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Correen

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I Love Tea!

Posted on my Crabby's Beach blog today:

Memories flood in – helping me remember my past. It’s a warm, lovely feeling to re-connect. That was my experience, just this evening, when I happened upon Sandy’s lens all about trying loose leaf tea.squidreport.crabbysbeach.com, Squid Report, Oct 2009
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Did You Know - Jing By TechSmith!

Jing had me at hello! I'm into visuals so this application fits perfectly into offering my readers a bonus when they visit my lenses. Download it for FREE and start adding clickable content for your reader's too. Here are a few examples of links I have added for reader's...

XXX Hot Mushrooms

Danish Wedding Cookies 

Cowboy Candy 

BIG TIP:

Make sure to add your link on the screenshot 

SquidReport Me

Image via Wikipedia

New feature launched over at SquidReport:

As hard as I’ll be trying to get to new, fresh, and exciting pages on Squidoo, I’m only human. So nudge me – to give a look see at your creation! You’ll know when it gets posted on SquidReport by the message dropped into your guestbook. What? No guestbook – then I’ll be unable to give you a feature here on SquidReport :(squidreport.crabbysbeach.com, Squid Report

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Daring You to Walk On Fire!

You meet people, even if it's not always face-to-face...Crystal's charity challenge to walk on fire captured my attention from the start to her fabulous finish! Click on the video to listen to the music that inspired her, then read our interview. Bet you'll think twice next time you are faced with fear or a real challenge!

YGF: Your experience was life changing for you and touched so many of us, like an arrow straight to the heart. During your fire walker training you were asked to write down something you want, you wrote down five words and then honed in on one - Joyful! Can you share the other words you wrote down and what they mean to you today?

Crystal: Thank you so much Correen. This is really an honor for me.

During the training we were asked what we wanted - anything, whatever we wished. After we wrote it down we were asked how we would feel if we had that thing. My five words/phrases were Great, Healthy, Thankful, Better Mother, Happy. Then we were told to narrow it down to one, so I looked at all of these and the best word I could come up with was - Joyful.

My one thing was that I would want to loose weight because I am about 100lbs overweight. I know I would feel great and be healthy if I could loose the weight. I would also be a better mother with more energy. And I would be happy and thankful. All of this really comes down to...I would be full of joy if I were to loose the weight...Joyful. So that became my word. In all honesty that is what I want in every part of my life, to be full of joy.

YGF: At the beginning of your lens you mention that your family thought you were crazy for doing this. What do they have to say now that you successfully walked across a ten foot bed of hot coals?

Crystal: My mom claims to have never thought I was crazy, but she's said she's very proud of me. She thinks I'm a very strong woman. My husband is proud of me and says he sees a major change in me. He says I'm more easy going and full of life. My 9 year old thinks I'm superwoman now and he wants to walk on fire too! I think my step dad was just relieved that I wasn't burned. Before the event he heard on the radio that the guy leading it had been burned during one of his walks. All in all they are all very proud.

YGF: Your inspiration before fire walking was to listen quietly to the song I Dare You by ShineDown. I got goosebumps listening to the song - did you? What is your favorite line from the song?

Crystal: After the training we were all very emotional and this song was a last moment to get our thoughts and feelings in check. It was so very calming and energizing at the same time. My favorite lines are:

"Even in madness, I know you still believe
Paint me on canvas so I become
What you could never be"

For me, in the context of the fire walk, it was saying that yes, what we're going to do was crazy but since we believed in what we were doing that we could become what we couldn't be before because of fear. It may sound far reaching, but that was the part that really spoke to me.

Now after the fire walk I feel like it's telling me to project what I want and eventually I'll feel that way. I guess it goes back to the whole law of attraction thing.

YGF: I am curious, as others may be too - did you have blisters on the bottom of your feet at the end of the fire walk?

Crystal: I had no blisters. About 3 hours after the walk my feet got really hot and felt sunburned, but it didn't last. The next morning my feet were fine.

YGF: By doing this fire walk for charity it also helped you face a lot of personal issues. Could you please share your thoughts with us about how to overcome fear?

Crystal: As I mentioned before, one of the things I want is to be a healthy weight. I realized because of the fire walk that it was fear stopping me. I was afraid to fail. I was afraid to look funny exercising. I was afraid to be noticed if I were to loose weight....the fire walk was symbolic for me.

I think back and say to myself "this is nothing, I walked on fire" and then I'm calm and unafraid. I think anything we've done can do this for us."I've had a child, this is nothing!" "I'm a giant squid, this is nothing" "I have dealt with teenagers and survived, this is nothing!" "I quit drinking, this is nothing" I think we all have those things that we can look back on.

If we can look to those accomplishments in the face of fear, what do we have to fear in the first place, since we've already faced so much more?

Since the fire walk I have been exercising because I'm no longer afraid. I have loosened up and am more relaxed. I have joy because the fear in my life is gone, there's nothing holding me back now!

Thank you...Crystal

A JOYFUL FIRE WALKER!!

I Walked On Fire

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Event Venue...Country's BBQ

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A Real Angel - 24websurf!

Holley's wicked sense of humor keeps me on my toes :) I bet you didn't know that she spends most of her Saturday's or wee-in-the-morning hours surfing around Squidoo - leaving her comments and stardust. Yep, she does! I think she would be a perfect party planner - offline and a loving angel - on Squidoo.

So to those of you that know Holley, aka: 24websurf online make sure to give your hello here. And for those of you that don't know her...whatcha' waiting for? Read on...

So Why Squidoo?

When I found Squidoo, I was like most, looking for that elusive pot of internet gold. What I found were friends and I am currently richer than I have ever been! They give freely of their time. They push me to give my best effort. Some have even held my hand, wrapped their Giant tentacles around me and provided warmth and security through my darkest nights of creating. These are true friends. I have found them here at Squidoo.

Who is the one person in your life that inspires you? Why?

In real life, off the internet, it would be my mother. My mom ROCKS! She has always taught me to be independent. To make my way on my own as best I could without relying on others to pay for my ticket to ride. She was also a pioneer in the mostly mans world of computers and communications. She learned programming when most people had never even heard of computers. This woman has always been a forward thinker. Always the fashion diva, she has never been afraid to wear loud colors and bold prints. She fascinates me.

What is something you would jump up on a soapbox about?

With the number of things I see these days, it would be hard to choose just one. The one word, “ABUSE”, encompasses many things. The abuse of people young, old, and everyone in between and abuse of animals are my main concerns. WE as a people should learn that it is NOT all about one single person. When you speak, think how you would feel if someone said those very same words to you or your child. Then…DON’T SAY THEM! Freedom of speech does NOT give you the right to verbally abuse others. Show some class and remember your manners.

Where do you get your great sense of humor?

Thank you for the compliment, Correen! My mother calls my sense of humor something quite different. It usually stems from sarcasm ;) Instead of saying something mean, I try to not to alienate people. I want to make people laugh. I love the sound of laughter, unless you sound like “Janice” on the TV show “Friends”.

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♥ I am a nice person. I expect people to be nice. When they are not, I can do a 360 in a heartbeat ;)
♥ I hate cameras. I run when I see one.
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