Have you found and guessed any of my free shipping questions yet?  How about the questions I asked yesterday about the Lifetime Original Movie?

Good Luck and Have fun!

Happy 4th of July Weekend!

I have revised most of my listings so that you have a good chance of free shipping by answering an easy question.  Most of them are fun, and all you need to do is look something up on Wikipedia or the IMDB to the answer if you don't know it. 

Join the fun.  Check out  my listings and take me up on the free shipping.  I am already having a 10% off sale as it is.  Great savings available.

No one has answered the "Dying to Belong" question from my last blog.  Remember the IMDB.com.  The info is quite readily available. 

Just bundles of free shipping wherever you turn.

Have a ball.  Who doesn't like winning a contest?

Your pal,

Laura

Sprinkled throughout my listings are questions, relating to the topic of my listings, that if you get correctly, result in free shipping.  Have you noticed them?  There is one on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, one on Rwanda, one about Dr. Who, and I am always adding more.  Look for them.

The first person who e-mails me the answer to this tough one today gets one item shipped for free from the total of my items -- in other words, one item from either my store or my auction listings.

In the Lifetime Original Movie "Dying to Belong" who are the two main characters? I am looking for the actors' names, not the characters.  They run this movie all the time, and it has an Oscar winner in it.

Good luck and happy shopping!

Your pal,

Laura

There are some characteristics of each person, or each married couple or  each family that are unique to that particular group.  They make up the ways in which we define ourselves. 

At our worst,  they are things like status, and the "keeping up with the Jones's" mentality.  Let's hope that the goal of making ourselves feel better by putting others down isn't a quality that binds us. 

Our family defines ourselves by trying to follow the core values of Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility.  We also like to watch movies together.  We love each other, a lot.  We are the merger of Mom's family and Dad's family and we all like history, at least a little bit.  We throw good parties. We love Dr. Who.

In our marriage we define ourselves as loving and trusting each other, and relying on each other.  We enjoy finding the worst Lifetime Original Movies to watch on a regular basis.  We are honest with each other.  We fight a lot, and make up a lot.  We love deeply and without regret.  The kids come first.

As a person, I am true to myself and try to always speak the truth.  Sometimes I am so truthful that I am hurtful to others.  I am a feminist.  I am proud of my family heritage, and also glad to have joined my husband's family.  I am in love with my family.  I am comfortable with the notion that I am intelligent.  I am a loyal friend.  I like that person that I have become.

I don't like when people die and they make a picture collage or video at the mortuary to summarize the person's life.  A person is so much more.  You can't just throw some snippets together to remember someone by.  I am constantly evolving and changing, and have had ups and downs and am incredibly complex.  I cannot be reduced to a photo or video to make my mourners feel more comfortable. 

As a rule, I don't make people feel comfortable.  I am really really intense.  I am pretty much myself, all the time.  What you see, is what you get. 

I suppose my human spirit is right out there for the world to see.  And that is a good thing and a bad thing, changing with every given day.  Mostly good!

Your pal,

Laura

Does life go on, no matter what?  Is there a time to every purpose under heaven?  Is there a heaven?  Why do good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people? 

No, no one has died as of this point, but these are the things I have been thinking of today, and I share them with you.  I don't think that you have the answers, either.  Frankly, anyone who claimed to be able to answer these questions would make me suspicious straight away.  I don't want to join a cult, thank you very much. 

Here are some things I do know:

I have the exact right husband for me.  I don't think it is a coincidence that he came into my life at the exactly right time and we are good for each other.  We each rely on the strengths and compensate for the weaknesses of one another.

I have the children that I was meant to have.  I woudn't change them one bit.  I live my life everyday a better woman for having them in my life.

I have friends, sick and healthy, who are loving and supportive and caring, and they are wonderful to have in my life.

I have an illness that I struggle with, but with the love of my family and my doctors, I keep it mainly under control.

I don't really believe in the bible.

So, my beliefs don't really add up to very much.  I guess I believe in more than just what is on the surface of life, but I don't believe the Judeo-Christian lifestyle hook, line and sinker.

And thus, I can't answer my own questions posed at the beginning of this blog.  I like to think that there is a time to every purpose under heaven.  It makes me feel as though I am a part of something greater than myself, and that feels comforting. 

Maybe comfort, rather than security or surety is all that we can have right now, or all that I can have.  I am still pondering. 

Your pal,

Laura