Noury's Creative World…

Get ready!  I just purchased this used, but new to me, book about writing.  I am getting oh, so ready to create my next masterpiece.  Maybe by the end of 2020.  That number sounds good.  I think I will be seventy-something.  Just the perfect age to write a Pulitzer-Prize-piece-of-work.

Just noticed while taking the picture that this is the “Instructor’s Edition.”  Meaning what, I yet don’t get it.  Yes, I did get it!  It is meant to be for a teacher.  That much I get.  I have just been elevated to that level.  Something is going to stick in my ever glowing brain.

Last week I attended a creative writing workshop, and the main speaker was an old-good-fellow who happens to be a Pulitzer Prize winner.  And he said: ” Anyone can write a book that makes you feel happy.”  According to him it was a quote from Kafka.  Another oh so good writer.  Sorry to disappoint my now very famous audience, but I have only seen a picture of Mr. Kafka.  So much for my credibility.  But I don’t feel so bad, because last year, that is, 2012, this humble blog was read in 59 countries around our beautiful Planet Earth.  No Martians yet.  Sometime soon, by 2020, that’s why I am getting ready.

Make what you want of all of this.  I am just chillin and having a good time doing some serious reading and hoping to jump from mediocre to at least decent writings.

Thanks God for hope.

Until my next masterpiece…no…I will be writing before 2020.

Your Happy Contessa

“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”  Franz Kafka, German-language writer of novels and short stories.  3 July, 1883 – 3 June 1924.

There certain numbers of fears we have, I think, as we get older. Some of them are,  feeling that we are not relevant any more, that what we have to say is not appreciated or totally ignored, but mostly for women is the one of getting wrinkles and those marionette lines.  If I could come up with something to inflate that area, the lines around my mouth,  I could be 110% gorgeous.  I am now 100%, but like the probabilities of being a tiny bit better.  I have never been known to be modest.  Why change at this stage?

I have to laugh when I read some comments being made anywhere about us, the “older, dumb, don’t get it, don’t understand, senile, deaf, (this one I use at my convenience), little old lady, she doesn’t know”, and a myriad of adjectives, nouns and other fancies used to describe us all, the baby boomer generation and the generation before us.  What are they called, I wonder…

What are we to do?  Speaking for myself…let them think whatever they want…I am having it my way and dancing all the way to my daily life of happiness.  When “they” get to this stage in life, only the good Lord knows how these much younger generations, that have their eyes glued to a tv screen, a smart tablet or phone, that cannot have a conversation without checking their “smart” thing, will make it.  May the Lord have mercy on those of “them” that are putting labels on us now.

One of my fantasies is that by that time, the time when these younger things get older, the production of hair-coloring-products would be non-existent…that will teach them all the lessons in one bottle.  It would be close to the end of the world…talking for myself.  Can you imagine a whole population of people with white or gray hair?  Horror of horrors.

Remember, we’ve been there, done that and are coming back, twice, from where you are headed to.

Good luck, or as the French say…Bon Courage!

Loving my life as it is…very happy with my monthly hair coloring session.  Cannot imagine my life without it.  Color 4G, because I am worth it.

Your Happy Contessa

“Life couldn’t be better.”  Moi

Sunglasses for lizards!

I think this is a marvelous business idea…but first need to get a manufacturer in the United States, because it needs to be an American product.  Only buy things made in the good old U.S.A.  Sorry China, maybe some other time.

Now, back to the mini-tiny sunglasses.  I like the idea of all black, like the very world-famous Ray Bans.  These will be called Liz Ban.  Cool.  Maybe in the future I will add some color.  What about a case for the sunglasses?  All fake leather, because do not want to hurt these prospective customers’ feelings.  Oh yes, need to develop glass cleaner to be handled with tiny little toes.

What do you think?  I really think I have too much time in my hands, and frankly, I just had my first great laugh of the year.

Not so hot an idea…right!  I need to continue searching for another big-business-bam- idea.  Suggestions need not to apply.  Thank you very much.

Well…another sunny day in Florida watching the little lizards sunbathe themselves.

Your Happy Contessa

“It is not what happens to you, but what you do with it that matters.”  Someone very smart.

Now, finally I am back in cold, rainy, Florida. Hello sunshine, where are thou?

Had a fantastic time while in the land of Oz, where the biggest collection of clowns reside in what we call the United States Capitol.  Sarcasm was not my intention to start the new year with.

Happy 2013!!!!!

That’s better.  I had a happy, happy again and more happy time with my lovely daughter, her fiance, my grand-doggie, Baxter Brown, and my very good friend Miss Lucy.

Good food, good times, good cheer, but good to be back on my own bed and plenty of time to watch my ever missed Hispanic soap operas.  Have watched at least fifteen episodes.  I recorded four of them, times number of days I was away…whole weekend to catch up.  I have such a great life.

That’s it!  Needed to change all the glitter and poinsettia.

My best wishes for a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year.

Your Happy Contessa

From the sunny, kind of warm State of Florida, I want to wish you my friends from all over the world, a very Merry Christmas, or a very Happy Your Holiday, and a peaceful, joyful New Year.  For the citizens in my age bracket…let’s add a year full of good health and no visits to any doctors whatsoever.

This orange tree is one of many in “my gardens.”  Oranges are somehow related to Christmas, because they used to be a favorite to receive when you were a child.

So…I will be away for a little while…going to visit my lovely, gorgeous daughter, her fiance and my grand-doggie, Baxter Brown.  Most adorable puppy ever.  Let’s see how we get along.  I am hoping for a love fest between that puppy and me.  Miracles do happen.

Well…so long, and I never get tired of thanking all of you for being curious about my life and my do-abouts.

Love is in the air…Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!!!!

Your Happy Contessa

I am feeling so happy right now…just thinking about the real meaning of Christmas…being with my loved ones and feeling oh, so grateful, for my family and friends.

The above photo is from my local library and it evoked in me a feeling of being grateful for being part of an international community where we celebrate each and all of us.

Frankly, sometimes I equate Christmas with spending money and stress, but if I put that thought aside, and think about enjoying my coffee, my breakfast, my moments with my friends and family, then the paradigm changes instantly.

It feels great to be alive, to be looking forward to visiting with my family, and to just being…happy.

Your Happy Contessa

Yes, indeed, yesterday, Thanksgiving Day in the United States, we ate as if almost there is not going to be any more food for the rest of the year.  And, yes, I ate it all.  No dessert, though.  My gracious hostess offered some pie, but I said no.  Where was my brain when I said no.  Later I regretted that, because once the damage/pleasure of eating that delicious meal, what gives.  A few thousand calories more or less is not going to hurt anyone.  So dessert will have to wait for after Christmas dinner.  Not too many days to go.

I spent Thanksgiving Day with my lovely family, and boy, did they have a full spread.  The very traditional Thanksgiving Day meal.  Everything and anything.  Lovely time.  I even discussed some hair spray issues with my grandchildren and one of their cousins.  Who knew!  They recommended to me which ones to avoid and which ones to use if I wanted extra hold.  I should have asked them for shampoo issues.  Next time.

No, I did not go shopping at Midnight.  No way!  I waited until after my morning walk, got my car keys and there I went.  I looked as if I had just rolled out of bed and went out.  I could tell by the looks I was getting.  No makeup, a baseball cap to cover that I had not yet combed my hair, and my sunglasses.  Who cares!  Some stores were 50% off, the whole store!  What’s going on?  Either “they” are sticking it to us for the rest of the year, or things are questionable.  I was not in a mood to ask them.

Got a nice little coat and some apples.  No, apples were at their regular price.  But I needed fiber in my daily diet.  No…I am a very regular girl.  Thank you very much.

Well…there you have it…another Thanksgiving Day down the pipes…now looking forward to shopping for…Christmas.  Do you think I may find some stores at 75% off, or maybe, if I am lucky, they’ll give it to me for free.  This is America, anything goes.

Your Happy Contessa

“Love is a wonderful thing.”  Moi and some other people.

There is always something in my life to be grateful for.  I am grateful for all of you from all over the world that stop and take precious time out of your day to read what is going on in my life and in my mind at any particular moment.

I am grateful that I have my good health, my mind, my heart, and that all of me is functioning properly as I type.  What happens tomorrow, stays with tomorrow.  Right now I am all feeling grateful for a gazillion number of things.

I realized some time ago, that most of the “stuff” that surrounds me is just that, stuff.  The most important things in my life that bring me moments of awe are things I cannot buy or that belong to me.  A beautiful sunset, the purity and innocence of a baby, breathtaking nature and mostly important, my friends that accept me and understand me as I am.  Probably our spirits are in constant communication with each other.  Spirits are an extension of the goodness of God in each one of us.

I am grateful that I live in this country, the United States of America, and that there is a day that we celebrate our gratitude to the Almighty.

My best wishes for a very peaceful, safe and Happy Thanksgiving Day.

My love always to all of you,

Your Happy Contessa