Melanie is getting Uncomfortable, finding Joy and other Magical Musings

Happy Halloween ~ Samhain ~ All Saints & Souls Day ~ Dia de los Muertos...Week!! It's my favorite time of year when purple, orange and green abound, the quiet mysterious beautiful nights are longer and happy memories of childhood Halloween excitement permeates my being. There was never anything negative about this holiday. Even in the 1980s when some fools put razor blades in apples, I didn't wage any concern over such madness  because my neighbors in small town Wisconsin were all established and well known, they adored me and gave me lots of candy. YUMMMMMM When I got older I would watch horror movies with friends and enjoy the hilarity of the absurd choices, situations and monsters which were so unreal that I could never understand why it was scary to others. Today I avoid horror movies like the plague! I found out that some of those movies were based on true, terrible and way scary real situations - YIKES! - but I love that my young mind was able to laugh and have fun ...

Sometimes the most uncomfortable thing is to NOT do a thing. Did you ever think of that? We have so many sources telling us we should do this and be that and don't forget to purchase the things before the price goes up forever. I'm lucky that I don't crave shopping or feel like I have to be a certain someone, but I still have a my share of things where it's difficult or near impossible to NOT do it.  Try NOT scratching an itch and let me know how that goes for you. I have eczema and if you’ve never had eczema, imagine the itchiest itch and multiply that by 1000% (not 100% but 1000%!). I would itch that area of skin for at least a little relief, maybe even several times a day. I had to be careful though because if I broke the skin it would bleed then take forever to heal. Well, curiosity got me so today I goggled “why does eczema itch” and here’s what I found out…it itches because you itch it! What the....#@*%! (Well, that’s one of the main reasons:  https://nationale...

I'm back and writing a second post on this here blog. It's dangerous and exciting and I want to do more things that rattle my being. But we must start at the beginning...what does uncomfortable mean to me? First, let's talk about what's not uncomfortable. Road trips are a great example. One time I drove from Colorado Springs to Pittsburgh and back without any motels stays. It was a solid 24 hour drive with a focused mission - to pick up a dog. I can say the last 3 hours of that trip was physically uncomfortable, however, I did not hesitate to jump into this quest and light the open road on fire! For our honeymoon, John and I did a road trip from Colorado Springs to Key West and back. Fantastic! Along the trip we stopped at a winery in Missouri, Beale Street in Memphis, cotton fields in the middle of rural Georgia, and of course Disney and Harry Potter world (as I call it). We made our way down through Florida to the very very tip just in time to catch the fabled green...

Get uncomfortable. That's what I keep hearing from others , from Spirit and from the divot in my couch. So here I am writing this blog - because it's uncomfortable and, I agree, I need to get out of my self made rut. It's no wonder, though, that I love cozy couch hugs while getting to feel emotions that always end up happy after 60 minutes. I'm mean, most of the population loves their TV time but I'm especially drawn to it for multiple reasons. First, I grew up in the 80's MTV generation. Sitting in front of the boob-tube is what we did for fun in small town Wisconsin. Well sure, there was fishing and hunting, homework and cruising the back roads. I did two of those. I do love the outdoors and you'll definitely find me hiking but I do my hunting in a grocery store. Maybe I grew up in the wrong place. But, no, I took dance lessons and piano lessons. Neither could keep my attention for long. It was fun at first, but soon after it became work. You see, I was...