Day 362 ~ "Unbelievable" "Victory"!

What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

What have I learned about myself this past year {blogging}..?  hmmmm... First off... I would like to make sure you know up front... I never had blogged before until I started this blog 349 days ago.  Secondly... I never intended on learning anything.  HAHA! LOL!  No but seriously... It wasn't my intention...   Check out what my intention(s) were/are here.

So here goes... What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

1967 - 1975 Los Angeles Kings logo

"U" is for...  Unbelievable.  What I can't believe about myself... 

I just can't believe that I am on Day 362.  I mean really.  I'm not going to start sugar coating anything to you now... honestly... there were a couple of nights early on... well ... let's just say that I forced myself to post that night.

So when I see that I have Day 362 in my title and 3 days left in my footer... well I find it to be unbelievable.


On another {personal} note and along the same line... The {my} Los Angeles Kings just won Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals and lead the series 3-0.  Go Kings GO!! This is unbelievable.!!


THIS IS HUGE... so pardon me while I share my absolute happiness here!  If you do not follow hockey; the Kings have been a team since 1967 and have NEVER won the Stanley Cup. (one of 12 teams).


I've been a Los Angeles Kings fan for over thirty-nine years now, thanks to my dad.  My dad was such a Kings/hockey fan, that we had to plan events around the hockey schedule.  He played street hockey for over twenty-five years up until months before his death in the spring of 2006.  He was buried in his hockey uniform, skates, stick, gloves, puck and all!

Current logo of the LA Kings

"V" is for...  Victory.  To be victorious is an amazing feeling.  A feeling of euphoria that no one can take away.

I feel victory because of my blogging achievement.  Oh YEAH!!  I feel awesome right now.  I feel victorious!! 

I do not mean to come across so strong about this... it's just that THIS IS BIG!  This is a major accomplishment for me.


SO much so... that I feel that I can accomplish anything I set my mind to.


...victorious...

Which brings me back to the Kings!

Talk about  victorious ... what a beautiful game!


I know that I am a bit "tunnel-vision" tonight with the Kings victory... and not meant for it to take center stage to my blogging... however... hockey, my dad, games, fights, early games, late games, every weekend ... etc... they all were a big part of my life since I was ten years old.  So ... by all right... the Kings deserve a shout out and a spot light in my blog for once.

LA Kings historical moment...

Things had all come together at once for Jack Kent Cooke the eccentric owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, with a spectacular arena in the Great Western Forum about to open and the NHL about to expand. Cooke who was Canadian Born and missed hockey had long dreamed to bring hockey to Hollywood and with expansion he had that opportunity, as the Kings are one of six expansion teams to join the NHL. Placed with the other five new teams the Kings wearing colorful purple and gold uniforms would finish second in the Western Conference with a record of 31-32-11. However in the playoffs the Kings would be beaten in seven games by the Minnesota North Stars.   

source:  http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/losangeles/LAKings.html 

Tomorrow...  What I Learned About Me... from A to Z ... the letter(s) "W"

[here's to you finding your... ]

Peace...

3 days to go... {UnBELIEVABLE?!?...}

read about this count down in my "About my Blog" page

... for a, l & c.  you are my sunshine(s).

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Day 321 ~ "U"nderstanding

"U" is for Understanding.  

First thing... let's see what Miriam-Webster has to say about my chosen "U" word.

noun 1 :a small grasp  :comprehension

2 a  :the power of comprehending; especially  :the capacity to apprehend general relations of particular

b  :friendly or harmonious relationship

adjective 1 archaeic :knowing, intelligent

2 :endowed with understanding :tolerant, sympathetic <an understanding supervisor>

transitive verb a : to grasp the meaning of <understanding Russian>

b :to grasp the reasonableness of <his behavior is hard to understand>

I know, a little overkill.  As I've said before... bare with me.  lol.

When I hear this word, I also hear serenity, calmness and in some instances faith.

There is some sense of serenity when it comes to understanding.  Think about it, once you truly understand something which you have battled to comprehend don't you start to calm down?  Not to imply that you completely just lost it and threw a temper tantrum... but you do get a little agitated by comparison.  

Therefore coming to an understanding with yourself, understanding a task or a concept that was once difficult to do so, brings on serenity itself.

Furthermore, when an obstacle presents itself in your life, one that has you scratching your head... and when you finally come to the understanding that you must let go, let God... that faith there is what helped me to come to that initial understanding. 

I realize now there were times in my life that a little understanding would have gone a long way, and what a difference that would have made in my life too!  

Yet, another example of further understanding of the "understanding" process as yet another sign of aging! LOL! 

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

~Albert Einstein

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

~Mahatma Gandhi

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

~Tony Robbins

Blogging A to Z Challenge April 2012... What will "V" bring us tomorrow?

44 days to go...  

... for a, l & c.  You are my sunshine(s).  

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