Share Joy

So....I didn't quite accomlish my goal of a post every day and I suspect this won't be the only time I miss a day or two but my intentions are good.
I have debated about sharing with you my personal struggle with pain and have decided to at least this once share because someone may see it and relate to it.  I have a chronic pain condition called Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome.  It is crazy how much of my life that this condition influences.  Everything sort of works around it.  I don't promise anything anymore as I am not sure I can be relied upon to either be somewhere on a certain day or to be well enough to complete something I may promise to do by a certain date.  I no longer work as I never know when I may have a day that I can't seem to even get dressed, much less stay up.  Actually up is best as I use a heating pad on my upper back, shoulders and neck pretty much every day.  I do use meds to help, and they do, as well as a trigger point injection when needed. I think that one of the most frustrating things is that one day I feel pretty good so I try to get as much done as I can on that good day because I might be hurting for the next two to three and be able to do very little.  Also, I don't look like there is anything wrong so when I say I can't do somethig or won't do something I get the "look" like I'm just trying to make an excuse for not wanting to do something.  I know this is a common frustration for people with invisible disabilities.  I'm sharing this with you for a couple of reasons. One is that maybe it will help to realize that sometimes people actually have good days and yes we get out of the house and you see us out and about and we look like anyone else in the world but that doesn't mean it's like that every day so please be patient with those who deal with something you don't see.  The other is because it helps explain why I will undoubtedly have missing posts on the way to my goal of posting every day.  Ok, enough of that.
Today was a stormy day with dark skys and thunder. Rain was intermittent and wind was gusty.  It wasn't severe here like in some places so it was just pretty to watch.  Isn't there something exciting about a good old storm in the summer?  Here comes the rumble of thunder.  Hear it getting closer and closer until BOOM  it's right overhead!   Here it is.  hear the rain beating on the roof. Watch the tops of the trees dance in the wind.  Oh it's such a joy.
One more fun thing to share with you. A darling quote I came across somewhere and jotted down in my handy little notebook.

 

"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

~Thomas Edison~

 

I love it!  It should be the Junque Queen's motto.  Certainly shows a love of having good junque on hand for one never knows when inspiration will strike, like a bolt from the blue during a summer storm.
Share your joy and what you love with someone today.  I promise the joy will be returned.  Why not try it and see if you don't already practice joy.

 



I'm baaack!

I have been away so long!  over  a year.  I can't believe how fast the time went by.  I truly wish I could say I had more to show for all that time but I guess being a serious couch potato Candy Crush addict takes a toll on your productivity. I had to have my own intervention and actually delete it off my phone and just stop on facebook.  Seriously.....I have lost whole mornings to the demon app!  Now, yes, there are times when I really don't have anything else that I want have  to do so I guess it's ok to get lost for a while but one day leads to another and another and so on and so on until next thing you know you are back on the daily bonus fix.
It's time to decide whether I'm going to be a blogger or not.  Granted, there isn't a lot of earth shattering world changing stuff going on around here but there are a few things on my mind occasionally that I would like to share.  At first I thought no one would want to read anything I wrote.  Now I find that I want to write and have learned that no one cares what I write...the blog world is huge.  Maybe no one will ever see it but I know I shared it with the universe, put it out there and tried in my own small way to brighten my tiny corner of the the blogosphere.  Should you happen along here and see something you like please let me know that you were here.  It would be nice to know if someone stopped by my little blogspot.  I would redesign some of it but have barely figured out how to do what I have so far.  in the future look for changes in both appearance and content.
I saw a really cool quote today somewhere.  I'm sorry but I don't remember where but I did write down the author.

"There are three types of people in this world.  Firstly, there are people who make things happen.  Then there are people who watch things happen.  Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened?  Which do you want to be?"
~Steve Backley~ from The Champion In All Of Us:12 Rules For Success

It struck me as profound.  I spend a lot of time as the second type and the last type.  I would very much like to be the first type.  That is a big reason for tonights resumption of my postings. 
This blog is called Jacqueline's Joy for a reason.  There are so many things that make me happy and life is so full of joy that it must be shared.  Yes, being a junquer is what got me started down this blog path but that is just the beginning.  If you would like to join me I would love the company.  This is going to be a joy filled joyful journey to a life lived more abundantly.