Monica Kochelee

I can recall visiting my grandparents on their farm when I was a young child.   Seems to me that the only kitchen appliances they had were a range, an electric toaster, and a refrigerator/freezer.  Their smaller appliances were an electric mixer and a blender.  

My grandmother seemed to spend most of her day in the kitchen, cooking the meals and canning fruits and vegetables while my grandfather tended the animals and crops. 

Seems to me that’s all anyone that I knew had in the way of kitchen appliances.  If you wanted coffee, it was percolated in a pot on the stove-top.  If you wanted to open a can, you used a manual can opener.   The day’s garbage was fed to the pets, or thrown in the garbage can.

I look around my kitchen today and see my range, refrigerator/freezer, two microwave ovens, a bread machine, an electric coffeepot, a food processor, three slow-cookers, a George Forman-type grill, an automatic dishwasher, a hands-free battery operated can opener, a blender, an electric mixer, an electric waffle maker, and a toaster oven.  (Note:  some of these are tucked away in kitchen cupboards.)  I COULD have, but don’t want, a trash compactor and a garbage disposal. 

I’m really glad that technological advances have provided for all of these conveniences.  I don’t think I would have the time or energy to live the way my grandparents did!

To read my own tarot cards for me.  I’ve done a pretty good job of reading for other people, but as for reading for myself, I was never quite sure if I was reading what I “wanted” to read into it, or getting the “reality” of the reading.  And I’ve been reluctant to use those phone-in psychic services, and reluctant to use the pay-for-a reading Internet sites.  But, I’d like to have a reading!

So, I’m thrilled to find out about a brand new Internet fortune telling website called www.ifate.com.  The website offers (absolutely free) readings from a variety of sources, one of which is the tarot cards.

I went on the website today and tried a free tarot reading.  I asked the question “will I land the job I’m interviewing for tomorrow?”

In a nutshell, it looks like the answer is yes!  At the end of the reading, the website gave me a code (T2C521180211400470280B1 ) to copy down so I can go back and reference the reading again later!  I sure hope its right!  It does warn me that it will be tough!

Many years ago I became interested in metaphysical activities.  I enjoy having my fortune told.  I even took lessons in learning how to read tarot cards, but I haven’t read them for several years now.  I had a habit of seeing painful things that I didn’t want to see, so I stopped.

I have been wanting to have my fortune told lately, and have been trying to discretely inquire around where a “good” mystic might be.  Being new to the area, and not having a whole lot of friends around here yet, and I’m a little bit concerned about who I can ask for this information.  Most of the people I’ve met around here give me the feeling that they think fortune telling is “the devil’s work” so I haven’t been asking anyone yet.

We have a large family, and we like to get together for big family reunions and meals.  My mother recently married (after being widowed) a man who lives for teasing people and making sarcastic remarks.

Well, my entire family is quick witted, and we have a great time sharpening our teeth and using Sarcasm right back on this man!  He tries so hard to get the “upper hand” but he doesn’t have a chance against us!  It’s very funny to see how hard he tries, and yet always ends up licking his wounds.  It’s very ironic because he is always the one who starts the “match of wits!”

We usually get up really early Sunday mornings to do our grocery shopping.  We are usually out of the store by 8am.  Well, I wasn’t feeling very well and didn’t sleep well, so we didn’t even leave the house until 7:45am.  We got to the store about 8:05am.

Boy was the store extremely crowded!  I really did not expect it to be that crowded that early!  We had to stand in the checkout line for over an hour!  We didn’t get home until 11:30!

I guess in the future I’ll have to just bite the bullet and force myself to get up and go early no matter what.