Chia seed, flax seed and hemp hearts.

May 2, 2016- ok,  so today is a Monday and diets all over the world are starting. My diet is one of healthy eating overall but it seems that at any given moment , parties, cookies, wine, salty crackers and macaroni and cheese are completely allowable if it's raining, I'm in a bored mood or if it's near me.  I don't get it. Anyway, I'm going to try and not so much rely on willpower since I dont have any as I am and just sort of reset my brain to things I like and things I don't and switch some things around so that I no longer like pizza, or any of the afore mentioned things.

This blog is actually about visiting guests and family.  But what it has in common with the above tale is the reset button of doing things differently. As my therapist said once, "why do it if it no longer serves you?".  That little gem right there is why you rip out a check and pay the person. They tell you what you need to hear and give you permission to reconsider your actions. When a friend told me she was having her family visit from California I immediately shot off my own life lesson of advice:

Well that sounds like fun.  Make sure your well rested which is nice of me to say but in reality company- family or otherwise- is stress! It means cleaning, extra shopping and you as being the cruise director.  You are 89 not 34, these are family so they need to pitch in on some details, like shopping and bringing you food and ordering take out.  

Here's my advice, get your hair done and a massage, look wonderful, put on your most fabulous outfit and put a vase of Alstronomia (Peruvian lilies) on a table somewhere. ( buy when in tight bud and you'll have them a week!)
Pick up in the main room, take out a chair and put it in a guest room or something so the room looks bigger. If you want add a bowl of green apples to the coffee table. 

Smile a lot, be the happiest and most content person in the room, and be patient and interested in everything they say.  

Your job is to be fabulous, not scrub the floor. Someone else can do that. Try it! 

Of course, this is what I would like to imagine myself doing as I start scrubbing the floor and throwing things in closets. 

Let's see if a controlled diet can perfect my overall being and if I can try my own advice.