"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best i can"- Cary Grant
Good morning! Grant's quote makes the formula for a happy life seem so simple, doesn't it? Confucius said, "Life is simple, it is we who insist on making it complicated." Each day, why not try the simple advice in this quote: Occupy yourself in the best way you can. For, at the end of any day, if we have done our best in all the things we have touched, we can ask for nothing more.
Your turn:
As you go throughout your day today, keep it simple. Occupy yourself in the best way that you can.
Today's Affirmation:
I remember to 'Keep it simple'
Sometimes thats what we need to learn to do. To keep things simple and remember that life is alot more simple than we humans have made it. I always think about this topic and I have that Confucius quote in my little quote side bar, it's been there for years now. We make things so hectic for ourselves. Society has made things hectic for ourselves. We must work to make money to live where we live, eat and drink, take care of our health and own the vehicles that get us places. I wonder what life would be like if we didn't have money or werent forced to work to stay afloat. How simple would things be? We would eat, sleep, and breath. We could sit back and not worry about getting by. To reflect on that Go to a nice field or woods away from everything. Just stand there and observe for a while. Your life isn't ended by disconnecting from everything. You stand there, you breath, you see, and feel the air. It's so simple.
I always things as nice as the convenience of modern life are, they are also our downfall. They give us a false sense of whats real. In the long term these things may be our demise. Just my theory.
So aside from that stuff, I got ANOTHER cold. Seriously? My immune system must seriously be shot or something. Rob hasn't gotten any of my colds leading me to wonder why am I so susceptible (sp). I felt it coming on for 2 days. Over the night was my breaking point and I woke up with a stuffy nose. The onset of the colds always feel worse than the colds themselves. I feel drained and my lymph nodes ache and swell like a mofo and my throat aches. Then I get the actual cold and granted it's inconvenient and unpleasant the onset was worse than the cold itself.
I was a little crushed last night. I called my Dad to chat. The call only lasted 6 minutes. Bummer. He wasn't in a chatty mood and was in the middle of building his basement bathroom. I was a bit thrown off when he eventually said 'alrighty, bye'. At first I thought he was talking to someone else lol but incase he wasn't I still responded with a goodbye. Then, 'click'. He hung up! Well Fine! Maybe my knitting is just as important to end a phone call that way.... But this is just my Dad. When he's in the heat of the moment with something everything else sort of gets put in last place in his mind. Apparently yesterday that last place thing was me on the phone lol.
I went to the mechanic yesterday. He'll be towing my car monday. He seems stumped with the issue but he can't make predictions yet without seeing the car. I gave him the extra fuse just incase that is the problem. As I handed it to him (this is after i've explain the recent happenings with the car..new door, new fuse) he tells me he has that fuse readily onstock. Now I kind of called his bluff mentaly on that one. If no auto store carried this part in the states even and it was available only through select warehouses how would this guy just happen to have this fuse so easily available and on hand at that? I guess it's possible but i think perhaps he was offended I opted to have base fix the problem instead of him. Thus he made it sound like he could have fixed it better? Normaly I would have had him do the work but at the time it was just convenient for us (though that kicked our ass).
As I was on my way out of work yesterday one of our regular customers, and nice older guy, stopped me. He asked how I was doing. I said good. Then he asked if everything really is good with a slight concerned tone. I got confused. Why would he be worried about me? Then he mentioned because I look like i've lost weight, especialy in my chin. Really? Why is everybody noticing this weight loss on me? Sure i've gone down a few pounds but it doesn't seem that drastic to me. At my max here I was about 132. As of the last year i've been about 128. The last 2 months i've gone down between 124 and 125 which is more my normal weight. My most average weight over all is 120 and thats when i'm working out regularly. Though I haven't been that since our last base. I told Mr. George that I have been a little stressed lately and my appetites gone a little down but I didn't feel any different in appearance.
So now everybody is mentioned my weight loss. Seriously though, I look in the mirror and don't feel any different. Perhaps its from coming off birth control lol. Thats when everyone started mentioning my weight anyways. Now if i was anorexic looking then I could see cause for concern but a few pounds between normal weights wouldn't worry me.
This morning my backyard was stray dog heaven. I got up to make breakfast and saw a neighbors dog poking around our backyard. He didn't stay long. Then less than 2 minutes a set of black and gold labs wondered into the yard. At this point Buster was at the backdoor freaking out. I guess everybodies dogs just felt like taking a detour this morning lol
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