Yesterday was an especially good day.  I’d completed the October issue of Horizons Magazine the day before, and had just finished placing some last minute ads and proofreading.  That meant I had the weekend off – yay!  When I took the garbage out about 9:00am, I noticed the air was cool and crisp. These are my good weather markers: when it is still cool on my birthday, April 10th, I know it will be a mild summer and mild hurricane season.  Meaning it won’t be oppressively hot and muggy all summer.  That we’ll have summer storms to take the pressure off. When it begins to cool down on my brother Bobby’s birthday, September 9th, then I know it will be a mild winter, meaning few freezes. Especially if the acorns are already out by then.  So the good weather continues right on time. Continue reading →

I notice a lot of things around me coming into balance lately. Sure, there’s the usual measure of chaos in the lives of people I speak to, but it usually doesn’t affect me. Years ago, I used to get so full of what others poured into me that I couldn’t find myself anymore, and I’d have to retreat and hibernate to regain my perspective and my calm center. I have the most to give others, when I have my own calm center. Notice that when you don’t have your own agenda, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the agendas of those around you. And those around you are probably a lot less centered and focused than you are. Scary thought, huh? So rather than bringing yourself down to their level, where they may be emotionally insecure and floundering, help raise them to yours by keeping your calm no matter what is going on. Continue reading →

It seems I bought my big puffy chair just in time last month.  In time for the big cold that would knock me out for the past 2 weeks. I spent lots of time napping in the new chair.  I knew to alternate it with naps in my bed so I wouldn’t get too bored spending so much time in the same room since the cold kept me horizontal.  Before the chair, I’d usually crash on my couch rather than officially going to bed.  But since the advent of the new puffy chair, I have been sleeping in my bedroom more.  I’m not one of those people who calls it a night in typical fashion.  I don’t get in my pajamas and turn down the bed and get in between the sheets.  I typically fall asleep on top of the covers, fully dressed, project in hand. Continue reading →

Finally I seem to be allowing this head and chest cold to loosen its hold on me.  I lost 4 days of work when it began because I didn’t recognize it as a cold at first.  That means I didn’t jump in right away with my immune tincture, vitamin C and grapefruit seed extract, and consequently I spent the first 4 days sleeping almost around the clock.  When I was awake, I was busy using up all the tissue in the house and coughing, coughing, coughing.  Since I never feel like eating when I can’t breathe, I lost a few pounds in the process.  YAY!  The next 5 days, I began feeling better.  I still wasn’t psyched about cooking, so I began eating canned soups and Kahiki frozen egg rolls.  I love Campbell’s condensed Chicken Noodle Soup and, like the egg rolls, it is delicious and low fat.  Then suddenly it seemed my cold got worse.  I felt I was back pedalling and didn’t know why.  I began feeling low energy and my head was filling up again.  Then I realized that, by trying to save time by not cooking, I was resorting to processed foods, which I don’t typically eat much of.  So, along with my cold, my body now had to work to fight off the energy zappers I’d so quickly introduced.  Darn, and I know better. Continue reading →

The saga of the head and chest cold continues! I’m on day 10 of my cold and at this point it’s obvious it’s going to run the entire 2 weeks.  It’s been so long since I had a cold that at first I simply thought it was hay fever, since it’s the season.  Had I began taking vitamin C and grapefruit seed extract at the first sneeze, I would have nipped it in the bud. I didn’t do that. But it’s a far easier cold than it would have been.

A friend emailed he was tired of seeing the tons of stupid stuff friends posted on his Facebook Wall. I reminded him they were simply posting to THEIR OWN Facebook Wall. The reason he could see it was because he had them showing on his “News Feed”.

Simply “hide” from your News Feed whoever’s stupid stuff you don’t want to see. I thought the same thing at first until I figured out how it worked.

So they are not putting graffiti all over YOUR wall, simply their own 🙂

I’m just discovering Facebook
Managing Incoming Information; What Is Facebook For?
Facebook quizzes; every little bit of insight helps
Facebook posts; I’m in charge of what I attract
Facebook friends to the rescue, helping me Excel
If a Friend Asks For $$ In Facebook, Ask A Personal Question
You Want To Be My Friend On Facebook?
The Zen of Farmville on Facebook? WTF?
Are Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends? Don’t Assume Mine Are Either
What I post on Facebook
Finding childhood buds on Facebook, flashback to age 18
Putting personal details on Facebook and Myspace
Is it ok to break up with someone over Facebook?
Why I like Facebook

Yes, I’m still posting other people’s stuff on the blog here for a few days.  I’m getting over my big head and chest cold, so I’m giving all my energy to finishing the final layout of the October Horizons. Last month I wore out my paws doing both the final layout AND writing new daily blog posts and had a flare up of the ole carpal tunnel.  I’m just now out of the wrist splints, so I’m not pushing it.  The good news is the cold kept me off the keyboard long enough to heal the paws right up.  In a few days I’ll be back to my typical blathering on about all the little details of my goofy life.  Thanks for bearing with me!

7 thoughts that Are Bad For You:  Our personalities do more for us than determine our social circles. Temperament can impact a person’s physical health.  “The idea that behavior or personality traits can influence health is one that’s been around for a long time. We’re just now getting a handle on to what extent they do,” said Stephen Boyle of Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.  From those with a chill demeanor to the completely frazzled types, mental factors are ultimately tied to physical health. And while a highly neurotic person might deteriorate more quickly than others, not every character trait will kill you. Some might even boost lifetimes.   — Jeanna Bryner Continue reading →

A girlfriend made me laugh this week.  She knows I eat a healthy, natural diet most of the time, so I confessed that I’d eaten a turkey sandwich for dinner – knowing that bread and meat wasn’t the best thing to eat while I was getting over a big cold.  She emailed back, “I am the LAST person to comment on anyone else’s eating habits. I read your blogs and am amazed at how well you eat. If I resist a chicken sandwich, baked potato and cookie dough Frosty, I think I’m Deepak Chopra!”