Comments on: Rocking the Sunshine Spirit Year Round http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8426 Karen Swim Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:18:16 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8426 Wow Charlane, I am not sure I could do it. Even living in MI I had to adjust to the long daylight hours in summer. Well, I saw your recommendation of Goodreads so I'll be looking for lots of good reviews from you. :-) Wow Charlane, I am not sure I could do it. Even living in MI I had to adjust to the long daylight hours in summer. Well, I saw your recommendation of Goodreads so I’ll be looking for lots of good reviews from you. :-)

]]> By: Charlane Brady http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8415 Charlane Brady Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:28:18 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8415 The constant day light this summer was much harder to adjust to than the darkness in the winter. It was extremely hard to sleep even after making it dark inside my home. My mind kept wanting to keep thinking and my body wanted to keep busy. I am hoping that next summer will be easier. Right now we are starting to get more darkness each day now. :) The constant day light this summer was much harder to adjust to than the darkness in the winter. It was extremely hard to sleep even after making it dark inside my home. My mind kept wanting to keep thinking and my body wanted to keep busy. I am hoping that next summer will be easier. Right now we are starting to get more darkness each day now. :)

]]> By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8359 Karen Swim Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:50:09 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8359 LOL! Jaden, I clean to relax. I love cleaning - toilets, trash cans, under the fridge. Let's go with enlightened, much better than OCD! Evelyn, sometimes just the knowledge it's a choice really helps, that and a little caffieine. ;-) Friar and Ellen, Hair came out in 1968, and the movie was 1979. I was 4 when the musical came out but in '79 I somehow learned some of the songs. I can remember, standing in the middle of the floor belting out some of the lyrics and my mother's mouth dropping open. LOL! And it was not because of my great singing! LOL! Jaden, I clean to relax. I love cleaning – toilets, trash cans, under the fridge. Let’s go with enlightened, much better than OCD!

Evelyn, sometimes just the knowledge it’s a choice really helps, that and a little caffieine. ;-)

Friar and Ellen, Hair came out in 1968, and the movie was 1979. I was 4 when the musical came out but in ‘79 I somehow learned some of the songs. I can remember, standing in the middle of the floor belting out some of the lyrics and my mother’s mouth dropping open. LOL! And it was not because of my great singing!

]]> By: Jaden @ Screenwriting for Hollywood http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8358 Jaden @ Screenwriting for Hollywood Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:41:24 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8358 Karen, how bold and brave of you; yes you can fly the plane. Melissa, Yeah, holidays are major slacker time for me. I don't even try to work. Ellen, This may sound perverse, but I love cleaning the toilet. I do it daily cuz now our water is weird in my town-du-jour and rusts the toilet bowl when it sits there. I love cleaning anything and seeing it sparkle, it makes me happy. Does that mean I am enlightened or just OCD? Karen, how bold and brave of you; yes you can fly the plane.

Melissa, Yeah, holidays are major slacker time for me. I don’t even try to work.

Ellen, This may sound perverse, but I love cleaning the toilet. I do it daily cuz now our water is weird in my town-du-jour and rusts the toilet bowl when it sits there. I love cleaning anything and seeing it sparkle, it makes me happy. Does that mean I am enlightened or just OCD?

]]> By: Friar http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8228 Friar Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:54 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8228 @Ellen and Karen That's what annoys me about some of these self-help gurus. They tell you that "choosing" to clean the toilets is supposed to make it all better. La-La-La, you get to sing and dance with the toilet faeries and dance around toadstool rings and make plum pudding together. Isn't it GRAND? And if you don't feel this way, it's indirectly implied that you're some kind of screw-up, and it's YOUR fault. Don't get me wrong. I liked the Covey course. I agree with most of it. But I CHOOSE to ignore certain things he says. ;-) @Ellen Hair? C'mon...you're not THAT old! You're the same age as me. (Though I remember hearing the record from the library, about 10 years after it came out..) Friars last blog post..<a href="http://deepfriar.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/wedding-tips-from-a-cynical-bachelor/" rel="nofollow">Wedding Tips from a Cynical Bachelor</a> @Ellen and Karen

That’s what annoys me about some of these self-help gurus.

They tell you that “choosing” to clean the toilets is supposed to make it all better.

La-La-La, you get to sing and dance with the toilet faeries and dance around toadstool rings and make plum pudding together. Isn’t it GRAND?

And if you don’t feel this way, it’s indirectly implied that you’re some kind of screw-up, and it’s YOUR fault.

Don’t get me wrong. I liked the Covey course. I agree with most of it.

But I CHOOSE to ignore certain things he says. ;-)

@Ellen

Hair? C’mon…you’re not THAT old! You’re the same age as me.

(Though I remember hearing the record from the library, about 10 years after it came out..)

Friars last blog post..Wedding Tips from a Cynical Bachelor

]]> By: Evelyn Lim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-8005 Evelyn Lim Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:05:27 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-8005 I used to wake up feeling grumpy and all. But I now realise that I can choose to start my mornings differently. Knowing that "I can choose" is an important shift for me! Evelyn Lims last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/attractionmindmap/~3/348315351/" rel="nofollow">Confess Your Secrets</a> I used to wake up feeling grumpy and all. But I now realise that I can choose to start my mornings differently. Knowing that “I can choose” is an important shift for me!

Evelyn Lims last blog post..Confess Your Secrets

]]> By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-7998 Karen Swim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:57:10 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-7998 Charlane, living in Iceland has unique challenges. We could all learn so much from you and how you cope. I love the idea of tailoring hobbies to season and the availability of light. That seems like a very smart strategy. Does the lack of daylight ever bother you or do you simply adjust? Charlane, living in Iceland has unique challenges. We could all learn so much from you and how you cope. I love the idea of tailoring hobbies to season and the availability of light. That seems like a very smart strategy. Does the lack of daylight ever bother you or do you simply adjust?

]]> By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-7983 Karen Swim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:12:37 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-7983 Melissa the first year I was in business, I kept working through the holidays. It was quiet because everyone else was celebrating and I was toiling. I finally got a clue the day before New Year's Day that I could actually could have taken some time off while everyone else was doing the same! So yeah the balance thing has definitely been a learning curve for me! Rebecca, enjoy your husband and the dog and don't you dare feel guilty! :-) Ellen, ROFL! I know, I know any moment I will be uploading a video of me singing the lyrics to Grease. I saw the movie 27 times and can sing every song in character! LOL! See, that's what happens when you listen to those gurus, they make it seem all gooey and happy but really even though cleaning the toilet sucks you're choosing to do it because not doing it would yield unpleasant results. Ha, gotcha! :-) Melissa the first year I was in business, I kept working through the holidays. It was quiet because everyone else was celebrating and I was toiling. I finally got a clue the day before New Year’s Day that I could actually could have taken some time off while everyone else was doing the same! So yeah the balance thing has definitely been a learning curve for me!

Rebecca, enjoy your husband and the dog and don’t you dare feel guilty! :-)

Ellen, ROFL! I know, I know any moment I will be uploading a video of me singing the lyrics to Grease. I saw the movie 27 times and can sing every song in character! LOL! See, that’s what happens when you listen to those gurus, they make it seem all gooey and happy but really even though cleaning the toilet sucks you’re choosing to do it because not doing it would yield unpleasant results. Ha, gotcha! :-)

]]> By: Charlane Brady http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-7982 Charlane Brady Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:11:41 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-7982 I seem to always be striving for a healthy balance because I find distractions every day no matter what season. I have so many hobbies and interest that my focus for this year has been on easing my relentless participation to see what happens. Right now I am living in Reykjavik, Iceland so I am finding it is nice to have hobbies that go with daylight and hobbies that go better with darkness. We have almost an entire summer of day light and a few months of almost total darkness in the winter. This past winter I finally started writing and even started 2 blogs. So I do think that seasons have a rhythm driving my hobbies here in Iceland. It's nice. I loved this post. You are a talented writer. Cheers, Charlane http://charlanebrady.blogspot.com/ I seem to always be striving for a healthy balance because I find distractions every day no matter what season. I have so many hobbies and interest that my focus for this year has been on easing my relentless participation to see what happens.

Right now I am living in Reykjavik, Iceland so I am finding it is nice to have hobbies that go with daylight and hobbies that go better with darkness. We have almost an entire summer of day light and a few months of almost total darkness in the winter. This past winter I finally started writing and even started 2 blogs. So I do think that seasons have a rhythm driving my hobbies here in Iceland. It’s nice.

I loved this post. You are a talented writer.

Cheers,

Charlane
http://charlanebrady.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Ellen Wilson http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/30/rocking-the-sunshine-spirit-year-round/comment-page-1/#comment-7973 Ellen Wilson Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:47:34 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=145#comment-7973 Karen, Okay, first the go go boots and now let the sunshine in. I will have to go and play Hair now. I've had to do mundane stuff like scrubbing the toilet today amongst other things. Like Friar mentions, it sucks, and I don't care what kind of spin Stephen Covey puts on it! Maybe if I was enlightened it wouldn't matter what I did. Well, sometimes I don't mind household stuff. Tonight I'm making fried chicken. I would like some fried chicken, as would everyone else. Yes, summer is harder to be the ever productive one. Forget-about-it! Ellen Wilsons last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wilsonswordsandpictures/oiRe/~3/348683754/" rel="nofollow">Writing the Wild Within: Part 5 - Why Fly when You can Soar?</a> Karen,

Okay, first the go go boots and now let the sunshine in. I will have to go and play Hair now.

I’ve had to do mundane stuff like scrubbing the toilet today amongst other things. Like Friar mentions, it sucks, and I don’t care what kind of spin Stephen Covey puts on it! Maybe if I was enlightened it wouldn’t matter what I did. Well, sometimes I don’t mind household stuff. Tonight I’m making fried chicken. I would like some fried chicken, as would everyone else.

Yes, summer is harder to be the ever productive one. Forget-about-it!

Ellen Wilsons last blog post..Writing the Wild Within: Part 5 – Why Fly when You can Soar?

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