tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46409640055365975302024-03-13T09:02:07.666-04:00Indigo SkyWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-17733335677845130352014-06-10T17:34:00.001-04:002014-06-10T17:34:06.410-04:00Things Happen FOR You...<br />
Today in yoga class, the instructor said something that I really want to meditate on. <br />
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In India, the God "Ganesha" is pretty well known as "The Remover of Obstacles". <br />
But he is also known to put obstacles *in* your way, to sort of "cause you to bobble a bit" on your path; to help you stop going in the wrong direction & begin moving toward the "better" path for you.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She said that nothing really happens TO you.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rather, things happen FOR you.</span><br />
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The Universe is conspiring FOR you; to help you learn what you need to learn, and to help you accomplish what you came here to accomplish.<br />
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I thought that was pretty profound.<br />
It's been on my mind all day now.<br />
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It's something to really think about. To ponder over for a few days.<br />
For me, anyway...<br />
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Here's to a Beautiful Day!<br />
Cheers!<br />
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Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-68513864165146445092014-02-21T09:49:00.000-05:002014-02-21T09:50:06.833-05:00My Epiphany through Crow Pose<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, you know what Crow Pose is?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If not, this (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=images+of+yoga+crow+pose&oq=images+crow+po&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.9723j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">images, crow pose yoga</a>) should help you out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, a year or so ago, <span style="font-size: large;">I *had* it!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could do Crow Pose like I can do Mountain (basically just standing erect).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...but then...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I lost it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere along the way, I realized I couldn't get into Crow anymore.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided I thought I was gonna face-plant... or something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just... sort of... had a little freak-out-moment and decided I was now scared to do Crow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So for about a year, I've att</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">empted Crow pose when my instructors offered it, but decided I didn't want to fall, so I didn't "fully" try doing it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week, I had a REVELATION!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An Epiphany, if you will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The instructor, Tammy, was being very gentle with us in her attempt to get us to try Crow. She was teaching to the beginners in the room, and saying, "Maybe just *try* it. If you don't get it, that's alright. If you only get <b>one</b> big toe off the floor, then you can congratulate yourself!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I went into it with an open mind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I began thinking about how and why I'd been having "trouble" with Crow for the past year or so...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just as I was attempting to "attempt Crow" (yet again), I began to realize that I wasn't really scared of doing a face-plant...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And suddenly I drew in a gasp of breath because I realized</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I'm not scared! I've just been comparing myself to others!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About a year ago, I started looking at pictures of others in Crow pose, and realized that the majority of them kept their butts down a lot more than I did...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I started trying to do Crow with my butt down more...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is about the time I "lost" my Crow!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realized the other day with Tammy that I'd been comparing <span style="font-size: large;">my</span> Crow to <b>others'</b> Crow, and decided that my Crow was "inferior" or "wrong".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I had been doing Crow!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can MY pose be "inferior" to someone else's pose?!?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My knees were on my upper arms, and my feet were off the floor. Isn't THAT what Crow is supposed to be about?!?! <b>Balancing on your hands IS Crow!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now, with this revelation, I have found a new Peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Peace where I STOP comparing my pose to the poses on the covers of magazines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Peace where I stay <b>out</b> of my head and <b>fully in my body</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Peace where I stop worrying about what I <b>look</b> like, and continue to realize how I <b>feel</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't get Crow pose last week, but I <b>did</b> get it for a fraction of a second. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's progress! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll continue to try it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I'll continue to be soft with myself, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I'll continue to remember to <b>FEEL</b> how Crow pose feels in <b>MY</b> body as I attempt "flying" in it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because as Tammy said, "Just because you can get into Crow, doesn't make you a better person."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'd better go get my yoga clothes on and head to class. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a Beautiful day, and remember:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stop comparing yourself to others!</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">there is no one like you!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">=-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-16450317974526537712014-02-12T14:02:00.003-05:002014-02-12T14:02:40.501-05:00Spiritual Gifts and Money<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With this Energy I've been feeling "coming on me" for the past eight or nine months, of course </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started wondering what I'm "supposed to do" with it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, after the "<a href="http://areyoukidding-wendy.blogspot.com/2014/02/so-last-year-i-began-feeling-led-to-do.html" target="_blank">I'm here to Love Others</a>" statement, naturally I feel I'm supposed to <span style="font-size: large;">help others</span> with this Gift of Energy Healing I feel is coming to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I talked with Boyfriend about this, he assumed I will do this as a job and charge people for my services, so that's the direction I began to take. We began talking about fees for services; worth vs value; a website; the value of time; how much reading and studying I've been doing; the cost of all my books, not to mention the new massage table Boyfriend bought me for Christmas; etc, etc, etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as I travel this path, I truly get the Feeling... the <span style="font-size: large;">Message</span>, that I'm really NOT supposed to charge when giving this Gift to others...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This feeling has been moving through me for a couple of months now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I *finally* got up the nerve to talk with Boyfriend about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shocked me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His attitude?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Whatever, Babe. I don't care what you do. But if I get laid off (his company was very recently purchased by another company), you'll have to go get a full-time job. Other than that, you can do whatever you want."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not believe the Relief that rolled through me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was surprised at the <span style="font-size: large;">weight</span> that left my shoulders as soon as he said that. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now I need to back up and re-group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To "re-adjust" my thought processes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To stop being "shy", and start offering my "services" to anybody and everybody.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To start handing out my "business" card.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get the word out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that's not gonna happen today because i</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t's snowing its butt off out there! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This picture is from last year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There's a LOT more snow out there right now.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(Well... a lot for <b>our</b> area!) =-)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this gives me time to sit and ponder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To meditate on things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To take time to consider things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you are having a WONDERFUL day! =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love the ones you're with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-34656490728434818152014-02-06T16:17:00.000-05:002014-02-06T16:17:46.435-05:00Love and Energy Healing and Love<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, last year I began feeling led to do "Energy Healing".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you'd have told me 2 years ago that I was going to be doing this, I would have looked you straight in the eye and said, "BULLshit!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Cause 2 years ago, I totally didn't believe in this type of thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I've been on a slow journey. (Slow 'cause, apparently, I'm resistant to change.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yoga opened up my mind to a lot of "unexplainable" things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breathing helped me to stand aside from my ego, and listen to mysteries and ask questions for a bit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meditation answered curiosities and whispered epiphanies to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now, here I stand on the other side.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feeling it's my <b>Duty</b> to Love Others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To Love EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING on this Planet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a VERY tall and almost-impossible feat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know this from the very heart of my Heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it's my Directive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past Summer, those words escaped from my mouth without my even knowing I was going to say them, and AS SOON as I said them, I knew them to be the Truth of Truths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sitting here now, I can only assume an Angel made me say them...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I decided <b><span style="font-size: large;">"I Choose Love."</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the Gift of Energy began to come to me... Unasked for. "Un-thought-about." "Un-decided" about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, after I began "feeling something", I began to read.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read a lot!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Healing with Crystals and Chakra Energies" by Sue & Simon Lilly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Healing for Beginners" by Ruth White</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Healing Visualizations: Creating Health through Imagery" by Gerald Epstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Healing Energy of Your Hands" by Michael Bradford</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Wheels of Life" by Anodea Judith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Medicine" by Donna Eden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Healing" by Ann Marie Chiasson, MD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... and I think there's more, but I can't think of them right this minute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have more to read!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm currently in the middle of reading:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Medicine for Women" by Donna Eden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I still have waiting for me:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Medicine" by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Energy Tapping" by Gallo & Vincenzi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus (!) I still wanna read:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Seven-fold Journey" by Anodea Judith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a BUNCH of stuff by Caroline Myss!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a LOT of reading!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus, I've done lots of reading on the internet, and I've watched plenty of YouTube videos about this subject.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sure, some people are pretty far out there, where this Energy thing is concerned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there's a lot of "credible" stuff out there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, what am I talking about?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, perhaps you've heard of "Reiki"?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Energy Healing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or, better yet, perhaps you've heard of Acupuncture?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Energy Healing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know. Right? I had no idea *that* had anything to do with Energy, but it *totally* does! It's all about Meridians, and Meridians are "simply" Rivers of Energy, if you will, that run over, around and through your body, governing/helping your organs and your whole body.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on Energy, as well. Again, it's based on the Meridians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acupuncture, acupressure, Chinese Foot Reflexology, Traditional Chinese Medicine; ALL work on the premise that your body is full of, covered with, and protected by Energy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chi. (Chinese)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qi. (Chinese)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ki. (Japanese)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lom. (Thai)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prana. (Indian)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Great Mystery or The Great Unknown. (Native American)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Universal Life Energy. (American)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout history, <b>all</b> indigenous tribes around the World had a "medicine man" (or woman), many times called a Shaman, who not only took care of the tribe's health and well-being, but also of its Spirituality. Energy was a part of both. A part of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to *every* book I read, EACH of us is capable of feeling this Energy, and of helping each other by using this Energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of us, though, tend to let this "feeling" or "knowing" die down until we don't really even notice it anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now, most of us are so far from Nature, and we have so much technology, that we don't even want to believe such a thing exists...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with that, I must go for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a floor to vacuum,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a bathroom to clean,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and supper to cook, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and soon, a husband to greet at the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still Me, even if I am "a bit loony"-er than I was yesterday. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hoping you have a Beautiful Day today and tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me tell you, it's been <b>QUITE</b> a year!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BOTH of my daughters got married! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I happen to mention that?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>BOTH</b> of them!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And <span style="font-size: large;">only ONE MONTH APART!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But wait. I'm getting ahead of myself...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should start at the beginning of the year...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We knew ahead of time that 2013 would be a big and busy year, but it started off with an unexpected death that nobody foresaw... Boyfriend and I attended two funerals within the first 5 weeks of 2013. That was really difficult for him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first was a friend and mentor of his from work. It really, really affected him. <b>So much.</b> It's almost time for the 1-year "anniversary", and he's <b>still</b> not over it. (And I don't mean for that to sound insensitive. I just honestly don't know how else to word it...)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second funeral was for his ex-father-in-law. The man who lived next door to his parents. (Yes, he married "the girl next door" the first time.) The man who taught him all about carpentry work. The man who gave him his first job. The man who introduced him to triple-x movies. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also in January, I was still teaching Yoga once a week, on Wednesday evenings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In February, Boyfriend had to go to Knoxville for 2 days for work, so I went with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then He had to go to Sylva and Asheville (NC) for 3 days, so I went with him then too. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And on February 15th, Boyfriend had surgery to have his Gallbladder taken out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A week and a half later, he needed to go to Chattanooga, TN for 2 days, so I went with him there, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, just for good measure, since I was turning 50, I had to have an Upper and Lower G.I./colonoscopy done. Oh boy. Thrilled...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the first full week of</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> March, Boyfriend had to go to Gainesville, FL for the week for work, so I went with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the way back, we stopped in Beaufort SC to visit my Mom for the weekend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the 30th, we went to the wedding of one of Bunny's best friends, Sarah. Bunny's been friends with her since the 5th grade. It was a beautiful wedding, and Sarah did EVERYTHING for it all by herself. Beautiful! And she cried the entire time. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the next day, Boyfriend hit the milestone of turning the "Big Double Nickel".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In April, I stopped teaching Yoga and started working the front desk at the studio. It wasn't my idea to stop teaching. The owner decided to stop having the Basics class, so I was sort of "forced" to quit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also in April, Boyfriend needed to go to Nashville for work for a week, so I went with him there, too. We traveled a lot last year, but really mostly for his job, so we didn't have to pay for these trips. Win-win. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on April 23rd, Daddy had another motorcycle wreck. Boyfriend was in Bristol, TN, and for "some reason", I hadn't gone with him. It was a good thing because Daddy had broken his thumb, toe, face, etc, and wasn't allowed to drive, so I had to take him to multiple doctors' appointments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April is also when I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">started realizing that I'm being led to do Energy Healing. I'm not really comfortable yet calling it "healing", but I'm growing into that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In May, the Yoga studio had our annual Open House. I always enjoy myself at those events. So many people show up, despite the fact that the owner is always afraid that nobody will. She even has dreams about it. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the middle of May, Boyfriend & I went to see my Mom again. My brother and sister showed too, and we had cake on the 18th for my Mom's upcoming b'day & Mother's Day combined. My mother's birthday is the 23rd, and Kitty (my "baby girl") has hers the very next day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next came June, and I started planting sunflowers on a weekly basis...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bunny, my oldest, wanted some to decorate with for her wedding in September, so I started planting a dozen or so each week, hoping that at least *some* of them would be blooming then. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then Boyfriend & I went to Myrtle Beach for our (what *used* to be annual) family beach trip. Boyfriend's sister & brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew & his boyfriend, Boyfriend's other sister, & Boyfriend & I were the "only" ones who went this year. And Bunny & her fiance' came for the weekend. ...I say "only" because usually it's a huge group of at least 13 of us, if not more, for an entire week. But at least we <b>went</b> this year. The same can't be said for *last* year...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, toward the end of June, we kept having rain, rain, and more rain, and almost *all* of my sunflower seeds got washed away! I was <b>sooo</b> sad! All my hard work, plus the fact that Bunny's wish for sunflowers at her wedding might not come true after all. <b>It just broke my heart!</b> I tried not to tell myself that it was a bad omen. That shit happens, but it doesn't have to affect everything else. But I was still heart-broken about it anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then in July, Boyfriend & I, along with our neighbors, W & C, our friend Eric, our nephew & his boyfriend, and a female friend of theirs, and Boyfriend's 2nd sister went on a cruise! It was a 4-night cruise, and we drank and gambled and danced and laughed and slept in late and hung around the pools, and just had a very good time together. Very relaxing and fun. It was a spur-of-the-moment trip that W talked us into going on, and we were glad we did. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I did my very first official Energy Session on July 22nd, the day of the full moon. =-) It went very well. It was with my cousin, and we had a very nice time. She told me I'm very talented and have a wonderful Gift. That made me feel good. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also in July, I hit the milestone of turning the "Big Five O".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No big deal, really. I felt exactly the same on my Birthday as I did the day before. (Which means I'm *still* just a kid inside.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In August, Boyfriend & I went to Beaufort again to see my Mom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Not</b> a very good visit. I made some smart-alec, flippant remark to her husband, and BOY! did he <b>go OFF</b> on me!!! While I was sitting there listening to him yell at me, I decided then-and-there that I was <b>NOT</b> coming back <b>anymore</b>... At least, not for a <b><span style="font-size: large;">very long time</span></b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the same time, Boyfriend was sitting 5 feet away telling himself that he wouldn't "force" me to come down there again, either.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny, how we were thinking the same thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And funny, too, how we didn't really mean it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, we DID at the time! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we got back home, my brother & his wife, Bunny & her fiance', & Kitty all came over to talk about the wedding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Not my favorite subject.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was already getting butterflies (or <b>something!</b>) in my stomach about the <b>whole thing</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both girls had already moved out, but<b> somehow</b>, this was <b>different!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wasn't ready!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't want them to get married!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I kept all my turmoil inside and didn't let them know that I was having a difficult time with "all of this stuff".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When September came around, I began to get "moody".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boyfriend wasn't sure what was "wrong" with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I already don't talk a lot on a "normal" day (whatever that is!), but I just "couldn't" talk about what was going on in my head and my heart with this wedding stuff coming up...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And next thing I knew, it was here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rehearsal day was full of hustle and bustle, and people everywhere, and decorating and fixing up, and all sorts of stuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then The Big Day arrived.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My first Baby was getting married.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she was Beautiful!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I almost <b>LOST IT</b> when I helped her into her dress!!!</span> I had visions in my head of the day we brought her home from the hospital; her first bath; her first stitches; lots of little things we used to do when she was a baby. (All while I was trying to help her into her dress and <b>NOT cry!</b>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here she was, "all grown up", and about to get married.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing would ever be the same again...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She had us both walk her down the aisle, Boyfriend and I. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought that was the Sweetest Thing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know how I kept from crying my eyes out the entire time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But after the ceremony, the toasting and cheers, the pictures, I went into my bathroom, sat down to pee and talk to myself...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"See? It's alright! She still loves you! Everything's gonna be okay."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even though it was a solid <b>WEEK</b> before my period was supposed to start, I had a <b>gush</b> of blood, and then everything was "normal" again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wow! I knew I was stressed out, but I didn't know I was <u>that</u> stressed out!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(There<b> </b>were sunflowers there. My wonderful brother & his spectacular wife brought them! Just in case you were wondering.) =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next morning when we woke up, Boyfriend and I just sighed and realized that we were gonna be alright. He said he didn't realize just <b>how much</b> stress he was feeling until that morning. I was like, <b><span style="font-size: large;">"YA THINK?!?!"</span></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes men are so clueless!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(But I don't mean that in a bad way.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next came October, and Boyfriend had to go to Chattanooga again, so I went with him for a 3-night stay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on that Saturday, I did the Komen Race with Bunny in honor of one of the doctors she worked for. We walked it, <b>'cause I don't run!</b> But that was a good time. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next weekend, I went to my sister's in Seven Springs, NC. <b>Wonderful visit!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then on October 24th, <span style="font-size: large;">my other Baby got married!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I honestly wondered for a time if they were trying to kill me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hers was a beautiful wedding too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She made the decorations herself, and the 3 wedding bouquets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's very talented like that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gets it from her Mom. =-) jk</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also in October, I quit working the front desk at the Yoga studio.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was just ready to move on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, I almost gave up on the studio all-together. I had almost quit going entirely. I was ready to do something else somewhere else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then November came, and I went back to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also sent out an email to my Yoga friends and started doing Energy Sessions out of my house. I wanted to get 25 "Practicums" (that's what they call it in the Medical field) before I started giving out my business card to "just anybody".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm almost at my 25. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had 3 sessions the first week, and 5 the second week!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then the Holiday Season began, and people weren't really able to work me into their schedules very easily, so things began to slow down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that's okay, 'cause this is a new year now, Baby! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway. The girls and their boys spent Thanksgiving with us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That doesn't exactly explain it...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all went to my brother's in Greensboro on T'giving Day, and then we went to Boyfriend's Mom's the day after T'giving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then Bunny had her birthday the next day, and we went out for Sushi at her favorite Sushi place! It was a very good time. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the next day was December.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to my sister's for a 3-night stay. Came home in time to go to a gallery opening for Bunny that evening and took Daddy with us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had a movie night at Kitty's the next night. Boyfriend didn't go. He doesn't really like it there 'cause she has 2 cats...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, on Dec 11th, Kitty had a wreck and totalled her car! She's okay! But her car...? Not so much. So the next day I had to take her and her husband to work and wherever. Then they got a rental the following day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then that Saturday I did an Energy Session on a total stranger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a VERY good session! I saw things, I felt things, and she even felt some tinglings and saw colors. Very Good Session. =-) At the end of it, she said, "I don't know why people poo-poo this stuff. They should try it before they put it down. That was really awesome!" And I felt good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she's absolutely right. You should try something before you put it down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next Saturday, the Girls, my (female) cousin, & I went to see The Nutcracker. Cousin said she thinks that'll have to become a tradition: Girls-only going to the Nutcracker before Christmas. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that was my year in a (<b>VERY BIG</b>) nutshell!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you can wake up in the morning, breathe deeply and say aloud, "It's gonna be a Beautiful Day!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-37066003357563935552013-12-22T12:36:00.001-05:002013-12-22T12:36:55.752-05:00Energy Healing<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the new slant to my blog for the (few) people who read it, I've had some questions:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What do you mean by 'Energy Healing'?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"What is 'Energy Work', anyway?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"How does this 'Energy thing' work?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"What are you peddlin', woman?!"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Are you talking about electricity when you say 'Energy'?"</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and "What are you into now..."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So allow me to try to explain a bit...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I began taking Yoga classes in 2008. I immediately fell in love with it because it's "precise-ness" reminded me of Ballet, which I began taking at the age of 11, and steadily took classes until I was 18 or 19.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I *loved* Ballet. The gracefulness. The beauty. The precision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every body part was supposed to be in a certain position, with each part being paid physical & mental attention to, all at the same time. Plus, all of that was put to music; co-ordinated, graceful, precise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A "Discipline", if you will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I LOVED it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could be in the worst mood on my way to Ballet class, but by the time class was over, I felt Wonderful again! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">True Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, after 25 years of *not* having Ballet in my life (but always having it at the back of my mind, as much a part of me as knowing how to ride a bike, or how to swim), I went into a Yoga class at the Y, not expecting much. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not really knowing what to expect AT ALL... when...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">B-A-M!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Precision. Beauty. Discipline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much like Ballet, Yoga requires each body part to be "active", all parts at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved it right away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started doing Yoga every weekday. I quickly learned the English names of the poses. It took me a while to learn about the breath...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With Yoga, it helps to inhale into poses and exhale out of poses. It took me a *while* (and a very good teacher) to realize that when she said, "Exhale into Down Dog", she really meant to EXHALE <i>as you go into</i> Down Dog! Once I started moving WITH the breath, it really became a "Dance of Magic" for me. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, I could be in a horrible mood (or going into my Depression), but by the time I left Yoga class, I would be feeling Good again. =-) So...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Fell In Love!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stopped going to the Y and started taking Yoga at a studio, and got "deeper" into Yoga. The inhaling and exhaling. The movement and stillness. The "Reaching up and rooting down". The <span style="font-size: large;">"Opposites coming together to create Balance"</span>. I loved it all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the Studio, I found that each posture had *another* name, and it was in another language called Sanskrit. I learned that the breath should be more "at the back of the throat, and rolling" (called "Ujayyi", or "Conqueror's" or "Victor's" breath). I learned that there are many, many breathing exercises that have different effects on the body and the mind. I learned a little bit about Meditation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned that there is so much to learn in Yoga that I took the Yoga Teacher Training in 2011/2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Teacher Training, they talked about a LOT of "new" (to me) things:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yoga history.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yoga philosophy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thai Yoga (intro).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chair Yoga (intro).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prenatal Yoga (intro).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More about Meditation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ayurveda (the "sister science" to Yoga).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pranayama (the "Breath of Life").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some things, I "took to" right away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other things took me time to "assimilate" in my brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...like "that Energy stuff"... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(As a "side note"... One of my Teacher Training "sisters" told me last month that as soon as we started touching each other in the Teacher Training classes, she knew "right away" that I would get into "this Energy stuff". She said that my Touch was "just different". She's intuitive like that. I wondered why she never told me about that...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So... What *do* I mean by "Energy Work"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, not to tease you or anything, but now that I've written so much about Yoga, I think it best to wait until my next post to really tell you about Energy Work and how I got here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be back soon (-ish!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a Beautiful Day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-28813442378805280162013-12-02T11:59:00.003-05:002013-12-02T11:59:57.298-05:00Epiphany!<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a cup of coffee this morning, and it got my brain jumping!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realize that I have a lot of stuff to catch you up on, but...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not really interested in doing that right now. Sorry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I apologize for that. <b>I'm not being flippant.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My epiphany this morning was rather eye-opening for me, and I just have to get it down in words. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully I can explain it sufficiently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually, when I have one of these epiphanies, it's more like just a concept in my head, and I can't sufficiently put it in physical Words...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try anyway. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are all made up of Energy, just as we're made up of skin and bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments, and individual cells, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that <span style="font-size: x-large;">Energy flows. Just like Water.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And sometimes, Energy gets stagnant, just like Water.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or sometimes that Energy gets "overwhelming" (over-active), just like Water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You've seen water before that's just sitting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It can become stale and stagnant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And when I'm talking about Water here, I mean water either in Nature, or in your Kitchen Sink. Water is Water. Right?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you've most likely seen water that's "trapped" somewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It becomes stale. And eventually, if it's "trapped" long enough, it becomes stagnant and "yucky". Perhaps molded. Or with algae growing in and/or on it. It smells bad. It looks bad. It feels bad. (I assume it tastes bad; I've never tried it.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then, there's "healthy" water, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water that's flowing, whether slowly or strongly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water that's fresh and clear and moving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's "healthy" water. You want to play in it, or bathe in it, or drink it in. You "just know" that it's "Good" Water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then there's water that's "over-active". "Too much for it's own good." Water that's in the form of a tsunami, or a flood, or rain just *pouring* down. That's an "excess" of water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I later realized that I can use the metaphors of any of the other Elements, as well. Earth, Air, Fire. It's just that Water happened to "settle in my understanding" first.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Energy is just the same way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can have Energy that's stagnant and/or blocked in some way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can also have Energy that's tooo much. Overflowing, or overbearing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then, you can have Energy that's moving, flowing, Healthy. "Just right".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I correlate this <b>stagnant Energy with Depression</b>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the <b>"over-active" Energy with Anger</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a <b>mixture of the two I correlate with Anxiety and/or Panic Attacks</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How does this Energy become stagnant? Or "over-flowing"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That happens from our emotions, trauma, drama, illness, injury, surgery, worry, and/or stress. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What can we do about it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if you feel "out of sorts"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many exercises in Energy books and on websites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tend to like many of the exercises recommended by Donna Eden in her book, <i>Energy Medicine</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Dad likes the ones that Ann Marie Chiasson does in her book, <i>Energy Healing</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to put up a few links to some in the coming days. Otherwise, you can just look on Google and you'll find *tons* of them for yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do what "resonates" with you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do the ones that "sound right" and "feel right" in YOUR body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also am becoming a staunch "believer" in ("supporter" of) Meditation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Or Prayer, if you prefer.</b> But when I say Prayer, I mean more of a "sitting with God" and just listening. Ask him/her a question and then sit in stillness and wait for the Answer, while you simply breathe in and out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's really what Meditation is, and I correlate it with Prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am also realizing I'm an Energy Worker. I would say "Energy Healer", but I seriously hesitate to use that statement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, it's more like I am a vessel, or <b>a conduit</b> for "the Angels", and They use me and "do healings" through me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been working with others for a number of months now, and they always feel better after a session with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a TON I could write about here, but I mustn't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post is supposed to be only about my Epiphany from this morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is supposed to be about the metaphor of Water and Energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll leave the "explanations" of how I got to Energy Work for another post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So. Anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Energy is all around us, in us, on us, "through" us and we are governed by it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two years ago, I thought this "stuff" was <u><b>TOTAL Bullshit</b></u>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But with Yoga, my Yoga teacher training classes, meditating, reading, and experiencing things in my own body and mind, I've come to realize that <b>it's True.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call it Energy. Call it Angels. Call it a "crazy woman who just turned 50!" Call it whatever you wish, but I'm here to tell you that, for me at least, this realization has made a <b>huge</b> difference in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't suffered from my Depression in a looong time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I attribute that to this "Energy Healing Stuff".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel better than I have in a looong time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The arthritis in my knees hasn't bothered me in a long time, either. Now most of that I attribute to Yoga. But I honestly believe that <b><u>Yoga moves Energy in the body</u></b> in ways that it <b>needs</b> to move. Especially if you have a Good Yoga teacher. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find one who "resonates" with you. You'll know what I mean once you find one (or 2 or 3). =-) ('Cause I think it's good to have <b>more than one</b> Yoga teacher. It's good to "shake things up"!) =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meditation or Prayer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yoga (or *some* type of regular movement that makes your Heart "shine" or "sing").</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the eventual "Opening Up" to other Human Beings that is the reason we are here on this Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those are the things I "recommend" for each of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to find the time to "catch you up" on how I got here to this point of "believing" in Energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to give you some links to some Energy exercises for your "betterment".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to continue to give Encouragement where I can.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to explain what it is I'm doing, and how *you* too can do this, if you want. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I discovered this summer that <span style="font-size: x-large;">I am here simply to Love Others.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THAT was quite a revelation!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall *try* to explain that one to you, too. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the meantime, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love Life!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And remember...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Self-criticism *never* leads to Self-improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Try telling yourself that each day, at least once a day, but preferrably THREE times a day!) =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back soon (-ish)!!!</span><br />
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-70773290532311807462013-11-24T20:05:00.000-05:002013-11-24T20:05:31.351-05:00Sunday, Nov 24th, 2013<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whoa! It's been almost SIX MONTHS since I last posted?!?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whoa. How did that happen? Where did the time go?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, I've been very busy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been reading and reading and reading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been growing and changing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been listening and trying to learn to hear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been learning and doing and breathing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots has happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boyfriend and I went to the beach in June. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, lots happened to/with/for me in June and July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...where to begin?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, let's begin with the incident that happened in May, shall we? =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I honestly don't remember what started me thinking or feeling that I can heal with Love through my hands... (I've found out it's called "Energy Healing".)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But my daughters and I were at Miles & Snooze's house (2 "alternate-religions" friends), and their dog, Muggsy, was lying down in front of me, & he had these "spots" (like tumors) in different places on him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I decided, "Let's see what I can do." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started rubbing on him "with intention". My hands started warming up, and pretty soon the warmth went up my arms, even. The more I rubbed him with intention, the further up the warmth went. Soon, I was hot up my arms to my armpits! I was almost sweating! (And if you know me, you know this is totally not like me!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon, Miles said, "Man, I can feel that from here." I knew *deep down* what he was talking about, but I pretended I didn't, and I just kept doing what I was doing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then after awhile, I stopped & Snooze said, "Domo origato!" and bowed to me...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then she said, "I can use all the help I can get for him. Thank you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I said, "What are you thanking me for?" and she said, "The Healing."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I said, "But how did you know that's what I was doing?!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they both said, "'Cause I can feel it!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They could *feel* it! From more than 3 feet away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I wasn't even positive that I was *doing* anything, and *they* could feel it!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miles said, for him, it feels like a dip in a warm floral tea. (He's from Wales, so he relates to an afternoon tea.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snooze said, "You know how, when you're wading & you can feel the ripples come across the water? It's like that. And you know how you go through cool sections and warm sections? It's like that."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then she said, "You've *always* been able to do that. I thought you knew!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(She also later said that it's in my quilts and all of my handwork [beading, sewing, etc].)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was quite an experience!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suddenly, Miles offered me a book to borrow on Crystals & the Chakras.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that begins *another* story!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you'd have told me two years ago that I was going to be doing this "crazy, weird, Hippie woo-woo shit", I'd have laughed in your FACE!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, boy, do I have lots to tell you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been reading about Chakras, Meridians, Auras, Chinese Reflexology, Acupuncture, and all sorts of things related to the Energy Body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been doing Energy Work, and Energy Healings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel all sorts of weird/neat things in my hands, and my feet, and various parts of my body.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I still have so much to learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm listening and learning to hear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going "places" I never thought I would.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm doing stuff I didn't even believe in a couple of years ago!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I'm bringing others along with me for this crazy ride. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my Dad, very fittingly I think, is walking with me, and he's even studying a bit about Shamanism. I think he's going to become a Shaman!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I feel so Good and At-Home in my body and my Spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm loving Life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm loving *my* Life. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm at peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am Happy.</span><br />
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-47922223351576076042013-06-03T11:50:00.000-04:002013-06-03T11:50:46.895-04:00You Realize...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...so...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been sitting here, <span style="font-size: large;">selfishly</span>, all morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first ate my eggs and drank my coffee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then i got on the computer, "Just to check my e-mail, quickly."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ha.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Famous last words...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as i sat here, reading blogs, my lovely assistant sat patiently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waiting for *her* Breakfast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whining began:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "You *do* realize, don't you, that it's waaay past 9:00, right."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And, lest you feel too sorry for her, i honestly fed her at 10am today.</span></div>
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-24520890740116828442013-05-23T09:23:00.000-04:002013-05-23T09:23:22.389-04:00Om Jacket (Picture-Heavy Post)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, i had this blue jean jacket, and i wanted to "put something on it", meaning embroider something on it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mentioned this to Boyfriend, and he started asking me questions like,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What do you want to put on it?" {I don't know}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What colors do you want on it?" {I don't know}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"How big do you want whatever-design to be?" {i don't know}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Okay, then... Well, is there a symbol that 'you Yoga-people' use?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that one got me thinking. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to put an Om on the back of my jacket with rainbow colors swirling out from it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(In case you don't know, the Om symbol represents the sound that is used in some Yoga classes and in meditation. It really has no translation because it's a sound, like "buzz" or "cough" or "hum". Just Google the word *Om* and you'll find ALLLLL kinds of information about it! And it'll get pretty deep pretty quickly.) =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i began this project around October/November of 2011, i think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a goal of finishing it by October of 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't make it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were many, many days that my jacket sat beside my chair in the living room. Just sat. Patiently waiting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would work on a color for a while,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then let it sit for awhile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then i'd begin work on another color.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then i'd let it sit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I *finally* got all the colors DONE before October! <span style="font-size: large;"> Yay!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then i decided that i needed *something* inside the Om...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a little "trial-and-error", i decided to use a specific bead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then October came, and went, and i got discouraged with myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I *didn't* meet my goal, and i was sad and disappointed and discouraged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Well, actually in April)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I finished it!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i took these pictures on April 20th.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't remember the exact DAY that i finished it, but that really doesn't matter. The important fact is that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I finished it!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And i LOVE it!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, without further blabbering from me, here it is,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my Beloved BlueJean Jacket with the Om/Rainbow Swirl:</span><br />
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And here i am, wearing my Jacket:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Mother's husband saw the jacket while i was sewing the beads on, and he flipped out! He went on and on about how Beautiful it is. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he told me i shouldn't wear it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was emphatic about it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He even offered to buy it from me, just so it would be hanging on a wall instead of being worn!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried explaining to him that i <span style="font-size: large;">*made*</span> it to be worn. That it's actually GREAT to *wear* Art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he wouldn't hear me. He kept insisting that i shouldn't wear something so beautiful. That wearing it will wear it *out*, and that i should hang it somewhere where it won't get "ruined".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I *tried* telling him that by wearing it, *more* people will be able to see it than if it's hanging on a wall in somebody's house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he wouldn't hear of it. He kept trying to convince me that Art shouldn't be worn. That this jacket that<span style="font-size: large;"> i embroidered for me</span> should be hanging on a wall somewhere. (Preferably at his house.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know *my* solution to *that*?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just don't wear it around him!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That way, he doesn't think about my jacket, and i get to do what i wanted to do in the first place, without having someone <span style="font-size: large;">fuss</span> at me about it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I apologize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whenever i start talking about him, i just get carried away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's the type of person who is "never wrong", and you can't tell him anything because he already knows everything, and you're never gonna be as smart as he is...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when i think of him or talk about him, i tend to vent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I apologize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post is about <span style="font-size: large;">my Jacket</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and how <span style="font-size: large;">Happy</span> i am about my Jacket. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you do something today that makes YOU Happy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-77234245649491798532013-05-13T16:06:00.000-04:002013-05-14T07:26:38.393-04:00Wednesday?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know it's not Wednesday, but...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I keep missing my intention of posting on Wednesdays!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a couple of minutes, so i thought i'd go ahead and post now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've sort of been taking photos for a while now, with the intention of posting about my days...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now i "must" catch-up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*warning: Photo-filled post ahead...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 15th thru 18th, i went to Nashville, Tennessee with Boyfriend. He had to work, so i drove while he sent e-mails and made phone calls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"And i helped!" (Who remembers where that's from?!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In my part of North Carolina, the beautiful Dogwood trees were in full bloom in April this year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GORGEOUS!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sort of take them for granted, even while i'm admiring their beauty, because i've always lived where they live and bloom...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Daddy's Lady-Friend came to make sure he was *truly* alright after his motorcycle wreck, and she couldn't believe how pretty they were.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she didn't even really see them when they were at their fullest!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They came to my house one day to see if i still had any flowers left, 'cause she wanted to press one or two and take them home with her...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry, but between the rain and the cold, they'd all fallen down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe next year! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(There are even PINK Dogwoods, but i don't have any in my yard. You could Google it, though.) =-)</span><br />
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And upon closer "inspection", you can see the pink Azalea that grows near the Dogwood.<br />
I loved the combination of the two this year. =-)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday mornings, i work the front desk at the Yoga Studio, so here's the "My Day" photo *before* i called the hospital to check on Daddy, who had to stay the night since he lost consciousness at the scene...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when i talked with him on the phone, he just didn't sound right and i got immediately concerned!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His speech was slurred, he was agitated, and he sort of fussed at me, so i had to "lay my eyes" on him as soon as i could!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy was fine... once the pain meds wore off. He REALLY does NOT tolerate pain meds well!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He prefers to take Tylenol instead of anything stronger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything else messes with his head, or makes him ill, or "blocks him up", or makes him feel weird all over, or makes him puke, or whatever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But to reassure myself, i had to "put my eyes on him" first.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't sure if it was the pain med, or the concussion, so i had to go see him... *Before* my "shift" was done. Oh well. Everybody understood. I had to be where i *needed* to be. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, on Friday, Boyfriend needed to go to Greensboro for work, and we had already planned on going to his Mom's for the weekend, so we combined the two trips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Sweet "Assistant".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's always ready to eat! (Sound like anybody *you* know?!) =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plastic bin is where i store her big bag of store-bought dog food.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves that thing. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was empty on this day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She wouldn't believe me, so i opened it up and laid it on its side so she could see for herself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that's it for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed the entertainment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather is GORGEOUS here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-22715282045641694072013-05-05T18:39:00.000-04:002013-05-05T18:39:17.594-04:00Whoah!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow. I really got "waylaid" for a while there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't neglecting you! I just haven't had time to post these past few weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, here's what happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Tuesday, April 23rd, my Dad had a wreck on his motorcycle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before you panick, let me assure you that he's doing alright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was coming around a "blind curve" (a curve where you can't see very far ahead), and before he realized & had time to react properly, he saw a large almost-18-wheeler truck was stopped in his lane, waiting to make a left turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He panicked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He squeezed on both brakes really hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently you're not supposed to do that on a motorcycle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because that causes it to skid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And since he was in a turn, the back tire starting coming around to the front, and the bike started "laying over", and he went down on his side (and the motorcycle did too), and he ended up rolling over and over in the road.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He lost conciousness in there somewhere, which *i* think probably saved him from getting hurt *much* worse than he actually did. (You know how, when you're aware that you're falling, you tense up a lot, and try to "catch" yourself. He didn't do that, and instead, rolled all loose-like. Much easier on your body.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, here's what much of my Tuesday evening and Wednesday looked like:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now you know part of where i've been. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy broke six bones in his face; his nose, 3 bones under his right eye on his cheek, a piece of his jaw bone, and a small bone under his right eye.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also dislocated and broke his left thumb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also got a H-U-G-E bruise (hematoma) on his right hip. (The blood from that is now starting to "gravitate" down his leg; it's past his knee now.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He scraped up his right shoulder (on the top).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also *possibly* broke his right big toe, and will most likely lose that nail. (He asked the doc, "Why take an x-ray? What're you going to do if it *is* broken?" and the doc was like, "Well... Okay.")</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also has a HUGE area on his right forearm where there's "no skin". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I say that, but you know you can't see the bone, right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the skin that *is* there is *not* "top layer" skin. It's gonna take a *while* to heal and re-grow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're pretty sure that he also got a concussion. The ER doc didn't say so, but we're assuming it. I mean, hell, he broke 6 bones in his face, so you *know* he hit his head pretty hard! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's been on a liquid diet, but he's slowly working up to "soft foods". His jaw really hurts, both for chewing and for opening up very much.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's difficult to live happily on a liquids/soft food diet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try it for 2 days and you'll see what i'm talking about. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, his spirits are high.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the first week, he was saying that he "supposes" he "should" give up the bike. He realizes his reaction-time and his eye-sight "isn't what it used to be."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But over the past few days, he's been feeling better and better, and is talking about *maybe* not giving it up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He REALLY loves riding a motorcycle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially when it's beautiful weather! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he *has* decided that the New England/Nova Scotia trip he's gonna make with his girlfriend in July is now gonna be in the car instead of on the bike! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He just couldn't live with the guilt if *she* had been on the bike *with* him and he wrecked!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i just can't argue with him! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's what he LOVES to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's HIS life!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If it makes him happy, then who am *I* to tell him to quit?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll go to his funeral know he was happy, and that he lived the way HE wanted. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's been my last (almost) two weeks! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hospital for 2 days, and then doctor's visit after doctor's visit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Took him to an oral maxillo-facial doctor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Took him to an orthopedist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Took him to his family doctor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Missed a *few* Yoga classes. But that's the "price" i pay for having an AWESOME Dad! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then his Girlfriend came to town Wednesday, and i've been able to start catching up on housework and stuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So just today am i able to *finally* make a post here. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to get "back on schedule" now. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having an AWESOME and Happy week!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Til Wednesday! (Unless *something else* waylays me!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, you read that correctly; Boyfriend and i are in Nashville, Tennessee today. We drove here on Monday (4/15), and when i say we, i mean ME! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm glad that i'm able to drive because it helps him out a lot. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He works on e-mails, phone calls, maps and other work-related "stuff" while i drive, so he doesn't "waste" his entire day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, entire day. It took us just over 7 hours to get here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stop for bathroom breaks, lunch and what-not, so that's about how long it takes us. For someone else, it would probably take less time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and for our oldest daughter, who has to pee *all* *the* *time* (like, every 15 minutes), it would most likely take much longer! lol =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll start heading back some time today, with a scheduled stop tonight in a hotel in either Knoxville TN or Asheville NC, and get back home on Thursday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://areyoukidding-wendy.blogspot.com/2012/11/ive-been.html" target="_blank">My Lovely Assistant</a> will be SOOO happy when i get back! 'Cause i</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'ll "save" her from the kennel! (She hates it there!)</span><br />
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<i>while i watch "The Doctors"</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i spent time by myself, and *for* myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sat around alllll day yesterday, watching the news </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(HORRIBLE news about the Boston Marathon!),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reading others' blog posts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reading newspapers (yes they *still* *exist*!),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">doing a little web-surfing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">watching a couple of talk shows,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and just generally lounging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a leisurely day, doing "not much at all", and wishing Boyfriend could do the same...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, i've already worked on a project i've been working on <b><u>(and avoiding)</u></b> for quite a while longer than i'd like to admit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a blue jean jacket...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just over a year ago, Boyfriend helped me come up with an idea to embroider something on the back of this jacket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND I LOVE IT!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess what?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I *just* this morning finished the beading on the jacket!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And *that* feels Really Really Good. =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Cause it's messy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Really messy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that would bother me if "everyone" could see the inside mess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i'm gonna wait 'til i get home and find the "right" fabric to line the inside (back) with. (I'm thinking of sewing it in by hand... with <b><u><span style="color: red;">Red</span></u></b> thread!) =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And remember, your day begins with YOU! See if you can give yourself a Reason to Smile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-6998561884807872682013-04-13T12:45:00.000-04:002013-04-13T12:45:04.951-04:00Jane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, after much back-and-forth, Spring has finally arrived here in my part of the World!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yay! =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seemed like it took it *forever* to decide if it was gonna come around, but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i've been taking a few pictures here and there with my camera:</span></div>
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<i>Jane Magnolia</i></div>
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<i>Also known as a Tulip Tree around here</i></div>
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'<i>Jane' again</i></div>
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<i>Jane last week...</i></div>
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<i>And Jane this week!</i></div>
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'<i>Jane' buds -n- blooms</i></div>
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<i>See Jane.</i></div>
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<i>See Jane blossom.</i></div>
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(Showing my age a bit, huh.) =-)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Smile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It snowed here on February 16th, 2013. I went out and took pictures with my phone, and it took me until a couple of days ago to *finally* figure out *how* to get them onto my computer!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lame, i know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But whatever. I finally figured it out! =-) (And all by myself, too!) (Go me!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when i drove out of my garage this morning and had tiny pieces of SLEET(!) pelting my windshield, i: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) remembered that i *still* haven't posted about the "late snow" we had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm over here rolling my eyes, people! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February 16th = late snow {as to}<as to=""> </as></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><as to="">April 4th sleet = wtf?????!!!</as></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't even begin to bring up words to tell you how surprised i was when those tiny pieces of ice were falling from the sky this morning!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm just gonna post the pics of the "late snow" while i contemplate words like "snow" and "ice" and "seasons"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and my new front porch too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times where she gave me EXCELLENT "Words of Wisdom".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for being the BEST Big Sister any girl could ever ask for!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some days i have things to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some days...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know those days, right? When you just have anything to say?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, today is Wednesday, and i *try* to post on Wednesdays...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i honestly don't have much to say today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think i *might* have some photos in the camera that i haven't shown you yet...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there are other things i *should* be doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i just wanted to share something with you:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a blog i go to... almost every day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought you, too, might like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But please don't abandon me for it!</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the sweetest thing, really.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's three women who are friends, but they live in different states.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of them wrote a book or two...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One works in an animal shelter...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the other one...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I'll just let you see for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their posts are not planned or coordinated, but it seems, many times, that they serendipitously have something in common.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None of them makes overly long posts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it's just a sentence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a picture. Always accompanied by a picture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i get *such* a feeling from their posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://3x3x365.blogspot.com/">http://3x3x365.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you like it as much as I do. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a Beautiful Day (despite what the weather in "your neck of the woods" is doing!). =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Woh! I went out of town last week with Boyfriend, and i missed making a post. Sorry 'bout that! I *intended* to post while we were on the road, but...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, you know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Stuff" got in the way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it frequently does. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, i went to Gainesville, Florida with Boyfriend. He had a conference to attend for work, so i drove us all the way down there, and he worked on answering his work e-mails... All. The Way. There! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy Cow, he gets a lot of e-mail! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And all of it "needs" to be answered "right now!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway. I'm glad i was able to help him by driving, so the 8 hours of drive time wasn't "wasted" for him. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It feels good to feel needed. And to help him get stuff accomplished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He works all the time, and i don't. His days are filled with his job, and my days are at my leisure. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many, many times, i feel guilty about that...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, hey. That's just how things are for us right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I keep waiting for the day he retires, and then maybe i can teach him how to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">s-l-o-w d-o-w-n. (That will be quite a feat!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We left for FL on Tues, Mar 5th, and on our way back on Friday, we took a "side-trip" to Beaufort, SC to see my Mom and her husband.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't mean to sound mean or anything, but i *always* dread that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is SO CONTRARY!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he is such a contrast!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You never know if he's going to be an argumentative Ass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or the joking, laughing old man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you *know* he's gonna be the opinionated, one-up, conceited Wanker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">each. and. every. TIME!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even when you're agreeing with him, YOU'RE WRONG!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, that trip is over for now, and i don't have to think about it again for at least 5 weeks or more! "Tra-la-la-la-la!" <skipping around=""></skipping></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry i don't have any pictures for you, but Bunny came and "borrowed" *HER* camera from us, so... The pics that i *have* taken are...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep. Still on the camera.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to do better next week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a Marvelous Week!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep your head up and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Keep on Keepin' On" (as we used to say waaay back when)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-62743291570933948862013-02-28T17:02:00.002-05:002013-02-28T17:02:46.388-05:00Two in One...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two posts in one week?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What in the World is going on?! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just *had* to share this with you...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if this doesn't make you smile, then you really are having a bad day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mensweardog.tumblr.com/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go have a look.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the cutest dog, and he's wearing different outfits, kinda like a catalog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I LOVE it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you're having a Great Day today!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's to Smiling!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's one picture from the site,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just to entice you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No picture, just personal news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...i went to the doctor Monday. Her nurse called me to let me know that my doctor was "quite alarmed" with my bloodwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm anemic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Mother's anemic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been anemic a long time now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But yesterday, my doctor was alarmed by this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(She's a new doctor for me; i just switched to her.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She told me that a "normal" level for a menstruating female is 12 point-something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She told me that mine is 8.8.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then she told me that at 8.5 they give you a transfusion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Holy Shit!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That really surprised me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i can't seem to get it out of my head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Yoga today, and i couldn't make myself do as much as i could do, because i can't seem to get over the fact that "that's" my number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It snowed here on the 16th. We took a few pictures. I really like how the snow melted on the driveway, road & stones in the front.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was so pretty. =-)</span><br />
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-17385681048166613362013-02-21T09:37:00.001-05:002013-02-21T09:37:11.015-05:00Give Yourself What You Need<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, a couple of months ago, i was wandering around on the internet, and i came across this poster (as in 'the piece of thick paper kids use for projects at school'). I don't remember what it said, but it had words at the bottom, and you could tear them off (much like the ads for "Roommate Wanted" that have that little strip at the bottom where you tear the phone number off and take it with you).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know what i'm talking about? 'Cause i really don't know how else to describe it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, this poster (the noun) was much like that, but it had Words at the bottom to tear away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words like "More Love" and "Less Stress".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, i *LOVED* this idea!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And i apologize, but i have NO idea where i saw this, so i cannot give credit to the person who posted it...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I know, i know. Truly a Web No-No!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But at least i'm telling you that this was NOT *my* original idea!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it *is* an idea that i Love. =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i made one of my own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took it to "my" Studio and hung it up outside our main Yoga room, and people are responding. =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me show you what i made! =-)</span></div>
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Here's the poster i made.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3v3mMRzmzA8cW2HLTQ_55hanQEAuc8a1cQxbgJFTKewdupEBHc1h8ZrlyTQrGKWgr6iuGPU6m7bI5i74-9c4xfUeSxizCTtbSXc9yEbaegqqraU_bNNFEr50JpOE8fzx6w1-tteNAYXs/s1600/Poster+2-2013+d.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3v3mMRzmzA8cW2HLTQ_55hanQEAuc8a1cQxbgJFTKewdupEBHc1h8ZrlyTQrGKWgr6iuGPU6m7bI5i74-9c4xfUeSxizCTtbSXc9yEbaegqqraU_bNNFEr50JpOE8fzx6w1-tteNAYXs/s400/Poster+2-2013+d.JPG" width="265" /></a></div>
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A little closer so you (hopefully) can read it:</div>
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It says:</div>
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"Sometimes we are too close to a situation to see things clearly.</div>
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During these times, it may help to have a 'Visual Reminder'.</div>
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Please feel free to take what you need; </div>
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put it in a place where you'll see it several times each day</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give Yourself What You Need!"</span></div>
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And then the words/encouragement/Love</div>
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that each person can take with:</div>
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There are tabs that say,</div>
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"Compassion" "Less Self-Criticism" "Peace" "Joy" "Less Stress"</div>
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"I Am Whole" "I am Not Broken" "Have More Fun!"</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Studio owner, Kim, told me the other day that she really really loves it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves the idea of it, and she loves that we are offering it to each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't heard many comments from anybody else, but...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I Love It!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It made me feel good just making it! =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It makes me happy just thinking about it! =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, for the "nitty-gritty":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used my sewing machine to "perforate" the poster board between each word/phrase, so they'd be easy to tear-away. I didn't want it to be a "bothersome" thing and have people have to go borrow the scissors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(If something's a bunch of trouble, people are waaay less likely to do it.) (duh)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't get any pictures of me making it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's kinda hard to do when you're all by yourself; holding the poster board at the sewing machine *while* holding the camera and trying to take a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> just can't do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe i'm not coordinated enough, or something, but that's me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So <span style="font-size: large;">you just have to imagine it!</span> =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a <span style="font-size: large;">Fantastic Week</span>!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things here are "rolling right along". =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boyfriend had his Gallbladder removed last Friday (the 15th), so he's home with me all this week, recuperating. He's doing better and better, but he's still not ready to try doing a sit-up or anything. =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...maybe i'll post pictures of his bandaged and bruised belly, <span style="font-size: large;">if anybody's interested...?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess what?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time for the post about my "newest" Art Room!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...finally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know, right? =-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a few "in process" pics, and then...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, i've hesitated in posting about my Art Room, 'cause i *first* wanted to get pictures of it "Clean & Pristine", but...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that hasn't really happened yet, now, has it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just find that i have a number of projects going at one time, and it's never really "clean & neat" and "ready for it's Close-up".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, here it is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As Is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you would see it on a daily basis if you were to <span style="font-size: large;">pop</span> in for a visit.</span></div>
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Boyfriend, working on the </div>
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wonderful Counter area:</div>
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This work-top is really <span style="font-size: large;">2 kitchen counters</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50124084/#/20124085" target="_blank">purchased from Ikea</a>.</div>
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They measure 8 ft long x 25 in deep, each.</div>
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In other words?</div>
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A Wonderful Working Space!</div>
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He's so Professional! =-)</div>
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Note all the Natural Light pouring in through the 5 (FIVE!) windows.</div>
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(The windows are facing West and North. </div>
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Putting the third leg on.</div>
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He put a <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60103750/#/00011013" target="_blank">shelf above the windows</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I put all of my projects in plastic boxes, purchased from Dollar General.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also put my Beading stuff in one box, and my Embroidery stuff in a different box, and etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It just helps me not get "overwhelmed" when i try to go in there and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I already had the lamp, the table in the corner, the cardboard on the wall (for painting), the tall Drawer-thing, and the shelf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't been out there a *whole* lot yet, but i've been doing this and that, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here and there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and i'm REALLY really Grateful that i have it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, hopefully that'll be my next post...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a BUNCH of them made, and i'm wanting to get to the store with Bunny so she can pick out the Bias Binding "tape"-thing so i can start putting them together. And *THEN* i should be able to make a post about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And maybe you'll get the chance to start working on a Project you've been hoping to get to. =-)</span></div>
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Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-19673110752574850362013-02-07T16:47:00.001-05:002013-02-07T16:47:15.414-05:00Just Checking In...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, i meant to post *yesterday*, but...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I <i>left my house</i> at <b><span style="font-size: large;">5:00am</span></b> on Tuesday! Yes, Tuesday <span style="font-size: large;">morning</span>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am NOT a morning person, if i haven't told you that before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Boyfriend woke me at 4:30 Tuesday, and we left in our truck at 5:00 for Knoxville, Tennessee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He had a job to do there, and i "volunteered" to go with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Why?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, because.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because it's what a wife does after almost 30 years of marriage,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when Boyfriend's close friend and work-mate dies suddenly from a heart attack at the young age of 53.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ricky was "the picture of health". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just turned 53 on January 1st.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never smoke, never drank</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in his entire life!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rarely ate red meat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rarely ate dessert.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ran 3 miles a day!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knew his cholesterol & blood pressure numbers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...had all the "markers" of a healthy person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Went out on a run with his wife of 27 years, while the 20-something daughters (2, just like us) waited at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and dropped dead on that run.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Massive heart attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It *really* hit Boyfriend hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very Hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ricky and Boyfriend had been on many road trips together for work over the years. Probably 10,000 miles or more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They had many similarities and many differences, but they respected each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were mentors to each other, helping out where they differed, and commiserating where they had similarities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, it really hit Boyfriend hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got him thinking about his own mortality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got him wondering what it's all for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got him thinking maybe he *should* have that Chocolate Nut Sundae once in awhile, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it got him thinking about how he never told Ricky that he loved him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loved him as he would a brother, if he had a brother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now he regrets that he never verbalized it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So in my "being there" for my man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and in my attempts to comfort someone who's not too good at being comforted and expressing "weakness", i told him i'd start travelling with him on his business trips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So Tuesday, i drove to Knoxville, and he answered e-mails, texts and phone calls all day. It's a FOUR hour drive, point-to-point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong; we stopped for breakfast; we stopped at Rest Areas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But all in all, we were on the road for almost half the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I actually enjoyed driving. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he enjoyed the fact that he actually got work accomplished instead of "wasting" that time by "only" being able to drive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Win-Win. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He got a bunch of work done, and we had each others' company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That made me miss posting yesterday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my "latest" goal is to post every Wednesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, in case i haven't told you, i'm not very successful at planning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, who am i kidding? "Planning" simply doesn't seem to have a spot in my brain at all!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i didn't have a post "pre-posted" for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, here i am today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without a lot to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a *bunch* of Bunting for Bunny, but she and i need to get together at a fabric store and pick out the Bias Tape in whatever color she likes before i'll really be working on it again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i haven't really worked on any of my other WIPs lately.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing new to "report", really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i *am* feeling good today! =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which is Good News, since last week i had a little bit of depression going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i hope YOU are feeling good, too!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been cloudy and raining and gloomy here all day, but i've managed to stay warm and keep busy and get a few things accomplished, so.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GOOD for me! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope *you* are being slightly productive today, too!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And don't forget to tell someone how much you love him/her. We won't be here forever, you know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take care!</span><br />
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-35662825652263968352013-01-30T16:28:00.000-05:002013-01-30T16:28:28.962-05:00Well...?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't taken the time yet to take pictures of my Art Room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Big Surprise, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sorry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i *do* have Good Intentions!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...I know, i know; "the road to Hell is *paved* with Good Intentions."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But i *have* been working on Bunny's Bunting, and i have a *bunch* of them sewn and ironed up! (Or a "shit-ton" as Bunny would say.) I'm so tickled about them! And they make me happy, just looking at them! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i'll soon take pictures of them and post about them, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I keep thinking about maybe doing a tutorial ("tute"), but then i just keep thinking about how there are already tutes alllll over the Internet for making Bunting Flags, so i keep talking myself out of doing a tute. If you want to see tutes for how to make Bunting Flags, just go to YouTube and search 'bunting'. That's how i got my courage up to do mine. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work on the front yard has been going a little slow around here. The weather hasn't exactly been co-operating, so. Yeah. It's been slow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was *really* nice out yesterday, so i finally washed the truck in the driveway. Because, MAN!, did it ever *need* it! Boyfriend had driven it when it "snowed" here (i put it in quotes because it was really just 'snow-dust'), so my black truck was really grey. But NOW it looks GOOD! =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i haven't taken the time to work on *any* WIPs because i've been having such a good time working on the Bunting. =-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And i think that's okay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's my "check-in" for this week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a productive week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you're not, then i hope at least you're having a Good Week. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Til next week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640964005536597530.post-17501579431193112552013-01-23T10:14:00.001-05:002013-01-23T10:14:21.638-05:00Okay...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, here's what i'm hoping to do in the next four weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I'm hoping that by putting it on my blog, it'll make me "obligated" to get it done!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've *totally* organized my Art Room (formerly the Art/Yoga room), and moved things around and made some changes in there. It took awhile, as many worthy projects do, but i've finished getting it totally organized, and i want to share it here with you. It's working for me. I've already been doing stuff in there. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And speaking of "doing stuff", that leads me to another post i'm wanting to make soon. I've been working on making bunting for Bunny's wedding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...what?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wait!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You mean i haven't told you about Bunny's wedding?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh shit! "My bad", as they say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bunny (my 23-yo daughter) announced in June that she and her boyfriend, "AJ", got engaged. Their wedding date is September 21st. She wants to have her wedding in our backyard. She wants a sort-of non-traditional wedding. And she wants me to make bunting to hang from the house to the shop, and perhaps in the trees and/or on the fence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What. Not really sure what i'm talking about; "bunting"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1290&bih=746&q=bunting+flags&oq=bunting&gs_l=img.1.3.0l10.2521.3670.0.6510.7.7.0.0.0.0.90.567.7.7.0.epsugrerhigh..0.0...1.1.HKhA2qcK45E#hl=en&tbo=d&site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=fabric+bunting&revid=1341401639&sa=X&ei=Rvr_UOn1Joia8gSlw4CYDQ&ved=0CE4QgxY&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41248874,d.eWU&fp=4d71e1008db089fe&biw=1290&bih=746" target="_blank">Check this out</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*That's* what i'm talking about. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i had her go through allll my fabrics the other night and pull out the fabrics she wants me to use for her buntings. So i've been working on that lately. I usually don't post pics of Works In Progress. I prefer to post about *finished* projects. But for some reason i'm wanting to post about it. So...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another post i'm wanting to make is about our front yard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, i know i *just* made a post about our back yard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did that work in July/August.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now we're having our front yard re-done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And i'm lovin' it!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they're supposed to be finished fairly soon, so i want to post about it as soon as i can.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did i mention <span style="font-size: large;">i love it!</span>? =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also want to make a post about all of the projects i have "in process" (<u>W</u>ork <u>I</u>n <u>P</u>rogress), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so *hopefully* that will get me motivated to get to work on them! Plus, it'll help me to see just how many projects i have, and hopefully help me get motivated instead of depressed about them. =-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, to sum up, that means posts about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. The Art Room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Bunny's Bunting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The Front Yard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. WIPs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alright!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have declared it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make it so. (That one's for you, Pam.) (Who else knows what that's from?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So. What are you wanting to accomplish? Craft-wise, Blog-wise, Organizing-wise, whatever subject. Leave a comment and i'll come check out your blog too!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Maybe one of these days, i'll figure out how to do one of those Link-y things... Hmmm...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you have a Super Day!!!</span><br />
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<br />Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290498016642859265noreply@blogger.com0