It's the Most Wonderful Week of the Year

I am so excited for this week. It is going to be a busy week but I am looking forward to it. It started out with a very fun family party. It was with the extended family on my mom's side. We had great food, fun games and karoake. I heard Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Jingle Bells about 20 times. I sang each twice with several of the young children just to help them out. Then I sang with some of the adults. We sang the longest version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas and the Nat King Cole version of The Christmas Song. Good times!

Tonight is my one night without an event so it is Christmas present wrapping night. I am glad I only have a few presents to wrap.


I love this time of year! Up next two nights of birthday celebrations, dinner and a movie and Christmas. I know I have something on Thursday too but I can't remember what it is at the moment. Whatever it is it will be fun.

Back in Time

I am living in the past right now. I found several of my old favorite TV shows on Netflix. Last week it was Charles in Charge and Kate and Allie. This week it's Gimme a Break. It has been fun watching these old shows. What were your favorite shows growing up?

Life List

I started reading a book in December called Creating Your Best Life-The Ultimate Life List Guide. It is similar to creating a Bucket List of things you want to do before you die. But it goes beyond that by creating lists that help make your life more joyful, proactive and accomplished.

One of the first "Homework" assignments in the book is to create your first 100 things you want to accomplish in your Life. I am up to 82 and I have already accomplished 9 of these Life List items. I completed 5 in one weekend.

1. Make a Gingerbread house
2. Go to a Major League baseball game
3. See the original Declaration of Independence
4. See the National Mall in Washington DC
5. Visit the Smithsonian in Washington DC (Only saw 2 of the museums but I have visited it.)
6. Visit Gettysburg
7. Visit Promontory Point
8. Roast a Hot Dog over an open fire
9. Get my Passport and schedule a vacation out of the United States

It has been fun creating the list and of course it will be fun completing my Life List items.

My Day in Numbers

387 unread emails in my Inbox at work.

7 number of times I was interrupted while trying to eat my lunch at work today.

812 unread emails in my Inbox at home.

26 The number of DVDs sitting on my TV cabinet waiting to be put back on their shelf.

338 The number of pictures on my Memory card in my camera that need to be printed.

11 The number of dishes/Pans sitting in my sink waiting to be put in the dishwasher.

5 Pieces of Junk Mail I received in my mailbox.

4 Number of phone calls I received that were for the former owner of my land line number.

Ten Minutes

I am learning the Art of Meditation. Today I had 10 minutes left on my lunch break so I decided to just sit and meditate in my car before going back in the building. The morning had been very hectic and noisy so I was glad to have some quiet time. I set my alarm on my cell phone for 10 minutes and closed my eyes. I had a hard time clearing my mind of work items but soon my mind was clear and I just relaxed. It was wonderful. However, I started to get antsy and since it felt like 10 minutes had passed I wondered if my cell alarm had been set wrong. I opened my eyes to check and was shocked to see that only 3 minutes had passed. Time apparently slows down when you are not busy.

Find My Zen in 2010

This is my theme for the year. Each year I like to come up with a theme for the year and yes it has to rhyme with the name of the year. It was hard coming up with a theme for 2010. There are not very many rhyming words for ten. My first thought was Let's Try Again in 201o. 2009 was a tough year so it would have worked. Then I came up with Zen. Since one of my resolutions is to find more peace and more energy this year I thought it fit quite well.