Monday, June 21, 2010
CHECK OUT the giveaway!!!
my cousin has posted another great giveaway...go check it out at: The Virginia House
Sunday, June 20, 2010
company for lunch!!!
It is June, and I am still purposing to keep to my goal of having company for lunch once a month, I made plans to have company for lunch today two weeks ago for this Sunda.y I am not sure after such a busy week that this was the best plan, but it was already in the works so here we go...I invited Jeff & Lorrie, but they couldn't make it. So I invited Shannon & Cindy, Gilbert & Connie and Terry. Terry went home after meeting and fell asleep, so he arrived just as we were sitting down to eat. Reid & Collin spent some time in the pool...the rest of us, ate & visited. Terry left right after lunch.
Menu: The Chipotle concept ~ make your own Burrito, Burrito Bowl or Salad with Coffee Ice Cream and Cookies & Cream Ice Cream for dessert.
Once again, we had a nice time eating and visiting...I enjoy having company and am looking forward to next month.
Menu: The Chipotle concept ~ make your own Burrito, Burrito Bowl or Salad with Coffee Ice Cream and Cookies & Cream Ice Cream for dessert.
Once again, we had a nice time eating and visiting...I enjoy having company and am looking forward to next month.
recycle
oKAY...I am one of the crazy people who is avid about recycling. I recycle ANYthing I can get my hands on. So when I say that, what do you invision? Let me tell you what I do:
@home.
paper - once I get the mail, it gets sorted, right away if possible, at minimum before I go to bed. if I don't keep it or need it, it either is shredded (because it has my address on it) or put as is in the green recycle bin. the bags of shredding are also put in the recycle bin when a bag gets full.
food containers from purchases - if it is paper, if it is plastic, if it is metal, if it has the recycle symbol on it, it gets rinsed & cleaned and put in the recycle bin. the only thing I do not recycle is anything that has meat in it.
fabric - if there is any way it can be used for something, I keep it. if not, it goes in the recycle bin.
@work.
I make a weekly pile, under my desk, of the accumulation of recycled items at the office and take them home each Friday. the pile consists of: outdated magazines, newspapers, Foldgers plastic coffee containers, empty envelopes, non-financial/non-HIPAA paperwork, boxes, packaging, anything that possibly can be recycled goes in the box. oh and for those sheets of paper that print that unneed little bit of data, it goes in a stack to be reprinted on. oh and I take the office bags of shredding home too.
I grew up most of my childhood in California. Recycling was a mandatory program...here in Texas it is optional. The recycle bin is something that was provided by the city a year or so ago so that we would promote recycling. Each household was given one green plastic bin. I asked my neighbors who had theirs sitting outside their garage if they were not going to recycle if I could use their bin because one is never enough for me, I always have mine full way before the weekly pickup on Tuesdays. I love it!!! It is sucha good, clean, useful feeling to recycle. Before the bins that were provided for us by the city, I have taken my recycling to the dumpsters around town to dispose of what I collected...it was my way to give back and reuse. I always have enjoyed recycling which doesn't make sense since I have such a hard time getting rid of things I don't use or need if it can't be recycled.
Do you recycle? Do you think I am obsessed with recycling?
@home.
paper - once I get the mail, it gets sorted, right away if possible, at minimum before I go to bed. if I don't keep it or need it, it either is shredded (because it has my address on it) or put as is in the green recycle bin. the bags of shredding are also put in the recycle bin when a bag gets full.
food containers from purchases - if it is paper, if it is plastic, if it is metal, if it has the recycle symbol on it, it gets rinsed & cleaned and put in the recycle bin. the only thing I do not recycle is anything that has meat in it.
fabric - if there is any way it can be used for something, I keep it. if not, it goes in the recycle bin.
@work.
I make a weekly pile, under my desk, of the accumulation of recycled items at the office and take them home each Friday. the pile consists of: outdated magazines, newspapers, Foldgers plastic coffee containers, empty envelopes, non-financial/non-HIPAA paperwork, boxes, packaging, anything that possibly can be recycled goes in the box. oh and for those sheets of paper that print that unneed little bit of data, it goes in a stack to be reprinted on. oh and I take the office bags of shredding home too.
I grew up most of my childhood in California. Recycling was a mandatory program...here in Texas it is optional. The recycle bin is something that was provided by the city a year or so ago so that we would promote recycling. Each household was given one green plastic bin. I asked my neighbors who had theirs sitting outside their garage if they were not going to recycle if I could use their bin because one is never enough for me, I always have mine full way before the weekly pickup on Tuesdays. I love it!!! It is sucha good, clean, useful feeling to recycle. Before the bins that were provided for us by the city, I have taken my recycling to the dumpsters around town to dispose of what I collected...it was my way to give back and reuse. I always have enjoyed recycling which doesn't make sense since I have such a hard time getting rid of things I don't use or need if it can't be recycled.
Do you recycle? Do you think I am obsessed with recycling?
Saturday, June 19, 2010
CHECK OUT the giveaway!!!
An Anthropologie Giveaway...
In this giveaway from Twig Decor, you can enter to win whichever Anthropologie apron you want. Choose from Anthropologie website above.
In this giveaway from Twig Decor, you can enter to win whichever Anthropologie apron you want. Choose from Anthropologie website above.
Here are my four absolute favorites:
If I don't win, I am going to make me a look alike we can do it cheaper apron!
Friday, June 18, 2010
why???
do you ever just want to ask that question...why??? I do! do I get answers? no. sometimes it is really very sad, don't know if it is just my perspective but it seems the older I get, I don't have the answers. but I still ask. even if its just in my mind...and nobody knows that I am wondering why. I question. I wonder. I reason. I ponder. I contemplate. I cry. I shake my head in disbelief. I try to figure out. try real hard to make sense. try to have the pieces fit together. sometimes answers come thru this evaluation process. sometimes you just have to leave it with God. will God tell me someday when I can sit in front of him the answers to my whys? I sure hope so. it is what helps me deal with the unanswered whys of today.
God knows why.
God knows why.
...tradition(s)
@dictionary.com the definition of tradition
the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, esp. by word of mouth or by practice; a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting; a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices; a customary or characteristic method or manner
Growing up we had a few things that were traditions in my parents home. One of them was homemade pizza EVERY Friday night. As a child, I liked pizza, but wasn't just downright crazy about it...course you have to realize I had never eaten restaurant style pizza - homemade was all I knew. But the one thing I did love about Friday Night Pizza was it was the only time we were allowed soda pop! One glass, and usually it was Root Beer because that is what Dad liked, or we could have Pepsi as that is what Mom liked. I didn't and don't care for Pepsi, so I either had Root Beer or Punch if I didn't want that. As me and my sister grew older and assumed cooking responsibilities, pizza making became more fun. We got to try other things besides a pepperoni pizza and hamburger meat pizza.We My sister learned to make better pizza crust and it became a really fun project each week. We rarely skipped having pizza on Friday nights, and when we did, Dad was always sorely disappointed. Looking back at my childhood, this is a fond memory of a tradition we had. So I ask...
What is tradition to you? Did you or do you have traditions in your family? Do you like them? Abhor them?
the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, esp. by word of mouth or by practice; a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting; a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices; a customary or characteristic method or manner
Growing up we had a few things that were traditions in my parents home. One of them was homemade pizza EVERY Friday night. As a child, I liked pizza, but wasn't just downright crazy about it...course you have to realize I had never eaten restaurant style pizza - homemade was all I knew. But the one thing I did love about Friday Night Pizza was it was the only time we were allowed soda pop! One glass, and usually it was Root Beer because that is what Dad liked, or we could have Pepsi as that is what Mom liked. I didn't and don't care for Pepsi, so I either had Root Beer or Punch if I didn't want that. As me and my sister grew older and assumed cooking responsibilities, pizza making became more fun. We got to try other things besides a pepperoni pizza and hamburger meat pizza.
What is tradition to you? Did you or do you have traditions in your family? Do you like them? Abhor them?
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Quotes
The man/woman that walks with God always reaches their destination.
We reach our destiny – God's will – by walking with God.
We reach our destiny – God's will – by walking with God.
signs...with a message
Okay, I am in love with this sign...I thought it was sooooooooooo cute and just my style. I had to grab my camera phone (and quickly put it on silent so that I could snap a picture of it and nobody hear me do so) at one of my favorite shops (nope I won't tell you where since I actually didn't get permission to take the picture or post it on my blog for free advertising - LOL), then I texted it to a friend who emailed it to me since I don't have the internet on my phone...(please, don't give me a hard time for being too cheap now). I love the simplicity of the colors, the message and the shape...but for $199??? uh ummmmmmm, yah not that much.
Maybe I will try to make it. Think I can???
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
blogging...
sometimes I don't get blogger...blog spot...blogging
I try really, really, really hard to figure this stuff out in the little bits of time I have, but sometimes I am just left flat out stumped when nothing logical comes from my research! have you ever felt like that? so maybe you can help me...you know how you follow blogs, right? and so when your blog is listed on someone elses blog page (i.e. like I have the list I follow on the right hand of my blog), depending on their settings, it either shows your post recent post date or the title of the post unless they don't have it setup this way. so, how come my blog that is being followed on someone else's page shows the last time I posted a post was 5 months ago??????? this is nowhere accurate. :( I don't get it and don't know what is wrong with this dumb blogger!!! Sometimes I schedule posts, sometimes I automatically post them...it just depends on whether I am working in rears, current or the future. LOL! Either way, 5 months ago was a long time and I have posted a million posts since then!
I try really, really, really hard to figure this stuff out in the little bits of time I have, but sometimes I am just left flat out stumped when nothing logical comes from my research! have you ever felt like that? so maybe you can help me...you know how you follow blogs, right? and so when your blog is listed on someone elses blog page (i.e. like I have the list I follow on the right hand of my blog), depending on their settings, it either shows your post recent post date or the title of the post unless they don't have it setup this way. so, how come my blog that is being followed on someone else's page shows the last time I posted a post was 5 months ago??????? this is nowhere accurate. :( I don't get it and don't know what is wrong with this dumb blogger!!! Sometimes I schedule posts, sometimes I automatically post them...it just depends on whether I am working in rears, current or the future. LOL! Either way, 5 months ago was a long time and I have posted a million posts since then!
Quotes
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
― Robert Louis Stevenson
― Robert Louis Stevenson
Monday, June 14, 2010
exciting news...
I am going to be an aunt again!!! yes, so fun. I have six months to plan something fun for my girlfriends first baby...off to the yarn stash and the project room to get my favorite babies knit book the simple knits for cherished babies. hmmmmm, what shall I make?
(p.s. I can tell now...its RuthAnn)
(p.s. I can tell now...its RuthAnn)
Sunday, June 13, 2010
...to give
@dictionary.com there are lots of definitions for the word give. For the content of my post today, I am only going to use a few of them that are most relevent to my thoughts and some things I have been thinking about and working thru:
II Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Giving takes effort. Giving takes time. Giving takes motivation. Giving takes planning. Giving takes putting someone else first...yourself last. Giving takes continuing in a difficult situation that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Giving means you let that go without any expectation of return. Giving means you are not cold in your attitude. Giving means you are rewarded for your hard, very hard work; sometimes not in the way you expect, sometimes not in this life, sometimes never from the individual(s) involved...but giving 100% selfless brings peace. Giving means you see a need and are willing to fulfill it to the best of your ability. Giving takes a pure heart. Giving dissolves your own hurts. Giving takes focus. Giving provides a bigger picture to the problems at hand. Giving makes friends. Giving requires sacrifice. Giving makes someone feel special. Giving is a gift. Giving is love. Giving gives life.
What does it mean to you to give? How do you give? When do you give? When do you quit giving? Can you give too much? Is it possible to give too little? Do you struggle to give? Do you benefit from giving? What are your thoughts about giving???
give =
to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow;
to impart or communicate; to furnish, provide, or proffer;
to relinquish or sacrifice; to apply fully or freely;
to be warm and open in relationships with other persons
to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow;
to impart or communicate; to furnish, provide, or proffer;
to relinquish or sacrifice; to apply fully or freely;
to be warm and open in relationships with other persons
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Giving takes effort. Giving takes time. Giving takes motivation. Giving takes planning. Giving takes putting someone else first...yourself last. Giving takes continuing in a difficult situation that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Giving means you let that go without any expectation of return. Giving means you are not cold in your attitude. Giving means you are rewarded for your hard, very hard work; sometimes not in the way you expect, sometimes not in this life, sometimes never from the individual(s) involved...but giving 100% selfless brings peace. Giving means you see a need and are willing to fulfill it to the best of your ability. Giving takes a pure heart. Giving dissolves your own hurts. Giving takes focus. Giving provides a bigger picture to the problems at hand. Giving makes friends. Giving requires sacrifice. Giving makes someone feel special. Giving is a gift. Giving is love. Giving gives life.
What does it mean to you to give? How do you give? When do you give? When do you quit giving? Can you give too much? Is it possible to give too little? Do you struggle to give? Do you benefit from giving? What are your thoughts about giving???
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Quotes
Cherish your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-Napoleon Hill
-Napoleon Hill
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
CHECK OUT the giveaway!!!
posted@Dreamy Whites
Cabbages and Roses will be giving away a lovely Cabbages and Roses tablecloth and 6 napkins to one lucky reader. Valued at $185.00.
You get to choose from three different Cabbages and Roses patterns:
...just beautiful!
check out the book...
check out the book...
Quotes
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
― Tom Bodett
― Tom Bodett
Monday, June 7, 2010
5 verses for you Terry
Blessed is the man who keeps on going when times are hard.
James 1:12
Don't get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.
Galatians 6:9
I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.
Psalm 91:14
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
Psalm 18:2
As previously stated a month ago, I have told Terry several times that he needs to pick 5 verses that will strengthen and encourage him in his battles...verses to help him fight the thoughts that invade and consume his mind...that he might be able to combat the lies and find hope in the truth. Here are an additional 5 verses that I will drop by to him tonight on my way home from work.
James 1:12
Don't get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.
Galatians 6:9
I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.
Psalm 91:14
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
Psalm 18:2
As previously stated a month ago, I have told Terry several times that he needs to pick 5 verses that will strengthen and encourage him in his battles...verses to help him fight the thoughts that invade and consume his mind...that he might be able to combat the lies and find hope in the truth. Here are an additional 5 verses that I will drop by to him tonight on my way home from work.
how do you help someone that is hurting?
I wish I knew the answer to this question. I have been pondering it for awhile and I am stuck at square one.
Sometimes you can tell its physical pain and they just don't want to be alive because the pain is so bad. Other times you don't know why their response is cold, distant and short. I mean, you know that we all have bad days, but does that mean you must treat me like this? I love you...my heart achs for you, I want to see you succeed, what can I say to make you feel better? I ask if you are bothered, need to talk, what is on your mind, did I do something wrong, hurt your feelings...you say no...but now I am out of ideas and you are still stiff, rigid and determined to leave this wall up...why??? I know that life has treated you really rough, some of it your own doings but much of it out of your control. Do you know that you have control over you life now? Would you please just believe me?!!
It makes my heart deeply grieved. I want to cry. But will tears proove? I feel I have failed. Done nothing to help you.
So I ask you my friend: How do you help someone that is hurting???
Sometimes you can tell its physical pain and they just don't want to be alive because the pain is so bad. Other times you don't know why their response is cold, distant and short. I mean, you know that we all have bad days, but does that mean you must treat me like this? I love you...my heart achs for you, I want to see you succeed, what can I say to make you feel better? I ask if you are bothered, need to talk, what is on your mind, did I do something wrong, hurt your feelings...you say no...but now I am out of ideas and you are still stiff, rigid and determined to leave this wall up...why??? I know that life has treated you really rough, some of it your own doings but much of it out of your control. Do you know that you have control over you life now? Would you please just believe me?!!
It makes my heart deeply grieved. I want to cry. But will tears proove? I feel I have failed. Done nothing to help you.
So I ask you my friend: How do you help someone that is hurting???
Friday, June 4, 2010
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