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We’ve all been somewhere and had an urge to doodle the dictionary says a doodle is :doo·dle (ddl)
v. doo·dled, doo·dling, doo·dles
v.intr.
1. To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
2. To kill time.
v.tr.
To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
n.
A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.
[English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool; see doodlebug.]
doodler n.

What kind of doodle we create can help us with brain health. So if you want to doodle know this :

*Drawing circles- Helps you feel more relaxed keep making circles and you will feel calmer

*draw a smiley face and keep from snacking ! Drawing a happy face can recharge your mood and remind me of long term goals

*Solve a nagging prob draw whatever comes to mind
Some therapists use art to help people come to terms with what is bothering them. Ask yourself a question like “What is wrong with my marriage” and draw whatever pops in your mind.If you draw hearts you may find you still care but if you draw a square or a box you may be feeling lonely

Try drawing with your other hand !
By using your weaker hand you unlock areas in your brain and nerve fibers you use least this can boost memory and help in brain boosting, don’t worry if what you draw or write doesn’t look good its a work out for your mind !

Draw a mandala a special circle ! A mandala is a circle used in many culture FInd a pic of a mandala and try to draw one of your own, it has a very calming effect with its intricate patterns. (You can look up Indian mandalas in India many mandalas are made in chalk and colored powders and placed outside the front door to usher in good thoughts every day)

1. The first time you kissed someone you felt
(aX) disappointed (Very a)
(B)Enthusiastic
(C) Turned on
(D) Turned off
(E) as if you were in a bad movie

2.When you first wore a bathing suit in public
(a) You cried
(b) you felt confident
(c) People cried
(DX) you felt as if everyone was staring (it wasn’t fun)
(e) everyone stared

3. You just found out the guy or girl you like stole 20 dollars from you
(A) you confront them
(b) you break up with them
(CX )You steal it back? (I really think if I knew for sure they did it I would take 20 dollars back)
(D) you email them and causally ask can you borrow 20 bucks that you lost 20 bucks

4.As a friend
(A) you can’t be beat you are a great pal
(B) you can be selfish (I want to be more considerate)
(C) you want more friends
(D) You know you are a good friend so why bother thinking.

5.As far as your looks go
(A) you could make improvements (I think people can always improve thier looks)
(B) you always have liked your looks
(C) you don’t like your looks
(D) You know beauty is only skin deep

6.Your mother embarrasses you showing old baby photos you
(A) slip outside while everyone laughs
(B) You go and find your mom’s bra and say hey everyone want to go para sailing?
(C) you let your mom have her fun you know she’s proud of you
(D) you start singing and dancing trying to distract everyone.
(I really feel like getting her bra yet knowing she’s proud of me)

what's your answer

1. The first time you kissed someone you felt
(a) disappointed
(B)Enthusiastic
(C) Turned on
(D) Turned off
(E) as if you were in a bad movie

2.When you first wore a bathing suit in public

(a) You cried
(b) you felt confident
(c) People cried
(D) you felt as if everyone was staring
(e) everyone stared

3. You just found out the guy or girl you like stole 20 dollars from you

(A) you confront them
(b) you break up with them
(C) You steal it back?
(D) you email them and causally ask can you borrow 20 bucks that you lost 20 bucks

4.As a friend
(A) you can’t be beat you are a great pal
(B) you can be selfish
(C) you want more friends
(D) You know you are a good friend so why bother thinking.

5.As far as your looks go
(A) you could make improvements
(B) you always have liked your looks
(C) you don’t like your looks
(D) You know beauty is only skin deep

6.Your mother embarrasses you showing old baby photos you

(A) slip outside while everyone laughs
(B) You go and find your mom’s bra and say hey everyone want to go para sailing?
(C) you let your mom have her fun you know she’s proud of you
(D) you start singing and dancing trying to distract everyone.

where were you born:?
where do you live now:?
how old are you:?
whens your birthday.?
color eyes.?
height?
favorite friend who is a boy:?
favorite friend who is a girl?
do you love someone.?
if so who do u love?
why do u love them?
what school do u go to?
favorite music artist or song?
do u get along with you parents.?
hows your life.?
what are your goals in life.?
favorite sport.?
what are you looking foward to?
who was your favorite boyfriend/girlfriend.?
why were they your favorite.?

Hey you,
I saw you online and you wrote me for a minute, yes I had a rough night. Sometimes, I feel really confused because I never felt this way about a guy. I always want to talk to you N. I wish I was there with you. I wish I could stand next to you in the same room.It’s hard not being able to physically touch you. Yesterday was hard because I kept thinking how much you mean to me and even as I write this I want to cry. I don’t want you to ever go, yet I know realationships. I know how life can one day be happy and you love someone and the next you don’t even like that person. It’s happened with me, you are younger than me, so you haven’t had that happen to you yet. It’s bad N when you have a past and you look back and you see how in love you once were and now you don’t know the person you are sleeping with. I wouldn’t ever want you to feel that way about me. Loving you gives me so much emotions because when I first fell in love with “someone” I didn’t know much about love. Maybe I still don’t but I know I care so much about you …I have to see you somehow, some way I am getting so frustrated everyday just walking around wanting to be with you N.
Hugs,
Nadia

PS: You looked so cute on Skype Sunday

It still hurts, I had this friend back in school, she was my first best friend. I feel like it was yesterday sometimes. Looking back on this friendship I know it was not a good one.I always felt like the loser in this duo. She had the perky boobs and the skinny behind I was Chubby and I didn’t have a boyfriend. She was always making out letting boys feel of her boobs and telling me about it. To tell the truth I was scared of what all she was telling me. I felt that I was an oddball. She also didn’t feel top of the world.I can see this now, but then, I didn’t know what to think.I often wanted to stop being friends with her and sometimes I was begging her to talk to me because she was out with her boyfriends. We ran around together, her in her beat up car her dad had got her. I would always get dressed up as if I was going to a broadway show. Sometimes I would laugh like mad at my own jokes and she would say “Shut up Margaret!” I saw her moods, she would cry and throw major tantrums and maybe she felt just as insecure as me but when you are a teen you don’t have the experience to sit down and talk to a friend and say “Honey talk to me..” Some teens can do this, but I sure couldn’t. My mind was not that active back then I would now talk to her and say “Tell me , what do you need?” We stopped talking about 7 years ago. We would go years without talking and get back together looking at old photo albums and laugh.Her dad committed suicide and she just didn’t want anything else to do with me. Her mom told me when I went back to Kentucky and stopped by to ask about her..”She just don’t wanna talk to you Margaret, after her daddy died, she just has become mean.” I shook my head it was yet again another rejection. Sometimes, I still have bad dreams about this situation.It is a deep rooted pain of being rejected by someone you trusted innocently as a child, made a friend with yet had years of misery with. TBC

That song George Michael sung about the monkey makes me wonder about a lot of things. I love George. I wonder if Monkey is a habit or a person…if you look at it like a person who is your Monkey? Do you have someone you go to just because you know they are there ? The Monkey may not even care about you, he or she is just available. Some people have a Monkey person that they go to for sex. When no one else is there to give the good things that can go with sex they go to the Monkey Person for just a roll in the hay. The monkey doesn’t mind it because they really are numb to emotions and they accept the moment for the moment. You may have someone in your life that you really love, yet they may upset you or not get you on some level or the other, so you have this monkey out there, this person who sort of lets all your negative bounce off of them and your positives don’t even fill a 1/2 cup for them. The monkey is just there, so in many ways he or she seems unreal to you. You use them they use you. Sometimes, you think about the monkey you think about the whole realationship if you can call it that. You wonder why the monkey never send you an email and asks you how you are..how could they not care for you? You have spent time talking, having “moments.”. You lie awake and think that life sucks at the moment and you get up and walk to the computer and email your monkey. You don’t have any pride left when it comes to this person. They don’t care if you have pride or not because to them you are just a moment. If you show up again its okay and if they never see you again its fine. They don’t have candles lit and waiting by the window. We know this because once or twice we may have cared for the monkey. The monkey may have started out as someone we had feelings for someone, we had a crush on or dated or wanted to date and somehow it became an emotionless thing. We realized the Monkey was going to use us and we were going to use them. We go to the zoo of our emotions. We have no pride when it comes to this person. We have begged, cried maybe then stopped. They always seemed strong, they always seemed as if they didn’t care and maybe thats why they draw us to them.Can you sit your monkey free ? I think we all have some kind of monkey running around in our lives, but one day someone will ask…”Do you love your monkey or do you love me…?” and what will the answer be ?

Teddy bears and beanie babies are not for kids alone. Many people collect and love Plush animals and plush oddities and Cute lil things that really don’t have a name. The other day I saw the cutest little stuffed Elephant it was about 5 inches tall. My daughter’s ballet class were selling stuffed animals and beanie babies. My wallet was out in the car. I wanted that little elephant…I stood there holding it feeling how soft like an old baby blanket it was.I was really taken with it. I kept looking out to the car thinking about going to get my wallet and paying the 8.99 to own that little elephant. Why do we love plush? There are so many answers to that. Plush is cute how many ugly plush toys have you seen ? I haven’t seen many!!Think of amusement parks people go crazy to try to win a big teddy bear.At Valentine’s day so many guys buy teddy bears to go along with the box of candy trying to woe a girl..Plush can be for boys and girls. I always find joy in seeing plush toys on a child’s bed there is something comforting and cozy about a pile of stuffed toys or a neatly line row of them in a child’s room. Many people have a favorite plush that they have had for years. A teddy bear can be a girl’s best friend throughout her childhood, and some teddy bears and other plush have been there to hear our deepest secrets when no one else seemed to care….

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