the goddess notebook

the bucket list

Tonight I watched "the bucket list".  As far as movies go, it was predictable, cheesy, emotionally orchestrated and...

okay, I loved it.

I loved it because despite its shortcomings, it had three of my favorite things in a movie:

1. It made me cry,
2. It made me think and
3. It left me inspired.

Which is why I am writing this past my bedtime.

Some of my top picks for movies come down to a line of two that makes it for me.  Like the line:
"get busy living or get busy dying" (shawshank redemption) and the bucket list delivers two memorable questions that according to Egyptian legend each person is asked when they die to determine 'where they go':

Question #1:
Have you found joy in your life?

Superb question.

Question #2:
And has your life brought joy to others?

Even better.

I would recommend this film for these two babies alone.  I love simple things and easy to follow steps that lead me closer to joy and that is why I like 'em.  These two little questions really boil down why we do anything or at least offer us a guide when we lose perspective when life gets awful busy.

Now the bucket list itself is good too, but I will leave it up to you to watch the film yourself and create your own.

To movies and joy,
beth

when days get blurry...

I must be on vacation.

Yesterday I had to really, really have to do some serious thinking to figure out what day of the week it was.  With some major brain effort, I decided to break it down...

Sunday...
We arrived.  We set up, hit the beach, hit the park, back to the beach, ate, road bikes and went to bed late.

Monday...
Major beach-combing session, over to the playground, into the water park, rode bikes, back to the beach, swam, went to bed early.

Tuesday...
Playground first today , water park, bike riding, walked to the store, went to the beach, back to the playground, stayed up late.

Wednesday...
More of same.

This is how I know today it is Thursday! Whew.  That having been done, I can safely turn my brain off again and head back to the beach!  My kind of vacation.

I hope if you are reading this, you are having the vacation of your design.

To blurry, blissful beach days,
beth

starting fresh

Technology is great and a great pain when it fails.

This weekend I experienced the failing part.  Without notice, my beloved little Macbook stopped working on Friday night.  No matter what I did, it just refused to start up and like any good crisis, I opted immediately for coping strategy number one:

DENIAL.

"Eep! This cannot be happening." I thought but happened it did anyway and no matter what my friends tried at Future Shop to convince my Macbook otherwise, it refused to work without getting a brand new hard drive first.

By Saturday I had moved to stage two: 

ACCEPTANCE.

I decided to skip anger, ranting and pouting because there really wasn't any point.  All of my clients will tell you that I am the first to ask "what is the gift" when anything "bad" happens so by Sunday when my laptop was returned to me for the low price of $362.56 I thought naming this incident would get me to the gift part quicker.

The name?

FRESH START.

So I have been given a fresh start.  A clean desktop, new and bigger hard drive space, an empty in-box, an unknown schedule and not a photo to be found for miles.

A fresh start for July to enter or download whatever I choose. 

I must confess there is some liberation of all those emails being deleted (but if yours was an urgent one of them feel free to re-send that sucker!).

So while I wouldn't advocate for re-building your hard drive and database and a recommended weekend plan, this got me thinking.

Fresh starts are good.

Back-up systems are helpful.

New beginnings are fun.

So while I might not re-build it all this week, I just know July is going to be juicier when I do.

To living fresh,

beth