#LaughTogether

[serenestunners]

A Sense of Humor Is Incredibly Attractive:

A woman who can make others laugh and enjoys life with a light-hearted spirit is irresistibly attractive.

Her sense of humor is a beautiful trait that connects her with others on a deeper level.

[theloulouge]

Life Lens - Entry 94

Love, Laughter, and the Little Things Life’s this wild journey, right? And in the midst of all its craziness, one day, when I least expected it, someone extraordinary waltzed into my world. This person didn’t just like me; they absolutely adored every single thing that makes me, well, uniquely me. I’m talking about the way I express myself, the way I savor my meals, or even those little…

[orthomedhospitalchennai]

On this day, people around the world come together to share laughter and joy through various activities, such as laughter yoga sessions, comedy shows, and social gatherings. The day serves as a reminder of the importance of laughter and its positive impact on physical and mental health. The theme of World Laughter Day may vary each year, but the focus is always on promoting laughter as a means of improving health and wellbeing. The day provides an opportunity for people to connect with others and share in the joy and happiness that laughter brings. #LaughterDay #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #LaughOutLoud #LaughMore #Happiness #PositiveVibes #SmileMore #SpreadJoy #LaughTogether #Comedy

[vikramsalign]

On this day, people around the world come together to share laughter and joy through various activities, such as laughter yoga sessions, comedy shows, and social gatherings. The day serves as a reminder of the importance of laughter and its positive impact on physical and mental health. The theme of World Laughter Day may vary each year, but the focus is always on promoting laughter as a means of improving health and wellbeing. The day provides an opportunity for people to connect with others and share in the joy and happiness that laughter brings. #LaughterDay #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #LaughOutLoud #LaughMore #Happiness #PositiveVibes #SmileMore #SpreadJoy #LaughTogether #Comedy

[frontierlifeline]

On this day, people around the world come together to share laughter and joy through various activities, such as laughter yoga sessions, comedy shows, and social gatherings. The day serves as a reminder of the importance of laughter and its positive impact on physical and mental health. The theme of World Laughter Day may vary each year, but the focus is always on promoting laughter as a means of improving health and wellbeing. The day provides an opportunity for people to connect with others and share in the joy and happiness that laughter brings. #LaughterDay #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #LaughOutLoud #LaughMore #Happiness #PositiveVibes #SmileMore #SpreadJoy #LaughTogether #Comedy

[rajeshwariayurdhama]

On this day, people around the world come together to share laughter and joy through various activities, such as laughter yoga sessions, comedy shows, and social gatherings. The day serves as a reminder of the importance of laughter and its positive impact on physical and mental health. The theme of World Laughter Day may vary each year, but the focus is always on promoting laughter as a means of improving health and wellbeing. The day provides an opportunity for people to connect with others and share in the joy and happiness that laughter brings. #LaughterDay #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #LaughOutLoud #LaughMore #Happiness #PositiveVibes #SmileMore #SpreadJoy #LaughTogether #Comedy

[bharathortho]

On this day, people around the world come together to share laughter and joy through various activities, such as laughter yoga sessions, comedy shows, and social gatherings. The day serves as a reminder of the importance of laughter and its positive impact on physical and mental health. The theme of World Laughter Day may vary each year, but the focus is always on promoting laughter as a means of improving health and wellbeing. The day provides an opportunity for people to connect with others and share in the joy and happiness that laughter brings. #LaughterDay #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #LaughOutLoud #LaughMore #Happiness #PositiveVibes #SmileMore #SpreadJoy #LaughTogether #Comedy

[empoweryoucoaching]

Communicating to Strengthen Your Love Relationship ❤

Daily Checklist – how many of these did you do today? LaughTogether Did something fun and outrageous together Shared a laugh Talked about something funny Shared Your Hopes and Dreams Discussed something you’d like to make happen in the future Talked about how you can do it together Made Time for Each Other Tried something new together Spent quality time together Planed a fantastic…

[dearlordsanta]

For Better or For Worse in Sickness

It’s been a while since I posted on here, I think because it’s been helping, so I don’t feel like I need to do it as often. I’m going to commit to doing it more regularly though because on the off chance someone is reading it and it’s helping in any way, shape, or form, I will continue. This is a long one, so buckle up.

First, I want to talk a little about my relationship with my husband. We’ve been together for almost nine years and married for just over four of those years. When I met him, I was two years out of an on-again/off-again relationship and was really struggling with it, so I wasn’t looking for anything serious. He and I worked for the same company, but at different retail locations. One day, I was asked to cover at his location, which is how we met, and we both did something a little quirky that made it easy to joke around and have fun at work that day. We both carried our Nintendo 3DS in our back pockets to collect Street Passes. We were both teased by coworkers about it at our respective locations, so we bonded over the 3DS and this odd little quirk of ours. He also made fun of how I spoke due to the odd colloquialisms I used. He left a lot earlier than I did that night, but I figured since we got along so well, I should see if he has social media so we could stay in touch, so I decided when I got home that night, I would search for him.

When I got home, even though it was very early in the morning (about 1am since the store was far away and it was the holiday season and all that), I booted up my laptop, got on Facebook to search for him, and noticed I already had a friend request from him that he had sent when he got home from work that night. I quickly accepted and sent him a message. To my surprise, he was still awake and responded immediately. 

We spent the next few days messaging back and forth from the time we got up until we went to sleep, and even made plans to hang out in a shared day off we had coming up in about two weeks’ time. We had decided that he would come over and play Mario Kart (he had been bragging about his mad skills and I wasn’t too bad myself), then we were going to see a movie we both wanted to see and go to a popular local diner after to talk about it. The week before this hang out, he said that since we were hitting it off so well, he wanted to make this hang out a date instead. I was really skeptical about this. I wasn’t sure I was ready for a relationship or anything, I had been on a few dates since I had broken up with my previous boyfriend, but never felt ready, so it never went passed date two. I liked this guy and didn’t want to miss out on a really great friend if this dating thing didn’t work out. Plus, this hangout was starting out at my parents’ house playing Mario Kart with my dad and my youngest sister! It felt wrong (lol). So, I told him all that. He said if it didn’t work out, it didn’t work out, but there was no harm in seeing where it went.

I was nervous about it, so I knew he had been a type 1 diabetic his whole life, so I did research and learned as much as I could about it. I figured if we were going to be spending time together, I should know more about it, so I was prepared. (He was very touched when I told him later that this was how I prepared for our date.)

The date went really well, in case you didn’t guess. It took me a few weeks to get on board with making it official, but after two weeks, we were officially ‘dating’. We’ve been together ever since. He’s one of the funniest people I know and we’ve helped each other grow into better people. We had a lot in common, but the best part about our relationship is our communication. It sounds hokey, but it’s true. You can’t have a good relationship with anyone without good communication whether it’s a lover, a friend, a parent, or a sibling, it doesn’t matter. Good communication is always important.

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know my husband is ill. About a year after we got married, he started to get sick and now he’s been unable to work for several years at this point. Within that first year of diagnosis, he gave me an out. He said that he was in this for the long haul, it wasn’t going to get better and he knew I wanted to have kids and he wanted me to be happy, not to suffer with him. I told him that my vows meant something to me. I married him for a reason and I wasn’t going to leave just because it was going to get harder. This was not an easy decision. I have wanted to be a mom more than I’ve wanted anything in my entire life, but with the way things are, it’s just not feasible. I am still frequently dealing with that part of it, especially as I get into the latter part of my “childbearing years”, but I’ve been working with my therapist on that because, as I said, my vows mean something to me. 

He has Diabetic Gastroparesis which, to put it simply, makes it hard for your digestive system to do its job. Symptoms include vomiting, nausea, abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, a feeling of fullness after eating just a few bites, vomiting undigested food eaten a few hours earlier, acid reflux, changes in blood sugar levels, lack of appetite, weight loss, malnutrition, and fatigue. This has made it very hard to control his blood sugar levels, which has its own side effects, and the weight loss makes it even more difficult because that causes the amount of insulin that he needs to take to fluctuate. 

The worse thing that can happen with chronic diseases, is having one that not many doctors know anything about. For years one of the worse symptoms for my husband has been fatigue. He sometimes sleeps for 14-16 hours a day and is still exhausted. Sometimes he sleeps more, sometimes less. He’s always in pain, but that fluctuates too. On good days, he’s at about a 2 on the pain scale and on the bad days, he can’t even move...I always say those days are a 12 on a scale of 1 to 10. He has been told for the last three years that he needs to get used to it because this is the way life is now and he should be able to manage it enough to work. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. Recently, our PC doctor recommended a new gastro doctor who has been wonderful. He is the first doctor that has listened to my husband and agrees that his symptoms are not within the norm and the new doctor is fairly certain that there is something else in play here. This alone has improved the mental health of my husband exponentially. 

During one of his good days last week, he got online and did a ton of research on his elevated fatigue. He found that he has almost every symptom of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are fatigue, problems with memory or concentration, sore throat, headaches, enlarged lymph nodes in your neck or armpits, unexplained muscle or joint pain, dizziness that worsens with moving from lying down or sitting to standing, unrefreshing sleep, and extreme exhaustion after physical or mental exercise. So, he pushed himself and went to our PC doctor one day to talk about it. She agreed that it was possible and ordered bloodwork. Bloodwork came back today and according to those tests, he was right. He was so relieved. 

You may think relief is a weird thing to feel after having a second difficult to handle chronic diagnosis, but what you need to understand is, that when people have an “invisible illness” or “invisible disability” they are constantly having to defend themselves. We get a lot of eye rolls, uneducated advice, and hurtful statements such as “he’s just being lazy” or “he just doesn’t want to work”. We’ve received treatment like this from family, friends, co-workers, and strangers on the internet. Tell us he just needs to go outside and push himself to exercise when he feels like he can’t move and to “just eat” because it’s “not that hard”. Sadly, this is not likely to stop with the new diagnosis.

As hard as this whole journey has been, and will be, I am glad I decided to stay with my husband. Having someone in your corner makes a huge difference. As hard as it’s been going through this together, I can’t imagine how much worse it would be if he was going through this alone. I had to push him for over a year to get a third opinion because all the doctors were saying “this is your life now, get used to it, and get back to work.”

A lot of people ask me why I stay if I am so frustrated and sad all the time. Like I said, my vows mean something to me. I married this man for a reason. I don’t believe in destiny or fate because that would mean there is a reason behind the terrible suffering some people have to go through, and I can’t believe that. 

I love my husband. Part of the reason I write here is that if I vent out how upset, frustrated, angry, or sad I am about all this, it hurts him. He has enough to deal with, he knows how I feel, and it’s not worth putting him in a negative environment. Part of the reason we’ve gotten this far is that I don’t vent my daily frustrations out on him. 

“Rebellions are built on hope.” So, I rebel against the negative feelings and frustrations so that we may have hope that things will get better one day, and he can have a better quality of life.

[alandasz-blog]

Solo? doesn't matter.. #laughtogether #betheone #vacationmode (at Valak)

[fusiondecorblog]

So today is world laughter day so nothing to say... Just do... Laugh... Laugh to the core of your heart Love it! #2ndmay #worldlaughterday #smileplease #iamhappy #iamsafe #iamenough #iamwithyou #laughtogether https://www.instagram.com/p/COVzdBKFaIR/?igshid=10ljyqjdz3kgp

[thebesttime14]

Ceturtā diena. Ceturtais ieraksts.

Šoreiz nedaudz citādāks, nedaudz citādāka formāta. Neparastāks.

Datums: 19.03.2021.

Prieks ir mājās radīts.

Vai tā ir? Vai manā ikdienā prieks ir mājās radīts?

Jautājumi, kurus šodien uzdodu sev...

Jā, manā dzīvē prieks ir mājās radīts. Mājas ir sajūtas, mājas ir cilvēki, ne vienmēr tā ir ēka. Jā, protams, mājas, kurās dzīvoju ir ēka. Tomēr, ja man būtu jādodas citur dzīvot ar savu ģimeni, tad tā jaunā vieta būtu manas mājas... jo tur būtu mana ģimene. Pirmkārt, varu teikt, ka mājas man asociējas ar vietu, kur ir mana ģimene. Tātad, ja tur ir mana ģimene, tur ir mans miers, mana drošības vietas, tur es sastopos ar patiesāko sevi. Lai gan nereti ārā izskatās, ka esmu tāda pieklājīga, klusa, mierīga meitene, mājas es esmu citādāk, gribas to vai, nē, tā ir vieta, kur es varu atļauties būt es. Otrkārt, mājas ir manas atmiņas, manas emocijas, konkrētas sajūtas. Kam tik es neesmu izgājusi cauri, esot mājās. Emocijas, kuras nevēlos parādīt svešiem cilvēkiem, piemēram, asaras, visbiežāk tiek izliktas mājās. Godīgi?! Ir reizes, kad mēnešiem varu neraudāt, būt jautra, iedrošināt un iepriecināt visus, tomēr tad pienāk mirklis, kad... vienā vakarā tiek izliktas asaras, tam pat nav jābūt ļoti skumīgam mirklim, var pietikt ar vienu domu, vienu situāciju vai vienu atmiņu. Treškārt, mājas man ir cilvēki. Pēdējā laikā diezgan bieži esmu aizdomājusies par savu vecomīti. Marija Rozālija Gerucka. Viņa bija vienīgā, kuru man bija tas gods sastapt (kuru es atceros) no savas dzimtas, vecāku par omi un opi. Man tiešām ir gods viņu atcerēties! Atmiņas par pastaigām, ko kopā veicām, par sarunām, kas mums varēja būt, par mirkļiem, kuros ar brāli izdz��rām viņas kafiju (viņai bija īpaša kafija)... tā bija mūsu/mana vecomīte. Pirmās mājas, no kurām man vajadzēja atvadīties uz mirkli. It īpaši atceros šobrīd mīļos mirkļus ar opi, kuros viņš iedrošina un tajā pašā laikā ieliek, kādas sev svarīgas vērtības manī iekšā. Ar omi mirkļi, kuros abas varam būt nedaudz "silly" (muļķīgas) un par to pasmaidīt, ļoti, ļoti mani iepriecina redzēt omes sejā smaidu, kad ar brāli viņu pakacinam. Tas ir viss, kas vajadzīgs. Ja opis vēl pasmaida, tad tiešām vairs neko citu nevajag. Tad jau ir arī mirkļi ar mammu, tēti, brāli, kuros vienkārši izdomājam aiziet kādās pastaigās. Izdomājam uzspēlēt spēles vai noskatīties filmu. Izdomājam, ko citādāku padarīt kopā. Protams, vieglāk ir vienatnē, tomēr kopā ir vislabāk. Mirkļi ar māsu un ģimenes papildinājumu - māsu, māsu un brāli. Arī mēdz būt spontāni, bet tik daudz prieka un prieka, un prieka piepildīti. Jā, ir reizes, kad parunājam par nopietnām tēmām, tomēr pat tajos mirkļos, mēdzam aiziet pie jautrām tēmām. Tātad... cilvēki.

Ceturtkārt, mājas ir mana Vieta. Tur es cīnos ar saviem slēptākajiem noslēpumiem, tur es cīnos kopīgi ar Dievu pati ar sevi. Tur... es mācos, pieaugu, tur es... esmu es! Iespējams daudziem liktos, ka esmu esktraverts cilvēks, tomēr man pašai vēl aizvien pastāv šī pārliecība, ka esmu introverts. Pat esot radio un vadot raidījumus, esmu laimīga, ka tajā mirklī neredzu klausītāju skaitu vai pat klausītājus... Labāk vienatnē, labāk mājās. Mirkļi, kad draudzē ir jādzied, ir jāruna kaut kas, uzdzen man nemieru, uzdzen kāda veida stresu un neērtumu, nejūtos komfortabli. Tomēr mājas ir tā vieta, kur gūstu jaunu spēku, jaunu elpu, drosmi. Mājās es jūtos mierā. Lai gan bieži pandēmijas laikā esmu dzirdējusi, ka daudzi sūdzās par to, ka ir jāsēž mājās, es šīs pandēmijas laikā esmu pateicīga Dievam, ka varu vairāk laika pavadīt mājas, restartēties no apkārtējās pasaules un būt mierā.

Sanāca garāks raksts, nekā gribējās, tomēr cerams, ka doma saprotama. Esmu savu prieku radījusi mājās. Neviens nav perfekts, varu teikt, ka es ar nav perfekta, tomēr es mēģinu tiekties uz tuvāko, kas varu būt!

Novēlu, ka arī Tu, lasītāji, vari savu prieku radīt mājas!

Lai Dievs svētī!

[logankellysworld]

#laughtogether #havefun #marriagemeditation #livethelifenwflorida (at Lynn Haven, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKY86DBFqyk/?igshid=1g7r549iezi1t

[simplejoiephoto]

Our dear friends Nhien + Robert had a beautiful wedding planned this past March that was of course postponed because of Covid. They still got married anyways and will just plan to throw a big wedding celebration later on when it’s safe to party again. They never got to wear their beautiful tea ceremony outfits so asked I can capture some fun photos of them! So honored to be able to create imagery for dear friends! #traditionalteaceremony #teaceremonyoutfit #vietnameseteaceremony #ourstoryismyfavorite #loveissweet #friendsarefamily #redweddingdress #onthetopoftheworld #justustwo #pdxweddingphotographer #laughoutloud #laughtogether #traditionalvietnamesewedding #traditionalvietnamesedress #blendedbliss #interracialcouple #lovealwayswins #bipocawareness #bipocrepresentationmatters #portlandweddingphotographer #loveissimple #acouplewholaughstogetherstaystogether #soinlove (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0hFxFjfQ0/?igshid=1c5o74xd8z9h3

[kitafragrances]

What was the last thing that made you laugh? 🤣😆 We would love to know! Share the laughter and make someone's day... ⁣ ⁣ Photo credit: @rust2roses_sa⁣ ⁣ #laugh #perfume #identity #womensmonth #style #liveluxury #quote #perfumequote #instaquote #fragrance #scent #eaudeparfum #kitafragrances #laughtogether (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEhWQHcAwl4/?igshid=8z5512t53q1

[neeturishi]

Today is extra special It’s #International #yoga #day It’s #Father’s #Day Glad to be a part of #family which eats, stays, does weird things together. Honestly I m the only one who does yoga but our togetherness made us pose together. Father’s are truly heroes , thank you Himanshu Rishi for making #parenting so easy for me by all your support. #Wonderful #evening spent in the Lap of #nature celebrating those beautiful moments and posing for yoga ....😂 Vansh was the photographer, so got a reason not to pose...😂 #internationalyogaday #fathersday #familytime #familyiseverything #laughtogether (at Grapevine Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBuFGU8pTAH/?igshid=10nzrfx15h27m