love love love my bag, yes, I covet the good stuff
Egg nog or hot chocolate? Hot chocolate
Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? As a child just under the tree unwrapped, now we wrap but going back this year to unwrap… **save the earth**
Color lights or white lights? both
Do you hang mistletoe? no
When do you put decorations up? Gradual process starting the week b4 thanksgiving
Favorite holiday dish?- corn casserole and potato dish that I had in new Mexico
Favorite holiday memory? Many many good memories. The most recent xmas in new Mexico
When did you learn the truth about Santa? When I saw my gifts in my moms trunk, about 9 yrs old
Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? One gift on xmas ever, the rest in the morning
How do you decorate your tree or mishmosh? The more mish mosh the better
Snow? Love it? Dread it? Love it
Can you Ice skate? yes
Do you remember your favorite gift? Barbie townhouse, Nikon camera
What is the most important thing about the holidays for you? Celebrating with family and friends
What is your favorite holiday dessert? cookies
What is your favorite holiday tradition? Cookie making
What tops your tree? angel
Giving? Or Receiving? Which is better giving
Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? As a child just under the tree unwrapped, now we wrap but going back this year to unwrap… **save the earth**
Color lights or white lights? both
Do you hang mistletoe? no
When do you put decorations up? Gradual process starting the week b4 thanksgiving
Favorite holiday dish?- corn casserole and potato dish that I had in new Mexico
Favorite holiday memory? Many many good memories. The most recent xmas in new Mexico
When did you learn the truth about Santa? When I saw my gifts in my moms trunk, about 9 yrs old
Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? One gift on xmas ever, the rest in the morning
How do you decorate your tree or mishmosh? The more mish mosh the better
Snow? Love it? Dread it? Love it
Can you Ice skate? yes
Do you remember your favorite gift? Barbie townhouse, Nikon camera
What is the most important thing about the holidays for you? Celebrating with family and friends
What is your favorite holiday dessert? cookies
What is your favorite holiday tradition? Cookie making
What tops your tree? angel
Giving? Or Receiving? Which is better giving
1. Where is your cell phone? on my desk.
2. Where is your significant other? At work.
3. Your hair color. black/brown/gray .
4. Your mother. Mom - lives in ny.
5. Your father. Dad - lives with God.
6. Your favorite thing. sleep.
7. Your dream last night. Don't remember.
8. Your dream/goal. Good health and happiness for my family.
9. The room you're in. office
10. Your hobby. photography, collecting
11. Your fear. Illness in my family.
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? different career, healthy, Enjoying my family.
13. Where were you last night? DaDa, dinner and drinks.
14. What you're not. talkative
15. One of your wish list items. desinger bag.
16. Where you grew up? long island
17. The last thing you did. speak with clien.
18. What are you wearing? jeans, blue shirt.
19. Your pet. charlie
20. Your computer. PC.
21. Your mood. so/so
22. Missing someone. My dad.
23. Your car. mnazda
24. Something you're not wearing. makeup, socks
25. Your favorite store. can't name just one jcrew, lucky, kate spade, anthropologie
26. Your summer. hot, boring,
27. Love someone. My family.
28. Your favorite color. green
29. When was the last time you laughed? a few hours ago
30. Last time you cried. can't remember.
31. Your television. Off.
2. Where is your significant other? At work.
3. Your hair color. black/brown/gray .
4. Your mother. Mom - lives in ny.
5. Your father. Dad - lives with God.
6. Your favorite thing. sleep.
7. Your dream last night. Don't remember.
8. Your dream/goal. Good health and happiness for my family.
9. The room you're in. office
10. Your hobby. photography, collecting
11. Your fear. Illness in my family.
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? different career, healthy, Enjoying my family.
13. Where were you last night? DaDa, dinner and drinks.
14. What you're not. talkative
15. One of your wish list items. desinger bag.
16. Where you grew up? long island
17. The last thing you did. speak with clien.
18. What are you wearing? jeans, blue shirt.
19. Your pet. charlie
20. Your computer. PC.
21. Your mood. so/so
22. Missing someone. My dad.
23. Your car. mnazda
24. Something you're not wearing. makeup, socks
25. Your favorite store. can't name just one jcrew, lucky, kate spade, anthropologie
26. Your summer. hot, boring,
27. Love someone. My family.
28. Your favorite color. green
29. When was the last time you laughed? a few hours ago
30. Last time you cried. can't remember.
31. Your television. Off.
not another morocco picture
our much loved family member buttercup rivera.
We've had a busy Halloween week, but now it's over and we highly anticipate the start of the holiday season. stay tuned
next week-- yipee
Ballooon festival next week...Yipee, yipee.
Hanging out with the Rivera family ...Yipee yippee
Eve making us laugh, cinnamon buns and REI ...yippee, yippee
No hurricanes out on the Atlantic ...yipee, yippee
This months goal "SIMPLIFY"
Let’s look at how finding what is essential, what we love, and what is important to us, can help us simplify, and what it leaves in our lives:
The first question: What is most important to me? What do I love to do? The answer is different to every person. For me, it’s simple: I love my wife and kids, I love writing, I love reading, and I love helping others. For others, it may be hiking or mountain biking or creating music or anything, really. Answer this question first.
The second question: what are the things going on in my life, the things I do every day and every week and month, and how are they related to what is important to me? If you are going out drinking with the guys, and it’s not really important to you, and it’s stopping you from doing what is important, that’s a candidate for simplifying. Examine all your commitments, and ask yourself if they are really important to you, if they give you great value for your time, and if they are related to what is truly important.
Possessions: The same questions can be asked of all the stuff you own — do you really love them? Are they truly essential? Another question you can ask, to clarify your thinking: If my house burned down, which few things would I want to replace? Get rid of all the rest. They leave clutter and stress and keep you from enjoying the stuff you really love.
Everything else: This same concept can be applied to anything else in your life — your work, the information you read every day, the television programs you watch, the people in your life. Know what’s essential, what you love, what’s important … and get rid of the rest.
What you’re left with: If you get rid of the extraneous stuff, the stuff that’s not related to what’s important to you, what do you have left? Just the important stuff. Just the stuff you really love to do. When you get rid of the other stuff, when you cut, let’s say, television and hours of Internet surfing and beer drinking from your life, don’t just cut it out — remember what’s important and what you love to do, and do that instead. For me, that means spending time with my family instead of working, that means writing or reading instead of watching TV, that means helping others instead of going to the mall (something I want to do more of).
Simplifying isn’t meant to leave your life empty — it’s meant to leave space in your life for what you really want to do. Know what those things are before you start simplifying.
The first question: What is most important to me? What do I love to do? The answer is different to every person. For me, it’s simple: I love my wife and kids, I love writing, I love reading, and I love helping others. For others, it may be hiking or mountain biking or creating music or anything, really. Answer this question first.
The second question: what are the things going on in my life, the things I do every day and every week and month, and how are they related to what is important to me? If you are going out drinking with the guys, and it’s not really important to you, and it’s stopping you from doing what is important, that’s a candidate for simplifying. Examine all your commitments, and ask yourself if they are really important to you, if they give you great value for your time, and if they are related to what is truly important.
Possessions: The same questions can be asked of all the stuff you own — do you really love them? Are they truly essential? Another question you can ask, to clarify your thinking: If my house burned down, which few things would I want to replace? Get rid of all the rest. They leave clutter and stress and keep you from enjoying the stuff you really love.
Everything else: This same concept can be applied to anything else in your life — your work, the information you read every day, the television programs you watch, the people in your life. Know what’s essential, what you love, what’s important … and get rid of the rest.
What you’re left with: If you get rid of the extraneous stuff, the stuff that’s not related to what’s important to you, what do you have left? Just the important stuff. Just the stuff you really love to do. When you get rid of the other stuff, when you cut, let’s say, television and hours of Internet surfing and beer drinking from your life, don’t just cut it out — remember what’s important and what you love to do, and do that instead. For me, that means spending time with my family instead of working, that means writing or reading instead of watching TV, that means helping others instead of going to the mall (something I want to do more of).
Simplifying isn’t meant to leave your life empty — it’s meant to leave space in your life for what you really want to do. Know what those things are before you start simplifying.
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zen habit #7 -
Aggressively Remove Things From Your Life that You Don’t Want to Do. It’s common knowledge that productivity naturally emerges from passion: when we love what we’re doing, productivity becomes irrelevant. The corollary is that being unproductive often results from doing things you’d rather not do. Elaborate productivity systems have all too often become crutches for passionate living (if you hate your job, you’re probably going to need an elaborate productivity system to keep you focused and on task).
morocco style
still on the morocco kick. I've found some great places to stay. Riads are one of the best parts of travel to morocco. In most destinations I can care less about my accommodations.
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