My Guardian Angels

So you know those moments where you a little heartattack because you weren't paying attention and something bad was about to happen but somehow the situation was "saved" before anything bad happened? Well I don't know who you attribute those type of things to but I give the credit to my Guardian Angels.

See I kinda have a lot of those moments haha I wouldn't say I'm clumsy but you know how it is when you first learn to drive and your first few times on the freeway? Yeah I've had my close calls I mean there is NO DOUBT someone is working over time in Heaven! Lol
I thought of this today because today somehow early in the morning I got sick and all day I felt very..."blahh". My stomachs been feeling like I want to throw up all day but I can't I have a fever I feel really week and just not food :/

But I still went to school and I have late classes on Monday's so I toughed it out as long as I could but by 8:15 I gave up and came home. Now remember how far away I go to school? Yeah I should also mention that my head was throbbing and my ear kept soon this thing where it sounded like a air tunnel. Now I'm no expert but I know your ears have some connection with your balance right? So driving home in these conditions at 8:30 at night for an hour on the freeway doesn't sound to safe. To say the least I prayed on the way home hahaha my mom always taught us to bless yourself before goin on any long trips anyway so yeah haha.

And I could name countless times where I have done something stupid or not paying attention ; leVing the stove on for 5 hours when no one was home, not checking my rear mirrors before switching over and almost hitting someone, etc etc. OH and getting into a minor accident this past summer and some could say "oh so what ur guardian angel took a break?!" No my guardian angel kept the damage to a minimum and no one was hurt bad. See we make our own decision that can hurt us or hurt someone else no Angels can stop us they can jus guide us and watch over us. I also think that I had to learn a lesson or two. See my little sisters were in the car and I also had 4 friends in the car and these people are my brothers and sisters not "like" but are! And I was really scared thinking of how bad it could've been. Trust I pay EXTRA attention on the road now and changing the radio can wait for a red light haha

So you see Guardian Angels are always with us and that doesn't mean bad things are not going to happen remember we make choices that effect situations. It just means we're never alone. So I believe in Angels and I am very very thankful not only for mine but also for those of my friends and family.

CHALLENGE:I believe that my guardian angels(I think it's more like a unit of them all helpin each other out not just one haha)always have my back. When I'm late and happen to catch all the green lights, those amazing sunny days, hearing the perfect song at the perfect time all these little thing I credit to angels. Maybe you don't believe in angels you say it's just dumb luck well then you better be thankful for dumb luck! I'm not here to challenge anyones beliefs I'm just here to make you recognize that those moments have helped us all out so whatever you credit for them be thankful for them. I believe it's my Guardian Angels and I love and appreciate them so much! <3

Ps-sorry for the grammar remember I'm sick haha

Those Little Texts

I have to say Sundays in general always seem to have something in them that just makes me very happy. Today was kind of a very normal day you know just very relaxed nothing crazy happened...it was an ok day.

Today I am thankful for those little texts. We all know them and we've all recieved them and if you havn't then just let me know and I'll make sure to send you one someday because honeslty they always make me smile :] Those random texts that just say "I love you" or "have a good day" or any sort of message that just makes you smile because it was unexpected. I actually love sending those txts to people because I love making people smile but I havn't sent one in a while, maybe I'll get back to those soon haha.

If you havn't figured it out I got one of those texts today, from someone who I actually havnt seen in a while and it made me really happy. Just one small little text honestly made my day. Even if those text can be mass texts it still says something that you were part of it, I mean just speaking for myself I only send those texts to certain people haha just to be clear Im not talking about "chain texts" Im talking about personal text that a person sends to only certain people or only to you. But this one was actually personalized to me cause it said my name in it hahaha. I guess in a way you can say Im thankful for text because it allows us to text people those cute little messages when we randomly think of them. However, I think in reality Im thankful for those random moments when you think of someone and just want to tell them you love them or that you're thinking of them.

CHALLENGE: Todays challenge is a little different. I still hope you think of something you are thankful for, but today I want to challenge you for the week. Whenever you think of someone who you love or just who you miss, text them. Just a quick little message to them to let them know you're thinking of them. In other words your challenge is to mkae someone elses day a little better cuz you never know who might need that extra boost :]

TWENTY-ONE!!

 

So a few weeks before I started this blog, on January 10th 2011, I turned 21! And today another friend of mine turned 21, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIELLA!. So even though my birthday already past I didnt have a blog back then and I was reminded of it today so today I am thankful for turning 21! :]

Now let me just clear things up real quick no I'm not thankful to be 21 because now I can drink and go to bars and do all "that stuff" legally...well it's not the only reason anyways haha. I guess what I'm really thankful for is just for the past 21 years of life that God has given me and blessed me with. You know birthdays I find are one of the things we tend to take for granted, I mean sure we celebrate and always want to make a big deal and feel special but we don't really think about the main idea of a birthday. See I don't think a birthday is "congratulations you made it one more year without dying!..Good Job!"..no.

See we aknowledge how old you are and we get the number candles more to keep track haha but a birthday is really about the day you were born. It's to celebrate the simple fact that you even exist. I know life is hectic and we all have our "wish I could dissappear" moments but at the end of the day life is amazing!!! You are the ONLY you in the world, you are living, you for whatever reason are in a certain place and in a certain family. You feel, you're not just another person, it's really hard to explain but it is amazing I think. Just try to think about it and I say try cause whenever I start to think about it, it's gets hard because its too beautiful to fully grasp and you really feel tiny in comparison with everything else in the world. But I am happy that God gave me life, and Im thankful that I get to experience the pain as well as the joy of life and you know just..thankful to be here one more year and who are we kidding...of course turning 21 makes it just THAT MUCH BETTER! hahaha  

CHALLENGE!: Today I challenge you to be thankful for you're life, to be thankful that you were born and that you get to go through this life no matter how hard it is at times the challenge is to see the beauty and the mystery and to be thankful! Dont think about today, dont think about something bad that you may have gone through just simply think about being alive at all and how it truly is a humbling thing to have this chance to live...I hope you all see how amazing it is to be alive...

Time Out!

I don't know how to make todays thankful post not sound mean...but it's true and what kind of "blogger" would I be if I sugar coated things, or lied, or made up things to be thankful for that Im not thankful for right?

See today I have to say I am thankful for school. Now some other day I'll talk about how im thankful for school because of the opportunities it gives me and so on but today the reason is...slightly different. The reason im thankful for school on this particular day is for two reasons.

Reason one is because today my little sisters had the day off haha. Starting to see the mean-ness in this?? They had the day off and if you know me you know that I LOVE my little sisters and of course they will be the topic of many "thankful posts" in the future but if you have little kids around you a lot you know that they have just as many, lets call them un-cute moments as they do cute moments haha. The way it goes is that if they have a day off and so do I then we get to do whatever they want to do because I want them to have fun and enjoy these days you know. And we always have fun and it's always good times but these girls are 10 and 7.  And they're normal so they fight a good amount. Now don't get me wrong they get along and play nice with each other but if you have siblings you know how it is.

Reason B is that Im thankful for my own school. I go to school an hour away from home and when I go Im there ALL DAY literally. And sure school can be hard and you have to think a lot when you're there, least that's what they keep telling me :] jus kidding. But at the end of the day when I go to school all day and so far away it gives me that mid-week break or "time-out" from my family that Im sure we all feel we need sometimes because by the time I get home half the house is asleep.

To end on a good note I LOVE the days off that my little sisters get because we get to be out all day doing fun things and they have fun and so do I...I wouldnt give up these days together for anything in the world!! However, I have to be honest and admit that Im glad they have school and so do I because Im sure they appreciate not having to deal with me all the time also haha.

                                                  LOVE THESE LIL RASCALS!!   

More recent pic :]

CHALLENGE: So we all love our families I'm sure haha but Im also sure we also love the breaks we get from them every now and then. Maybe's it's your hobby like playing a sport, or your job, or school as well. And even if these places can also cause stress, we should appreciate the good they bring as well and enjoy them haha. (Again I swear I love my family and my sisters but you know..hahahha)

Good Lookin Out Steve Jobs....

So me and my mom decided to join a gym recently and its been actually a lot of fun. However, another thing about me is that it's really hard to keep me interested in things or projects for a long period of time. I get bored, especially if it's something that I wont see results about quickly.

So this morning im on the elliptical machine and it's set for 20 minutes. So you know I'm doing my thing and suddenly I glance at the timer, (bad idea! I usually hide it with a towel but forgot to today haha), and I see I only have 2 more minutes left. So being me, I start to justify ditching those last 2 minutes. "I've been on it 18 minutes, I think it's ok if I get off now" and many other excuses. So just as I'm about to slow down and get off of the machine my ipod switches to....wait for it.....THE SPICE GIRLS! hahahha Now I don't care how old you are, how "cool" you think you are or how corny you think they are, if you're a girl who grew up in the 90's you can't help but love the spice girls!

So of course when I heard the song "Wannabe" I just couldnt stop moving haha and it actually made me want to finish the last 2 minutes just to hear the song and move with it :]
So today I am soooo thankful for my ipod. Not for music, because trust me music will come up as what I'm thankful for MANY MANY times through out the year. But today just my ipod as a single object is what I'm thankful for. Because wether it's at the gym, during a long break at school, or just whenever there is no radio around,your ipod is ready to go.....Good lookin out Steve Jobs! :]

Now I don't want to focus on the material aspect of my life, however I do want to focus on the fact that I am able to have an ipod. Things that we take for granted because they're always around. We forget that for others these things, phones, ipods, cars, Wii, television set, etc...for others these things are not always around. Yet we constantly complain cause we dont have the ipad we only have a laptop...haha and you know it's true and I DO THAT ALL THE TIME!  So thats why today I want to aknowledge that I am truly thankful to have my ipod and I understand that I am lucky to have many of the material things that I have even if they are not the newest or coolest things. You have to be thankful for what you have.

Challenge: So of course I want you to think about the things you take for granted because you've always had them, or you know they will always be there. But this blog is about taking it one day at a time and focusing on one thing at a time as well. So after you think of how lucky you are to have all that you have, I want you to only think of you ipod. How many times a day do you use it, and think of not being able to use at the gym, or school, or where ever you use. If you don't have an ipod, dont you dare feel sorry for yourself! haha This is to focus on what you DO have and not feel bad for what you dont have. Think of something else then like your phone. Be thankful for what you are able to have and try not to complain because it's not the new model...   

Here we go :]

Alright so why waste anymore time, lets get this started!

Now I actually made my first "Thankful Post" yesterday on facebook and then a friend suggested I start a blog for it so here we are haha. The one yesterday was..

     "Alright so today I wanna say Im Thankful for my mom's way of loving me. Cuz I may see it as "none of her business" or "her just nagging" but i know that even if through my eyes something she does or says to me is wrong, crossing a line, or pointless...In her eyes (somehow lol) it's how she loves me, and protects me. :] "

Now I knew this challenge was eventually going to get a little difficult but I didnt know it was going to be so soon!! So I post this thankful post and sure enough a few hours later when I got home form work I'll give you 2 guesses as to what happened.....YUP! Me and my mom got into an argument. We disagreed on some stuff and well my impulsive angry reaction was to go delete my "thankful post" because it wasn't true anymore lol. But then I thought about it, and it made sense that the ONE DAY I say how thankful I am for my moms nagging because even if it bugs me I know it's only cause she loves me, that was the day we have a fight. I left up my post becasue it was hard but when I took my own advice and re-read my post I realized my mom got mad because she was worried and because she loves me and my sisters. So fair warning this isn't always going to be easy peezy lemon squeezy and things you are thankful for are not always going to make you the happiest person but that doesn't mean you are not thankful for them.

So I still have to post something I'm thankful for today....

I'm thankful for my hour commute to school. I don't live on campus and so I have to drive an hour to get to school as well as an hour to get back home(that's with little to no traffic). Now through these posts you're going to learn some things about me and todays Lesson on DG's life is that I LOVE ROAD TRIPS! and even though driving to school does not qualify as a "Road Trip" hahah just in general I love being in the car driving around, even if it's only for 5 minutes to go get my mom some milk from the store. Traveling in a car with the radio on and singing along like no one can see you (even though everyone can lol). I love that. Plus, I drive to school and back alone so not only is it a great time singing in the car but it also doubles as my me time :] So now that I've started school again monday was my first day back and on the way home I realized..I really missed the 91 Freeway! hahaha. So that's what I'm thankful for today, the 2 hours twice a week I get to drive in my car and blast my radio and just have me time on the freeway.

Challenge: As I said in the first post my hope is that people read this and realize their own blessings in their lives. So I figured I'd help you out if you want haha. We'll start off easy no BIG LIFE QUESTION...just simply think about one thing you are thankful for rigth now. Not a list, just one thing it can be ANYTHING and no excuses "today was a bad day"  "I dont feel like thinking about things im thankful for right now"...no! Just think of one thing, your pen, your shoe, your......teeth? hahah anything just think of one...... 

One Day At A Time....

Hey,
   My name is Daniela, however ever since I was 5 years old everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has called me DG haha (long story maybe someday you'll hear it). So Im starting this blog because I decided to start, I wouldn't call it a challenge though somedays I'm sure it will be.
Basically I was getting really tired of all the negative and at many times depressing stuff people were posting on facebook. FML this and FML that and everyday just seems to be the "worst day ever". Now im not trying to be insensitive because I mean WE ALL have bad days and we all have little hells in our lives that we have to deal with and I think it's good to vent and get it out you know. However, I dont think it's ok to insist that there is nothing good in your life and it's not ok to ignore all the blessings in our lives so I decided that this year I will post one thing I am thankful for each day and explain why. I got this idea from a high school teacher I once had only her's was "wake up and say 10 things you are thankful for" but that way you just list them and this way I feel each thing im thankful for can get a full tribute haha.
The challenge will be that I am normal and I have bad days and my life is far from perfect, but even on those "worst day ever" type of days I will write about one thing I am thankful for becasue the point is not "life is always fantastic!" the point is life is hard, it has it's ups and downs, there's good, there's bad, there's ugly and trust me, TRUST ME I know how bad it can get but even when its at it's worst there is still beauty in it, you just have to challenge yourself to find it.
Im actually starting a Mind Body Soul challenge in my life, where everyday I do something for my Mind-try hard in school, read a book, do homework etc. Something for my Body-eat right, exercise etc, and somehting for my Soul-pray, be thankful, be nice etc. Actually someone who I trust a lot, and value their advice gave me this idea for better balance in my life (Deacon Scott lol). Maybe somedays I'll write what I did for all 3 but this blog is mostly to make sure I aknowledge the blessing in this life. My hope is that someone will read this and remember what they are thankful for as well and realize that life in all its glory and failure...is always beautiful.