Take CARE of THEMSELVES

Apparently my life has been trying to tell me in no uncertain terms for quite a long time that I need to devote some time to taking care of myself. I don't seem to be a very good listener!
I know that most girls have their own particular "beauty rituals" that make them feel pampered and taken care of so they can get recharged and refreshed and keep on kicking ass like all the great girls do but, I've never really been that girl. I've always been a wash and go kind of girl.
I don't:

• bother with make-up or the rituals that go with that
• straighten, curl, or even blow dry my hair-told ya wash and go
• get pedicures
• or manicures- though my friend gave me one once for my birthday

What things do you do to recharge and refresh your will to live and keep going? 

We all know life can get us down sometimes and we all need something to be the "five minutes of ME time" lol. Some of us even decide to "take a ME day" though we can't do this EVERY day!

I like to have a bubble bath but, I am beginning to think that I need a RITUAL of me time.  I need a bigger chunk of time to devote to myself and some *NEW* ideas about what can be part of this ritual.

I need to find new and better ways to show LOVE to myself so that I will not feel bad or depressed and give up when I set goals and fall short. Time and ritual to recharge so I can take a deep breath, start anew and try again.

I have MANY things I have to manage in my life, most of them having to do with my health and many of them feeling difficult to do or change and I sometimes fall short and want to even give up trying. So I want to create a time for affirming to myself that I am strong enough and capable enough to KEEP trying and that someday I will get to exactly where I want to be.

So I search for a new *ME* ritual to allow me to know I am worthy to myself as well as the others around me. If you have any suggestions feel free to share! :)

HAVE their own WEEKEND Get Together.

Once upon a time I tried to plan a weekend for all of us to go to Niagara Falls.
If you have a large group of friends to please, TRY to get the ground rules set for meeting everyone's needs before you even begin or it may turn out to be an aggravation!
I don't even mind going through that if at the end of it I actually GET to GO AWAY and enjoy the fruits of my labour with my girls and enjoy a wonderful weekend with them but, alas it was not meant to be.
So I still carry a wish in my heart for such a weekend to take place but, I don't know when or if it will happen.  Though, I believe it should. In fact, I think we should have an annual weekend where all the girls of our group meet and do whatever we all agree we want to do.  If we can't agree on one thing it's a whole weekend surely we can fit in something for everyone!
But, we need to brainstorm for those of us who live on strict budgets because we can't (obviously) always afford trips to Niagara Falls for a fun weekend. Don't we all wish we could!? Anyway, I think it shouldn't be THAT hard to sort out an enjoyable weekend that will meet the needs of ALL of us girls even though we are all different and perhaps think of "girl's weekends" differently.
SO...maybe I will suggest it and we can take the next WHOLE year to argue our own individual inputs until we all agree on one plan that suits everybody! LOL
I sure hope my girls can get together on this!! ;)
You all know who you are-IF you read my post feel free to comment and voice your opinion! ;)

Girls Just Wanna Have FUN!

Once upon a time on a warm evening quite awhile ago now actually the girls and I had a night out. It was a fun night full of drinks, laughs and good girl time.
However, when we walked home we did happen to make a lot of noise.  Giggles and laughter seem to get even louder when you have added a bit of alcohol to the mix.
Our noise apparently upset my bestie's neighbour and he had a conversation about that evening a little bit later with her husband where he proceeded to say, "Girl's shouldn't have nights out!"
Well, OMG! I always have to argue that point because it is JUST as imperative that we as girls have our fun times together as it is for the boys! Girls just want to have fun!
So we can giggle a little bit more than makes sense.  So we can laugh as loud and long as we like. So we might make a little bit too much noise and bother the neighbours. As long as we are hurting no-one and having a bit of harmless fun it is worth every moment!
Girls ABSOLUTELY should have nights out. For the same reason the boys do.
To share, to bond, to grow, to laugh, to live a deeper, better, richer life than we ever could ALONE.
You go girls! ;)