I'm so Popular!

haha... not really, but my phone keeps ringing.



I don't know what suddenly happened, but I am getting calls almost every hour of the day. I have turned the ringer off to phone numbers that are not in my contact list, so I don't even hear it ring anymore. I will happen to look over and see that I have 20 missed calls. Sheesh!

Out of 20 missed calls, only 2 left voice messages. I listened to my voice mail after missing a call I actually wanted and suddenly people are calling me about selling me their service. Please call them back blah blah blah. Yeah right.

I never signed up for anything and I never put my phone number online for that very reason, but I suspect that someone else has. And I know just who you are. If you think it irritates me, you're wrong. As I said less than a second ago, I don't even hear the phone ring. ha. It is so sad when an adult has to act so childlike. At least I can take the higher road and not give in to such stupid games.

Well anyway, it doesn't matter that I get all these unsolicited calls because I'm constantly on the phone with my husband or mother. In fact, my husband and I talk so much that I usually have to charge my phone 2-3 times a day! And it never fails that when my husband calls, so does my mother. So I'm always on the phone. Then someone else I want to talk to calls. haha!

I guess I am popular after all! I think perhaps I need to embed a phone in my head or something! haha!

Resentment

I know of someone who could definitely benefit from actually taking this article to heart, but I wanted to share it with everyone because it is sound advice. Enjoy!

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Demolishing Anger’s Walls
Resentment

It is when anger has no outlet and morphs into resentment that it carries with it the potential to cause turmoil.

Anger, when channeled into the pursuit of change, can be a useful tool in our emotional palette. Anger is experienced by most people, some more than others. It is when anger has no outlet and morphs into resentment that it carries with it the potential to cause great turmoil. Allowing us to assign blame for the pain we are feeling, thereby easing it, resentment tends to smolder relentlessly just below the surface of our awareness, eroding our peace of mind. The target of our resentment grows ever more wicked in our minds and we rue the day we first encountered them. But resentment is merely another hue on the emotional palette and therefore within the realm of our conscious control. We can choose to let go of our resentment and to move on with our lives, no matter how painful the event that incited it.

Hanging onto resentment in our hearts does not serve us in any way. Successfully divesting ourselves of resentful feelings can be difficult, however, because doing so forces us to mentally and emotionally confront the original source of anger. When we cease assigning blame, we realize that our need to hold someone or something responsible for our feelings has harmed us. We thought we were coping with our hurt when in fact we were holding onto that hurt with a vice grip. To release resentment, we must shift our attention from those we resent back toward ourselves by thinking of our own needs. Performing a short ceremony can help you quell resentful feelings by giving tangible form to your emotions. You may want to write down your feelings and then burn the paper and close your ceremony by wishing them well. When you can find compassion in your heart, you know you are on your way to healing.

Free of resentment, we have much more energy and attention to devote to our personal development. We can fill the spaces it left behind with unconditional acceptance and joy. And, as a result of our subsequent freedom from resentment, blessings can once again enter our lives as the walls we built to contain our anger have been demolished.

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2010/22613.html

Be Happy Every Single Day

A fabulous article by Daily OM.

Just because I do not have a lot of major events that are joyful doesn't mean that I can be happy. I am happy to be happy with myself and those few little things that happen in life. Sure I'd be ecstatic if I was awarded the lotto. I've been thinking a lot lately on happiness. How to get it. How to be it.

While I have many quotes on happiness such as

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."

and

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds to be."

There are many quotes and advice on achieving happiness, but one thing is for certain...don't wait for the "big event" that will make you happy. Find happiness in the small things while you wait. For example, my new phone. That is not a big thing. It was a small thing. It was a small thing that brought a smile to my face. When I smile, I feel good and that brings me happiness.

Anyway, without further ado, the DailyOM article...


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Being happy doesn’t come naturally to everybody. It is your birthright to be happy, choose happiness everyday.

Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we believe that focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the challenges of survival. When we choose to focus on what makes us happy, however, a shift occurs in the fabric of our existence. Finding something to be happy about every single day can help this shift take place. The vantage points from which we view the world are brought into balance, and we can see that being alive truly is a gift to be savored. There is always something we can be happy about—it is simply up to us to identify it.

On one day, we may find happiness in a momentous, life-changing event such as a marriage or the birth of a child. On another day, the happiness we experience may be a product of our appreciation of a particularly well-brewed cup of a tea or the way the sun shines on a leaf. If we discover that we literally cannot call to mind a single joyful element of existence, we should examine the cause of the blockage standing between us and experiencing happiness. Keeping a happiness journal is a wonderful way to catalog the happiness unfolding all around us so that joy has myriad opportunities to manifest itself in our lives. Writing about the emotions we experience while contemplating joy may give us insight into the factors compelling us to resist it.

Happiness may not always come easily into your life. You have likely been conditioned to believe that the proper response to unmet expectations is one of sadness, anger, guilt, or fear. To make joy a fixture in your existence, you must first accept that it is within your power to choose happiness over unhappiness every single day. Then, each time you discover some new source of happiness, the notion that the world is a happy place will find its way more deeply into your heart. On this day, find one thing to be happy about and let it fill your heart.

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2010/22512.html

Bluetooth For Me

This past week I ended up getting a new cell phone with Bluetooth capabilities. It's awesome! I have had the same cell phone since 2005 and it was still functioning nicely, but my husband's phone broke and was not working properly. Earlier in the week I was told to buy one of those prepaid phones and swap out the sim card and my husband would have a new phone. So I figured, sure, that's what I would do.

My husband came home for his home time and I told him about this prepaid phone route to get him a new phone and he happily agreed. So we ran our errands and ended up at the new AT&T store they had built in our little town to search out prepaid phones.

Before we had gone, I did some research and picked a phone I thought my husband would be happy with and printed out my research. I presented it to the AT&T rep and was told that phone wasn't being offered as a prepaid phone in the store. They were slower to get the plans than the website. Then he suggested that the cheapest price on these prepaids was, surprisingly, at Walmart. He suggested we go there and get one.

As we were in the store my husband and the phone rep talked phone techy talk and my son spotted a red phone he thought was cool. He brought it to me and told me how cool it was. I nodded, waved him off, and looked around the store. They had all kinds of nifty phones that looked like miniature computers. Cool, but I don't need one of those.

Then I heard the guys talking about my phone. It was a good phone, a strong phone, a very well built phone. My husband wished he could *have* my phone. But it was old. So? It was still a good phone. I kept looking around and spotted this red phone that my son had shown me and I played with it for a bit and looked up at my husband and said, "I kind of like this phone."

It was settled. We would get *me* the new phone and give my husband my phone. To top it off, I got my phone for only $30. Yup. How cool! I signed my contract for my upgrade and walked out of the store playing with my new toy as my husband drove off to run more errands. I took lots of pictures with my little phone camera- which was very cool for me since my other phone did not have one.

I quickly discovered that my phone was Bluetooth. Who cares? Every phone has Bluetooth now. I did not know this. I thought only the upper end phones had this. I got very excited and wanted to check out headsets at Walmart. $18 later I have a headset! Woot! Then around the corner was something even cooler! A Bluetooth USB adapter - I can transfer songs and pictures back and forth from computer to phone. Awesome! $20 later, I'm adding songs and images and making them ring tones and caller images.

Ever since, I've been playing with my new little toy and my husband left with a much better phone than what he had...and my son now has a cell phone that he plays with.

Bluetooth is so cool...

I finally passed the finish line!

Today I sit here before my computer trying to think of the next thing that I will be writing in my novel only to find that I have just finished it! While writing last night, I thought to myself, "I still have so much to write. This novel is going to be massive!"

But no! I actually found a good place to end the novel and better yet, there *is* still more to write, so I'm actually already working on the second novel! Go me! Now comes the harder part. Editing.

After spending four months writing this novel, I am somewhat attached to it and I don't want to loose ANY of it. It is all very essential to the story. But I know that my first draft has major grammatical errors and I know that I could rephrase a lot. I am sure that I will be bantering back and forth with myself and my pre-editor editor, my husband, and we'll toss around lots of plans and ideas. And I am sure that some of the story will be cut, much to my protests. I suspect the editing will take much longer than writing the actual novel.

I think the hardest part is going to be finding a publisher that is going to be interested in my book(s). So how do those famous authors come out of the blue?? Maybe I'll find out. At this point, I'm very excited about it. In about a month, I won't be so enthused. Three months from now, I will probably be irritated and in about 6 months I believe it will be a depressing time as I receive countless letters of "No!" Perhaps if I pre-program my mind I will not be so disappointed.

So on to the next chapter! HAHA!

There'll be no chance to escape
On judgment day.

- "Silent Warrior" Enigma