Hello November!

What a beautiful day it was in the Coachella Valley today! Crisp air, breathtaking blue skies, stunning white clouds that were gradually pushed along by dark, rain soaked grey ones.  The perfect day would have brought with it steady showers; perhaps tomorrow.

This month goals and challenges will test my resolve.  October 29, 2012 was the beginning of our family's period of restoration, where we still find ourselves today.  It's a process, and time will tell when this reality gives way to healing, then peace.  Everyday for the past two years  acceptance has been my focus; perseverance my intent, with gratitude guiding me along.  It's a challenge, one that I gladly accept.

Meeting goals that I've set for myself has not been an easy task, but I do make an effort, especially if these goals bring much needed diversion and contentment.  Reinventing my life will take some courage, and I'll have to dig deep to recover my sense of adventure that saw me through my younger years.  This I also gladly welcome.

Establishing some semblance of normalcy again will be tricky as children each decide when the perfect right time to venture out on their own comes.  One daughter has already mentioned her intent to remain in area of the country where she is currently enrolled in college.  Hopeful this will not be too arduous when our eldest and youngest prepare to break away, and that my husband and I can gracefully accept that this is simply a part of life

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November Program:

• Participate in NaBloPoMo by committing to write a daily blog post.
• Make concerted effort to sort out The Place in preparation for holidays.
• Commit to keep up with daily fitness plan.
• Enjoy this season of gratitude and togetherness, and make best effort to spend more time with loved ones.

That's November 2014 in a nutshell.  Hope you will check in often.

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Below is my tiny effort to reverse effect stemming from my contribution made into the disappearance of all the mixed candy bags that I brought home leading up to Halloween.  None of which lasted anywhere near October 31st.

This Is Fifty With Lil Fitness Challenge
Ain't No Turkey Progress:  
Day  1:  11:58 pm; 30 second wall sits!  Whoa.
Day  2:  10:30 pm; 30 second wall sits.  Ouch.
Day  3:  11:53 pm; 46 seconds - wall sits.  Whew.
Day  4:  5 hours standing at Britannias red carpet event.
Day  5:  11:15 pm; 30 second wall sits. Wow!
Day  6:  11:57 pm; 30 second wall sits... long day.
Day  7:

Click here to view enlarged chart.

One of my favorite online catalogs is Title Nine, and I found out on Twitter that Ain’t No Turkey 30 Day Strength Challenge is underway, and I'm doing it... in the beginner category, of course.  Here's a little more information from Time Out With Title Nine blog:

• For a PDF of the above chart, please click here.
• Hashtag your progress using #AintNoTurkey, and share your story and photos on their blog.

Fun, right?  Let's do this.  Two minutes... here I go!

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Che Cosa?

Plans, meet window.

Che cosa?

I'm distracted; discovered this today...

 Questo... this. Quello... that.  Fa bene!  Shhhh, I'm learning.

Thanks, wiktionary.org, Fluenz on You Tube  fluenz.com, and translate.google.com

Oh, and special thanks to Mel Ford for her brilliant prompt suggestion for today:  Tuesday, August 5, 2014 ~ Are you good at learning languages or memorizing facts?

Answer: No

So, if you will now excuse me... Questo... this. Quello... that.

Fa bene!

Image: pinterest.com printables & graphics Dollar Downloads

Ciao!

Until tomorrow ~ Lil

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This post is written for Day 4 ~ Creating Memories with August 2014 NaBloPoMo

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Where's the Dictionary?

CREATE MEMORIES

 The theme for NaBloPoMo August 2014 is MNEMONIC. I have to be honest here, I've no idea what the word means, much less how it is pronounced. Time to get educated.  Who's with me!?

I'll join up with you later because it's 1:20 am and I still have stuff to do before turning in. Be back in a few.

In the mean time

Please enjoy my recent vlog:

THIS IS FIFTY

Five On Friday

for

August 1, 2014

Best thing about tonight’s THIS IS FIFTY Five On Friday vlog:

This thumbnail of me. 

Now, back to MNEMONICS.  According to my source, Oxford Dictionaries, it's meaning could not be more simply defined, "The study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory."

So, let's start with the basics...days of the week.  Two people I know thought for sure today was Saturday. Alas, it is not. Sadly, for one of those individuals, they still have to be up early tomorrow morning for work... bummer, son. My mom has a standard monthly calendar posted in her kitchen in plain sight. How neither of these "kids" knew what today was boggles the mind. My son's calendar is posted as one exits the front door, for goodness sake. I don't use a desk or wall calendar, my phone has one, so I pretty much rely on that to keep me posted.  Currently, I'm kept on track because I administer my mom's daily medication. She has this giant segmented pill sorter that I fill up with a week's supply of meds. I have to go over tomorrow, to drop off her Sunday through Saturday supply.

Now, how easy is it these days to help keep track of the days of the week when there is no paper calendar at hand? Super easy.  We have calendars on our phones, date on t.v. guides, almost every site you visit on the internet has the current date (I think), not to mention the bottom right corner of the computer (on mine anyway), and for some of us, even on our watches (if the battery hasn't gone dead, like mine has). Easy, right?

I'm glad I had NaBloPoMo for July 2014 to help me keep track of the days last month. Participating in NaBloPoMo for August may have me bringing out my much unused daily-planner, and that's a good thing.

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Can't help but be reminded of this at the moment..
Courtesy of OriginalScoreMusic.

Oh! I just remembered, 11:25... time to take my meds. Mustn't forget to do that!

Until tomorrow ~ Lil

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This post is written for Day 1 ~ Creating Memories with August 2014 NaBloPoMo

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