Wow...I'm a horrible blogger...its been months since I last wrote anything for I Chose Happiness, sorry.
I have, however, updated a lot on I Chose Health and the EcoGoth blog. I recommend you check them out.
I do have even more projects coming up so I will not go as far as to promise more writing for this blog, but I will say I will try to keep everyone updated about things that make me happy and might do the same for you.
For now,
Love and Light for all,
Happy Chic
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Raw Emotions
I love this song and hope that a cd of Angela Stokes-Monarch's many amazing songs becomes available in the future.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Made Me Smile
Sorry I'm not posting much lately, been busy with EcoGoth and some articles on detoxing and just life in general.
I did want to post that I was recently introduced to the music of Kerli after a really sad day and it brightened me up so much and still does. I ran across this video that Kerli made to brighten up the day of a little girl who was sick. She's such an inspiration for happiness. I hope you like it too.
I did want to post that I was recently introduced to the music of Kerli after a really sad day and it brightened me up so much and still does. I ran across this video that Kerli made to brighten up the day of a little girl who was sick. She's such an inspiration for happiness. I hope you like it too.
Monday, August 23, 2010
August Updates
Sitting at Earth Fare enjoying yerba mate and a vegan cookie today and I thought I'd share a bit of my recent happiness with my readers.
September is just around the bend as with the new month comes 3 major stressers into my life.
Marriage, moving, and job change are three of the 5 biggest stressers a person can go through and all 3 at once are already making my life hectic.
Chad and I are getting married September 21st! I am so excited and the idea of spending the rest of my life with this wonderful man puts a smile on my face every day when I wake up and see his sleepy blue eyes (sorry to make you gag).
How do I deal with the stress of needing my dress hemmed, randomly remembering that the officiant still hasn't been paid a deposit, and poking and prodding my groom into a suit? I remember what this day is supposed to be all about, love and unity.
My wonderful parents are giving Chad and me a lovely wedding getaway so that we don't have to worry about family drama, who's gonna be a bridesmaid, money, and that chad and I just cannot pick a wedding cake flavor. I'm sure you know many married couples who will gladly advise you to elope due to the useless stress of a wedding and the debt afterward. I know I've certainly heard too many stories about brides spending their wedding receptions in tears over some family member or other saying or doing something to ruin the evening.
My advice as a bride-to-be, remember that this is about you and your husband-to-be, not about a cake or a dress or even a piece of paper. Remember the reason you said Will You Marry Me? and Yes! Remember this day is about starting the rest of your lives together, not about flowers and not even about the rest of your family.
Moving! We will be moving ot Lexington, KY a WEEK before the wedding! That's packing, moving 4 hours, unpacking, getting used to our new surroundings, and then repacking to get married in New Orleans, LA. If that's not enough to stress someone out, I'm not sure what is!
How to get around moving stress...
Well, the best thing to keep in mind is that it will all work out.
Next, don't procrastinate. We are already packing, throwing out things we don't want, and taking bags of stuff to the local thrift store. There is just no point in packing everything at the last minute only to realize once you get to your new home and question the purpose of a box of broken china meant for a mozaic that is never gonna be made...ehem...
Pack the knick knacks and pretties first. You wont' be using them any time soon and this way you'll remember aunt whatserface's fan and that fairy tea-light holder Chad bought me last Christmas...
Pack winter/summer clothes that you wont be wearing for another 3 months, or use a few as packing between those china plates and ceramic tea cups.
Stay happy by renewing your excitement about your new home and imagining how it's going to look decorated for Halloween...or that's what I'm doing anyways.
New Jobs!
being between jobs is always going to be hard. Thankfully, we don't have to worry too much about being without a job thanks to my industrious step-dad.
Best thing I can recommend for job hunting stress though, is pray. Pray about everything but in job hunting pray for the job meant for you, the one that you will be happy in, the one that will help you meant your monetary needs. Try not to be too specific because it could be that the job at the book store could be dealing with a horrible manager or the position at that office is only temporary which will have you looking for another job in a matter of weeks.
No matter what stressers are in your life, remember
Find ways to be happy
Pray
and good tings will come your way
Love and light,
Happy Chick
September is just around the bend as with the new month comes 3 major stressers into my life.
Marriage, moving, and job change are three of the 5 biggest stressers a person can go through and all 3 at once are already making my life hectic.
Chad and I are getting married September 21st! I am so excited and the idea of spending the rest of my life with this wonderful man puts a smile on my face every day when I wake up and see his sleepy blue eyes (sorry to make you gag).
How do I deal with the stress of needing my dress hemmed, randomly remembering that the officiant still hasn't been paid a deposit, and poking and prodding my groom into a suit? I remember what this day is supposed to be all about, love and unity.
My wonderful parents are giving Chad and me a lovely wedding getaway so that we don't have to worry about family drama, who's gonna be a bridesmaid, money, and that chad and I just cannot pick a wedding cake flavor. I'm sure you know many married couples who will gladly advise you to elope due to the useless stress of a wedding and the debt afterward. I know I've certainly heard too many stories about brides spending their wedding receptions in tears over some family member or other saying or doing something to ruin the evening.
My advice as a bride-to-be, remember that this is about you and your husband-to-be, not about a cake or a dress or even a piece of paper. Remember the reason you said Will You Marry Me? and Yes! Remember this day is about starting the rest of your lives together, not about flowers and not even about the rest of your family.
Moving! We will be moving ot Lexington, KY a WEEK before the wedding! That's packing, moving 4 hours, unpacking, getting used to our new surroundings, and then repacking to get married in New Orleans, LA. If that's not enough to stress someone out, I'm not sure what is!
How to get around moving stress...
Well, the best thing to keep in mind is that it will all work out.
Next, don't procrastinate. We are already packing, throwing out things we don't want, and taking bags of stuff to the local thrift store. There is just no point in packing everything at the last minute only to realize once you get to your new home and question the purpose of a box of broken china meant for a mozaic that is never gonna be made...ehem...
Pack the knick knacks and pretties first. You wont' be using them any time soon and this way you'll remember aunt whatserface's fan and that fairy tea-light holder Chad bought me last Christmas...
Pack winter/summer clothes that you wont be wearing for another 3 months, or use a few as packing between those china plates and ceramic tea cups.
Stay happy by renewing your excitement about your new home and imagining how it's going to look decorated for Halloween...or that's what I'm doing anyways.
New Jobs!
being between jobs is always going to be hard. Thankfully, we don't have to worry too much about being without a job thanks to my industrious step-dad.
Best thing I can recommend for job hunting stress though, is pray. Pray about everything but in job hunting pray for the job meant for you, the one that you will be happy in, the one that will help you meant your monetary needs. Try not to be too specific because it could be that the job at the book store could be dealing with a horrible manager or the position at that office is only temporary which will have you looking for another job in a matter of weeks.
No matter what stressers are in your life, remember
Find ways to be happy
Pray
and good tings will come your way
Love and light,
Happy Chick
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Shut Up!
So, I thought I would share with you all a thought I had today that was totally directed to myself but might be beneficial for you, my readers, as well.
I talk A LOT! (My mother and other family/friends who read this are laughing and nodding in agreement right now because this is sooo true). My AP English teacher in high school taught me the word Loquacious early on as one of my terms to know for SAT, ACT, and other testing. She said I shouldn't have a problem learning and using this word since it pertains to me.
Loquacious: chatty, full of trivial conversation, talking A LOT
What does this have to do with happiness?
Well, I wanted to tell everyone, from the bottom of my heart and with all kinds of love, to SHUT UP!
Quit talking constantly and feeling like you have to fill up quiet time with friends, family, spouses, partners, so on with meaningless conversation.
I realize that my fiance and I tend to not talk hardly at all in the car or when I'm writing and he's playing around with his guitar or whatever. At first, I wondered, is this a bad thing? Shouldn't we have more to talk about? What does it say that we've been together for almost 3 years and have already grown quiet around each other?
Then I realized, this is a good thing! We don't need meaningless, trivial conversation to enjoy each other's presence. We can merely sit together with the comfort that this other person who loves me so much is just a foot or less away and if I did have something important to say, he'd listen!
A meditation I've heard about often is called eye-gazing and this can be practiced with your partner where you just sit together in quiet and gaze into each others eyes until everything else falls away and you become completely relaxed and calm. How cool is that?
This also relates to sitting alone. You don't have to be texting every 3 seconds or on the phone or on the computer chatting it up all the time. Sit and be still. Don't even let your inner voice jabber on about things or your thoughts run wild.
Be quiet, shut up, be still...with love and happiness of course!
I talk A LOT! (My mother and other family/friends who read this are laughing and nodding in agreement right now because this is sooo true). My AP English teacher in high school taught me the word Loquacious early on as one of my terms to know for SAT, ACT, and other testing. She said I shouldn't have a problem learning and using this word since it pertains to me.
Loquacious: chatty, full of trivial conversation, talking A LOT
What does this have to do with happiness?
Well, I wanted to tell everyone, from the bottom of my heart and with all kinds of love, to SHUT UP!
Quit talking constantly and feeling like you have to fill up quiet time with friends, family, spouses, partners, so on with meaningless conversation.
I realize that my fiance and I tend to not talk hardly at all in the car or when I'm writing and he's playing around with his guitar or whatever. At first, I wondered, is this a bad thing? Shouldn't we have more to talk about? What does it say that we've been together for almost 3 years and have already grown quiet around each other?
Then I realized, this is a good thing! We don't need meaningless, trivial conversation to enjoy each other's presence. We can merely sit together with the comfort that this other person who loves me so much is just a foot or less away and if I did have something important to say, he'd listen!
A meditation I've heard about often is called eye-gazing and this can be practiced with your partner where you just sit together in quiet and gaze into each others eyes until everything else falls away and you become completely relaxed and calm. How cool is that?
This also relates to sitting alone. You don't have to be texting every 3 seconds or on the phone or on the computer chatting it up all the time. Sit and be still. Don't even let your inner voice jabber on about things or your thoughts run wild.
Be quiet, shut up, be still...with love and happiness of course!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
10 Tips to Choosing a Drama-Free Life!
I found this article wile looking into Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes-Monarch and their raw businesses/media/etc. I thougth I would share the 10 Tips because, I don't know about you, but I work and live among people that love love love drama, whether its their own or others or they create it.
Angela is a very mellow person, at least on camera, and she has used her passions to create nto only a business and her books but to express her lifestyle to others in hopes that they too will become healthier.
http://www.rawreform.com/content/view/469/2/
Enjoy!
Angela is a very mellow person, at least on camera, and she has used her passions to create nto only a business and her books but to express her lifestyle to others in hopes that they too will become healthier.
http://www.rawreform.com/content/view/469/2/
Enjoy!
Indulge: Raw Ice Cream!!!
So I've been reading a lot about Raw Food lately, mostly through watching The Renegade Health Show and other shows like it on YouTube. I am not a raw foodist myself, nor to I necessarily advocate raw food, but I do want to encourage healthier living.
In I Chose Health, I asked one day (and the question has not been answered) is Milk bad for you/me?
Recently, I started drinking Almond Milk (which is delicious, I must say) and was reading about how it has as much Calcium as regular milk with a lot less fat, cholestoral, etc. So this must be healthier, or so I think ^_^
Now, that having been said I will acknowledge one of my vices: Ice Cream.
I am an Ice Cream Feind! I love it and I think I always have (according to my mother, this is, in fact, the case). Now ice cream has milk in it as well as tons ofsugar and fat and corn syrup and other yecky things that I am learning are really bad for me...but I still love ice cream. So what do I do?
I was watching The Raw Food World on YouTube and saw that they were eating raw ice cream at a vegan restaurant called Mary's Secret Garden in California. I thought, "mmm ice cream." Then I thought, "raw ice cream?"
So I did some research and found some recipes!
Here's a video from The Raw Food World! It looks yummy but I wanted to add that if you aren't a hardcore raw foodist and don't feel like dishing out the money for special Agave or Cacao powders then you can use cacao, cocoa, chocolate, carob, etc. and HONEY (my personal fav, which I can get fresh and local right now).
Also consider adding:
Bananas
Spices like cinnamon
Nut butters
Whatever you like ^_^
In I Chose Health, I asked one day (and the question has not been answered) is Milk bad for you/me?
Recently, I started drinking Almond Milk (which is delicious, I must say) and was reading about how it has as much Calcium as regular milk with a lot less fat, cholestoral, etc. So this must be healthier, or so I think ^_^
Now, that having been said I will acknowledge one of my vices: Ice Cream.
I am an Ice Cream Feind! I love it and I think I always have (according to my mother, this is, in fact, the case). Now ice cream has milk in it as well as tons ofsugar and fat and corn syrup and other yecky things that I am learning are really bad for me...but I still love ice cream. So what do I do?
I was watching The Raw Food World on YouTube and saw that they were eating raw ice cream at a vegan restaurant called Mary's Secret Garden in California. I thought, "mmm ice cream." Then I thought, "raw ice cream?"
So I did some research and found some recipes!
Here's a video from The Raw Food World! It looks yummy but I wanted to add that if you aren't a hardcore raw foodist and don't feel like dishing out the money for special Agave or Cacao powders then you can use cacao, cocoa, chocolate, carob, etc. and HONEY (my personal fav, which I can get fresh and local right now).
Also consider adding:
Bananas
Spices like cinnamon
Nut butters
Whatever you like ^_^
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