Out of State Adventure

Well, just found out yesterday that I'll be on a little adventure in October. It'll be nice to get away for a few days. Anyone want to guess where? Does anyone care? Ha ha ha....

Love and light,
XOXOXOXO

Beautiful Quote on Life

A few months ago I was looking at a unique magazine that had wonderful quotes. This particular one stood out to me as it was something that I was struggling with... "my purpose in life". At times I feel like I have to have this huge mission in life to make a large impact on the world, when in actuality, I just have to be me.


By each of our acts of kindness, love, being who we are in the world.... it's enough. We are enough. By our small every day living we have the chance to impact lives. Some times it's the lives that are closest to us that we impact the most, and mean the most to us. For example: children, students, colleagues, the mailman/woman, the UPS person, the Starbucks cashier, the little old lady down next door, the person taking your order at Chick-fil-A. A kind word, smile, expression of gratitude goes a long way.


Most importantly, being kind to ourselves can have the biggest impact on the world.


Love yourself. Love who you are. Love who you are becoming. Love that each day is a new day. Love that you all are loved by me. Love that you are all loved by your higher source.... God, Buddha, Allah, Heavenly Father, Source, Creator, Great Spirit....


Above all, know that you deserve and are enough to receive that love.


Much love and light....


XOXOXOXO

One of my Favorite Songs. ...

I've always had a fond connection with this song growing up, but it really became a favorite when I was overseas and sang it for a Karaoke night. It felt good to let go and release a bunch of crap I was holding on to. Yesterday, I was listening to some music and heard this version.  I was in love with it all over again. It's funny how some songs find their way back to you when you need them.

This morning I had a chiropractic appointment and got to use a machine that fired my muscles into tension and release. It felt great and my muscles around my shoulder were still firing afterward. THEN,  when it was time to be seen by the doc. ... well, he almost made me cry several times! Apparently my body is more bent out of shape than I thought.  This past week has been proving that. Ugh. So, right now I'm in the infrared sauna at work to heat up my body then I'll ice my shoulder again.

Love and light.

Children....

These past few days I have been baby sitting again. It's been quite interesting. I had forgotten how children to have a mind of their own and will at times test your buttons. It's funny.

Tonight I was able to pick the children up early right after school and while I was cooking dinner, they were out playing, and then I had them help me make a throw together dessert of some kind of apple crumble. I even got to talk to one of the neighborhood children's dad who was taking Aryana (the oldest girl I'm watching) to a family BBQ and for a sleepover. It's been cool but strange at the same time to be "mommy" these past few days. Cooking, dishes, laundry, showers, disciplining,  and now movie time... Even the children tell their teacher's or after school leaders that I'm their babysitter - "Miss Pili", or "this is my mama Pili - she's really nice".

With all the attitude and yelling that growing/opinionated children have..... at the end of the day, they're still cute kiddos. I'm thankful for the time I got to watch them.

Okay - back to watching "Rio".

Love and light.

Meaty....

A friend sent this to me and I laughed so hard. Soooooo true! I'm learning to love my curves more and more. After all, "it's all about the bass".... hope you all have a great laugh and smile when you read this. And for crying out loud - women..... EMBRACE YOUR INNER CURVACIOUSNESS!!!!

Still Awake

I woke up this morning about 2am.... it's now 345am. Yesterday I got a massage and also had acupuncture done. My body is hurting - definitely didn't drink enough water throughout the day. Ugh!

I've also been listening to old voice mail messages on my phone. Well, at least one or two.

Catch up and Dress up...

Yesterday was kind of fun. .... Jasmine and I went to try on a few dresses for the Breaking Boundaries event in December. The dresses were gorgeous. There even some white wedding dresses that weren't your stereotypical kind of dresses that were rad to try in. I wish I took a picture of the single strap dress. A lady said that it reminded her of a Grecian goddess!

Saw this dress and thought I'd try it on. I was having a little trouble taking a self portrait. ... hence the hand in the hip.....

Loved this dress! By the way, I ended up finding a beautiful simple green dress for $5.80 (taxes included)!!! I'll post a picture of it on here soon.

My hair about 30 minutes before snip-snip....

Went in for a trim,  and came out with short hair!!!! it's been over 5 years since I've had short hair. Love it, but whoa..... what a change! Lol

Grilled this past Friday or Saturday. .... anyway - it was soooooooo yummy!

Magnolia and "Bridges of Madison County"

This weekend I played a silly "masterpiece" board game where each player gets to buy pieces of art which consisted of famous paintings throughout the world. Well, there was one piece of art that struck a chord and I bought it with my play money for 6 million dollars.... Here is what it was:

Silly as it may seem - it held me in such a trance that I often caught myself staring at this little piece of art and my heart and mind would wonder to its origin of thought. It was a beautiful feeling.


I also got to watch the movie "The Bridges of Madison County". Goodness - if it didn't reflect the feelings of my heart! Not only is the soundtrack wonderful, but the overall feel of the movie is fantastic! There were two lines in the movie that I absolutely loved:


1. "Old dreams are good dreams, and although they didn't work out, I'm still glad I had them"...
2. "This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime"....


****sigh****


My darling - if you're reading this, I've thought/missed/loved you all weekend. Please know, that no matter where our paths go - I will always love you.


Love and light,
XOXOXOXO

All about the bass..... vintage style

Oh my goodness - I found this about 5 minutes ago! If y'all have heard the original (of which I love), you might find this interesting and cool. Lol...

By the way, "I'm all about that bass"....

Poultice, Castor Oil, and Giggles.....

So, this turd looking beef patty really isn't either of those.... A turd or beef patty. And most importantly,  I wouldn't be putting it on my body if it was! As some of you may now, when I went to annual training for the military this past July, I ended up injuring my shoulder and my ankle. (Both on the left side of my body.  Ugh!) I can't express enough how much and constant these two pains have been. Let's just saw that it makes taking in massage clients when you hurt during their session and have inflammation afterward.

But - getting back to the brown crap on my shoulder.... lol This is actually a poultice we made to help draw things out and to help in the facilitation of helping it heal. It consisted of: honey (used to bind the ingredients), cinnamon (reduce inflammation- sort of - and increase blood flow), sulphuric salt, and dried comfrey.  Yes, it was weird to make, and it was even more weird to have put on my shoulder and ankle! But at least it smelled good!So weird looking, huh?!?!?!

The next few pictures are my shoulder and ankle wrapped in castor oil soaked rags that were heated and then placed over the poultice. The castor oil is really good at drawing out impurities and an all around great homeopathic healer.

I felt ridiculous! 

My attempt at a sad face. Lol

Ah! At last, here are two baby sunflowers - twins- that look like they are giggling. Jasmine pointed it out to me and said "let me show you our sunflowers!" I loved it. From our view, it actually looked like they were also holding hands.

One Love and light to everyone!