Day 118 - Chillen and sorting

Today I went to day two of training - and over all it was a lot of fun - There was a guy that talked about using humor, hugs and hope in therapy. - I have to say this is a 100 right ) I will use humor at what seem  the most inappropriate times with clients because I have found that this helps them smile and stops their negative thinking cycles, hugs are not a big part of my work but i do use simple touch and will let little kids hug me if they want - There is nothing that is more important than developing hope in people.

After it I got home today I took my kids and father in-law out to Chinese dinner. Then I got home and I got the kids working on cleaning their clothes and cleaning up their rooms and I did the same thing but of course during this work I had to take time chill in a pile of socks - I hate matching socks if I was a millionaire I would buy 365 pair of socks and put them in a basket to take to the cleaners then donate them to goodwill and buy another 365 pair LOL --

Day 117 - Chillen in Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn

Today I went to an all day training for my job - I learned about how to get past resistant clients nothing new but good review - Then Lunch - fired chicken which is one of the things Frankenmuth is known for - I really enjoyed not because it was SO good but it tasted just like my Grand ma's chicken that I have not had in 20 yrs since she passed every bite took me back to eating chicken at Grandma's :) --- then I skipped the afternoon session due to back hurting and not being able to sit in hard chairs - then to end the day I went to ART THERAPY well at least learned some about it :) -- One more day tomorrow :) love training's sometimes -  

Day 116 - chillen at Game #2

Today I was semi mobile with my back hurting but I still got out and tried to help some troubled families. This worked only so far but I did what I had to do -- then it was OFF to my sons 2nd football game! He is mainly playing defense so he gets to RIP OFF THE HEADS - I mean appropriately tackle ball carriers and quarterbacks -- LOL -- Tim AKA TIMBER 2.5 tackles tonight and several pressuring of the QB -- Yep hurting back and all THAT'S MY BOY!

SEE - MY BOY #93 LAYING OUT THE RB -- in action below :) 

Day 115 Chillen with "MY PRECIOUS"

This morning I got up and SLOWLY got ready to go to a meeting for a client at 8am and staff meeting until 11am - normally this is not an issue however today my back was still healing from yesterday - I think it was about 70% functional but BOY that last 30% made the meetings LOOOONGGG and really they were rather short -- so at lunch time I came home and did phone calls and paper work and other stuff to make my job more organized. I think my back is now in the 90% range - thanks to "MY PRECIOUS" heating pad it has made all my dreams come true -- well at least it has made moving around easier :)

Ok trivia - What movie did I steal the title from?

Day 114 - Chillen and healin

Today I was getting ready for work then I bent to pick up a piece of paper and by back decided not to strgihten up pp so that meant I spent the day Chillen on the couch with heat and ice OH yeah and pain :)
So I got to see all the new TV shows that I never watch - I have to say so far I know why I don't watch TV - if they joke were not about sex then they were about well nothing - over all it was a waste of time and killed brain cells - SO -- back to the comforting world of READING :)

Day 113 - Chillen with Daughter by pond

Today my little girl and I decided that we need to to go for a bike ride.. Which by the way I have not done all summer so to say that I needed a rest is hardly an understatement. We road down to the MEGA town of Linden MI which has all of one main street, one gas station, one grocery store but do to your SICK pill taking world we have two pharmacies. There is also a three small restaurants, a bar, a dance studio, a antique store, a toy store, and a sweet shop.

My daughter love the sweet shop and now they sell Latte's I am not against going there either LOL -- so we bought an ice cream for her and a large Vanilla latte for me walk across the road and sit by the ole mill pound -  Then the long route home and then I grab a shower and collapse on then couch and watch the NFL :)

Trivia - who won the Lion's or Vikings?

Day 112 Chillen @ the range

Today's chillen pic was all about fun for the boys - My friend and his two sons me and My son (they one shooting) we all packed up the guns, ammo, bows and arrows and headed off to the public shooting range on Pontiac - It is a very nice facility that has clay target range, long and short shooting range, bow and Arrow range and even a knife/hatch throwing range :) -- all for $4.00 per adult - well worth the money.

We shot a 20, 16, 12, and 410 gauge shotguns - We tried to shoot almost 200 clay targets of which I think we may have hit 20% but I have to say it was a BLAST! LOL -- then we got out all the bows and sighted them in for deer season that is starting next weekend :) - My wife said the testosterone is pumping hard right now -- SHE IS RIGHT!!! well -- for a trivia question : What are the clay targets called that we shot at today? hint not a clay Turkey ;)

Day 111 - Chillen with my ladies Feet

Ok - today I was not feeling well at all so I did a whole lot of nothing - it was a wonderful day outside but I had to sit in the house and finish my reports that I had to from the week of work - so all in all not a bad day. Then we had a late supper of a wonderful pot roast and taters (potatoes for you non country folks) then I went out built a fire and our awesome friends and neighbors next door came over and we talked around the fire for about 3 hours! That makes it very nice evening -

The pic today is a late in the evening sitting and talking picture that has my wife and daughters feet - so today question - can you guess who feet is who's - hint my wife and daughters feet are the same size...

Day 110 Chillen @ lunch

Well today took me the top edge of my work zone which means I am 40 miles from home at lunch time. Seeing that money is tight I packed a lunch. I had not been to this area before but I am always looking for parks and places to kill time or eat lunch. Today I found this very nice park next to the Flint river (not so nice) but not to bad at this point of it. It had a nice little dock with benches and tables for people to enjoy so I did. It was a nice 70(ish) degree day and there was no one else around so I got to enjoy a quite lunch out doors that took some of the negative energy away.

Working with troubled families is Kind of like swimming and getting out of the pool to dry off for a minute or two then you jump in again -- Therapy is often like that - you dive in the negativity and jump out after an hour or two and get file away the negativity that surrounds trouble families for a few minutes you then drive to the next one and jump in again. So I took full advantage of this chillen spot :).

Are my feet on the table or not? take a guess in the comments and I will answer it tomorrow:)

Stay chilled! 

Day 109 chillen @ the fifty yard line

Well today was a very good day - My son played in his first football game -- yep it is a VERY proud DADDY! He did very good and even he got a few tackles and his team WON - wohoo! So what a better place to chill than the 50 yardline :)---

Stay chilled --

Day 108 - chillen @ sunset

Today was a day that humanity was in it full bloom and sadly not in a good way so let me just say I am thankful to be alive and cancer Free - and that I get to see and chill with another God crafted sunset - :)

Stay chilled :)

Day 107 Chillen Dirty

Well first get your mind out of the gutter -- LOL -- Today I had the day off so it was a three day weekend and I really needed a rest from the Counseling world - I have often said priest and counselors get to hear all the things other people don't want to and you need time to release all that garbage and #@$#$ stuff you hear and try to help with or you will just get worn out!

Today of course was one of the rainiest days we have had in like two months and my wife and the sniffles - but she being a trooper and me wanting to get away got in the car and hit the old country roads - Part of the reason I love to live in MI is that if you want to take a ride you can go down old dirt roads and somewhat get away from people. We found a nice county park to sit at and I found some new public land to try for hunting areas -

I have to say that driving on dirt roads today kinda took me back to my redneck roots and my old beat up pickups and all the mudding and what we call 2-tracking (literally two small tire tracks to drive on through the woods if there were any at all :) - yep county boys and girl rednecks playing country style - LOL! Today we just stayed on old dirt roads but in northern MI you can really get away from people if you drive on the 2-tracks (which has advantages for MARRIED people ;) - yep my wife will hit me for typing that LOL --

Stay chilled -- 

Day 106 chillen with family around fire

Ok today was chillen 501 graduate level chillen - all I did was smoke a pork loin and OO yeah it was awesome then I watched football and had a fire with the in-laws and a good glass of wine - AHHHH chillen and feeling good--

Day 105 - Chillen track side

Today's chillen pic was not really the one I wanted but I thought about few things then took this one- 

First I was going to take a chillen pic today at the place that I really chilled at - My son and I were invited to attend a free wild life lunching and gun/bow shoot. This was a real "blast". There was a 15 station clay target range - for you non-shooters you stand on one place and yell pull and these clay target fly over and you try to shoot them. I am proud to say my son shot one more than I did - it is a good thing to lose to your son! makes a dad proud :) I know this may sound odd for some of you but it is a lot of fun! Anyway it was a awesome chillen day but I did not think about getting a pic there (slaps head) but that is because I was chillen all day so it would not have been in the spirit any way (right?) 

The second thing I was going to do is sit on the track and get a chillen pic - but seeing as this was taken right in town I figured I did not want to cause an accident or 911 calls - OMG there is a guy on the tracks!! LOL did not need that! 

So I played it a tad safer for the drivers and I call this one chillen track side :) 

So stay chilled! 

Day 104 - Chillen with fire Bugs

Ok this is what early fall is all about -- chillen with a fire pit :) The goal was to have a quite fire in the new to use fire pit - this however ended up being a fire the attracted all my daughters little fire bugs- so I could not pass the opportunity to chill with the little fire bugs - no children were harmed in the making of this photo - or at least at the time of this writing LOL --

Day 103 - chillen in awe

Ok I will grant you the picture today is an odd one - I stopped on the way home from covering up what is left of our garden because "they" say it is going to frost tonight. I love this spot at sunset so I got there just in time to see the last bright red rays of sunset but here is the thing - I have on these Reebok White tennis shoes and well when the flash went off my chillen pic looks more like two Ghosts watching the sunset  pic - LOL -- but the point is still here -- Another awe inspiring sunset created by this wondrous life that we have been blessed to be alive to see... So ghost or human stay chilled :)

I included a ghost free pic of the sunset so you could really chill for a moment :) 

Day 102 - Chillen @ Sons 1st Football game

Well here it is :))) my boys first football game - this is a time that a Dad is very proud and he is out there rooting and yelling for his boy to rip the head off the other persons child -- such a supportive time LOL -- well this started off well it was 57 and pouring rain - I learned three things --

1 - you could tell parents that have had previous sporting experience they had seat cushions and umbrellas
2 - watching your son play football is very exciting even if he is not on the field that often
3 - No matter how young the cheerleaders are they are still annoying -- LOL --

Stay chilled --

Day 101 - Chillen with Hello Kitty

Ok today has not been a bad day bot meeting after meeting client after client - Crisis after Crisis... So taking time out and about to get a chillen pic was almost done then the phone would ring again LOL -- so I got home and kicked back and chilled - I looked down and saw that I was looking at my daughters Hello Kitty radio - I thought well at the end of the day when you chillen an unexpected or seen object that make you smile is worthy of a chillen pic :)

Stay chilled (as they say down south) YA ALL....

Day 100 - Chilen on a Metaphor

Today in my field I had one of those days that make working in any field better then mine -  ALMOST still could not be  dentist - LOL - OH well --

This is DAY 100! I have thought long and hard about if I have every done anything for100 days in a row that I focused on doing - (not counting basic hygiene stuff) I don't think I have -

I read a book by AJ Jacobs called The Year of Living Biblically where he lived by every law and rule in the Bible and his other book called Mr. Know It all where he read the entire encyclopedia in one year - and thought WHY would some one do that to themselves -- WELL I still don't know but yet here I am LOL

Today's picture is this very tall man made hill in a park not to far from home. I walked up to the bottom of this hill and took 100 steps up and took this picture. As you can tell 100 steps did not get me far - but I was not on the bottom. So the 2 things this make me think -

1 -  Like so many things in life Hill that are created by man can only be climbed one step at a time.  These hills can be poverty, education, substance abuse, emotional or physical abuse, maybe a health condition that we did not care for soon enough - These hills that come into our life have to be climbed with persistence and effort but still one day at a time is the only way to make it to the top!

Second thing ---

2 - This is day 100 out of 365 means I have 265 to go - I am well under way but still have a lot of steps to go. There is no reward for completing this task. There is no real reason to do this no money, no fame, no anything but it feels like I ahve to make it to the top - I have to complete this odd little self induced task. Maybe over all this chillen Feet thing reminds me that I am alive and can enjoy everyday!!!

On to day 101 -- :) Stay chilled --

Day 99 - on 9/11

Today is 10yrs from 9/11 - chillen is all relative on a day like today.

I suppose on Dec 7th 1951 America stopped and did something very similar to what we all are doing today in honor of Dec 7th 1941.

 I just hope and pray that in in the year 2061 we do not have to take time to remember the 10yr mark for a day that transformed America in 2051...

Love those you are around and never forget that America's Freedom has never been nor will it ever be FREE from cost as long as there are people that refuse to believe in Freedom for All.

Day 98 Chillen in Cadillac shadow

Today we spent the day running all around the county hitting yard sales to find Ebay fodder - Over all it was a slow day but I did find a few very cool old cameras and a antique Pepsi carrier and if things go right I will have spent $20 and hope to make around $80 -- well that is until I was looking at all the things I bought and found a book wrote by MLK Jr. that I paid $1 for that sells for around $40 to $150 I LIKE those profits. Then looking at things more carefully I found a manual for a 1918 camera that is in perfect condition! I can not even find an price to list this one for -- I got to say I enjoy going out and doing the whole American Picking thing!

OK all that said the chillen picture - is a very cool old Cadillac that was sitting outside the local store  - The sun was making a very cool shadow and I could not resist in chillen in the shadow of this old beauty!
Oh and by the way there is UM plate on the front making even better -- LOL

 

Day 97 chillen with historical doors -

Today chillen pic really has two fold meaning -

1 - These doors in the chillen pic are over 150yrs old. That means these door were around when Michigan was still a wild untamed county - I think back to 1860(s)  - Flint was a logging town and motor cars were barely heard of much less the motor city... These doors lead into an amazing edifice cathedral that is awe inspiring in an artist sense and a spiritual sense.

2 - The second part of the chillen pic is that as you can see it has an artistic nature to it - I photo-shopped this one in honor of the fact that I took tonight while we were doing the Art walk in downtown Flint. once a month local artist show off their talent and people enjoy the art - PS next month my wife will be displaying there so come on down :)

Until tomorrow stay chilled - 

Day 96 - Chillen @ ole Millpond

Well after a long day of training on stuff that was designed by a bunch of eggheads that you know never worked with troubled families - I call this EGGHEAD SALAD LOL -- after a long painful day of this stuff I had to see a few more clients on the way home - 


The thing about the last two days is as a friend of mine call it - Gremlin filled - just a ton of little things that drive you nuts if you let them - sometimes I really need to just chill in the middle of the day - LOL -- so here is a picture of me at the ole mill pond in our town after another one of these gremlins had struck -- LOL -- I am so glad to be near Friday..

Day 95 - Chillen in the afternoon

Today I got to swing home and have a luch with my darling wife - after lunch I decided I needed a long chill because I needed the rest in between clients - today was a day meant for chillen - it was cloudy slightly rainy and around 60 degrees - AHHH yes that is GOOD chillen weather the type you can just lay back and nap or just relax in :)


I did not have time to nap but I did take a nice 3o min chill no TV - no computer just sitting by my wife and resting and chatting -then it off to save the world again --- The purpose of chillen feet was achieved today :)

Day 94 - Chillen @ Vietnam Memorial

Today I was trying to let some time slide by between clients and I heard about a park near by that had a nice beach. So even though it was 65 degrees today and I had no intention of swimming I thought it might be a nice place to Chill - So I drove you there and I found a very nice park with a beach and this very nicely done Vietnam Memorial - 


It has been 34 years since this "war" ended but the pain and ripple effects still are with the nation - I had to think about all the lives that have been lost to wars played by "leaders" - Wars are really nothing more than huge human chess games that are played for power and greed. I understand that "going" to war is necessarily at time because we are humans and humans do not always have good intentions. Still the loss of life and the pain that fill the vet's, their families, and humans a whole is a deep emotional impact. 


Chillen with a place that sends chills down your spin is an odd feeling - My God grant peace to the world but to do that I suppose he would have to remove humans first.... 

Stay chilled but remember...

  

Day 93- Chillen with a bite

I know I have use the kitten before but they are so cute I had to do it again :) - this little one like to bite well nibble on the toes. As I lay in bed trying to chill and recover from a very high calorie feasting weekend :))) This little girl we call Emma - jumped up and deiced to take a taste - I am not sure I would call it a foot fetish but it is darn close - every time you lay or sit down she will sneak up and and nibble away LOL -- 

Goof thing she is cute LOL 

Day 92 - chillen watching Rio

Today I have been working hard today - I made Strawberry filled Muffins right after waking up - the got my smoker going for super with a chicken covered in my own sweet spicy rub. Then I got a to unplug two sinks shower and then ran to the store to get the makings for my famous and OOO so good baked beans. Then I got motivated to make a home made apple pie - Soo after a very fantastic supper we sat down and chilled watching the movie Rio -- Stay chilled ya all --

Day 91 - Chillen with my Children

Today I took my kidos out to do the annual pre-school clothes shopping. I have to say I do not know where the idea that just because kids go back to school they need all new clothing but I would imagine that is was some CEO of a clothing store that marketed the idea - LOL --

I know many men would not be able to chill at the Mall but I can - See I like to go to the mall! I really like to watch the people and all the lights and sounds. Yes! I even like the shopping - I think that comes from being  poor growing up - When you get to go buy new stuff it makes you feel better about life. I don't have a lot of money in life in fact more times than not we are just trying to make it. I took the kids to like three different  stores for savings and we got all they needed,k thanks to Some help from G-ma for some clothe, for about $130 and we saved according to the receipts $250 --- I still don't know how I saved $250 when I spent $130 but I get the idea --

Well we sat down on the little fountain and chilled for a few - the kids think the chillen feet is fun so they got into the action today :)

Day 90 - Chillen with Mr. Bean

Today I have been working on many things and it is 100 stinking degrees in MI on Sept 2

So I needed a good laugh - 

So I found Mr. Bean AKA Rowan Atkinson in real life - doing stand up - SO I just had to do my chill out with a good laugh -- I love his acting as Bean but he is even funny as a stand up!!  

Stay chilled - 

Day 89 - Chillen with my new games

Ok -- it is true - I am a gamer LOL -- I love technology and still love to play video games even at my age - in my travels today I found the newest Tiger woods golf and Madden NFL games buy one get one free :) so I bought them and have listed my old ones.

I don't get time to play them much but I like to chill and let my mind vegetate for an hour or two :) This is one of the things I have learned is that I have been able to get many teens and kids to talk to me over the years because I am a gamer - They feel a connection to me and that opens the door for them to talk -- so you see I really am doing this for the good of my profession LOL ---

Stay chilled people --