Conversation – 15

Welcome to the Snow Gallery. ♥ The things you can do with snow. 🙂

Almost time to jump into a new year. 🙂

@Sheba,
It happens! Happened to me many times! Sometimes I try to do the post over and other times I’m too tired to post again. Thanks for the beautiful mosaic art gallery!
I saw the other art piece you posted (Martin). Beautiful! How wonderful to own an original! I love the history attached to the painting. Thanks for sharing that! 😀
I hope your day has gone well. Are you getting ready for Jay King’s visit? I never called HSN back about calling in for Jay’s show.

@bichon18,
Hope you are getting better each day! I have never taken the antibiotic Levaquan but I know what you are talking about as some antibiotics have that effect on me because of my UC. About the only one that doesn’t bother me is Amoxicillin which is what I take before dental exams. I hope your antibiotics are agreeing with you and not making you sick. Be sure to eat plenty of yogurt. I’m sure Ari is being a big help with cuddling. 😀

@Cherie,
Get the Volvo! My brother has a Volvo similar to the one you posted and he loves it! He got his a couple of summers ago and has had a few road trips along the Cali coast, Oregon coast on his way to the lake house. He takes Simon (his cute fur baby) and they get some quiet time for a month or so. He is widowed and finds a lot of solace in these adventures with Simon.
As far as the Volvo commercial, I am not familiar with it or with the opera singer but I am very familiar with the aria and The Magic Flute from where the aria comes. My daughter has performed The Magic Flute many times with the city symphony orchestra and when she was a music performance major. She was principal flute. She also plays piccolo. She used to perform with the city opera too but loves playing music more than singing. She is a mezzo-soprano. My MIL was also an opera singer and was a soprano. She is almost 90 so her voice isn’t what it used to be but she can still sing! 😀 She is amazing!
I hope you get your Volvo, and like Sheba said, ride like the wind! Just don’t get any tickets! Lol!
Oh, Jonnie has an appointment Monday to get fixed. She is in heat again, poor baby. Vet said he does this surgery all the time on cats in heat and he will be very careful. I really don’t want to have it done with her in heat but hoping by Monday she will be through. The thing is that she keeps returning to a heat cycle within just a few days after it’s over. Poor baby is exhausted. I feel so bad for her and just want to cuddle it all away.

@loaf,
I hope you are well. Haven’t seen you post in a couple of days so I hope you are feeling well and your family is continuing to get better. I hope you had a great Christmas! How is the new puppy Bella doing?

@taci, @velvet, @mightymouse, Hope you are all doing well and resting well after Christmas. Hope everyone will have a happy new year! Hugs to all! 😀

PS. I love the golfing snowpersons. Still on HGTV. Showing beach houses. I am drooling. The sounds of the waves are spectacular. Jerry just got home and he will put on the news. No no no! No news. No no no.

Ari is right here. Jerry went to the club for dinner. Poor boy has been stuck inside of with take out. I am watching HGTV. I think I will window shop for Marla. Otherwise I am following doctor’s orders. Rest❤️🐶❤️👩🏻

Balance

A balanced lifestyle is simply a state of being, in which one has time and energy for obligations and pleasures.

Like pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of your being come together to form the person that you are. You work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with your body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of your life and self are in harmony. Your life force flows in a state of equilibrium because nothing feels out of sync. While balance is necessary to have a satisfying, energetic, and joyful life, only you can determine what balance means to you. ♥

Achieving balance requires that you assess what is important to you. The many demands of modern life can push us to make choices that can put us off balance and have a detrimental effect on our habits, relationships, health, and career. In creating a balanced lifestyle, you must ascertain how much time and energy you are willing to devote to the different areas of your life. To do so, imagine that your life is a house made up of many rooms. Draw this house, give each part of your life its own room, and size each room according to the amount of importance you assign to that aspect of your life. You can include family, solitude, activities that benefit others, healthy eating, indulgences, exercise and working on self. You may discover that certain elements of your life take up an inordinate amount of time, energy, or effort and leave you with few resources to nurture the other aspects of your life. You may want to spend less time on these activities and more on the ones that fulfill you.

A balanced lifestyle is simply a state of being in which one has time and energy for obligations and pleasures, as well as time to live well and in a gratifying way. With its many nuances, balance can be a difficult concept to integrate into your life. Living a balanced existence, however, can help you attain a greater sense of happiness, health, and fulfillment.

Just a little Gallery. ♥

@kittengirl,

Your post went poof too. I was signed out. LOL! Have a wonderful Thursday. 🙂

@bichon18,

Just rest! Take meds with food and ride it out you will be fine. I am sure little Ari
is by your side. 🙂

@loaf,

I hope this post finds your day going well. I know the sniffles and all. I hope everyone is
doing much better. Enjoy this and relax. ♥

xoxo,

Sheba

Thinking of you Loaf. 🙂

Cherie this is for you Lisette Oropesa sings “Aria of the Queen of Night”. ♥

Lisette Oropesa is one of the most in demand lyric coloraturas today, who has triumphed in various roles throughout the most important houses in Europe and the US.

A bel canto singer of considerable acclaim, Lisette had a major success recently at Covent Garden and the Teatro Real Madrid as LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. She appears regularly in major theatres all around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the Opéra National de Paris, and is set to make several more important debuts in the coming seasons. Known for her liquid legato and seamless voice, stylistic integrity, precise coloratura, and superlative acting, Lisette excels in the repertoire of the bel canto, Mozart, and French composers. Her upcoming season includes exciting role and house debuts, concerts, and welcome returns to many beloved theatres. ♥

Ari is watching Mommy. Watching news right now.

Going back to my movies❤️🐶❤️