Stomp out the Dust 😯

Happy June warriors. I am back to using UW pics 😌 once again. Summer will officially be making its way to my part of the U.S. very soon so we need Mr. ☀️ ! A couple things first here. Last week~~~ I had said it to be 4 weeks of no painted pics, but it was actually 3~~~my bad. “Forest Dingo” was painted in that photo! 🤭 The next point is also referencing last week. I looked and noticed the word ultimate had yet to be used in a post this year so it almost made it 6 months. Hard to believe…

***Time for another introspective one today….

That photo below shows Ultimate Warrior literally stomping on Goldust but my ideas today take it metaphorically of course. I have said before we need to release stuff from our lives in order to move forward yet sometimes we need reminders. We can’t half- a** it, they need to be stomped out~~~which includes the dust left behind. It is so very hard as I’m learning all the time too. There are often glitches but then I refocus to get back on track. You can even look at little areas of your life needing improvement. How about junk food? Gossiping? Binge watching? It starts small warriors and then moves into bigger issues of yourself, relationships, habits, and belief systems. Keep belief systems in your head for just a bit as it is widely a topic on here but I will press a new word your way with NOUS. It is pronounced “noose” and is French.

Do any of you remember my post from 1/24 titled “Believing is Feeling?” It detailed this little red book I devoured and couldn’t put down. Two historical people were the topic and the word nous was intertwined with both. I subscribe to the author’s email as she had been absent for a while. I love her ability to convey such powerful words as I read each OUT LOUD, every time. Just last week, she related a story concerning her younger days in Divinity school and a certain professor she worked closely with. The word nous became part of this story. It simply means “we” in French but expands to so much more. I’m not getting religious like I’ve said, but just spiritual~~~ there is a difference. Nous is the humanity and divinity within us all. We don’t have to go “running” after it like Ultimate Warrior did in his prime.

The word nous actually originated from Greek as it connects to the MIND… 🧠 Warrior was all about that as many know. Nous is our common sense, logic, intellect, and rational thinking. It operates on a more modern word of intuition. Yep~~~ he referenced that repeatedly in his writings over the years as well. Your sense as a human just knows things to be true without fully questioning just like my author feels about her works.

Our inner knowing or internal GPS as some call it, is innate. We just have to tune in to find it. Claircognizance is elaborated somewhat in MY book, but this author doesn’t use that word. “Clair” is also French. Many even say the mind is like “ the spiritual eye of the heart,” but I believe the gut holds it all together~~~ literally. It is our birthright and “treasure” to have this mind and then truly feel in our heart what is right for us all while using our natural state of intuition. What is true for you? What needs to be stomped out and turned to dust?

Well, let me share a recent dream I had. Yes, it’s been a long while but this was more of an unpleasant one I needed to stomp out. The real life plays again warriors… I won’t share the details this time, but let’s just say it involved WWF (yes back then) and something I was part of. I did not want to be involved and yet somehow in this dream~~~ I was. It became very uncomfortable as I keep asking my team for lucidity during these times. After a bit of “awkwardness,” I saw it. The word NOUS in big letters above me in this strange wrestling event. What? Wow. 😮 I had read her email that day last week! OK, you can argue the “we” meaning and that will work. My body and soul are split in dreaming but I connected it more. To me, it meant my mind could control this situation and work to get me out of it. It DID work. I saw that word and immediately felt it enough to awaken. It’s not a “noose” strangling us but more like a rope that tethers us to what is true and real…

No, I wasn’t put in a casket for those fans thinking of a possible scenario! ⚰️ 😳 It did concern “The Slammy Awards” of 1987 but not in a good way. At least it wasn’t for me and I had to fight a little to stomp it out. I have belief systems now that I’m remembering and by listening to my mind, heart, and gut, I can overpower that negativity and return to my nous. It’s a bond we all have and can access any time. Sometimes, it even comes when we are not expecting it too. We just need to practice and overtime, it will get stronger just like mine has and still is. To reprogram our minds might take a lifetime but if you are willing to put in your best effort, it will get recognized.

Believe in stomping out what doesn’t fit in your life to dust while enabling your own nous to come through. You may not physically see it but you will feel it in one way or another. Thank you team and Warrior always for showing me my NOUS… 🙏🏻🥰

P.S. Our pool 🏊‍♀️ is open, so I am excited to hopefully go in soon! 🌊

Are You Oscar Worthy? 🫵🏻💛

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know we already had Oscar season a few months ago but when an idea comes, I just go with it so here it is! Us regular folks will probably never win an Oscar or Academy award but like I have said about many of my “performances,” they are worthy indeed. OK, I mentioned getting an Emmy for acting but close enough. I’ll stick to TV and not the movies for a change! That pic of Ultimate Warrior below was quite the performance when he played mind games with Goldust. He donned the wig and took his bodyguard’s fedora. Earlier on, Warrior sat in Marlena’s Director chair and took a puff on her cigar while even burning Goldust’s hand. Quite the in-ring theatrics without a match. I loved it despite no actual “lock-up.” . Was it Oscar worthy? Your choice but it showed a funny side that we as fans didn’t always see.

Many of you who know my stories can recall some that well, could’ve been Oscar worthy but if not~~~ I hope they made you laugh, cry, or any other emotion you deem appropriate. I’m gonna share a new one today that got brought back to my memory of last summer. I don’t deserve an award obviously but it’s right up there with my expression of “WWKD” or otherwise noted as What Would Kathy Do? I actually had a friend tell me that once. It was something totally unrelated but I’m using it today, ha ha. If you are parent, did you ever have those times when you tell your kids to *** NOT*** do something and then you yourself do it? This was one of those times.

It can be something many of you do but not me which is why it fits into some of my Oscar worthy stories. Last summer, I wanted to listen to a good friend of Warrior’s ~ Peter Pallis tell some of HIS stories to an interviewer and it was on YouTube. Peter is the founder of the band ANAKA who I’ve referenced years ago and he and I have chatted a few times as well. He recently left a post on Warrior’s passing of 10 years so I remembered this last summer. He is a part of the U.W. Facebook group and both of us were also in another group on there several years back. That other group was a little “kooky” which Peter had said of a word Warrior used. Neither of us belong to those “kooks” anymore but we shared some laughs over that time. Anyways, he gave this lengthy interview but me~~~ I wanted to go swimming when it still felt warm enough outside. What to do? Sure, I could’ve listened to it later but typical me, I had and wanted to do it then so how could I do both? 🏊‍♀️

I propped my phone up on our pool platform in the shade so it wouldn’t get overheated~~ I’m always thinking. This would work as nobody was around and no splashing either. The volume only goes so loud ya know as I had to stay close by. If I wanted to swim more, I paused it. With me there alone, I could be super careful as lo and behold~~~ my phone came with me in the water while I walked around. One little slip, and that would be the end of my phone! That did not happen as I listened to the whole interview and went swimming. Never would I trust or want my kids to do this. If they want pics, I’ll take them on the platform but not while in the pool, it’s too dangerous. I do silly stuff though and it somehow works. 🤷🏻‍♀️😜

Here are a few other “performances” so you can choose a winner. Just little recaps as they all have been written. To start, I called into Dana’s podcast back in 2018 titled “Total Warriors!” and shouted down to my husband that I was live on the air! It was quite funny. I had the hosts laughing just by my silliness. 😂I’m sure Warrior was laughing too… Next, I stole or ~ ahem~ “rescued” some U.W. items from both preschools I had taught at. I’m still in awe to this day… Not that those events happened but more so about the connection of now . It is surreal…. How about when I drove to a nearby town to photograph the “Helwig Whistle Stop” sign by a busy road? I know it’s missing an L but that’s not the point here! I can’t do that today because there is now a fence… Another risky performance by me all for a photo. A physical one was walking the dog and then tripping sending keys flying. I actually fell 3 times and found myself saying: “my knee’s gone…” just like Hulk Hogan during WMVI. I hurt for days and couldn’t do some yoga poses.

The things we do, right? With me though, I wasn’t looking for an award like quite possibly “real” actors do. It’s just me being authentic and laughing at myself which we need reminders of always. What are some of your OWN Oscar worthy performances in your life? Yes, most of mine were laughable but many are not that exact emotion. When I found out more in this journey, it could be quite challenging holding it all together at times. The book I wrote helped, this blog helps, and every other practice I use to get centered helps. It’s a beautiful ride and one I will be forever on until I reach “parts unknown.” It’s the **REAL** moments that matter most and not always just info we receive from others. Trust those instincts, they are rarely wrong. 🥹🫶🏻

Maybe you don’t want and need that Oscar or Emmy but just knowing you were being yourself is all that counts. Laugh, cry, get mad sometimes, feel proud, and whatever else comes. Those feelings deserve validation, despite not possibly giving an anticipated acceptance speech. Own those life lessons because we need to learn them here now. I know without a doubt, Warrior has a front row seat to my performances because he has helped orchestrate MANY of them in his own way. Even the best actors never win an Oscar. Goldust may have looked like one, but isn’t the real deal. We are all performers just going through life the best we can. Make it all WORTHY… 👏🏻🤭🙂‍↕️

P.S. I recant just a little from last week as I got somewhat too caught up. The WWE DOES and will continue to thrive. I am grateful they have as much Ultimate Warrior merch that they do. 💙

*** I also had some big numbers as of late on my posts so thank you as always! 🥰😳👊🏻

P.P.S. Here’s another little extra add-on. My husband and daughter sometimes compete with the daily Wordle. Are you familiar with this? I think I’ve mentioned it before with the word ETHOS as you need to guess a random 5 letter word. I was on the couch, listening to them go through the letters and all I heard was NGO. You fans might know where I’m going with this. I kept thinking in my head all along it’s DINGO, I just know it. My daughter was saying lingo, bingo, etc. Finally, without me saying anything out loud~ my husband said DINGO! She did not know what that was and he said it is a wild Australian dog. I just laughed to myself thinking how I had no idea he knew what that was… ***

Too bad that story wasn’t a few weeks ago when I mentioned the Dingo Warrior! All the funnies🤣😉- all the time…