...holiday blues

we think of holiday time for being the season to be jolly.  but did you know theres lots of people that  get really sad and lonesome and could even get real depressed at holiday time. what they got and maybe what you could get is called the holiday blues.

heres some reasons you could get  feeling not so jolly…

1.  feeling lonesome if you live alone or if your family and the ones you love live far away.  this is  real true for old people who are all alone and got no one or no family.

2.  remembering past real happy or real sad holiday stuff

3.  thinking about loved ones that arent here any more

4. not having enough money to buy as much presents as you want

dealing out with family problems

5.  being real tired from trying to do too much

6.  missing the sunlight on those gloomy winter days

what could we do to squash those blues?

1.  one of the best things you could do is help someone whose got less than you cause it gets you off thinking on yourself and on thinking of someone else

2.  volunteer somewhere 

3.  make goals you know you could do and ask for help if you could need it

4.  let go of that past holiday stuff and make some new traditions

5.  call or email people you didnt talk to for a long time and send holiday cards

6.  stay busy but dont forget to take some time for YOU so you could get yourself recharged

7.  get out outside and see decorations and lights (go talk to santa ha ha)

8.  dont drink too much (booze)

9.  dont beat up on your self if you dont get everything done you want to

heres something i like lots from a article i read.  im calling it number 10…

“Now here’s the most important thing you can do to beat those blues: No matter what is happening in your life, think of the blessings you do have. Taking stock of all of the positives in your life — right here and now — can go a long way toward ending your “bah humbug” mood.”  Maud Purcell, LCSW

WOW!  how cool is that for beating off that hum bug!  

did you ever feel those holiday blues?  if you did what did you do to make it better.  if you didnt what could you tell people who get feeling that way that could help them.

…big hugs from lenny

i got  thinking  on all the stuff im thankful for and YIKES! its just  a  whole lot!    then  i got thinking  on how  im so  really thankful i got started blogging and in doing it i got soooooo much  friends.  now i  could want to share with you my blog thanks.  

im thankful that…

even though im just only a kid  you  said welcome lenny glad to meet you and you made me feel like im one of you.

you thought my posts were good enough that you could say a comment and could want to come back again

you liked what i said and who i am and could want to be a follower for me

im thankful that…

you taught me soooo much stuff that could help me be a better writer and didnt ever not want to answer my questions no matter how dumb they were

even being young and not knowing so much bout critiquing someone could believe in me and want me for a critique partner and im thankful for others that asked me to be a critiquer for their stuff.

you like the sunshine i love sharing with you and you tell me so

im thankful that…

you were there when i been soooo sick you cared about me said get well lenny on comments and emails and ecards and even some for real cards

im alive and  got to my 11^th birthday and you were right there with me and you sent lots of love and happy birthday wishes and cards and presents and made it my best birthday ever.

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god let me be here and get such wonderific friends!

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specially for you...

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im wishing the most happiest thanksgiving ever  to every one of my special blogger friends.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  

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…big thankful hugs  from lenny



...super sniffer

its for sure dogs love to.. sniff sniff sniff! if you been around dogs you probably been sniffed and thats mostly in your crotch. ack! ha ha. theyre real good at airports for sniffing out drugs and theyre really good for tracking stuff and sniffing out bombs. but did you know all that sniffing could sniff out sickness even before a doctors test could? yep! its true! thats cause a dog is the best sniffer in the world and it could smell 10,000 to 100,000 times more better than a human. WOW! thats a super sniffer for sure!
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when someones got a sickness inside their body it changes up a lot of chemical stuff and that makes a odor that dogs could smell. a dog could get trained in just only a few weeks to know the healthy smells and the not healthy ones. the dog stays sitting if its healthy stuff and lies down if its not or just goes and sits next to the not healthy one. this gets done mostly by sniffing urine or breath.
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how good a sniffer is a dog? well just look at this…

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1. bladder cancer 88% correct from sniffing urine
2. lung cancer 99% correct from sniffing breath
3. breast cancer 87-97 % correct on from sniffing breath
4. type 1 diabetes 65% correct for warning their owner about dangerous drops in blood sugar by barking and whining
5. epilepsy 65% for warning their owner that a seizure is coming by barking and whining
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WOW! thats pretty good sniffing for sure!
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right now those research people didnt yet figure what are the chemicals that the dogs could smell. when they get to know just what they are they could do better dog training and find out if someones sick lots more fast. and like all those medicine people say the more early you find a sickness the more fast you could get medicine and the better chance you got to get better.
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some day dogs are gonna be at doctors offices and be a big part of a check up. a new sign on the doctors office door is gonna say…THE DOGTOR IS IN! ha ha.
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for sure super sniffers are mans best friend!
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what could you think about getting sniffed by a dog on a check up at your doctors office?
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…hugs from lenny

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photo credit mark watson

...voice lessons

YIKES! for sure I can’t sing! im a writer (umm…a wanna be writer) not a singer! well guess what i found out? writers got voices too! yep its true! writers got voices just like singers. if you listen you can hear that voice right there on everything you read.....wow how cool is that!
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whats a writers voice?
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i like what susan j letham on write101.com says (mostly cause i could understand it…ha ha)
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“Voice is the way your writing 'sounds' on the page. It has to do with the way you write, the tone you take--friendly, formal, chatty, distant--the words you choose--everyday words or high-brow language--the pattern of your sentences, and the way these things fit in--or not-- with the personality of the narrator character and the style of your story. You might be surprised to know how many beginning writers write out of character, that is, they choose the wrong voice and tone for the purpose they have in mind. …that would be story, not voice.”
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wanna read miss susans whole article click here.
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could you have more than just one voice?

its sorta like singing cause mostly you dont just sing one note. some people do and they sing way off key too and that pretty hard on your ears. yeeech! ha ha. but mostly you got lots of notes that say what your voice is. you could be soprano or alto or bass and lots of stuff in between. a writing voice is just like that cause its your voice but it could change up for what youre writing. for sure a story about a pretty sunset is gonna be in a way different voice than a story about a flesh eating zombie. yikes! what made me think of that. ha ha. and if you and me wrote the same stuff about that zombie both stories could be way different cause of us having different voices.

where do you find your voice?

for a beginner writer like me im not so sure what my voice sounds like or what its gonna be. the most best way to find out is write…write…write and write some more! it takes time to find out. just like practicing singing voice lessons you gotta practice your writing voice so it could be the best voice for you. right now im one of those boy sopranos but the more stuff i write and the more older i get and finally get all grown up in my body and in my writing for sure im gonna have my very own writers voice. then when you read something i wrote youre gonna hear my voice on a page and say wow thats lenny talking. :)

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Voice question...

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wheres your voice? are you still growing up as a writer and finding your voice or do you already have your own special one?
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…hugs from lenny

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big thanks to my critique partner miss sharon and to my bloggerwriter friends and my neat writing books and google for teaching me lots of stuff about voice.

…how bout a laugh!

HA HA HA HA!!!

i love laughing! when i get laughing really hard i get soooo weak i could just fall down on the floor. and sometimes i do! ha ha. i laugh every day even at stuff i get thinking about thats funny from yesterday or some other time. sometimes its just a little giggle and sometimes it a really big nose snorter weak in the knees falling down big belly laugh. how much times you laugh in a day pretty much says how happy you are.
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did you know kids laugh 300 times in a day! big people laugh just only 17 times in a day! WOW! how sad is that! YIKES! whats the matter with grown ups???!! seems growing up makes you just way too serious and makes you forget how to relax and laugh and just have lots of fun. heres something to think on… “We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing.” …Michael Pritchard x thinking on that could make grown ups want to get laughing again for sure.

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maybe we need to add laughing to those five senses and then there would be six and that sixth one is a sense of humor. its something thats part of everyone. did you know lots of therapists are getting into that sixth sense and doing laugh therapy cause it helps their clients let go of stuff. and i bet you didnt know that theres laugh clubs all over the world that do nothing but just laugh! ha ha click here and go see a cool bbc video about a laugh club in india.

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when you get thinking on it theres just lots of good that comes out of laughing. heres just some of it.
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1. gets rid of stress
2. stops you from being irritated or angry or makes it lots less
3. helps you let go of stuff youre holding on to thats not so healthy
4. helps you feel lots better if youre feeling depressed
5. gets you connected up with people and makes friendships lots more strong
6. makes you lots more healtlhy
7. makes how you see the world lots more happy
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i hope you could see the good that comes from laughing and start doing lots more of it. WOW! laughing is soooo cool. i love it and i hope you could love it as much as me.
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now how bout a good laugh.. ha ha ha hee hee ha ha ho ho!!!
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…lots of laughs and hugs from lenny