Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

Bitsy_Beans

Happy birthday rtandon your annual Hagen daz sounds lovely which reminds me I still haven't sampled the pleasure of my HM choc lollies! How did that pass me by

Fantasia - excellent post and am enjoying my air as I type

Memory_Girl

tenmah wrote: »

MG - had a look at your home page - you are just amazing with how you come up with these ideas. Love the marbles. I wish I lived next door to you so I could just sit and talk to you and learn things!!

I am open to bribes :rotfl:

I'm hoping this gives me a place to witter on about all the stuff I can't really go on about here. Real nuts n bolts, practical stuff that we can all use. A mAtrix Toolkit - now there's an idea

MG

Memory_Girl

fantasia322 wrote: »

MG's blog got me thinking, not so much about a simple life, but about Life and its Simple Pleasures, and I have discovered one that I havent done properly for about 25 years, at least until this last week. And that is the ability to breathe correctly.

Remember to breathe. As silly as it sounds, many of us don't take enough slow, deep breaths throughout the day. Taking the time to enjoy the feel of air filling your lungs and feeling of oxygen coursing through your body is a reminder of life's most basic pleasure--life itself.
I'd honestly forgotten how this felt, till the ciggies went. The sheer pleasure of filling my lungs, and today running upstairs with the dogs, 100 steps to be exact without puffing, and having to stop because of hyperventilating. Heaven, seriously xx

ETA Happy Birthday Rtandon xx

Your right Fantasia - and the best part of the day, siting in the garden before the boys get up with a decent coffee. Doesn't cost much ................. but to me is priceless.

MG

PS Well done Ms ex-smoker (cos you are now you know)

Dorastar

Happy birthdays and welcome to the world baby Parsnip.

Have had a headless chicken day today - dd's dancing show dress rehearsal needed about 6 things buying first thing then off to get Nan's birthday cake. Suddenly realised when driving home with it that there was something wrong - stopped and checked and it had 80th instead of 70th!!! Quick about turn and then back to cake shop to get it fixed (phew!)

Nice party and kids very well behaved - and now all shattered and in bed.

MG nice blog am off to get marbles for dd (9) as am feeling a bit the same way as you.

fantasia322

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Your right Fantasia - and the best part of the day, siting in the garden before the boys get up with a decent coffee. Doesn't cost much ................. but to me is priceless.

MG

PS Well done Ms ex-smoker (cos you are now you know)

Thanks MG, I'm not really though, not yet. It would be incredibly easy for me just to pick up where I left off. OH is still indulging, albeit at the back door or outside but, and its a big but, he isnt helping. He thinks he's making the ultimate sacrifice by going outside, would far rather he had agreed to quit with me, but it was not to be. He leaves ciggies lying around all the time, even when he goes to work, (I chuck em in the bin shredded lol) so I swear I am doing my very best and I dont ever want to go back to the place I was in last week, dark, drowning in phlegm and totally stifled.

Get over yourself woman, I am fabulous and I WILL BEAT THIS. I AM AN EX SMOKER< yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes,
affirmations are all good xxx

claudiac_2

Love the marbles thing, but is that until DS is what 18? Honestly, they do stick around for a lot longer than that! Or they go off and do things, but then they come back, so don't worry too much about how little time you have with them, in my experience they don't go far or for long! And I wouldn't have it any other way.

fantasia322

Woohoo another lightbulb moment. Until I completely let go of the past (and all its bad habits) only then can I look forward to a totally light, bright future xx

greenbee

fantasia322 wrote: »

Woohoo another lightbulb moment. Until I completely let go of the past (and all its bad habits) only then can I look forward to a totally light, bright future xx

Sounds like your friends, family and possessions are all about to be closely scrutinised!

Shalva

The blog about the marbles made me want to cry as my "children" are all over 18 and I fleetingly felt that I had no need for a marble jar......

but reading what claudaic has written I have to agree they dont always go far and do come and go.....

this week my 22year old dd came home after almost a month and amongst other things we spent an afternoon making cupcakes together, simple pleasures.......later this month Bob Dylan is coming to Israel and I will be taking my 19 year old ds with me for what Im sure will be a once in a lifetime experience.....

I just want to thank everyone here for making me want to do better........

fantasia322

greenbee wrote: »

Sounds like your friends, family and possessions are all about to be closely scrutinised!

No, not at all, just made me realise that I need to let go of all the excess baggage, and excuses that I have been using for justifying my smoking. People and things are who and what they are. My letting go of the past has to do solely with me and nothing and noone else.