Question of the day To trust or not to trust? Do you tend to trust upon meeting someone, until they prove themselves untrustworthy, or do you hold off on giving your trust to them, until they prove they deserve it? I have always, and often to my detriment, been a trusting soul. I have always … Continue reading
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Question of the Day: What Is Your Favorite Smell From the Kitchen?
Question of the Day What is your favorite kitchen smell? Ok, a slightly weird question, I guess. The other day I was baking brownies. Not the homemade 3 cups of sugar kind but a mix, called Cookie Brownie which mixes cookie dough on top of brownie mix and they are SOOOO good. The smell was … Continue reading
Question of the Moment: How Do You Start Your Day?
How do you wake up in the morning? Are you “up and at ‘em”, ready to get stuff done? Do you wake just long enough to get showered, dressed, etc before leaving for work? Or, conversely do you need to take the time to move into your day? When I worked, I left for work … Continue reading
Question of the Day: What Are The Benefits of Getting Older
Question of the day: What are the benefits of aging? I was thinking this morning about how aging is hard on the body, and made a list of all the complaints I had. When I ran out of things for the list, I read it and thought, “Man what a whiny cry baby you are!” … Continue reading
Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Time of Day?
Question of the day Are you a morning, afternoon, or evening person? Or some combination of the three? I always have considered myself a morning person. I used to always be up before the sun, except in the summer up north when it comes up about 4:30 AM. Although, I have gotten up then a … Continue reading
Question Of The Day: Are You A Bed Maker?
Question of the day (An aside first. I know these should not be questions of the day, because there is no rhyme or reason to when I write and ask them. Life has just gotten to busy for me to come up with one each day. It’s been a long while. This particular question is … Continue reading
Question Of The Day: What Is The Biggest Lie You Tell Yourself?
Question of the Day What is the biggest lie you tell yourself? Don’t we all do this? Like, make up stories in our head to justify actions we may not be so proud of? Like, let old fears become habits? Like, believe something about someone about which we have no way of knowing the truth? … Continue reading
Question of the Day: What Is Your Greatest Struggle?
Question of the day.
What is your greatest struggle?
Is your struggle an internal struggle, a physical struggle, or maybe an attempt to achieve some goal? Or something else altogether?
I’m doing the Oprah-Deepak 21 day meditation, and there is quite a lot of focus on changing the choices we make, consciously, to break bad habits.
I would say that my biggest struggle right now is my weight. I lost a lot of weight, and it is creeping back on. I struggle to keep it off. I think some of the reason it’s creeping on is the med I take for rheumatoid arthritis. Weight gain is listed as a side effect. I haven’t gained a lot back, but about 12 lbs. I’m not happy about that at all. I am, however, trying to consciously make better choices about what I eat, to offset the tendency to hold on to weight caused, I believe by the med. I believe this because I’m not eating any differently than I did when I lost the weight.
I used to struggle with letting go of people who were toxic to me. I think I finally learned how to choose what I wanted for my own life, and keep people out of it who didn’t contribute to my happiness. I’ve also learned to choose people who are more similar to me, and remove the drama from my life. I think that drama can be addicting, the highs and lows. But after awhile, I just got sick of it. I once said to my writers group, that I didn’t understand how I can be so on top of my game in most areas of my life, so focused and know what I want, but make such bad decisions about the people I let into my life. No more. I’ve let go of a few people, male and female, that served no positive purpose in my life.
So tell me, what do you struggle with? Finding love, losing weight, letting go, achieving financial goals? I’m betting that for most of us, the internal struggles are much more difficult than the external.
As ever, love and light to all.
Question of the Day: What Is Your Sun Sign?
Question of the day
What is your sun sign?
I am an Aries, although being the last day of Aries puts me on the cusp and blends the Aries traits with some of Taurus. When I read the description, it’s pretty accurate about me. An astrology site I use for my daily horoscope ( http://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com ) says the following:
Strengths: Courageous, determined, confident, enthusiastic, optimistic, honest, passionate
Weaknesses: Impatient, moody, short-tempered, impulsive, aggressive
I think these are accurate, though probably somewhat muddled by being on the cusp. I have some disagreement with them over some of the weaknesses, of course. I am impatient, but not particularly moody. I am only short-tempered when I am frustrated by something or someone. I am not very impulsive, now, though I was a bit moreso when I was younger and did a few things which now I feel lucky to have survived unscathed. I am aggressive, in some things, but I’m not sure that’s a weakness.
The strengths, well of course I’m all of those great things, lol.
This year as the sun goes into Aries the day after the vernal equinox, Mercury also goes retrograde. And we have a 2nd blue moon of 2018 in March. That all should be interesting.
So tell me what is your sign? Are the descriptions accurate for you or do you not see yourself at all in them? Leave me a comment, or write your own blog and link it back here.
As ever, love and light to all.
Question of the Day: Do You Swear?
Question of the day
Do you swear? If so, what words do you use, and when do you use them?
It’s been brought to my attention that I swear more than is necessary. I’ve been trying to break my habit, but it’s a hard one, at times, to break. I think I’m getting better, but that might be all in my mind.
I tend to say the f-bomb mostly. Sh*t is second. I took a FB quiz once on what is your favorite swear word, and mine came out the f-bomb and I think that is accurate. When I get exasperated I tend to say “unf*ckingbelievable”. I am a believer that sometimes no other word works. But I’m learning too, that sometimes another word does, and I should maybe apply a filter to my brain and mouth, and try to get more creative with my profanity vocabulary. I.e., frigging can work in place of f*cking. So can freaking. Or what the frick. I could use the British word “bloody” and here in the US no one would think I was swearing. I’ve seen a suggestion to get a translator app, and use French swear words, because wth, then if you say “pardon my French” at least you are really speaking French. I suppose you could do that with any language and at least it might help curb my thoughtless swearing. I want to learn Italian, and it might come in useful, though I have a feeling their swear words are probably much more lovely to hear than the ones I use, and I wouldn’t feel like I was swearing. Oh, maybe that’s a good thing! There’s a book out too, called “Creative Cursing: A Mix and Match Profanity Generator.” I should probably ask for it for my birthday.
So tell me, are you a potty mouth like me, or have you found a better way to express your disgust, exasperation, dislike, incredulity, etc? Please let me know in a comment, or blog even, linked back here. Especially if you have some creative ideas for breaking the habit.
As always, love and light.
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