Earrings, Sacagewea, squirrels, soup, and sleep

Sacajawea--one of my favs

Jedi Squirrels under the Nut Moon

My free Native American Horoscope! Wow! It contained so much, all for free! ( a slight note of rare sarcasm from jean)

Other than the ardent pursuit of my Amazon vine badge AGAIN (apparently, I realized yesterday, after having wasted half a day on this) Amazon.com has now have altered "the look of the program"--I still get the free stuff, but only have a vine under the things from the actual program which I have received free and reviewed, and it doesn't work out all that well because disgruntled people who don't have a vine come and hit negatively upon all of us vine reviewers' reviews--how understandable yet mean! geesh! So it's pretty unpleasant being a vine reviewer. Not much glory going on here.

..anyway, apart from that, my mission in life at the moment is to work on my earrings which I am contributing to a book, deadline due this month, and to decide if I want to write up to 3 columns for something (I sort of do want to!), and to eat too much soup right before I fall asleep at night, and to sleep.

Ah yes, October, Monthus Sealy Posturepedicus. That is an understatement. When the light changes, whoa--look out! Just...don't even try to get out of those pyjamas ! It's all about resting up for winter.

Speaking of this, and the future in general, I signed up for a "free preview" for a Native American horoscope from iVillage:

Not sure why I chose Native American, but it seemed cool at the time. Maybe one of my former lives was calling. I used to read the tale of Sacajawea over and over as a child. She was a special historical figure to moi.

Now I learn Stephen Ambrose, who wrote Citizen Soldier, an extremely famous book in which my father appears, quoted concerning WWII (they became friends--my father loved writing handwritten letters to people in his almost impossible to read left-handed lettering--I got my left handedness from him), also wrote a book about Meriweather Lewis which of course has got to have Sacajawea in it.. Here are some descriptions and reviews:

Amazon.com:

"A biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author's personal travels along Lewis and Clark's route to the Pacific. Ambrose is not content to simply chronicle the events of the "Corps of Discovery" as the explorers called their ventures. He often pauses to assess the military leadership of Lewis and Clark, how they negotiated with various native peoples and what they reported to Jefferson. Though the expedition failed to find Jefferson's hoped for water route to the Pacific, it fired interest among fur traders and other Americans, changing the face of the West forever. "

From Publishers Weekly:

" Ambrose has written prolifically about men who were larger than life: Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Colonel Custer. Here he takes on half of the two-headed hero of American exploration: Meriwether Lewis. Ambrose, his wife and five children have followed the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition for 20 summers, in the course of which the explorer has become a friend of the Ambrose family; the author's affection shines through this narrative. Meriwether Lewis, as secretary to Thomas Jefferson and living in the White House for two years, got his education by being apprenticed to a great man. Their friendship is at the center of this account. Jefferson hand-picked Lewis for the great cross-country trek, and Lewis in turn picked William Clark to accompany him. The two men shook hands in Clarksville, Ohio, on October 14, 1803, then launched their expedition. The journals of the expedition, most written by Clark, are one of the treasures of American history. Here we learn that the vital boat is behind schedule; the boat builder is always drunk, but he's the only one available. "

and that is where I arbitrarily cut off the review. So sue me.

here is my free horoscope:

"Free Sample Medicine Wheel: Native American Astrology for j"<-- I am j.

They suggested the initial so I wouldn't be concerned abut putting in my birth date. Guess what. They could figure out in a second who I am, anyway. However, I felt like doing it. So call me j. J for stupid for doing this.

Here is what I got for free:

"Nut Moon People are collectors and keep score of many things. They are nervous and need to keep constructively busy. They are neighborly and cooperative, and pay attention to details that they are interested in, but can be oblivious of other obvious events in the larger world. "

I just hate that. I don't relate to it, and I hate it.

"Sun in Mouse Place = Nut Moon (Sun in Virgo) The Tsalaki Moon of Late Summer is called Duliisdi or the Lesser Harvest or Nut Moon. It corresponds to the Southwest direction and to late afternoon. At this time of year when you were born, nature is providing many foods that squirrels and mice and other animals begin to store for the coming winter."

I don't like that much either.

For 30 more dollars, which later was knocked down to 22 bucks or so, I could have gotten more info and on a regular basis, but you know what? I know I am a freakin "Nut Moon" person. Nobody has to tell me this. I have known this since I was a kid. And yes, it is true, I like nuts. I actually eat them, when I am not busy eating soup. You know that phrase, "From soup to nuts"? That's got me, "j" written all over it. But it's not what I am all about all the time.

Actually that word "nervous" was the deal-breaker on this horoscope. I don't like that word, nervous. It's way too nerve-wracking . Who needs that? I don't. I like words like scintillating and fuzzy.

The Fuzzy moon cast soft peach shadows on the scintillating tides, as Sacajawea gazed over the Pacific. "Let's do this again next year, fellows!", she called out cheerily to her pals Lewis and Clark. They were busy celebrating discovering the Northwest Passage and writing to Dwight Eisenhower, but they nodded happily.

The End.

by jean yates

So I am not sure I am going to "shell out" <-- get it???-- any actual samoleans for any Nut Moon Horoscopes telling me I am nervous and like to gather stuff. I like Horoscopes which flatter. That's what I like.

How about you?