Change is Inevitable

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."

- Buddha

The Select Few

A few months ago I went to Bulk Barn frustrated with the fact that I had just thrown out 3/4 of a $13.00 bag of mix fruit and nuts. It took me 10 minutes of sifting through the bin to scoop out all the dried kiwi. I also removed all the Cheerios and Shreddies from the Bit's n Bites bin.

I take my purchases to the counter. Confused, the cashier asks her manager when they got in dried Kiwi. The manager took a look at my bags, raised an eye brow and asked "really?".

New perspectives

I have learned so much in the past year it's ridiculous. General life has changed so much that I have been forced to view things with a new set of eyes. This is a good thing. I believe when life kicks you in the face you have two choices: take it as a learning experience, go forward and put a smile on your face or see it as life fucking with you and become a complete disaster in the process.

No matter how marginally better I feel when I wear my smile, at least I feel better.

There is a fork

So,here I am. At a fork. At a crossroads. I look to the left and see great things ahead, uncertainty and many hurdles. I look to the right and shrug my shoulders. Shrugging has become tiresome. I wish to not shrug any longer. Either route has consequences. Apparently life is full of them. I can blink and things can be all over tomorrow. I want to experience greatness and extreme happiness. I need so much more of that before this little journey of mine comes to and end. So left I go.

The reason you ask why am I scripting this little "ah-ha" moment.
Let me tell you.
A couple weeks ago my best friend asked me:

"Do you consider yourself a happy person?"

I replied with "Of course!"

"rate your happiness"

I may have said a 7?

"well, what is stopping you from getting to 10?"

WHAT IS STOPPING US FROM REACHING THIS POINT?!?!?!

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...................Time To Get There..............

"Just Saying"

.....things are missed when they have meaning in your life.

Revert to title. ;)

Claws are out

Hmmm, perhaps going into work is not the best idea. I received an email today that thoroughly pissed me off and now I'm ready for a full blown Ali-style boxing match.

This is me breathing for 2 seconds prior to entering back into reality....

Keep calm and carry on they say?
Who the fuck is "they" anyways???

Privacy

Sharing information should not be forced out of people.........wait.......did I say SHARING?!?!

Unfortunately, people force themselves into the lives of others when perhaps they are not ready to share or talk about things. There is a this thing called time- and when you attempt to rush it you sometimes get a completely different outcome then what maybe should or could have been.

Patients. Adopt it. If this is impossible then perhaps one should attempt to discover what outcome is really desired.

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

Perhaps think about how important this scientific instrument is to you......because in the end, that's all some people have.

Tank Rules

Diving today. The drive in was one to be desired, however, interesting. I got detoured. I should have known because there were signs warning me all week yet I chose to be completely oblivious until I came upon the annoying orange thing they call a barricade. I was considering simply ignoring it completely however the Em's piped up and questioned "mom, what are those there for?"
Merde.
We most definitely will be late. I could have gone around, ignored the screeching electrical workers on the road, yet, setting a good example was outweighed by being prompt.....

Now, I sit on the most uncomfortable bleachers known to man, coffee in hand from some vending machine (because clearly Starbucks was not in the mix this AM), thinking about life's little lesson we teach our children by simple default. Or,is it perhaps, how our own children have the capability of keeping us in line (even when we really don't want to stay on the straight and narrow).

Slow Down

.....today is one of those days when I wonder.......why do I even bother? I am going to get a latte, abandon all of my tasks until tomorrow and press pause so I can think clearly.

Where is the remote???

A Dinosaur Brought Me Flowers This Morning.....

Broken hip

Highly unlikely if not impossible. However, feels like it. I was awake all night with this obnoxioius irritation. I tossed and turned like a rolling pin. I swore. Today- it feels like I'm 80 and ready for a THR. I was recapitulating the events of yesterday trying to cipher just how I got myself to this point. The "ah-ha" moment came when I realized that perhaps it is best to not do switch leaps in attempt to best my athletes. Damn it, I am antiquing at a rate in which I am not particularly fond of. Is there not a pill for this (no, I do not mean ibuprofen ....however it's helping)???

Bucket list

Sooooo..... "they" say to write it down..... So that's what I shall do.

#1. Inka trail- yay baby
#2. Take my children to Disney land and ride on the scariest roller coaster in the park and not be sick after (this may involve copious amounts of gravel and pepto)
#3. Visit the Taj Mahal
#4. Write and publish a song w/lyrics
#5. Attend a musical in NYC
#6. Raise my children to be respectable, caring,contributing members of society
#7. Teach my grandchild how to do a cartwheel ;)
#8. Go deep sea fishing (Grandpa would be proud)
#9. Dance on top of the Eiffel Tower
#10. Sing karaoke ....without the help of the Dr.
#11. Have a photo published
#12. Swim with a dolphin
#13. Share a kiss under a full moon in The Seychelles
#14. Take G-Ma to Hawaii
#15. Create a painting that actually resembles adult like qualities
#16. Olympics!
#17. Be at least half the woman my grandmother is.....she is the most amazing woman I know!
#18. Do a two and a half off the 3 m..... This means getting my ass back into the pool
#19. Purchase my own gym
#20. See the world as much as possible

Life is so short. Scary part is.......Too many go through it with so many regrets. I do not want to be a statistic.

R

Extreme Makeover!

The piano guys..... Love them..... I love me even mor because the did a cover of one of my ultimate favorite songs!




“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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....call it what you may....

People come in and out of our lives in handfuls. The barista who makes your coffee everyday, a best friend in grade one who you recently found on Facebook (or perhaps should not have found), the individual you managed to piss off o the way home....regardless of who these people are I believe they serve a purpose and contribute to our very existence. No matter how small the impact, I believe the contribution leads to something bigger. What that is- hell, do we ever figure that out?