leela update

got through the chakra part of the Leela game.  did some sequences and relaxation/meditation aspects....also did the mind/body one which said I hav early dementia

the division finals are set

It will be the NY Giants at San Francisco 49er's for the NFC Championship.
It will be the Baltimore Ravens at New England for the AFC Championship.

I am going to say Giants and Patriots.

Of course I would say the Patriots.  It's New England, it's Brady - the most beautiful quarterback I have ever seen.....

Patriots will win the Super Bowl.

can't follow directions

Right.....so I wrotejust yesterday that my rib situation was a sign that I needed to take it easy, mend and take a break from the Xbox; perhaps write a little.  I think that directive lasted about an hour.   I fired up the system and was working my 3rd - yellow - chakra for about an hour.  For a while it felt like it was good for my rib because my neck got sore - like it was before the hubby muckled me and bruised the rib (or whatever it is that happened) - and the rib wasn't as sore.  I thought - aha! - it is good for me to move.  I should keep working on this.

It rolled around to game time and I turned off the Xbox after playing for an hour or so.  Sat on the couch and proceeded to watch the NFL Playoffs.   As the Saints fell to the 49er's; my rib began to get more sore and you can kind of see where it's out of whack so to speak.  It's like a bruised area under my left boob.  Hurts to move in certain positions.  It's a damned nuisance!  As I sat and watched the game it got stiff and when I would move forward it would kind of clack - like there's some sort of movement.  I realized then that the best thing to do would be to take it easy.  We'd gone out Friday night to see War Horse so I decided we'd stay home.  The Patriots game was on anyway......

We ordered pizza, watched the Patriots red-ass spank the Bronchos and I took it easy.  Today we did church and then I beached on the couch to watch Baltimore beat Houston to advance against the Patriots (good luck with that) and am watching the Giants at Green Bay.  The game is closer than I thought it would be.

However, getting on and off the couch is a challenge.  I have the laptop fired up here and I intend to stay here tonight.  Thank goodness for a 3-day weekend and I can take it easy until I need to go to the casino for the cookware for the daughter and then take my folks to the doctor.  We'll see how things look on Tuesday as to whether I go to the doctor or  not.  I am hoping that staying still will do the trick.

But I really - REALLY - want to play the video game.  I  am also very disappointed in myself that I didn't follow my own advice and stay away from it until the rib is better.  What is it that makes us do the things we know we shouldn't?  Drive too fast, wear shoes that hurt and push ourselves even when we are hurt....it's an illness.  It's a silly personal competitiveness that doesn't make any sense at all.  The whole concept of the game - Leela - is to look within and go with the flow.  I am not flowing too well here.

In addition - isn't it time to act my age?  Realize that as a middle-aged woman I need to stop and see the signs the Universe is throwing my way?  Sore/bruised rib = take it easy!  At my age I really should know better.

Now....back to football.

the trouble with staying on track

Every intention was set for closing the old blog and starting up this new one.  The rebranding had begun and it felt good.  Like the Burning Bowl and White Stone ceremonies of the first of the year I felt cleansed and renewed; unfettered from the past.  I felt ready to blog again and even got a suggestion from my brother in law that I was going to write about that coincided with the Rose Parade.  A funny family story where my father, holding my 2-year old brother sat through the camp stool he was sitting on.  He landed on his ass on the sidewalk on Pasadena Boulevard.   It's a classic family story and I fully intended to write about it.  However, one thing got in my way - the XBox I got for Christmas.

At first it was good fun with the family.  We'd play Dance Central or another game together.  We would enjoy the dance challenges and work up winter post-holiday sweats dancing to songs that the younger ones knew but the hubby and I really didn't.  There was a fun, silly element of flailing in front of the television.  Instead of parked on the sectional watching television we were up dancing around to this amazing technology that made us the controller in a video game.  With the purchase of a cheapo arcade game we never got around playing Body-Brain Connection because I made a selfish mistake.  I purchased Leela for myself and my life changed. 

Hours were spent trying to align my chakras with this game.  I worked it for almost 2 hours one day trying to get my Sacral Chakra level completed.  By the time I had completed the level my hips were so dang sore.  Not excruciating but that nagging "you are not as young as you used to be" pain.  It was a humbling moment for sure.  On some levels it hurt my feelings but then on another I realized that this was all a part of the adventure we're on.

It was a good thing that the hubby and I went away for a weekend to Flagstaff as it gave my middle-aged body - and psyche - a rest.  We had a great time staying a haunted hotel and having a fabulous meal.  As we did 35 years ago; we danced in the Monte Vista Lounge.  We felt cold and we felt alive. 

A day back and a bear hug later I have a bruised rib to go along with my bruised ego.  I am seeing as a gift from the Universe.  Don't work so hard on your chakras and make it competitive with this video game.  Take it slow.  Breathe.  Blog.

hello world

Isn't that the phrase they have you use when starting a new web page?  Not sure, not really important either.  Suffice to say - here I am.  The blogger formerly known as houndog2 transformed into a new persona - AZHbomb.  The time has come to change, to rebrand and to find a place to blog that fits my life now.

The old blog will still be there to reflect upon and to go back to see the rantings of my former self. 
This new blog will be here to reflect the 2nd half of my life and my present self.