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I created and started this thread 13 years ago in March. 😎🎈
I will change it often from now on. This is just a knock around
thread about things in life. My life and others. I am an avid Heidi
Daus Collector, former singer, model and so on. I do this thread because
I enjoy what I do. I love fashion and music and HSN is a little of both.
I cover a lot of music and fashion on this thread. ✨😎
I am going to wish Happy Holidays to all the Peeps out there and please
stay safe. 🌹✨😎I have been shopping and posting on HSN since the late
90’s 😎I have wonderful memories from the HSN we all know and love.
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A Change Is Gonna Come
Song by Sam CookeI was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh, and just like the river, I’ve been running
Ever since
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh yes, it will
It’s been too hard living
But I’m afraid to die
‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there
Beyond the sky
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh yes, it will
I go to the movie
And I go downtown
And somebody keep telling me
“Don’t hang around”
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh yes, it will
Then, I go to my brother
And I say, “Brother, help me, please”
But he winds up knockin’ me
Back down on my knees, oh
There been times that I thought
I couldn’t last for long
But now, I think I’m able
To carry on
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
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Peace Out Peeps enjoy your evening. 😎
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Enjoy! 😎💕
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Good Evening i am watching the Hockey Team too. 😎There was some drama earlier.
I hope to get back on my sleep schedule once this is over. I am so enjoying everything.
My body aches when I see the snow boarding. I am going to hop in the shower and watch
some more.
Enjoy this and let the Games continue. 😎💕😘🎈
Sweet Dreams.
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Good Evening I know how you feel about getting rid of stuff. 😎
I have to say oops I did it again with Heidi Daus. 💕😎
I have every single thing in this picture my husband brought this for a special
date. 💕😘I am done for a while. 😎
As always your food sounds so good and I am glad your husband got to see you. 💕
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Another day of lots of watching. The men’s and women’s hockey games will be getting down to the nitty gritty.🏒🥅 Both US teams should win a medal. I was thrilled the bobsled woman Elena won gold yesterday.🥇
Thank you, bartender, for all my evening drinks. Each one looks better than the last.🍷🍸🍹
Back to the evening games. Gold medal hugs to you and Poppy.🤗💖
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I am with hubs as I type. A beautiful and warm Tuesday. I think the temp hit 76 degrees. The evening low will be in the mid 50s. Still have not used the A/C since Nov. something. Humidity is doable.
Made a stop at Sams Club. Had a yen for ribs. None. Maybe next week. Did pick up the shrimp and Cobb salad. Also a Baldacci book. Line for gas so decided to wait a day or two. May get the gas at Costco.
I started going through the never ending task of donations. So far I have marked quite a few boxes with a “D.” Makes me feel good to donate where someone could use them. It also means more room in cabinets and closets. Of course that means more stuff. Who can resist.😇😇
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Good day in the ‘burgh. 😎💕🎈I know you are glued to the Games.
Just want to wish you a nice fat Tuesday. LOL! 🎈
Hey when the time is right enjoy a drink. 💕😎
Sending warm vibes to you and Jake. 😘🎈
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Good Morning in S. California. 🎈💕😎Taci I hope your new plants are growing
beautifully. 💕
I will be able to plant in OZ in a couple of months. 😎
Enjoy your day.
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In August 1979, Nora Ephron was seven months pregnant when she found the love letter.
It wasn’t hidden very well.
It was inside a children’s book in her Georgetown home — a gift meant for her husband. From another woman.
Inside, a tender inscription.
The kind you don’t misread.
The kind that splits your life into before and after.
Her husband was Carl Bernstein — the journalist who helped expose Watergate. Their marriage was high-profile, glamorous, politically connected.
The other woman was Margaret Jay — daughter of a former British Prime Minister and wife of the British Ambassador to the United States.
Not a stranger.
A guest at their table.
Rumors had circulated for months. Washington always whispers before it speaks. But Nora, pregnant and raising their young son, had chosen not to believe them.
Now the proof was in her hands.
She flew to New York and sat in her therapist’s office.
“My heart is broken,” she said. “I will never be the same.”
The therapist replied calmly: “You were going to leave him eventually.”
Days later, she went into early labor. On August 15, 1979, she gave birth to their second son.
That December, gossip columns made the affair public.
Nora packed up her children and left Washington for New York — the city she had never wanted to abandon in the first place.
She moved in temporarily with her friend and editor Robert Gottlieb. Two babies. A broken marriage. A public scandal.
Most people would have hidden.
Nora did something else.
She wrote.
In 1983, she published *Heartburn* — a novel so lightly fictionalized it barely bothered with disguise.
Rachel Samstat, a cookbook author, discovers her political journalist husband is having an affair while she’s seven months pregnant.
The names changed.
The betrayal didn’t.
Nora layered the story with recipes she had once cooked for Carl. She infused it with wit sharp enough to sting.
“If I tell the story, I control it,” her narrator says. “If I tell it, I can make you laugh.”
The book was funny.
Painfully funny.
It was also unmistakable.
Carl Bernstein was furious. He publicly said he wished she hadn’t written it. Friends whispered to reporters. Legal threats followed when Hollywood announced a film adaptation.
It didn’t matter.
In 1986, *Heartburn* became a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.
Carl could not stop it.
Nora had taken something that humiliated her and turned it into authorship.
And she didn’t stop there.
She went on to write *When Harry Met Sally…*
Then *Sleepless in Seattle.*
Then *You’ve Got Mail.*
She became one of the defining voices of romantic comedy — not because she believed love was simple, but because she understood how complicated it was.
She knew what it meant to be disappointed.
To start over.
To laugh instead of collapse.
In 1987, she married screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi. They remained together for the rest of her life.
She never publicly re-litigated the divorce. She didn’t need to.
She had already written it.
When Nora Ephron died in 2012, her memorial drew filmmakers, actors, writers — and Carl Bernstein himself.
Her son later titled a documentary about her *Everything Is Copy.*
It was her philosophy.
The affair.
The heartbreak.
The humiliation.
All of it became material.
Carl Bernstein helped bring down a president.
Nora Ephron did something quieter and, in its own way, just as enduring.
She proved that when you tell your own story, no one can take it from you.
She couldn’t stop the betrayal.
But she could turn it into art.
And art, unlike scandal, lasts.
The pen doesn’t just record what happens.
Sometimes it redeems it.
And in the end, Nora had what she wanted most:
The narrative.
And the final word.
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🔥 The Fire Horse cycle begins
February 17, 2026 — February 5, 2027
Stillness closes, movement answers.
This is not a quiet energy. It pushes decisions forward, breaks hesitation, and asks you to act instead of waiting.
Expect courage where you used to doubt. Clarity where you used to overthink. Momentum where you felt paused.
This is a season for bold direction, independence, and trusting your inner spark.
Not comfort , evolution.
Move intentionally. Choose with confidence. Let your fire lead.🔥 -
Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 💕😎🎈I know you have a busy day and I am
hoping you can see your hubby today. I am sure that will put a smile on his face. 🎈💕Oz is alright today we have a chill but good walking weather. 😎
I am making some chili for hubby he will love it after he gets off from work.
I’ve started spring cleaning and I have lots of stuff to get rid of. LOL! I think we all do.
Oodie enjoy your day and visit with hubby. 😎💕🎈 Heads up the Recaptcha is a headache
today.
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