Day 364 ~ "Xanadu" "Young" or "Young" "Xanadu"?

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

"X" is for...  Xanadu.  My fun with "x"... after all what did you expect with the letter "X"?   What's your "x" word?

Xanadu  noun  a place of great beauty, luxury, and contentment.

I learned that we make our own "hell".   Now... hold on a second...  What I mean is that what I learned for myself was and is that I have a choice.

I have to make my own Xanadu... if that is what my desire is.  No one else can do it for me.  If Xanadu is what I want... then that is what I should work towards.  

I can't blame anyone but myself if my dreams, my Xanadu doesn't come true.

"Y" is for...  Young!   ... Why Not?!.. 

Here I am living my fiftieth year eventually reaching the inevitable...  the B I G   5 - 0  !  !


Well.. through my little journey here (I'm getting all whiny here on you!  lol) I have discovered that ... 


I can sit here... and piss and moan (sorry about the reference there... but I needed to get my point across there)...  ehemmmm... . as I was saying...


I can sit here, piss and moan or I can do something about it.


Bottom line...


I can sit here and complain about turning 50 in ten months or I can make a great "youthful" life for myself.  We only live once!  Right? 


I choose to be young and make a great life for myself and my family.  

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.~Albert Einstein

Tomorrow... What I Learned About Me...

from A to Z ... the letter "Z"

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

Peace...

1 days to go... {OH MY G...!!!...  I can't catch my breath...}

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 325 ~ "Y"...

"Y"es.  Yes, "Yes" is my chosen word.  (Big Smile.)

Few minutes into, 'what word am I to use for "Y"?'... and believe me I don't know why I even thought of this, but... if I wrote about no for my letter "N", then why not write about (and the choir sings loud) "Yes"?

I would be lying to you, if I told you that I did not get excited when I hear the word Yes (at least when it is in my favor. wink, wink.)  Seriously... be honest now... I know you get a little silly when you hear it too.  ;)

I think the "feeling" you feel today is probably not so different than the one you felt when you were a child, and were told you could have that extra scoop of ice cream or that special toy.

We may feel that we do not hear Yes as often as we'd like... in all actuality, if we listen real closely... we do hear it more than we think.  wink, wink.

One thing is for sure, when I answer my little Calley "Yes", believe it or not, I become the "best mommy" in the whole wide world.  Yes, that's me!  :)   bet you didn't know that the bestest mommy in the whole wide world was a blogger... well now you do!  

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.  

~2 Corinthians 1:20

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Blogging A to Z Challenge April 2012... Guess what... "Z" on Monday!!

Blessings...

40 days to go...  {I can't believe it!}

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

Images are courtesy of google or Bing images.  Some images maybe labeled property of Carla Barila Karam and of this blog, Taking Back My Life ~ Making It My Own.  U.S Copyright laws apply.  © 2012