Waching daily Jul 18 2017

You�re Burning Out 11 Signs You�re More Than Just Tired�

By Raven Ishack

Whether you�re an overachiever or you just have a lot on your plate at the moment, working

24/7 can be detrimental for your health. Without even realizing it, signs of burning out can

slowly creep up on you and next thing you know, you�re feeling cranky, tired and just

downright awful.

While it�s sometimes hard to resist the urge to work around the clock, especially

when you�re trying to get ahead of your career, you need to make sure you�re taking

mental breaks every once in a while to help keep you feeling refreshed.

�The longer you let these symptoms continue without heeding their call and making changes

to your schedule/life, the greater your chances of burnout, and eventually, possibly, depression

or other mental illness. This is why it�s so important to pay attention to these signs

and symptoms, to take them seriously, and to seek help in overcoming them as needed,�

says clinical psychologist, speaker, and founder of AZ Postpartum Wellness Coalition Christina

G. Hibbert, Psy.D. in an interview with Bustle over email. If you�re not sure whether or

not you�re heading down this mentally-frustrating road, here are 11 signs you�re about to

burn out sooner than later.

1. You�re No Longer Motivated By Day-To-Day Routine

According to research conducted by Post-it Brand, on average, U.S. office workers feel

they attend three unnecessary work meetings per week, which could ultimately lead to feeling

burnout. If you feel like your week is getting out of control, try to begin each week by

taking the time to list out your goals or tasks. This can help prioritize which are

more important than others and reorganize your week.

2. You�re Exhausted

If you can�t pick yourself up to do your normal everyday tasks, you might want to reevaluate

your situation. �If you find you have little energy for things you used to be able to handle

with no problem, and especially if you feel little motivation, that�s a sure sign of

burnout. Fatigue and exhaustion are your body�s way of telling you something needs to change;

that the pace you�re keeping isn�t working for you, and that you�d better slow down

and make some changes if you want to stay healthy and happy,� says Hibbert.

3. You�re Feeling Sad

While it�s normal to feel down every once in a while, it�s not healthy to be experiencing

this emotion all the time. �Additionally, feelings of sadness, depression, or despair

can be common as you get closer to burning out, and will only get worse if not heeded

and treated,� says Hibbert.

4. You Have Low Self-Esteem

Don�t beat yourself up if you haven�t been able to keep up with your tasks; you

might be experiencing burnout without even realizing it. �You may feel down on yourself

because you�re not able to �do� as much as you used to, or because you can�t keep

up with your busy lifestyle or schedule. This is your mind�s way of telling you, �Slow

down. Give yourself a break. You�re burning out!�� says Hibbert.

5. You Feel Overwhelmed

You can figure out if you�re feeling burnout or not by simply listening to your thoughts.

�Things that used to be no problem may feel like a weight dragging you down. You may hear

yourself saying, �I can�t handle my life!� Or, �I wish life would just slow down for

a while!� These are signs that you probably should slow down for a while,� says Hibbert.

6. Your Outlook Has Become More Negative

A quickfire way to figure out if you�re about to burn out or not is by simply analyzing

how you�re viewing the world. Are you looking at it with rose-colored glasses, or are you

only seeing the bad things happening around you? �You feel generally negative towards

something or just everything in general and don�t optimistically look on the bright

side of situations. Bleak is the new norm,� says CEO and founder of BLAWNDE Annie Lawless.

7. You�re Making More Mistakes Than Normal

�[You�re] overwhelmed to the point where you are making mistakes you shouldn�t be

or normally wouldn�t make,� says CEO & Founder of Sugarlash Courtney Buhler �Learn how

to say no when you feel overwhelmed or have too much on your plate.� This is important.

Never let your work control your life to the point where you are drowning in your own stress.

Take a step back and breathe so you can regroup and do your work well.

8. You�re Rushing Through Your Work

Rushing through your work will never make all your problems going away. In fact, you

could actually be doing more damage in the long run if you�re not careful. �We have

big audacious goals to achieve, a life of purpose to fulfill. That is good. But too

often, we think we have to rush to get everything done and we burn our energy and sometimes

more; our creativity, and relationships at work and home,� says influential CEO and

leadership expert Caren Merrick in an interview with Bustle over email.

9. You�re Complaining A Lot More

�Rushing through a meeting, instead of thinking about what we want to achieve ahead of time

� we complain about all the unproductive, pointless meetings we attend, and rushing

is a big reason why they are unproductive,� says Merrick. While it doesn�t just have

to pertain to work, constantly expressing negative thoughts could indicate that you�re

just not happy with your current life situation because you could be feeling burnout.

10. Your Brain Shuts Down

If you�re overworking yourself, you could be preventing your brain from recharging properly.

�The first thing to notice is when you�re running on empty and about to burnout; when

you feel your thinking get sluggish and less sharp, you feel light-headed, irritable, hungry,

or short-tempered,� says holistic wellness coach Pax Tandon in an interview with Bustle

over email.

11. You�d Rather Be Alone

If you�re feeling burnout, you probably want to conserve as much energy as possible,

which could mean you rather spend time along to recharge than hang out with friends. �You

have a lack of interest in spending time with others and participating in social settings,�

says Lawless. But this might actually be a good thing if you take a break from everyone

and everything. �Whatever it is that you�re doing too much of � working, exercising,

going out with people, traveling � stop. Give yourself a 1-2 week break from the thing

or things that are causing you to become burned out.�

It�s never too late to pick yourself up from burning out. Make sure you�re taking

good care of yourself and focus on what needs to change. The only way you�re going to

prevent yourself from possibly burning out is by taking charge of

your life once and for all.

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Family Karma How To Release Energetic Ties From Your Ancestors - Duration: 7:04.

Family Karma How To Release Energetic Ties From Your Ancestors

By: Leda De Zwaan

This article is on family karma, energetic ties, and your family being your biggest trigger,

and teacher.

What is family karma?

Family karma is the karma of your ancestral bloodline, from your parents down to you.

Say your father was the most spiritually developed within his family and he had five siblings,

he would be the carrier of �energetic blockages� in the karmic family line. He is carrying

this burden from when he was born and will continue to do so his whole life, unless he

releases it. It is a passing down of energy either through physical and verbal means,

or completely energetic and subconscious.

It can affect the way in which you interact with your family on an unconscious level.

If you consider yourself sensitive and are born out of two spiritually burdened parents,

it can seem like you�re carrying twice the load. Many of us don�t naturally get along

with our parents, and sometimes this has to do with energetic ties to past experiences.

Everything is fundamentally energy, so our consciousness exists beyond physicality and

our understanding of linear time.

We have experienced life before this incarnation. Many of the people in your family are consciousness

you have known before this life, and have chosen to come to Earth together. Depending

on the path of your past, you may have chosen to take on a more intense life to balance

out your karma.

We are Source consciousness projecting itself onto the 3D to better understand itself. From

this perspective, there is no good or bad; there just is. So, many have chosen to experience

a life as a killer, and the killed to gain more insight from both perspectives and better

understand the nature of reality.

You and your mother may have had karmic building experiences in the past, anything from hurting

another to refusing to learn a lesson. Everything needs to balance, so if you caused a lot of

destruction in your past life, you may be at the other end of it during this life.

Family patterns get passed on from all the way back from ancestors, to great grandparents,

to grandparents to parents, to you. For example, your grandma�s theme was being too mild.

She always took care of other people and let herself be used by everyone. Grandpa�s theme

could be something alcoholism and smoking.

Your mother�s theme then translates to a self sacrificial energy. This can look a unfocused

attention, lack of love for oneself or her children. These traditions get passed down

in the exact same way oppression, false truth and hierarchy do. It perpetuates the system

and keeps the mass consciousness a a lower, dense level.

You, as a child of your parents, have the DNA karma of what has been passed down to

you. It could be incredibly mild or extremely intense. It is very specific to each of us.

Traits of you being the carrier of family karma:

� You are the most spiritually developed person and the most conscious one amongst

your parents and siblings.

� You�ve always felt different from your family; you�ve felt a grave distance to

who they are and how they behave.

� Sometimes you inexplicably fall ill and have the feeling you are carrying the weight

of the world on your shoulders.

� You have been entangled in bizarre family matters more than once.

� You recognize family patterns in your parents and ancestors, and you actually understand

it enough to change it.

So how do you cut all the energetic cords?

People may not resonate with the part of you that is �different� and at odds with their

outlook on life. Releasing the ties to the parental energy means first and foremost to

release the energy from your own mind and emotions. It is about looking within and finding

out to what extent you live by your parents� set of illusions, by their do�s and don�ts

which were based on fear and judgment.

Once you are clear about this and you are able to let that go, you will be free to forgive

them and really �leave the parental house.� It is only after you sever the cords on the

inner level and take responsibility for your own life that you can really let your parents

be.

You will have clearly said �no� to their fears and illusions, but at the same time

you will see that your parents are not identical with their fears and illusions. They also

are cosmic travelers simply trying to fulfill their soul mission.

Once you feel this, you can feel their innocence and you can forgive. They did their best,

to love you, in a way that they could. If you can feel in your heart that they did their

best, even when best seems lackluster � they did what they knew how to do.

In a sense you have been the victim of your parents � your parents might have represented

ego based consciousness in your childhood. You have temporarily and partly lived according

to their illusions. In a way you had no choice, as their child. However to transcend your

sense of being the victim here is one of the most powerful breakthroughs you can have in

your life.

How can you transform family patterns?

It takes deep introspection and sometimes meditation to get to the core of any reoccurring

problems in your life.

They are the result of behavioral patterns that, once fully understood, you can start

to change.

It takes time and it all starts with the choice: � I want to be my own master, my own energy

my own soul, my own karma-carrier. I am My own carrier.�

You are filled with power! One of the first steps is simply believing that

you are�

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Blind vs. Blindfolded - Travel Edition (feat. Spankie Valentine) - Duration: 10:27.

[music plays]

TOMMY: So far I'm undefeated in this game. Let's see if I can put

another W in the win column.

It's time for another edition of Blind vs Blindfolded.

Now today we're joined by a special guest. This is the great

Spankie Valentine. How are you? SPANKIE: I'm good. How are you?

TOMMY: Just fine. Thank you. Now we met Spankie at an event at YouTube Space LA.

So tell everybody a little bit about yourself and your channel please.

SPANKIE: Yeah, so I do a couple of things on my channel as one

aspect and then I do comedy, fashion and beauty

as another aspect. And we just like to have a good time.

TOMMY: Alright, for today's video we're going to see who's better at doing everyday

tasks that you might encounter while you're traveling and staying in a hotel room

all without sight. Someone who's blind since birth like myself,

or somebody's who's had the gift of sight their entire life

that we're just going to blindfold. So, how do you think you're going to do?

SPANKIE: I think I'm going to fail miserably. TOMMY: Oh, with that attitude...

SPANKIE: I think it will be glorious,

but I think I'm going to rack up several bruises along the way.

TOMMY: Alright, you have a blindfold there. Do you want to put it on?

SPANKIE: Yes. Alright, I am fully

closed off. TOMMY: Alright, how many fingers am I holding up?

SPANKIE: Very funny. Wait, wait, wait.

Yes! Alright, we got two. TOMMY: Alright, then let's find out who's

better at being blind.

[music plays]

TOMMY: One of the more difficult things to do on the road that would be a lot easier at home

is in the bathroom trying to identify which bottle contains the shampoon,

the conditioner, and the hand lotion because often times

they come in bottles that feel exact same. For this challenge,

the one who can get the most out of three correct is going to be our winner.

In the event of a tie, the person that does it in the fastest amount of time, will be the winner.

SPANKIE: Okay. Oh my gosh, I'm like really nervous

right now. Okay, here they are. These two feel

the same and this - no, crap.

They all feel very similar so...

I'm going to try [sniff]

oh, what does that even smell like? That kind of feels like

a lotion to me I think -

oh my gosh, there's so much. It's like all over the place now.

Uh.... I don't even know how this sink works.

Okay. Let's try this one.

[sniff] This...

No, this is definitely a cleanser. I'm feeling like

that could be a shampoo...

Oh my gosh.

Is this [sniff] - they all smell like exactly

the same to me and...

Ohhhh!

This is impossible! I feel like this is the

shampoo. I feel like this is the conditioner.

And I think this is the lotion.

TOMMY: Alright, I've got my three bottles right here

and all I have to figure out which is which. Now, what I'm going to do

is feel how they feel in my hands. Right, so we'll just turn on a little bit of

water here. Now, what I normally

do this, I do this in the shower. And I just

pour it on my head. And try and figure out which is which.

That's got a pretty nice lather. I think that's going to be the shampoo.

The problem is going to be with these two to figure out which is which.

Okay, that doesn't do much. That doesn't do much at all.

So I'm going to say that is the lotion.

And by process of elimination then this has to be the hair conditioner.

But we'll just feel it and see how it works.

Ohhhh.....

Yes! Absolutely right.

Okay, so I feel very comfortable about this. So...

this is the shampoo.

That is the cream rinse or the

conditioner. And this one here is the hand lotion.

TOMMY: So Spankie, how do you think you did? SPANKIE: Ohhh, I have absolutely

no idea. I thought it was going to be way easier, but they just

felt very similar.

And smelled very similar. TOMMY: I think I did pretty well.

I think I got them right, but I think I might have taken a long time. So, Ben,

how many did each one of us identify correctly?

BEN: Okay, well, Spankie. You identified

three correctly. SPANKIE: Yeah!

Alright, okay. BEN: Tommy,

you identified zero correctly.

TOMMY: Holy mackerel. Wow, I had them all backwards.

Good for you. SPANKIE: Oh my gosh.

[music plays]

TOMMY: Another thing that happens is trying to learn how to use the phone correctly.

Whether you want to call another room or even room service. So for this challenge,

each of us is going to have to call a room. And the person that does it

in the shortest amount of time will be our winner. Just a quick note,

we have to dial 7 before a dial a room number, so we'll both be dialing

7... 2... 1... 9 and trying to reach our friend Dirty Hollywood who's standing by.

SPANKIE: Okay, um, alright, so...

All I know is generally there's like a bunch

of buttons on

the bottom that call other things and then I feel

like, okay, 1... 2... 3 - I think those are my main

buttons and this is like a star or a pound or something.

I think this is 0. I think this is 7.

And then 2... 1...

And then I believe 9 if I remember correctly.

Nothing is happening. Maybe I pushed the wrong

buttons or... oh, wait.

This isn't even - oh my gosh, this isn't even plugged in.

This is cordless. I have no idea how to turn this on.

Um... oh, wait! We got a

dial tone. But now can I dial on

here? 1... 2... 3...

4... oh my gosh. There are so many buttons.

Can I still dial from --- oh no!

Let's try this again. Hang up. Oh no!

I don't know how to hang up. [laughs]

This is a disaster.

Hang up. Okay.

Dial tone. Nothing. No! I don't know how to use

this at all. I'm totally useless.

Will this do it? You know what? I'm just going to go

an bang on doors in the hallways and hope

that I can find --- wait, I got a dial tone.

Alright, is this a 7? 7... 2...

1...

9. Wait, we're ringing. We are ringing!

DIRTY: Room 219. SPANKIE: Yes! I've got to stop the clock.

DIRTY: Stop the clock. SPANKIE: Oh my gosh.

TOMMY: Alright...

Let's see if I can figure out how --- oh boy.

These cordless phones are always tricky. So usually in the upper ---

oh my god, there's a dial tone already.

[beeps as buttons pressed]

Let's see. I think I may have this.

DIRTY: Room 219.

TOMMY: Alright, let's find out who was faster at calling the other room. Ben Churchill, would you please?

BEN: Alright, so Spankie... SPANKIE: Bring it on.

BEN: Your time was 3 minutes and 46 seconds.

SPANKIE: Ohhhhh!

BEN: And Tommy, your time was 21 seconds.

TOMMY: Wow! SPANKIE: What?! You literally like coughed and like figured it out

like instantly. TOMMY: Well, listen, I've had a little bit of

practice with this one. [music plays]

TOMMY: One of the things that happens to all of us is misplacing a key card

and then having to find it. But imagine doing that while blind?

For this challenge, each one of us is going to have to find a key card

in this room. The one who does it in the fastest amount of time will be our winner.

SPANKIE: Okay, so whenever

I've been in a hotel room I usually wind up tossing the

key like on the bed, or...

Ah! Okay, I have no idea

what this is? Um... what is this? An ottoman?

Okay, here's a bed.

Oh, this is not a bed at all. This is a seat. There's got to be a little

table somewhere. Okay, here feels like...

Is this is a --- oh, there's a couch. There's not even a

bed here. Okay, there's a phone.

So I feel like I would normally put it

[laughs]

I'm just going to feel up all the --- oh, wait!

Did I find it? I think this --- I mean, this feels like a key card.

I'm going to guess this is it.

TOMMY: Okay, let's have a look now. Let's see where this could be.

You know what's funny? I don't walk around a hotel room with my cane. Alright, so here's

a little chair. The end table.

There's no key card on this end table whatsoever.

Ah, on the ottoman?

There's no table over here ---

oh, yes there is. I feel like I'm missing something.

Over on this side.

And there's nothing on this side. Oh!

But there's this, the television.

There's not key card in there. That's a coaster.

[sigh] Oh, where is he, guys?

Alright, it's not on the couch or the chair rather.

Not on this chair here. Oh my god.

Alright, listen, I guess I'm not going out tonight. That's all.

I'm going to stay in my room.

Alright, not on this couch here. In between all these cushions

and stuff. What am I missing?

How am I missing this? Let's check the ottoman.

No.

Dude, I have no idea where this thing is.

This is ridiculous. I can't believe it.

It wouldn't be on floor? On that part of the end table? No.

Shoot. Where the heck is it? Joke's over. There's not key card, right?

No table here. We looked on this.

Boom. Key card. Stop the clock.

TOMMY: Alright, Ben, we're all dying to know.

Which one of us did it in the shortest amount of time?

BEN: Tommy, you found the key card in 3 minutes

and 19 seconds. TOMMY: Whew.

BEN: And Spankie, you found the key card

in 48 seconds. TOMMY: Oh my god!

Unbelievable. Congratulations.

SPANKIE: Okay, I think that was purely based off of just dumb luck.

There's no --- I couldn't even tell a bed from a couch.

TOMMY: Alright, Spankie. it's time to take off the blindfold. SPANKIE: Alright.

TOMMY: It's also time for me to congratulate you. It looks like you've won

2 out of the 3 games. That's very good. SPANKIE: I have no idea how that happened.

TOMMY: Well, listen, it was so great to have you on the channel. Thanks for playing the game.

SPANKIE: Yeah. TOMMY: And thanks for not gloating too much about beating me as well.

SPANKIE: I'll do that off-camera. It will be okay.

TOMMY: Don't forget to check out and subscribe to Spankie's channel. The link is right there on

screen for you. Also, I want to give big thanks to Dirty Hollywood. He helped

us in this video and he was the guy in

219 who answered the phone. Thank you so much, sir. We'll give you a link.

You can check out some of Dirty Hollywood's music right there on screen.

[music plays]

TOMMY: Well, thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed today's edition of Blind vs. Blindfolded.

If you've got some ideas for games that we should play. Please leave them in the comments below.

And also, make it a game that maybe I can win next time.

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BooktubeAThon AND Read Your E-Reader TBRs [CC] - Duration: 7:05.

Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my channel and welcome to a TBR video

for not one but two readathons. As I'm sure you all probably know by now if you

spend any time at all on Booktube, the Booktubeathon is coming up next week. The

Booktubeathon is running from the 24th to the 30th of July and I will leave

all the details down in the description below if you don't know yet about the

Booktubeathon. So I'm going to be doing that one, but I'm also going to be doing

the Read Your E-Reader readathon which runs from the 24th of July as well through

until the 14th of August. So there is a week of overlap but the Read Your

E-Reader-athon goes for three weeks. So I'm pretty sure that I can get all of

the challenges crossed off for both of these readathons. And as with the

Booktubeathon, I will leave links to all the information on the Read Your

E-Reader readathon down in the description as well. So let's get started

with the challenges for the Booktubeathon. Challenge number 1 is to

read a book with a person on the cover. For this one I'm going to go with Defy

the Stars by Claudia Gray, which I bought back in like April I think it was?

Definitely the term one of school holidays. So this has been sitting around for

months and I haven't yet gotten to it. I have heard good things about it. I don't

even remember what it's about. I know that it's sci-fi and it's set in space

but that's all I remember. Challenge number 2 is to read a hyped

book and I'm going with a rather large one and that is Strange the Dreamer by

Laini Taylor. Again, I bought this back in April and I have not yet read it.

Challenge number 3 is to finish a book in a day and, like, you guys know me. I

will probably accomplish this one, like, many many times but specifically for

this challenge I'm going with Gotham Academy Volume 1 by Becky Cloonan and

various other people who my library won't tell me who it's by. It's been a

while since I've read any graphic novels. I have heard slightly mixed things but

mostly good things about this one, so we'll see how that goes.

Challenge number 4 is to read about a character who is very different from you,

and for this one I'm going with Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate which I think I

said that I was going to buddy read with April from Aprilius Maximus. I'm pretty

sure she's doing this one for this challenge as well. We will see. I don't

remember a whole lot about this book. I know that there is pansexual representation

in the story? Um, yeah. And I obviously loved Riley Redgate's other

book, Noteworthy, earlier this year. So yeah. I'm pretty excited to read this one.

Challenge number 5 is to finish a book completely outdoors and I'm actually

going to double up on this one and read Gotham Academy completely outdoors,

because it is the middle of winter, it is, like, ten fucking degrees outside and

probably going to pour with rain the whole of the Booktubeathon. So, like,

reading outside? Not a particularly pleasant option. I...yeah. I'm not a fan of

this challenge. Challenge number 6 is to read a book that you bought because

of the cover and for that one I'm going with The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha

Pulley which, like, this cover is so beautiful and also the inside cover is

this gorgeous yellow and then this thing actually pops out so that you get this

showing through and, like, how could I not buy this book?? And the seventh and final

challenge for the Booktubeathon is just to read seven books. So I'm figuring that

with the Read Your E-Reader readathon, I will probably cross off two things on my

Kindle during this time. But I do also have Vigilante by Kady Cross out from

my local library on Overdrive. I don't think that fits into any of the

challenges for the Read Your E-Reader readathon, so I have it sitting there if I

need to read something else for the Booktubeathon. So, onto the challenges for

the Read Your E-Reader readathon. Challenge number 1 is to read a book

where the author's name starts with an S, and for this one I will be reading Blame

by Simon Mayo. So this one sounds really really

interesting. It is a YA book in which you can be punished for crimes that your

family members committed and it sounds like the main character is locked up

with her younger brother and her foster parents because of the crimes that their

parents committed. So that one sounds really interesting. It has pretty mixed

reviews but um yeah. We... We shall see. Challenge number 2 is to read a book from your favourite

summer genre. I tend to read contemporary stuff during the middle of winter

because, like, that's when all the 'summer' reads

stuff comes out for me and so during winter I tend to read, like, fluffy summer

contemporaries and then during summer I tend to read, like, dark creepy things so

I'm going to read The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. I don't know

anything about this. Karin Slaughter is one of my auto-buy authors and I think this one

comes out at the end of July? I think it's like the 24th or 25th or something

of July that this one comes out. So I won't be able to get to it, like, as soon

as the Read Your E-Reader-athon starts. But sometime during the course of that, this book

is actually released and I will be reading it. Challenge number 3 is to read a

book that takes place during summer and for this one I'm going to read The Names

They Gave Us by Emery Lord, which I think is set at some kind of summer camp thing?

And I've heard really really good things. Challenge number 4 is to read a book

with summer colours, items, or sunshine on the cover. Um. I, for some reason, don't have

any, like, really summery contemporary stuff sitting on my Kindle waiting to be

read. But I do have - and this one may be stretching it slightly - but I do have

Beneath the Shine by Sarah Fine, which is a retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel and it

kind of looks like there's sun on the cover with the giant jewel-y thing and then

the sun above it or whatever? So it might be cheating but I'm going with this one.

Challenge number 5 is to read a book about a trip to the beach or the ocean

and I'm going to read The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan which is

the third book in the Lady Trent dragon chronicles thing. I don't even remember

what that series called, but I'm going to read this one because it takes place,

like, on a boat. Challenge number 6 is going to be the tricky one for me and

that is to read a sizzling hot romance/ Um. Sizzling hot romances are not really

my thing. I don't read a lot of romance books and when I do read romance books

they tend to fall into the, like, fluff category. There is a new Cora Carmack book

apparently coming out on the 18th of July. According to Goodreads, the new

Rusk University series book, All Closed Off, is due out on July 18th but I

can't see any sign of that on Amazon as yet, so I'm not really holding my breath on

that one. If it comes out, I will read that one. Otherwise I have a bunch of

recommendations from Chelsea the Reading Outlaw and ChelseaDollingReads on

Twitter, so I will read one of those. I don't know which one yet because, like, it

depends on how much things cost on Amazon. And finally, challenge number

7 is Long Summer Days: read a book that finally finishes a series. I have

gone with League of Dragons by Naomi Novik, which I just bought on my Kindle

last night because this is the ninth? I think it's the ninth book in the

Temeraire series? It's the last book in the series anyway. So there you have it, guys.

That is all the books that I will be reading for the Booktubeathon and the

Read your E-Reader-athon. If you have thoughts on any of these books and which

ones I should, like, start off with for both of these readathons, let me know

that stuff down in the comments. Thank you guys so much for watching. I love all

your faces and I will see you on Friday. Bye guys.

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Best Dessert Ever - Dessert Burger 🍪🍫🍔 - Duration: 10:34.

yeah this weather every day when I'm off of work it always looks like this well

let me stop complaining it could be worse I really need to go work out

I skipped leg day yesterday I was just so tired I only work four days a week but

I work like 11 or 12 hours each day and once you get to like that fifth day

you're just so tired you don't feel like doing anything like

that fifth day you can finally rest but uh I have a little energy today so and I

have like a few things I need to do

check this out at our apartment place complex we had this like maintenance

crew come in they were supposed to change the filters like the dryer ever since then weird stuff has been happening this knob broke

off somehow it's permanently set on super now so I have to get it I have to like submit a

ticket or submit or whatever request for that and the battery is dead right

well not dead but when the alarm starts beeping randomly

that means the battery's about to die right I told them that you're that I

told them that and they're like they reset it I would change the battery and

they definitely broke that do you start the awesome scene and then put the

clothes in or do you put the clothes in it and then start the washing machine

hold up there's one thing I have to show you I went to this place yesterday this

burger place and got this thing called the desert burger bro it's a I've kind

of already eaten some of it this part wasn't really gluten or not glue

whatever its called but it is a chocolate chip cookie with a

brownie on the inside that's the burger these are like cinnamon stick things

these are the fries and the fries come with hold on the fries come with like

this ice cream dipping sauce as like the ketchup brah it is amazing but I'm about

to go work out so I can't eat it now but definitely best believe I will tear this

up after I work out and it came with like this raspberry sauce too but I'm

not really a big fan of this stuff

I always wear this band when I work out just some random band I got from an

apartment complex I used to live in but typically you'll see me in this and this

little blue thing so shout out to this place the woodlands of Knoxville nice to

go to this school I can't wait for the next iPhones to come out at six plus for

the 6s plus but I still use the headphone jack the next one I don't know

if it's gonna be like the eighties or that whatever I don't know but it's

gonna be like the 10th anniversary of the iPhone so it's supposed to be really

cool so I'm gonna get a 7 I'm just gonna wait on them alright so my glasses on I

literally have like the worst vision of all time

this is how you know you live in a safe apartment complex people order stuff you

just left in front of the door and then what I miss is looking it's been there

for like three or four days

feeling very weak today all right done with my

workout I miss my leg workout yesterday so I'm gonna try to get a run in we go

run downtown and back never mentioned how much I hate running well looks like

I won't be running today all right it is now 225 and I haven't eaten anything I

am about to dig into this desert burger though and I still have some tater tots

left over so are tater tots even good when you heat them in the microwave No

I didn't heat it long enough look at it man the brownie and the

cookie can't really bite into it when it's this cold because it's hard it is amazing this is the cinnamon stick

dip it in the ice cream I do need some real food though like an actual meal I'm just not sure what I want

I did also make this little fruit mess just to add some nutrition in the mix

it has like peanut butter fruit and some chia seeds it is so humid out here I literally just walked down the hall to

the elevator

all right got that taken care of well Tonya they say like bacon I can't

do anything about it if the mail keeps coming except to keep bringing it to

them or just leave it in the mailbox then like right on their return I kind

of don't want to drive home right now it's for 51 I do not want to get stuck

in this traffic hopefully I can get home before five o'clock when the traffic

really starts to get ugly I think I'm gonna check that out on Netflix

I literally chose like the worst basket of all time

my right arm is getting like the craziest workout right now I ended up

not getting any like food to cook there's just too many options I have no idea

what to get so I went I got some Subway cuz they have a Subway in the Walmart

but I need to look up some recipes so I'll know like what to buy when I go to

the store because there's too many options

oh wait remember this just so someone literally at work told me

I feel like I'm rambling all right

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Intuitive Painting Process Explained: A Process Life - Duration: 10:40.

Welcome to the painting experience podcast for April 2015. On the podcast,

founder Stewart Cubley explores the potential of the emerging field of

process arts and shares inspiration from his ongoing workshops and retreats. In

this episode, returning from leading a 10-day painting intensive, Stewart talks

about the ways process painting awakens a creative momentum that becomes

available in all aspects of our daily lives. [Stewart:} I've just returned from my annual

10-day workshop on the island of Molokai in Hawaii and I must say there's

something about the experience of painting for 10 days that is really

quite impactful for people. And we have an email circle after people return as a

way of staying in contact and integrating back into so-called "normal

life" after the long painting time together and I received an email

recently from one of the participants and in it she used the phrase "being

urged to" in quotes "embrace this process life into all areas of me." And I was

really struck by that because this is really my experience of process art and

is really the bigger picture behind the experience itself, because on one hand

process painting is about painting, it's about the practice of painting, but on

the other hand it's it's a metaphor and it's it's pointing at something

quite a bit larger than painting itself. It's really pointing at a way of

being and the painting is really a practice of this way of being. And I

think when she mentioned about "embracing this process life into all areas of me"

I just felt she was referring to this larger dimension that

exists in the painting process, because when you paint with a group of people in process

you are painting in silence and you are painting quite a few hours a day and in

this particular instance for many days in a row and there's a quality of

openness and there's a quality of acceptance that's built in to the group

experience in which no one has to explain themselves, no one has to be

anything other than what they are at the moment, and there's an encouragement to

just be very fully with your own experience and to allow that in the

seamless interface between your inner and your outer life. And what I mean by

that is when you're painting for process you're paying attention to the

serendipity that occurs on the painting but you're also paying attention to the

serendipity that occurs internally in terms of your feelings because you

really don't know what you're going to be feeling prior to feeling it, just as

you don't know what's going to appear on the painting prior to painting it, and so

there's a practice of letting go into that, of becoming more comfortable with

that quality of not knowing and therefore allowing the serendipity,

allowing yourself to move into the space without having an agenda and without

having to determine ahead of time what it is you're going to do or experience

as well as what you're going to feel. And there's a very beautiful interface and

kind of dance that occurs between the two after a number of days of painting

for process, in which you really see that it's really one process happening -- there's not two.

It seems like there are two sides but feelings arise within you,

they move with color and form onto the paper, what appears on the painting

moves back into you and elicits new feelings and new ideas and new

imaginative imagery and forms and color and that then goes back towards the

painting. It appears on the painting but it appears in a way that you didn't

expect it and again it surprises you and requires you to surrender to that

appearance and then that opens up new feelings and there's this kind of dance,

there's this wonderful beautiful dance back and forth between the so-called

"inner life" and so-called "outer life." And I think this is what the metaphor of

process art points towards -- so when people come back from ten days of

painting or even a shorter workshop this question is lying there, this question is

confronting you . . . it's like, what does it mean to bring this way of being back

into my life? And maybe that's not really aptly characterized because it's not as

though you bring it back, you have lived it in the experience and you've awakened

something through doing that. I guess the real question is is that awakening

available to you in our lives which have become so incredibly busy and so

incredibly non-stop? Is there a deep memory, is there a cellular memory of

that way of being in which there's this simplicity of, first of all, not knowing

but being open to the serendipity, being open to the unexpected and then of

course trusting that being willing to say "yes" to that rather than "no" because

our first impulse often is to say "no" and then saying "yes" to that, then moving with

that allowing that to appear. When you're painting, it appears on the page. When

you're living, how does it appear? What does it mean to say "yes" to it and let it

appear? And then what does it mean, after having let it appear, in whatever way

that it does, to let that engage you and to further your own process, and to bring

new feelings. So this is really a much bigger question and I might say that

it's not without struggle and I think this is one of the . . . another one of the

important lessons that come out of a prolonged period of painting is that, you

know, you might go to Hawaii, especially, thinking okay I'm going to be painting

for ten days in paradise. It's going to be bliss, I'm going to be I'm going to be

just in ecstasy for the whole time that I'm there. And of course that doesn't

happen you know we tend to bring some unwanted baggage along with us.

We pack a little too heavily, you might say, and things arise that our

challenging and sometimes actually crisis-producing -- and I really value

those moments I know that those are inherent in the creative process itself

and those are considered in the same light as anything else that appears as a

person is painting: When there is struggle, what does it mean to engage

that? What does it mean to engage the process of struggle or difficulty or of

blockage? And one of the beautiful lessons that comes out of this is that

through the very act of engagement a door opens. And you find yourself

continually moving. You're not going to stay stuck in one place if you're being

willing to be present fully with where you are and not turn away from it, then

it moves and the life is really in that engagement and presence and

movement. It's not in producing a particular outcome. It's not in having it

look a particular way and it's not about having a particular feeling. It's

embracing fully where you are. So this is important because in our daily living

these challenging moments, and moments of struggle, arise and . . . to have the sense

that they are not separate from our own creative process. They are the creative

process. And being willing to engage them in life

much as you would in painting, but then there's the possibility of really

translating process arts into process living, you might say. That is a very real

possibility and it's not something you achieve. It's an ongoing discovery. It

creates a situation in which you realize, "There's nothing I have to be afraid of."

I don't have to be afraid of this particular kind of experience. I don't

have to be afraid of this particular color. If it's dark, if I'm painting

something dark, and it's getting heavy and it's maybe even getting sad, I can

engage that fully. I'm not . . . I don't have to be afraid of that because I know that

it's the living of it fully is where the satisfaction is and that if I live it

fully it's going to move and it's going to change and this becomes cellular in a

certain sense through doing the painting process. This becomes more familiar to us.

It becomes more available to us. It becomes kind of an awakening in which we

realize "Oh yes, right, I forgot I don't have to reject this, let me get

interested in this, let me see where this wants to go,

what new doors might this open?"

[Announcer:] You can learn more about The Painting Experience and find a list of upcoming

process painting workshops by visiting our website at www.processarts.com.

The theme music for this podcast comes from Stephen Jacob. We thank you for

listening and hope you'll join us again soon.