Ugh! I just want to scream. No wait, I can’t ‘cause screaming would hurt & damage my voice so I’ll change that to I want to yell really loud and smack something.  I confess that sometimes learning new things is over rated. Each time I try to make a step toward enhancing things with my business I feel like I’m going uphill and sliding down several times. It serves me right for trying to figure out everything on my own.  But I’m slowly getting it.
    I haven’t considered sharing all of my real-time up & downs of how all of this is going until while reading several online tips through Pinterest links I realized that I should be writing more and allotting time in my schedule to switch this from hobby status to a functioning business.  I have found a few more helps such as www.canva.com which allows me to improve my social media look on Facebook to design my cover photo.  My not so momentary frustration today has come through learning how to make an image transparent.  Granted that I’m still learning and only got part of it down which is making me repeat a somewhat easy task several times (over a ½ hour) to get an image right. The program that is almost working for me (almost because I haven’t learned yet how to do some undo and other commands in it) is through www.online-image-editor.com . Anyway, I’m slowly getting it but wanted to get it a long time ago. I can’t tell exactly how much real time I’ve struggled with this today because I’ve had many interpretations to walk away from the computer to fulfill my mom duties to kids. It’s probably a good thing though so I can’t really focus and know how much time I’ve really struggled today.
   Now I will just need to remember to write when I have some more successes to balance all of my frustration from my learning curses. Oh wait again, that's a good reason for me to have other categories within my blog too.  I've added two new categories for my posts. They are: Feel Good Stories & Gifts For The Soul. I want this & in general myself to stay on the sunny side and hope to balance life's frustrations with  posts for these categories too.

In an effort to do something uplifting with my teenage boys I sometimes do an internet search for positive videos for us to watch together.  Most of the time these kind of videos or at least the ones we stumble upon are only a few minutes long. I usually pick the first one and after we watch that one more times than not my boys want to watch more so I let them pick a few also for us to watch.

Oh, and did I mention that this is an evening activity for us. Since most of my family are movie / video / T.V. junkies (because I am one and created somewhat video addicts) this activity works well as a way to gather them and teach them with the perk of getting them ready for bed. Getting ready for bed and bedtime routines has always been difficult for my family. So any evening quiet time to talk or do something to whine down is always nice.

Anyway, we found this video on the Ten Commandments that we enjoyed. It’s not your typical Ten Commandments story with Moses but talks about how only a few of these Ten Commandments are seen as popular views today. But in truth, all of the Ten Commandments are needed today and I believe our societies and people today would be better off if ALL of the Ten Commandments were adhered to.

This slang word  came to my mind, when I watched this news video, because of the positive attitude and responses of a young gentleman's dedication, hard work, excitement, and even luck - that during the glimpse of his experience as part of a basketball team HE WAS NOT AN UNDERDOG. When I was in high school I didn't experience or witness someone be treated nice or cheered on despite or because they were more disadvantaged than others. My own bubble and personal thoughts at times were:  I'm on the outside or I'm slow, or I'm not this or that; but not as much  as (fill in the blank). I thought about me and what I needed to know or do so I won't be viewed or thought of as dumb, unacceptably weird, or embarrassing. I omit that I was more typical of a teenager, thinking more about myself then others, than I realized. And I believe that others can relate a little to my reveal of normalcy and that's why this video just makes everyone feel good. It's nice and refreshing and even exciting to see and hear about people who are nice, that build up, and cheer for the underdog instead of ignoring them or putting them down. It's good to let go of our pride, selfishness, simpleminded thoughts and actions so we can cheer on the underdog.

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