Daily Jots

Britt and I have gotten into the habit of going for a walk each morning. It’s cold and I hate it, but I’m kind of glad that we did. No one else seems to be out and yesterday we stopped at one of our neighborhood parks and we had it all to ourselves. We sat on a bench, watched the clouds for a while and even checked out the playground equipment.

When was the last time you actually sat on one of those bouncy animals and not felt like an idiot? Luckily there was no one around lol…

Don’t know what I’m going to do when my landscaping daughter goes back to work in the spring. I’m kind of liking the company!

Have to get a handle on this hostility and my service guys. I simply can’t let them tick me off anymore. I just read of a study at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California which came to the conclusion that people who tested high on the hostility scale were twice as likely to develop heart disease. That’s why I’m offering this video. We all need to laugh more!!

I have seen it before but it still has a way of bringing a smile to my face!

:) Ah… now I feel better!

I knew there was a very good reason why I never liked treadmills…

It doesn’t matter how hard I try to diet and exercise, the inches don’t come off where I want them too. In fact they always come off where I don’t want them too! But I did learn a little trick…

“There is one sure and safe method to look slimmer and feel better immediately, and that’s to stand up straight.

James Emmett is a chiropractor and owner of the Centrum Chiropractic Clinic in Ottawa. Emmett says people who improve their posture see positive results, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally. “If we can teach them about body posture, that can have a widespread effect,” he says. “Because they’re carrying themselves better it takes tension off the whole body and everything starts to flow better.”

Without your mom around to constantly tell you to stand up straight, we often begin to slouch without thinking about it. I know that I certainly do and then I realize what I’m doing and immediately correct my posture. But one thing that really surprised me was how much I could elongate my waistline by simply standing up straight. It also makes me look a lot taller.

Now if I could just learn to sleep without twisting, I probably wouldn’t have an aching back to complain about either. And I know that this can be traced back to posture. There are some mornings when I wake up and feel great and other mornings when my back is aching so much it’s nearly Advil time!

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