MzSerena’s Garden

So, I’ve been seeing all kinds of new advertisements since the first of the year. One thing that I’ve noticed is that around the first of every year, you get a new round of celebrity spokespeople. It makes me wonder, sometimes, especially when it comes to the diet plans and pills, whether the celebrity has actually used the product or service that they are speaking for. For instance, the new celebrity spokes person for alli weight-loss is Wynonna Judd.

Everyone who knows who Wynonna is, knows that she has struggled with her weight for her entire life, so she would be an ideal spokesperson for a diet plan if she were to be losing weight. I know that she says that she wouldn’t endorse something that she isn’t really using it with success. But, they say that money talks and in a lot of cases, it really does. Does it talk for Wynonna or is she really finding success with Alli? I wish that there was a way to find out the real truth, especially since if it’s working for her, I’d be willing to try it for myself.

One of the things that really gives me great concern in life is that my mother, while only being 66, is less and less able to get around and do things on her own. She has fibromyalgia, which causes her a lot of pain and some diminished muscle tone, which makes her weak. This is one of the big reasons that my husband and I continue to live with her, as frustrating as it may be at times.

There are a lot of days when I hate living here because there is no privacy, but when I think about moving out, I can’t bring myself to consider it for more than a few seconds. I worry about my mother way too much. There’s the issue of her not eating properly if there is no one there to make sure there is a decent meal at least once a day. I know that when I wasn’t living there, she didn’t eat more than a sandwich or half a pack of Raman noodles. I was upset when I found this out because she doesn’t seem to want to take care of herself.

Another big issue I have with leaving her here alone is bathroom safety. She has, more than once, nearly fallen while getting in and out of the bathtub. If she was living here alone and fell, it could be a week before anyone noticed that there was something wrong, since we live out in the middle of nowhere. I know that when I was away, she hardly ever had anyone stop by, so that worries me, quite a bit.

I know that if I did move out, but was still close, I’d be on the phone with her almost all the time or I’d be here checking up on her, which really defeats the purpose of moving out, so why rock the boat? Why not stay here where I can keep a close eye on her, especially when she doesn’t realize that she needs someone here.

Charlaine Harris – Living Dead In Dallas (Southern Vampires Mystery Book 2)

Waiting tables, sweeping floors, reading minds and solving mysteries for the undead. It’s all in a day’s work for Sookie…
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of real bad luck. First, her co-worker gets murdered and no one seems to care. Then Sookie is attacked – and poisoned – late one night by some weird and apparently mythical beast. She only survives because the local vampires roll up and graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn’t enjoy it). But in return the blood-suckers need a favour.
Which is why Sookie ends up in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire, on the condition that her undead friends don’t do anything, well, vampiric while she’s there. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…