Sometimes life overwhelms our home life…our job is to mitigate this each time it happens.
i knew them all…
Every one of our Property Owners Association residents…
Ever.
i’ve known them all.
Starting with the original ‘settlers’ (pre-1990)…
Abney, Vercammen, Rennells, Powell, Spore, Donkel, Renaldo, Nguyen (?, the ‘farmers’ with the pond).
And everyone since 1990.
We have always been a lowkey, pleasant community.
State Road 535 widened from two to four lanes between 2008-2011.
Either side of 2015 the future caught up with our community and we never collectively rallied around proactive, modern-day thinking.
The pressures of an attractive location near Walt Disney World, plenty of new housing and new infrastructure, year-round palm trees and sunshine, plus a never-ending exposure to global tourists….
Tension.
Ambition.
Fear.
It’s tested and grown my creativity, resolve, and optimism.
We will flourish again. Sooner rather than later.
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
World Drive is the main street in our hometown, which hosts big time running events. Couple days ago…the 2026 Walt Disney World Marathon.
Tomorrow i have a podiatrist appointment and later a massage.
Feet, joints, ligaments, tendons, legs.
These are a few of my favorite things.
Haven’t ‘jogged’ since last Wednesday, a week ago.
Started to jog five days ago last Friday but developed a left-calf ‘cramp’. so i immediately stopped. Been on daily ice, rest, ibuprofen.
Podiatrist appointment is unrelated to running, this time anyway.
The massage is me trying to use up accumulated, unused monthly auto-paid credits.
Gonna ask Charlene what she feels in that left calf.
Hoping it’s nothing and then i’m back to the slow and steady return to running.
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
Not gonna lie, had no idea it was decently-over three hours long.
Note: Didn’t do any advance research. Went in thinking it would be a typical movie, 90-120 minutes. So, 180-200 minutes (197 minutes) (specifically three-hours, 17-minutes long) was unexpected. Totally recommend it.
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
JeffNoel.com “archived blogs” widget showing earliest posts began March 2009. Securing this .com URL was a miracle i prayed for and didn’t expect.
Currently sitting on over 31,000 blog posts.
Well past the official world record.
How do i feel about it?
Great.
A few things about world records:
No one cares.
No one knows.
Why would i care? i don’t.
“Bragging rights” are literally worthless, by the way.
There’s a time and a place for certain world records. Totally see that.
What is the most fun is that i write simply because i enjoy it and cannot help myself.
The growth from many aspects of five-blogs-a-day daily blogging is indescribable.
Probably could describe it but feel no need at this point.
.hpm
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
Secured this domain name in March 2009. Just weeks before April Fools’ Day. Can you imagine that? Previously, a State Farm Agent owned JeffNoel.com. He let it expire and 60 days later, March 2009, i secured it.
Finland, Summer 2009 (Senior Olympics). At the top of the tallest Lahti ski jump, pictured next…
Lahti, Finland’s world famous ski jump ramps (Summer 2009).
Early days screen shot for Mid Life Celebration, LLC. So amateur.
1. Mind 2. Body 3. Spirit 4. Money (work) 5. HQ (home)
Mind, Body. Spirit. Money (work). HQ (home). HQ is the large square outlining the other four squares. Ps. Used our son’s crayons to create the squares.
The website header photo is of airport merchandise shop cash register display of small stones.
Slow and steady evolution. Been evolving since 2008.
Three-week countdown, home…
At home, it’s literally impossible to comprehend the daily blogging effort.
Daily blogging began as a 100-day, self-imposed writer’s bootcamp.
Challenged myself to write five daily, differently-themed blogs on five different websites.
The goal was simply to gain writing practice before attempting to write my first book.
You wouldn’t commit to running a half marathon and just showing up on race day. No, you would run many miles, for many days and months before race day.
Same concept for the 100-day blogging challenge. Critical to know that prior to April Fools’ Day 2009, my consecutive-day total for publishing five daily blogs was two.
Two consecutive days. Not four. Not even three. Two.
Definitely impossible.
That’s why i intentionally chose April Fools’ Day.
i’d have to be a fool to think i could write 500 blog posts in 100 days.
To say our home life was ‘busy’ is freakishly understated.
Like many of our Disney colleagues, we all were simply trying to live the American dream.
Also like many of our Disney colleagues, we were insanely ambitious and ‘wanted it all’.
So i asked myself, “Why not pile on top of every ‘busy thing’ in your life a 100-day, write-and-publish five daily, differently-themed blog posts?”
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
