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PAD 1/5/2013 – First Lines of Favorite Books

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Post a Day for 1/5/13:

“Take the first sentence from your favorite book and make it the first sentence of your post.”

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“A blur of rushing images ‘Begin at the beginning’ is the phrase.”

And this is how my favorite book of all time starts. That book is “What Dreams May Come” and I’ve been in love ever since I first read it years ago. The movie version was good, but I found the deleted ending to be better.

Sometimes I think that the first line is a great place to start. Especially these days since I’ve been moving my old LiveJournal post entires into my Day One archive one at a time. The key phrase is all about a blur of rushing images. There are bits of my past that I’ve forgotten about for a very long time and now that I’ve uncorked them and browsing them they all tend to flow back over me like a blur of rushing images.

I still have eight hundred entries left to move over into Day One. After that, then maybe more trips down memory lane. There was a lot of material and much of it I’ll never share with anyone, but out of all of it, perhaps there will be something.

Post-a-Day 1/3/12 & 1/4/13

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The post-a-day prompt for yesterday was meaningless to me:

What’s the 11th item on your bucket list?

I don’t even have a bucket list. Why could have been on it? A trip to Paris, but I’ve done that twice now. How about investigating my ancestors? Doing that currently with other family members using Ancestry.com. Reconnect with my brother? Yeah, accomplished that too. Really why do you even need a bucket list if you are determined to enjoy your life while you have it? Live without regret. Live without guilt. LIVE.

Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?

It’s attributed to Dr. Seuss: “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

It’s been on the top of the charts since I discovered it a long time ago. It speaks directly to how I feel about much of my life. Either you like me and what I say or you don’t. I live my life without regret, guilt, or apology. As I’ve been fond of saying, if you don’t like what I say there is nothing keeping you chained to me. You can go away; My feelings are made of sterner stuff.

Post-a-Day 1/2/13 – Resolutionistas

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Daily Prompt: Resolved | The Daily Post.

Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution that you kept?

I have been quite successful in losing a lot of weight, but I didn’t really start it as a resolution. It just started when I made up my mind and took a very long while to accomplish. I went from about 300 at my heaviest to about 230 where I am now. My goal is to reach 200, but that’s taking far longer than even the first seventy pounds did to lose.

There have been other resolutions, but again, they were made because I was very tired with living some other way and just decided to change. One of the only other things I did was to stop biting my fingernails. Once I did that, they started to grow in nicely and I no longer have to hide my fingertips and be embarrassed.

I’ve found that resolutions can be made anytime and to stick to them, all you need is an effort of willpower and to make up your mind. Not waffling around helps a lot, and not backsliding into old habits.

Post-a-Day January 1st 2013

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Post-a-Day 1/1/13: Where were you last night when 2012 turned into 2013? Is that where you’d wanted to be?

On New Years Eve I was with my partners family enjoying the ball-drop festivities in NYC. It’s always very entertaining seeing how Eastern Time is the most ‘official’ time zone the is, or at least it seems to be. There is an inside joke about how important New Years is for Central Time Zone people.

So with a new year comes the new year resoutionistas. Which means that the Anytime Fitness in Kalamaoo, when I get back will be mobbed to the rafters by these people. It’s not too bad that they come in, but what is bad is they don’t keep it going any longer than they do.