Next level shit

There's doing well on dating apps and there's this guy...

Love her now

 

Slow down. This day will never be available to you again. There are only so many of these available to you. Yes, we have stories, pictures, and sound bites of our activities, but is our free time being spent exactly the way we wish? Are the conversations we're having the ones we truly want to have with the people we want in our lives? I hope so, kids. There's no do over. By God's grace we get to try again tomorrow, but all those past days are burnt to ash. Get your ass off the couch. Put your fukin' phone down and go have a face to face conversation with someone... preferably over ice cream, but frozen yogurt will do as well :)

Stuck in my head

 

All weekend, this song has been swimming around in my brain. It usually makes me smile, but after reading the lyrics it's actually kind of sad :( Overall the smiles won out to the frowns so I'm sharing this with you guys. Hope you wind up singing the chorus too... ooo ahhh ooo baybee baybee 

::edit:: I really can't help it. The chorus is making me smile all day ::edit::

“A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive.  If we do not take time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow.”

IP No. 8, Just for Today

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Most of us seem to unconsciously judge what happens in our lives each day as good or bad, success or failure.  We tend to feel happy about the “good” and angry, frustrated, or guilty about the “bad.”  Good and bad feelings, though, often have little to do with what’s truly good or bad for us.  We may learn more from our failures than our successes, especially if failure has come from taking a risk.

Attaching value judgments to our emotional reactions ties us to our old ways of thinking.  We can change the way we think about the incidents of everyday life, viewing them as opportunities for growth, not as good or bad.  We can search for lessons rather than assigning value.  When we do this, we learn something from each day.  Our daily Tenth Step is an excellent tool for evaluating the day’s events and learning from both success and failure.

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Just for today:  I am offered an opportunity to apply the principles of recovery so that I will learn and grow.  When I learn from life’s events, I succeed.

Oooof

So I just received the window treatment quote for the new house... $33,000 PLUS installation hahahahhaaaaaaaahhhhhahahahaha

 

Fuck that. 

Blinds.com here I come!

Bye Bye BB

I read old e-mail and things that I've posted and wonder who the person was that put those feelings / thoughts into words. Over the past 12 months I have done more consistent work on myself than ever before. Therapy, meetings, steps, honest sharing telling the whole truth, etc and yet I still wonder what I'm feeling or why certain thoughts enter my head most of the time. I'm a jumble. Rarely am I focused on only one thing. Occasionally, I'll be in the present while in conversations with specific people over dinner a few times a week, most of my therapy appointments, playing basketball in the back yard of the new house, or while listening to a song when driving in my truck...

Click this link 

Starring: me, my sister, her fiance, and one of those people heh

Oh yeah BB King died. RIP. I tried to pick a perfect song, but I've run out of time. Hope this one represents the man's talent in the way he would approve:

Lets Boogie

A few more to help you get your rump on the move...

Join the dance :) I like it.

I forget

Sometimes I need a little help seeing the whole truth. Sometimes I forget pieces of who I am and what I should be trying to do while I'm still on this earth. When that happens I'll read quotes and things like that to try and spark something to pull me back to right now. I found these today. I hope they touch something in you if you lose your way....

Good or bad, happy or sad, we are responsible for our situations and by extension our emotions. If I don't put myself in certain situations then I don't have to deal with their repercussions. Don't confuse being afraid with being prudent. If you're not sure which one motivates you then look back on whatever it was 30 days later. If you're smiling then you got it right... if you're not then go for it next time. It's okay to try and fail. I try things all the time knowing that I'm not going to get it right. Progress, not perfection. Don't worry, be happy. 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink. The list goes on... ;)

Worry less and do more because the whole truth is that:

Yes.

You can.