Ramblings from the Birthday Girl

February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 my13daychallenge

I turned old today.

It’s my birthday. I’m now 38. You might not think that is old, but it’s older than I’ve ever been in my entire life. Birthdays are a time to celebrate. I get to open birthday gifts. It’s just a fun day on my birthday.

I received a very special gift 38 years ago. I was given these two wonderful people as my Mom and Dad. It’s the best birthday gift I’ve ever been given. Mom and Dad have shaped my life in a beautiful way.

Thank you for my birthday, Mom and Dad.

I love you both so very much!

Musings

Freelove Olney

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016 my13daychallenge

I’ve started a new hobby. I’m spending a few hours each month looking at pictures and family pedigree charts. It’s a little addictive. I keep hunting for more stuff. In particular, I’m interested in people’s names. I’ve got plenty of ordinary names like Mary and John in my family, but there is this whole side with unique names. I wish that birth certificates and family Bibles came with the back story. There have been a few that I’ve just scratched my head. What were your parents thinking?

Here is my favorite girl’s names. Freelove Olney. How cool is that name? It sounds like a flower child from the 1970’s. Nope, the year was 1702. She had to live an interesting life with such a creative name.

If you are having a little girl, feel free to borrow some names from my ancestors. Discovered, Hallelujah and Thankful all made me smile. If you’re having a boy, I’m sorry but my ancestors can’t help you with ideas. The guy names sound like they could be my classroom attendance roster. John, Joshua, David, George, Stephen, Richard, Thomas, Paul. You get the idea.

New Years Resolutions 2016

My Hula-hooping update–New Year’s Resolution 2016

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 my13daychallenge

I’m still hula-hooping through 2016. In other words, I’m still working on the New Year’s resolutions. I’ve twirled my hula-hoop around during the month of January for some of my resolutions. I dropped the hoop on other goals. It’s a good thing that I get a new day every day. It helps when you can start over to try again.

1.Do a 10 minute mediation/deep breathing exercise every day

In January, I did my mediation/deep breathing exercise 16/31 days.

2. Exercise five days a week for at least 30 minutes

I’m happy to report that I exercised two days a week during the month of January.

3. Find something funny every day

This one wasn’t hard to do at all. I’m always finding funny stuff. For example, I saw an ant trying to eat a Snickers bar. The poor ant wasn’t having any luck because the wrapper was still on the candy bar. It was quite funny. So, I helped the ant out and opened up the wrapper. It made me laugh to see the ant go crazy with delight. I can be a hero to one little ant.

4. Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal

I completely forgot about this one. The hula-hoop dropped but it’s been picked up again for this week.

5. Do something social with friends once a week

Yes! This one happened. I did something social with friends every week.

6. Write down all of my negative thoughts and try to re-frame them in a little cognition journal.

I completely forgot about this one. Oops. I can’t be too negative about not meeting the goal though. It would defeat the whole purpose of the goal.

7. Leave work by 4:30 p.m. every day. I won’t be able to do all of these happy brain/happy body things if I work all the time.

I tried. I need to set an alarm on my cell phone to remind me to leave at 4:30. I tend to stay to 5:00 p.m. I want to break that little habit.