Christopher Dior Simon's Blog, page 21

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My Miracle Man did it once again. He manufactured a table attachment for my grow lamp that I will use to grow vegetables in my indoor garden. It is looking promising. The cherry tomato plants are in a pot with some red and purple artificial roses.

The other additions were my two clear planters that I had marbles placed inside. This period of fantastic creation was Interrupted by the foul language of my neighbor. A head injury has altered his mind and behavior.

The cursing and aggressively dangerous resident is leaving soon. Yes, he is a very abusive guy, both verbally and physically.
I had a roommate like that once. I’m happy with my room and that I no longer have a roommate.

I did manage to write and listen to my Hoopla books. Afterward, I finally filled in some of my Good Reads. I’ll list the almost eighty books that I have read this year so far. I also completed the voice-over agreement.

I’m planning to write or finish writing the remainder of the ten books I have planned this year. Work your plan and plan your work. Inch by inch, everything’s a cinch. I have begun with ALS: A Life Surrendered, Prayers: Simply Said By Simon, Flowers of the Heart, Imminent Death: Living with a Terminal Disease, and in March, the fifth book will be finished, ALS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – My ALS – Amazing Life Story, and the six book of Daddy’s Dream and Mommy’s Joy.

I’m diagnosed with the disease, but I am not this sometimes devastating, doctor-declared death sentence. As for death? As far as I know and can tell, its hold on me has loosened since I have locked into living and have a grip on life with Simplysaidbysimon ALS – Always Living Successfully. Thanks, Belinda.

Despise not small beginnings

Wondrous Wednesday. Praising God for the publisher’s responsibilities, I am learning. So far, since January 7, 2024, I have royalties of $299.52 planned for St. Jude’s Hospital. Let me rephrase, we have $299.52 earmarked for St. Jude’s Hospital. Whoo-hoo. We are doing it. I have a strong and clear vision of reaching the hearts and homes of hurting individuals and families.

I’ll do my part to learn this business, to stay well-read, and to remain relevant. I know our messages won’t resonate with everyone, but every burden we ease and every despondent heart we bring hope to makes it worthwhile involvement, and purposeful.

I promise to remain the dry humor, humble but ever-confident servant. I relish each journey I am allowed to share. It’s a great quote and reference – I don’t want a happy ending. I want more life. Ever before us is the choice to just live, Baby. Some may struggle with the idea of having a ventilator. All I can say is, Just live, Baby. Let your loved ones keep seeing the sparkle in your eyes when they enter your presence.

The wish for healing has always been the half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D’Angelo. Simplysaidbysimon on WordPress is acknowledging the strength it takes to keep going. I value your tenacity to hold on. I’m encouraged by every that you tell the grim reaper, “Not today.” ALS – Applicable Loving Spirit.

It’s Your Life

Tap dancing Tuesday because my dream team executed faultlessly the assembly and placement of my dresser. Everything in its place will be next. I have a lot of things to organize in my cabinets. I can do it slowly.

It’s a Thrilling Tuesday because of real progress on my audio recording plans. March should experience the completion of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – My ALS – Amazing Life Story and progress on Daddy’s Dream and Mommy’s Joy. Some of you heard my new voice-over man audition reading the book’s first part. If you want to hear it, I will try to load it onto my website.

That’s another thing I accomplished yesterday. I did a Google Meet session with a Webmaster and discussed beefing up my site. I’ll want it to handle merchandise in the future. Are you getting the vision yet? Even though your normal livelihood may have disappeared with the progress of your condition, you can conduct business online, have a hobby, engage in friendships, or whatever your interests are. Could you get a fire lit? We want to meet the real you!

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson. But decide today that you’ll be. No copping out and going off into the sunset just yet. The heck with running your movie credits. You have more moves and movies to make.

I’m excited to see your photos when you receive my books. Kudos. But it’s emotionally orgasmic for me to see photos of you embracing what is and making something out of it. Talking about pillow talk. What’s my name? Oops, wrong movie, but you get the picture. A life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia. You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality. Wallace D Wattles. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt. Simplysaidbysimon don’t be a co-star in your own movie and life’s story. Baby, you’re the main attraction, and you’ve got a story to tell or make. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche. Fred Rogers. True stories seldom have endings. I don’t want a happy ending; I want more story. Frances Hardinge.
ALS – Awesome Life Story. Thanks, Belinda.

Guard your heart

I just finished a meeting with a webmaster. I submitted my offers for a reader of my books. I read some and listened to my playlist, and now I will write more.

Miracle Man just came to our facility. I’ll have everything planned for today completed. It looks like one of my lost parts came in. I’ll see if my sister wants it.

Yes, my voice-over artist has agreed in principle. I sent him the ACX format offer, and he will send me an agreement for the rest of our payment schedule. He’s kind and flexible, has an MDIV, and is on board for the long haul.

Oh yeah, I had the cook make me some deviled eggs, and I ate half of one with four Ritz Crackers and four lemon cookies. Why is this important? My professional person – Ms. Gloom and Doom, does not recommend that I eat orally, breathe on my own, exercise, or do anything that suggests something good. Always consider the source. I’ll continue to proclaim that I am the best authority on me! Enough on that subject because it’s depressing to think that some of our helpers aren’t helping. If you know what I mean, say, “Oh, yeah.”

Negativity can come from anywhere. Keep your guard up. I remember one of Money Mayweather’s later fights. His opponent had made some illegal blows to Mayweather. It is typical for fighters to touch gloves in sportsmanship to say, my bad – I’m sorry. The opposition went to touch gloves, but Mayweather touched his jaw up instead for a knockout. Many people thought it wrong for Mayweather to do that. However, one of the first rules in boxing, and in life, is to always protect yourself, even from doctors and health professionals.

Whether it’s intentional or not, some will steer us wrong. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your dreams, aspirations, and hopes for today and tomorrow. If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, then you don’t know what you’re doing. W. Edwards Deeming. Whenever we don’t know the answer, I prefer my own guess. Simplysaidbysimon, I will make my own mistakes because I am the one who “lives” with them and because I am ALS – A Living Simon. Thanks, Jilliane.

Make Something

Okay, I have bought more items like bookholders to display my books. A new dresser to put things conveniently away. It was a fantastic and fabulously exciting day. Once again, I was blessed to orchestrate and delegate the assembly and placement of new items in my room.

Added were the projector and woofer stand, a grow light for my indoor gardening, flowers for my bulletin board borders, water containers for my plants, and the transfer of the three cherry tomato plants to a large pot to be placed on the water dispenser.

Tomorrow, if I am fortunate enough, I will see the culmination of my dresser assembly and placement underneath my beautiful table. I have one eight-planter stand due this week and some books to arrange for the new bookholders. I’ll be ready to plant more vegetables this week. I’m happy. But there’s more.

Everyone enjoyed listening to the book audition. I just sent sent the man a proposal today, and he accepted it. I’ll start the production of audiobooks next month. Whoo-hoo. The man is kind, flexible, like-minded, and motivated to get the message of these books distributed.

I’m telling you, I have disabled my disability and will work toward every goal I can conceive. Did I mention that I plan to write for my story to be made into a movie? I’ll do that by July next year. I believe in being an innovator. Walt Disney. Simplysaidbysimon we can make movies, books, songs, poems, paintings, and most of all, we can design and create a life from our wheelchairs and beds simply by ALS- Absolutely Living Serenely. Thanks, Ari

Look and Live

This was another good week of room improvements, self-publishing learning, books read, and progress on writing books and producing audiobooks.

My new dresser will be assembled and modified by Miracle Man. What a great blessing he is. Jennifer will fly back home on the 27th. Even though I can’t speak, you may hear my shout or feel my Southern California ground shaking jig.

Life is good. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adam. Simplysaidbysimon you are the driver, so drive being ALS – Attentively Less Serious. Thanks, Gwen.

What’s in your heart to get done

I’m crunching out my things to do to be a millioncares. It is wonderful growing my business and personal time with God. Today, I am listening to audiobooks on success as a self-publishing author and on prayer. What was up with you today? What are your plans for the weekend? I continued my room upgrades today. Miracle Man put up my book holders to hold some published books. This weekend, I have a few things to work on. I’ll write another book of payers this year. My book publishing will continue throughout the year with another six books. I’m learning marketing and the publisher’s responsibilities. As a self-publisher, this would be me. ALS does not distract, disturb, or detour me from obtaining my goals. I find that for me the disease only makes me more determined and focused on my dreams. I hope you’re determined also to reach your goals. Another perspective is that the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell. Simplysaidbysimon does all that is in your heart to do with ALS – Achieving Lifelong Strength. Thanks, Jilliane.

More Power

​Thankfully Terrific Thursday for you. I had $200 of my $600 loaned out and returned yesterday. This is good. Also, I show $167.86. in royalties so far this month. I had $92 the first month. Praising God. I’ll donate it to St. Jude’s Hospital. In fact, eventually, I will increase my allowance by $250, give Jennifer $250K, and donate the rest of it. I believe God made me a millionaire giver. Why do I think it essential to be so public with my personal and private information? I want to say that our diseases, difficulties, or conditions don’t have to end our dreams. I speak it to manifest it. I hold myself accountable to make it so in my words and actions. I’m programming my brain to construct conducive avenues toward my declaration.

Don’t forget, I said my room will be ready for Oprah’s crew. Finally, I opened my heart to all that Providence will do with and through me/us. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Lao Tzu. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it. Muhammad Ali. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu. Simplysaidbysimon, Captain, we need more power for ALS – Always Loving Someone. Thanks, Belinda.

Live Long

Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert. I hear you regarding the time of grief and stress when someone dies. I don’t remember having any of those emotions or experiences with my mom’s death. I remember mainly getting with the older of my two sisters and telling her to let everyone contribute their ideas regardless of their ability to contribute financially. I knew that Jennifer and I would cover whatever they could not pull off, along with the insurance.

I’m the middle child of the seven children. My mom’s choice of me as the executor after her last breath possibly stemmed from my stoic and practical, plodding way of handling things. I remember crying at the funeral, but my emotions gushed out from seeing my visually distraught and overwhelmed siblings and other family members.

I had, as well as others, already done what we could for Mother Simon. She had made me aware that the doctor gave her one year to live. I told her I was sorry and would do whatever she needed to be comfortable. We had already put up her ceiling fan and bought her a nice TV with a built-in VCR so she could conveniently play her videos. I was a bit mischievous. I would let the siblings give me money to contribute and then give it to my mother. I did the same thing after she died, and my siblings wanted to contribute. I allowed them to give what they could and did not give an amount.

Families often fight over what the deceased left behind. My mother was smart and left instructions in her living will that if anyone contested the distribution of her “leftovers,” they would be excluded from the will. Mother Simon lives with her praying, generous, loving, and Spirit-filled children. Simplysaidbysimon, die with no regrets. ALS – Always Looking Spify. Thanks, Belinda.

Just Another Day

I enjoyed the snacks of Ritz Crackers, luncheon slices dip, and three lemon cookies. My Miracle Man put up my curtains, pink hanging flowers and watered my plants and indoor garden.

I’m having a good evening also. The Director of Nurses just bought Prayers Simply Said By Simon. One of the CNAs is going to buy two more books, and one CNA agreed to sell books and spread the word about how he has benefited by reading Flowers of the Heart.

I know. I’m moving and shaking up and out things from my bed. I received $151 in royalties and $92 last month. The Lord is blessing me right now, ohh… And remember, it’s going to St Jude’s Hospital. I feel blessed to give and have my books help give insight, a different perspective on disease and death, and encouragement and motivation to just live, Baby, Simplysaidbysimon. ALS – Another Loving Sentiment. Thanks, Janal.