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Transitioning Your Life......

I am going through a transformation in my life that I never thought would happen. I am on a health kick! And I'm loving it. I drink soy milk (and I thought I hated it but wow is it good!) I have been reading nutrition labels, exercising and paying attention to what is happening with my mind and body. Maybe it's getting older and I'm hanging on to every last bit of anything I have left OR maybe it's that the world is finally realizing that our overindulgence in everything we do has got to stop. We overeat, overspend and try to stay ahead of everyone else. No more - its time to relax, slow down, enjoy your life - live your life. I have been following a weight management and nutrition lifestyle plan for the past 10 weeks and it is amazing at how much I have learned. I have learned why diets don't work, I have learned about good fats,bad fats, good carbs, bad carbs, sugar and glycemic index. I have learned how to mix foods so it has a smaller impact on fat storage - I have learned that I am addicted to sugar! And that addiction is hard to break! But I have found agave syrup - yum - and REAL stevia (not the stuff in the grocery store) but at a health food store. I have found that I love vegetables and fruits that I had never tried before due to my ignorance. :) So if you too want to start learning and transitioning your life to a healthier and fitter lifestyle - click on the title of this blog and you will see a dvd/journal and cd that will teach you lots of things. :) good luck and happy new year!

OH - and PS - I have lost a total of 19.5 lbs! - I love my closet now! :)

Time Shares - Ft Lauderdale here I come!

You know I have wanted to purchase a home somewhere warm for quite some time - and I'm not giving up that dream - but I've come to realize that buying a place in ONE place is kinda limiting. So I purchased two timeshares. One in WV and one in Ft Lauderdale. The one in Ft Lauderdale is at the resort that I and 4 of my close friends weathered Hurricane Wilma - she busted out our windows, totally soaked every thing we had - forced us out on the streets - and luckily, just like in those Cinderella type movies - a couple of nice guys showed up and saved our butts! Mike and Jim- you know who you are! We are forever grateful! So it was a sign when I saw that timeshare was for sale and ON sale! I bought it and its now the Girls Vacation Week - every year. We just booked our flights tonight for a week in May in 2010. (NON Hurrican Season!).
This is something I have wanted to do too - have a one week vacation every year to the same place with the same people - all women - all friends - and all just having fun. That is on my list of The Top 100 things I Want To Do Before I Die. I just checked off - own a timeshare. I have also checked off skydiving, going to Cancun,Australia, Taiwan and various other locations and driving a race car! I have 88 things left to do before I die on my original list- but I keep adding more every day!!

I believe in setting these "goals" down in writing. Writing out your goals helps you really SEE them - I put up some pictures - I created a "dreamboard". I know it seems silly - but it does set something in motion somehow! Call it God, call it The Universe, call it Manifesting - call it whatever you want - but something gets set in motion and when something sets in motion - it stays in motion and gains momentum. So - write down your top 100 things - your "Bucket List" - and watch the motion begin!

Holiday Parties Get a Free $25 gift certificate to your favorite restaurant!

I love holiday parties! I love getting dressed up and socializing with people and the "eat,drink and be merry" slogan! There just is never enough time (or weekends) to do all that I want to do. I'd have a party every Friday and Saturday night if people would come! With everyone trying to gather family and friends - myself and my business partners have decided to co-host a gathering. Come join us! We would love for you to come socialize, check out our websites, catch up on the news and gossip and "eat, drink and be merry"! December 4th (Friday) 6pm - 71 North Main St in Waterbury!

We invite you to come sit, relax, enjoy some holiday munchies and cheer and let us show you how you can do your holiday shopping from the comfort of your own home and earn $ CASH BACK $ !
We just launched our Paid To Shop program where you can earn 2% cash back on your purchases and you can also earn another .5% cash on your friends purchases when you refer them to our web-portal to do their shopping. It’s a win-win!

Holiday Season is upon us and there is no doubt we are all making our Christmas lists - let us show you how you can save money, comparison shop and get discount codes for items you want and need. Bring your list and we will be your personal shoppers!

If you attend and bring a guest -we will give you $25 gift certificate to a favorite local restaurant! Arvads, The Resevoirs, Cider House to name a few…

Come join us and learn how you can save not only on your holiday shopping, but on items that you purchase on a regular basis for everyday use.
We will also be showcasing some products for you to sample. We are not looking for you to place an order (though we won't stop you if you want to!) We just want to educate people how our web-portals work and show you and your friends how you can save money, AND MAKE MONEY! Wow who wouldn't want to learn that!

Let’s get together and enjoy great company and some very exciting information. Come just for the company and good conversation!
No obligation – but there will be prizes given away – and gift certificates!

Please RSVP by December 2nd and let us know if you are bringing a guest(s).
RSVP to me at 802-496-6875 or Brenda@brendasbin.com

Check out http://brendasabin.com for more info on cashback!

Let The Games Begin!.Black Friday Mania on Thursday!

We all know how Black Friday is such a mad ass dash to get the best deals before anyone else can right? I just saw a commerical where Sears.com is having a Black Friday ONLINE only sale on Thursday! How funny is that?

Watch for more of these deals- the internet is the way of the future, and retail stores are having a rough time --- the chant "No more brick and mortar - I Want Click and Order" can be heard through the land..... this is going to be an interesting holiday season. And with MY Paid to Shop program you can get those sales - get the deals - AND get 2% cash back! ...... Click on the title above... go to Shop Partners - hit S - go to Sears.com or any of the other 3000 partner stores I have! Happy happy joy joy!

Ah... The Colors of the Holiday Season.......

Every season has it's colors ---- the spring with all the paisley colors and Easter colors; the summer with it's cool blues, bright pinks and hot yellows; the fall with it's burnt oranges, reds, cranberry colors, dull yellows and the winter with the cold blues, the blacks the bright reds. I love the colors of the Holiday Season - that special red color, kelly greens, bright whites, dazzling blues and lots of others in between. This time of year people are thinking about going to parties and dressing up - those little black dresses come out, the holiday sweaters and caps come out, and for some of us makeup isn't exactly a thing on our mind. We wear the same ol' same ol' - or none at all (hey this is VT I live in!) We don't think about changing our make up and OUR colors to go with the changing of the season's colors. Even animals change colors - think of the bunny rabbit - brown to white for the seasons. Maybe it's something to think about. Some of us do think to change the clothing we wear (especially those down vests and heavy hooded sweaters - again this is VT). Some of us even "put away the summer clothes" and "get out the winter ones". Maybe thinking about our makeup isn't such a bad idea. If you don't wear makeup maybe this holiday season is a time to try it out! I read a great article on lipstick recently. And the funny thing is that this article was naming the Top 10 RED lipstick of the season and low and behold the brand of lipstick and makeup that I sell is actually rated #5! Our RED is HOT HOT HOT... and perfect for the holidays --- click on the title of this blog and it will take you to the article (we are #5 out of 10). If you want some high end quality makeup that doesn't cost you an arm a leg AND an ear - then check out my website http://www.motivescosmetics.com/bsabin - Happy Holiday Colors!

Gift Certificates? Why do they expire?

I was digging around the other day and came across an envelope from my daughter. I opened it up and in there was a gift certificate for $50 to a garden shop near our house. Now she gave me this last Christmas for a gift and in the middle of the hustle and bustle it got put away securely (too securely!). I was excited to find it! It's like getting a gift all over again! However.... it had an expiration date on it for one year from date of purchase- which means that is NEXT month! Holy cow - so I start making plans for what I could possibly by at a garden shop on November 1st (the day I found the envelope) - when I go to the website to look at things - I discover they closed for the season on October 31st! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ----- so what do I do? Do I have a right to ask them to take this gift cert? The expiration date hasn't gone by and it will go by before they re-open! Man --- this stinks. I have to call them (oh but they are closed - so now what?). I think it's awful that gift certificates have expiration dates on them. I understand why some places want them - but doesn't that mean that they should refund the money? C'mon - my daughter spent 50 bucks of her hard earned money and now it's like she just threw it in the trash. It's my fault - no doubt - but I am going to try to plead with the shop to help me.

I used to think giving gift certificates for presents was a cop-out - an "easy mans" way of gift giving - but as I have grown older and seen so many gifts that were not used - not really wanted and re-gifted - I began to believe in gift certificates. I used to be bothered by the fact that someone would know how much I was willing to spend on them (after all wasn't that saying how much you thought they were worth?) - but now... now I think gift certificates are the BEST thing to do for the holidays. Why not let people get what they want? Why not show them that you want them to actually enjoy what they have - not get them something that will sit on a shelf until put out in a yard sale or given away to a thrift shop. Check out all the gift certificate options I have on my website - the Gift Certificate tab on the top of the page on my website (http://brendasabin.com - OR click on the title of this post and that will show you lots of ways to give "anything" - some gift certificate are valid for a variety of stores - even better! Have fun this holiday season - give with your heart and your head! Don't spend money on things people don't want - spend money by giving people what THEY want - the opportunity to "shop" for their own personal preferences..... And then - be nice and send them a reminder every month or so to USE IT!! And if you receive gift certificates, take my advice - put them somewhere you will SEE them all the time! http://brendasabin.com - Happy Holidays!

Ah..... Home for the Holidays

I remember when I was a kid that waking up on Christmas morning had to be the absolute best day ever every year! All the gifts under the tree, candy in the stockings and smells of delicious food coming from the kitchen. My brothers and sisters and I would wait patiently for Dad to get up. Mom and Gramma (who lived with us) would be up for hours cooking and getting ready (now that I'm older I wonder if they ever went to bed!). Dad would finally get up, have his coffee and then we could tear into the stockings and the presents! We ate breakfast and had fun all day with the new toys and everyone being there. As we got older we all "came home" for the holidays - all of them - Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas - all of them. As we all started having our own families we would still all gather at Mom and Dads with all the grandchildren in tow and celebrate the same way we did when we were kids. Now that our parents have passed away we are all finding it difficult to gather all in one place for the holidays - even just one of them. I never wondered when I was a kid why my Aunts and Uncles weren' there at our house- they were at their own house with their own kids. Now that I am "the Aunt" with my own house and my own kids - it feels weird. I see my children all grown up now in different parts of the country and they are starting their own "Home for the Holidays" - this time of year makes me think of when we were all together, now we aren't - and it feels weird to me but not my kids. I'm sure it must have felt weird to my Mom when she didn't have all her brothers and sisters around on Christmas Day anymore either..... funny how life sure looks different when you are the oldest generation of your family. I hope I am here on this Earth for many holidays with my kids and grandchildren (expecting my first one in April!! YEA)but I wonder where "home for the holidays" will be. It will be an adventure!

Speaking of holidays - the crazy crazy days of shopping will soon be upon us as we all race through malls and stores looking for that perfect gift. We will spend way too much money and get stressed out like we do every year. Every year we say "next year I am going to be better prepared" - Right, hmm, it is next year folks! :) This year do yourself a favor - save your precious time to spend with those kids, grandkids and PARENTS (I miss mine)- shop online and save some money and save your sanity. This year you can EARN money too if you shop through my website. I pay you 2% cash back on your qualified purchases, beginning mid November... check it out --- http://brendasabin.com - check the HOTDEALS tab at the top of my page for last minute savings and FREE shipping! :) Happy Holidays wherever your home may be!

Wow - where has the time gone?

Why is it that we all have 24 hours in a day - yet when you are young those 24 hours last a lifetime - now they go by so fast it feels like there is only 3 or 4 hours each day! When you were a kid summers were so long and FUN..... now summers come (sometimes - not this year) and go - its the end of October for petes sake! 2009 for petes sake! (who is pete anyway? why do we say that? does anyone know?) Doesn't it seem like we were just worried about a thing called the Y2K bug? Didn't we just see 2001 - where did 2002 go, and did I sleep for the past 6 years? Even worse why can't I remember all those years? Good grief - maybe it's me. Does anyone else feel like this?

How can the clock move faster the older we get? How can morning become noon, become evening and bed time before we feel like we have woke up? Why is it that our calendars are so full of things to do - yet we never get anything accomplished.

I'm going to bed - it will most likely be 2010 when I wake up - and I'll be wondering where these last few months have gone. I can't believe the holidays will be here in less than 2 months - What were you doing in late August? Doesn't it seem like last week? Where did September go?..... whew I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
G'nite.

A Buskers Festival

During my travels in Australia I had a few unique experiences. One of them was attending a Buskers Festival.

The sign said “A Buskers Festival” – in the town of Morte Lake. My first thought was “doesn’t Morte mean something to do with death?” and I was unsure if this was indeed a festival or a gathering of evil forces. Either way it was something we decided we needed to attend. We drove for hours then parked our car on a grassy knoll near a huge wooden fence. The smells of delicious meats, cheeses and delectable desserts, the sounds of fiddles, banjos, drums and instruments we couldn’t name rushed at us as we opened our car doors to step into the Busker Festival World. We strolled through the festival and immediately felt like we were part of a huge family. Everyone greeted us, everyone smiled, and no one was rushed or impatient. The entire air was buzzing with the most intense wonderful feeling. We saw unicyclers, singers, dancers, comedians and a fire eater! We watched a group of carnies dance the Chicken Dance while selling their wares. We walked through mountains of clothing, jewelry, pottery and various crafts of the vendors. It was a day of celebration, although I don’t believe we ever found out exactly what was being celebrated, it was obvious that it was something important. When we left there it was sad. Driving off to the next adventure was somewhat quiet for a few hours - which was nice in a way. We were headed off to see the fairy penquins! Its a real spectator sport with bleachers on the beach and everything! We sat for what seemed like a few hours - but then I started seeing little miniature black dots being rolled over and over by the waves crashing into Phillips Island. We were there with hundreds of people to witness the little fairy penguins coming home after being out to sea looking for food. I was struck by the perseverance of these tiny creatures that would put any athlete to shame. No matter how many times they were washed back out to sea, they kept coming toward shore, to their homes and their babies.

Watching these miniature creatures in tuxedos made me feel inadequate in my attempts at being something or someone in my life. Their determination awoke in me a desire and determination to take on my own dreams and goals. Walking next to them as they hurried toward their burrows, I felt in awe; they totally ignored all the humans around them and performed the tasks at hand. Their instinct was to get home and take care of their wee ones; the intruders at hand would have to wait. I could hear the song in my head “hi ho hi ho”…. thinking of the dwarfs in that fairy tale. Those fairy penguins were a source of delight for everyone who watched them that evening. Thinking about those penquins has got me focused again on my task at hand which is to build a business to live my dreams! Watch out world..... :)

Reflections of Travels....

I love to travel. I have been in almost every state in the continental U.S. I have traveled to Costa Rica, Australia, Taiwan, Mexico.... and of course Canada - I love Montreal! I plan on visiting Paris for my 55th birthday - climbin up that Eiffel Tower if it kills me! I am working toward a life where I can travel anywhere, anytime with whomever I want to. :) yea!! Traveling is good for your body, your mind and your soul. In general visiting new places stimulates you and makes you realize there is so much more to life than what is right in front of you. In thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go in the future I am so grateful for what I have now and where I have been. I wrote down some of my past traveling thoughts ---- hope you enjoy them.

Standing on the beach in Quespos in January (away from the winter in VT!), I watched the firey red waves created by the most gorgeous sunset ever, and I decided this is what makes life grand, special moments like this. I felt like I could touch the bright orange ball in the sky. As the waves crashed against the shore, the firey red waves turned into a cool, gorgeous aqua blue that rolled over my toes. The birds rose up into the glow looking larger than life, as the breeze swept them into the sun. What a perfect way to end a perfect day in Costa Rica. We were staying at a bed and breakfast where we were treated like royalty. Si Commo No is a little unknown place sitting high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the town of Quespos. It has a pool bar, the friendliest bartenders and waiters in town, and lizards everywhere! You can get to the pool bar by walking down the stairs, or sliding down into the water on the slide. Either way you choose to arrive, you will be treated to tantalizing fruit drinks and entertainment from the staff.

I can't wait to go back there! I loved Costa Rica - and traveling there was only topped by the trip to Australia!

Driving down the Great Ocean Road you can see huge stone columns jutting out of the water – like giant sentries standing guard over the shores of southern Australia – allowing no man or beast to enter upon the golden sand from the sea. Their shadows’ move across the sands as the sun goes down – looking like a watchful eye sweeping the landscape for intruders or anything out of place. You feel so small and insignificant standing looking at these giant fixtures.

Seeing Australia by car is one of the best ways to visit little towns and site see along the way. Driving on the wrong side of the road is very interesting! The adventure begins the minute you get in the car and actually have to think about what side of the road to go on. No right hand turns on red after stop “down under”! No way, it’s a left hand turn after stop if you please. And if anyone is out for a walkabout – they do have the right of way (or is it left of way?) After a few panicking moments and only one loud scream from my traveling companion, we were on our way.

Hiking in the Grampian Mountains in Australia was like walking through a haunted forest in any good fairy tale. The trees were bent over creating little houses and hiding places for things that I am sure were watching us walk through their world – gremlins, goblins and possibly leprechauns, maybe fairies or pixies. On a trail named “Happy Forest” I found myself in an opening in the woods that looked to be a meeting spot. There were stumps and clumps of ground that resembled the seating places of mysterious visitors. I could imagine all those creatures having a meeting to decide the very fate of the travelers in their forest. As I moved further into the forest, I saw a sign – a real sign “please stay on the path, unexploded land minds around” ---- was this another warning for us to get out of the forest? Needless to say my feet walked one in front of the other on the path -like a sobriety test -the remainder of the way! The plants, the trees, the flowers, the rocks – all were beautiful, almost intensified, like someone had thrown glitter and happy dust all over. At the very top of the place we were hiking to – we found a massive rock – we climbed on top and sat watching the forest – the birds were everywhere, beautiful white and colored cockatiels and cockatoos. We were so high up that we had to look down to watch them flying around. The sounds of the forest came to life as we sat and listened. While sitting there with my daughter watching this world go by I decided this really was fairyland indeed, and Happy Forest was the appropriate name for this magical place. Now if we only make it back down the trail with no land mines exploding!


More adventures of Australia to follow ---- ever been to a Buskers Festival?

So many things are getting me STEAMED!!

Man - I don't know if it's the stage of the moons cycle, or the air, or the water - but everything I am reading about in the past 24 hours has me steamed! Ticked off, pissed off, and ready to do something about it. I saw a commercial this morning on TV - a man and woman in a nice home talking about having a mouse problem - she whips out this new trap by ortho - that is comes in multilevel wrapping and is plastic and is DISPOSABLE so you don't have to see a dead mouse --- good grief! Give me a break -what do you think would happen to them if they actually saw a dead mouse? So now we have a ton of extra stuff getting THROWN away instead of recycled --- this is ridiculous. The problem is they will sell a ton of them. I am boycotting this company! Get a cat for petes sake! And then I see a Youtube video on aspartame. We always knew that stuff was bad - but all I can say now is RUN, RUN as fast as you can to get away from that stuff. It's in so many products though - be careful - read about it - watch the youtube video http://bit.ly/2e1NVX (copy and paste that in a browser window). If I read or listen to one more thing that puts me over the edge today I may go on a rampage -- on my blog of course, not out in the world! LOL.... so... fall is here - leaves have changed and are dropping off the trees, the air is crisp, the sun is almost shimmering in the air and it WILL be a better day as time goes on! Keep smiling people - and do something good for the world today.

Passions and Dreams

I have been listening to alot of motivational type audios and videos lately. I am pumped up about so many things in my life that I feel like I will explode with excitement!
Even a few short months ago if someone asked me "What is your Dream?" "What do you want to do with your life?" "Whats your passion?" - I would have had to really think about it and it would change as rapidly as I spoke about it. I didn't know what I really wanted to do, I had no idea what my dreams were - I had forgot how to dream BIG - really big. I am learning how to do that again and I am soooooo excited about it I can't even begin to tell you. I listened to a guy named Sam Crowley - he has a website called Everyday is Saturday and he is so motivating and exciting to listen to. He has me FIRED UP on my life! So stay tuned as I am going to be posting lots of things about my dreams, my passion and what I am going to DO with my life. I also am glad I have a vehicle to allow me to live those really BIG dreams I have now ---- I am grateful for that. I am grateful that this was introduced to me at the time it was - so many great things going on. Can't wait to share it - but not all at once! :) Stop worrying about the economy and start thinking and being positive about what you HAVE already - this isn't a foo-foo idea and I'm not off my rocker - but I swear that when you put what you want out into the Universe - and then PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU NOTICE - the Universe if helping you get to those dreams - so don't walk through life feeling sorry for yourself, think BIG, dream BIG - and watch for the path to show up to get there! Have a great day, a great week - and DREAM BIG and have a GREAT LIFE!

Time flies...

Can you believe it's fall? Sept 9th already? WOW -- we didn't have much of a summer here in VT so I'm hoping that fall is going to be OUTSTANDING! If you have read any of my blog posts you know that fall really is my favorite time of year. Sitting on my back deck soaking up the late afternoon sun is definitely one of my fav things to do. Right now I'm on the deck watching two chipmunks chase each other back and forth and back and forth across the lawn. Angry? or trying to get friendly? LOL - who knows it's comical though.
I think we are in for a tough cold winter - I have been watching the squirrels and chipmunks for some weeks now and they have been busy busy busy building up their food supply. The chipmunks have even dug out (and I mean a huge pile of dirt) the stone wall - I think they have built a condo in there or something. Wow - better there than under my house I guess.
Fall really is a time to start storing things and cleaning up and buttoning up for winter. We should pay attention to the animals and act accordingly. Me? I'm stocking up on my supplements and vitamins for a cold hard winter. I thought about a H1N1 flu shot this year but they scare me! Man - have you noticed the stuff in it? The side effects that could happen? etc? shudder.... maybe some extra Vitamin C and D - Vitamin D is the new C this year. Many drs have stated that we aren't getting enough Vitamin D --- we use alot of sunscreen (that's good - but not so good too as the sun is where we get alot of our vitamin D) and we aren't outside as much as we used to be back in the olden days - alot of office jobs - alot of driving - lot less sunshine (and with the way this summer was in VT - ALOT less sunshine!). So get your vitamins, get your supplements, grab a fuzzy ol' blanket and make like a chipmunk and hibernate! http://brendasabin.com (search for Vitamin D - Isotonix is awesome)

Ah... The Life of a Hunter's Wife!

The Hunting Wife’s Life!
When you are a young teenager and you have grown up with a family of hunters all your life it’s normal to date a hunter. You want someone who will fit in with your family as well as someone to be proud of when they get their first big buck, especially their first legal buck!
Where I grew up boys were shooting their first bucks illegally by the time they were 10 and wives were getting deer shot and tagged in their names while they were still settled in with their curled up hair on their pillows. So dating a hunter is kind of a status thing when you are young and grew up where I did. When I was 14 I dated a boy who was from a family of serious hunters so I learned that boys will hunt and the women folk will hang out together all secretly harboring resentment that it’s assumed they will hang out because their men folk are hunting together. But…as it went it wasn’t all that bad to hang out with the women while my “man” was hunting.

Then as I got into my twenties I married a hunter (a different one, but still a hunter). In the beginning those assumed rules of my teens carried over – and by then I had 2 kids and those rules became more a part of my life – hanging with the women folks and our babies now that the men were off “killing sumpin”. Of course the resentment building up now was not from the fact that I was hanging with the other women bitching about our hunting men, but the fact that HE was not doing anything to help in the house or helping with the kids. But that’s the way it was. After all he got up early to truck out into the woods in the snow and cold to bring home some meat for the family. He was entitled to come home, strip off his hunting gear down to his long johns, eat dinner that I made and then kick back in the recliner with food all over his shirt, mouth wide open and a sound coming out of his nose that sounded like a chainsaw running next door.

Going into my thirties this entire hunting thing was becoming an annoyance. I looked at it now as something that was just plain stupid and a total waste of time. Now married to another hunter (when am I going to learn?) this man was still acting like twenty year old playing those hunting games with the other men he hung out with. Be assured that hunting season is not just the dates you can actually HUNT – it involves months of pre-talk and planning and rehashing old stories from years gone by – and of course it involved post-hunt talks and long drawn out stories of each step and movement they took in their quest to “kill sumpin” along with the rehashing of those old stories AGAIN. So as the kids got older and I got tired of hanging with the women folk I was beginning to view hunting as a deadly enemy of mine.

Once I turned 40 things got even uglier with my view of hunting. What is the big draw? Why do men get up early, dress up in camouflage clothing, grab a gun and go out into the woods to shoot an animal that did nothing to tick them off when there is perfectly good hamburger, steaks and roasts at the supermarket? It’s not like we were going to starve if a deer was not killed. However, being 40 with the kids out of the house mostly and plenty of time on my hands I was resentful of not having time to spend with my husband so I basically hated hunting and let him know all the time that is exactly how I felt. Poor man – he was as passionate about his hobby as he was in his teens, his wife was just not as passionate with him anymore! But as the sign in his den says “Honey AFTER hunting season, you are #1” I figured a few months out of the year being #2 wasn’t all that bad. Hmmph, his den, that’s the room my daughter affectionately calls the “DEATH ROOM”. Some say it’s a man’s cave – or some crap like that.

Well I’m now in my 50’s…. my husband (same one!)still loves hunting and I am beginning to see just how beautiful hunting season really is! Those glorious days and weeks of being alone in the house, watching what I want on TV, cooking what I want for dinner or just getting take out, watching old love story movies (Red Box and I became quite intimate) while he is gone on a hunting trip. Today you won’t hear me complaining about hunting at all - now you will hear me saying things like “Aren’t you going to NY too this year?” “Why not?” – “Oh honey you should go to NH, NY AND Idaho this year”…. My how times have changed.

What is it about hunting that strikes something in the hearts of men? What is it about the actual hunt, the stalking, the winning over the animal and the kill? I guess as a woman they only thing I can equate that with is shopping! It’s like going on a hunt right? Let’s say you know you want a black skirt and purple sweater to wear to that special dinner – so you set off on foot or car and go from store to store searching for the right color, the right size and when you find it – bam! You have won! You succeeded in your quest to “get” that skirt and sweater (hopefully no other woman has the other end of it as a tug of war will ensue).

I hate driving or walking to the store. I hate the in and out the back and forth the waste of my time. I shop online where I can hunt in my underwear and even though I don’t use a gun - I use a bag of tricks I have up my sleeve – like coupon codes for special deals and my hot deals tab – AND my search feature! No skirt, sweater or any other item I want can hide from THAT search engine– it’s powered by Microsoft FAST – and it is!

It not only finds you what you want – it does all the comparison shopping for you –giving you a list of the stores and prices right then and there so you get the best deal! WOW – this would be like my husband having a gun that can shoot around corners – think how excited he would be!

The way my husband hunts is by spending hours and hours searching, looking and calculating how to best get what he wants, the elusive big buck. I spend minutes doing the same thing. My husband gets up early, has to dress warm, leaves the warm house out into the cold and has to DRIVE somewhere where he then will subject himself to the elements to seek out his treasure. ME? I get up, grab some hot coffee, walk 45 feet to my computer, put on my bunny slippers, stretch, yawn and go after my quarry.
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OCA - Organic Consumers Association -Swine Flu

Time to buck up on those vitamins and supplments folks and eat healthy. Flu season is coming (UGH - winter too - argh...). I have been following alot of discussions on the health care debate and other interesting things on the OCA site. This is a good article - thought you would enjoy it http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18879.cfm

Scary Stuff....

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Take your vitamins folks! Take your supplements! Exercise and eat better!

What will "be" after all this upheaval?

Ever wonder what is going to come out of this economy upheaval? Or the health care reform debate? I have been thinking about this alot lately --- I'm excited! What will be the new reality when things calm down?

I think all good things happen after a crisis. You know ..that whole silver lining and cloud thing.... so with all that is happening with the economy (and we know that what is and has been is not working) what will the new economy look like?

If you think back to the "old days" what really got this country going was individuals working toward their own success and helping others. Hmmm..... maybe that would work again ?? Who knows..... is it worth a try? I think so. I think that people as individuals will get this country back on track - not the Congress or the President - although if they actually listened to the people things might turn around a little sooner.

What about health care? Remember the old family doc that made house calls? Remember when you could pay that family doc with jam or jelly preserves you made? Or a chicken? how did we get so darn complicated? Things are turning around - people are paying attention to where their food is coming from now, people are buying local and people are helping their neighbors more and more...... keep it going folks - keep it going.....

There are so many things I wish I could just fix. There are so many worthy organizations I wish I could donate money to - or volunteer for - or even START my own organization to help others ---- I can't do it all myself - but one person at a time, one idea at a time and one step at a time will get us out of this mess.

Stay positive - do one positive thing today for YOURSELF, your family and Mother Earth!

I am soooo Sick of the Lies

Why is it that people have to pick apart everyone elses ideas on what is right and what is wrong in this country. You all know I am sick of this health care reform circus act happening. I am sick of lies - I want to say that this organization is trying to get to the truth - check this article out: http://bit.lyBncs5

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Health Care Reform

Have you been listening and following what is happening in Congress with healthcare reform? Unbelievable stupidity in my opinion. I understand the need for a "government run" option - but c'mon... why are we not talking about PREVENTIVE CARE? Why are we not concerned with taking care of ourselves - taking more individual responsibility? Congress and our government are not the solution to health care. Insurance companies are not the solution - low cost plans are not the solution - the solution is for every American to stand up and start taking care of themselves and their families. Eat better, exercise - get back to the basics. The reason health care is so damn expensive is because of drug advertisements on tv and doctors ordering every test they can to prevent them from getting sued. What is going on? Why can't people take the responsibility to help themselves? Maybe it really is "All I Ever Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" - good grief people - wake up - any plan that the government comes up with is going to COST US MONEY no matter what they say. Pay attention to what is happening - get involved. Start taking care of you and your families. I myself have been taking vitamins and nutritional supplements for just over 2 years and I have seen a dramatic decrease in my drs visits. My husband too does not visit the Dr anywhere near as much as in the past. Read, learn, eat better, exercise and investigate what supplements can do for you.

Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall

What is your favorite time of year? We have been getting so much rain here in VT lately that it feels like summer will never come this year! UGH....
I love late summer and early fall - that seems like the best time here in VT to sit back and really relax while contemplating your life. The economy is stinking so they say -of course our media here in the US loves to make things much more of a crisis than they really are. I haven't really noticed a down turn in my economy much. I'm one of the lucky ones (although luck doesn't have much to do with it - it's all about being at the right place at the right time). I have multiple income streams so when one is down the other seems to be up! I also hear so much about health care on the news too - but my philosophy is to be PRO active - not RE active with health. Take your vitamins, take antioxidants, give your body a fighting chance against all the crap in our environment and your health care bills won't be as bad. Try some alternate forms of medicine - I have an acupuncturist that has helped me tremendously with an issue that has had my primary dr, a cardiologists, a neurologist and an endocrinologist stumped for over 5 years!! Man... think of money I wasted there..... some herbs and I'm doing great! Plus I do take vitamins and my antioxidants as well. My favorite antioxidant is called OPC-3. It's in isotonic form which means I drink it - not take a pill - it absorbs better and works FAST.... :)
So - turn off the TV and start looking inward for solutions instead of at our government - they have enough problems to deal with - we can help by dealing with our own health and our own economy. I love helping people make money and be healthy. http://brendasabin.com - go to my site and go to Contact US on the bottom of the page - it will send you directly to me. Have a great day and a fantastic healthy and wealthy life!