, see the site & past blogs. And feel free to send me a PM for any other questions!

If you need me...

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

If you need me for anything urgent... please contact me via the Secret Angel site... I'll be there for a little bit to prep for tomorrow's blog.

Otherwise, just send me a message on this site & I'll get to it soon as I can :)

When I'm done there, I will post the tattoo pictures, before I get onto SL!! :)

LAST CALL for March Secret Angel Sign Up

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Category:	Other

Please click THIS LINK & check the list to be sure you're sign up! It is up to date as of 3-1-08 @ 1:45p.m...

Do NOT sign up here... Please click the link above!!!!!

Deadline has extended to 4:00p.m. so that I can get a shower & do laundry. After that, sign up WILL BE CLOSED!!

Again... LAST CALL

Have you signed up for Secret Angel yet?

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Category:	Other

If not please click HERE for more details!

DEADLINE for sign up is March 1st.... FIRM!!!

(Please do NOT sign up here!! I may miss it! Click the link!!!!)