But here I am me and my sister. I will upload pics soon!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Outside of my comfort zone I go
Ok people I am in Oklahoma!!! Yeah I know, It's not the most interesting place ever but that's kind of the point right now. I would never ever travel to Oklahoma, at least not ordinarily. True my mother lives out here but the thought of me actually coming out here and staying for more than two days. Not my style.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Let's Get Physical!
So here in 2010 I am trying to live better and healthier. I dedcided to do a bit of research and I found a site http://realtime.net and they had some really great tips on how to eat healthier. I decided to pick a couple.
1) Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs.
2) Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
3) Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses.
4) Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy.
5) Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
Ok so this seems easy enough right? Let's try it out! I'll probably quit 20 times before I get it right :)
1) Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs.
2) Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
3) Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses.
4) Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy.
5) Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you're very hungry, it's also tempting to forget about good nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but don't eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.
Ok so this seems easy enough right? Let's try it out! I'll probably quit 20 times before I get it right :)
OMG I have to make it to Paris
Ok I just found this place...The KUBE hotel...by the title you should know its in Paris...look at this place! I have always wanted to go to Paris and if I make it I have to stay here...
Life is full of complexed simplicity
I love this thing called life. It takes so many twists and turns and it's bananas...So I thought I would find some of my favorite quotes about life....
"Intellectual growth should commence and birth and cease only at death"-Albert Einstein
"Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today."-James Dean
"Laugh as much as you beathe and love as long as you live."-Unknown
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending."-Maria Robinson
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."-Unknown
Pick one to live by :)
"Intellectual growth should commence and birth and cease only at death"-Albert Einstein
"Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today."-James Dean
"Laugh as much as you beathe and love as long as you live."-Unknown
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending."-Maria Robinson
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."-Unknown
Pick one to live by :)
Monday, January 11, 2010
New day and New attitude
I woke up today and was exhausted but happy (that's new because I am sooo grumpy when I'm tired).
I woke and simply said "God let me be what you want me to be." I grabbed some tea, did a little yoga and hopped in the shower.
I was refreshed and happy. This weekend, I dwelled on the loss of a good friend and beautiful person but I also laughed at memories we shared and gave thanks.
Sometimes taking a moment to yourself is all you need to feel ok. It's like when you take that moment-you see that God's plan is always in motion and while sometimes this world distracts you from it. He always gives you a moment to let you know you are not alone.
I woke and simply said "God let me be what you want me to be." I grabbed some tea, did a little yoga and hopped in the shower.
I was refreshed and happy. This weekend, I dwelled on the loss of a good friend and beautiful person but I also laughed at memories we shared and gave thanks.
Sometimes taking a moment to yourself is all you need to feel ok. It's like when you take that moment-you see that God's plan is always in motion and while sometimes this world distracts you from it. He always gives you a moment to let you know you are not alone.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sometimes words...
Just soothe your soul...I am working on prioritizing things and all but someone posted something today on twitter and it happened to be a wonderful poem by Gwendolyn Brooks...take a moment to enjoy this:
POEM
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
by Gwendolyn Brooks
—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday—
When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,
Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon
Looking off down the long street
To nowhere,
Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no-expectation
And nothing-I-have-to-do and I’m-happy-why?
And if-Monday-never-had-to-come—
When you have forgotten that, I say,
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;
And how we finally went in to Sunday dinner,
That is to say, went across the front room floor to the ink-spotted table in the southwest corner
To Sunday dinner, which was always chicken and noodles
Or chicken and rice
And salad and rye bread and tea
And chocolate chip cookies—
I say, when you have forgotten that,
When you have forgotten my little presentiment
That the war would be over before they got to you;
And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bed,
And lay loose-limbed for a moment in the week-end
Bright bedclothes,
Then gently folded into each other—
When you have, I say, forgotten all that,
Then you may tell,
Then I may believe
You have forgotten me well.
POEM
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
by Gwendolyn Brooks
—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday—
When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,
Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon
Looking off down the long street
To nowhere,
Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no-expectation
And nothing-I-have-to-do and I’m-happy-why?
And if-Monday-never-had-to-come—
When you have forgotten that, I say,
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;
And how we finally went in to Sunday dinner,
That is to say, went across the front room floor to the ink-spotted table in the southwest corner
To Sunday dinner, which was always chicken and noodles
Or chicken and rice
And salad and rye bread and tea
And chocolate chip cookies—
I say, when you have forgotten that,
When you have forgotten my little presentiment
That the war would be over before they got to you;
And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bed,
And lay loose-limbed for a moment in the week-end
Bright bedclothes,
Then gently folded into each other—
When you have, I say, forgotten all that,
Then you may tell,
Then I may believe
You have forgotten me well.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Keys to Happiness
Hmm....now what can these be? Do I know for sure? Um not really but I know that there are things that I want to do and things I am going to do in 2010. All of them are not major but they are things that will make me happier and that is the goal of this right? So the list begins...
1) Cooking through G. Garvin's cookbooks (I heart him as a chef! His personality and energy alone make you want to cook the food)
2) WRITE MORE AND TALK LESS- I talk alot but I am not a talker for some reason. My pen is my sword and one thing I have noticed is that I am unhappy when I am not writing
3) Leave work at work--I take alot personal but what am I stressing over? As long as I do my job, there should be no worries.
4) Stop taking my metabolism for granted-I need to work my lazy buns out more. It will help with my energy and my health.
5) Love harder- speaks for itself
6) Sight see-I have not ever really seen NY and I want to
7) Save money--I have to shake this shopping demon! LOL It's genetic I swear--these posts will be hilarious
8) Find new creative expression-maybe I should go back to singing
9) Say whats on my mind-I internalize way more than I should
10) Take a dance class--I think I really want to
11) Stop wearing black so much-geez I know I have clothes in other colors (hard habit to break)
12) Start the plan for my non profit (already on this)
13) Fill up every single notebook in my house (I have 35 of them)
14) Drink more water (I am so bad at this)
15) Take chances (I used to be a risk taker--the stories I could tell LOL but it got lost somehow, here we shall start again)
16) Let go of old baggage-some people will not make it in 2011
17) Take time for myself- I never ever do this, but that will change
18) See a broadway play--need to get this one done soon
19) Read 50 + books this year!
20) Finish my novel (this goal will get done this year)
21) Search new sites on the web--im sure there is some great stuff out there--great finsds will be posted!
Most importantly
22) Let go and let God-im not in this by myself
I am sure these goals will be modified at some point. This is a lenghty list to start but ready or not, here I go!!!
1) Cooking through G. Garvin's cookbooks (I heart him as a chef! His personality and energy alone make you want to cook the food)
2) WRITE MORE AND TALK LESS- I talk alot but I am not a talker for some reason. My pen is my sword and one thing I have noticed is that I am unhappy when I am not writing
3) Leave work at work--I take alot personal but what am I stressing over? As long as I do my job, there should be no worries.
4) Stop taking my metabolism for granted-I need to work my lazy buns out more. It will help with my energy and my health.
5) Love harder- speaks for itself
6) Sight see-I have not ever really seen NY and I want to
7) Save money--I have to shake this shopping demon! LOL It's genetic I swear--these posts will be hilarious
8) Find new creative expression-maybe I should go back to singing
9) Say whats on my mind-I internalize way more than I should
10) Take a dance class--I think I really want to
11) Stop wearing black so much-geez I know I have clothes in other colors (hard habit to break)
12) Start the plan for my non profit (already on this)
13) Fill up every single notebook in my house (I have 35 of them)
14) Drink more water (I am so bad at this)
15) Take chances (I used to be a risk taker--the stories I could tell LOL but it got lost somehow, here we shall start again)
16) Let go of old baggage-some people will not make it in 2011
17) Take time for myself- I never ever do this, but that will change
18) See a broadway play--need to get this one done soon
19) Read 50 + books this year!
20) Finish my novel (this goal will get done this year)
21) Search new sites on the web--im sure there is some great stuff out there--great finsds will be posted!
Most importantly
22) Let go and let God-im not in this by myself
I am sure these goals will be modified at some point. This is a lenghty list to start but ready or not, here I go!!!
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