LAFOLOT

I have a DRIVE YOURSELF HAPPY campaign on my website, dealing with:

Staying present/focused on the road
Spreading Smiles by the Miles, and
Using my TIME 2 LAUGH system of healthy mood shift triggers!

Having a rough prior evening, but sorting it all out this morning – I headed out to lunch at my favorite Thai Restaurant [ Thai Palace]. I sat in their MIDDLE room because it’s warmer, and the 2 outer rooms have seats along the windows. It’s a cold, rainy, gray weather day.

Being the only one sitting in the middle dining room – I have fun ‘messing’ with the other customers that walk through to go to the restroom or to take a shortcut to the buffet.

When one woman from an outer table got up to walk through, I announced: ‘I’LL ONLY CHARGE ‘YA $5.00 TO GO THROUGH!’

She laughed and said: ‘WOW! WHAT A GREAT RATE! DO YOU WORK FOR THE TURNPIKE COMMISSION? CAN I PURCHASE AN ‘EASY PASS’?

About 10 minutes later, she had to come through again, she made a motion into the air as if she was SWIPING HER EASY PASS CARD! Ha Ha Ha!

I smiled and laughed! She said: ‘I’m using my EASY PASS!’

I was just about done eating, so when she got back to her table with her 3 other friends; I stopped by – put 3 Yellow, Smiley Face LAFOLOT Positive Statement bookmarks in front of her and said:

‘I’M GONNA HAVE TO GIVE YOU SOME TICKETS FOR AN ILLEGAL WALK-THRU!’

She Laughed Out Loud and her one friend said – ‘What?!’
I heard her explaining as I walked out to pay for my meal.

On the way home, I got behind a car that had the license plate: P-OUI

DRIVING MYSELF HAPPY! It translates to: Pee Wee (for anyone that doesn’t know that OUI is YES in French).

It made me laugh so I had a chance to WEE WEE WEE *tee hee hee ALL THE WAY HOME!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Living in the moment!
Living Life! and Laughing Often!
TURN THE BEAT AROUND!
www.lafolot.com

As an ENTERPRISING business woman, motivational speaker and certified laughter wellness facilitator, I couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to set up my RUSH HOUR – MOBILE – LAFOLOT – Healthy Happy Hour event, today!

I set my MOTOR-VATION and *Smile! YOU’RE GREAT! signs out -

tinsel deely bobbers on, clown nose in hand, and Smile Spatula!

Where else can a 51 yr old, overweight, menopausal woman get:

BEEPS, WAVES, and Hand/arm cranks and peace signs from some REAL STUDS driving by! ahahahahahaa How ‘em I doin’? ;o)

Feeling the Freedom and Fun of Being Over 50! ha ha

…afterwards, I met my younger sister for dinner, then stopped over to a GIANT’s Grocery Store on my way home. I was JOKING with the ‘bored’ male cashier clerk and older woman ‘bagger’.

I brought my ‘very light’ one item – up to the conveyor belt and said: Oh Oh !!! Could someone help me with this please …. the guy did a quick turnaround – ready to help! – and the woman laughed saying: ‘Would you like help out to your car with that?’ ;o)

in continuing to joke with them and giving them each a yellow, smiley LAFOLOT bookmark – one of the CART Rounder Uppers (who is my buddy ’cause he took a pair of my tinsel deely bobber headbands from me last Christmas and now calls me HONEY!) – came over – smiling – saying: HEY! HONEY! ahahhaaa

the Woman Grocery Bagger shouts out: ARE YOU THE WOMAN THAT STANDS DOWN BY THAI PALACE ALONG THE ROAD?

LOL! I’M OFFICIALLY FAMOUS! YAHOOOOO! Yipppeee! Hooray!

I ‘flashed’ my t-shirt emblem from out of my sweater that reads: FLASH Someone! …a Smile!

It’s ME, I said! Check out my website! and, no – I’m not crazy and I’m not homeless – just an enterprising business woman!

Once again, AMAZING! Beeps, waves, smiles, peace signs, hand-cranks from HUNKS and Smiles and HEY! HONEY!s ;o)

I’M HOT! (oh wait … must be a heat flash!)
LOL!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
WOW! WHAT A RIDE!
LIFE, THAT IS!Live Life! Laugh Often!

Even with the collllld, chilllly, brrrrrr 50 degree F and below weather – I set up my LAFOLOT MOBILE HEALTH-HAPPY-HOUR event
along the road from 4-6pm – rush hour traffic

PURPOSE: HA HA Helen’s DRIVE YOURSELF HAPPY Campaign – to motivate/inspire and UPLIFT folks driving by. To bring drivers ‘back into the PRESENT moment’ as they drive home after a busy day at work. To SHARE A SMILE or LAUGH; because of the silliness of the moment and the signs that read: MOTOR-VATION and *SMILE! YOU’RE GREAT!

Well! I’ve been doing this for a couple weeks now –

WOW! I HAD A WAY! MOTOR-VATED DAY!

From the START at 4:00pm – just starting to put out my SMILEY balloon and signs – I got BEEP! BEEP! WAVE! from several vehicles driving by!

I have a buddy who drives by in his sports car every time – keeps his face straight ahead and limply waves at me as he drives by. MAKES ME LAUGH OUT LOUD! He’s consistent! ahahahahaa

I even had several Lonnnng Beeeeeeps and Waaaaves from vehicles driving by on the OPPOSITE side of the road! One guy gave a LOUD BEEEP BEEEEP! AND a *hand crank! ahahhahaa

Wow! How em I doin’? HA HA!

About 5:15pm – I heard a voice call from behind me: THANK YOU!
I had on a scarf and earmuffs; but could still hear her.
I got up out of my chair and saw she had pulled into the parking lot.
I went back to talk to her.
She wanted to THANK ME for what I was doing to MAKE PEOPLE’S DAYS!
She is a nurse, had formerly done hospice work.
She gave me a DONATION towards my LAFOLOT Roadside Ministry ;o)
….people keep telling me I have a ministry. I THINK it’s because I’m not making any money! AHAHAHAHAHAA

She said she’s noticed me several times and purposely came by today. She wants to drive by next time and ‘give me more’. She was sorry she didn’t have more to give today! I SAID: YOU’VE GIVEN ME MUCH MORE THAN YOU KNOW!

I told her about GOOD HEARTED LIVING (Steve Wilson) and the gift of KINDNESS and COMPLIMENTS. I gave her my:
TIME 2 LAUGH and HA HA HELEN’S SMILE CAMPAIGN sheet (which also has Steve Wilson’s Good Hearted Living noted on it)

I gave her a couple smiley bookmarks.

SO – It was an ABUNDANTLY PROSPEROUS DAY! Filled with SMILES, WAVES, BEEPS and APPRECIATION!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
www.lafolot.com
Live Life! Laugh Often!
Live BOLD and in ITALICS!

Did you miss your present? hmm?

I was behind a well dressed business woman in a checkout line at a Dollar Store. I looked down and noticed a KEY in the bottom of an empty store-hand basket near her feet. I said: ‘Excuse me? Is that your key?’

No response. I said a little louder: ‘Excuse me? Is that your key?’ [she was INTENTLY Texting someone on her mobile device.] She finally CAME TO – for a BRIEF second to say: ‘WHUH?’ I repeated my question, again – she mumbled ‘neh’ and went back to her texting.

Then, the well-dressed business woman in front of her, just having finished paying for HER purchases echoed: ‘Whuh?’ Her friend didn’t even hear her – and mindlessly walked out behind her, leaving the store.

I was a bit ‘concerned’ that they would both be going out to get into a vehicle and drive! No alcohol, no food, just mental FOG and totally unware of THEIR PRESENT!

[I have a 63 yr old sister who was hit by a drunk driver when she was 19 - she is permanently front left lobe brain damaged as a result. She is now in a nursing home and I'm her representative. So my concern is not a light one.]

I have been marketing myself as well as making the effort to SPREAD SMILES BY THE MILES to rush hour traffic – placing signs out in front of a friend’s restaurant that read: ‘FREE Smiles & Laughs Drive-thru!’

or my other effort: MOTOR-VATION with another sign that read – ‘*Smile! YOU’RE GREAT!’

As I sit or stand along the road – I am AMAZED at the amount of Totally NON-PRESENT drivers going by! Not just from Texting, Cell Phone talking-but from staring off into space etc. [yes, I am guilty of the day dreaming, myself.]

- I found a quarter under a chair at a restaurant today!
- I saw a cloud in the sky yesterday, shaped like a ‘V’ for victory!
- I saw a ‘cloud-like’ X-shape in the sky last week – the residue of two jet paths having crossed one another. It was comical – X marked the spot of the restaurant I had gone to!

- I found a dime on the floor of my hairstylist’s salon a few weeks ago.

I play a smile game where I just look at people with a closed-mouth smile and give myself a point if they return the smile.

I watched a teenage boy talking to his mother in the lobby-waiting area of a restaurant the other week. His mother was focused on her mobile device – reading and texting. The TEENAGER was Talking Away to his mother – and all that came from her was an occassional: ‘Whuh?’ ‘Huh?’ How many parents would be THRILLED to have their teen wanting to talk to them? I watched in amazement!

When walking to my mailbox the other day, I found a beautiful bird feather. I picked it up and saved it! When I was conducting my MOTOR-VATION event, today – I found a TULIP TREE leaf on the ground next to my chair! What a find! I picked it up and saved it!

All these PRESENTs I receive in Smiles, Waves, Beeps, Acknowledgements, and the little GIFTS God, Spirit, the Universe lay across my path as I walk out and about are PRICELESS!

How many PRESENTS did you miss today by not being PRESENT?

I SAID – HOW MANY PRESENTS DID YOU MISS TODAY BY NOT BEING PRESENT!? [this line was just for effect - as a reader - I can tell you are very present..]

THANK YOU for your gift of reading my blog(s) – YOU are APPRECIATED!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
www.lafolot.com
Living in the moment …
Living in A-MAZE-ment
Live Life! Laugh Often!

Well! As I wrote – yesterday’s HA HA Helen of LAFOLOT Mobile Healthy Happy Hour success … did not flow over into this evening! ha ha

gotta ROLL with the WIND GUSTS – especially when –
even after you use your car as a wind-shield – and set up your tent
- it collapses on you as you are attaching the deflated Smiley Face Balloon to a hanger with pants clips .. ahahahaha – what can I say – I’m innovative!

So – I managed to get the tent down – set up my signs –
but traffic was flowing beautifully (nice for the drivers) – no backed up traffic as an audience, today. Clear, sunny skies and THE MOST HORRENDOUS WIND GUSTS I’ve felt in awhile!

My new signs: [promoting my MOTIVATIONAL speaking and DRIVE YOURSELF HAPPY campaign]

www.lafolot.com
MOTOR-
VATION (motivation, get it? *wink wink) ahahahahaha relating to my DRIVE YOURSELF HAPPY campaign…

and

*Smile!
YOU’RE
GREAT!
were being blown down to the ground from the wind gusts.

Another motivational moment where I needed to turn it around and give myself a *pat on the back – for at least getting out there and trying.

Sometimes I just BLOW MYSELF AWAY! ahahahahahahahaha *whoooosh!

…stay tuned

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Living BOLD and in ITALICS!
Live Life! Laugh Often!
www.lafolot.com

WOW! WOW! WOW! – A VERY SUCCESSFULL HEALTHY-HAPPY HOUR!

What a WONDERFUL evening filled with magical, fun, healthy results at my LAFOLOT HEALTHY HAPPY HOUR – FREE SMILES & LAUGHS DRIVE-THRU!

After 2 days of chilly, overcast, windy-rainy weather, THE SUN CAME OUT!
The SKY CLEARED!

As I set up my signs, I noticed bright, yellow dandelions by each sign! I had to take a photo!

As I sat waiting for the traffic to build, I saw a YELLOW butterfly visit the YELLOW Dandelions. It brought a SMILE to my face, as it flittered from one flower to the next.

Two Bees visited, taking the same path as the earlier butterfly.

Then, there was a commotion with 3 crows and a smaller bird. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I looked up and saw, A HAWK! It was sitting directly above my chair on the lamp post and power line pole! WOW! How magnificent!

I got out my cell phone camera and took two photos.

I was IN A-MAZE-MENT of all the wonderful, beautiful expression of LIFE going on all around me! The Sun, the clouds, the blue sky, the dandelions, butterfy, bees, crows, hawk and then came: THE SMILES, LAUGHS, BEEPS

and best of all? Three of the DAIRY QUEEN Ice-Cream and Grille employees crossed the busy road to TAKE A PHOTO with the NEAT LADY they saw across the road – sitting and collecting Smiles and Laughs with her SMILE Spatula and occassional clown nose!

Priceless, Blessed, Beautiful, Magical moments.

Ah! The wonder of it all. In gratitude -

Highlighted, Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Live Life! Laugh Often!
Live Life in A-MAZE-MENT!
www.lafolot.com

Being a motivational speaker and laughter wellness facilitator, I found the priceless gift of a SMILE the past two years.

I had wanted a place to set up a FREE Smiles & Laughs Drive-thru – but it was a whim, or so I thought!

I got the opportunity to set one up at a local Thai Restaurant who wanted to attract more customers by allowing me to set up my ‘stuff’ in their parking lot – during rush hour traffic that backs up in front of their place.

Well! There I planted my ‘H’ signs in the grass on either side of the ENTER lane into the parking lot.

HAPPY HEALTHY HOUR and the other sign: FREE SMILES & LAUGHS DRIVE-THRU

So I sit or stand with a smile planted on my face, holding my GIFT from a friend: a Smile Spatula.

The reward? What a THRILL I get when I receive a wave, smile or double-take!

Today, a young motorcyclist driving a black/yellow painted bike and wearing black/yellow riding gear – gave me a helmet NOD as he drove by! Woo Hoo! How ‘em I doin’? ;o)

My signs are yellow background with black lettering. My business magnetic bumper display is Yellow Background with Black Letters ‘Live Life! Laugh Often!’

When I went out to get ready to sit down, I had left my Yellow Smile Spatula sitting upright.

I saw a big, MAGENTA COLORED SPLAT on it! I had to LAUGH OUT LOUD! and SMILE! too.

I had been blessed with good luck and great complimentary color – by a FOWL FLY BY! ha ha

I’m told this is a sign of good luck! Driving home, I was behind an SUV that had a magnetic display on the back that read: OGW – underneath it noted ‘One Good Woman’ HA HA!

Yes! I AM! I affirmed! and Lucky, too! [I received two contacts today for possible future gigs.]

AIN’T THAT LUCKY! BIRD POOP DOESN’T LIE! ;o)

Live Life! Laugh Often! and look straight ahead, not up – you never know when LUCK will FLY by!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Live Life in a-MAZE-ment!

The SMILE PROJECT has dubbed 10-10-10 ‘SHARE A SMILE DAY!’

As HA HA Helen of LAFOLOT – I grew, in a healthy way, with my Socialization skills, by developing the: HA HA HELEN SMILE CAMPAIGN! Along with slogans such as: ‘Drive Yourself Happy and SPREAD SMILES BY THE MILES’ as well as ‘Light the World with SMILE POWER!’ and my favorite – ‘FLASH Someone … a SMILE!’

I was inspired this morning, by a song pouring into my mind which I have called: SHARE A SMILE TODAY [words and music by Helen Szollosy]. See the words at my SHARE A SMILE SONG page or hear and see it sung by clicking here.

I like the number 10 because it makes your mouth look like a SMILE when it is pronounced! Try it: 10-10-10 ;o)

I like October because it has two Os in it which can be SMILEY faces!
October 1st is also a day to celebrate smiling!

So with all the Os and the 3 Zeroes – which can be smiley faces in 10-10-10 –
it’s a GREAT month to honor the healthy effects of SMILING on the body, mind, and socialization aspects!

I have seen a person grow inches taller, their face light up, and a smile and hello automatically pop out of them just because of receiving a closed mouth smile from me. IT WARMS MY HEART!

It started out as a scientific experiment for me. But, like the scene in THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS – where ‘his heart grew 10 times bigger that day …’ – such was it with me: I learned the more I smiled and saw the HEART WARMING response from others – my own heart started to soften and warm!

A-MAZ-ING THING – SMIL-ING!

May you have a smile-filled day – both in your heart and soul and activities!

Ha Ha Healthily Healing Helen – one smile at a time
Living Life in A-maze-ment!
Live Life Laugh Often!
Spread those Smiles by the Miles!
FLASH someone …. a SMILE!
Light the world with SMILE POWER!
www.lafolot.com

Sometimes, you don’t have a lot of control over a situation and using humor to diffuse anger, frustration, anxiety helps release the tension and bring peace, relaxation and good health back to your body.

There’s a sweet doggie across the road. Since he’s gotten to know me, he doesn’t bark at me anymore. But he barks a lot – so I WROTE THIS SONG!

Ode to Woody

MY NAME, IS WOODY MCBARKEN!
I LOVE TO BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK ALL DAY LONG!
MY NAME, IS WOODY MCBARKEN!
SO YA BETTER JUST MOVING RIGHT ALONG!
I LOVE TO BARK BARK BARK, YOU CAN SEE THAT’S NOT A LARK
‘CAUSE MY NAME – IS WOODY MCBARKEN
I LOVE TO BARK, BARK, BARK, BARK, BARK, BARK
ALL DAY LONNNNNNNG! *woof!

When life gets rough or brings you lemons –
turn it around with a silly song
and soon you’re body, mind, mental and emotional state will be
Back IN TUNE!

LIVE LIFE! LAUGH OFTEN!
Keep living life – and when all else fails – laugh off the stress in a healthy way!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
www.lafolot.com

10 minutes later – Update: LOL! At myself!
I write a silly song, write a silly blog – couldn’t figure out why the recycle truck was was sitting outside my place engine running running running – After 10 min and my cats besides themselves … I go out – see that the Recycle guy is inside the Barking Dog Woman’s front porch – sipping coffee – while her dog barks incessantly and the truck engine running. I ask him if there’s a problem or could he turn off his truck engine? He apologizes and leaves – I tell her to grow up and get dog training to learn how to train her dog. SHE JUST STANDS THERE AND SMILES. *sigh … need to forgive myself for getting so worked up. Let me go read my silly song, again. oy vey! That’s why I say – I teach what I need to learn! Live Life! Laugh Often!

I decided to head out to Harrisburg PA’s riverfront park for the WOOFStock festival. It’s ‘Gone To The Dogs!’ I tell ya’! HA HA

I started to joke around with people as I walked up the riverfront path towards the festival. I held my arm out in front of me and said: ‘I’m walking my invisible dog, ‘BLANK.’ One woman said, as she walked by with her miniature dogs, ‘You’ll have a lot less trouble handling YOUR dog!’ LOL!

As I got to the entrance, about 6 teenage kids were sitting on a cement wall. I said: ‘Would you like to meet my invisible dog, ‘BLANK?’

The one girl said: ‘Get him off me! Get him off me! He’s trying to bite me!’ (Jokingly, of course)
One boy said: ‘Hey! He’s trying to take my food!’ LOL!

I laughed, and smiled and said: ‘GEEZ! Isn’t he doing anything positive or fun?’ LOL!

So I got my LAFOLOT Smiley face, positive statement bookmarks out and asked them if they’d each like one? I figured if they’re in school, they could use them.

They excitedly jumped up and each wanted one! One particular ‘young man’ *smile -
came right up to me to get one!

The one girl was so nice, she said: ‘Oh, I got two!’ I said: ‘That’s OK you can give one to someone else!’ She decided to keep it and smiled. I then asked the others if they wanted another one, THEY ALL DID!
Gotta LOVE thise bunch of TEENS! They were FUN, PLAYFUL, AND POLITE! As well as OPEN to interacting in a fun, healthy way! Very creative minded!

So then I told them I was a laughter leader and asked them how to say HELLO in Hawaiian? We did the ALOOOOHAAAAAA laugh! They did it freely and easily with me! I thanked them for ‘laughing and playing’ with me and continued walking my invisible dog: ‘BLANK’ LOL!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT and her laughing dog – BLANK
out and about at WOOFStock -
Live Life! Laugh Often! and as they say: WAG MORE – BARK LESS
www.lafolot.com