On days like these...

On any given day, I’m thankful that the MS that I’ve had (or had been diagnosed with) since 2002 doesn’t impact me in any dramatic way.

I work full-time, albeit flexibly, thanks to medical accommodation and an understanding employer.

But on days like these with temps in the upper 90s, ironically International Self-Care Day and National Tequila Day, even doing the smallest task warrants a post task 30-minute rest with feet up and something cold to drink.

Today, I dared cleaning the outside of our stainless-steel appliances….inside…with air conditioning on…but still ended up sweating, hair damp and curling (even more than usual)…wiped out.

MS has taught me that that I can’t always do everything I want to do to the extent I used to, but I can do most things, by downsizing my goal and planning downtime after each task.

Stay cool my MS Warriors out there.

#InternationalSelfCareDay #Tequila #MultipleSclerosis #MS #MSWarrior #NationalMultipleSclerosisSociety #NationalMSSociety #NMSS #Heatwave

Cats - Bodhi, Mr. Blue Eyes:

 

Introducing our Ragdoll cat, Bodhi, a.k.a. Mr. Blue Eyes.

Bodhi is a law unto himself, a super sleeper and annoying younger brother to our rescue Tabby, Pepper.

Come back for more Bodhi antics and pics of Bodhi being Bodhi.

On this day in movie history – Violet (2021)

Violet

directed and written by Justine Bateman,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 18, 2021.

Music by Vum.

Cast:

Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, Justin Theroux, Dennis Boutsikaris, Erica Ash, Zachary Gordon, Todd Stashwick, Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Jacobson, Jim O'Heir, Simon Quarterman, Laura San Giacomo, Rob Benedict, Keith Powers, Cassandra Cardenes, Al Madrigal, Rain Phoenix, Steve Agee, Anne Ramsay, Colleen Camp, Jason Dohring, Jordan Belfi, Federico Dordei, James C. Victor, Matt Ingebretson, Liliana Mijangos, Brooklynn MacKinzie, Jakari Fraser, Mason Wells, Kathleen Wilhoite, Annica Liljeblad, Joe D'Angerio, W. Tré Davis, Erin Cantelo, Jack Nicholls, Antonio Raul Corbo, Nicole Gabriella Scipione. 

Napoleon Hill, on imagination and writing:

First comes thought;
then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;
then transformation of those plans into reality.
The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill.

On this day in music history - Signature Synchronicity (2016)

Signature Synchronicity

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released March 18, 2016.

 
Track list:

Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible; Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Grace (Chill Version); Signature; From the Mist; Little Star.

Born on this day – Raymond Z. Gallun:

 

Raymond Z. Gallun

Writer

March 22, 1911 – April 2, 1994

Credits:

A Step Farther Out (1950); Apollo at Go (1963); Avalanche (1935); Big Pill (1952); Bioblast (1985); Child of the Stars (1936); Editorial (1984); Old Faithful (1934); Passport to Jupiter (1951); People Minus X (1957); Seeds of the Dusk (1938); Skyclimber (1981); Starclimber (1991); The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun (1978); The Crystal Ray (1929); The Eden Cycle (1974); The Machine That Thought (1939); The Planet Strappers (1961); The Revolt of the Starmen (1932); The Son of Old Faithful (1935); The Space Dwellers (1929).

Born on this day – W. S. Van Dyke:

W. S. Van Dyke

Director

Writer

March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943

Credits:

According to Hoyle (1922); After the Thin Man (1936); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Barriers Burned Away (1925); Bitter Sweet (1940); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Cairo (1942); California (1927); Daredevil Jack (1920); Destroying Angel (1923); Double Adventure (1921); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eskimo (1933); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Fate's Frame-Up (1919); Foreign Devils (1927); Forget Me Not (1922); Forsaking All Others (1934); Gift o' Gab (1917); Gold Heels (1924); Guilty Hands (1931); Half-a-Dollar Bill (1924); Hearts and Spurs (1925); Hide-Out (1934); His Brother's Wife (1936); I Live My Life (1935); I Love You Again (1940); I Married an Angel (1942); I Take This Woman (1940); Intolerance / aka Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916); It's a Wonderful World (1939); Journey for Margaret (1942); Laughing Boy (1934); Love on the Run (1936); Loving Lies (1924); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Men of the Desert (1917); Naughty Marietta (1935); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); New Moon (1940); Night Court (1932); Northwest Passage (1940); A Daughter of the City (1915); Oliver Twist (1916); On Trial (1917); Open Places (1917); Orphan Joyce (1916); Penthouse (1933); Personal Property (1937); Rage in Heaven (1941); Ranger of the Big Pines (1925); Riders of the Dark (1928); Rosalie (1937); Rose-Marie (1936); Ruth of the Range (1923); Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917); San Francisco (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 15 (1920); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Spoilers of the West (1927); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Sweethearts (1938); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); The Adventurer (1927); The Avenging Arrow (1921); The Battling Fool (1924); The Beautiful Sinner (1924); The Boss of Camp Four (1922); The Cuban Love Song (1931); The Desert's Price (1925); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Gentle Cyclone (1926); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Heart of the Yukon (1927); The Lady of the Dugout (1918); The Land of Long Shadows (1917); The Lash (1916); The Little Girl Next Door (1923); The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row (1916); The Milky Way (1922); The Miracle Makers (1923); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Pagan (1929); The Primitive Strain (1916); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Range Boss (1917); The Thin Man (1934); The Timber Wolf (1925); The Trail Rider (1925); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Trader Horn (1931); Under the Black Eagle (1928); Unprotected (1916); War Paint (1926); White Eagle (1922); White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); Winner Take All (1924); Winners of the Wilderness (1927); Wyoming (1928).