Sparkles, Sparkles and Sparkles

 

Define Sparkles...

Physical Effect: To shine brightly with small, quick flashes of light, like sunlight on water or the reflection of a diamond.

Personality: A person who "sparkles" is described as lively, intelligent, and witty.

January 19, I put away all Christmas, but left the tree because its cold and I like sparkles because this is my Florida fireplace. 

January Sparkles, from My Nook,  it is now Feb and the tree is still there.

Before I got old and memory impaired, the house was full of candles, and I collected from thrift stores candle holders, the long ones , not the fat ones.. 

I have not used these in about 10 years.

It Feb. and I am Sitting on my sofa, and this is what I see. 

The tree is still up, but I did remove the glass balls, now its just a sparkle tree.

But wait, there are more, to be continued

January 26 9th Anniversary

I missed posting this on Jan. 26, 2026, my 9th Anniversary of giving up Sugar and have had none for 9 years.

photos above are from January 26, 2017- March 2018

Current Me 2025, well there is none. Below is last photo  taken Feb 20, 2025

 and this was one of only 2 taken since 2023, and both were early 2025. Our world turned upside down March 28th, 2025, when Bob stopped Walking.

I gave up processed sugar. and I lost 60 pounds the first year, and another 20 for a total of 80 lbs weight loss after I realized the only way to stop the yo you weight loss/gain was to

 give up the thing I was addicted to. Sugar! I had/still have a life long addiction to processed sugar. 

I am 9 years sober from that addiction

 

There are certain foods I cannot have in the house. Oreo's, soft chewy chocolate chip cookies, Doritos, chips, Frito's, Cheetos and ice cream. cakes, pies anything else with sugar is OK, and I will ignore them. The listed foods I avoid like the plague. Fat and Sugar and Salt.. No sugar and closely monitor the fat and salt.

I found a way to have Chocolate on rare occasions. 

Melt a Bar of Bakers Dark Chocolate, in a 2 cup glass measuring cup in the microwave,

 stir in 1 package of sweetener. 

pour small circles of it on to a sheet of aluminum foil, freeze while flat, remove when frozen and place in a zip-lock bag. 

Note: pure dark chocolate is OK for IBS, as is pure chocolate powder.  Before IBS I added nuts, now I just make the chocolate. 

I can eat pizza, about, once a month.. a burger once a month with chips or fries. 

Proof of how crazy I have been, I ordered pizza at 10 am to be delivered at Noon that day, and my standing instructions are no contact delivery, leave on white bench on Porch.

I got the TEXT that said Your Driver Is Here and thought

OH NO....I forgot to prepare the bench. There was no where to sit it, I opened the door in my flannel gown, see the arm out the door? I opened the door and stuck my arm out and said through the crack, I forgot to clean off the bench, and he said no problem, but I have to take a photo to close out the app.

My Five Minutes of Fame, photo and a copy of the text proving he delivered it.

This will have to do as my current photo for 2026.

Sunday Selfie (BeauSpeak)

Mama got confused, posted two on same day, pulled this one back, and today is NOT Sunday.

We are fine, no pipes burst, the wind howled but did not damage she can see in the dark. 

Now to my belated Sunday Selfie

When a new bed suddenly appeared in the middle of the living room floor, I refused to get on it. Mama said to me, bye, bye, I will be right back, and went out the door and I heard the garage door go up and back down and I headed for the bed.

You see she tricked me, by putting it right by Daddy's bed.

She found me sleeping on it and I heard daddy say, he has been there since you left.

as she snapped photos, I moved to get away from the lens

I was close to Daddy and slept there all morning 1 hour, while Mama went to her doctor appt. 

When she came home the bed disappeared. 

Gone.

then I went to bed, and there it was, in my Condo/walk-in closet. My bed that I had slept on for 5 years was Gone, My blankets were on it and my pillow but it was NOT MY BED. I slept on a similar bed next to Mama's side of their   bed, and refused to sleep in the closet. 

Two nights later, we were back to my old routine and I love it and my achy bones love it.