013114 daybreak, as I see it...

breakfast smoothie

2 bananas

2 kiwi

Orange juice

Almonds

pretty good!

Gratitude 13

grateful for answers, recognizing direction and seeing the light.

FULL BLOWN COUGH/COLD

is what I got.

Coughing green phlem, sore throat and stuffy nose.

Ugh...

a move I have to make...

a move to Seattle...

parents getting older...my Mom needs my help.

TM must be working...

i lost my MP3 player and i'm neither mad at myself nor worried...not even a tinsy, itty, little bit.

now, if i can just stay focused at work!

today's bootcamp...

-75 deadlifts
-75 pushups

-75 latteral pulls

-150 box jumps
-150 squats

to the 'dress' and all the chocolate danishes, french toast and pancakes i've been eating!

the "BEFORE" picture...

Today's smoothie

Kiwi

Strawberries

Blueberries

Carrots 

Spinach

Lemon

Flax seeds n almonds

*too much lemon!

Gratitude 11

grateful for the guide to transcendental meditation videos on YouTube.

Fireworks Display! Celebrating SBXLVIII between Bronco/Seahawks

Gratitude 10

grateful for my attitude toward and appetite for sex.

I'm 50 after all...

meow!

quest for best 'green' smoothie....

Today's recipe...

Instead of making it all green, I used mostly fruits an added spinach!

Strawberries

Blueberries

Kiwi

Spinach

Almonds, flax seeds

Orange juice n ice

A little better...

I just finished TM and was feeling great and ready to take on theworld w the greatest attitude...

Until I saw my step sister posting about all the ministering she is doing.

She hasn't reached out to her Father, who is suffering from debilitating Alzheimer's disease, since the 80s.

And it just put me in a terrible place.

I wanted to call her out on FB....started to...then I stopped.  

Grattitude 9

grateful that you can find everything on the inter webs and youtube.

Not a NY resolution at all

but I took up writing in my journal again yesterday.  it's helping bring up a lot of things that I've been protecting inside.

I may be on to something, because (at least I'm thinking so) it's helping me get myself back on track, little by little, by making me cognizant of what I'm doing wrong.

before, I would have trouble letting go of toxic relationships, now I'm having trouble divorcing bad habits.

time for real change, and I'm hoping journaling will help me be more aggressive and purposeful in getting shit done.

Liberty Board Ball 2014

 
it's official...i've put on weight!  time to stop the chocolate danishes, for realz!

Gratitude 7 & 8

grateful for YP & *tickets*.

my 1st green smoothie is...

not so good  :/

Kale
Spinach
Kiwi
Green apple
Cucumber
Lemon

ummm...could be sweeter!  more apple, perhaps?

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Gratitude 6

grateful for Spanx!

and the hot little animal print thrift dress that I'm gonna rock at tonight's gala.

no matter what...

it always circles back around to majalaka.

*sigh*

one of those days...

useless!

not getting anything done!

Gratitude 5

grateful for the people who reject me.

and for the fact that it's a doorway for something even better to come along.

"quinquagenarian"

quin·qua·ge·nar·i·an   (kwngkw-j-nâr-n)

n.

A person 50 years old, or in his or her fifties.

adj.

Of or characteristic of a person in his or her fifties.

---

[From Latin qunqugnrius, containing fifty, from qunqugn, fifty each, from qunqugint, fifty; see penk^we in Indo-European roots.]

today's inspiration...

"Surrender completely by identifying ourselves with the lowest of the low, acknowledging our raw and rugged quality. There is nothing that we fear to lose once we identify ourselves with the lowest of the low. By doing so, we prepare ourselves to be an empty vessel, ready to receive the teachings."

~Chogyam Trungpa

Grattitude 4

grateful for my redneck-hood shovel

time to dig out my car from under snow cover!

when im the happiest...

012114 snowathon

                                                          my best expert estimation...about 8"

 

easier said than done...

Grattitude 3

grateful for friends like Jen.

and the fireplace....that fireplace gives me a lot of joy and comfort, especially at times like yesterday's snowpocalypse...

im feelin this today...

    Janet - Any Time, Any Place

Grattitude 2

grateful that I have a job that allows me to work from home in my onesies when we are getting pounded w snow.

Grattitude 1

grateful for an awesome bootcamp class.

WHAAAT ?!?!

there ain't no ego problems in the "peace" camp, are there?

late post

an old post from Oct 27...

Finally, Gerald's guitar is delivered.  He's inside playing now and I am outside on the stoop singing on Saturday afternoon in 1963.

We rented this beautiful two bedroom home at 2360 Marais St. a little cottage looking thing that's like a side-by-side duplex.

Yeah, Gerald's guitar did not make the flight apparently, so we had been waiting for it since our arrival yesterday.  Finally it was delivered around 4 o'clock. And now we are free to roam the streets of New Orleans.

the NOLA trip was 4 days of bliss like no other, forgetting about life, work and home.  got some much needed rest, relaxation and recovery from the shenanigans that was my birthday celebration.  which came after an epic visit from my closest high school girlfriends (Billie, Phyllis and Athena) and my sister, Ayreen.

from what i can remember, it went something like:
-misfit visit
-cut middle finger
-fender bender
-birthday party
-broken tooth
(overall, a pretty blurry experience...i might have even overdone the spirits (thanks to Zeppy's special M&M blend))

then, what seemed like never-ending Halloween parties...

anyway...late but here are just a few of pix from October-November that pretty much sums up  the 2 -week Birthday/NOLA/Halloween extravaganza...