mja blog

Category: Daily Life

  • Reducing stress

    I found this list of 52 proven stress reducers, and reduced it to ten of my favourites:

    • Do nothing you have to lie about later.
    • Be prepared to wait. A paperback book can make a wait in a post office line almost pleasant.
    • Relax your standards. The world will not end if the grass doesn’t get mowed this weekend.
    • Write your thoughts and feelings down on paper. It can help you clarify and give you a renewed perspective.
    • Learn to live one day at a time.
    • Add an ounce of love to everything you do.
    • Focus on understanding rather than on being under stood, on loving rather than on being loved.
    • Be flexible. Some things are not worth perfection.
    • Stop negative self-talk: “I’m too fat, too old, etc…”
    • Have an optimistic view of the world. Most people do the best they can.

  • More Blessed to Give

    Luke 14:1, 7-14

    In the Gospel today, Jesus warns us not to give in to hopes of repayment, but to give openhandedly to the poor and needy. That sort of giving mirrors the bountiful giving of God, and Jesus assures us it is blessed indeed!

    – Fr. John Conway

  • Poverty and Compassion

    Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

    – Mother Teresa

  • Mums Rockweiler

    My aunt Irene breeds champion Rottweilers and during her last visit to my parents, brought the latest litter with her for Mum to take her pick!

    Dita is a very sweet little girl with a wonderful steady temperament. Mum says that with her sharp little puppy teeth she has a tendency to chew – but luckily it is just fairly harmless things, like rocks! Hence the nickname Mum came up with – instead of Rottweiler, Dita is a “Rock”weiler. Ha ha, you can see where I inherited my fondness for puns.

    Dita the rottweiler, 8 weeks old

  • Housework haiku

    I think I have just found my philosophy on housekeeping!

    I don’t do windows because …
    I love birds
    and don’t want one to run into a clean window
    and get hurt.

    I don’t wax floors because …
    I am terrified a guest
    will slip and get hurt
    then I’ll feel terrible
    (plus they may sue me.)

    I don’t mind the dust bunnies because …
    They are very good company,
    I have named most of them,
    and they agree with everything I say.

    I don’t disturb cobwebs because …
    I want every creature
    to have a home of their own.

    I don’t Spring Clean because …
    I love all the seasons
    and don’t want the others
    to get jealous
    and get hurt.

    I don’t pull weeds …
    in the garden because
    I don’t want to get
    in God’s way,
    He is an excellent designer!

    I don’t put things away because …
    My husband
    will never be able
    to find them again.

    I don’t do gourmet meals
    when I entertain because
    I don’t want my guests
    to stress out over what
    to make when
    they invite me
    over for dinner.

    I don’t iron because
    I choose to believe them
    when they say “Permanent Press”.

    I don’t stress much on anything because
    “A Type” personalities
    die young
    and I want to stick around
    and become a wrinkled up crusty ol’ woman!!!!

    From www.allforwomen.com.au

    Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. – James Thorpe

  • Positive Thinking

    Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

    – Pope John XXIII