Four bad days of eating and I can feel it on my body. The pants are tight, but the bigger issue is that the body is sluggish. I spent the long weekend indulging myself... I was very thankful for pies and desserts. It would not truly be celebrating if we refused the things we are most thankful for. Needless to say, when the body is off so is everything else. My brain feels cluttered, I have less energy and bad eating leads to more bad eating... As I laid down for a 20 min nap which is such a luxury, I thought about what a fantastic side effect a nap was after a weekend of gluttony. Sometimes there are rewards for bad behavior. I also realized it took a pumpkin pie, chocolate cake, creme brulee, chirro’s and chocolate sauce and oranges with rosemary to get me to rest. Divine intervention by sugar.

taking responsibility for relationships

Today was a day of relationships. Working and interacting with people, co-workers, friends and family. Many relationships are just easy and others are work. I have some friendships that I work harder at and I have some friends who work harder at being my friend. I always feel guilty about those. Not that I don’t want to see them, its much like the squeaky wheel syndrome. The the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Driving around today, sitting at the lights was an old neighbor who at one time was a very good friend. I waved, honked, roll down my window, stuck my arm out and she didn’t look over. She was stealing a quiet moment in her car, but to everyone else at the light, I was a crazy red haired road raged maniac. I reflected back on the years and couldn’t remember how we drifted apart, no fight, no lack of respect, we were just busy with families. What really happened is that neither of us chose to take responsibility for the friendship. When I got into my writing space tonight I read my emails and came across this video. Just really sums up what we need to do to hold on to those we hold dear. Its called the 100/0 principle. Take 100% of the responsibility and expect nothing in return. I know a few people just spit their coffee out reading this, but have a look before you text me this morning. If what your trying doesn’t work, maybe you need to change strategies. Keep a open mind karma sisters.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We are all rubbing our bellies wishing that we hadn’t gone back for another piece of pie, or perhaps you are wondering why the white bun always seems like such a good idea. Tums should be passed around with the coffee. Thanksgiving is really about be thankful for the bountiful harvest. Most of us are not working the fields to produce a harvest, but we all have reasons to be thankful. Family, friends, food and new shoes are always great places to start. But, if you dig deeper what would you be most thankful for? I had dinner with a friend and he spoke of his cancer like a gift. It was a cleansing in his life. Sometimes the greatest hardships bring the greatest gifts, and those gifts we can be most thankful for. Happy gobble gobble...

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stacey_kramer_the_best_gift_i_ever_survived.html

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TED Talks Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift.

Steve Jobs RIP

Steve Jobs died this week and to most people he was just a really rich computer guru who made billions on apple. All this information is true, but what most people don’t know is that he was a college drop out, ran off to India, became a Buddhist, and was so broke in the 70’s ate free meals with the Hare Krishna's. He was one of the founders of Mac computers, pushed out, started again, and then eventually his new company bought out by Mac. He didn’t have the education to be who he became, he didn’t have the upbringing, he just had passion. He followed what was true for him and he made his mark on this earth. One of my favorite quotes of his “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life” Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Here is his talk about living before you die. So worth the watch
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html

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TED Talks At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.

discount email

Every morning I wake up my phone is filled with emails. I am always a bit excited to to see who has dropped me a note. Instead it is offers of fantastic vacations, cheap dinners or merchandise at 50% off.    What savings!  Should I really consider a week at a time share resort with a bottle of Mexico’s best water waiting for me in my room?    We are bombarded everyday everywhere with marketing ads.   Marketers are hoping  society is searching for happiness in trips and discounted stuff.   Maybe happiness is just waking up to only two emails from friends?   I am cleaning up my inbox today and un-subscribing to everything.    And when I decide to take a vacation,  I will just book it with no fine print and no bottle water.  

Glee night.. Yippee

It is glee night here, its the only show I watch on T.V. Not because I enjoy the music or the plot of the show, it is the only show we can watch together as a family. Somehow everyone seems to make it home in time. There is always an underlying message, about friendship, forgiveness and then they wrap it all up in a nice bow at the end of the hour. It usually costs the itunes account $4.00 as they girls download the newest songs from the episode. This is the precious family moments that I appreciate, with lots of girl gab during commercials. Crazy family time is over a bunch of 20 somethings trying to play high school students. I’ll take what I can.

Blogger Block

I am having trouble writing and for lots of different reasons. I really don’t consider myself a serious writer, just a blogger. Writers block is something that apparently everyone gets, but bloggers? They should re-name it bloggers block. There are lots of expressions about “blocks” like.. road blocks, cellblock and mental block. Blocks happen in everyones life. How do you get over a block? Remove the obstacles or go around would probably be the tangible right answer. My issue is not physical so now I have to find out what the block is. Way to much work.. l am going to give this blockhead a rest, maybe something insightful will come to me tomorrow. More sleep would be start.