Brain Jewelry & Birthdays

Yikes, where did the last week go? I have tried to be so good about blogging every day but it's been almost a week. Shame on me. Oh well I have blogged way more in the last month than I have in the last 2 years so hey, that's something.

OK so in my last blog I was whining, yes I admit it, whining about having to repeatedly make the same beads or stitched tubes over and over. I was being a giant baby and then...what do I see on TV? A report on talent and how practice, repetitively performing the same tasks over and over can help build myelin in the brain.

To keep this simple, you can google it yourself, but myelin is like insulation of the brain pathways. The thicker the myelin on the connections the faster your brain cells can fire. It's like going from dial up to a high speed connection. I found this fascinating and if I were a better person I would say I will never again complain about repetitive tasks but hey, that's probably not going to happen. But I will remind myself when I feel crabby about it that I am increasing my brain function and my talent.

Sooo, today is my sweet husbands 50th birthday. It's a wonderful thing to celebrate but he is not taking it well. I wish I could convince him that age is just a number but he is feeling his mortality.
I have made up cards, 50 of them, with 50 different reasons to love being 50. I will scatter them about the house, tuck them in his lunch and tape them on the bathroom mirror. Hopefully something in there will help him see that life is not over and the best is yet to be.

I personally have loved every one of my 48 years. They haven't all been easy but believe it or not there are only 2 things in my whole life I would change. I firmly believe the past is what makes you who you are so I have no regrets, I have learned and grown from all I have been through and will continue until I leave this earth and head to the next adventure.

Don't you just love new adventures? As long as I am able I will continue to experience everything I can. For when I am old and drooling, wetting my diapers and confused as to who everyone is I want to spend my days reliving all my great adventures instead of regretting the things that I never tried or wishing I had done this or that.

They say only the good die young so I think I will be here a long, long time. :-)