Random Ramblings: A Re-post from 2014

This has always been one of my favorite post on the Diva Journals.  I read it today and I chuckled...loudly!  These are some of my random ramblings, I hope you enjoy.

Having the dream you're  falling, and you hit the ground.

You're walking down stairs, and you miss the last step.

When you stop walking, but your your high heels don't and there's nothing to hold on to.

When you look on your arm and a bug is the guest of honor on it.

When you cut your fruit to eat it and the hairy white stuff beat you to it.

Needles.

Paper cuts that bleed, and bleed, and bleed, but don't immediately hurt.

Your favorite ice cream and the freezer burned it.

Candles, no matches

Wine, no corkscrew

Fried rice, no soy sauce

Ring up your groceries, realized you left your money in your other purse. This actually happened to me a week ago. Lol

Ask the ATM for receipt, it's out of paper.

Reading a good book, finding printed mistakes.

Car in front of you is driving slow, and runs the yellow light, now you're stuck at the red light.  WTH?

Dented can goods.

Writing random shit.

Journal Entry #1000

At this point in my life I imagine I would have been happy coming back home from traveling the world, eating good food, retiring from some fantastic job that I would really miss, and living in the Hamptons beach house Dianne Keaton’s character lives in, in the movie Something’s Gotta Give.  

I didn’t have this vision thirty years ago, so now I’ve become a bucket list dreamer creating something wonderful for myself; a road map so to speak to living my best life.  I don’t wanna wake up one day and there’s no time left to do the things I’ve always wanted to do or not be able to imagine doing them.  So, I’m going to write it down (in this case journal it) and see where it goes.  

I’m gonna share my bucket list, (the short one) (yes, there is a long one!) but I’m thinking I’m gonna take it a step further and share my anti-bucket list as well, yeah share all the things I never want to do in life!  Who the crap does that?  I do. That’s who.  Here we go.

Some of My Bucket List

Zipline

Play a game of paintball

Indoor skydive

Have spaghetti and wine in Europe

Watch the sunrise & sunset in one day

Meet a world leader

Tear down a house, and flip it

Be published

Act in a play

Have a vegetable garden

Make soap

Be debt free

Hire a public speaking coach

Visit a winery in California, make my own bottle of wine

Attend a poetry slam

Run a 5K

Own Tiffany jewelry

Get flash mobed 

Meet Oprah

Some of My Anti-Bucket list

Do anything with snakes (don’t wanna touch, see, hear, none of that)

Go to a haunted house ( I’ll hurt you for real if you scare me!) LOL

Go on a roller coaster (nope.  Not me)

Surfing (can’t drink that much water so no)

Jump off a cliff (hmmm. not)

Go hunting (don’t want to eat the animals…don’t want to kill the animals)

Go skinny dipping (don’t want to show the goodies)

Bungee jumping (ha ha. Right.)

Tongue piercing (nope, piercing is for my ears only)

Jump out of an airplane (why though?)

To not hold a book (love the feel of a book in my hands…everything doesn’t have to be electronic)

Be buried alive (hell no)

Work with elephants (yeah, no. they’re too big)

Drop me some ideas from your bucket list down below in the comments section, or better yet just share yours!

Dear Grand Mamas. A letter to you.

Dear Grand Mamas: 

Let me start off by saying how much I miss you all.  Life is so different here without you.  Words can’t even begin to describe how different.  I’m a grandmother now; I have five little nuggets.  I can’t believe that either.  Grandma Mary, and Aunt Clara, mama is starting to look exactly like you, you would be so proud of her; she has four children, nine grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.  Whaaat?  Yup.  Grand mama Daddy is looking just like you these days, with a hint of granddaddy.  I know he misses you tremendously, I see it in him a lot.

I know you’re walking around heaven all day, I bet there is nothing like it.  I bet you’re welcoming loved ones in.  

I think of you often; Grand mama I just shared with Daddy how when I was a young teenage girl you got me all the way together about my attitude and wanting to spend your money.  I just had to have the same conversation with my twelve-year-old granddaughter.  There truly is nothing new under the sun.

Aunt Clara, I’m starting to live off the earth again, just like it was when you raised me for a little while and you grew everything. I wish i could see those gardens again.  I do drink out of a mason jar now, every morning! I had to come back to my roots.  I’m enjoying the journey.

I wish readers knew how special you all truly were.  So many memories. So much love.

I now know a grandmother thinks about her grandchildren day and night, even if they are not with her and will love them in a way they will never understand, and how our love knows no distance.  I'm fifty-two and I don't think I'll ever outgrow your love.  I'm hoping my grandchildren won't ever outgrow mine.

I’ll always remember.  Always, and I’ll Always love.  Always. You.

Imaginary Party Life

I imagined I was having a celebrity get together and was told to invite as many famous people as I wanted.  I started to think “who would I invite?”.  Even though I am not easily impressed, there are a few people that I do admire greatly.  I’ve heard them say, or I’ve read where they've been quoted saying some heavy stuff, stuff that made me really think on things.

If I could have a get together, there are so many people whom I would love to invite, but I know for sure I would invite the below people, and ask them to “give me a soundbite” on their following quotes.  Follow me through the rabbit hole and let me introduce you to my guests and the words they've used to intrigue me.

I would invite Oprah Winfrey – “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
I would invite Tom Bilyeu – “Power starts in the mind.”
I would invite Iyanla Vanzant – “I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the
way I see my life and myself.”

I would invite Tracee Ellis Ross – “I think we're as happy as we make up our minds to be.”
I would invite Jeff Bezos- “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.”
I would invite Cicely Tyson- “I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.”
I would invite Lisa Nichols – “mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”
I would invite Marc Jacobs –“Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.”
I would invite Denzel Washington- “Don’t just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

I would Invite Tomeka Cottle Harris – “Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.”

Wisdom from Patrick Rothfuss

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.

First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.

Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. 

Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind