What Am I An Expert In?

"Your soul is all that you possess.  Take it in hand and make something of it!"~ Martin H. Fischer

 I was asked to define myself in a specific area.
To target what I am an expert in.
Be it divorce, parenting, single-parenting, teaching children, addiction, budgeting, refinishing furniture, computer illiteracy etc.

The problem is, is that I am not an expert on any of these things although I have had more experience in some areas than in others.
Mostly I am expert at what NOT to do.   (In all of the above areas!)

After some thought I have decided I am an expert after all.

*I am an expert at finding lessons in what life keeps presenting me.
*At growing (weight blog?!) and learning how to improve myself as a person.
*At getting up and trying again (even when I didn't feel there was any hope.)
*At trying to find something positive when the situation looks pessimistic.
*AND at having love in my heart despite all the unlovable things that have happened to me. 


BUT MOSTLY I AM AN EXPERT AT BEING ME !!!

"The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself."~ Michel de Montaigne

Therapy, Exercise and The Dining Room Table

I just noticed the title.
It sounds like the beginning of a bad bar room joke.

But it isn't.  I know, you knew that.
It is just a wholesome update.

THERAPY UPDATE:
                                                           
                                                                My sister gave me this.
                           She had to walk around the elephant to hand it to me.
                                     

 

For me there is both! 

I could not bring myself to tell her that though.

Because I want to keep the cup!

But the truth is that I eat chocolate while I am at therapy.

Maybe that is another reason why I do not get to lie down on the white couch?!

(See last blog 'Therapy is not for...')

More on chocolate later.

It deserves it's own blog!

  

EXERCISE/WEIGHT UPDATE:                                                                                                                             

I have gone to that place- the gym or the club or the Silver Sneaker hang out, four of the last six days.

Two of those days I was not able to fit it into my schedule.

In spite of those missed days, trauma to my body has been done. 

Today I am feeling it.

My body is sore in places that I didn't even know had muscles.

Like between my teeth.

Maybe that is a good thing.

My mouth could be too sore to eat.

(NOTE: Most chocolate doesn't require chewing.)

FYI: For some odd reason the scale at the gym is broken on the same number that the scale at the doctors office is.

I will discuss pounds later.

Broken scales and pounds also deserve their own blog.

DINING ROOM TABLE UPDATE:

It is finished!

And already sold!

It is taking time for me to post the step- by- step process.

(I lost some of the pictures of the middle steps in cyber space.)

The Robinson family found them.

(The Robinson's are from an old movie 'Lost in Space')

As for the table, it already has it's own blog. 

                                                            
                                     Thank you for your patience as I get my acts together!

PROJECT #1 Dining Room Table

I am going to share another part of my life with you.

I like to work on projects-most often furniture that is a cast off.  Many times they are items that have been left by the curbside.  This table was given to me.  I do not know anything about it, except that it needs some work.  I do not usually restore pieces because most of them are in such bad shape.  I Reyna-ize them. Which means that I put my own touch to them.  I call it transforming.  So come along as with me as I show you my step by step process!