Think The Happy Thoughts

This Blog Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Bridge-O — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:50:56 +0000

It Lives Here …

http://www.mylifedisrupted.com

Yay! Come visit it!

Ch Ch Changes

Bridge-O — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:00:11 +0000

The other day a very nice person sent me this email:

“I just thought I would tell you that your current profile picture (she’s talking about my current Facebook picture) captures you perfectly — happy. You look radiant and it’s simply a lovely photo.

I so enjoy reading your blog & hope that you’ll continue writing (get going on your book too!) it. Few people have the courage to reveal themselves as honestly and as brutally as you have. With so many phony people around these days, it’s nice to see someone who is the real deal & is a can-do/make-happen person. Double high-fives to you.”

Yay. Thank you! She’s so right about that profile picture. I am so happy and feel so radiant and I’m glad people can see it on my face!

I replied and thanked her of course, and in my response I told her that I really enjoyed the blog and it’s sorta like the scrapbook of my mind, all my thoughts and feelings … good and bad … out there for anyone to read. Well, truthfully, what’s out there is only what I want anyone to read. But mostly it’s whatever goes on in this brain of mine when I feel like sharing.

My response had me thinking that I should maybe do a little more to have the blog be better. I hate being tied to a WordPress URL and would prefer my own, and I want it to be more scrapbook-y and have more pages and bla bla bla. So of course I’ve gone right out and switched things up. Yay Yay Yay!

Meet Bridge-o’s new blog: http://www.mylifedisrupted.com

I love it! It’s still a little bit of a work in progress though, and I might change the look of it. Yayness! I probably won’t blog here anymore so if you’re a follower, start hitting the new blog whenever you’re ready.

Speaking of changes. What a great week I just had. Actually, I have to say, we’re only 8 days into the new year and so far it has been fantastic! I think I’ve already done more, seen more, laughed more, smiled more in these 8 days than I did for the first few months of 2010.

Anyway. Today’s Groupon for NYC was a FLYING LESSON and of course I have signed right up for that! Cannot wait and it’s something I’ve ALWAYS wanted to learn how to do … even though I was super afraid of flying (a fear I’ve almost overcome actually.) Woop woop. I’m so excited to do this, and to strike something off my bucket list. Don’t you just love life??!?

God I love delivery. I just ordered $43 worth of food for dinner and I cannot wait to scarf every bit of it down!

Tiger Rain

Bridge-O — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:36:59 +0000

“Her umbrella was filled with rain she collected on her travels & on hot summer days she would open it up & it would smell of places we had never seen like Nairobi & Tasmania & we would sit on the porch till dusk & watch for tigers in the bushes.”

Kindred Spirits

Bridge-O — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:44:49 +0000

“You’re the strangest person I ever met, she said, and I said you too and we decided we’d know each other a long time.”

The Wild and The Tame

Bridge-O — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:44:36 +0000

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”

– Jeanette Winterson

10 Days of Self-Love

Bridge-O — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:01:02 +0000

Not THAT kind of self-love, people! Sheesh!

I started thinking today, as I was walking back from an acupuncture session and massage, that I have pretty much spoiled myself rotten during my Christmas Vacation. I’m pretty good about pampering myself from time to time. I learned after my Mom died how important it is to do things for myself that make me feel good. I get massages at least once or twice a month, I get regular manicures and pedicures too. Neither of those are about LOOKING good. They’re about FEELING good, and making sure I GIVE to myself.

Anyway. As I was saying, I started thinking about the pampering I’ve done for myself over the last 10 days, and the list got pretty long:

Christmas Eve – Haircut
Christmas Day – Made sure to spend time with my sister and take care of US that day.
Monday – Grocery shopped and that night made a Prime Rib Roast and had a romantic dinner with myself. Also went for long walk in the falling snow. Beautiful!
Tuesday after Christmas – Massage and Facial (at two different places)
Wednesday – All of my brand new Crate and Barrel bedroom furniture came. A beautiful gift to myself!
Thursday – Woke up early and brought my car to the dealership where it stayed all day getting taken care of (new brakes, new tires, 40K maintenance)
New Year’s Eve Day – Manicure
New Year’s Eve Night – Dinner with friends then out and about for a great NYE!
Yesterday – Long walk in the warm air!
Today – Acupuncture and Massage

Clearly, I’m the most beautiful I’ve ever been at this point! I also almost bought myself THE CUTEST puppy on earth who literally looked like a teddy bear. I talked myself out of that gift though. Or have I? Ohhhh I don’t know what to do!!!

All my days were sprinkled with trips to the gym or the jacuzzi and cookies. I ate a lot of junk food. I read. I treated myself to Red Lobster (it’s one of my favorite restaurants, what I can I say?), I spent time with my friends, I wrote in my journal, I saw two movies (Little Fockers, How Do You Know?) in the theater and at home I saw Twilight: Eclipse (and wasted 2 hours of my life), I played XBox and Scrabble, I took great bubble baths with new soap and bubbles.

I dunno what else I did, but it’s a good, long, self-loving list! It’s been a great, relaxing, stress-free, quiet time but I’m ready to go back to work and back into reality. Reality is GOOD. However, I won’t say no to the extra day off I have tomorrow!

They say what you do on New Year’s Eve and how you spend your first days of the new year are an indication about how the rest of your year will go so I believe I’m in for one hell of a new year, and I cannot WAIT to see how it unfolds. Cannot wait cannot wait cannot wait!

Self-love, people. It’s important. Love YOURSELF MORE than ANYONE would EVER LOVE YOU.

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Now go get a massage!

Resolutions? No Thanks.

Bridge-O — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:43:10 +0000

A couple weeks ago I was at a Holiday lunch with a bunch of people from work. One of the women I worked with asked the table what everyone’s New Year’s resolutions were, and I immediately spoke up and said I had NONE and that I was so perfectly happy and content and at peace with my life that I didn’t feel the need to change it. Everyone loved my answer and they raised their glasses and cheered.

And I really just don’t feel the need this year to sit around, pick apart my life, and come up with a list of things I think need changing. Instead I’d rather sit around and think of the things that are positive in my life.

That, of course, doesn’t mean that there aren’t things I want to do and accomplish in 2011. I already signed up for a boxing class. Woot woot! It just means that I think people focus too much on the negative in their life on this day instead of seeing the positive. When you concentrate and put your energies into positive things, more of them will come to you. Same goes for the negative. So I ain’t gonna sit around today and bang out some list of negatives that I need to work on next year to become a so-called better person.

I already am a better person! And if I had to name one resolution today it would simply be to stay on this amazing new path I’ve carved out for myself continuing to smile every day, be happy every day, be thankful every day and to keep putting myself FIRST.

That pretty much guarantees me a spectacular 2011 decorated with all the bells and whistles it could possibly hold.

2010 – You were a whirlwind of changes for me. I thank you for every agonizing, sad, broken-hearted, frustrated, happy, alive, enlightening, breath-taking moment you gave me. THANK YOU for every second. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. You actually WERE a great year!

“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”

You’ll Get Over It

Bridge-O — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:14:58 +0000

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

– Jeanette Winterson

I’ve Got The Gift of Goodbye

Bridge-O — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:28:18 +0000

Somebody gave me this a long, long time ago. And I deserved to get it, too. That somebody learned her gift of goodbye, and rightly so. I whip it out from time to time and read it … especially when I’m needing to let something go. I’ve also learned the gift of goodbye. And it’s a good gift … not only for me, but the people I share it with. As a new year approaches I thought I’d share this around. It’s important to learn the gift of goodbye in life so that you don’t constantly hold on to things that serve you no purpose and don’t make you happy … whatever those things are … people, places or things.

When you learn to put YOU first and say goodbye to negative things, you only open yourself up for the GOOD to come in.

Enter into the new year full of nothing but GOOD and let the past stay where it belongs. A new year is waiting. What will you do with it?

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There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this!  When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you,  loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you,  staying attached to you.  I mean, hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk.  Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

People leave you because they are not joined to you.  And if they are not joined to you,  you can’t make them stay.  Let them go …

And it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person,  it just means that their part in the story is over.  And you’ve got to know when people’s  part in your story is over so that you  don’t keep trying to raise the dead.

You’ve got to know when it’s dead.  You’ve got to know when it’s over.

Let me tell you something . I’ve got the gift of goodbye.  It’s the tenth spiritual gift,  I believe in goodbye.

It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful,  and I know whatever god means for me to have he’ll give it to me.  And if it takes too much sweat, I don’t need it.  Stop begging people to stay.  Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn’t belong to you and was never intended for your life,  then you need to … LET IT GO!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains …  LET IT GO!!!
If someone can’t treat you right, love you back, and see your worth …  LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you …  LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge …  LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction …  LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or  talents …  LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude …  LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better …  LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship … LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help themselves … LET IT GO!!!
If you’re feeling depressed and stressed … LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying “take your hands off of it,” then you need to … LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things.

LET IT GO!!!

Get Right or Get Left … think about it, and then …

LET IT GO!!!

– By T. D. Jakes

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

– Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor and producer.

Weight Training

Bridge-O — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:46:10 +0000

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you’ll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that’s exactly what you want to do most & then it won’t weigh a thing anymore.”