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December 03rd 2010 @1:41pm( St. Jude novena with prayers for people who have been nice to me/and protected me from harm)

I have been saying a prayer to ST. JUDE  is you aren’t catholic .. st Jude is the patron saint for assistance when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible  help or for cases most despaired of…. Here is the entire prayer and the people i pray for each night…. according to the prayer as a novena you are to say this prayer for 9 days… and 6 times a day….( i personally say it most days 10 times a day… some days a bit less… but i have been saying this prayer and this exact petition since August 12th 2009…. the belief is that you will receive your intention before the nine days are over no matter what….

you are also supposed to make 81 copies and leave nice copies in the church for each consecutive nine days.

here is the prayer:

May the most sacred heart of Jesus be adored, loved in all the tabernacle until the end of time. Amen
May the most sacred heart of Jesus be praised and glorified now and forever Amen.
Blessed be the sacred heart of Jesus, Blessed be the immaculate heart of Mary
Blessed be Saint Jude Thaddeus
St. Jude pray for us and hear our prayers.
“prayer to st Jude: ( to
be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all
visible help for for cases most despaired of)  Most holy  apostle st.
Jude faithful servant and friend of Jesus the church honors and invokes
you universally as the patron of hopeless cases of things almost
despaired of pray for me make use i implore you of that particular
privilege given to you to bring visible and speedy help where help is
most despaired.  Come to my assistance in this great need that I may
receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities,
tribulations and sufferings.. particularly… ( make your request…)

My request.. dear God, int the name of your son Jesus Christ my lord and
savior is for a HUGE financial miracle for me Mary Jean Ziska the next
multimillion dollar ticket from  the Florida state lotto and lottery or
power ball or both.. to be protected from  all harm including all lying,
cheating and stealing.. and protected from all the people who lie cheat and steal…

Please protect and remove from my life  all:  hackers, fakery, fraud, manipulation,
trespassers, bulling identity theft, impostors, con artists, and evil,
mean selfish, fake, manipulative people… any horrid selfish, mean
manipulative  people on the phone…  please protect me from any of the
evil people who have ruined any precious moments from the past 7 years
of my life… who stole 3 businesses and who manipulate my life my
family my friends, relationships,  reputation and  have tried ruining
everything.. please grant me freedom from all evil people and their
selfish intentions.. and allow me to be blessed so i may use  the money
for great and wonderful uses in Jesus’s name i pray for all my
affirmation, wishes , goals and dreams to come true…
Please dear God,  Please Grant me additional wonderful, generous, nice kind, nice genuine authentic multimillionaires with no issues or problems to be my friends, divine connections and mentors…

Our father:
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, they kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil  amen

Hail Mary:  Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women ad blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.  Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen.

Glory Be: 
Glory be to the father, and to the son and to the Holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen.

I pray for blessing and protection for:
1.  my family( my father, my mother, my sister her husband and there two children, and my youngest  sister )
2.  my extended family ( my cousins and aunts and uncles: bodnars, mathews, sheppards, starks, thomases, gregg ) 
3.  freinds: the Fletchers( gloria, cotton, blake , bella, debbie and their entire family along with all the real and genuine friends i have had in my life since i was born… that means real authentic friends… 
4.  the  gentleman and ladies of the  the ritz carlton ( beach ) and ritz carlton ( tiberon/golf)  including  and especially the people at the spa, valet, bellman, concierge, front desk, gourmet shop, sundry shop, beach shop, natures wonders, all the restaurants… basically everyone…
5.  the people at the Naples grand and Edge water who have given the exclusive contract for babysitting  to us ( A Tender Loving Care Service ) 
6. all the other hotels and their employees who have been nice and given us their business for babysitting as well including :  Naples Bay Resort,  and the Hyatt,
7.  The guards from my guard gate who protect my community from trespassers and bullies 
8.  The honest and trustful police who follow their vow to protect and serve the Naples community and who actually do protect and serve our community and catch criminals to make Naples a safer place to live. 
9.  The people of  publix ( by the strand) and whole foods
10.  friends and employees from shops at the waterside shops… including:
Saks fifth avenue, max mars, louis vitton, pottery barn, cartier, debears, gucci, hermes, berberry, william sonoms, the apple Store  ( stores i absolutely LOVE!) 
11.  the people  of  Blockbuster,  ( by river chase)
12.  the  people of sushi tai ( the restaurant over by airport )
13.  all the priests , people who work with and for the churches and catholic community in Naples including st john’s catholic church, st Williams catholic church, Ava maria, and st Agnes and St Anns,  and St. Ed’s over in Palm Beach
14.  all my real and genuine friends of Facebook,
15.  the people who protect and work for my bank
16.  joel osteen and his ministry
17.  the people who protect me from bully mail and bully emails
18.  all my sisters of Kapaa Alpha Theta
19.  The men and families of the people i met as Scott Renshaw 
20.  the clients i have had who became friends from my old faux painting business and the children and clients i have made as real genuine friends from  A Tender Loving Care Service  
and the people who have asked me to include them in this novena:
a baby who had a hole in her heart named katherine
hillary r.t who has bran cancer
jack who asked for a healing of his cancer
marilyn S. for her and her  family
raphael
women named Tony
carolyn K.
kenny for his family and son
and others who have asked for short term prayers…. 


who would have ever
thought that i would have had to pray for protection from all of
that?… i’d rather be able to pray just for blessings for all my friends.  I’m going to put part of this prayer on the other website /blog…
www.mysearchforjustice.com 

December 1st 2010 ( quotes form Eat Pray love)

 at one point in the movie… Julia Roberts was looking at her pictures.. she quoted something like this:….. that “she actively participated in every aspect to creating this life…” 

i look around at my life…. and for the past 7 years almost 8 years…. it has not been the life i wanted to create…. it is the response to the exterior situations and circumstances… a reaction in stead of a creation of the plan… or action….

my affirmations, my goals and my dreams… those embody more of myself…  those would have created the life i wanted… the life i envisioned… the home, the family, the career…. the friendships… I

 I haven’t actively chosen anything for a while….since  starting my  faux painting business….  choosing a condo …. even then…. the furniture i chose to put in my condo was temporary….I kept waiting to  have the time or money or choose the right item… i know what i wanted form the beginning… but i let a lot of people talk me out of my desires and wants… like i wanted plantation shutters…  white… thick on all the windows and sliding doors… I never got them…. i wanted granite counter tops…and the furniture to be great….and reflect a wonderful and tasteful life….never got to redecorate……

i wanted a guest room that was always ready and open for many guests… and i had planned for so many of my friends from  all over the world friends i had made my entire life to be able to come  to Florida and visit….no one has ever come to visit and stayed with me…..

i wanted  to have dinner parties… with friends/ family being able to come over  for casual dinners and for holidays.. didn’t get to have any of those…. 

I wanted to have brunches after church on Sunday… and friends who came over to go swimming, bike riding …. i even wanted to learn to play golf and take tennis lessons…  ( actually one roommate Scott did come by sometimes for brunch and someways would come over with his daughter and we would  all go swimming, or play cards or scrabble….) but i thought there would be tons of friends… i honestly used to have lots and lots of friends…..  but the fat disgusting Italian Gerard alher ruined everything! what a shame…. really… a shame…..

  

the joke about and old Italian man who  was praying in front of a saint to win the lottery…. please please please buy a ticket the statue said….. 

so what if you keep buying the ticket but it always ends up being the wrong ticket… eventually will you get a winning ticket? 

November 29th 2010 @3:53pm ( Thanksgiving 2010)

My favorite holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas..    I really love the traditional foods.. the music.. the smells and sounds … the time with family and the  left overs!!!!

This year it was a bit different… last year my cousin Greg was in town and my mother and Greg and I went to the Ritz  Carlton, Tiburon (the golf resort in Naples… ) on for  our Thanksgiving meal!  both my mom and Greg were almost an hour late.. i think they may have gone to the main hotel since they were walking from that general area when i first spotted them..

well, this year no Ritz Carlton for me… i mentioned in Facebook that i almost was going  to spend the holiday alone eating at my house…. until thanksgiving ….  i had  quite a few bullies on my phone…..  a few mean and harmful emails and since i had checked my mail i received that anonymous bully card …postmarked from October 25th 2010….. i just wasn’t feeling very festive… pretty rotten since I  honesty do really LOVE   THANKSGIVING ... i had been watching shows on making turkeys… on all the best stuffing recipes… before the bullies get involved i am usually a pretty positive and upbeat person…. WOW… you should have met me before 2003…. talk about nice… and sweet… did i mention that my sisters used to introduce me as “the nice one”….   

so luckily, i got a last minute invitation to spend thanksgiving with my mom and Ron.  I brought over a pumpkin pie ( never come to a dinner empty handed right?)
and i must admit it was the most unique diner i have ever attended for thanksgiving… i got the impression that my mom might not have been in the mood for Thanksgiving this year as well…. we have never had a meal or thanksgiving like this one ever before in my entire life…..  we had tabouli… and chicken… with sides of carrots and spinach….(don’t tell her.. but those are my least favorite side dishes)…but she did make some traditional  stuffing…and for desert… pumpkin pie and apple pie…. and having those were great!  

i just love a real thanksgiving dinner .. the turkey… the dressing.. the gravy… the cranberries… the sides of veggies… and all the trimmings….YUMMMMMMM…..it just makes my mouth water just thinking of all of the delicious  treats…. 

it was even nice visiting and helping  to make sure she didn’t have a ton to clean up after the meal…. and it was nice not having to be alone…. and to be thankful…

especially for the pumpkin pie left overs…. HA! I was  eating them all weekend!  YUMMMMMM………

November 27th 2010@9:00pm ( the only offer of a date in many years!)

 So…… while i was going through  some of my date books today.. i stumbled across the date of September 1st 2007…it took only one quick look at the inscription to recall why the date was so special….

 it had a big heart scribbled on the date and i immediately began to laugh and a huge smile went across my face…

when asked if i had a husband …. or a boyfriend…. i of course had to answer….. no…. and immediately i received the best  offer of a “date i have had…..in forever….

this 5 year old boy…. decided he would be my “knight in shining armor”.. and take me on a date…

 i can still remember his face as i told him  he could take me on a date…( when he was older… oh course…… ) so we got out my date book…. and figured out  a date….  he continued to watch my date book( so intently) until i  actually put the “date”   in my date book… i don’t  think he actually believed me…until i had written on the pages….  HA!  He made sure to remind me that we would meet on the top of i think it was the Hancock building…( is that  Chicago right?) i think that is  what he said i can’t remember now… but….. as i recalled the day….  babysitting…. kids are really pretty wonderful…    i must admit i
don’t know if he saw  sleepless in Seattle or an affair to remember…
but it was  one of the sweetest gestures… i hope when he grows up he
will still be as thoughtful and think of such romantic plans for his
real girlfriends….  
 
 
 I’m sure he forgot immediately after the date was scribbled down…   but that simple heart …. seeing it today… made me smile… he’s going to make some girl very happy one day if he can be just as nice and polite and earnest in making a girl happy….  what a  wonderful gesture of asking  this  “dateless” babysitter  on a date…. HA! isn’t that just the sweetest thing?  

 So seriously,  what happens to boys when they grow up?…. do some of them completely lose their romantic  gene?…. or their care and consideration for women gene?… of course not all guys  mind you… i have met some amazing people/men who are compassionate, caring and considerate…  but….  they just haven’t asked me out on a real date… HA!

   

November 29th 2010 @ 2:15pm ( affirmations)

So when you are supposed to dream and plan for your life.. i don’t think anyone ever really want s it to be small or insignificant do you think they plan for average…. or mediocrity? No neither  do I…..

Do you remember when The Secret came out?… i had everyone and their brother wanting me to read it .. i was given tapes.. books and even cd’s….  its basically a guide to thinking and believing for the very best right? 

I had honestly thought  and  planned on having a business and life that was amazing..
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  t  do

November 29th 2010 @1:25pm( movie: eat pray love )

 Just rented last evening from blockbuster…. eat pay love… I had been given the book ages ago and t be honest never read it .. then when the movie came out tho the theaters… had wanted to see it… but never did… and last evening … with my free movie reward in hand i thought why not?…  watched it this morning while on the treadmill and since i have the rental for three more days probably will watch the other versions… theatrical or directors cut…. a few more times.. 

Lots more to say on the matter.. but will just for now put in a blog entry and finish later.. one note… i had wanted to travel to Europe with my baby sister this past summer… for a few reasons…
1.   she had not as yet had the opportunity to backpack through Europe like my  other sister and i had the chance to do..or get to have the opportunity to go to school in Europe…
2.  we share a birthday… she was born on my 4th birthday and my mom leaving my party to go and have her is one of my earliest  memories…
3.  she became on of my best friends and i couldn’t think of a more wonderful person to share a wonderful summer…
4. plus it was to be her 40th birthday… my 44th birthday… neither of us had any children.. or any serious boyfriend commitments or even job commitments… so it was a perfect time… or would have been a perfect time..
5.  its always more fun to go and travel with someone ….. traveling with a friend  and sister… who has traveled a large portion of her life … ( is an experienced traveler / thinks somewhat like you… would want to stop at the same sites.. interested in similar experiences…) well.. it would have been a blast! 

Alas (does anyone ever say that anymore?.. i think when you say alas. a deep sigh must also accompany it don’t you?… so here goes…. ALAS….AHHHH  we didn’t go … i actually mentioned the fact my mother for the past 5 years had actually been promising a trip back to Europe… to France mostly.. i wanted to go back to school there ……wanted to refresh my french, look up old friends all over Europe…… and see the sights from a more adult perspective…. my mother had these miles rom her Nieman Marcus card.. think they are called world perk miles… or something similar…… (with enough miles you get plane tickets….. is my understanding).. so each an every year i would  have a conversation with her  about going back to  Europe…. especially France…..  one year my aunt Fran and my mother both wanted to go along.. and they planned to  go to Lourdes..  the miracle site….. one year i even got as far as calling and speaking with all my friends in Europe telling them of my plans and finding out if they would be available so i could see them again….  another year we even called to see if the school was still there… and checked on classes and made plans…. but each and every time…. something happened and i never got to go…… now a days.. i often wonder   if anyone got to go in my place… HA!  

This was my idea… that we( my youngest sister and I ) and would get to go to Europe for the entire summer and blog about it … from  different ages and perspectives… write about everything….  the people we could meet .. the sites to see… restaurants…. everything… trains planes and automobiles…  maybe even a romance or two… gosh…. i think it would have been great fun… or if not a blog for ourselves… maybe we could write for a magazine…  or a guidebook…. or even start an adult version of the LET’S GO series…. I absolutely loved those books…. when i was backpacking with an old roommate.. we had tons of fun going through the book… i can remember one time jumping on a train… not exactly sure where we were going… but once we found out… we looked up the town /the city… and a hostel… place to eat… what the town was noted for and had a wonderful time…

so if we didnt get to devise a bit more mature LET”S GO book… the perhaps i thought my sister and i could eventually sell our adventure as a story… or if we had enough events and experiences.. we could make it into a book….  HA!… yes i always have a pretty well thought out plan..not that i had the entire trip all mapped out or anything … but generally the purpose…with a side benefit of taking a great trip with my friend and sister … make the memories pretty permanent  and to me this would be a great way to finance the trip as well… sell the stories…

 Also, i might get to see many of my old friends that i haven’t had the chance to see is ages.. and  along the way there would be an amazing adventure… wonderful memories and tons of pictures…. then as a side note perhaps we could sell some of our stories.. or if any videos of ours were great… maybe we could use them as a type of documentary… or at the very least a terrific home movie…HA!

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November 27th 2010 @ 8:46pm (7 habits of highly efective people)

” for our purposes, we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge skill, and desire.  Knowledge is the theoretical paragon, the what to do and why.  Skill is the how to do . and desires is the motivation the want to do In order to make something a habit in our lives we have to have all 3.  Creating a habit requires work in all 3 dimensions”

“Happiness can be defined , in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.  ”

Habit #2:  Begin with the end in mind

“Begin with the End in mind is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference by which everything else is examined. 

Most effective way i know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed.  It focuses won what you want to be
(character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values upon which being and doing are based.

Habit #4:  Think ( win -Win)

“win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.  Win -win means that agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial mutually satisfying.  Win-Win sees life as a cooperative not competitive arena.  Most people tend to think in terms of dichotomies:  strong or weak, hardball or softball, win or lose.  But that kind of thinking is fundamentally flawed.  It’s based on power and position rather than on principle, win-win is based on the paradigm that there is plenty for everybody, that one person’s successful is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others
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November 26th 2010@1:19pm( favorite movies I own!)

Favorite movies I own and love!

Bruce Almighty
 Ed tv

The Prince and Me /Prince and Me II  / Prince and me III
Serenditity
The Holiday
Love Actually
Four Weddings and a Funeral
NottingHill
Nine Months
Down with Love
Ultimate Gift
There’s something about Mary
Siding Doors
Coco Chanel
Coco before chanel
The Bachelor
Wallstreet
My Best Friends Wedding
P.S I love you
Catch and release
Lucky Seven
Truman Show
Nanny Diaries
The First Wives Club
Something’s Gotta Give
Because I said so
Mad Money
The family Man
Keeping Mum
The Thomas Crown Affair
All the 007 movies…..
Bewitched
Just Like Heaven
Just Friends
Casanova
It’s complicated
Working Girl
Julie and Julia
My sister’s Keeper
Women
How to lose a guy in `10 days
Pride and Prejudice
 
 

RI

Fri. November 26th @12:41pm( bridal plasty??? what is up with this show?)

So i haven’t seen it yet but there is  a new t.v. show where not only is it a reality show.. and one where anyone can be eliminated…. but get this…… it is based on brides going through plastic surgery so they will be perfect for their husbands.. and their wedding…. what does a show like this say about our culture?… about women?… about the quest for perfection and the reality t.v.  shows????? so Kelly Rippa started a show where someone can make an invention and it can change lives… and families.. and i guess in a way the plastic surgery is like that as well I have nothing  against  plastic surgery… or brides wanting to look great.. I’m just wondering why?????  maybe all these reality shows have great intentions… but i hope these women are doing the plastic surgery for the right reasons.. that they have great self esteem and ..I hope they are happy with themselves and their husbands to be.. hope  the show doesn’t get into bride wars where it hurts  all the other contestants who are not the “winner”…..

My cousin sent a cartoon of the Disney princesses that showed women in todays situation with their  princess story….   wonder if i can insert it  into the blog… it was really funny….  Sleeping Beauty woke up to a really old man… or never woke up…   Cinderella/Cinderella ended up at a bar….   up at a bar… don’t remember the specifics of that one… then red riding hood… i think  she was chunky and had eaten all the food out of her basket… then one of the princesses went and got plastic surgery… but i called my mom and  we couldn’t remember who that princess was… anyway….if i can find the cartoon I’ll try to inset it… if anyone else knows about it… just let me know…. 

Fri. November 26th 2010?@12:24( bruce almighty the movie)

 So Bruce almighty has been on television almost each day this past week. It’s on again this morning….

So does anyone have any ideas of what they would do if given the chance to    be God for a while… the righting some wrongs… and having all the material possessions that seems pretty easy and obvious… but i was thinking about it …. knowing the intentions  of people… what they really wanted when then invited you somewhere.. or  being able to tell when or if a  person is lying.… when  someone was manipulating your life for their own selfish intentions…. gosh.. wouldn’t that be great!…. knowing the future… and being able to make sure the people you love are safe form harm… and happy….  those gifts would   be pretty sweet wouldn’t that be great!

Some other movies i loved and never got to mention…
Notting hill…. and point break…. sliding doors…. Bridget Jones… Oh… tons… I’ll mention later…. when i really love a move i end up buying it from  blockbuster… then days you want to change your mood… just like great music… for me…. movies are great  for a smile… ..