Emojis! or No News Is Good News!

FYI:
Coming from an old woman who now has too much time on her hands, I've decided to use as many emojis as possible in this post, because they make me laugh, so please bear 🐻 with me. Here goes: 😊

After writing my post yesterday I went to the Farmer's Almanac 💻 and discovered that the last M.I.R. event was between February 17 - March 10, which was before BC completely turned Tony's and my world upside down. So, thanks a lot Mercury. You are not my favorite planet, to say the least. 👎

This morning I chose not to watch any news 📺 to protect my mental health, because for me—no news is good news 🙈🙉 and that works for me. ✅

So I remained calm and listened to more of the beautiful, soothing music by Deva Primal & Miten Gayfatri Manose, on Pandora, even though that kind of music drives Tony crazy. 🙏

About an hour or so later ⏳, after gathering up our dirty clothes, so we could go to the Country Clean Laundromat, in Kerrville, I started laughing again😄 about my poor timing for releasing my 3rd novella 📘 that has now turned into a novel. And I just laughed again after writing this 😄 as I'm visualizing the profits from my book flying away. 💸

Anyway, as our 5️⃣ four-leggers 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 stared at me while I was laughing 😄 I sort of had another one of those light-bulb moments 💡.

I say "sort of," because I am not sure 🤔 if it is a really good idea ❓, because it might make me a laughing-stock, but then again that might be okay, because I believe laughter is the cure all for almost everything.

So what I am thinking about doing is during my time in exile/isolation maybe I should start doing short podcasts 🎙or videos 📹 of me reading a couple of pages from my new book to either get you 'hooked' so you'll buy it or just to make y'all laugh at me.

But then again it could be a little dicey 🎲 decision to make. But the more I think about it—it is a win-win situation 🎰. So I guess tonight after drinking a glass or two 🍷🍷  of my cheap boxed wine I will make the decision, because I do want to be clear-headed 😏 when I decide what to do.

And who knows? I'm thinking that maybe I should wear a mask 😷 to create a little more drama to my video podcast to make it more interesting. 

Or I could wear my alien-attracting helmet and do the podcast/video live, standing in front of the mural that I recently painted on our water tank outside. But then again, maybe I shouldn't broadcast live, because sometimes even I have a hard time reading my own writing.

Anyway, I have some tough decisions to make tonight and I will get back to y'all sooner than later.

PEACE & LOVE ALWAYS! 

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Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

Relieved That It Hadn't Fallen!

This past week has been so unbelievable. A week ago today Tony went to the big H-E-B, in Kerrville to pick up a few needed groceries and it was no big deal. I didn't go with him, because I was  staying home so I could finish my second edit on my book.

I was thrilled with my editing, because I was able to spice it up with a lot more humor, so Thursday evening Tony and I had a fun happy hour celebrating how good I felt about my book improvements.
Life was good.

Then Friday was the blackest Friday that I've lived through in my sixty-eight years on the Planet. And  on Saturday the news about this horrible virus just continued to get worse and worse by the hour. So like many of you—I got very depressed and tried to fight off panicking.

By Sunday, I had heard enough scary news, so I turned off the news stations blasting me/us with doomsday Latest-Breaking News. So I went outside and looked up at the sky to see if was falling.

Relieved that it hadn't fallen yet, I came back inside and I called Ronnie, my sweet older brother and then I called Cindy, my sweet older sister, in hopes they could help me calm my nerves and cheer me up.

It helped talking to them, but they were in as much shock as I was. And for the very first time in my entire life when visiting with my beloved family members—not one of us laughed once during our long conversations. And I really needed to laugh, because I was literally stressed out to the max.

So, I called my dear friend Cindy, who lives in a beautiful, off-grid adobe hacienda, in Northern New Mexico. Sadly, neither she or I laughed once, too. And by the end of our conversation we did agree on one thing—the world we live in no longer makes any sense and that we are living in strange times.
And before we adios-ed each other Cindy recommended that I watch the movie Snow Walker, on Netflix and to listen to the beautiful music of Deva Premal & Miten Gayfatri Manose to help calm my nerves. "The mantras are ancient Sanskrit. Their music is famous all around the world..."

So I found Deva & Miten's awesome music on Pandora and then I went and took a nap with my four-laggers while listening to their calming music. And that night I watched Snow Walker and I loved it, too. Then I went to bed feeling much better about the Universe.

The next morning I refused to listen to the news while checking my e-mail. And the good news is sweet Mari sent me the cutest picture that has gone viral on the Internet and—it made me laugh out loud!

Mari's subject line was: Saint Bernards Ready To Assist In Emergency and when I opened her note here is the picture that she had sent to me:

I was so thankful that Mari had made me laugh and had lifted my spirits I immediately responded to her e-mail:

"The Saints know how to roll with it!"

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

P.S. The sky in Medina still hasn't fallen, yet. So it is Onward Through The Fog! PEACE & LOVE