HOT OFF THE PRESSES...NO REALLY IT IS!

Now that I'm off my sugar hangover, on to the BIG news!! I have my book in my grubby lil hands!! YES!! I am finally an AUTHOR!

You can order it from my site awitchywoman.com and it's also on Amazon. In no time I will be on the best sellers on Amazon! Woo Hoo! I'm getting great feed back so far. I am proud of my first book.

Now I'm working on 2 more! Who Knew! I can't believe it myself! Looks like Bill Christy was my Drano.

Gotta go and git to writing, or exercising or at least my prosperity book camp homework. Something more productive than writing to myself!

BB
WW

SUGARLAND EXPRESS!

Well, I'm back from my sugar coma! Leave it to Christians to take a Pagan holiday and commercialize & candy it up! How they sold candy, chocolate bunnies and colored eggs as a way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ to the masses is beyond me. They stole the Ostara holiday and it's traditions from the Pagans then persucute them for it....go figure. ( Hmmm it appears I'm still working thru being killed in a past life for it)

Eostre (pronounced E-ostra)
Eostre is the Pagan holiday that celebrates the return of spring and the balance between light and dark on, or around, the Spring Equinox. Eostre was the Pagan goddess of dawn, fertility and new beginnings. The Christian celebration of Christ's rebirth, Easter, is also celebrated around this time and got its name from Eostre. Eostre - Did U Know?
Eostre gave a rabbit friend the power to lay eggs once a year - on the Spring Equinox. The eggs symbolized new beginnings and the rabbit symbolized fertility. I got this little diddy from kidzworld.com

Look and no reference to satan! You'd think if Witches worshipped satan they wouldn't leave him out of any holiday. DUH! (pssst, any Christians out there?? We don't believe in satan. YOU DO! So quit pushing him off on us! He's your deal NOT ours!)

Why are major Christian holidays layered on older Pagan festivals? (because we have the coolest traditions) The central reason is that as Christianity was struggling for acceptance in Europe, (ya think???) the country-folk would not give up their age-old traditions. (is it any wonder??) By blending the old with the new, it was easier for the Church to convert the locals. (i.e. persecute into submission/conversion) I got this info from paganwiccan.about.com

I guess I must still be on a sugar hangover which is why I'm on my wee soapbox. You'd think I'd learn.

Blessed Be!
WW

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT!

OMG! It was one of those moments you've heard about but think "Ahhhh not me! Not for a looooooonnng time!" Well, that day has arrived for me and Psychic Boy. The day you realize you really are....dare I say it....oooooo I don't want to....ok, suck it up and just say it! The day you realize you really are.........MIDDLE AGED!! *big sigh*

I mean, you know you are, but you don't really think about it. You look good, people still think you're twen....OK!! Thirty something. I'm not budging on that one! So it's not real. Until.......you're jamming to a song (Take It To The Limit by the Eagles.) and then you hear the radio ad and you realize you have it on......*gulp*...you have it on.....*big gulp*......you have it on the OLDIES STATION!!!! The fact that it's the Eagles on the radio is your first clue! WHAT??? My parents listened to the oldies station NOT ME! Then you feel the blood drain right out of your body! You feel faint, glad you're not standing but scared that you are driving with no blood to the brain. Oh good a stop light, I can gather my wits about me, what little I have. It really hits you that you are indeed *hands now shaking* (& not from Parkinson's) MIDDLE AGED! How the hell did that happen??? When did it happen?? This is total BS!!

It was then I realized that me and Psychic Boy are getting into our "Golden Years" Too dramatic? Too bad. We now have our own "Good Ole Days" & "Well, when I was in school......" EEEEEEK! Holy crap Batman!

In these days of cable tv where your kids watch the same shows you did i.e. Brady Bunch, The Monkees, Adams Family ect. And they do know a lot about the stuff that was around when we were a kid because of shows like "That 70's Show." It has helped shrink the generation gap with our kids. So in return MIDDLE AGE sneaks up on ya! YOU just don't see it coming.

We had another incident prior to this one that I let slide last week. But after this little hammer to the head, I have to count this as well. Psychic Boy said one of his phone clients was hitting on him and she was a younger woman. I asked how young (we try & out do each other..I had a 19 yr. old admirer for awhile). I did NOT like the answer! She was......*choking now*.....she was *cough cough sputter sputter*..... 36!!! 36????? Really?? A younger woman 36???? I was thinking 22 or 23 or twenty freakin something!! Certainly not thinking pushing 40!! BAAAAAA WAAAAAAA!

So there you have it folks! I admit it! I am middle aged *sobbing now* *wiping gigantic tears and snotty nose* Funny thing is I don't mind being 44. It's the whole MIDDLE AGED *echo echo* thing. Old people were always middle aged. NOT ME DAMMIT!

Well, you won't catch me sitting at home knitting, wearing a shawl, waiting for my AARP card to come in. They say that 40 is the new 30 and that works for me! I had my slap of reality and I'm quite happy to go back into my happy denial of being in my 30's! We have great role models today like Oprah, Goldie Hawn, Susan Sorandon, ect that we don't have to accept the status quo or "granny" status of age.

I'm going for my botox shots now so until next time.....

Blessed Be!
W.W.