Why Did I Foster Puppies?
There are two puppies sleeping in the other room. They are sweet, adorable and not mine. No, I didn’t kidnap puppies. The breeder is giving them varied experiences by allowing me to raise them for a couple of weeks. I mentioned them in The Changes of Marky Mark Wahlberg but wanted to explain more
The couple of weeks is their ages 6 weeks up to 12 weeks … 2 litters. 2 puppies then 5 puppies. A lot of puppy sitting and care-taking…
The question I got before people saw their pictures is why. And then how can you let them go and why…
Why?
Well, this is not going to be a short answer. I have been thinking I need some routine shake ups recently. My routine is rather uh… routine, and I have gotten lazy in my scheduling. I know I can work faster, but why should I?
See the truth is, I don’t have much of a life offline. In my past I made friends with some people who weren’t very nice. Let me rephrase, I thought they were my friends but they were using me and once I broke free of that, they threatened… my dog, my house, my parents, stalked me, egged my car, and assorted other things. They never made real threats more of letting me know “things can happen.”
There are other people here, classmates (love you guys) but I am the one who is without children and single more often than not . They have kids parties and talk about children, and what they are going to do with their significant other. Let’s face it, after this much time I am the confirmed bachelorette, except I don’t have the wild parties or dating that the confirmed bachelor does.
Read MoreThe Changes of Marky Mark Wahlberg
The other day, I was going to tell you about Marky Mark Walberg. When my good friend visited, we watched Four Brothers with Mark Walberg. Way back in the 1990s you probably remember a young rapper named Marky Mark.
That was not his name. Yet that was the name he went by. He pushed himself as a rapper, and was known for that world. After a while he made a slight change and became known as a Calvin Klein model. Wearing his pushed down pants we saw the tops of his boxers that sported that CK label.
Later he became Mark Wahlberg the actor.
The actor completely reinvented himself from the rapper of old, thus the new name. Other rappers have reinvented themselves as actors as well, some have shed names, some merely shed that old identity. People reinvent themselves as well, yet so often we hold them to the same measuring stick that was used before. This is total inaccurate and unfair for them and for us as well.
See they have changed, and we choose to see the old person, we are denying them the ability to show us their full colors. For years I was both shy and extremely introverted. It seemed risky and not worthwhile to me to let others inside, for they would seek out ways to hurt me and I felt weak.
Read MoreCourage for Change
Change is not something easy to do. Yet, how else can we grow?
So here I sit, looking at some changes in my life. These changes are temporary, permanent, now, soon, and sometime in the future. These are based on some things that happened this week. Monday writing, Wednesday a visit by dear friend who is special to me, and Thursday someone I have known for a long time who is becoming a friend.
Temporary
If you there is a deadline for these changes to end, why not embrace them for the sake of seeing what will happen. Perhaps the change will be hard. Perhaps it will be easy. Perhaps it will mean a time of utter chaos. Yet there is an end, and then your life goes back…
Too often we say no. It’s hard work. I don’t care that it is short term… it’s hard.
I said yes to a temporary change. It means that I must work harder than ever during work hours and learn to ‘take time away.’ It means massive changes at my house and massive changes to my schedule, meaning going to bed earlier, getting up earlier. But I have been working to improve the going to bed at a reasonable time anyway!
Permanent
Other times you need to make a “permanent change” even a small one just to start moving towards your dream. This means you might do something like I did. Create a book, but not the “dream book” this means it makes the adventure easy.
The dream of becoming a published author is close to becoming true. I don’t know if I should do a push to get this book in front of as many people as possible or to just release it and let it fly. Sounds strange, yet the goal here was to get published. Basically put it in my world. Yet it is not just my world, it is Kelly’s as well. As she is my writing partner and I want her success, perhaps I should push it for her.
Now, Soon and Sometime
Some changes happen
Read MoreChanging One Person
Here is the deal… I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while. The way I see it, there are only two truths in this world. Once you learn those, accept those and live by those, everything else will fall into place. I said I would discuss both in this post, but I will only be able to discuss one, otherwise this post runs way too long.
This is not to say that it is an easy decision to make. The truths are not easy to accept, to learn from and implement. In some ways it will be like trying to break an addiction and all the difficult choices one must make to make a change in life. It also means making sometimes minute by minute choices.
Choices
There are some who say once you become an addict there will never change. Many addiction places tell you that you will fail. If you tell people that they will fail, are you really going to be surprised when they do?
Seriously people; we all make choices, to succeed or fail … for that
Read MoreThe War of Love and Hate
First, the blog was changed to indicate this is my journal ♥ Hope you like it. Second I’m sorry this post is so long. Now onto the war of love and hate.
Sadly this war has been going on forever…. you may never see it or one day witness it firsthand. I recall the first time I saw it; yet, I was too young to realize it was a war. Like any child growing up in a war zone, it was not until later that I realized it was not normal and it was violent.
I was only 3, how could I possibly know that this would start a war within my heart? How could I know that it was also a foreboding of things yet to come? How could I know how long the scars would take to heal?
At 3 years old, I sat in my grandparents’ breakfast room floor. This was Dad’s parents, Mom’s parents were visiting. Both grandmothers were in the room with me.
“What’s wrong with her?” said Mom’s mom… pointing at me.
“There’s nothing wrong with her.” said Dad’s mom.
“Look at the way she’s sitting!” I looked at the way I was sitting….
Sadly I don’t remember the conversation after that and “something was wrong with her” stuck in my head, becoming a part of my life.
Read MoreViva La Vida
Welcome to my personal blog. This blog in various forms and formats has been in existence since 2000. As for why this is called Viva La Vida, it means "live the life" in Spanish, but it is a salute to living life to the fullest. And my hope is that you will live life to the fullest!
This is my personal blog! So viva la vida with me!!