Rainy days and moods

So the french cooking has not yet begun and it is rainy out side. What do these two things have in common? It is a sad day not to have begun something as wonderful as cooking french something to brighten an otherwise cloudy day. It is so sad that I have nothing else to write
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Laura

France

Now I have yet started cooking french food, still waiting until pay day to buy book but when I think about when I visited France I loved the country but did not like Paris in general. I loved visited the art and churches. The history was so wonderful, it makes you think about the past and wonder what truly drove the french to get rid of the system of Kings and Queens.
The people wiped out a system going back in time so far. Yes the Kings and Queens abused their power but so did other countries as well, Look at Russia!!!!!
Is England any better at this point, although I will always love Britian!!!
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Laura

French and cooking

Do you know french cookbook and buying the items can cost a lot. I mean the cookbook is between 25.00-56.00 dollars depending on whether you buy it single or in a set(Julia's cookbook)and to go buy the items needed well there is another cost you forget. Yet for all the cost the taste is wonderful. You can not get it any where else. Yes other countries cook very well but the french well they have made an art out of cooking that we americans do not always show some appriacation for it.

I want to make beef stew with red wine as one of my first dishes. What do you think? What are your favorite dishes in french cooking, let me know.
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Laura

French Cooking

Okay so I have not been good at keeping my writing on here but that is going to chance. I have decided to learn to cook like Julia and Julie. I love to try and cook new things so I am going to learn to cook French foods. I could not do what Julia and Julie did due to the fact I do not eat seafood and will not eat mushrooms therefore that limits my cooking but I will have fun with it.

I am going to buy the cookbook she wrote and go from there. I can not wait. I will do one reciepe at a time and if anyone out there knows a good one to start with than let me know.
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Laura

The Feast

I spent last weekend watching people at Little Italy feast. I learn a lot from this. It is amazing how people do not watch what is going on around them. They move through the crowd focused on themselves and nothing else. They want to get from point A to point B no matter who gets in their way. The other thing that I laughed about was how people come to an Italian feast and what greek food! Hello where do you think you are people.
You see all kinds of people even the ones label fruits! People dress as if they are going to a business, party, or the best one working the cornor in a little bit. When I think about that I guess in someways they are working. The group is looking for someone for the night to hook up with and that does not mean sex either maybe just a good time.
The other thing I learn is that some people can not count when handling money. These kids I wonder what they are doing during the school year. If they spent less time texting and listened they would know that when you spend 7.50 out of 20.00 they get 12.50 back and not the 20.00 back!!!
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Laura

Real Friends

Do you ever wonder what it is like to have real friends? I mean there are some people who claim to be your friend but in the end will leave you standing outside in the rain. Friends are like the ocean tide they come and they go but it is the friends who are like the sandpebbles that no matter how you push them around they are still there. These are true friends and I have found that I have few pebble friends and yet I am proud to have a few vs. ocean wave friends who come and go.
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Laura

Stormy Days

You know there are days when a good storm is welcome. It feeds the earth and a person's soul. A storm can wipe away all the fears and concerns and give you a new outtake on life. Storms are a way of letting us know that we have to go through some rough times before we see the brighter way of our life.
Now not everyone see the light but their lives are in a complete darkness that only they can answer. For me I am a creature of light although some storms are welcome if just to clear the way, I want to see the good in us all and in our earth.
I welcome the storms
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Laura

Beautiful Day

What a day outside! The sun is shining and clouds moving slowly by. I am think about taking a trip to cleveland's Little Italy for something although I am not sure what. You meet and see all kinds of people there. It is nice to sit at a table outside and watch the world walk by. Most of the time people do not realize you are watching them. They are busy talking on the phone or talking with someone beside them as they walk down the street. Do you remember a time when we did not have cell phones and just walked. We noticed a beautiful day and enjoyed everthing around us. Today people do not see anything as they move about the street, a mall, or driving down the room. Sad is it not.

People miss out on a beautiful day.

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Laura

Death and our children

Went to a funeral today. Do you know what the hardest part of this was, it was knowing that the mother of the person who pasted away buried her last child. She was 99 and she has outlived all three of her grown children. As a mother that has to be the hardest thing she has to do. We as mothers do not plan to out live our children and we take for fact that we will not outlive them. Sometimes we are wrong. As a parent we expect to raise our children, hope to have grandchildren and enjoy old age. Burying a loved one is hard, burying a child is the hardest thing I can only imagine. The pain is not something we can say we understand because we can't until we experience it of course.
The one thing that makes me wonder is the generation before the baby boomers are living to a grand old age and yet generations after that are not. Very few people live to a grand age and enjoy life. What is wrong with this picture, what are we doing to kill ourselves early so that our parents are burying us before we bury them. We need to take a good look through history to find the key to a healthy life and not have to face the pain of burying our own children first.
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Laura

Being Rich yet poor

Sometimes I wonder what people lose in order to get the money and power they want. Does it take a piece of their soul and slowly eat it away. I have yet to see a happy married rich couple. If anything they are the lonely people, always searching for something that is beyond their hand. Money can not buy you the love and happiness that others reach. It seems to me that money destroys lives and yet people keep moving on toward that burning light. Not worried who they hurt or destroy in the process to get there. Look at Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, and other people who have money what did it get them in the end? Nothing but a lonely life always living in the shadows of their money, never knowing true friendship or love.
Does anyone care?
Laura

Watching others

It is amazing when you are at a fair and you see couples, friends, and other people just hanging around. Some couples are laughing and talking to other couples when you see the signal. I have noticed it is mostly men although I have seen some women do this two. They are together talking having a great time being together when either the guys or ladies turn toward each other talking and not noticing the signals the other persons are passing to each other. The signals are look at that person or lets meet up tonight later when everyone is asleep. This is a split second signal full of meaning.

The others miss it and keep on going as if nothing ever happen. Makes you wonder what they plan on doing. Are they just looking at other people or making plans to see someone. Here is the question, Are there faithful couples out there anymore? When you make a promise to someone is it just for that moment until the next person comes along or do you in your heart mean it but forgot it along the way? I go to these fairs a lot and see this all the time. It is no wonder cheating shows are a big hit on TV

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Laura

Memorial Weekend

When thinking about being lonely I wonder on this memorial weekend how many soldiers are feeling this way right now both past and present. I mean when fighting a war what are they thinking about knowing it could be their last thought. When you are not only fighting for your country but your very life at that moment.
Do they think about the last words they spoke to their loved one or the things they have done. How scary and frightening it must be laying there on the ground knowing this could be it. You could have someone right next to you and yet you are alone in this fight of your life. Being lonely when fighting has to be hard if not the hardest thing these men and women do for us.
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Laura

The Sunset

There is nothing more beautiful than setting on a bench by your self and watching the sun set across the waters. At times like this it is great being alone. You can reflect about your life and the beauty it has in it. There is beauty in being alone. You just have to look deep inside you and find it. When you do it is something amazing. We do not always have to have someone in your life on a day to day.
Sunsets are wonderful
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Laura

Reasons

Why is it that some people feel the need to have someone in their life? What makes us what someone in our life, is it because we feel we must have someone to love us, like us, or simplly to have the feel of someone needing us. It is hard for people to realize that we do not need someone in our life. A pet or a plant can fill the void where others can not fill in. People do not always give what others are seeking but instead open the gap wider. Creating more problems, heartaches, and awful feelings that were not there until they came along.
Being lonely is not always a bad thing but not always a good thing either. We have to take care not to be fooled by the wolfs out there. In today's world too many wolfs are wearing sheep's clothing. Too many lonely people are getting eaten up by wolfs. You see so many people on the news taking advantage of others from buying homes to buying a new president. It all is rotten in the end.
Being lonely can be a blessing or a curse no matter which way you look at it. Some times it makes you want to scream and other times you wish for those moments when it was just you. Curled up on the couch with a book, my dog on my legs snoring away.
Those are moments I treasure
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Laura

Family really?

It is amazing when you marry that you would think you are getting an expanded family. That is not always the case. There are families that no matter who you are they do not accept youw. You can do nothing wrong or do everything wrong. People either accept you or they don't. It is hard to have a huge family and yet you have no family.
Being lonely can be so hard when everyone has turned their back on you. It is okay though, because you are not in the mess of things when everything comes crashing down and believe me it will.
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Laura

Creatures Big and Small

You know being lonely allows you to see and watch what most people miss in everyday world.
Today I seen something that made me cry. A squirrel was killed by a car and it was a slow death. Now most people think it was only a squirrel. But this squirrel was being chased by another squirrel. Was the other squirrel his or her mate, parent, or a friend. We of course will never know and most people will not care. Most will say it is only a squirrel but who are we to judge, someone can say the same of people, plants or anything else. The point to all this is people are in such a hurry and do not care who they step on or drive over to get to where they are going or their point across to anyone they think is listening.
They will use anyone and anything to get what they want. The same can be said for lonely people, others will use what they have and turn them away when they are done. They are still lonely, they are still on the outside looking in. If everyone stopped to smell the flower so to speak a lot more awareness would be known.
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Laura

Being Lonely

You know being lonely is something you do not think happens when you have a big family but it does and a lot of times family does not even know it. You walk for miles and go no where. People and family hug and kiss you in greeting and push you on to the next person. Do they really see you, speak to you, or just go through the motions and never even know it is you. I have been told that I am a bump on the log at family gatherings yet I speak and talk when spoken too. Do they stop to notice me, no they go through the motions as if in a line and nothing more.

There are so many people who are lonely out there and we walk by them every day. We smile and say hello, maybe even small talk such as "We have to get together sometime soon" and never really mean it. What ever happen to saying what you really mean anymore? When does a family finally notice that they have someone who is alone and looking from the outside instead of the inside?

Does anyone care?
Laura

Happily Married or Not?

I heard a statement today about being happily married and just being happy married. They stated that it takes both people to be happily married. Is this true or can a marriage be happy with just one person? Is the other person lonely, angry, or just going through the motions of being in a marriage?
People who claim to be happy with life and yet years down the road we find out that it was all a lie. How do we know if people are truely happy? What is the key to finding this out. How do we really know someone and how long does it take to find this out. Marriage is suppose to be a lifetime but as I know being divorced it is not always the case. My best friend is going on her four marriage for god sake and we are the same age. Is she happy, she says she is yet I am not so sure if you ask me.
Sometimes being lonely is better than being in a false relationship. I wonder if this is one of the reasons why we are finding more people alone than married or in some form of a relationship.
Laura

Lonely People

As I start new in this blogging world I wonder how many lonely people are out there right now reading or blogging. Lonely people still can be married or single but lonely just the same. Sometimes I wish I had friends, friends that I grew up with and known all my life and yet there are those people who have this and are just as lonely as me. I am not looking for a poor me pat on teh back but wonder how many others are just like me.

I wonder if anyone else will read this. I will blogging daily about this and other things that people are afraid to talk about in person or just in general. I hope that if anyone reads this will enjoy simple thoughts and comments about lonely people out there.
Laura