Ultraviolet & Crocus Petal

Fall Fashion:

Now for my favorite color of all time. Ultraviolet. This color. This color. This color. Rich. Means loyalty. This is great for elegant attire, and casual alike. A tee and jeans? Yes, please. An evening gown? Of course. Jewelry. Accessories. The whole kitten caboodle. 

The next color is complimentary to the above. Crocus Petal is a light purple shade. This is similar to something that you would find in Spring. It's kind of an "Easter color". It's sweet and sophisticated. While I love the darker colors more, I do love that this color is part of fall, because you can use it as an accent with the darker Ultraviolet. 

Here is what these complimentary colors are like together. Gorgeous. Obviously, you can use colors in the same general hue to compliment one another and be pretty safe.

​You could WIN. Watch the video above and then click on the picture to get to their website. 

My Keto Journey:

So, no weight difference, but considering I just went and had Botox for Migraine and I am not completely in bed, I think that I am doing pretty darn great. I am takingKeto 177 from Ultra6 Nutrition twice a day & Nano Glutathione from Nanoceutical Solutions once a day. Between those two, along with the other supplements I am taking, yoga, and other activity, I'm generally feeling better than I have in a long while. The Nano Glutathione is helping me to think more clearly than I have since before 2007, when I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Amazing!

I am in love with this sweater (pictured above) from Diamond Arrow Boutique. The feel of the sweater, the weight of the sweater, the design around the bottom, everything about it is amazing! 

For the Grand Opening of their boutique, tomorrow 9/21/18, there will be 15% off with GrandOpening15 as the promo code.  There are a lot of cute things, so take advantage of this Grand Opening discount.

​Click on any of the pictures of the sweater above to get to their website.

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My Journey To Self Love:

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I've always been close to the spirit. When I am in that zone, I am more comfortable and feel at home. It's when I am in the normal world, going about my normal routine that I feel like a fish out of water.

So back to the story. The divorce was taking a nasty turn. I had prepared, however. Before I left him, I gathered the documents from our filing cabinet. I had found documents related to him and his family being illegal, to him selling stolen merchandise, and more. 

He kept on threatening me, but I didn't back down.

My mother and my step father were good to go down to the house in Las Vegas with me to get the rest of my stuff and my son's things. We went down, spent the night, got a U-Haul, and went to the house. 

Anxiety was running over at this point. I had my son with me, and my soon-to-be ex was trying to use my son as a bargaining chip. Most of the time while my parents and I were at the house gathering things, my mom would help me (if I wasn't the one holding my son). I kept him super close to me at all times.

However, when it was close to time to go, my spouse took my son and walked around outside with him. I just stood by the window and watched so that nothing would happen to my baby. Of course, if something did, I would have gone after my spouse like a mama bear does when her cubs are in danger.

When that was over and we got back up to the Salt Lake area, we put my stuff in a storage unit and things settled down for a bit. That is until my soon-to-be ex started sending things for my son. He was sending toys that would have been good when my son was maybe 4 or 5 years old, but not an infant. I just donated all of them so that they could not be used as "providing" for my son in the divorce.

Then came the false statements to try to get leverage in the divorce. He would say that he went to Utah, tried to see my son, and I wouldn't let him. He never did such a thing. He never came to the house. He never attempted to see my son. I was grateful this was false. I knew he didn't really care about the baby. He had made that clear when I lived with him. This was just manipulation. He used to be good at manipulating me, but the longer I was away from him, the more clear it became that this was his purpose in doing so many of the things he did. 

On Amnesty Day, the year when they stopped giving amnesty to illegals, I called immigration on my spouse and his family. Following the divorce, they were deported for a time. It was one way that I could fight back. I also reported the fencing of stolen goods that was going on, among other things.

The day came when I needed to go down to Las Vegas to sign the divorce papers and go to court over custody.

Because there were so many threats against my life from my spouse, I wrote a long letter to my son before I left. He was staying behind so that he would not be in any danger. The letter was telling him that I loved him and that, should anything happen to me, he made all of the difference in my life. It was basically a love letter to my son.​ I think I still have it.

My mother (who stood by me through all of this, much like I stood by her through her divorce) flew down to Las Vegas with me for this ordeal. She was so amazingly supportive. My step father and my mother paid the fees for my divorce because I was unable to afford the attorney. They even did the footwork to find me a good attorney. Thank you does not even cover the amount of gratitude I have for them for helping me.

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