Living life with a chronic illness is definitely not easy. But I do my best to push through all the barriers this illness puts in front of me! In my heart and mind, I believe maintaining a positive outlook on all situations in life will carry us through to much better times! I hope you find the information that I provide both helpful and inspirational!
Another year has passed and left a mark on our lives. Now is a time to reflect on the past year and appreciate the lessons learned. It might be naïve, but I am always hopeful of positive changes during a new year♥. It is supposed to be a fresh start and to move forward with knowledge gained. I have said that every New Year’s Eve for the past several years, the New Year will be better, but nothing changes for the better, and most things stay the same. It should be viewed as a benefit if things do not get worse, but unfortunately, they sometimes do get worse. 2023 may have been slightly better than 2022, but several issues remained.
Many people make New Year’s resolutions, but how many of our resolutions are fulfilled and carried out? Setting one or more New Year’s resolutions to what we want to change puts too much pressure on us, which leads to most not being kept. Why make changes at the start of the year? Why not make changes throughout the entire year? Maybe making changes randomly during the year would provide better success rates♥. Do you believe in striving to change for the better and that this could make our lives better overall? When we make positive changes in our lives, do you think the changes can impact the lift of other people?
I have been blogging for almost eight years♥! Over the past year, I have written on my blog to share with you, and each of you helped me through some difficult times. I rely heavily on being able to write and share my thoughts with my understanding and lovely followers♥. It does not matter I have not met most of my followers in person because I feel like I know many of you by reading your posts and comments. I plan to continue participating in the blogging community while setting goals♥, not New Year’s resolutions, and I will share any progress I make with y’all! It does not matter what your plans are tonight, but please be safe and enjoy your New Year’s celebration.
Thank you for stopping by my site today. This is my last post for 2023, and I look forward to what next year holds. Try to not dwell on the negative parts of last year but focus on the great things that happened. It is almost time to leave 2023 in the past and move forward with the brand-new year 2024😊! There is no guarantee that 2024 will be better, but we can go into the new year with the hope it will. I would love the chance to read your comments and I will respond as quickly as possible. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Today is the final Friday of the year and is leading to the last weekend of the year. I hope you had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. No matter what might have gone wrong during the week, today is the day we must let go of negative emotions, and we can enjoy the final weekend in 2023! Anything that was not accomplished during the past week will still be there next year for us to handle, and there is no use wasting your time feeling any distress about it. Letting go of negativity and anger can open your life to many amazing new things, which I did not realize until I did just that😊! All the things we have no control over means it is best to move on and focus on what is controllable. Honestly, there are still a few things that I am working on letting go of, but these issues are for another post!
Letting go of stress and stressful situations is very challenging, but once you do it one time, you will begin to understand the benefits and learn to do it more often. Of course, it takes time and patience, but it is an important lesson to learn and continue to do as much as you need to♥. What good does it do anyone to hold onto stress and stressful times in life? There is no use, and it does nothing good for anyone. Stress has often been viewed as a silent killer, and even though I tend to keep myself under constant stress and it has not killed me yet, it could shorten my life drastically. Over the years, I have gotten better at controlling my stress because I know it is unhealthy and causes additional problems with Multiple Sclerosis, but I have not mastered this art yet♥! I think the truth is that we all have faults that we are constantly working to improve on during our lives.
Now that the week is coming to an end, do you have any plans for the holiday weekend? From what I know at this moment, we do not have any plans for the weekend. My husband works on New Year’s Day, so we will probably take it easy this weekend and might have a mini celebration at home with the two of us and our cats😊! I think we are getting too old to go out to celebrate the New Year, and things get a little too hectic for my taste. I am also still recovering from whatever made me feel so awful for a few days, and I want to ensure that I am 100% so we can go on the snowboard birthday vacation for my husband♥. I prefer not to risk feeling bad during his birthday celebration.
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I hope you enjoyed what I have shared, and I look forward to reading your comments. I will respond to all comments as quickly as I can. I do have a few ideas and things I want to write about and plan to try getting the posts completed soon, but please bear with me because if I start feeling awful again, it might take me a little longer than expected. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
When unplanned and unexpected things happen, it may throw our plans off balance. It may take more time to understand how we want to proceed and what changes we want to implement, and nothing is wrong with this. When making decisions involving our lives, this should not be something we rush or take lightly. There is no set-in-stone timeline for the big decisions, and any ideas that come to mind should be considered. It may include acknowledging the positive and negative aspects, the rewards and demands, and the likeliness of successes and failures. Any life-changing decision requires entering a new journey with an open and optimistic mind or you are setting yourself up for disappointments.
Although it was painful when I lost my job on November 13th, and I dealt with several disappointing job scams, this might have been a blessing in disguise. It took me over a month, but I decided to throw caution to the winds and embark on a slightly different pathway. I have enrolled in a medical coding program and purchased the books required. The class is a six-week program, which will begin on January 17th. The reason I said this is a slightly different path is because many years ago, I was going to start the nursing program, but I had a terrible MS flare-up, and it scared me to the point of changing my major. Even though it was many years ago, I took medical terminology and worked in the medical field for ten years, so I feel the basic information will return to me quickly. The funny thing is, I almost enrolled in this class sooner because the program was being offered in the middle of December, but my mind was still spiraling out of control with what I was going through.
While at this moment, I am excited and nervous about this new adventure in my life, I am thankful for the opportunity and support from my family. Since the day I lost my job, my husband has been my rock and held me up through tears and sadness. He has constantly been supportive, understanding, encouraging, and pushing me to take my time with my job search. The decision to go for the medical coding program was a group effort because, without the support from my husband, I might not be moving forward with the program. I told him I would continue looking for another job, but he told me I just needed to focus attention on the class and wait until I passed the test to get a job.
I have always known life is short, but the past several weeks solidified something important in my mind. A life without taking risks, we would never know what we could have accomplished. Anytime we settle for something in our life, we are not getting as much from life as we deserve and could have. If we are not getting as much from this short life, are we truly living our best life? Changes and taking risks may push us forward into something exciting and fulfilling. The bottom line is I thought my life would never be the same, and losing my job was leading me down a terrible and dark avenue, but I could not have been more wrong. Now, I find this was, in a sense, the best thing that could have happened to me because it pushed me to do something new that I had thought about many times before.
Looking back at the job I lost, I feel my placement there was not supposed to be a permanent place. The job provided what I needed temporarily and taught me more about trusting my instincts. Although the job did not provide me with what I was destined for, it did give me a handful of friends I will always treasure. You can learn a lot about a person’s character by seeing how they interact with you one-on-one via email, messaging, and phone calls and how they act in a group setting. Those who have your back when you are not around and, in the meetings, and those who would trash talk and stab you in the back to get ahead and make themselves look better.
I wasted too much precious time feeling sad, hurt, angry, and disappointed when I lost my job, and now I feel relieved and thankful. Honestly, I was not happy with the job. We should always strive for improvements and advancements in every aspect of life, and I felt none of this was possible. I cared deeply for my previous supervisor, and even though I disagreed with how things ended, I still think she is a lovely lady. Of course, it did take me over a month to feel this way, but I know the kind of person she is on a personal level. Not only did I care about her, but I also had a great deal of trust in her.
Throughout our lives, we may encounter challenging hurdles to overcome, and each of them will provide different experiences that lead to further strength and resilience. Anytime one door closes, even when the door is slammed and locked, another door will open and could lead you toward better days. Unplanned and drastic changes can cause you to fall into a rut, but this is when we must force ourselves to climb out and never give up hope. It is crucial in life to NEVER give up and surrender to hard times. Once we overcome those hard times, they will give us confidence and a powerful strength that will surpass any other challenges in life.
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I know it has been a few days since I made a post, but with Christmas and not feeling well, I have not had the energy. For some reason, I started feeling bad on Christmas night. It started with a headache and neck ache, but then I had a sore throat as well. I am hoping it is just a cold and will be gone soon, but who knows? I think I can rule out COVID because I am rarely around people besides my husband, and he leaves the house less than I do. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I look forward to reading your comments and I will respond as quickly as possible. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
As the Christmas holiday approaches at warp speed, we should try taking a few moments to reflect and remember loved ones still present, and others who passed away. What do you remember most about this holiday? Can you recall your excitement as a child waiting for Santa Claus? How would you describe the meaning of Christmas now? Many little ones tried all year to make it on Santa’s list, hoping everything they asked Santa for would be under the tree on Christmas morning. Before life as an adult with stress and responsibilities, we were those children with astonishment and excitement. Many children are so excited for a visit from Santa Claus, that they wait as long as possible to hear his sleigh bells before collapsing with exhaustion.
Who hears the Christmas wishes for the millions of homeless, abused, and neglected children? What would these innocent children wish for at this time of year? Children should never live in fear, without a warm bed to sleep in, without safety from neglect and violence, without food, or anything else many people take for granted. While many children wish and ask Santa Claus for the latest toys, the less fortunate may only ask for love, food, and a safe home. At the end of 2023, in the United States, it was reported a staggering 2.5 million children become homeless each year. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, does homelessness continue to increase at rapid rates?
When was the last time you thought about the magic of Christmas? Do you remember being excited about Santa Claus coming and leaving milk and cookies for him? I am sure there once was a time when I believed Santa Claus was the one who left presents under the tree. Of course, even as a little girl, it did creep me out that a strange man would come into my home late at night while I was sleeping. I could not understand how he got inside when we did not have a fireplace, but all my friends believed this, and I went along with it.
As adults, we no longer ask Santa Claus for things we want because we know better now. Christmas is a magical time to spend with loved ones and enjoy seeing children’s faces light up on Christmas morning because they think Santa came. Many people, not only in the United States, continue struggling due to various unplanned reasons and have also forgotten what Christmas used to be and should still be. This holiday should be more than a meaningless consumer-filled time. Instead of thinking about the wants, many more musts are circling the lives and well-being of others. Unfortunately, there is an increasing and unrelenting escalation in the number of people suffering.
I wish I had thought about this earlier than three days before Christmas, but instead of spending ludicrous amounts of money on everyone, we should put some of the money we would typically spend on those who have plenty and spend some on those in need. Nothing is impossible, but it might be hard for people to decide where to donate money or what they want to do for those in need. If it is not possible this year, it can be food for thought next year or just anytime during the year to decide to help others. It is not to get praise or recognition but to help another person in need.
Thank you for stopping by my site today. This Christmas post was not the most positive, but I was being honest about the challenges. Yes, this time of year is supposed to be joyful, but struggles and hardships can cloud our perspectives, causing situations to seem darker than necessary. Hard times happen in everyone’s life and can skew our logical thoughts, which may cause emotional overload. I appreciate you reading this post, and I would love to know what you think in the comments. I will respond to comments as quickly as I can. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Happy First Day of Winter! Considering I live in the South, most people do not enjoy the winter months and do not appreciate snow! Of course, even though people do not appreciate the snow, it rarely snows in the South and is not the proper equipment to clean the roads. Growing up in a Northern state, I understand and appreciate the snow and miss it at certain times. Over the past few days, temperatures have been dropping, but then go back and forth, which is a little frustrating. This is why I have often said that Mother Nature is temperamental and finicky. Even though it is officially winter, there still will not be snow on the ground for Christmas☹.
As I said, today is the first day of Winter, but it is also Friday Eve! I hope you have had a good week, and you are ready for the Christmas holiday in a few days. I cannot believe Christmas is on Monday♥. I am unsure where the year has gone because it does not feel like we should be approaching Christmas already! To think, 2023 will be over soon as well. The year ending soon is not the worst news I have heard recently. The year did not begin too terribly, but it went downhill fast! I look forward to a new year and hope it will be better than the past few years because they have been undesirable. I think one thing I am looking forward to the most is the end of all the political nonsense and pathetic drama, and of course, it will not happen immediately!
Do you enjoy the wintertime? If you do not like the winter months, which season is your favorite? My favorite season has always been Autumn because the weather is as perfect as it gets. It is not too hot or too cold😊! I think everything looks beautiful in Autumn, especially if you can see the leaves changing colors. Of course, everyone has a different favorite season, and they have their reasons! Summer has always been too hot for my liking unless I am at the beach, which is my favorite place!
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I hope you enjoyed what I shared, and I hope to read your comments. I will respond to comments as quickly as possible. I have been struggling to finish a few posts because I have been feeling fatigued and drained, which is probably due to the emotional roller coaster I have been on. I am going to try finishing at least one of the many I have started soon! Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Happy Tuesday! How is your week going so far? Christmas is getting close, but is everyone ready for this holiday? All I can say is that I am not ready, and yet I am ready for it to be over. I mentioned last week that I was having car trouble, and my car was towed to the car fixer place yesterday. I had known for over a month there was something not right about the car, but I was not entirely ready for the cost to fix it. When things got worse with it, I did expect the worst, so the news I got was better than what I expected. It is still a little high of a bill. I have already felt extremely stressed; this news made things a little more stressful. The good news is that the issue is repairable.
How do you handle stress? Is there anything that helps to relieve stress for you? Not too much can help me manage my stress, and music helps me release raw emotions. I am not a musician, but I am a music lover♥. I can feel the emotion felt as the writer wrote the song, and I relate to the emotion through my experiences. I am not saying my life is a written song, but sometimes it feels like it could have been. Life can be a struggle, but there are numerous ways to survive our struggles. There are so many songs that I will play on repeat because it helps me realize nothing can hold us back if we have enough strength and determination. When we feel like life is drowning us, we sometimes need a life preserver and be found in a song!
Thank you for visiting my site today. I hope you enjoyed what I have shared, and it resonated with you. Unfortunately, it does not matter what time of year it is because hard times can still happen. I am thankful for the support system♥ I have because, without that, I am not sure where I would be right now. We all need a support system because life is difficult and painful. With all the stress I have been under recently, it has created issues with Multiple Sclerosis, but it could have been much worse. At this time, I am looking forward to the brighter and better days, and I know they will return. I look forward to reading your comments and will respond as quickly as possible. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Happy Monday, y’all! I hope you had a lovely weekend. Can you believe that Christmas is one week away? I might have figured out why it is hard for me to get into the Christmas spirit. Since I moved from Vermont, where we always had snow on Christmas, to the southern part of the country, where there is rarely snow ever, nevertheless on Christmas, I have always just dreamed of a white Christmas. It was emotionally challenging my first Christmas in the South, and it never gets easier. I guess it is one thing that has always been missing, and until we get out of the South, always will be missing☹. I know it sounds trivial and not important, but for me, it makes getting into the holiday spirit nearly impossible.
There are many other reasons why I am ready for Christmas to be done and over. I know I sound like Scrooge, and many people love this holiday. There are so many loved ones who have passed away and will be dearly missed. Other loved ones are at a distance and will be missed as well♥. Not to mention, I am still looking for a job, and I have been unemployed for way too long. I do not do well with the job situation where some might be enjoying the time without a job. The holidays are supposed to be happy and filled with love, but too many things have gone wrong over the past month. All I want for Christmas is for there to be snow on the ground and to have a job. That is not asking for too much, right?
How do you typically spend the holidays? Do you have a family tradition, or do your plans change yearly? I tend to be a perfectionist and always want things to be perfect, but that is nearly impossible. What is perfect anyway? I do not think it is a real thing in this world. The only important thing is to do what makes us happy and spread as much love as possible at the end of the day; love♥ is the most important thing in life! Regardless of if perfection is possible or not, what is your perfect view of Christmas? I am pretty easy to please and all I want is a white Christmas and to have a new job to start!
Thank you for visiting my site today. I hope you have a wonderful day, and your week is filled with happiness and beauty. The year has gone by so quickly because once we are through Christmas, it will be New Years. It does feel like 2023 just started, but let’s hope that 2024 is even better. I am looking forward to reading your comments, and I will respond as quickly as possible. Although this post was a little different than I normally do on Monday, I hope you enjoyed it. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Happy Friday😊! I hope you have had a good week. I do not mean to sound so cynical and negative, but I have a few questions that I hope someone can answer so that I can understand better. How can people sleep at night after they have been dishonest and outright mean? How can anyone feel good about themselves playing games with scams and another person’s life? How can people set others up for failure and then take away something important to another person? What has happened to the checks and balances in the corporate world when you get praise only to end up losing your job? These are questions that have been running around in my head for the past month and have caused me many sleep disturbances. I do not understand why so many people have become so insensitive and slightly cold. How do you get past issues of corruption and dishonesty when you have encountered numerous scams and cold-hearted people?
After so many disappointments and challenging times, it gets difficult to remain optimistic and maintain a caring heart, but I think this makes many people stand out from the rest of the world. Through all the many challenges we face in life, it is crucial to remember that life goes on, and we cannot allow anything to stand in our way of a successful and happy life. We are in charge of our lives, and no other person can change the path of our lives, the only person that stands in the way is the person we see in the mirror. Should any person have the power to stop us? Absolutely, NOT because we are too strong and determined for this nonsense. We need to never forget that this is our life, and we have the power to make this life be anything we want it to be!
Now that the week is over and the weekend is here, do you have anything planned? The only thing I have planned is hopefully, get my truck back to working. That will be one small problem on my mind, and that will lessen my stress, at least I hope it will! I recently told my mother that if one more person told me to relax and everything would work out with the job issue, I was going to scream so loud she would hear me 1,200 miles away. Logically, I know things will work out, but when people continue to tell me to relax, it makes me more stressed. My husband told me to take this time to work on my blog and other writing I decided to do, but that is easier said than done.
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I hope you had a good week and that you have a wonderful weekend. I hope you enjoyed what I shared today, and it helps you to let go of any negative emotions you have before the short weekend begins. I look forward to reading your comments and as always, I will respond as quickly as I can. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Happy Friday eve, y’all! I hope you have had a good week😊! Not having a job makes the days all feel the same, so the weekends are not as exciting to me, but things will get back to normal sooner rather than later. Has anything exciting happened to you this week, and is there anything you are looking forward to for the weekend? Nothing new has happened to me this week, and I am still on the hunt for a job. Looking for a job daily is almost like a full-time job, but without the pay. The only thing that is different lately is I feel overly exhausted daily, and it does not make sense as it is not like I am working 8 hours a day. I still get up at the same time, but I also do not go to sleep at a good time. My best guess is that the excessive fatigue is due to stress, but I am typically a walking stress case anyway 😉!
Even though my days all feel the same, everyone could still benefit from a pick-me-up today to help you through the last day of the week! The road to life can change without notice, and people may cut you off along the way, so stay aware and keep on track because verging off course can have catastrophic consequences. We will never be able to control what others do, but we can stay focused on the road ahead of us. It is okay to make a few wrong turns. Try to remain open-minded and keep your eyes open. Ignore the traffic jams because they will always happen, and they are unavoidable. No matter what happens, try not to get discouraged, and the roads will clear ahead!
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I hope you enjoyed this shorter post, and the quote had some meaning for you, as it had a lot of meaning for me. The week is almost over, and the weekend is coming, so I hope whatever you have planned for the weekend is what makes you happy😊! I look forward to reading your comments and I will respond as quickly as I can. Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love♥, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
Emotions are powerful and can continue to bubble up, especially if you attempt to suppress them. They will grow and strengthen with every breath you take and remain undeterred regardless of the setbacks we encounter. Life has a way to test our strength and resilience more frequently than we would prefer. Often, we have not overcome one major obstacle when another one emerges. How do you overcome a massive obstacle that left you breathless and in shock? What do you do when you are still spiraling from one blow, and then you get hit with a left hook knockout that you did not see coming? It can be impossible to dodge every hit in life because most of the time, the hits keep coming without a break because that is just how life rolls.
Many people will get consumed with aspects of life that, at the end of the day, do not matter as much as they thought. Is this a way to avoid the important parts of life we cannot control? Or is this a way to get lost in trivial and meaningless nonsense, such as the latest celebrity drama? Life is not easy, and we all need a healthy escape, and to be able to hold onto our sanity. When people do not have a hobby that keeps their minds entertained and focused on something positive, what is the point of life? Does anyone enjoy being stressed and upset about something on the news that much?
I used to think that the old saying when it rains, it pours was very cliche, but I am starting to see the truth in the saying. I lost my job one month ago, and it was not easy as I do not feel it was right or deserved. I cried too many tears and was overly stressed, and I did not know where to go next. I think the tears cried were more from anger, not sadness, but the tears fall the same. With Christmas around the corner, another challenge occurred yesterday and scared the daylight out of me. Our only vehicle that was running started to misbehave and damn near pulled me off the road. Thankfully, I am a good driver and know my abilities, even if I do not always follow the speed limit perfectly😊! The vehicle situation was the second within one month and hopefully the last for at least another month OR longer!
Thank you for stopping by my site today. I hope you have had a good week so far and that you enjoyed what I shared today. I would love to read about your thoughts on this post and I will respond to you as quickly as possible. Look on the bright side, we are done with the first half of this week, so the second half will be a walk in the park😊! Please never forget I am always sending y’all LOTS of love, comfort, support, and MANY positive vibes!
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