The Swandive

friday funny ala Sara

HT to Sara for this bit of awesomeness.

is it wrong?

So - it is wrong for me to continue to gush and gush and gush about how much I love my job? Today, my boss hugged me and thanked me. For real.

Seriously - it is ridiculous how much this has changed my life, my sense of self worth, my joy. And you know what joy brings?

MORE JOY!

Yipee super whaaaa hooo!

leftovers: ode to Max

Thanksgiving Leftovers: and the thank goes on...    

From John at SmuloSpace:

1. Write down five things that you're thankful for.


2. Tag five friends who you'd like to see participate in this meme.
   (Optional) Include a link to the original at SmuloSpace in your post, and then visit the post yourself and place a link to your completed meme in the comments section so John can keep track of the thankfulness running around the blogosphere.

This one is for my dear dear fave blogger Max, who has recently popped back on the blog. Wheeee hooooo! So glad you are back lovely. Here goes:

1. I am grateful for my sweetie. OK - that may seem like a no brainer, but for real. She is the shit. She gets me in ways noone ever has, she forgives, she sees me as I am - and still wants to be with little ol' me.
2. I am grateful for my kitty - Tigger. She is my healer, my heater, my favorite snuggle bug and best movie watcher ever.
3. I have one of the greatest jobs - and I still get to work for the Lord. Crazy, each time I think I'll have to leave the church - I put my feelers out there in my old haunts and with any ol' administrative gig I can find - along comes another church gig. After the last two - I was really wondering what on earth God was up to with me. I still don't know, but I do know that working where I am now is the greatest thing that has happened to me since the Bryant Lake Bowl.
4. My hugs and pokes, my plants and frogs, leaves and unusual amount of turkeys thrown at me (HT Smulo) - all on Facebook.
5. Laughter. In all places, with old and new and re-kindled friends - at pubs, at home, at family meals, and in memories of beautiful Thanksgivings of old.

As I am looking around, most everyone has already been there done that with the top 5, 10, 28 or so things they are thankful for. So play if you want. Rock on.

couldn't say it any better

Being grateful

Thanks:Giving

Thanks. Thank you. To thank someone. Taking time to be grateful for, to thank someone, for their participation in something that you are grateful for. They in this scenario can be anyone, or anything really.

Giving. You must give in order to receive. You have enough, you give because you can, because it encourages goodness. We can all use a bit more goodness.

So here is to thanks-giving, today and always.

"One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought to be distilled into actions which bring results."
- Florence Nightingale

Making room

My note for today...

            The choice is always simple enough, Rachel, clear your plate if you want dessert.

My plate was once full of:

• Turkey (Time commitments that were made out of guilt and self egotistical thoughts that someone or something would fall apart if I did not participate.)
• Stuffing (Stuff that looked really really good, or maybe could be "changed" with my voice added to it, but in the end left me hungry and frustrated, self absorbed and snarky.)
• Carrots (People who kept telling me to do the right thing because it would pay off - or do this and you will be rewarded.)
• Green bean casserole (Comforts of my past, former people or situations that used to mean a lot to me. And me - unwilling to let go of the past. Unwilling to admit that I had changed, and accept that other people change too. I only wanted the good ol' days - not the right here and now days.)
• Cranberries from a can (What I thought was a string of unrelated, un-connected sweetness and bitterness all around me - out of my control what would be sweet and what would be bitter.)

I am clearing my plate. I am making room for some blackout cake from the Seward Coop (if you have not had it - its quite possibly the most wonderful little chocolate square of goodness).

*feeling*

I am re-reading this awesome book - Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by the late Lynn Grabhorn. Its amazing how much the right book, at the right time, will speak volumes. So far - just a few pages in - its all about feelings, energy and vibrations. Dialing in - as it were - to feeling good. Its brilliant, raw, not the normal self help schmarm. I dig it.

Bombarded by alternate ways of moving through the day - anxiety, hurry, worry - I am finding its easy to get sucked in / sucked down. Stop. Re-direct. Listen to some music or look at a picture and re-focus on all the goodness and blessings that are all around you. Focus on how the good stuff *feels*.

Ahhh... good. Now, I can only do as much as I can. Do one thing. Keep going. Next thing you know, you're hearing an old boss say "sheesh, you sound different, you sound really happy."

Yep - feeling, really feeling good and locking my eyes on feeling good - is trans-formative. Happy Monday.

LOVE: 1 Year

LOVE: My job

One:         Super glad this is not me. Not even close. Praise be, cause I have been there.
Two:        Makes me miss my friend Pip, because he LOVES this song so much.
Three:     Who doesn't need a good YouTube moment every once in a while?