Good morning.  Though I want to rant and rave and share my incredibly frustrating story of the past week, dealing with AT&Ts total screw ups and then frustration with UPS and finally with actually getting back on once I had my new modem, but in the scheme of things, its all BS.  It rattled my "peace" a bit, but thankfully there was fitness to keep me sane.  Beautiful thing about working out is YOU NEED NOTHING but will to do it.  In a world filled with hard to control situations, working out is something we CAN control.  I love that.  And yes, Becky, your comment about that was right on the money--If this was the worst of my problems, I really have no problems.

Many lessons were learned by me in my forced week away from my PC. I say my PC, because I was lucky enough to still connect to the world via my iPhone.  I fought getting one for a long time, (until my precious grandkitty chewed my phone charger and it just made more sense to get a new phone).  I highly recommend the smart phones.  It was a salvation to be able to send and receive emails while my home computer was down.

But back to the lessons--I revisited reading the newspaper every morning, and I liked it.  I had more time to help Mitch with the animals in the morning and more time for me to get ready for work.  I will be working on better morning time management to include all that and blogging as well.  Moving forward, I may some days, post my blog later in the day.  Who knows, some days I may not even blog at all.   I realized life will go on....but I also learned that my blog entries sort out my thoughts and give me focus for the day.  Hey, some days I might blog twice!   In the constant struggle for balance, I keep working at it.

A few quick words on Losing It. I admit to having been distracted so though I watched the whole show, I was somewhat distracted.  I may go back and watch it again.  This episode dealt with what certainly appeared to be hoarders (or at least the mom) more than slobs.  I am pretty sure hoarding is not something that can be changed in a day or two of cleaning, but maybe I am wrong.  It seems to me that all the stars align for whoever is chosen to have Jillian come visit.  The co-workers just happen to be runners and the boss runs a 5K every Saturday--how ultra convenient for a woman who has just one week with a trainer.  I am thrilled for anyone who is impacted by the wraths of a person like Jillian, who is able to obviously get through to people who need some getting through to!  How realistic this is, I am just not sure.  Again, I will be watching next week.

At my husband's company, they coined today their "Random Acts of Kindness" Day.  I think that is really pretty cool.  I am going to spend my day as if I worked with them.  If we all did just ONE SINGLE random act of kindness today, we could all make someone smile and we could then smile, too.  I am on it.  Gonna feed Blaze and take him outside for a little while before I begin my work day.

Be kind, peaceful and get on your fitness!  ALL things you can control in this out of control world.  It's awfully good to "be back."