In Love With Ice Cream… is there anyone who doesn’t like it?? I do remember one occasion when my mom and dad wanted to make my eighteen birthday party really special and invited the entire family as well as a ton of friends to our house. Being the girly girl that I am, mom picked up this huge bucket (the kind that restaurants have) of strawberry ice cream. It was pink!! Well, someone goofed. It wasn’t pink. It was orange and black and tasted about as bad as it looked. Okay, I guess it would have been okay if you liked orange ice cream with licorice swirls. Too bad my birthday hadn’t been in October. It would have been really cool lol…

We Get Our Movies For Free

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We have a great library and when we sell our house and have to move, I’m really going to miss it. Our library has thousands of movies and they are absolutely free to borrow! I don’t even want to think about how much money I have wasted in the past at movie rental stores. Check out your own library and see what they have to offer. Finding entertainment for free will really make a proshopper out of you.

 

 

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It’s Been a Bad Week

First of all my husband had to be out of town ALL week, which meant I had to cook… and I can’t if my life depended on it. Okay, I pretty good with grilled cheese sandwiches, but I have a hard time with timing stuff. So don’t ask me to make an entire meal and then to have it all be at the table at the same time.

And then there was the case of finding contentment. I’m a big time city girl, but just maybe I’m changing a little bit. I found this cutest little cottage sitting alongside a stream. So not me, but I could actually see myself living in a place like that. It’s over at my How to Be Content Every Day lens over at Squidoo. I have to admit… if someone was to ask where the most likely place to find me… it wouldn’t be here. Somethings happening to me I’m sure of it lol… not a department store in sight.

I Need More Work

Had a doctor’s appointment yesterday. I had a list that I wanted to ask him about but no real biggy. But the minute that I got into the examining room, my blood pressure skyrocked . I simply have to look at a medical center and up it goes.  The nurse took my blood pressure and all I can remember is that it was 152 over something. Can’t remember the last number. She told me to sit and relax before the doctor arrived and picture a beach scene. I did my best but I knew that it wasn’t working. Thoughts kept getting in the way.  He entered the room, I worked my way through the list and when all was finished, he took my blood pressure again and it was down to 132 over something. For me that was good.

I really need to work on this white coat syndrome that I have.   I obviously haven’t been spending enough time on my meditation. Must work on that this week.  Definitely need to learn how to relax and not worry about stuff that hasn’t happened. Good chance that it won’t anyway.

Why I Watch Birds…

Today I spent a little time outside simply watching the birds soar in the sky. We are in Florida right now and it is sooo nice to sit out on the lanai and simply enjoy the gorgeous weather.  If you can’t get into meditating, this has to be a close second!

 And I can’t believe that I’m saying this, but  I can’t wait to get home and top up our bird feeder. With all of the snow we have had, I’m sure that it must be getting low. While I might not be able to sit outside and watch the birds, but sitting by the window with a cup of tea is almost as good. I’m still waiting to spot my first cardinal!

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*Smoothies Anyone?

It’s hot where I’m vacationing at the moment and I’m craving smoothies. Actually, I had a great one yesterday at the mall. It was a combination of cranberry, banana and strawberry.  While I don’t know the recipe for that one, I did find this one buried in my recipes to try file. It should take about 10 seconds to put it together! My kind of recipe!

Ingredients
1  8-ounce cartons plain fat-free yogurt
1  ripe small bananas
1  cup frozen unsweetened berries

Did you notice that there is no added sugar in there at all!

I’m Trying to Meditate… Again

I’m on vacation and my moods should be all about blissful  afternoons and all things relaxing, but I have my moments… and they aren’t blissful  so I’m going to give meditating another try. Maybe I have been trying too hard. I’m going to sit outside b y the pool this afternoon and just close my eyes. Maybe some quiet time is the first step to meditating. Did I ever mention that I have NO patience what-so-ever?? I will let you know how well I do later today. But no promises… sitting still is not one of my better skills.

What I’m Reading – Inspiration by Wayne W. Dyer

I’m on holiday at the moment and find that I have a lot more time to sit out in the sunshine and simply read. For some reason, I just don’t do that when I’m at home. So, I’m on page 39 at the moment and I’m enjoying the book enough to check out some more of his titles before I go home. If anyone has a suggestion as to which book I should invest in next… I’m all ears!!

Gund Monkey “Mambo”

I don’t know if it’s just me hitting my… okay I really don’t have to tell you just how old I am, but I am suddenly developing a thing for stuffed animals. Not sure where it is coming from, but it is definitely there!! And this little guy is awfully cute. Maybe it has something to do with the orangutang program that we have been watching on one of the nature programs. I fell in love with the little guy instantly.

Gund Monkey “Mambo”

*Start a Happiness Journal

Lets start with just one week and record anything that happens during your day that makes you happy. It certainly does a number on your stress levels when you begin thinking that maybe your life isn’t half bad afterall! If after the week is over you want to continue with your happiness journal, go for it.

It’s all about starting. I recently started painting and I thought that I would hate it. Funnily (is that a word??) I am finding that I am enjoying it. There’s something soothing about it. And last night I upped (another one of my own words perhaps lol) to 15 minutes. Usually I stop at about five minutes before I am off to something else.