The World According to Em

A little positive perspective for the week ahead

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:50:23 -0500

I took this picture while on a walk one day. Seeing them walking together holding hands and just feeling the love that they had for each other was breathtaking. I don’t even know these people but what they shared on that walk was so amazing to me.

You can feel the many years between them and the struggles that they may have faced and yet here they are taking a walk in the sunshine holding hands and enjoying each other to the fullest. That is love…

So my notes from the universe said today “A Dream-Manifestation-Workaround for those tired of visualizing, giving thanks, and acting “as if,” Emily, is to love your life so greatly, exactly as it is, that you become a total magnet for more, more, more of all you could ever love.

You love magnet,
The Universe”

After reading this note, I instantly thought of this pictureand the love thatI seebetweenthem, twostrangers to me, but a symbol for love.

Seeing how they”just” love…that is whatI am wanting to share today. To love yourself and your lifewithout hesitation, with ease, andto the fullest. It shouldn’t be hard, but it is many times. It shouldn’t be scary but it is most of the time. It shouldn’t be difficultbut we make it soall mostall of the time. And the truth of the matter is, if you love yourself effortlessly, withease and to the fullest, thatlove that youssee above will take over your life and fulfill your every need and desire.

I so often get tired of “visioning, dreaming,trying to manifest”,that I am going to try this week and dothingswith easeandabove all,love myself with ease. Why is that soscary and difficult? Because it is newground I am stepping into…andI have no ideawhere it will lead.

to a wonderful and loving week

What Would JBJ Do?: The love of a lifetime

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:56:24 -0400

What Would JBJ Do?: The love of a lifetime:

wwjbjd:

So to start off this blog, I will be getting answers for your many questions from song lyrics and or quotes directly from the man himself, JBJ. Jon Bon Jovi, is a man of many talents and I have felt, since I was 8, when our lives collided, that he is the man with the answers. He always knows…

The love of a lifetime...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:29:00 -0400

So to start off this blog, I will be getting answers for your many questions from song lyrics and or quotes directly from the man himself, JBJ. Jon Bon Jovi, is a man of many talents and I have felt, since I was 8, when our lives collided, that he is the man with the answers. He always knows what to say when to say. For instance, back in the day when I was a smoker, I had been trying to quite forever, then JBJ’s new album “Have a Nice Day” came out and on that album there is a song called “One last cigarette”. I couldn’t believe it, he was talking to me through his music, “Em, One last cigarette, I will savor it, the last cigarette…”

My response, “Ok JBJ, I get it, I will have that “One last cigarette and I will savor it, the last cigarette…” And low and be hold I did end up quitting about 4 years later. What a man!

Our love affair started when I was 8 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was being baby sat by my two older cousins, Marlene and Theresa and we were watching MTV, the cool new tv channel that had music videos, it blew my mind. My parents wouldn’t let me watch it cause it was way to racy and risky for an 8 year, so I thought I was really being a rebel and cool by watching it. Billy Idol was just on singing “Mony, Mony”, he was rather scary to me, all he was doing was yelling and sneering at me, but my cousins seemed to love him so I went a long with it. Then the most magical sight came on the screen, it was black and white, and these 5 guys were walking down a hallway. They had big hair and the music just sent goose bumps up and down my arms, what was happening? Then the most beautiful face appeared on the screen, I was mesmerized. “Tommy used to work on the docks….”What was happening, I had no idea. I had never felt this tremendous feeling of absolute love for someone I had never met before “Whoa we’re half way there, whoa living on a prayer, take my hand (Ok I will) and we’ll make it swear (I believe you, whoever you are) Whoa living on a prayer..” Then the video goes into color with the key change and those baby blues are staring right at me. When the video ended I just sat there stunned…What just happened. Then I heard my cousin say, looks like someone’s got a crush on Jon Bon Jovi. Jon Bon Jovi, the most beautiful name I had ever heard…

And that is how it all started…so here’s to the man, JBJ, Jon Bon Jovi

Falling behind in life

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:54:26 -0400

Do you ever feel that you are falling behind in life??

This is not concerning career stuff, which is an always up hill hike to keep up, but in life in general. Thank gosh my parents weren’t expecting the usual get married and have kids thing, because they sure haven’t gotten it…yet, that is. But it does make me feel sorry for them a little, to have a daughter that doesn’t have any strong pull to have either of those things, right now, and time is a tickin…

I look at my facebook newsfeed and everyone is having babies…getting married…or climbing MT.Everst, and I haven’t done any of those things. And instead of just being like ok, good for them, it makes me take a second and think “Holy shit, am I suppose to be doing that too…Holy Crap, I am at that age where you usually get married and have kids by now…What the F****?”

So then I take a second and look at Joe

and say “Joe…we gotta get on this” to no response from him. And lets get real here, he can’t handle something or someone coming into my life taking over his time to cuddle, his time to get treats, and especially taking over his side of the bed.

Then I think, oh man I am screwed, I am the lady that talks to her cat…is there no hope for me in this life.

Last night I held a beautiful 10 day old bundle of pure joy and it was amazing. I loved it, I love kids and the whole domestic thing, it looks great, but there is something inside of me that puts up my hands in Diva style and says, “Oh, no, I can’t do this on a 24 hr 7 days a week thing”

So I guess I just wanted to get this out there, in case there any other peeps feeling the same way…and to realize that you aren’t alone…its ok, right?

I guess it is cause that is how it is going right now. We shall see. I did have my palm read recently and it said that I would have one kid, I said out loud, “Huh, are you sure, ummmm, ok????”

Kudos to everyone that is getting married and having kids, I love it. And also kudos to us other peeps who are just going about things in a different way, I feel that if we are suppose to have that stuff, it will come, our path is just a little bit more obscure and hidden right now in the enchanted forest (it makes me feel better to pretend like we are in a fairy tale)…

love

Just laugh about it

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:44:33 -0400

I don’t know about you, but I sweat the small stuff. Actually I sweat the small stuff, the big stuff and everything in between. Today, Gabrielle Berstein’s blog was about not sweating the small stuff.

If you don’t know about Gabby, she is one of my favorite spiritual guru’s and I follow her blog every week, have read both of her books, and seen her live here in LA. She is amazing and cool and someone I feel people of our generation can really connect with.

Anyhoo, today her message was “Don’t sweat the small stuff” and she lists three steps to take to get out of your head, out of that nervous, worry state and to let “it” go, because there is nothing good that can come out of worrying about “it”. And when I say “it”, I mean anything, anything that your mind and ego latch on to to keep you spinning your wells. No need for it. Now I know this sounds great on paper, or on this blog page, but how do you do this? How do you let go of the worry that gets its handle on you on a daily basis…

Well here is what Gabby has to say:

1. First off, ask yourself “is this worth it” Is it worth making you sick, because as you know, when you start worrying, you don’t feel great, it sends your body into protective mode and distracts your whole being from its better good.

2. Out your worry to a friend. Call up a friend and say “I just need to get this crazy idea out of my head” and just let it go. Try not to get into a conversation about it, because that is allowing the worry to take over, but just get it out and then LAUGH ABOUT IT!!! That is my favorite part, laugh about how ridiculous it is to worry about something like that. LAUGH

3. Say the serenity prayer “God grant me the serenity to except the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

And hopefully by following these steps your worry will be leveled down to nothing and you can get on enjoying your life :)

Now the big one that I am going to take from this is to LAUGH!!! Laugh especially when you don’t it know what else to do. Because everything always works out one way or the other, so I believe that laughing will only speed up the process of a positive outcome. So Laugh!

love

Sugar Britches

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:12:46 -0400

My mom lives in Springfield, IL. Well, actually, she isn’t my biological mom, she is my step mom, but pretty much the mom who raised me into the lady you see before you writing this amazing blog…

Now, if you don’t know where Springfield is, it is no where near Chicago. It is in the middle of the state and pretty much the middle of nowhere. And this is where I grew up.

So mom is sitting at a stop light in down town Springfield, with her windows down enjoying the warm air of a sunny summer afternoon, minding her own business not really aware of her surroundings when all of the sudden this magical voice just comes out of nowhere and says “Well Heeelllloooo Sugar Britches” with a long drawn out hello and a very confident Sugar Britches pick up line. She is startled by the voice for one, and she turns to see who is sending this flattering gesture. Her eyes fall upon this man, in a cab (which in Springfield, it is an oddity to see anyone in a cab Springfield, IL) who is grinning from ear to ear, which confidently shows the three teeth that have manage to stay intact, a greasy, barely there comb over and a striped polo with stains running down the front. A sight to be seen to say the least. As she is looking his way, he feels that his pick up has been a success thus far and he furthers it with “How are you doing today, my lady”. That last “my lady” part really solidifies the sophistication that this man ex hoots to the world.

She is over taken by what her eyes have just seen and what her ears have just heard, that it takes her a minute to even process what to do next. He realizes her amazement and smiles at her to say “Yea, I am talking to you”. This smile and dialogue snaps Clara back into reality, she realizes that this is actually happening, not something that her mind is making up, “yes, he is serious and yes he is still smiling at me, come back to the present, your in your car, you are safe, just turn towards the road and go” and she just turns back towards the road and drives off.

After leaving “Sugar britches” behind, she just starts laughing hysterically. First off she can’t believe that someone used the term “Sugar Britches” that is the new vocabulary word for the day, and also she is astounded by the amount of confidence this man had to just lay it out there, “Sugar Britches”, three teeth, comb over, stains and all.

I love it. This story makes me laugh and I just wanted to share it with you. You never know what your day is going to bring, maybe a little “Sugar Britches” is coming your way, so embrace it and smile, laugh and take it all in.

love,

We are right where we are suppose to be...really?

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:41:31 -0400

“You are right where you are suppose to be” is what the universe says and “you create your own reality”

Ok, I am kinda stuck on these two statements today…

I totally get the logic behind “You are right where you are suppose to be” because the entity that is running everything, God, the Universe, what have you, puts you on the path that you are suppose to be for a reason. Because we all came here to experience life and by going on the path that we are on, we are suppose to learn things from it to take with us along the way. Like as we walk along the “yellow brick road” and we find a map, that map will guide us to the next point etc. Ok, so, like I said I get that, but when it feels like there isn’t anything to get us from where we are to where we are going, what do we do? Does the statement still apply?

My reply to my own question is yes. Whenever we are at a crossroads, and it feels like, “No I don’t think I am suppose to be here or this doesn’t feel right” you are, in my opinion, moving onto a new path. A new way of being, that you have never felt before, so yea its gonna feel weird and wonky. But the best thing to do is to just take some deep breaths, meditate, and trust that the path is still there and that you ARE right where you are suppose to be. Whew, it is uncomfortable though, and that is ok. We don’t like to be uncomfortable because we detect that means something is wrong, but in reality it is just the shifting of things that feels uncomfortable. You are Ok!

My BF said recently “when this is all over, we will feel such relief and laugh at how worried we were”. When she said that it brought tears to my eyes. Yea to feel that relief seems so magical and amazing. And then I thought to myself, Oh this is what all that universal vibration stuff was talking about, feeling the relief now to bring the relief forth…WHOA. Ok, so even now, when I have seen the lesson I am suppose to be learning, it is still a task to do it, to feel it and to know the relief is there! I have to work on this day to day, moment to moment, by not allowing thoughts that are a negative vibration to that relief to take hold. Hear and acknowledge the negative and then release it, like “Ok, I hear you and see you, but I choose to release you because you are not true to me.” I just have to become in vibration with the relief! Easier said then done, but I am hoping that if I am diligent about it, the relief will become my second nature, not the negative.

This ties into the statement “You create your own reality”. If we feel the relief now in our body, mind, and soul we will create it in our time/space reality. I get that, but when you are feeling good, things are going good and then it “seems” to turn and go the other way, its hard to believe that I created that other way. But I guess there was something in my belief system that believed that I couldn’t have it or that it wasn’t going to last. Whew, taking responsibility for everything is hard to swallow and not always pleasant, but I am trying over here.

It is easier to put on paper what we innately know is truth, but to practice it on a daily basis is another whole ball of wax all together. My best advice is to take it slow, yea, take it slow and truly trust that you are doing everything right. If it feels right and good, then do it, go with it and trust it. Don’t let all the doubt and outside sources deter you from what you know in your heart, because we all know that what your heart is truly telling you is your truth and your higher source. So its always a good thing to listen to that.

You are on the right path at all times and you do create your own reality, so now, take hold and let it fly!

love

Fall Equinox and Sun in Libra....What is going on???

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:50:36 -0400

I apologize for being MIA for awhile now…I know you were all on the edge of your seats being like…”Where’s the World According to Em Blog…” I get it, I felt the same way…

This past month has been a difficult one for me, to say the least, but I am hoping and guessing that it’s going to turn around and with the Fall Equinox and the Sun in Libra that is pretty much what I am forecasting as of right now.

So the Fall Equinox, I didn’t know this, but starts today. And this is actually really cool because what this means is that its a time for all of us to take a step back, and step into the silence for a bit and see where we have been putting our energy and where we want to be putting our energy. Now is the time to evaluate what really matters in your life on a deeper level and to take one action a day toward that. Whether it’s a certain goal or frame of mind that you want to achieve before 2012 is over. I meditated on this today and my career is still what comes up for me when I think of where I want to put my energy, but when I asked myself what action do I want to take each day to get where I want to go, it had more to do with self care and love. I just recently got out of a long and loving relationship and realized that I was getting my self love “fix” from that relationship, and not myself. Which, I don’t know if any of you can relate to that, but it is quite eye opening when you realize, “Hey, I was getting my validation and my love from someone else, not from me, Em Churchill” now what is wrong with that picture. A lot.

So for my Fall Equinox I am going to be taking steps to find the love that we all seek, in myself. Each day I will wake up and do my breathing meditation, then I will take a few minutes of stillness to really get in tough with the light inside and then to wrap up my morning ritual I will say some affirmations to start my day. And then I will repeat this process before I go to bed. Throughout the day, if I sense that I am being unloving or mean to myself, I am going to stop and breath, take a second of silence and find that loving place again.

What are you going to do for your Fall Equinox? I really encourage you to take a second and meditate on it and see what your inner voice is wanting and take the steps you need to take to get where you are wanting to go. I hope sharing with you what I am doing will spark some things in your heart space to know what to do for you :)

Now the Sun in Libra…so this is a great time for love and relationships. It is also a good time for us water signs, because I don’t know about you, but I am a Pisces and being in Virgo, and Earth sign, for the last month has been very unsettling. We water signs like to be flowing and free and those Earth signs really want to hanker us down to Earth. So the cool thing about this time also is that we are going to be wanting to engage in authentic relationships and really wanting to connect with people on a deeper level. So enjoy the watery flow of Libra and really engage in authenticity, not only in your outer relationships, but also your personal relationships with yourself. Me, myself and I

So happy Fall Equinox to you and loving Libra Sun! Let’s have an amazing month and I encourage you to really engage in some self love and authenticity.

love,

Conversations with God

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:11:48 -0400

My daily reading of “Conversations with God” brought this up and I had to share:

Quote “One day, if you have a great deal of courage, you will experience a world where making love is considered better than making war. On that day will you rejoice”

I love it. I know we have all heard it before, make love not war, but just wanted to remind you!

Lose the judgements about everything and it will lead you to the love that you seek. We as a society judge everything as good or bad, and that is really just a judgement, it doesn’t mean that it is a fact or reality, so I say lets get rid of the judgements. I know it is hard because as a society we pretty much do everything based on what we have been programed to believe as the right way or good or not good. If it doesn’t harm or negatively affect someone else, do it for the love of it, for the love we all seek.

love,

When will things "take off"...the universal question

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:32:59 -0400

I am currently reading a few pages a day of “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch, and it is very interesting how things are put in terms one can understand.

I am more than half way through now and most of the things that are being said I have heard about before or read before in all the new thought ancient wisdom teachings that I have read over the years but last night I was reading this passage and it really hit home. So, I thought I would share it with you today and maybe it will give you some insight to take with you, and put in your little pocket to hold dear to your heart!

Quote from the book:

“You get your life to “take off” by first becoming very clear in your thinking about it. Think about what you want to be, do and have. Think about it often until you are very clear about this. Then, when you are very clear,think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities. Throw all negative thoughts out of your mental constructions. Lose all pessimism. Release all doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original, creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. I am is the strongest creative statement in the universe, it sets into motion those experiences, calls them forth, and brings them to you. There is no other way the universe knows how to work.”

After reading this, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I realized that I have been living in fear of the “failure” of “not succeeding” which has been the hurdle that I have been trying to move out of the way, but didn’t know how. And now I realize that until you know what it is, you can’t move it. I feel that I have always lived my life aiming for my dream, for my ultimate goal, and knew in every fiber that that is and what I am suppose to do. But the negative creeps in and over time, even though you are still aiming for your goal, you begin to think fearful thoughts more and more without even realizing it. And this is what is the hurdle in your way, or at least has been in my way up til now.

And a big component to this is comparing yourself to others and knocking yourself down. Facebook has not made this any easier…seeing your friends doing this and that, and then you think you aren’t doing enough, you aren’t going to succeed without doing more than the next guy/gal, but yet that is impossible because their path is different than yours and you will always strive to keep up with the next guy if you live your life by competing to do and be more.

This is something I have struggled a long time. I am a type A that is very competitive and have lived a lot of my life by trying to do more, not better, just do as much as possible, but then I got burned out and was like, this isn’t working to my advantage…it never does in the end.

So my commitment to myself today is to stop comparing, stop being scared and fearful, and just love myself. Accept myself for where I am at right now and the big one here is “To replace negative thoughts about myself and my life with positive thoughts…or at least shift from the negative to not letting that thought expand and consume me and in essence ruin my day.”

To heaven on earth…I am going to strive for that today

love

Give it to the managers

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:34:52 -0400

I thought that this pic summed up what I am going to try and embrace today.

After such an inspiring week, this past week was kind of like releasing the air out of a balloon, buzz kill to the say the least. As we all know this is life. So today is Monday and I am going to try and do what Buddha does, or Jesus, or Abraham, just let the miracles in.

I know many of you have probably thought throughout your life, is there such a thing as miracles…why is this happening or that not happening, etc. But even though it is against how I am feeling right now, I am going to try and embrace the miracles.

I was watching Gabrielle Bernstein’s blog today, the blog is titled “May Cause Miracles” and these two wonderful guru’s are talking about being in the flow and how easy it is to be there. How when you are in the flow, you feel it moving you toward everything in a seamless manner and it feels great. It feels like when you were a kid and truly believed that everything was possible. That feeling that you have gotten sometimes, at least I have, of feeling and knowing in your every fiber that IT is going to happen. I have been moved to tears with just so much gratitude of what I feel is coming, but that is what has gotten me stuck “is coming”, NOT here now in the present.

The note from the Abraham today is:

Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take
care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it - and trust it. 


--- Abraham

So I am going to try and embrace it, delegate it, and TRUST it!  

Gabby also mentioned that when you are not in the flow, you feel that too, the unease, the worry, 
the fear, and what she said was just get back in the current, in the flow.  Don't get upset or all mixed up
in not knowing what to do, just take a deep breath, sit in silence for a bit, or do yoga, or just 
do something that gets you out of your head and back into the flow.

I am going to try it...What other option is there really?  

love,
Em

Just freaking let go and do it...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:05:13 -0400

So, yesterday I had a crazy day and I realized something that I hope comes a long more ofter…I was amazed at my ability to do something.

Now, I am sure most of you have experienced this at one time or another, and yesterday was that time for me. I had a V.O. audition, which I don’t have that often, most of my auditions are on camera, so I really didn’t know what to do to prepare besides the lines and some ideas. V.O. is a dream of mind, I love it, and always feel at home in the sound booth, so this is good, but I shocked the shit out of myself yesterday and it taught me something very valuable from here on out, just let go and do it!!!

Just let go and do it!

I learned that I’ve got all the tools I need, right here, and when I just let go and don’t think about it, awesome things happen. (That is, after you’ve done your preparation :) I got in the booth and did my thing, cool, then they threw stuff at me like do it gangster style, with a high voice, with sass, and commanding…Ok, if I had time to think about all that, I would have held myself back, but because I didn’t have time to, I just dived in head first, literally, I wasn’t sure what was coming, but was trusting my instincts and talent and years of experience to get me through, and it did! Holy shit! I totally let go, was doing whatever I needed to do to get the voice where I wanted it and didn’t care what I looked like or what they thought…(this is a big one!)

I got out of the booth, drenched with sweat and feeling so excited and alive. They were great and whether I get the part or not, the lesson here is just do your work and let go, you got this!!!

When I got in my car I took a breath and thought, “Oh, that is what I do this for”. You can lose sight of something sometimes when you are looking for the end result, which is me most days, but if you are present in the moment and giving it your all, you just might amaze yourself. I am going to try and take this experience into all my auditions and bookings and hell everything in my life, of complete submersion in what it is I am doing. Not worry about what they think or if I am saying this or that right, or whether I will get the job…just rocking it out as best I can in every given moment.

No matter what you do, you can amaze yourself. Try it today, just do one thing with total submersion, diving head first into it and you will be amazed!

love you,

Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - Don’t Know Much (live...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:21:55 -0400

Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - Don’t Know Much (live 1990) (by VideoWayback)

When they make you laugh...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:20:44 -0400

I don’t know much but…wait…there is a song here…”I don’t know much but I know I love you…and that may be all I need to know”…I hope you are singing a long right now…if you don’t know this song, I am not sure that I want you reading my blog…ok, I will be reasonable…I have embedded the live version of Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville, singing this song. STOP and push play and be amazed.

Now, back to the matter at hand, first off, it is Linda Ronstadt’s birthday today, so Happy Birthday to you Linda.

Second, I wanted to get romantical for a minute. I sometimes feel like a fish out of water in the love department, but then I get slapped in the face with it’s magic again and again. That magic is in the way my cutie makes me laugh, all the time, seriously. We are doing the long distance relationship right now, which is in itself a whole tangle of emotions, but we discovered Tango, which allows people with Iphone’s and Andriods to have face time. You can send each other video messages etc. So, each morning I get up and have a video message waiting for me, which always makes me laugh, smile, and be giddy. Even more magical is the fact that I can still watch these videos, cause of course I have saved them, and still laugh and feel giddy every time I see them. After 7 years of on and off times with someone who you love, and to have them still give you the giddies and make you laugh silly, is a gift of love and I am so thankful.

Also, last night I had to prepare for an audition today and we spent over an hour working on the script together, via tango and my love isn’t even an actor…lines were down, worked on, points were made, stakes were raised, and we nailed it. So thankful and grateful to have someone who cares so much and makes me laugh so often. If they make you laugh, feel giddy, and take the time to help you with your lines at 10:30 pm at night, keep them :)

love

The World According to Em: I wanna be cool....

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:47:23 -0400

The World According to Em: I wanna be cool....:

emchurchill:

So after living for unnamed amount of time I have come to the conclusion that some of us are born with a “cool” gene and some of us are not. I am one of those people that was not lucky enough to get the “cool” gene and for most of my life I have been trying my damnedest to play it off, but that…

I wanna be cool....

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:36:00 -0400

So after living for unnamed amount of time I have come to the conclusion that some of us are born with a “cool” gene and some of us are not. I am one of those people that was not lucky enough to get the “cool” gene and for most of my life I have been trying my damnedest to play it off, but that just magnifies that excruciating fact, I don’t have it and I am not cool.

Case and point, this picture right here is one I took with a “cool” friend this last week. I was thinking, ok “I got this cool thing down, yea put this on, where this, do a dapper move with your hand and look totally cool and mysterious into the camera, Got it”. It was just like those scenes in the movies, where two people are making each other laugh while trying on silly hats, glasses etc. He was rather serious about the whole thing, so I just followed the lead, and was like yea, I am serious “cool” too. I got this.

So I am really impressed by the “coolness” and think, man I should make this picture my profile pic, right?? I mean that is what you do when you have a great pic. And in this one I am being cool.

Now the fact that I look pretty ridiculous, totally eluded me up until this morning. I am sitting here having my morning coffee and just realized, “Oh wait, I am totally not cool, that picture is really dorky, and once again I have failed on the “coolness” scale. UGH, it is a never ending battle for those of us who were not born with the gene.

Another case and point:This is a picture that I sent to someone I was dating at the time…right???? What was I thinking. Really, Em? First off Joe knows this isn’t “cool” right off the bat…he’s thinking “Oh great, here she goes again”. I should have listened to him. But no, I was thinking “Oh this is going to be a good one”. And I tell you this in confidence, I sent this as a sweet message hoping to get my partner excited…Oh my gosh I am blushing and embarrassed just even writing this…WHAT WAS I THINKING….who in there right mind thinks this is an awesome “cool” idea to send to someone your dating. oh wait that’s me, I did.

So, why are some of us born with this “cool” gene and some of us left out in the cold to flounder around for you “cool” people’s amusement? Ever since I can remember, I always looked at “cool” people like this:with wonderment in my eye…knowing that I didn’t have that cool demeanor that they did.

So for those of us who were not lucky enough to be born with the “cool” gene, we have to keep working at it or just say “F*** it, I am a dork, I won’t ever be the cool girl in the room, or mysterious (have been trying to be that since I was knee high to a grass hopper), or diaper, or collected, or confident at all times, or knowing smart witty things to say on a whim, or the person people come to for “cool” advice.

to all the “uncool” people out there, ride on…

love,

Some enchanted evening...

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:14:59 -0400

I took this picture last night after seeing “As You Like It”…outdoors in the Japanese Gardens.

Such a romantic evening…this picture sums it all up. Just looking at it takes you to a place that makes you smile and feel all giddy inside.

Let this picture take you to that place…

love,

Goldie, Gerdie, and Gladys...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:24:00 -0400

Last night I was sitting on the veranda (actually just outside on the patio, but I love using the word veranda, it makes me feel like I am in the south on a nice summer day, with a cold glass of lemonade and have a big beautiful dress on, a classic southern belle) (whoa, sorry about that long side note…I might have a little ADD…lol). Anyhoo, back to the veranda, Gladys, my 92 year old land lord and I were sitting outside enjoying the beautiful night air, just chatting it up like school girls. I do feel like I am living in a Golden Girls episode…

So, she is going along talking about her exercise classes that she is gong to tomorrow at the senior citizen center. She is so giddy and excited to have found an exercise class again. The last time she was going to exercise class, she went to her first line dance class, about 4 months ago, she fell before even making it in the class and broke her arm, poor thing. So she is excited to get back on the horse again, as they say, to moving and shaking.

While listening to her stories, she tells me about her sisters, Goldie and Gerdie and how the three of them were a singing trio back in the day. I can not even make this up, Goldie, Gerdie and Gladys, the singing sister trio…Oh my gosh, I am in heaven. I love it. I just had to share this with you…

These are not real pictures of them, but I hope it takes you to another time and place and you can picture Goldie, Gerdie and Gladys singing and dancing for the masses.

I am listening to the Frank Sinatra pandora station, which is always on in my house, and just thinking about such a romantic time in history and I love being able to hear from someone who lived those times and sharing her life with me.

a little glimpse into the world of Em

love,

I can't help but smile....

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:58:42 -0400

Love...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:58:48 -0400

Seems to be my favorite topic, I am seeing from my past blogs…

So, I am doing this Chopra Center 21 day meditation challenge, where they send you daily meditations for 21 days and the challenge is to do them all 21 days. It takes 21 days to make a habit, so the key is to make a habit of meditating, which is always a good thing. You can still sign up if you wanna jump on board! I did it once before and loved it.

So the meditation topic of today is “I am ready to view my life through the eyes of love.”

That’s huge for me. I love it! It is so amazing how we don’t see the world through the eyes of love. I feel like most of us are on auto pilot, just getting from point a to point b and not even taking a second to recognize what we are processing and how we are viewing our life and the world. And by viewing our life through the eyes of love, I feel that it will change everything for the better, and beyond our current imagination.

I am saying yes to the statement and am going to try and keep myself on track. Now, I will probably fall of a lot, but the key I believe is to get back on the love train :) Yea, its corny, but just go with me peeps.

When you send out love and just love yourself for Gosh sakes, your whole demeanor and aura changes, for the better! You light up a room when you walk in, people are drawn to you, and you don’t have the fear and stress following you every where because love cancels that stuff out. Hey, now there is the best reason right there for trying this little experiment, it will relieve fear and stress. Ok, I am in!

Just think about when you talk with someone who is sending out love you wan