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Happy Haiku-versary, Jenn!

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

This week’s theme is: Challenge!

to be unsure again
be challenged, rise to the bait!
and test your limits

Next week’s theme: Travel

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Happy Haiku-versary to ALL!

(and if you join, tell Jenn I sent you! xoxo)

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

Today is...National Stress Awareness Day

To raise the importance of dealing properly with stress, the Health Resource Network(HRN) started the Stress Awareness Day in 1992

All living things experience stress everyday, in varying degrees and frequencies. It is a normal body reaction to threatening events -- real or imagined. If we feel imminent danger, we automatically go into flight or fight mode called the stress response.

Stress could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how one looks at it.

Proper stress management can be beneficial. It can make you perform better at a faster pace, can make you stay alert and focused on the task at hand.

But inability to cope with external stressors can have an effect on our health, both physical and emotional.

According to CSM, Center for Stress Management, the following symptoms are indications of stress overload and therefore must attended to immediately.

Alcohol/drug abuse

Avoidance/phobias

Sleep disturbances/insomnia

Increased nicotine/caffeine intake

Restlessness

Loss of appetite/overeating

Anorexia, bulimia

Aggression/irritability

Poor driving

Accident proneness

Impaired speech/voice tremor

Poor time management

Compulsive behaviour

Checking rituals

Tics, spasms

Nervous cough

Low productivity

Withdrawing form relationships

Clenched fists

Teeth grinding

Type A behaviour e.g. talking/walking/eating

faster;competitive; hostile;

Increased absenteeism

Decreased/increased sexual activity

Eat/walk/talk faster

Sulking behaviour

Frequent crying

Unkempt appearance

Poor eye contact

Take the Stress test HERE

If you think you are stressed out already, you can try doing these relaxing things. It can be done at no cost at all, easy to do, and definitely works!

Say NO.
Read.
Laugh out loud.
Play with children.
Hug someone.
Pray.
Run in the park, or walk around the block (if there no parks)
Say a silent prayer.
Watch the sun set.
Look out the window and look at something green.
Do some stretching.
Have a good cry.
Take a deep breath and count 1 to 10, or 100
Hum a tune.
Have tea, especially chamomile.
Write.
Take a shower.
Light scented candles
Talk to a friend.
Write.

Ruby Tuesday @ the Moriones Festival

(initially uploaded from my FS Lerma)

MORIONES FESTIVAL at Marinduque Island

Holy Week - Boac,Magpoc, Marinduque

One of the most famous of Philippine festivals. Colorfully garbed and masked as Roman soldiers and centurions, locals reenact the life of Longinus culminating in his beheading. The entire towns of Boac, Morpog and Gasan are virtually converted into huge stages as the story as Longinus unfolds.

related posts:

Comic Strip #6

About Life According to Garfield

What a cat! A cat for all seasons. Sassy. Opinionated. This lasagna loving, mailman chasing, sarcastic cat is a classic that readers love. Garfield, Odie and Jon will leave you wanting a daily dose of this beloved bunch! Garfield's crafty talent with words and sneaky preference for practical jokes often leave his owner, Jon - and us - speechless, and always wanting more.

Mother's Day

That's my mom, who will be 62 on the 15th of this Month. She was not so energetic as she used to be with hypertension and diabetes bothering her.

Tomorrow will be Mother's Day (May 10) so I thought writing about her here. We never really got along well because when she wants one thing, I would want something else.

She wants control, I want freedom. She fusses over us so much I felt so stifled. I would want space when he would always want togetherness, closeness that it was almost an invasion of me.

Though we both hurt each other at some points in our lives, I love her just the same and I promise to take care of her.

happy mother's day, Ma!

Mellow Yellow Monday in St Joseph Parish Church

St Joseph Parish Church, Canlubang, Laguna, Philippines on Jzen's baptismal (my friend Sol's youngest)

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