Size DOES matter!

I just finished retooling my blog site and added a gadget that assembles all of your tags. I did it in the "cloud" formation - self explanatory if you look to your right. Then I noticed that the more frequently a word is used the bigger it appears in the cloud. Let's peruse my tags shall we?

create
depression
friend
fun
funny
happiness
joy
laughter
love
peaceful
Plenty of Fish
Romantic Comedy
sex
unemployment
While You Were Sleeping
writing
yoga

I'm suspicious of the formula now because I'm pretty sure I've only ever mentioned "While You were Sleeping" once...and while it's a pretty fantastic post, does it warrant standing out in my cloud of words? What strikes me the most, in scrolling down the list...it looks like shorthand for a life lived, don't you think?

PS - This post was mostly an excuse to get you to check out my groovy new look. I hope you like it as much as I do!

On the 4th Day of Christmas...

My Universe gave to me...

AMBIEN!

Sleep has been and continues to be key in keeping me healthy and sane - ish.

You know how it feels when you haven't had a good night's sleep...or worse have suffered a string of sleepless nights. Lack of sleep even attacks the very young.

It's no secret that as we age, our sleep patterns change or are more easily disrupted. We wake up in the middle of the night more easily. Whether it's because of increased trips to the bathroom, an unruly animal (man or beast), temperature, etc - it's tough to find that nadir of the perfect sleep. The sleep of babies...Damn babies...it's wasted on babies!

I am thankfully one of those perfect candidates for Ambien. I haven't suffered any of the widely publicized side effects - with the exception of one very vivid Bugs Bunny hallucination at the very beginning of my usage. I've never eaten, driven...or had "crazy Ambien sex" while under the influence. Granted, I only take 1/2 pill every night. On weekends, I'll take a whole one or 1/2 and then another 1/2 when I wake up, so that I can sleep in.


I had a friend who was up to 6 - 10 per night and he did do some wacky Ambien driving. Crashed his car into the neighbors car and fled the scene...into his house, where the police found him..asleep. He once went to an NA meeting while "asleep" and knew nothing about it until he ran into one of the other attendees who commented on how much "sharing" he had done at the meeting.

But were it not for Ambien, I'd look and feel like Beowolf's mother...and I don't mean the Angelina version.

On the 2nd Day of Christmas...

My Universe gave to me...

ELIZABETH WARREN

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Knowing she's out there watching out for "us" makes me feel better, as it did Jon Stewart when she guested on his show. She explains things in such a way that makes it easier for someone like me to wrap my head around them. There's something calming and assertive without being aggressive like Susie Ormon can be. I know she's smart and gives good advice but she scares me! Elizabeth Warren's is the voice I turn to to calm the angst when it starts to spin out of control. Ahhhhhh. Elizabeth Warren is watching over us.

Buckwheat can save the World!

☚Not this one...
Although, his adorable little face could go a long way toward saving us.








But the buckwheat I speak of is this...☛
Sobakawa buckwheat pillows. If everyone slept on one of these, there'd be no more crankiness. They're a gift from the gods.

The difference between a night of sleep like this...

or a night of sleep like this...

Sleeping on regular pillows makes your face look

☜ like this ....

or like this....☞

and will leave you feeling and looking like this when you awake ☟

✻ shudder ✼

But when I wake up after a night of sleeping on my Sobakawa buckwheat pillow I feel like...

Michelle Kwan!

We CAN change the world, one pillow at a time. Do your part now! Your face and those of us who have to look at it will thank you ❤

A Festivus for the Rest of US...

For those of you whom the Christmas Spirit has eluded as well, here's a little video that will warm the cockles of your Grinch sized heart. And before you complain, it's only 12 seconds long!




I wish you an expansion of heart, mind and soul in the coming year.