Since it has been literally ages since I blogged, here is an update on our activities.

First of all, I don't think I ever mentioned it here, but Ken and I got married on March 22, 2007.  We have been in a state of perpetual honeymoon ever since and intend to stay that way for the rest of our lives.  There is one picture in the gallery from our wedding at the moment and I will post some more soon.  Unfortunately between spending time with my new husband and going to work, I don't seem to have much time for going online like I used to!

Recently, Ken did another live chat on Most Haunted Zone, with favorable results as usual.  He amazed those who attended with the information he was able to give them.  We hope to do another live chat soon and I will post the day and time here and on the website.

I guess that is enough updating for right now.  In the future, I will try to post blogs more often.

As you know if you have read my blog at all, Ken is in the United States at the moment.  You would think that it would be easy to contact a spiritualist church here in America, and find one that would be very happy to have a medium who is visiting from the U.K. attend a service.

Think again.  I have contacted 3 Spiritualist Churches in this area, and only received a reply from one.  Unfortunately, this man's church did not do platform work, but he was nice enough to call me back, and try to help me by referring us to a church in this area that he knew of that DID platform work.  I appreciate the fact that he returned my call.  Especially considering the church he told me of never bothered to return my call.

So I contacted the main Spiritualist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, which is called Church of the Living Spirit....not once but twice.  First I used the contact form on their website.  After over a week with no reply, I contacted the president of the church directly by her email address which I got from the association of spiritualist church's website.  I still never received a reply.  So I decided to contact the national association directly to ask them for help.  Over a week and guess what?.....no reply.

As you know if you have visited the main page of our website, Ken was in great demand at churches all over the North East of England.  Why is it that there isn't a single Spiritualist Church here in Arizona that would like to have him attend a service?  Could it be because they are afraid a true medium will show them up, and reveal them as what they truely are?  I wonder.......

Just as we were about to leave the house this morning, I got a call from work asking me to come in for a while today although it is my day off.  Although I can't blame them for trying, as I would do the same if I was working shorthanded, which happens all too often, Ken and I still already had plans to do certain things that needed to be done, so I had to say sorry but no.

Today I am going to try to make a latte here at home by brewing double strength coffee and adding some heated milk and gingerbread syrup.  I know it won't taste as good as a latte from work, but I'm going to try anyway, lol.  When I can, I am going to get an espresso machine for at home, ha ha.  Isn't it funny how you can easily become addicted to this type of drink?  It's a good thing, or we'd be out of business, and I'd be out of a job.  Or IS that a good thing???  Debatable that is. 

Before coming here to the U.S., Ken almost NEVER drank coffee, but now is drinking it several times a day.  Perhaps I am a bad influence!  A nice lady who is a customer of ours at work brought Ken some tea bags called PG Tips, but sorry to say, I couldn't see any difference between those and Lipton.  Oh well.  I'm hardly an expert on tea.

Enough rambling for today.

Relaxing at home...it may sound boring to some, but it can be quite nice.  It's certainly better than being all stressed out at work isn't it?

Today we cooked....I helped Ken make butterfly cakes and cheese straws and we put together some corned beef and potatos for what I call dinner and he calls tea.  And we didn't even go anywhere at all.  What a nice way to spend a day together!

I can't wait for my next two days off from work!  Only one day tomorrow and then I have Tues. and Wed. free.  Ken and I haven't made any plans yet, but hopefully we will do something fun as we always do. 

Last Friday, when I had a day off, we were on our way to the library and happened to see a classic fire engine parked in front of the fire station on the same street as the library, so of course I took a few pix of Ken standing by it.  They are now in the gallery if anyone would like to see them.  The only thing missing is a fire helmet on Ken's head, lol!

Last night we cooked chicken curry from a recipe I found on CD Kitchen, then modified to suit us.  We had that for dinner tonight and it was quite good! 

That's all that is new right now.  Sorry I haven't been blogging as much as I should, but perhaps I will find more time, ha ha.

The past week has not been good for me at all.  Halloween night, which was my first night at work for Starbucks, my dad came into my job to tell me my mother had gone to the hospital.

The next day, she passed away.  She had been ill for quite some time, and I am happy that she is no longer suffering, but is alive and well in the spirit world.

Afterward there was the planning of the funeral and such.  Monday night was the viewing at the mortuary, then Tuesday afternoon was the funeral. 

Just when I thought I could begin to get my life back to some semblance of normalcy, my browser was hijacked yesterday.  It took me all day to be able to get my computer working normally again.  I thought I was going to have to get someone else to repair it at first, although I have always fixed my own computer.  Finally, though, I was able to find the problem.  So far, so good today.

The worst thing was not being able to speak to Ken yesterday.  He has helped me through my time of loss, as he has helped many others.

I hope things can begin to return to whatever normal is now.

It's a beautiful day outside here in Arizona, where I live.  The sun shining, the sky blue with a few white clouds, the temperature perfect for being outside.  And yet.....

On my personal homefront, I filled out paperwork for employment at Albertson's, in the Starbuck's espresso bar, got a name tag with a time clock bar code on the back, two uniform shirts and a baseball cap that proudly proclaims "Starbuck's" on the front.  I should be fairly happy, right?  But am I?  Not really.  The hours are sometimes going to take me away from things I would rather be doing unfortunately.  But enough about me.

Ken will be chatting in the Most Haunted Zone chatroom on November 7th at 7 pm GMT.  If there is any change in this, I will let you know.  Here is the link for those who may need it:  www.mosthauntedzone.co.uk 

This is all for now....might possibly blog again later, if something interesting enough to talk about enters my mind.

Welcome to this first entry in our blog.  I hope no one is disappointed that it's me writing instead of Ken, but you know, he's a busy guy!  I hope to see all of our friends here leaving comments, such as Vicki, my co-webmaster, Amy, Auds, and anyone else who has the time to drop by.  I also hope we meet lots of new friends.  So if anyone reads this, leave a comment.  I'll come read your blog and leave a comment in return!

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