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What are the 4 hormones of happiness? Dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin. You can boost levels of these hormones with some simple lifestyle changes, like diet, exercise, and meditation, and possibly improve your mood in the process. I had to google to find the neurotransmitters that give us joy.😊 I am a person who is…
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This was a hectic week but a lot of spring cleaning was done. My husband was out in the yard trying to do some work. We may need outside help, but he has began the work. Meanwhile, I was picking up dresses that were not worn in ages. Our favorite charity is Vietnam Veterans. They…
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April is A to Z Blogging challenge. So what is A to Z challenge? Postings will be made in alphabetical order except Sundays. I have been following bloggers the past few years but never attempted to do it. http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/what-is-blogging-from-to-z.html This year I have a theme for A to Z challenge and I decided to participate.…
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I wrote a blog two years ago saying how hard it is to celebrate a festival that I am doing today because of my son’s obsession towards jaggery. Jaggery Me and my husband had decided not to buy any jaggery at all because of so many health issues for my boy and i fact I…
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Are you superstitious? Our religion and culture emphasize on some superstition but somethings we develop on our own.😊 I need my right foot to land when I am climbing up or down the stairs. I will not finish my entire coffee, there will be a little left over in a cup. I have strong memory…
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Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? I was never an introvert. I loved being among people but with my son’s autism things were hard. His sensory processing issues really makes him look as if he is anti social. Ha, I am a Mom on mission. We have worked our way to socialize.…
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Snow squalls and wind hit us today reminding winter is not over, but I hate this day! I think this is the second time I blogging about time change. I had my alarm on at 7 am and do you know how hard it is to wake up to an alarm on Sunday? If I…
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Where would you go on a shopping spree? It has been a while I have gone to India and so saree shopping has just been online or someone else buying me one. But why not make a trip to few of Indian cities and get one piece from each city as a souvenir. I can…
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I have a very busy day ahead of me. I need to engage my special one and it is Maha Shivarathri today. My younger one being home, I want him to be part of the celebrations. One aspect of Shiva Raatri is the abhishekam we do for the Lingam. Lord Shiva is not much of…
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What is the last thing you learned? This is a prompt thay showed up last Bloganuary and I had made up my mind to skip it. But then I learned something new as I pulled my peeler to peel the carrots. This new peeler needed a trick or you would hurt your hand. Yes, finally…
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This week Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is all about pairs. I loved here pictures and I just browsed my photo history on my phone and landed up a few of my phone. Sunflowers from my garden A pair of orange lamps at Dunkin Donuts. Two flavors of ice cream. A pair of birds from Shuka…
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With some meal plan in mind I entered the grocery store today. But as I started picking up and as the cart started getting filled up, my brain just got overwhelmed. What was that overwhelming, it was drizzling outside and I was just overthinking how am I going to get them all inside. But when…
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For Christmas this year, I ordered a gift for our entire family. It was a scratch off chart to show the states we have visited in the US. Along with it we got an additional scratch off chart, The National Parks scratch off. This made me curious as a I started browsing about National Parks.…
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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? If I could get my 500 word blog read by an audience I am thrilled. So my first words would be “Thank you my friends for opening my autobiography .” Now it is upto them to stop there or go further. In this age of vlogs and…
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What experiences in life helped you grow the most? There is a proverb in my language, தன் கையே தனக்கு உதவி, to translate it, our own hand is our help or to it’s English equivalent “Self help is the best help.” I have experienced this many times in my life and I have felt more energized…
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February weather was much better than January. More sunny days than cloudy days. I had a list of tasks to be completed by my special one for February and nothing was accomplished. But we did something different than our original plans. Last week of February, as I erased my tasks written on the white board…
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Do you enjoy your job? I wear too many hats and have multiple jobs. I love my job as a wife, being a partner of my household and making important decisions for my family. I love my job as a special needs mother to an autistic young adult. Every minute of his day needs to…
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It felt like Spring on Monday as I took a picture of these beautiful snow drops. All of a sudden the temperature dropped today afternoon and snow flakes started flying around . The wind made sure we had our jackets zipped up and the snow dropsjust a memory? So I checked my weather app and…
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My son’s program has a Home in the Community called Connecting Me Home. I have written about it a couple of times of the activities we have done there. I tell myself I need to take my boy there often but it get missed due to so many reasons. I take my husband for moral…
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Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on. The first time I put on a light bulb all by myself I was elated. Call me spoiled person I have never done any DIY projects on my own. Let alone an ambitious one. My husband has put together some shelves and built an indoor…
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