Steps

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” which is a quote from Lao Tzu, Laozi an old master or old one, a Chinese philosopher who supposedly lived during the sixth century BC, but he was mythological and he is generally considered honorific.
An East Asian philosopher of the school of Taoism, notable ideas of Wu wei which translates to taking action.
How interesting, huh?

Well I thought the quote was relevant since I have begun my journey that may even be more than a thousand steps. Yes, probably two hundred thousand or more like a million more, lol.
Today was day two of this undertaking one that is purely selfish and well worth the effort!
Odd and perhaps not so nice of me being that way at this time of the year but I do think being good to ones self is important too.
I have been unjustly mean or bad to myself with my self-defeprecating attitude with me.

And today I did step up the program with adding a count of fifteen for my arms. I did have a nasty leg cramp and I will from now on have to remember to take my Baclofen, my anti-spasmodic, before beginning, because once I am down on the mat, I am down on that mat!

I have such high hopes and I do know that I am capable of sticking to this self improvement project of mine; since it is literally a matter of life and death!
Like anything these days it is not a temporary situation; it is a lifestyle change.
I am also watching my salt intake too.
It seems that I was hooked too much on pickles and olives, not chips like most of the obese.
But to my good I do love salads of the fresh vegetable kind and I do love to make homemade soup. Today I made my own asparagus soup and had a salad topped with canned salmon, about two ounces, and a light homemade dressing of our own lemons from our tree juice and a bit of olive oil with a wee bit of sea salt and ground black pepper with a dash of ground garlic. Breakfast was an over the counter canned diet drink of 190 calories, mid morning snack was a fresh peach, dinner was chicken, white meat a few slices and one wing, half of a sweet potato and another dose of my salad this time with fat free sour cream, approximately a teaspoon full; hummm. I did mention that I am a Jew, but never a kosher one…LOL! Because if I were I would never mix milk and meat!

Any-who, moving on…
Last night our internet provider did not come back online until after ten P.M., and so I was sound asleep for hours by then thus why my post was delayed.
I was for some strange reason exhausted.
And I hit the hay, as the expression goes…which means for my foreign readers, went to sleep and it was early like before eight o’clock.
But I suppose that was good since they, here we go again, who is, ‘they’?
The theory is by 'they' that lack of sleep also helps with weight gain, and so therefore sleeping has the opposite effect, correct?
I did sleep except for a few bathroom runs until after seven in the morning!
Wow!
If this trend continues I could be my old self in no time at all!
All the puzzle pieces could be falling into place.
Dear out of America friends again this expression just means going to work out with my work outs, got that?
LOL!

Our weather here has also been fairly nice enough to leave the windows open the last two days, fresh air, how wonderful!
But we are going to be getting a few colder nights starting next Tuesday but only another aberration of our norms, and we have been promised that all will return to the right stuff that we are so proud of and brag about once again after only a couple of colder nights, but with days in the sixties and back to the mid-seventies after that! Christmas will be a beautiful sunny mid seventies day!

On that short weather report from this novice reporter of such I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Exercise

I told you a few nights ago I had a plan to start my own exercise program, and today was the day!
In reality I should take some before pictures of me so I can prove when I am gorgeous again from where I came from and how great I am at self help! LOL!

But honestly I should know what I am doing since I was also in physical therapy as well as occupational and neuromuscular therapy a total of fourteen times.
I know you remember I mentioned my dance background that’s twelve years strong not to mention those four years working out at the gym, and also those four years I was race walking!

And so this should be a piece a cake… not good to mention that when you’re trying to get back into shape! Kidding, but not myself this is serious and very necessary.
Even more so now, since that diabetes scare has returned.
For the heck of it I wasn’t feeling too well yesterday and since I still do have the kit to test my glucose I did. The first test two hours after a meal was 141, not good but not too bad, the second before bed I felt was necessary due to that number and it went down to 121.
To try to reassure myself this morning I tested one more time with a complete fast from the dinner meal of last evening and this morning my glucose was at 125, which is bad for overnight and fasting. Morning numbers should be under 100 to be normal.

As if I needed more motivation than my own full length mirror; this other health issue is looming large once again, and I hate that!
Who needs this anytime anywhere?

Any-who the exercises consisted of my wonderful Yoga mat that I have owned for years and my three pound free weights; I do have two pound and five as well.
I really thought that the three’s were light enough after all my hands are bad but not all that weak yet, and hopefully my plan is to make them stronger too.
Getting up and down off the mat is the only slight glitch of my whole project, but I locked the handles of my walker alongside the mat and utilized it for that purpose and it worked! I even had a cute little pillow I made years ago from a T-shirt that I didn’t want to get rid of; the one with the Native American’s face on it saying the 'Great American Clean Up'. It is small and the perfect size for my head support on the mat.

I start with slow leg lifts together, since my tummy looks as if I were pregnant, and my hips look as if I were that wide bodied woman in the funny but weird Super Bowl commercial of a few years ago.
Sadly at the time that came out my hips were tiny, only thirty inches around!
Heaven knows what they are now, but it must be at least twice that.
I am too scared to know that truth.
All I do know is this body of mine is in a very serious health problem and so I had to intervene with myself and do what I enjoy or I should say used to… working out!
Then I rolled on to my side to do some leg lifts from that position ten on each side, and a ten count for all my beginning programs start including the raising of the three pound free weights in each hand. Good thing about already being on the floor your balance is not compromised and there is no where to fall, because you are already there!
It’s hard to believe I used to do 200 crunches with my very cute 20 inched waistline and washboard abdomen, and oh those fifteen inch thighs, were so oh wonderfully able to get into any pair of pants or slacks I desired! This was only a little over five years ago, not twenty friends!
I can do it I know I can with my own logical caution and knowledge of my own body I will… as I said before I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired!

On that note of doing something positive I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ok?

PS If you are receiving this late it is not my fault my provider was down sorry!

Reference

We all need to reference material on occasion, correct?
Be it to check on our own works accuracy or on people as in recommendations.
Referring to items or persons in our world is an everyday occurrence, right?
But unless we have a method to make sure we get it right then most of these items would be suppositions.

I enjoy researching information on numerous topics and I just go bonkers for the immediate access that we all get with utilizing the internet!
Gosh, nothing wrong with these information highways as they are called.
Amazing is an understatement with the quickness that we have of everything right here at our fingertips literally!

Disagreements and discussions can be tamed with a few clicks of the wrist plain and simple. Searching for the answer to any question is basically without delay; only as quick as you can type.
Who besides me doesn't gawk daily at this wonderful invention and all of its abilities that can cause us all to be so much better informed than in our wildest dreams of decades ago?
It’s like so many other things that we take for granted in life.
This generation would all be jaded as ours was with the TV and telephones… although, you must admit that the evolution of those two in particular was and still are astonishing; since to this day they are always changing!

Have you ever had the desire to know why something is?
Or who someone is?
From apples to zebras the internet has taken the place of dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, newspaper, books you name the materials and medium it covers beyond our imaginations.
We are able to talk to people all over the world just by pushing or touching a few keys and some by only using their voices, which to me is mind-blowing!
You can zero in on your own home, know where your children are or your car too!
Depending on what type of programs you install, and yes due to programs like Skype people can have face to face chats no matter where they are!

Yes, I know I am gushing, but seriously we all should be.
Technology is something the nay-Sayers I truly believe cannot grasp the newness of these things.
Now if I wanted to know how many people actually use computers and the internet I can just put that question up on one of the many search engines available for free to all of us, and sure enough: Answers.com came up with the answer of 365 million use computers and 1,733,993,741 use the internet! How about that for instantaneous information, wow! Huh? Those numbers don’t jive. I bet it’s because of all those internet connected phones, cars etc., gotta be? I’ll get back to you on that.
Are you impressed? I still am and will be for many years to come.

I suspect clarifications of stats is all in how you ask your questions and that is only human. Mistakes can be made and often if not properly asked when trying to get that information we can get the wrong stuff without realizing it, correct?
Fact checking then should be duplicated and even done in triplicate I would suspect when needing it for sensitive work related situations.
But we hacks of the writing for our own interests and concerns type should just find sites that we know we can trust for whatever we need to float our boatloads of information we disseminate daily to give some worthwhile facts to our readerships nightly.
What we do is not earth shattering but still should have a smattering of accuracy!

And so the reference I made to referencing is of our ultimate choice to be better people with the ability to gather facts in actuality at the drop of a hat! And if that doesn’t send chills down your spine when you think that only fifty years ago we had dial up phones and black and white TV pictures and no cable or internet!
Wow what a time to be living in, huh?
HA we have so much and rarely realize that significance, but we all should…

On that thought to ponder I will wish you all a very happy good night and I will also ask you all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Soup

Have you ever felt that you were drowning in soup?
How odd you all say.
Well, some days that’s the way my life goes, I am pretty sure that you too have had days like that too.
Nothing goes right?
You all know what I mean.
I suppose the first question was a wee bit abstract for some to wrap their minds around; and for that I am truly sorry! If it was clear bullion soup no problem but vegetable; what a hard swim! And most of us prefer a little bit of sustenance in our broth.

But as life goes on daily and as we all know things change too daily I am hoping for tomorrow to be a better day, OK?
Am I being a little too vague this banner waver of everything personal exposed, me, huh?
I guess evasive would be more accurate.

Disagreements in life are inevitable with anyone but especially when you live day in and day out with that same person.
Whoa, you all know what I am saying is true.
Be it your perfect children or spouse there are days that not everyone can get along; it’s just human nature and if any of you think otherwise than you are living in dreamland, really! (Here’s where my friends with multiple marriages tell me oh yes you can have all days of peace! Yep and then you trade those husbands in for someone who gives you peace again, lol?) Some of the nicest people I know have been married five times!
Let’s all face the facts, we are not clones of one another if we were we would all think alike and be more boring than we already are, LOL!

Life is not for sissies!
Where have I heard that one before, LOL?
Well, it’s true nothing that we encounter in any shape or form is simple.
Being agreeable all of the time I suppose would make my life simpler, but then I would be losing my backbone just as ignorance I have been told can be bliss, who wants that?

Having individual thoughts and reasoning out those thoughts and speaking them aloud makes for a volatile situation at times, but at least NOT boring!
And my thirst for knowledge has not yet wavered.

Human nature being what it is we all must find a way to handle these glitches in our lives.
When you find out, please let me know, OK?
Not kidding.
Yes, that’s what makes everyday interesting I suspect.
Not knowing what will happen next.

Moving on…
Tomorrow marks the last one of my Cipro, my antibiotic, second round of dosing after those seventy-two hours of penicillin that didn’t work; sadly I hate to report that my gland on my left side under the oral surgery side is swelling once again!
It’s sore and I hate this.
What do I do now?
Shall I forget about it until it’s so bad like last time before Thanksgiving and waiting until after? When I tried to make it to that Monday, and didn’t?
Or think more positively and say to myself over and over again like a mantra, “it will be all better now, it will be all better now…”

Wouldn’t that be just great for ills to be mantra-ed away or positive thoughts away?
Why we would be able to cure cancer and all other ills like MS, Parkinson’s and even ALS!
That would be wonderful!

You do know that there are people that believe so strongly in the power of positive thinking that they feel that’s all there is to it!
Some even practice denial and that works for them, how marvelous I say!
Homeopathy works for others.

Clarity is in the mode of thought one has within their own perception of things in life, and who am I to disagree with their logic when it works for them.
And so being in a cloudy or lumpy soup is not helpful, metaphorically speaking that is.
How I don’t want to be opaque; I need to know how to do things for myself just in case.
I have already been doing all seven shots a week for myself for the last week or more.
To be honest it is one of those things that give me a feeling of independence more than I have had in the last few years.
I have turned into a too needy and dependent a person and it is one of my negative attributes that I so hate.
It is so unlike the young woman I vaguely remember well into my forties and fifties too…sadly its just a ghostly image of the old me.
So much of me has been lost these last few years, and I want to think of a plan to return some of the old me to me…
Yes, I did have a plan to start working out but apparently the person I thought would help me never called back and I called her too many times that I was afraid I would be considered an annoyance. And the other possibility was well within my reach but unfortunately the one side effect of the Cipro is that it seems to have some negative affects on your tendons and with all my problems I decided it would be more beneficial to start any program after it was all done with.
And this is where I now sit, I would have said stand if that was what I was doing but I am sitting.

Any-who, I think I may give it a go myself with all my background in dance and race walking and those four years at the gym, why not I say?
Nothing to lose no monies wasted and if its time I am worried about nah, I have plenty.

A new chapter begins, a new day will start and a resurgence of a desire to find where I lost me, and try my darndest to find her or is that me too?

On those promissory notes to myself I want to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Flow...

Interestingly enough this is the third choice for my title this evening. I nixed the other two.
Nothing seems to be flowing from my minute brain into those boney fingertips to make any significant commentary tonight.
But not so fast friends it will come to me…I could hear the silence and yes it was deafening!
I know you were hoping perhaps for a night off, but it is in my utmost persona to not leave you hanging without something to make fun of during your work day tomorrow!

As I hear it these blogs, not mine in particular but blogs in general are the topic of many office conversations.
Almost like the soap operas used to be…hmm… gossip!

And like all who write at times we hit a wall of blanks; sounds like a TV police show or mystery series, huh?
Nah, no guns here only remnants of what used to be muscles in my upper arms that have since turned to lumpy mush…. Or even those shoot ‘em up kind that are not here at all either!
My blanks have been on occasion on the computer screen, blanking-out meaning without anything to say or write on it thus the white page without any colorful analysis of the world and how I see it, uh oh, not good…

You see, as I see it this is my job to be able to keep you all informed about the things you might never ever think about.
A window into what could be, got that?
And so I take this responsibility very seriously!
If I neglect that duty of mine to help this world in any capacity however minute then I have no idea of what might happen, but in my heart of hearts I do believe it could be disastrous!

I know I hear you all saying how could one person have such an impact on the world.
That was rhetorical because logically you all know the answer to that question, by studying history great people and horrendous people have been nearly all alone in changing the world’s outcome in one way or another, good or bad. You all can just put that faith in your own abilities for good only please!

That’s not to say that this little information guide of mine has any of that type of influence, but one never knows does one?
Balance and flow has everything to do with an even keel, but this is not sailing!

Danger is in the eye of the beholder and sometimes not even then.
Exposing our thoughts to others is a risk that I have never feared taking.
Must have to do with that broken filter thing I mentioned on last night’s blog.
But to be honest that is the only type of physical peril I would ever care to take!
Some feel naked by expressing their utmost confidential information but I throw caution to the wind more times than not, or so it appears…whoa, am I brave or just plain STUPID?
Okay, you all may be right but it’s my secrets exposed nightly here and that is my free choice. As I have unrelentingly have surmised it’s the commonalties in life that unite us as a species, so I say, what the heck, really?
I have always considered myself an open book and why not? …Not many can lay claim to be all this boring daily! LOL!

On that note of perhaps incorrect grammar I will love to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS Hey, did you notice? I did it, I am all done! I tell you Seinfeld should have hired me for one of his writers, since I am soooo good at writing about NOTHING!
And I am sure you all agree.
LOL

Basic

Tonight I decided to try and pick a new title for this Blog as usual that I have told you all before I just do that and the rest of this just flows out of my fingertips and perhaps my brain sets them off. And Hubby so boldly interjected that, since in all his wisdom and logic he has told me that my fingertips do not think for themselves; although some nights I do wonder, lol.

Life as we all see it changes daily and for that we always know that we are in transition from our previous times. And so the idiom, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of my life’, can go on, and on… one would think that to be true.
And so taking that above expression for all its worth then you as a person can renew your life daily and begin once again.
Basically what happened yesterday is not of any reason to be concerned with what will happen today, got that?
This is an exoneration of all previous mistakes; how do you like that concept?
Geez, wouldn’t that be just dandy?
Never ever having to own up to your last mistakes?
Or would it be a disaster?

I hear you saying that you never ever make any serious mistakes to make you worry about and so each day for you is just peachy keen and a no-brainer of worry or concern.
Wow, I am dealing with superior human beings, terrific!
What a marvelous thing to know that my readership is that perfect that they never make any mistakes to feel guilty or sorry about!
Only wish that I could say the same thing because that no regrets thingy is quite amazing and awesome!
But alas I cannot.
Daily I suffer from foot and mouth disease.
You all might not be familiar with the ill since you never ever do anything that you are the least bit upset about or ashamed.
Then let me explain, when I say foot and mouth disease it is not truly a disease like all my others and should really be much more controllable, but unfortunately I have never learned the proper way to do that…. You see, it refers to my words coming out of my mouth before totally thinking about the results that those words produce.
The worst are when I say something stupid or inappropriate or mean; shall I go on?
It’s a control issue which mean in my case I lose control of setting my brain in gear and then allowing the words to come out, and yes it does even sometimes, oh who am I fooling it happens when I write too!
Basically I do believe I was hatched or born or produced without a filter on my brain, because this is nothing new I have been like this all of my life.
Sadly, as you can well imagine it is not something to brag about, but in actuality I am sure you have all picked up on it.
Polite people have EXCELLENT FILTERS and never seem to say anything WRONG, hmmm, but I ask you are they any fun at all?
I truly think NOT!
People who watch every word like G-d told them to hush all day long cannot have much fun with their wants or desires, because how would anyone even know, huh?
I ask you?
LOL!

Basically, I am just the run of the mill excuse maker, who does believe in that first idiot oh that was idiom, hmmm… let’s make each day a new beginning and all have clean slates, yea that’s the ticket!
All the prisons would be empty, all the bad marriages would be good, all those mistake children would be back in … well they couldn’t be in the prisons because all those peeps would be free, and we definitely know they can’t go back where they came from, oh my, I guess it can’t really work for everything, no what a stupid idea, who came up with that one?

You know, being idealistic is getting tougher these days…but forgiveness is forever and basically that is what I was trying to say tis the season to forgive others as well as yourself and each day should be a new beginning…that’s all!

On that note of how the heck did I finally make my point I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to all please count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

Thousand!

That’s not entirely correct, actually it is my thousand and first entry of Blog postings.
Who would have thunk it that I could have such stick-to-it-ness, not me; that’s for sure!
But I must admit that I am proud of this particular accomplishment in this, the wonder word wars, and all I really wanted to know is if I won anything yet, did I?

Nah, as I have said before I do this purely out of love of reading my own crap up online and of course informing the public with pure and concise information! LOL! If you believe that one I have a brick that would make a great condo? Kidding.

But something interesting tonight occurred on the evening news, and that’s not to say that interesting things don’t occur every night, because they usually do, but…

Supposedly Sarah Palin, X- Alaska governor, currently TV host and author, was taking issue with the fact that John Boehner the new Speaker of the House seems to be able to get away without nasty comments about his public crying bouts and if it were her that she would definitely be part of that old double standard and it would be widely discussed negatively!

Now I don’t really think this is possible but I wrote about that just a few days ago and I hmmm wonder could she be reading this drivel that I lovingly call my own opinionated hogwash.

Perhaps she picked up on me when I was briefly discussing her daughter Bristol’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars and my wonderment at her not getting kicked off due to no talent? Although, I must admit towards the end, her technical ability did improve considerably, but other’s that were kicked off earlier had much more ability, technical, musicality and show presence. So we all know that the ‘TEA PARTY’ must have voted often.
Hmmm, I wonder?

I guess one could Google her lovely daughter’s name and see who was talking about her; I am sure that might be possible, huh?

Oh well, who am I to care if she reads this and perhaps her Tea Party friends might too!
Well, I say ‘the more the merrier’, so there! (I just stuck out my adult tongue once again!)
Shame on me I hear you all saying, well this is my medium so there…I say!

Any-who, I do believe that freedom of the press is legal here in these our US of A, and I am writing this in the US of A, so that could mean me, correct?
Although, I more often than not touch these keyboard keys lightly and there is no pressing involved in any of this publishing, OK?
Accuracy is of the utmost importance when explaining things to your public domain at large.
And so on that note of utter ridiculousness I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all ask you to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here please or be square, OK?

PS And Sarah Palin, if I may call you Sarah Palin, thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts that are so similar to mine it’s uncanny and to be honest a wee bit scary; and for the fact that when you can get into where I can’t seem to get into to tell everyone your opinion, although I have been trying for a very long time since I am much older than you, got that, GF? I am just wondering about that double standard thing, should I have been an X-Governor not an X-co-president of an Arthritis Support Group and board member of the foundation, Aquacize instructor, fund raiser etc… but that’s my cross to bear, not yours GF, and so in closing, please know that there are no hard feelings about the fact that you have been stealing my ideas.
I suppose coming up with new ones are hard for you, and I do understand; that’s all I am saying. No harm no foul.