If you're day is not going well, put on some music!!!
I have a super long list of amazing songs that without a doubt put me in a better mood. Try making one if you don't have one already.
Other things to do if you want to get your brain going, if you're gloomy, or if you're bored:
Downward dog
twirl (its really good for your health, can you believe it?, check out those dervishers!, more to come on them)
Try standing on one leg, see how long you can do it.
Tea it up!!!
Smell something good (lavender, lemons, organges...)
10 songs I currently adore:
If you could read my mind by Gordon Lightfoot
Shake it out Florence and the Machine
Caught up in you 38 Special
The Zoo Scorpions
The Fighter Gym Class Heros
Bust your windows
It's a Heartache Bonnie Tyler
Your Song Elton John
Sultans of Soul Dire Straits
Miss you when you're gone The Cranberries
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Football playoffs=Fun commercials + First contest of the year
It is nearing that glorious Sunday of sub eating, prop bets, and commercial watching. This blog will be a tribute to my favorite commercials, past and present. I see several follow-ups to this one, so readers, get excited!!!
Current Commercials
Funniest
Little Ceasar's commercial where a man walks into the store orders a pizza and does not have to wait. He exclaims, "No waiting!! No Rules!" and proceeds to take off his shirt. The Little Ceasar employee tells him that he can's take off his shirt. He exlaims "One rule."
http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/tv-commercials/little-caesars-pizza-kits-no-rules-15848905/
Most Deceptive
White's Metal Detecting commercial where a man not only finances a trip to South Africa with his finds, but also buys his wife her very own metal detector. After spending years at parks with my dad looking for treasure, I believe the Real Men of Genius tribute to Metal Detectors (see Funniest Past Commercials) is much more accurate!
Worst Commercial
I actually love this one, but it is pretty bad. There is a power outage and a family is trying to eat dinner. An older lady goes to put a forkful of food into her mouth, but she ends up missing her mouth and hitting herself in the face with her fork. It then shows how that would never happen if you had a certain lantern. It is awesome.
Past Commercials
Most Memorable:
I think I was probably around 5 when I saw this commercial. A man working at a restaurant has a container of cheese and it bounces. He then says "It's Cheese" I don't know if the commercial was in fact for cheese or if it was advertising a different product,
Most quoted by me
Suprisingly it is not the Whazzup commercials. It was a Snickers commercial that came out when I was in 8th grade. A football player takes a really hard hit. His coach starts asking him questions to check out how lucid he is. He replies with appropriate answers until the coach asks him his name. "I'm Batman"
Most disappointing
There were these stuffed animal cats and dogs. They would have puppies or kittens. You would buy them and then each would have a varying amount of kittens or puppies in their belly. I finally got one for Christmas. In the commercial the liters always had so many puppies or kittens, mine only had one. For some reason, that really upset me as a kid. hmmm.
1st Contest of the Year:
Submit your vote for your favorite or least favorite commercial and have a chance to win a guest feature writing position on Fun, Whimsy, Unicorns, and Sprinkles!
Or
Comment with any relevant details to It's Cheese commercial (link to video, info on what it was advertising, whether you saw it and liked/hated it) or lantern commercial.
Current Commercials
Funniest
Little Ceasar's commercial where a man walks into the store orders a pizza and does not have to wait. He exclaims, "No waiting!! No Rules!" and proceeds to take off his shirt. The Little Ceasar employee tells him that he can's take off his shirt. He exlaims "One rule."
http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/tv-commercials/little-caesars-pizza-kits-no-rules-15848905/
Most Deceptive
White's Metal Detecting commercial where a man not only finances a trip to South Africa with his finds, but also buys his wife her very own metal detector. After spending years at parks with my dad looking for treasure, I believe the Real Men of Genius tribute to Metal Detectors (see Funniest Past Commercials) is much more accurate!
Worst Commercial
I actually love this one, but it is pretty bad. There is a power outage and a family is trying to eat dinner. An older lady goes to put a forkful of food into her mouth, but she ends up missing her mouth and hitting herself in the face with her fork. It then shows how that would never happen if you had a certain lantern. It is awesome.
Past Commercials
Most Memorable:
I think I was probably around 5 when I saw this commercial. A man working at a restaurant has a container of cheese and it bounces. He then says "It's Cheese" I don't know if the commercial was in fact for cheese or if it was advertising a different product,
Most quoted by me
Suprisingly it is not the Whazzup commercials. It was a Snickers commercial that came out when I was in 8th grade. A football player takes a really hard hit. His coach starts asking him questions to check out how lucid he is. He replies with appropriate answers until the coach asks him his name. "I'm Batman"
Most disappointing
There were these stuffed animal cats and dogs. They would have puppies or kittens. You would buy them and then each would have a varying amount of kittens or puppies in their belly. I finally got one for Christmas. In the commercial the liters always had so many puppies or kittens, mine only had one. For some reason, that really upset me as a kid. hmmm.
1st Contest of the Year:
Submit your vote for your favorite or least favorite commercial and have a chance to win a guest feature writing position on Fun, Whimsy, Unicorns, and Sprinkles!
Or
Comment with any relevant details to It's Cheese commercial (link to video, info on what it was advertising, whether you saw it and liked/hated it) or lantern commercial.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
the wheels on the bus go round and round
Random musings on a gray January day.
Besides pretending you are a spy to make the work day more exciting, I've used another technique to decrease my dread for going to work. Think of worst job for you, really get in there and think of how horrible it would be to go to that job. Does your job look as bad now?
Now, if you really have that worst job, hopefully you can use that frustration to find a new job better suited to your personality. Start looking for it!!!!
Reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living." Cool book, filled with common sense ideas that have been around for ages, but suprisingly the principles are often forgotten in my life. One technique he suggested to overcome anxiety was to identify what you were anxious about and then determine the absolute worst thing that could happen. Now here's the tricky part, when you identify the worst thing that could possibly happen, then you have to accept it. When you do that, your brain shifts and you can start looking for ways to improve on your situation. I tried it and its helped me. I think there is a huge shift and release when you accept the worst that can happen. If you don't there is this persistent nagging.
Second to last musing, what are you really good at? For years, I had a dangerous mindset where I thought that the things I was good at, everyone else was probably good at and what challenged me, was probably easy for other people. Really a no-win situation. However, after reading countless self-help books, I've come to really get behind the idea that we are all so special and have such unique gifts. Those things that you are good at and interested at, should really be focused on to reach your potential acme. Love the story of one ping pong coach, team (little fuzzy on details, but I think I have the gist) The coach had the players spend time practicing the one skill that they seemed to have a particular knack for. Rather than say the player mastered that, now he has to master everything else, the coach encourage them to spend hours on that one skill, and the benefits of this unique tactic made them the winningest ping pong team ever (not sure if that parts true, but they were pretty awesome)
Okay last thing, more in the vein of what this blog started out as, feel good moments with sprinkles. There was a lovely Baskin Robin commercial a few years back. It showed people in a traffic jam. People were shown and their thoughts were spoken out loud. Most peoples minds were zooming with impatience and daily stresses. Then the camera goes to a man eating an ice cream cone. All that is playing in his head is "The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round." So hopefully today you can find those peaceful moments, let all those stresses go, relax and sing the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Besides pretending you are a spy to make the work day more exciting, I've used another technique to decrease my dread for going to work. Think of worst job for you, really get in there and think of how horrible it would be to go to that job. Does your job look as bad now?
Now, if you really have that worst job, hopefully you can use that frustration to find a new job better suited to your personality. Start looking for it!!!!
Reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living." Cool book, filled with common sense ideas that have been around for ages, but suprisingly the principles are often forgotten in my life. One technique he suggested to overcome anxiety was to identify what you were anxious about and then determine the absolute worst thing that could happen. Now here's the tricky part, when you identify the worst thing that could possibly happen, then you have to accept it. When you do that, your brain shifts and you can start looking for ways to improve on your situation. I tried it and its helped me. I think there is a huge shift and release when you accept the worst that can happen. If you don't there is this persistent nagging.
Second to last musing, what are you really good at? For years, I had a dangerous mindset where I thought that the things I was good at, everyone else was probably good at and what challenged me, was probably easy for other people. Really a no-win situation. However, after reading countless self-help books, I've come to really get behind the idea that we are all so special and have such unique gifts. Those things that you are good at and interested at, should really be focused on to reach your potential acme. Love the story of one ping pong coach, team (little fuzzy on details, but I think I have the gist) The coach had the players spend time practicing the one skill that they seemed to have a particular knack for. Rather than say the player mastered that, now he has to master everything else, the coach encourage them to spend hours on that one skill, and the benefits of this unique tactic made them the winningest ping pong team ever (not sure if that parts true, but they were pretty awesome)
Okay last thing, more in the vein of what this blog started out as, feel good moments with sprinkles. There was a lovely Baskin Robin commercial a few years back. It showed people in a traffic jam. People were shown and their thoughts were spoken out loud. Most peoples minds were zooming with impatience and daily stresses. Then the camera goes to a man eating an ice cream cone. All that is playing in his head is "The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round." So hopefully today you can find those peaceful moments, let all those stresses go, relax and sing the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Undercover agent makes going to work exciting and awesome
Sometimes I dread going to work, and by sometimes, I mean most/all of the time.
Here is something that I sometimes remember to do that makes it bearable/fun.
I pretend I'm a spy on a secret mission. So the job is not actually working at a fast food restuarant, delivering mail, selling real estate, it becomes something more. Tasks that might cause anxiety before are nothing because that's not the real mission.
I haven't elaborated or practiced this technique too often, but in the new year, I definitely plan on exploring it.
There's a wonderful quote from an unknown source, "To a wise man, everyday is a new life." How freeing that is, what potential lies in that mindset!
Here is something that I sometimes remember to do that makes it bearable/fun.
I pretend I'm a spy on a secret mission. So the job is not actually working at a fast food restuarant, delivering mail, selling real estate, it becomes something more. Tasks that might cause anxiety before are nothing because that's not the real mission.
I haven't elaborated or practiced this technique too often, but in the new year, I definitely plan on exploring it.
There's a wonderful quote from an unknown source, "To a wise man, everyday is a new life." How freeing that is, what potential lies in that mindset!
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Do you have a cape?
Christmas has passed. The snow has turned to muddy slush. Kind of a blah day. But all each of us has is the day, so I am on a mission to turn every day special.
I bought a Wonder Woman costume for Halloween one year. Although the costume was only worn once, the cape has been much more appreciated. Sometimes, when I get into that blah mood, I nonchalantly put the cape on and not only does it make me feel better, it is quite hilarious to everyone else (note maybe you are surrounded with people with more discretionary senses of humor and my suggestions will not be worthwhile or may bring ridicule, so read with caution). So if you do not have a cape, I say get a cape!!!
Gems like that will be filled in this blog. Might want to keep reading.
"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark." Kate Dicamillo, The Tale of Despereaux. This blog is like my story and it is my attempt at bringing a little light and laughter into a oftentimes dark world. Things like:
Christmas coupons ideas (although my voice on my nephews nonexistent voicemail box was not well recieved, others may think that is an awesome coupon)
Tips for how best to enjoy a rascal scooter
Messages from Bob Francis
and much more will be discussed.
Clearly life is too serious. There are devastating things going on everywhere. I feel I and most likely others are better equipped if they are able to have a positive attitude with the right questions floating around in their head (ie What can I do to make someone laugh today? How could we get more done and have fun doing it? compared to Why is life so hard? Why did I even get out of bed today or my favorite from my dad after he had gotten a bee sting "Why did we even come to the cottage?")
Lastly, I read a lovely quote in I Could Do Anything if Only I Knew What It Was. "There will never be another you." So whoever (arg is it whomever???) you are, I hope you realize how lucky the world is to have you and I hope we are lucky enough to glimpse your uniqueness!!!
I bought a Wonder Woman costume for Halloween one year. Although the costume was only worn once, the cape has been much more appreciated. Sometimes, when I get into that blah mood, I nonchalantly put the cape on and not only does it make me feel better, it is quite hilarious to everyone else (note maybe you are surrounded with people with more discretionary senses of humor and my suggestions will not be worthwhile or may bring ridicule, so read with caution). So if you do not have a cape, I say get a cape!!!
Gems like that will be filled in this blog. Might want to keep reading.
"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark." Kate Dicamillo, The Tale of Despereaux. This blog is like my story and it is my attempt at bringing a little light and laughter into a oftentimes dark world. Things like:
Christmas coupons ideas (although my voice on my nephews nonexistent voicemail box was not well recieved, others may think that is an awesome coupon)
Tips for how best to enjoy a rascal scooter
Messages from Bob Francis
and much more will be discussed.
Clearly life is too serious. There are devastating things going on everywhere. I feel I and most likely others are better equipped if they are able to have a positive attitude with the right questions floating around in their head (ie What can I do to make someone laugh today? How could we get more done and have fun doing it? compared to Why is life so hard? Why did I even get out of bed today or my favorite from my dad after he had gotten a bee sting "Why did we even come to the cottage?")
Lastly, I read a lovely quote in I Could Do Anything if Only I Knew What It Was. "There will never be another you." So whoever (arg is it whomever???) you are, I hope you realize how lucky the world is to have you and I hope we are lucky enough to glimpse your uniqueness!!!
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