This Year-By the Number

A personal year 9 can have the following meanings for you: Death, Taking Personal Inventory, The End of an Era-The number 9 year is one of completion and marks the beginning of the ending of everything you have managed to accomplish during the last decade. This is an uncomfortable year for many individuals, especially if they are unable to embrace change. You may feel restless and things that used to interest you may be replaced by new desires. If you are not able to let go of the past willingly, a situation may manifest that forces you to change. This is the year you reap what you sow.

So I was watching Dr. Phil on Tuesday and they had a lady who does Numerology on it. So over the past couple blogs I have been showing what my birthday and name mean. Kind of cool right? I totally think my mom picked the right name for me after readying about it and I also have always known I had a cool birthday lol. 

Anyways I found a site that shows by when you were born what this year will be like for you...talk about dead on! I think this will be a very big year. I am finishing my master's degree in May and I will be exiting the world of school and entering the world of work and "adult" life. 

Its a weird sense of joy, excitement and also fear. It seems odd that I should be a real grown up, I feel like I have so much to learn and so much more to do before I am an adult. Life doesn't just start a new chapter and stop an old one. Its more of a book where the chapters flow into each other and never ends. I guess we will all see, as always I will keep you all posted.

Stuff About My Birthday

9 April 1987

Your date of conception was on or about 17 July 1986 which was a Thursday.
You were born on a Thursday
under the astrological sign Aries.
Your Life path number is 11.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 6.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 9.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2446894.5.
The golden number for 1987 is 12.
The epact number for 1987 is 0.
The year 1987 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/29/1987 and ending 2/16/1988.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Rabbit.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Hawk; your plant is Dandelion.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 10 Nisan 5747.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 11 Nisan 5747.
The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.13.16.10 which is
12 baktun 18 katun 13 tun 16 uinal 10 kin
The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Thursday, 9 Sha'ban 1407 (1407-8-9).
The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 1987.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 1987.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 4 March 1987.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 7 June 1987.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 14 June 1987.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 24 September 1987.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 14 April 1987.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 3 March 1987.

As of 1/10/2012 3:36:56 PM EST
You are 24 years old.
You are 297 months old.
You are 1,292 weeks old.
You are 9,042 days old.
You are 217,023 hours old.
You are 13,021,416 minutes old.
You are 781,285,016 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:

Jesse McCartney (1987)	Keshia Knight Pulliam (1979)	Rachel Stevens (1978)
Austin Peck (1971)	Cynthia Nixon (1966)	Paulina Porizkova (1965)
Dennis Quaid (1954)	Michael Learned (1939)	Avery Schreiber (1935)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)	Hugh Hefner (1926)	Ward Bond (1903)
Paul Robeson (1898)

Top songs of 1987

Faith by George Michael	Livin' On a Prayer by Bon Jovi
Alone by Heart	With or Without You by U2
La Bamba by Los Lobos	I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2
Didn't We Almost Have It All by Whitney Houston	I Knew You Were Waiting by Aretha Franklin & George Michael

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.53894324853229 years old. (Life's just a big chewy bone for you!)

Your lucky day is Tuesday.
Your lucky number is 9.
Your ruling planet(s) is Mars & Pluto.
Your lucky dates are 9th, 18th, 27th.
Your opposition sign is Libra.
Your opposition number(s) is 6.
Today is not one of your lucky days!
There are 90 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 25 candles.

Those 25 candles produce 25 BTUs,
or 6,300 calories of heat (that's only 6.3000 food Calories!) .
You can boil 2.86 US ounces of water with that many candles.  

In 1987 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1987 the US population was approximately 226,545,805 people, 64.0 persons per square mile.
In 1987 in the US there were 2,421,000 marriages (9.9%) and 1,157,000 divorces (4.8%)
In 1987 in the US there were approximately 1,990,000 deaths (8.8 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1987 the population of Australia was approximately 16,394,641.
In 1987 there were approximately 243,959 births in Australia.
In 1987 in Australia there were approximately 114,113 marriages and 39,725 divorces.
In 1987 in Australia there were approximately 117,321 deaths.

Your birth flower is DAISY

Your birthstone is Diamond

The Mystical properties of Diamond

Diamonds are said to increase personal clarity to help one see things clearly as well as be straight-forward and honest. Supposedly, the higher quality the diamond, the better it is supports these qualities.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Opal, Quartz, White Sapphire

Your birth tree is

Rowan, the Sensitivity Full of charm, cheerful, gifted, without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive.

There are 350 days till Christmas 2012!
There are 363 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was waxing gibbous.

What My Name Means

Victoria Rose Rippel
There are 18 letters in your name.
Those 18 letters total to 104
There are 8 vowels and 10 consonants in your name.

What your first name means:

Latin

Female

Victory; triumphant. Famous Bearer: Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Your number is: 5
The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.
The expression or destiny for #5:
The number 5 Expression endows with the wonderful characteristic of multi-talents and versatility. You can do so many things well. The tone of the number 5 is constructive freedom, and in your drive to attain this freedom, you will likely be the master of adaptability and change. You are good at presenting ideas and knowing how to approach people to get what you want. Naturally, this gives you an edge in any sort of selling game and spells easy success when it comes to working with people in most jobs. Your popularity may lead you toward some form of entertainment or amusement. Whatever you do, you are clever, analytical, and a very quick thinker.
If there is too much of the 5 energy in your makeup, you may express some the negative attitudes of the number. Your restless and impatient attitude may keep you from staying with any project for too long. Sometimes you can be rather erratic and scatter yourself and your energies. You have a hard time keeping regular office hours and maintaining any sort of a routine. You tend to react strongly if you sense that your freedom of speech or action is being impaired or restricted in any way. As clever as you are, you may have a tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again because much of your response is glib reaction rather that thoughtful application. You are in a continuous state of flux brought by constantly changing interests.
Your Soul Urge number is: 5
A Soul Urge number of 5 means:
The 5 soul urge or motivation would like to follow a life of freedom, excitement, adventure and unexpected happening. The idea of travel and freedom to roam intrigues you. You are very much the adventurer at heart. Not particularly concerned about your future or about getting ahead, you can seem superficial and unmotivated.
In a positive sense, the energies of the number 5 make you very adaptable and versatile. You have a natural resourcefulness and enthusiasm that may mark you as a progressive with a good mind and active imagination. You seem to have a natural inclination to be a pace-setter. You are attracted to the unusual and the fast paced.
You may be overly restless and impatient at times. You may dislike the routine work that you are engaged in, and tend to jump from activity to activity, without ever finishing anything. You may have difficulty with responsibility. You don't want to be tied down to a relationship, and it may be hard to commit to one person.
Your Inner Dream number is: 9
An Inner Dream number of 9 means:
You dream of being creative, intellectual, and universal; the selfless humanitarian. You understand the needy and want to help them. You would love to be a person people count on for support and advice.

Weight Wars

I got home from my daily running around a bit earlier than normal today. Normally I am not a fan of many of the daytime talk shows. However I found myself being sucked into Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil’s shows today. Oddly enough both shows dealt with weight problems.

I am the queen of Yo-Yo weight, I can remember a time when I use to be able to eat whatever I wanted. However that time has long since passed and weight has be a struggle every since. Weight however I must say isn’t the core issue. Like most women much of how I view myself and feel about myself is wrapped up in how I look. I am not someone who believes that how we look shouldn’t or doesn’t matter.

Does that shock you? First anyone who tries to say they have never judged someone by how they look is lying. Imagine you are sick, very sick and need to go into the OR right away. The hospital tells you there are two doctors that can operate on you; you are given a chance to say hi to both however you are far too weak to say anything more and cannot interview them.  They both walk in one is in a suit, with his hair cut and smiling, the other is in a t-shirt and jeans and hands are dirty, he isn’t smiling and hasn’t shaved. Who would you pick?

I do believe imagine is important and I also think that healthy weight is so important to have a healthy lifestyle. So now back to me, I have always have issues with my body and how I look. Growing up, I went through my ugly duckling phase and once I started to grow out of it...I also started to gain weight.

I definitely don’t have all the answers or know everything there is about staying healthy. Like I said, I am the Queen of Yo-Yo. What I do know is that you have to start by loving yourself no matter where you are; you have to love yourself enough to want the change.  Looking over my years of up and down, up and down, times when I go up are the times when I don’t put myself first, or I let internal and external dialogue effect me. This is why I say weight for me in only the outward manifestation of the internal issues.

Like so many people, part of my new year’s resolution deals with weight. So welcome to 2012 and welcome to following my journey. It’s not all about weight but it is about finding out who I am at this point in my life. This year will have a lot of milestones, graduation, 25^th birthday, more than one promotion in my personal business. Most important about this year, taking steps to becoming the new, improved Victoria

Here is to 2011

I got this idea from a wonderful business coach Nancy Roberts, she is the founder of Insights
This is my second annual year in review

Top 25 Accomplishments

Moving to Rochester

Completing Leadership Genesee

Accepting a Board Position

Being a Star Consultant

Competing in a Pageant

Celebrating my Dad’s 80^th birthday

Planning 9/11, Martin Luther King Day Events

3^rd term in AmeriCorps

4^th year on team for Young Christians at Work

Becoming a Godmother J

Judging a Pageant

Mary Kay Fall Retreat

First Wine Tour

Annual Bills Trip

Welcoming Luca and Melena

Taking part in the We Live United Summit

Visiting the Ko family..twice once with AJ surviving it

Becoming a Graduate Assistant

Being the Speaker at Fabulous Females

Planning Voice of Experience

Creating a new fundraising event for YWCA

Getting my kitty J

Spending St, Patrick’s Day with a real Irishman

Doing the Bethany Frankel 30 day cleanse and restore

Completing a Month of Supreme 90 Days

Top 10 distractions

Not celebrating along the way

Not focusing on me

Letting the urgent cloud my focus

Forgetting how much I have done

Self doubt

Letting bad people influence me

Trying to fix everything

Blaming myself for everything

Missing the big picture

Not listening enough

Top 10 goals for 2012

Complete my Masters

Become a Star Consultant

Pay off credit card debt

Spend more time with family

Read one “good for me” book a month

Start back on my workout plan

Plan a vacation just for me

See a Broadway show

Start a 401K

Celebrate along the way

Year in Review

AJ and Vicky’s Year in Review

That’s right, this year AJ and myself have joined forces to bring you our year in review. If there was a word to describe this year it might be CATS. We started the year off by welcoming Topcat into our lives and by April he was joined by Baby, they are happily settled into their ownership of us and make sure things run smoothly at the apartment. Baby has taken to making sure that we are up daily by 6:30am, sometimes she is nice on the weekends at lets us sleep till 8. Topcat has made it his job to stand watch at our front window and make sure no one weird comes into the apartment building.

Another word we could use to describe the past year would be FOOTBALL, or as most American’s call it, Soccer. Our household is truly filled with soccer every day. On any given day AJ can be leaving or coming back from one of his four games depending on the season, the cats have taken to making sure his stinky socks move around the whole apartment. We could also be talking about our 2014 trip to Brazil to watch the World Cup or getting ready for a Premier League game at our favorite Irish Pub Mage Pies (Go Arsenal!). AJ this past year traveled with the Rochester Chapter of the American Outlaws to watch the USA vs. Mexico friendly game and he came back to tell about it.

We are also please to let everyone know that all the members of my family under 4 feet, or as I collectively call them the Babies, know that AJ’s name is really AJ and not CJ as they thought last Christmas J. He has taken to spreading is love of soccer to them near and far. He also survived is first trip to New Jersey and is hopefully that my newest baby cousin Luca will be the next great USA player and that possible Dylan will be the next great goalie.

A word that has for many years described me was PAGEANTS, sadly April marked my 24^th birthday and the end of my eligibility in the Miss America System.  I have so many wonderful experiences throughout my years in the system and truly meet so the greatest girls and volunteers ever. I competed again in October in the Miss New York International Pageant and was so happy to be able to be there to support a good friend of mine as she gave up her crown. I am also happy to announce that while I am not competing anymore I have accepted a board position with the Miss Greater Rochester Scholarship Program, which was my first pageant even in the Miss America System I will be serving as their Public Relations Chair.

BIRTHDAY was something else we celebrated a lot of this past year. We celebrated my father’s 80^th Birthday. AJ also celebrated his last birthday in his 20s, he celebrated it in fine fashion along with St. Patrick’s Day in March. I participated in Relay for Life this year, helping to raise money for the American Cancer Society’s campaign for more birthdays. I celebrated my birthday this past year the Zonta’s Annual Lucky Numbers Luncheon, the first one I have attended as a member of Zonta International.

Those words really bring to focus a lot of what we have done over the past year….now on to 2012! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year we hope this letter fines you happy and healthy.

Love,

AJ, Vicky, Topcat and Baby

Its been so long!

Hi Everyone!

I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted. So much has been going on its hard to know where you start. Life has been busy and I have learn alot of lessons. I time I will tell you everything!!!!!

Right now I am in the middle of my final papers!!!! I finish the semester next week and then I will be on vacation :) School has been great but I am soo excited about  graduation in May!!! I will have my masters and its really hard to believe that I am finishing school and getting ready to start the next chapter in my life.

I think back to four short years ago and how much my life has change since then. It feels like time is flying by however there were points that it seems like time was dragging on and on.

The journey truly never ends and I am so excited to tell you about this next part in my journey..stay to there is so much to come.