When was the last time your exercised your brain? Before you finish reading this you’ll understand that brain fitness is as important as physical exercise. A lot of people don’t realize your brain needs exercise to keep up with the changes around them.
What are brain exercises? Cognitive skills that help us learn things such as: attention skills, hand and eye coordination, and memorization. Sharp cognitive skills make it easier to understand the world around you. Hand and eye coordination helps you to drive better and play games. Memory exercises help with memorizing shopping lists, school schedules or the last time you took your medications, which are things I forget often. Attention Skills are how long you can pay attention to a certain things and how long it will last.
I do a lot to exercise my brain. I read as much as I write, which keeps my brain constantly learning new things. Not everyone likes reading and writing such as my daughter so they’ll need other ways to exercise your brain. She likes to play educational games and plans on going to college after high school. College will give her a lot of brain exercises.
The Midwest is being hit by a heat wave this week, which is keeping a lot of people indoors. Today the feels like was 115. When I walk outdoors it’s like walking into a sauna. The heat has kept my daughter and I from taken our short walks in the evening. I’ve been desperate to reduce my pain level so I’m trying to exercise some. The heat has been affecting our air conditioner too. It seems the heat wave has increased my pain level. I don’t know if it’s the heat or a typical painflare up. This morning my pain level was a 7 out of 10 and I thought I was going to lose my mind. Thankfully as the day went on my pain reduced some.
Do changes in weather affect your pain level? How do you decrease your pain level? Have you been hit with the heat wave this week?
Are you excited about having a baby? Most women once they find out they are pregnant cannot wait to find out what the baby is they are carrying.
I can still remember how exciting it was finding out I was carrying a baby. I found out when I was between five and seven months pregnant. It was exciting to find out I was carrying a baby girl.
Today, you can find out if you’re having a boy or girl using at home baby gender test. So you’re wondering how’s that possible? It’s done the same way as finding out you were pregnant. A little urine can show you if you’re carrying a boy or a girl. The test is over ninety percent reliable. Take the test once you’re 6 weeks pregnant and you’ll know if you’re baby is a boy or girl.
Not having a baby? Going to a shower? Buy the gender predictor test as a fun way to find out baby’s sex. Everyone will be excited to see the test result, if mama wants to share. Maybe Mama will share the results with you? It’s a fun way to celebrate a new life before the birth born and an unusual shower gift.
Would you ever write a book about your illness? It’s something I’ve been contemplating for a while. I don’t really know where to start. Does anyone want to listen to the struggles of living with a chronic illness? The reason I started this blog is to spread awareness of life living with lupus and fibromyalgia, but who would read about my many ups and downs of living with this illness. How would I make it a worthwhile read? A lot of questions go through my mind about writing about my illness. I don’t want to write something that makes people think poor woman living with a chronic illness. Yeah, that was how I thought to start, but I’ve learned to deal with it.
Would you consider reading or writing about living with a chronic illness and its many ups and downs?
Would you ever write a book about your illness? It’s something I’ve been contemplating for a while. I don’t really know where to start. Does anyone want to listen to the struggles of living with a chronic illness? The reason I started this blog is to spread awareness of life living with lupus and fibromyalgia, but who would read about my many ups and downs of living with this illness. How would I make it a worthwhile read? A lot of questions go through my mind about writing about my illness. I don’t want to write something that makes people think poor woman living with a chronic illness. Yeah, that was how I thought to start, but I’ve learned to deal with it.
Would you consider reading or writing about living with a chronic illness and its many ups and downs?
Living with a malar rash has made me really subconscious of my appearance at times. When it’s prevalent I wear base foundation with a little lip gloss or lipstick. It helps so I don’t have the constant red reminder of the rash across my face. I try to find make up without chemicals especially since I have strange reactions to medications since being sick.
I use a lot of lavender candles and lotions regularly. I have a bottle of lavender I use all over my legs all the time to relax the muscles in my legs and shoulders. The aroma of lavender filling the house helps relax me. I try to find it with chamomile which helps me relax too.
I try to use all natural makeup that’s chemical free on a regular basis, but it’s not easy finding inexpensive cosmetics. Organic Beauty Now has beauty products for everyone. They carry coco butter for pregnant women, facial products for all, and make up teens. Having a teenage daughter, I love make up that especially made for teenagers. When my daughter started wearing makeup I looked for inexpensive teen make up, and could not find anything under twenty dollars per product. I wasn’t prepared to spend that kind of money on one thing for my daughter. Teens lose things and tend to overuse.
“God Grant Me The Serenity to Accept the Things I cannot change
And change the things I can.”
~~~~~~AMEN~~~~~~~
” By Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr”
One thing I cannot change is my illness, but I can change how I react to my illness. For the last two weeks, I’ve been in a lot of bad pain everyday. It’s been pretty unbearable at times. I’ve found strength in the serenity prayer.
Purchasing the right gift for the right person isn’t easy. The best way to pick a perfect gift is buying something the person uses daily or at least on a regular basis. Let’s say you’re buying something for your father. If he wears a tie everyday a tie would be a great gift. But if you’re Dad doesn’t wear ties you’d need a different gift. Your gift needs to match the person’s likes and personality. Another great way to buy a Father’s Day gift for your father is buying something related to their hobby. My father has worked with rabbits since before I was born so a current rabbit book would be a great gift him. Another great idea for him would be something to work in the yard such as edge cutter or new pair of pruning shears. It’s important to choose a gift that your father will enjoy to make it a personal gift.http://www.savings.com has a lot of coupons that can be used on and offline. They have coupons for online and offline store coupons. You can search for local deals by zip code. Then you’ll see all the coupons in your area and you can print out the coupons. On the site you can find coupons for book stores.
May is Lupus Awareness Month and World Lupus Day. This past year Benlystawas approved by the FDA, which is a big deal because until now their hasn’t been a drug approved specifically for lupus. It took over 50 years to get to this point.
What is Lupus from World Lupus Day?
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs (“foreign invaders,” like the flu). Normally our immune system produces proteins called antibodies that protect the body from these invaders. Autoimmune means your immune system cannot tell the difference between these foreign invaders and your body’s healthy tissues (“auto” means “self”) and creates autoantibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue. These autoantibodies cause inflammation, pain, and damage in various parts of the body.
Every day, more than 5 million people worldwide struggle with the often debilitating health consequences of lupus, a potentially fatal autoimmune disease capable of damaging virtually any part of the body, including the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.
Green Ostrich sent me one of their LCD Boogie Writing Board. Your probably thinking what’s a Boogie Board? A surf board? No it’s not a surfboard, but it could help you hit some waves on time.
About the Boogie Board:
The Boogie Board™ tablet is an ultra 1/8-inch thin, paperless, wireless LCD writing tablet for the home, office, school, and athletic field. It fits in a purse, scheduler, briefcase or backpack. Measuring 8.8 x 5.6 inches (223.52 x 142.24 mm), it includes as much writing space as a half sheet of letter-size paper. The Boogie Board tablet weighs only 4.2 ounces. Erase your image with the touch of a button – and a friendly flash from the liquid crystal display. The Boogie Board tablet’s pressure-sensitive LCD writing surface creates lines of different thickness based on how hard you push – just like paper and pen. Write or draw with the included stainless steel, telescoping stylus or any other suitable instrument – even your finger. You’ll never need to search for a pen or pencil again. Writing tools that will mark or scratch the LCD, such as pens or pencils, are not recommended. The Reflex LCD technology utilized by the Boogie Board tablet is reflective. Display contrast is proportional to ambient light, so bright light offers the optimal contrast. Adults will use the Boogie Board as a phone memo pad, refrigerator notes, family game score pad, sketches, notes, diagramming sports plays, quick sports stats, memo pad, and a to do list. Kids will use the Boogie Board to practice handwriting, write spelling words, and solve math problems.
My Thoughts
ABoogie Board tablet is a writing tablet without the paper that erases with the click of a button. I love my Boogie Board Writing Tablet. I’ve been able to write sweet notes to my daughter and reminders to myself. I love to use it to remind me to take my medications in the morning or call for appointment. It’s been a real blessing. The great thing is I don’t have to waste a piece a paper every time and it lasts for six years. A lot of trees could be saved in 6 years. I plan to make a holder for my boogie board that’s similar to the ones that E-Readers are stored in. The writing tablet comes with a stylus that extends to make it larger or smaller. The only thing I don’t like about the Boogie Board is not being able to store the notes I’ve written on it. I did take a few photos of it so I could remember my notes. Just being able to store a few different memos I’ve written would help especially if I cannot find a piece of paper close by. There’s a nice black cloth that can be used to wipe of any dust that lands on the Boogie Board™ tablet. I leave mine on my coffee table or on my bed side table. I love my Boogie Board tablet. It’s nice to not waste paper for things that are disposal. Thanks Green Ostrich for a Great Product.
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I’m posting this for all the crafters out their that suffer from sore fingers especially those with a chronic illness. Thanks Art of Crochet. She’s got over 729 videos on YouTube. To me that’s a great accomplishment.
