About this Site
Hey, I’m your jazzy old broad, Jenyce Johnson (better known as “JJ”), an 83-year-old widow who has lived a number of lives and excited to see what else this chapter of my life has in store.
I tried to commit suicide when I was in my 30’s and I’m so grateful that it wasn’t successful because I’ve become one of joy, happiness, and peace and I want to share with those willing to receive it.
There’s a lot of information and experts on fashion and make-up for mature women and I’ll point you to them. But we’ll focus on ways our health (mental, emotional, physical, medical, and financial) contributes to a Zen and joyful type of life.
We all know that life’s journey brings sorrow, disappointment, sadness, depression, etc. And we’ll all experience it. But we don’t have to allow it to take over our lives completely.
I talk to women all the time whose focus is totally in the past or who comment, “Well I’m just living for my grandchildren, or “I don’t know why she’s (fill in the blank) at her age,” or “I don’t have long to live anyway.” Blah blah blah.
A while back a lady told me about some dental problems she was having.
She’d been to the dentist and was told the cost of the procedure she needed.
She said, “I’m not going to put that kind of money in my mouth when I don’t know how long I’m going to live”. (she’s 9 years younger than I).
I said, “Uh.” “Seriously?”
Are you gonna go through life without adequate teeth that you need for your nutrition and health because you don’t know how long you’re gonna live?
I continued, So if you spend the money and die shortly thereafter, are you going to lie there, dead, and think Dang, I spent all that money for nothing. 🙂
She called me later to tell me she thought about what I said and decided to get the work done.
Join me in sharing what you do or would like to do to have peace and joy at this stage of your life.
For me to have inner peace, joy, and happiness I had to work on it. It involved more than a motivational speaker telling me to walk on hot coals or to think positively or whatever. For me, it involves:
Emotional. (my emotional and mental state was extremely fragile most of my life.) There was never a valid diagnosis from the medical and psychological help that I sought in my younger days.
When I researched for Food, it’s Driving me Crazy! I began to understand a lot of what was going on with me. This started me on the path to better mental health.
I’ll discuss this in-depth on the blog.
Physical. Exploring what we need to do on an individual basis. Most of us have some kind of physical issue. I’ve had a hip replaced, a Mastectomy (breast cancer), a Hysterectomy, and a wrist Carpectomy.
I have degenerative arthritis over my whole body with pinched nerves and sciatica, rotator cuff issues on both shoulders, and lymphedema in one arm (resulting from breast cancer).
Whew! putting this on paper is making me depressed 🙂
But I refuse to allow them (at least so far) to take away my joy. I’ve developed a plan and a team to help me deal with my issues.
See the blog for future articles.
Medical. Most of us have various medical issues requiring a lot of medications, etc.
I was diagnosed with borderline high blood pressure, borderline high cholesterol, Hypothyroid, GERD, Hiatal Hernia, Diverticulosis, Crohn’s and was prescribed pills for them all.
A couple of years ago I went to my Gastroenterologist for a routine visit looking all jazzy.
“How ya doing”? He asked.
“Great”, I replied.
“BUT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SICK”, He shouted!
“WELL I’M NOT SICK AND I’M NOT TAKING THAT MEDICINE YOU PRESCRIBED FOR MY SO-CALLED CROHNS DISEASE”, I shouted back.
Future articles will focus on what I’ve done to rid myself of these medical issues and the pills.
Financial. Saving/investing money was not something I had any interest in most of my adult life. You make it, you spend it. Only until recent years did I see the need to handle money and finances differently.
I’ll talk more on this subject in future articles.
Attitude. Without the right attitude, none of the above will work.
A lady mentioned to me the other day that someone asked her why am I trying to learn how to develop a blog site at my age?
Here’s my take on this.
First of all, probably no one asked her that. That’s her way of asking me. lol, So I said to lady, “I wonder why she said that”?
The lady said, “Well you will be 83 ( I was 82 then) when you finish the blog”. I said “lady”, If I live I’m going to be 83 whether I finish the blog or not, and if I don’t live, it won’t make a damn bit of difference, will it? ATTITUDE…
So let’s see how we can put all the pieces together in order to optimize the peace and joy in our lives.
I am in the process of writing my memoirs and/or updating Food it’s Driving me Crazy! booklet, since the information in it has to do with why I’m more mentally and emotionally healthy now.
Let’s Explore —see jazzy’s opinion page.
Remember.
Try to put joy in your life.
But if you can’t, don’t try to take it from someone else’s life!
