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Congratulations to Sameer Mishra from Indiana who successfully spelled "guerdon" to win this years 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee. I'm always amazed every year at these kids who can spell words that I didn't even know existed!

Last year a local boy came in runner up! He was in grade 8 at my kids' school here in Edmonton, Alberta Canada! The school is an arts based school, Grade K-12 . We were soooo proud of Nate and his amazing accomplishment. Here was this average Grade 8 public school kid surrounded by homeschooled, spelling bee careerists ( spell THAT!) and he spelled his way to runner up! Gotta love those stories.

I sure wouldn't do very well in a spelling bee. I do read alot but have to admit I kinda skim over the long hard words usually mispronoucing them in my head only to embarrass myself later when I try to use it in a sentence. Never mind knowing it's root origin!

Just today I was talking to my husband and I said a big word.....wrong....and he politely corrected me. I hate that!

My son's a good speller. He has a weekly spelling test at school and NEVER studies the words. The night before he sits down, I recite the words and he spells them......correctly.....first time......even when I mispronounce them!

I just want you to know though......I DON'T use spell check......ok, maybe you already knew that.

Go back.....way back......

I was doing a little channel surfing while waiting for my oven to preheat and stopped on Oprah for a moment. I used to watch her quite alot and haven't in a while due to time, kids, and the fact that I would rather read, but today I ended up turning off the oven to watch the whole show.

She had Dr Brian Wiess on today. Brian Wiess MD is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School and is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Dr. Weiss is a psychiatrist whose specialty is past life regression therapy. Yup, he hypnotises you and takes you back to past lives......past lives your "soul" has lived before.

It was facinating.

I've read alot lately about the metaphysical world and reincarnation and this is how I see it.

Our physical bodies are just "vessels" for our souls. Our souls basically "use" our bodies to learn or perhaps teach others a lesson (apparantly the wise old souls come back to do some teaching) Once this particular lesson or lessons are learned, our physical bodies die and the soul leaves the physical body it was in to reincarnate in another physical being.

His own words probably explain it better.....

"I think everybody reincarnates because we have many lessons to learn, lessons about love, compassion, charity, nonviolence, inner peace, patience, etc. It would be hard to learn them all in only one life. Also, some people come back voluntarily to help others. " Dr Brian Weiss

Well, we can only hope this is so. Little Jake's tragic death a year ago only means that his soul has moved on and we all will meet him again in some other life. His physical life and his death taught us all so much about love, life, compassion, patience etc. Jake must be a wise old soul.

Only my hairdresser knows for sure.....

I'm trying to decide
on a hair color. Here
are a couple of pictures of me with different hair colors.
OK, maybe the middle one could have been taken at a better angle, but you get the idea. Right now I'm kind of dirty blond. Ick, what a word.....dirty.....sounds so.....unclean.
I liked being a redhead....but it faded so fast and went from firey red to .......dirty ( there's that word again) red in no time.
I enjoyed being really dark too....felt all witchy ( see picture) and mysterious....I have to admit I felt more sophisticated being dark haired. As a blonde I would say I feel flirty and .......fun? And as a redhead I would have to admit I feel kinda .....hot yet .......funny ( think Lucille Ball and Carole Burnett with sex appeal?) So, with advances in technology and limitless funds ( hee hee there's that funny redhead in me) I could change my haircolor almost weekly.
What mood am I in this week?......feeling a need for fire"..o.k.pull out the box of red. Going to a dinner party and want to portray the mysterious, seductress let's bring out the witchy dark.
I just did the blonde ambition look about 3 weeks ago and already I'm up for a change. Maybe I need therapy.

Those were the days.....

Who would have thought that in the 30's people were so open minded? I mean really....you COULD get hit by a bus and all hopes of ever having a fag - gone. They had it right back then.....live life to the fullest. Have that fag and enjoy him before it's too late!

Also, as a nurse I am so impressed that in the 30's they even think to sanitize the tapeworms. The technology was really quite advanced then.....sanitize the tapeworms yet keep them alive so they "banish" that fat. Wow.