Posted in 2025, thoughts

Signs From The Universe

In my mind, the universe encompasses God, my parents and loved ones as emissaries for God, and the stars and planetary alignment based on my birth.

In the morning when I read my daily Jesus Calling entry, it taps into something that is on my mind. I’m always comparing this year to last, or last year to three years ago. If you own a small business you’ll know why. I have so much trouble living in the moment. If it’s not looking back, I’m a week, month, 3 months into the future.

As soon as my workout is over and I’m heading back to the house, my mind is always on what I have to do, or worry about. I’ll look at the clock and it’s 7:17. It might be on the light timer at the garage door, the stove clock, or my phone.

I read my personalized horoscope and I wonder, “how does it know?!” It could be a personalized one that knows my birthdate, time and location, or the random one out of the newspaper, it always clicks for that day.

Yesterday morning I was chastising myself over the time wasted doom scrolling the night before. I start reading one of my favorite bloggers and she’s talking about what she accomplishes in her morning vs. any doom scrolling!

So many ways to be reminded I’m not alone.

Posted in 2025, life

Spending My Time Wasting Time

I have fallen back into the trap of working, reading, and knitting in between scrolling. Scrollin’ scrollin’ scrollin’ keeps those fingers scrollin’!

I have so many hobbies, and I AM working on them (well, except for my blog writing!), but I just wonder how much more I could be doing instead of scrolling. Like my next family blog story and all the topics for here that I have stored in Notes.

While you wait for me to crawl out of my rut, enjoy this silly picture of my twin and me at 7 months old. Who is whom? I don’t know because I always say they both look like her, and she says they both look like me! If the index finger near the mouth is any indication, that one is me because I sucked my index and middle fingers, and she sucked her thumb.

Posted in 2024, life, thoughts, Writing

Keep the Good – Reverse the Bad

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

There are so many Good/Bad inventions created since the beginning of time but the number one “invention” that should crawl back into the hole it came from is –

SOCIAL MEDIA

MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok – maybe they were created for socialization but they took a right turn into online bullying, scams, hacking, and keyboard assassinations. There are many other sites for socializing, some I know of, some I’d probably be shocked to learn about, but I’m only talking of the ones I really know.

It was probably “ok” and “manageable” prior to the 2016 election, but after that, all bets were off. I allowed myself to get caught up in Facebook arguments with friends who became non-friends. Funny, after 2020, they came back again. I’m afraid to see what this 2024 election will bring.

Do I use them? Yes, FaceBook and Instagram both personally and for my business. I have X and TikTok accounts but have posted only minimally on X.

I guess we can’t stop progress but I can dream!