Loved the positive momentum from this little project of mine that I started 9/12/24
https://charmedandblessed.blogspot.com/2024/09/happiness-project-2024-100-days.html?m=1
I decided to keep this going and start a new batch of 100 + more happy days to bring into 2025.
Will pick up where I left off and take it day by day again.
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Day 1, 12/21/24: Today was what I would describe as our Super Bowl in that the annual collaborative toy drive with Believe Holy Spirit and Eden Youth Center took place.
We served over 500 families today and each child that came through came home 🏡 with a toy of their choosing.
It was a HUGE team and community effort in having so many toys to distribute and so many helping hands with big hearts who gave of their time today and throughout our toy drive events. THANK YOU to everyone who made this event as successful as it was. We appreciate each and every one of you 🤗
Struck up a nice friendship with a little girl named Kayley who last year loved 🥰 my elf 🧝♀️ hat so I gave her mine and bought another one. She came back this year, with her elf hat on and wanted to take a photo together 😍 Such a sweetheart 💗
Thank you Councilwoman Angela for supporting and coming out today as well. We appreciate all you do for our local community 🫶
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays friends. May God bless all of us, our homes, our communities, and our families
🙏🏽 🎄💗🌟
Day 2, 12/22/24: Workouts 💪 and shopping 🛍️ done today ✌️
Day 3,12/23/24: Gavin’s appetite is increasing significantly and so has his height and weight. At 14 years old he stands at 5’8 3/4. Gigi says all she sees me doing is cooking for him and I told her he’s going through a growth spurt and that I’ve seen this before when he was a baby. Big boy is getting bigger 💪
Rushed home 🏡 from the gym to make sure my growing boy is fed right 👍 Nothing beats home made💗
Gigi on her way to a Christmas 🎄 potluck and gift exchange with friends. She personalized this gift bag by adding printed sticker photos of her friends.
Day 4, 12/24/24: Started a new Teenage Christmas Eve morning🎄 tradition at our house 🏡 Home made breakfast of fresh biscuits, turkey, eggs, and of course, gravy to tie it all together. This year Gigi added to it and made chocolate 🍫 covered strawberries 🍓. After we eat they open presents at the table with their Christmas reindeer beanies that light up 🤓 It’s a beautiful 🤩 and simple tradition that can be added upon and made a little better each year. Fancy simple goes a long way 🌟 Happy Merry Christmas Eve friends 🥰 May God continue to bless us all 🙏🏽
Day 5, 12/25/24: Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄🌟🙏🏽❤️🎁 Wishing you all good health, joy, success today and in the New Year 🧚♀️🥰💫✨🫶.
Gigi and her friend Cordell have been accountability buddies making creative content everyday this whole winter break and she shared a very happy poem she wrote yesterday that she said I could share here. Love it 😍👏🫶🧚♀️
My teenagers appeased me and allowed me to dress them how I envisioned. Thanks guys, besitos 😘😘
My mom was in a smiley let’s-take-pics this holiday season (not her baseline behavior btw lol 😂.) It was very nice to see 😍
This pose turned out great because the boys put us together like this. Probably one of our best holiday pics 👏
Liz’s lemme-tickle-you-with-my-charm photographer skills 📸 really stepped up this year. She was very theatrical 🎭 and made us laugh 😂 even our mom.
It’s bout to go dowwwnnn
They grow so fast! I want to remember this 📸
Christmasing with the fam
Our theme this year was red or green. Check out the green 🌲 crew 🌟
Beautiful 🤩 Mamas and their new Babies
Cuzzoooos 🫶🫶
Stylish mama 💗
Got this let’s go dinosaur🦕 excavating kit and pretend we’re paleontologists for my nephew Lyle. My mission is to cultivate the nerdyliciousness 🤓 early 🤗 on. It was **work** digging while he’s practicing his fine motor skills and focus. He’s like auntie, I should not give up right?! Yes honey hard work is totally 💯 fun 🤩
Day 6, 12/26/24: Teaching this super intelligent and handsome puppy 🐶 how to be calm around squirrels 🐿️ in the backyard. This is new for him 🥰
Day 7, 12/27/24: I gotta give it up to our family’s personal shopper / stylist🎨🎭🖌️🖼️ 🛍️ for always upgrading us. I come into her styling parlor and come out a whole nother vibe. This black on black with gold zip down accent is a swanky Lululemon lounge fit from no other than my stylish Mama 🫶Dakal Salamat pu keng kalungtagan yu👗😘💗🌷🥰Buri ku pu ini a lot 😚🤓😎😉
Day 8,12/28/24: Good team hustle today 👍 Proud of our guys 🌟 Keep working 👏 🫶🏀⛹🏻❣️
Day 9,12/29/24: Happy 😊 Sunday 🌷Gigi and killed it at the gym today and she is getting some muscle 💪 gains because she’s been consistently working out for about two months now. Check it:
While she did her own thing I hit the bags for some boxing and a nice gentle man I met before left so I can work on two bags vs one. I usually like hitting all the bags but today was a weekend so I had to share 😝
After I did bag work I did a full body HIIT in the training area.
Afterwards, we had an impromptu Moms and Daughters hang out with Emma and her mom Amie who took us out to watch Moana 2. We had a blast and I L💗VED Moana 2 actually more than the first and can’t wait to watch it again❣️
Thank you Emma and Amie for such a fun girl’s outing❣️
Day 10,12/30/24: I want Gavin and his team to continue growing to become stronger, more cohesive, accurate, and consistently good basketball 🏀 players individually and together. The potential and the talent is definitely there❣️
Day 11,12/31/24: I listen to lectures throughout the day while doing low brain effort activities that require physical activity so that I can stay sharp because learning makes me really happy 😊✨💗🥳
Like just now, I had to stop what I was doing to research two words I'd never heard of that I learned from Dr. Orion Tariban.
He is one of my fave docs because the way he explains and executes his lessons is like that of a scientist (precise) and an actor (engaging) as he is theatrically trained. I find the execution of his content compelling, fun to listen to, and absorbable 👏🫶🤓👍
Here is the link of the episode that prompted this post and the two new words I learned from him are:
(1) "Lassitude," -noun and (2) "fungible," -adjective.
Let me apply my learning now by using them here so that I can make some more brain synapses that will create dopamine and make me smile 😃
Lassitude:
"In this last day of the year, I hope you leave behind states that debilitate you from moving forward, as this lassitude will not bring you closer to your goals."
Fungible
"May you have the kind of personality, work ethic, and personal affect that is not fungible as you are a compelling, beautiful, and competent human being that cannot easily be fungible."
Day 12, 1/1/25: Yoloooo ❣️Happy 1st 🥇 day of a brand spanking New Year. Like whhhuuuttttt it’s finally twenty twenty five 🥳 The kids and I finished the old year strong 💪 and this energy continued and we put it out on this first day.
Slept in a bit and had a substantial Filipino breakfast of fish 🐟, salted duck 🦆 egg, with tomatoes 🍅 and rice 🍚.
We trained in hills today and enjoyed a nature walk ⛰️ at Coyote Hills and a nice family gave us their parking 🅿️ ticket as they were driving out. It was a cool exchange and I’m glad I had my window down and was paying attention 💁🏻♀️
I failed trying to do the same on our way out multiple times so now it’s a lil souvenir for the day 🌷
I like the inclines here. Runnable so we did a little to train our bodies this natural way with varied terrain.
My wolf 🐺 pack lol 😜 Woof 🐶
Great vantage point and photo by Gigi.
Cumulus looking clouds add texture to photos. No rain so yay 🌞
She got a good incline pic here 👍
Kids and their Big Dawg 🐺 Great looking subjects that happen to be mine 💗💗💗
That was our warm up then hit the gym for all our own workouts. Gavin did a full body workout, Gigi trained legs, and I boxed and danced.
We did healthy stuff we all loved 🥰 and now we’re waiting for our food so I’m blogging while killing time.
Our food is here so hasta la mañana amigos y amigas. Happy 2025🥳
Day 13, 1/2/25: I love 💕 surprising strangers where they completely on their own, feel compelled to share their delight with me ✌️🤓
Like today, I was walking to the building where my in person meetings were held and a random stranger walking the opposite direction loudly retorted:
“Oh. Mah. Gawwwd! You look damn goooood!”
lol 😂 His shocked 😳 verbal declaration made me internally chuckle, so I responded respectfully:
”Thank you Sir. Happy New Year and have a wonderful day.”
Politeness is an old fashioned way of being that shows (1) self respect and (2) respect for others of which I think our fast paced modern world needs more of.
Doling this out is a good thing for society, in my humble opinion.
Day 14, 1/3/25: Stopped and enjoyed the murals today. Happy Friday 💗
Day 15, 1/4/25: Waiting for our gym to open. Open open open 🤳 💅🦆💁🏻♀️🌟🌷💗 Busy Saturday for us gotta get it in ✅
Done ✅
Sunk that 🏀🗑️⛹🏻👍
Strong 💪 dudes
Thanks for coming to watch Gavin play Lyle💯
This one needs a Malatown Detox lol 😂 She loves it here too much 💕
Day 16, 1/5/25: We had a very good Sunday 🕊️🙏🏽🥰💗
Got in our workouts and wanted to focus on a long cardio session day.
Put in 8.5 miles on the bike 🚲 at the gym to get the heart pumping and blood flowing.
Took some measurements to get a baseline of where my body is currently so that I can keep building muscle and an overall leaner physique.
Also took advantage of the great weather today and got in a 2 city outdoor run 🏃🏻♀️ from our gym in Hayward and ran to Union Landing and back.
I was telling my brother Lyle how amazing it felt to be able to do an outdoor jog with minimal stopping and throw in some nice burst of short sprints as my body allowed me to do.
Hitting a sub 8 minute mile pace during my short sprints felt amazing and I am very grateful to feel my stamina and power in my running 🏃🏻♀️ slowly building up again 🙏🏽💕
Later we hung out at my mom’s for food and family time. Little Lyle and Lenny are the cutest 🥰🥰
And of course so is Mama’s Roawd dawg, Rosie ❣️
See y’all mañana 🕊️✌️✨🏃🏻♀️
Day 17, 1/6/25: We were all on our game today, from meal prepping, to school, work, workouts, and extracurricular activities etc.
Gavin’s team dominated tonight as they were the more accurate and defensively stronger team. It was exciting to see our boys push themselves from start to finish.
Gigi and team got to meet the former mayor of Union City through their volunteer work today. Many exciting positive projects are underway to empower the local youth.
Day 18, 1/7/25: Gorgeous day for some hill training today🏞️ 🙏🏽🏃🏻♀️✌️
Day 19, 1/8/25: I personally enjoy feeling like my own sunshine 🌞 so I vibe out in my stylist’s chair every few weeks to get 💇♀️ my hair done how I like it.
Color treated hair needs to taken cared of and babied 👶 My stylist has instructed me how to do this and I’ve cultivated a day to day process to keep my crown 👸🏻 vibrant, healthy, and growing 🌼🌱🌿💗
See? That’s all natural 🌱 hair growth 👍
Tanya does the bleaching process where it’s not bothersome to my scalp.I came prepared and meal prepped because it takes 3+ hours to get the whole system down pat ==> Set the bleach/process it/rinse it/set the toner/cook/rinse/trim/dry.
👩🏻🍳 Cooking in the “oven”
Tada 🎉 Shes done ✨👑✌️🌼 Thank you Tanya 🌷
Invest 📈 in your most valuable resource:
✨YOU✨👸🏻🥰🏃🏻♀️🏞️🕊️👩🏻🍳
Day 19, 1/9/25: Protect your peace my loves💕 🙏🏽🕊️🏞️by protecting your attention and your time 🕰️ Allow people to learn you and ignore what’s NOT moving your day forward. Stick to your plan and most of all WORK your plan.
The squat is not an exercise but a resting position. Modern humans think and move otherwise. Here I’m practicing strengthening the whole lower body system and toes 🩰 for maximum “hang” time.
Hands, fingers, and limbs need to be activated daily or they’ll brittle and get weak. We don’t want that. Don’t skip the heavy bags if you don’t have gloves. Just go 🏃🏻♀️
Day 20, 1/10/25: Happy Aloha Friyay blogosphere 🌎 🕊️🙌✌️ Our meal 🥘 prep game is strong 💪 baby💗 Have a blessed one everyone 😇
Day 21, 1/11/25: I enjoy listening to humans smarter than me who have done their own work and are spreading that good around. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is one of those humans 🌎 🕊️🙌✌️One of my favorite lessons from him is the following:
Day 22, 1/12/25: 10:57 am: Revving myself up for a three (3) city run/walk/jog today. The thought of it excites and scares me because I don't remember the last time I did this. My plan is to run to Costco so I will naturally hit Fremont, Union City, and Hayward. Then I will stop and eat. Then I will decide to Uber back or not. Baby steps. Be back to report how things went. Peace out 🕊️🙌🏃🏻♀️🤩
5:27 pm: I am currently (1) enjoying my “post race” meal 🍽️ that my son lovingly prepared for me (thanks honey you’re the best🌷) (2) blogging in bed, and (3) responding to text messages. Yes, I thoroughly enjoy multitasking where it makes sense and don’t feel like a scattered mess lol 😆 
Lets chat about todays long walk/run/jog before I forget all details tomorrow because these moments are fleeting and don’t need to be stored in long term memory other than the details I write ✍️ about here.
First city sign I hit up was Fremont at around 2.2 miles here’s proof.
I ran with Nike Air Max 270 lifestyle trainers 👟 and they held up well. When I discovered these shoes I fell in love so I bought four pairs in the color combinations that I liked.
Next sign 🪧Union City was only 4 minutes away, the second city which was a nice 👍 and “easy” win lol 😆 I mapped out this route so I get motivated early and keeps me motivated to keep going.
Getting to the third sign 🪧 post was not easy and felt like forever to get to Hayward at 5.21 miles.
Got a burst of energy when I got to my finish line 🏁 at Costco at 5.87 miles so naturally I kept going 🏃🏻♀️
By 2:00 pm at 7.77 miles, I reached my lactic acid threshold and only walked from there and did occasional leg ups to distribute the lactic acid more evenly and not get “lead legs.”
Fatigue was slapping me around around the 9.92 mile mark and I almost stopped at the bus stop to take public transit or call an Uber but I pushed through. I was too close to double digit mileage all on my own human volition, without wheels, and on my feet 👣 so I decided not to be a sissy and stop.
Then I got another energy boost when I saw my home 🏡 city sign at around 10.10 miles.
Almost home so was getting giddy so I wanted to remember this and took a pic ✌️
Clocked ⏰ in 11.73 non stop miles on foot 👣 at 3:33 pm and felt super accomplished 🏁🕊️✍️🏃🏻♀️
K. I’m done 🏃🏻♀️✅ See ya’ll mañana 💗👸🏻🌎✌️
Here are a few pages from Dr. Sheehan's book, The Essential Sheehan, that expresses this idea of play quite nicely:
And another excerpt that talks about two types of physical energy. One that is magical and playful and another that is mundane and obligatory.
With all that said I hope hope you get out there, connect with others, get moving, and find YOUR PLAY!!
Before long, you will find yourself invigorated and inspired once again.
Happy weekend friends!
Day 23, 1/13/25: 2:15 pm: Happy 😃 Monday. Hope your day is going well whatever time you are seeing this. For me, it’s another at the gym blogging post.
To aid my muscles in recovering yesterday, I took a hot salt bath 🛀 and rolled out with a foam roller. Today my legs felt good and nimble with minimal soreness. I want to keep the recovery on an upward trend 📈 so I focused on mobility training and an active recovery type workout today. So far so good 😊 Thank you 🙏🏽 God for all that my body can do💗
Day 24, 1/14/25, 10:20 am. Show 🎟️🎪me your brave and I’ll show you mine. Go get it and conquer your day everyone💪🌟That’s what I’m doing. Happy Tuesday ya’ll 🤠🐎🏃🏻♀️
Day 25, 1/15/25, 9:21 am Gavin and his team dominated yesterday against Newark. Great job guys 👏👍❤️☄️
Day 26,1/16/25 😃✌️😊 The basketball 🏀 ninjas 🥷🏽 handled business well today. Great job fellas 👏
Day 27, 1/17/25 Bang ‼️ bang ‼️ watch out now. My cool a$$ doctor gave me a bunch of free contact lenses today so now I can see someone’s face clearly from one end of a Costco to another and read body language from far as well. I should really be a spy 🕵️♀️ or long distance sniper *pew* x 2 🔫lol 😂 Happy 😃 Aloha 🌺 Friyay and MLK weekend everyone 🌟 Hope you enjoy it❣️
Day 28, 1/18/25 Sunset nature walk 🌅 Happy Saturday 💛🐶🐾
Day 29, 1/19/25 Off to an early and active start for all us today. Gavin had basketball training, I worked on mobility / dance choreography, and Gigi placed in her speech tournament. Happy blessed 😇 Sunday friends 💕
I counted 18 instances of roaring audience laughter and 3 tender “aww” tender hearted moments of connection. The dynamic duo of Gigi and Noah most definitely delighted audiences with their performance tonight. Congratulations and well done you two 👏👏
Day 30, 1/20/25 Happy MLK day everyone. I hope you keep blossoming wherever you are planted 🪴🌱🌻🌷
My mom and I were delighted to see these blossoms because these plants have moved with her and my dad, have been replanted numerous times, and this is the first time they are blossoming. Bellísima 💕💖💞💗
I went to Dale hardware today and found it to be a breath of fresh air compared to the other, bigger tool stores.
First, it’s closer to home and so much more digestible aesthetically in how it is organized. I bought what I needed and was greeted with helpful and knowledgeable employees. (I’m never going back to the other places from now on.)
Anyhow, today I taught myself how to uninstall burnt out overhead light fixtures in my kitchen and replace them with newer LED fixtures without YouTube and did it the old fashioned way of trial and error. I am so freaking proud of myself because this task was super duper not easy !! I am sure my old man 👴🏽 in heaven was with me because I had a lucid dream of him last night helping me babysit my future grand children like he did with his own grandchildren when he was alive. Thank you Papa🌷 Now I can add this to my resume lol 😂 Be blessed and loved 🥰 ya’ll. See you mañana ✌️
Tada 🎉😁🥳🤨💪 I fixed my own lights💡
Focus on the good so it grows and have a charmed & blessed 2025 friends 🌱🙏🏽🌷✨📈👩🏻💻
