Lost In The Game Revisited

I want to play but I'm, lost in the game...

Lost In The Game written by Tyna J Phipps

Silly me... I found an opportunity to submit my music to #RhinoRecords. Lol, I know. I couldn't help but pretend to be worthy of such an honor... anyway since I could, I tried! My mother used to say... "If you aren't in there, Lady Luck can't smile on you". So, I'm in! I submitted my music. This is a link to one of my

#SoundCloudOriginals

YouTube Message Leave Of Absence

Making St. Patrick’s Day Memories

This is a family tradition that I started when I was a young Mom. some 35 years ago...

My Mom used to make Dream Pudding when I was young. You can use any flavor of pudding. It is very rich and thick like a mousse. Today in honor of St. Patrick's Day I'm using pistachio pudding. Dream Whip is also in the jello isle in grocery stores. I use the Dream Pie pudding recipe to make this favorite.

I serve my Corned Beef & Cabbage, with nice warm crusty bread. I also make lime and pear jello. The flavors are wonderful together!

The weather was so incredible I decided to plant some flowers. This is exactly how I wanted to spend my day!

I'm just beginning my corned beef brisket... low and slow! Add red potatoes, carrots, onion and of course cabbage!

My YouTube Channel Link! ◀️ Click on the link for my music. Originals and Covers. A little something for everyone.

Happy St. Patrick's Day. May you find your, "pot of gold" at your feet. May good fortune and good friends find you.

Music Video Scrapbooking It’s This Artists Thing

If only... I could simply upload my video to my blog post! If it were that simple than it would be right here, on my post! But try as I might, I'm not able to post that much media here.

I sure had a good time making this video today. All with bits of pieces of my life loves. Scenery and great pet friends surround me. My kids and some of my G-kids as well. Near and dear, I love to include bits of pieces of my daily life into my videos. My original music and SoundCloud tracks become videos. I think about the message, and add photos and videos clips that I think capture the essence of the music. Kind of a unique way of Scrapbooking I suppose? A form of art or nonsense depending on your opinion of it.

Dreaming Of You ◀️YouTube Link

With all of the YouTube creators out there, it's amazing what you can find to watch. I'm in the sea with all the other fish. Trying to find my rainbow scales. Lol or am I just Video scrapbooking with music?

Enjoying The Color In The Smallest Things

He is an adorable little stinker and, he's a sweet cat boy.

Color and springtime are making a comeback in my world. The crisis appears to be over and I'm beginning to really appreciates really small things. Beautiful things, colorful treasures .

This jar of candy was beautiful to me. The prettiest jar of hard candy that I have ever seen! I found it yesterday while walking through a Mediterranean market. It is an import from Germany. It it lovely!

Everything looks better in color!

We are big cat lovers around here. All of us are!

Although

 she is beautiful, she is selective about when you can hug her.

This never happens as they barely tolerate each other ...

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We are going to get some rain the next few day. We have been getting California's leftover storm precipitation. This looked dramatic the other day! I 

thought we would get slammed with rain but, it blew by us without a drop falling!

These ladies are such sweet friends of mine. They were with me in spirit in my recent hours of need. They even offered to come and sit with me in the hospital during my husbands heart surgery...

It is a big relief that he's doing ok after the post op complications. After spending an additional 8 days in the hospital, he's finally healing well!

Everything looks and tastes better after a crisis. It takes time to get back to appreciating the small things and appreciating the color.

Colour My World (Cover) ◀️ Click on my YouTube cover link.

It is spring break this week for the kids. My husband still has a few more weeks leave from work. Im looking forward to being able to play my keyboard again!

Post Op Complications And Unforeseen Setbacks

 

Hobbies and dreams are fun but they sure get put on the back burner when things get tough!

Life has a way of making you simplify and prioritize. I’ve been caregiver during a very difficult recovery process from Triple Bypass Surgery. I could tell that my husband wasn’t feeling at all well during his recent recovery process from Heart Bypass Surgery. I thought it might be normal for him to be breathless and so uncomfortable two weeks into his recovery? I did however decide to take him into the local hospital ER. He was having trouble breathing especially while trying to lie down in bed.

After a few days of testing we were told that he had pleural and pericardial effusions. Scary and very serious! He ended up having  a procedure to drain the fluid around his heart and his left lung. A drain was inserted in his pericardial (heart) sac. He spent an additional 8 days in the hospital!  13 total days within three weeks were spent in hospitals.

 I was spread thin juggling kids, chores and my choice to spend a good deal of time at the hospital. He was released from hospital a few days ago. He is better but we still have a lot of Dr. appointments to go to. He is still unable to drive so I am his driver.  I have no idea how we would have been able to manage had I been working... we are just about halfway through the recovery. He had this miserable set back as well. All of this translates to stress.

Having been through all of this and the uncertainty of life, I feel the experience has changed me aswell. I’m fighting sadness and depression. It has all been an exhausting ordeal. I really feel the need to reinvent myself into something marketable! I need a career...
Somehow, I need to feel that I can make it financially on my own with the kids! How this translates to my skill set remains to be seen.