Even Happy People Have Pet Peeves

Have you ever heard that cats always land on their feet? I have been witness to this phenomenon, having always been a cat lover of sorts. Cats are not my pet peeve, but do have a place in this blog that you will find out about later.

No matter how happy you are, I am certain that you have at least one 'Pet Peeve'. I have a few, however, was reminded of one this morning as I cooked some eggs and toast for breakfast. As I was buttering the toast I recalled this pet peeve. There is nothing worse than trying to butter a piece of soft cold bread with hard cold butter. How many times have you gone to a nice restaurant and been presented with beautiful slices of soft fluffy bread only to find that the butter they also brought you was frozen to the point that it had condensation on the surface from the warm air. Now, if you attempt to butter the bread with this you will end up with a perfect piece of circular crust that only has one purpose. Bring it up to your face, look through it at the others at the table and say: Romper, Stomper, Bomper Boo. Tell me tell me tell me do. Magic Mirror tell me today did all my friends have fun today...... If you were born after 1980 you are probably thinking MentalWard would have been a better name for this blog, but it was taken, I checked.

My other pet peeve is when you have nice warm soft butter to put on the soft fluffy bread and you drop it before getting to eat it. Murphy makes sure that the bread always lands butter side down which does not leave open the option of the '5-second rule'. It is impossible to dust the specs off the butter. And picking them off one at a time is a tedious affair. Okay the germaphobes just left screaming, "omg she is really going to eat the bread that hit the floor".

After recalling this pet peeve I was led to a never-ending question I have had most of my life and will probably never have the answer to because I cannot initiate the experiment.

If you strap a piece of buttered bread butter side up to the back of a cat and throw the cat in the air (not high enough to hurt the kitty), will the cat still land on its feet? Or will Murphy Win?

MentalWard, PsychoWard, Really? Finding a Name for my Blog

When a friend asked me a couple of years ago, "when are you going to start a blog?", I laughed and said never. Yet, here I sit this morning writing my first blog, after an hour and a half of 'name not available'. It became a game, choosing a name for my blog, searching random names such as 'mentalward, psychoward, really?'. Yep, really, was taken also.

I decided that creating a blog would be a good idea as we move into the New Year, the ascension, the shift, the 'I don't know if the Mayans were messing with us' period of human confusion or is that consciousness. . . The Partzheimers (I only remember parts) sometimes kicks in and I am not certain. Of course, a lot of people are uncertain of what is actually occurring in these changing times. The only certainty is that people have questions, and I hope I can provide some answers through this blog . . . at least for a few.

I know a couple of people who have the 'habit' of being happy all the time. And yes, it is a habit. A habit is something that you do unconsciously without thought; how we create habits is through repetition. Unfortunately I know many more people with the habit of being 'unhappy'. Habits are those things that rule our lives, and once you develop a habit by training your brain to make it an unconscious part of your routine, it is difficult to break it. There are quite a few ways that habits are created. We consciously do things over and over and eventually we do them without thinking about it. Such as locking your car when you get out of it. Habits are also created by the language that we use to talk to ourselves and by the generic responses that we give to others,

What you say to yourself when you first wake up in the morning sets the entire tone for your day. Do you have the habit of saying "ugh its Monday, I have to go to work?" or do you say "woohoo its Monday and I am alive!".

What self talk habits are designing your day, week, year....your life? Are your moments filled with Joy or Sorrow and how are you affecting that?