My Recent Blurbs| Updated: 7/3/10 8:36 pm |
| is watching tv, and waiting for the track to finish being dried at Daytona International Speedway so they can start the Coke Zero 400......delayed an hour and half at this point already. Come on, let's go! |
| Updated: 6/27/10 8:40 am |
| Danielle, like your engagement pics - very nice! Who did you use to take them? |
| Updated: 5/24/10 4:11 pm |
| Back from Florida and back to the real world - had an absolute blast and didn't want to even come home - I miss my guy so much it makes me hurt....however, the good news is he will be here soon to stay with me for a little while - will be arriving a few days before my son's wedding - woohoo! But in the meantime missin him like crazy. |
| Updated: 5/21/10 6:33 am |
| having a great time in Daytona Beach and absolutely lovin being with my man again. He is just the most wonderful thing to ever happen to me. I am just the luckiest girl in the whole world! |
| Updated: 5/12/10 1:24 pm |
| back in Texas - just as I thought, leaving him behind in Florida and getting on a plane was torture - I miss him extremely.... |
| Updated: 5/11/10 8:42 pm |
| in Florida having a blast with my baby! We had so much fun yesterday & ate some wonderful food. |
| Updated: 5/5/10 12:23 pm |
| Takin a trip tomorrow morning to see my sweetie in Florida....be back Saturday - so excited to see him - WOOHOO! |
| Updated: 4/27/10 3:25 pm |
| has 554 hours to go until I will be in Daytona Beach with my sweet love - seems like forever and an eternity....hopefully it will go quickly as I cannot wait to be together again...it is so hard to be patient sometimes..... |
| Updated: 3/28/10 10:18 am |
| today is a good day - full of promise and the prospect of true happiness - so wonderful that I never thought it possible...have a good day everyone! |
| Updated: 3/23/10 2:05 pm |
| is feeling on top of the world lately due to some changes that have happened recently in my life - not ready to divulge all at this point for fear of "jinxing" it, but trust me when I say that my life will never be the same..... |
| Updated: 3/12/10 9:33 am |
| Oh my gosh, all you people getting married: We just found the most wonderful photographer at the most amazing price! |
| Updated: 3/6/10 7:48 am |
| ah, the week is over, it is Friday evening, I am sitting on my butt in front of the tube relaxing. Woo-hoo! Feels great! |
| Updated: 3/5/10 10:12 am |
| A close friend of mine posted this today and I think it was, for me, particularly timely: On this day, God wants you to know...
... that it's time you let go. Yes, of course, you want to control so everything happens in just the way you want it. But at the end of the day, we control nothing, - it's all in God's hands, - has always been, and will always be. So, do what you can, and then let go, and let God handle the rest. |
| Updated: 12/10/08 8:44 am |
| Only in Texas, folks, can it be 85 degrees in the afternoon and then snow overnight and into the next morning! Crazy stuff - had to grab some pictures of it accumulating (even though the weatherman said it would not) on our vehicles. See the pictures in my album, "Nature and Animals in my Hood". Come on everybody, send in your own snow pics!
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| Updated: 12/2/08 12:43 pm |
DO IT ANYWAY
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
--Mother Teresa
Keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:1-2, The New International Version
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| Updated: 5/15/08 10:01 am |
Lately, I have had the overwhelming feeling that all I do is fight what seem like losing and endless battles. Then I stop to think about why……for whom……the desired outcomes……and especially the consequences of not fighting……and I remember that the rewards and outcomes will all make it worth the battle scars in the long-run. As is my nature, I search for quotes to give me comfort and courage, and it always makes me feel better when I find just the right inspiration to keep me going. Here are some that are especially meaningful and inspirational to me right now.
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. --Charles C. West
If you're going through hell, keep going. --Winston Churchill
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. --Author Unknown
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. --Steven Kloves
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. --John Aughey
……and so onward I go, battle gear clutched closely
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| Updated: 5/9/08 3:02 pm |
MOTHER’S DAY TRIBUTE to My Dear Mother, taken from us on 8/27/06:
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” --Anonymous
“You can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” --Anonymous
LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU MOM!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOMS, EVERYWHERE! |
| Updated: 5/1/08 7:40 am |
| WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK: This week has really been an exercise in frustration. There are so many things undone that I can do nothing about. There are people in places who I cannot reach. Time is not my friend either, for while doing the few pleasant and desirable things which I need and enjoy, those minutes whiz by and are forever gone. Yet time is at a standstill as I wait for unpleasant things to be over and for things and events which I want SO passionately to happen, to FINALLY be able to happen. This all creates a great deal of stress which is hard to control.
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| Updated: 4/30/08 12:36 pm |
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The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad
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| Updated: 4/17/08 9:39 am |
Folks, it appears ok to have salt with that margarita & eat those salty Lays Chips -- read what I learned this week: SALT DEFICIENCY: The Cause of Many Serious Diseases -- An 8-year study of a NYC hypertensive group focusing on sodium intake levels found those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many heart attacks as those on normal-sodium diets. "It has tended to be forgotten that some salt intake is absolutely necessary; that people need salt to survive. The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant. If the body does not get enough salt, a hormonal mechanism compensates by reducing the excretion of salt in the urine and sweat. But it cannot reduce this output to zero. On a completely salt-free diet the body steadily loses small amounts of salt via the kidneys and sweat glands. It then attempts to adjust this by accelerating its secretion of water, so that the blood's salt concentration can be maintained at the vital level. The result is a gradual drying out of the body and finally death. Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water content of the body. The human being must have salt, he cannot be without salt. Where there is no salt, nothing will remain, but everything will tend to rot." SO GO FOR IT! WHO WANTS TO ROT??!! 
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