Lori's Loony Life

Sunday, January 29, 2017

What were my favorite hobbies and pastimes in my chidhood?

#52weeks

When I was young I took gymnastic lessons and dance lessons from the Borgo Sisters in Royal Oak. I was never great at gymnastics, but I did love the classes. I liked the parallel bars the best. I thought the uneven bars were the hardest. At the end of every year we got a different little china doll for participating. That was way better than a trophy in a little girls mind.

We went camping a lot when I was young. There are a few things from camping that really stick in my mind. I remember on one camping trip some other kids came over to our trailer and we played games. It must have been cool because it stands out. There was a tornado warning one time...that was scary. One time we went fossil hunting. I found a honeycomb fossil. The leaders were so excited because they said that was a rare find. I still wish I knew where that fossil was! By far our favorite activity was gathering sand from the lake bottom in buckets and bringing it back to the picnic table to play with. It was like playing with a thick gooey clay. We made some pretty cool things, it was so fun.....until my parents realized it dried as hard as cement...oops!

Probably my favorite pastime was during the summer. I loved to go across the street and play at the parks and rec. In Royal oak I loved to make lanyard keychains. They had a huge box that sat in the park to keep all of their supplies in, I loved to sit on the box and do keychains. When we moved to Pleasant Ridge I liked to play bumper pool. I also played t-ball with the parks and rec. One time I was playing first base and caught a ball that came at me hard. It bent my whole middle finger nail backwards. It hurt! After that I did not like to play t-ball. I must have been ok at the game because I remember my coach being upset that I did not want to play any more.

Finally, who can forget the 12 hour days spent at the Pleasant Ridge pool. I swam, I flirted with the life guards, I swam on the swim team doing breast stroke (I never came close to winning but it was fun) The best part of the pool was synchronized swimming. Every year we practiced and put a show on at the end of the summer. This lead me to doing it in high school.

Monday, January 16, 2017

What Is Something I Taught Myself

#52weeks

The only thing I can think of that I taught myself to do was to change the front light bulb in my car. It was out and i was very proud of myself for buying the bulb and changing it as it was so much cheaper that way.

I did try to learn a few things on my own that just never happened. For instance, I tried to learn to ride a unicycle when I was young. I spent hours in Pleasant Ridge holding on the the window ledges trying to go back and forth. After many months I think I may have gone one pedal rotation before going down...and I am sure I was on the way down from the start of that rotation. I also tried to learn how to do a no handed cartwheel when I was a senior in high school during PE time...that one I came close to. Also, the band was so small at Park City High we decided we were going to make a little jazz band. I took home the bass saxophone to learn. It was so big it was a pain getting it on the bus and it hurt to try to blow in a reed....so I decided to stick with the Flute.

Other than that I think I have learned everything else by watching people. I am a show me once, let me do it and I've got it person...reading directions is not the best way for me to learn something.

Learning to love learning is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ, is vital to ourongoing spiritual and personal development, and is an absolute necessity in the world in which we do now and will yet live, serve, and work. Elder Bednar

Sunday, January 8, 2017

What goals do you hope to achieve this year?

#52 Stories

We are each, right now, standing somewhere in the middle of our own individual dashes. As Dieter F. Uchtdorf has said, “We may feel we are at the beginning or end of our lives, but when we look at where we are against the backdrop of eternity . . . we can recognize that we are truly in the middle” (“Always in the Middle,” Ensign, July 2012, 4).

So this year I am supposed to start defining my dash..so here it goes..week 1.

What goals do I hope to achieve this year?

1. Do 12 Temple sessions in 12 different Temples.

2. Lose weight.....isn't this always the goal.

I am a comfort eater. When I am bored or stressed I love to eat. It makes me feel like I am accomplishing something. Well, obviously the only thing I accomplish is becoming unhealthy. Eddie and I have talked lately about how our whole life circles around food. Get together with family...eat, get out of the house...eat, go to a movie...eat, quiet night at home...eat. I spent last summer on a special diet called Take Shape for Life. I lost over 30 pounds. I felt good. I decided tho take a break over the holidays...Halloween to New Year's. Now my goal is to do it again. I am now on day 4 and going crazy. I can truly say I am addicted to sugar. It is hard, I am grumpy, I don't want to do anything. I am kicking myself for having to start over again. Learning to control the body is hard.
Mosiah 3:19 For the ^anatural ^bman is an ^cenemy to God, and has been from the ^dfall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he ^eyields to the enticings of the ^fHoly Spirit, and ^gputteth off the ^hnatural man and becometh a ⁱsaintthrough the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a ^jchild, ^ksubmissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

So here is to starting over!!!

3. Relearn my stain glass skills. If you don't use a talent you lose it. Sounds like another starting over story.

There are probably many other things I would like to accomplish, but I should keep it realistic. There is always so many things to do in this life...I just wish I still had the energy of a kid!