Friday, July 22, 2011

Let's choose something nice to talk about...

After last night’s mega complaining bout I think I owe you all that.
We all need to think about what is good in our lives.
More than what makes us just smile, which we do automatically since it takes less muscles to do that than frown, huh? But the true reason to get out of bed in the morning; what makes you do it?
Get your mind out of the gutter! Nah, that would probably make you stay... bud dump bum.
I mean what makes you jump out of your warm or air-cooled (hopefully), in this weather, comfy and cozy cocoon and arise to begin your day with a purpose?
For me it used to be our sons when they were small and before them it was my love of my job, and soon again when they got older that was my motivation again and over again, then volunteering, going to the pool or gym, shopping, vacations, riding my bike, going for a walk, starting a new hobby, writing a story, seeing the sunrise; I suppose lotsa of things...
I still believe for most of us it is the cause of being needed to do something and knowing that you are useful.
As our families grow and children leave if they are able to we all go through that sadness of what’s next, 'empty nest syndrome' they call it, who's 'they' again, huh? And you would think after all this time that I would be over it by now, but Mom’s I do think take a wee bit longer than Dad’s.
But each era of our lives brings new reasoning’s of being and sometimes we just have to search just a wee bit harder at times to find that zing to make our heart strings want to do it!
Again, get your mind out of the gutter…!
I am talking about the passion of life’s work or hobby or volunteerism or what-have-you; something that causes you to actually or figuratively to spring out of that bed daily knowing it’s going to be a great day, one that is pregnant with possibilities, and all good ones!

‘Fired-up’, I do believe is another common modern expression to describe how that feeling works inside of you.
I suspect it means that when dissected it means having a fire under you to do what you want to do, a wonderful desire.
In this weather nationally to be fired-up may be taken literally with most of these fine United States well into the triple digits temperature wise but oddly enough not here in good old Florida! Some TV guys and gals have been cooking eggs on sidewalks and cookies in automobiles but that is in the northern states and far from here…
In fact right now we are a rain cooled seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit, how about them apples; how do you like that our rest of our countrymen and women? Only thing is we were at 101 earlier today before the rain, but that might not be the official temperature since our thermometers seem to always run higher warmer than the TV’s temps for us.
Anyway, as you may have guessed I have been in all day.

Any-who, getting things done indoors can be quite entertaining too, and should not be dismissed as non-exciting.
Gosh some of our do-it-yourself projects have been more exciting than some news stories.
From simple crafts of my signs that many may have seen on my Facebook PICS page to major room decorating, to re-dos of furniture and even many enormous home renovations and when outdoors landscaping projects with outdoor rooms and water features of our years in our past.
Those have been known to fire me up, and even just maintenance of those things now continues to make me enjoy our home.
I must admit with the rain the shades now have been opened they had been closed to help keep out the heat, but now looking at everything in bloom and the grass so lush with nature doing its part makes me feel joy in my heart from the beauty of it all!

I suppose just pulling open a drape or lifting a shade or twirling open a blind and seeing the world outside that is no longer shriveled and dying but gloriously luscious and is a good reason to hop out of your bed and realize that everyday is a renewed beginning to you and the rest of the world and so why not enjoy even if all you can do is look out from the inside…

On that pleasant thought allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count those blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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